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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and...
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Jon Wefald
Jon Michael Wefald (b. November 24, 1937, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American educator and the twelfth President of Kansas State University.
Wefald was born in Minneapolis and moved, at age six, with his family to Minot, North Dakota. After...
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Jon Wefald
Jon Michael Wefald (b. November 24, 1937, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American educator and the twelfth President of Kansas State University.
Wefald was born in Minneapolis and moved, at age six, with his family to Minot, North Dakota. After...
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- 1961
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈwɔːkər ˈbʊʃ/ (help·info); born July 6, 1946) was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush (the 41st...
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- 1968
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Peter Englund
Peter Englund (born April 4, 1957 in Boden) is a Swedish author and historian, and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since June 1, 2009.
Englund was born into a military family in Boden and studied caretaking for two years and then...
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- 1989
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Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born 1954) is a British venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc.
Moritz was born in Cardiff, Wales. He was educated at...
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Dick Kramlich
Dick has more than 35 years of venture capital investment experience. Dick focuses on a broad range of technically oriented companies. He was fortunate to have been the first person to have invested in the Ethernet with Bob Metcalfe, an early...
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David Fleming
David Fleming (born on 2 January 1940) is an independent thinker on environmental issues, based in London, England. He was one of the whistle blowers on the possibility of peak oil's approach and a significant figure in the development of the UK...
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- 1963
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- 1959
Julia Goldsworthy
Julia Anne Goldsworthy (born 10 September 1978) is a British politician. She is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne and shadows the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the House of Commons....
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Jim Lodestro
Jim is President & CEO of Interlace Systems.
Jim has served in enterprise software sales and sales management for
more than 20 years. He brings significant experience in leading
technology companies as they craft their go-to-market strategies,...
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John Holton
Prior to founding Atwork, John was on the administrative staff at Alta Bates
Hospital serving the nursing, laboratory and information systems areas. He also
was a member of the academic staff at the University of California...
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Andy Palmer
With a track record of five successful startups in the past 12 years,
Andy Palmer specializes in founding and accelerating the growth of
early-stage companies. In early 2005, Palmer partnered with Dr.
Stonebraker to found Vertica®. Prior to co...
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Robert Davoli
Bob joined Sigma Partners in 1995 and has 25 years of experience in
the high technology industry. His ability to identify and motivate
innovative founding teams has been an essential ingredient of his
investment success. Bob regularly leverages his...
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John L. Thornton
Mr. Thornton retired in 2003 as president and co-chief operating officer of the Goldman Sachs Group and as a member of that firm's board of directors. He is a professor and director of global leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. ...
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- 1976
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Martha R. Ingram
Martha Robinson Rivers Ingram (born 20 August 1935) is the chairman of Ingram Industries, chairman of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, and a noted philanthropist and patron of the arts. She was married to the late E. Bronson Ingram, who...
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- 1957
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Claiborne Pell
Claiborne de Borda Pell (November 22, 1918 – January 1, 2009) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to U.S....
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- 1940
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John M. Deutch
John Deutch has served in significant government and academic posts throughout his career.
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Susan E. Rice
Dr. Susan Elizabeth Rice (born on November 17, 1964) is an American foreign policy advisor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African...
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- 1986
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David Paterson
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Governor of New York. He is the first African American governor of New York and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state after Bob C. Riley, who...
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- 1977
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Samuel J. Palmisano
Samuel J. Palmisano (born July 29, 1951) is the current chairman, chief executive officer, and president of IBM, which as of 2008 was the largest IT company in the world and 46th largest company overall. He was elected chairman in October 2002,...
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- 1973
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John B. McCoy
John B. McCoy was Chairman from November 1999 and Chief Executive Officer from October 1998 of Bank One Corporation (commercial and consumer bank) until his retirement in December 1999, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its predecessor,...
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William Clay Ford, Jr.
Mr. Ford has held a number of management positions within Ford, including Vice President — Commercial Truck Vehicle Center. Effective January 1, 1999, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and effective October 30,...
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- 1979
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Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is the senior U.S. Senator from California and a member of the Democratic Party. Feinstein was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, after serving as Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988....
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- 1956
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Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank (born 1965) is an American author, journalist and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, authoring The Tilting Yard since May, 2008.
Frank is a historian of culture and ideas and analyzes trends in American electoral politics and...
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Joan Scott
Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941) is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history and intellectual history. She is currently the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for...
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- 1969
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John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin (2 January 1915 – 25 March 2009) was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. The John...
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- 1941
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Jeff Zucker
Jeff Zucker was named president and chief executive officer of NBC Universal in February 2007. NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment content companies, with unparalleled expertise in the development, production and...
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- 1986
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Nicolas Walter
Nicolas Hardy Walter (22 November 1934 – 7 March 2000) was a British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.
Walter was born in London; his father was the neurophysiologist and pioneer of cybernetics, William Grey Walter. After serving...
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- 1957
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- 1954
Herbert P. Bix
Herbert P. Bix is the author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, an acclaimed account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism.
Bix earned his Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard...
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Reed Hundt
Reed E. Hundt (born March 3, 1948 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, he served for most of Clinton's first term. He was succeeded by...
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- 1969
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Jeffrey M. Hurst
Jeffrey M. Hurst is a General Partner and a Co-Founder of Commonwealth
Capital. Jeff has more than 20 years of venture capital and private
equity experience. He also has experience in the communications
infrastructure, information technology, and...
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Lance Conn
Lance Conn is the president of Vulcan Capital and is responsible for
managing the diverse multi-billion-dollar investment portfolio of
Vulcan Inc. He sits on the boards of Charter Communications, Vulcan
Energy Corporation, Oxygen Media, PAA/Vulcan...
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Lance Conn
Lance Conn is the president of Vulcan Capital and is responsible for
managing the diverse multi-billion-dollar investment portfolio of
Vulcan Inc. He sits on the boards of Charter Communications, Vulcan
Energy Corporation, Oxygen Media, PAA/Vulcan...
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Jason Morse
Jason Morse oversees product management and planning at AdMob. Prior to AdMob, Jason
spent 5 years at Yahoo! where he managed all aspects of their mobile
browsing initiatives. In this capacity he was responsible for the
product roadmap, monetization...
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Sean Behr
Sean leads adap.tv's product design, development, and customer
experience. Sean has held various management roles at Shopping.com, a
leading online comparison shopping service, including roles in human
resources, sales, product management, and...
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Rob Feinstein
Rob Feinstein serves as Vice President, Product for Business.com,
overseeing all aspects of product development and management for
Business.com and Work.com, including user experience and usability,
page monetization and optimization, Search Engine...
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- 1981
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- 1977
Stephen J. Harrick
Steve Harrick joined IVP in October 2001. He focuses on investing in
later-stage technology companies with exceptional growth potential.
Specifically, Steve targets Internet, communications and
technology-enabled services companies which have the...
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Tony Danza
Tony Danza (born April 21, 1951) is an American actor best known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss?, for which Danza was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for...
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Kevin Hartz
Kevin Hartz is currently CEO of EventBrite Corporation, a service for event holders and attendees. Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing money transfer services to...
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Kevin Hartz
Kevin Hartz is currently CEO of EventBrite Corporation, a service for event holders and attendees. Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing money transfer services to...
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- Jun 1993
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- Aug 1992
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (Sindhi: بلاول ڀٽو زرداری, Urdu: بلاول بھٹو زرداری, born 21 September 1988) is the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and the eldest child of the late Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her...
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (pronounced /ˈdʒoʊzɨf rɒbɨˈnɛt ˈbaɪdən/; born November 20, 1942), is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States under the administration of President Barack Obama. He was a United States Senator from...
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- 1965
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Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt is a renowned American historian and is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of expertise is the French Revolution, but she is also well known for her work in European...
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- 1968
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Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt is a renowned American historian and is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of expertise is the French Revolution, but she is also well known for her work in European...
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- 1973
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Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (Hebrew: סשה נועם ברון כהן, born 13 October 1971) is an English actor, comedian, and writer most noted for his comic characters Ali G (a pseudo 'urban' youth from suburban Staines), Borat Sagdiyev (a misogynistic, antisemitic...
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David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet
David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957) is a Canadian businessman. He is the son of the late Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and his siblings are actress Taylor Thomson and Peter Thomson. David Thomson...
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- 1978
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch (born 31 October 1951, Kent, England) is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford (since 1997) and Fellow (formerly Senior Tutor) of St Cross College, Oxford (since 1995). Though ordained as...
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- 1972
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Jonathan Spence
Jonathan D. Spence (Self-adopted Chinese name: simplified Chinese: 史景迁; traditional Chinese: 史景遷; pinyin: Shǐ Jǐngqiān, born August 11, 1936) is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling...
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Jonathan Spence
Jonathan D. Spence (Self-adopted Chinese name: simplified Chinese: 史景迁; traditional Chinese: 史景遷; pinyin: Shǐ Jǐngqiān, born August 11, 1936) is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling...
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Christopher Johnson McCandless
Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968 – mid-August, 1992) was an American wanderer who adopted the name Alexander Supertramp and hiked into the Alaskan wilderness with little food and equipment, hoping to live a period of solitude....
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- 1990
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- 1986
Tamlyn Tomita
Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (born January 27, 1966) is a Japanese American actress, who has appeared in many Hollywood films and television series.
Tomita was born in Okinawa, the daughter of Shiro and Asako Tomita. She is of one quarter-Filipino descent ...
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Mark Feeney
Mark Feeney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic for The Boston Globe. Feeney graduated from Harvard in 1979 and has been working for the paper almost ever since, as a researcher, writer, and editor, in various capacities. Feeney is also the...
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- 1979
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Margaret C. Norton
Margaret Cross Norton (July 7, 1891 – May 21, 1984) served as the first State Archivist of Illinois from 1922 to 1957 and co-founded the Society of American Archivists in 1936, where she served as the first vice president from 1936-1937 and...
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- 1914
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Margaret C. Norton
Margaret Cross Norton (July 7, 1891 – May 21, 1984) served as the first State Archivist of Illinois from 1922 to 1957 and co-founded the Society of American Archivists in 1936, where she served as the first vice president from 1936-1937 and...
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- 1913
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Robert Gates
Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National...
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- 1966
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Sean McMullen
Sean Christopher McMullen (born midnight 21 December 1948 in Sale, Victoria) is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author. He has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University (1974), a postgraduate degree in library and...
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- 1974
