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Gunnar Myrdal
Karl Gunnar Myrdal (6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist, politician, and Nobel laureate. In 1974, with Friedrich Hayek, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "their pioneering work in the theory of money...
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- 1923
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Lucien Bouchard
Lucien Bouchard, PC, GOQ (born December 22, 1938) is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, politician and former Minister of the Environment of the Canadian Federal Government. He was the Leader of Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to...
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- 1964
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Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MSRC (18 October 1919 – 28 September 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and again...
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- 1943
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Hugh Linstead
Sir Hugh Nicholas Linstead OBE (3 February 1901 – 27 May 1987) was a British pharmaceutical chemist and Barrister who served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Putney for 22 years. Linstead had significant business interests in the...
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Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield PC (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer who is typically mentioned in the same breath as his wife, Beatrice Webb. He was one of the early members of the Fabian...
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 - 23 November 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director.
Pinero was born in London, the son of a Sephardic Jewish solicitor, John Daniel Pinero. He studied law at Birkbeck...
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Yuval Bar-Gil
Mr. Bar-Gil brings a wealth of business experience to the company.
Prior to co-founding AeroScout, Mr. Bar-Gil was a consultant at Bain
& Company (London, San Francisco). At Bain he advised LBO funds on
investments in a variety of industries...
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Zackie Achmat
Zackie Achmat (born Abdurazzack Achmat in 1962) is a South African activist, most widely known as founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and for his work on the behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
Achmat...
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Zackie Achmat
Zackie Achmat (born Abdurazzack Achmat in 1962) is a South African activist, most widely known as founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and for his work on the behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
Achmat...
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Zackie Achmat
Zackie Achmat (born Abdurazzack Achmat in 1962) is a South African activist, most widely known as founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and for his work on the behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
Achmat...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (pronounced /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York...
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- 1973
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- 1969
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until...
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- 1945
Alan Spoon
Alan has more than 20 years of operating executive and investment experience
and is currently managing general partner with Polaris Venture Partners. Alan
focuses on investments in information technology,...
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Mark Britton
Mark is the CEO and President of Avvo. Prior to founding Avvo, Mark was
the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Affairs of
InterActiveCorp Travel and Expedia, Inc. In this position, Mark oversaw
all finance, strategy, corporate...
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Marty Roberts
At Linden Lab, Marty as General Counsel, is responsible for managing the legal
department and advising the company's board and management on legal
issues and corporate governance matters. Before joining Linden Lab in
July 2007, Marty was...
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Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (Spanish pronunciation: [feˈlipe kalðeˈɾon], born on August 18, 1962) is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for one six-year term that will end in 2012 without...
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Philip Lader
Philip Lader, the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (United Kingdom, 1997-2001), is chairman of WPP Group plc, the global media and communications services firm and largest worldwide media buyer (which includes J. Walter Thompson,...
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New...
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- 1879
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- 1879
Jay Kuo
Lee Jay Kuo (born on March 28, 1968) is an American theatrical composer, lyricist and playwright.
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Joseph M. Juran
Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a 20th century management consultant who is principally remembered as an evangelist for quality and quality management, writing several influential books on those subjects. He was the...
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- 1935
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- 1931
Per Unckel
Per Carl Gustav Unckel (born 1948) is a Swedish former Moderate Party politician and currently the Governor of Stockholm County.
He was born in Östergötland and was at one time chairman of the Moderate Youth League district there. He studied law in...
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- 1971
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- 1968
Cyrus K. Holliday
Colonel Cyrus Kurtz Holliday (April 3, 1826 – March 29, 1900) was one of the founders of Topeka, Kansas. He was also the first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, as well as one of the railroad's directors for nearly 40 years.
He...
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- 1852
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John A. Carrig
John A. Carrig (born January 14, 1952) is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance for ConocoPhillips. He has been with the company since 1978 when he was hired as a tax attorney. He was named to his current...
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- 1977
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James L. Gallogly
James L. (Jim) Gallogly is executive vice president of refining, marketing and transportation for ConocoPhillips. Gallogly joined Phillips Petroleum Company in 1980 and held various roles in legal.
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- 1977
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Ronald Olson
Ronald Olson has been a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP since 1968. He is on the boards of numerous corporate companies and nonprofit organizations.
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- 1967
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Marjorie Scardino
Dame Marjorie Scardino, a native American Texan, is the CEO of the British media firm Pearson PLC. She was named Dame of the British Empire in February 2002 because of her contributions to British media.
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- 1975
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Michèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Alliot-Marie is France’s Minister of the interior and overseas territories, France's first woman in this position. She is also the first woman to lead Rally for the Republic, a major French political party and the first female...
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Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde is the current Minister of economy, finance and employment of France. She is the first woman who holds this position and she just recently entered government in 2005. Previously awarded with the Légion d'honneur, she is also...
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Judith Sheindlin
Judith Sheindlin (born October 21, 1942), better known as Judge Judy, is an American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author. She passed the New York bar exam in 1965 and became a prosecutor in the family court system. In 1976, Mayor Ed...
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- 1965
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Thomas M. Moriarty
Thomas M. Moriarty has served as Medco's Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical Contracting since 2007. He is responsible for negotiating contracts with pharmaceutical manufacturers, drug purchasing analysis and consulting with clients on...
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- 1985
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Tzipi Livni
Tzipora Malka "Tzipi" Livni (Hebrew: ציפורה מלכה "ציפי" לבני, born 8 July 1958) is an Israeli politician and is the current leader of Kadima, the largest party in the Knesset. Raised an ardent nationalist, Livni has become one of her nation's...
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Maryellen C. Herringer
Maryellen C. Herringer has been Wachovia's board member since 2006. She is an attorney-at-law and non-executive chair of ABM Industries Incorporated, San Francisco, California, a facilities service company.
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- 1968
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Dona Davis Young
Dona Davis Young has been a board member of Wachovia since 2001. She is chairman, chief executive officer and president of The Phoenix Companies, Inc., in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Jim Mattox
James Albon Mattox (August 29, 1943 - November 20, 2008) was a Dallas lawyer and Texas Democratic politician who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives and two terms as state attorney general, but lost high profile races...
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- 1968
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J. Ezra Merkin
Jacob Ezra Merkin (born 1954) is a money manager, and financier. He was a close business associate of Bernard Madoff, and is alleged to have played a significant part in the Madoff fraud. He served as the Non-executive Chairman of GMAC until his...
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Marjorie Vincent
Marjorie Judith Vincent is a former journalist and beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991 as the fourth Black-American to win the contest.
Vincent's parents, Lucien and Florence Vincent of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti migrated to the United...
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Chip Reid
Charles "Chip" Reid (born Charles Henry Reid, Jr.) is the Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News. He assumed the position on January 5, 2009. Prior to the post, he was the network's congressional correspondent. He was previously with NBC News,...
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- 1982
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Raymond Kwok
Raymond Kwok Ping Luen (Traditional Chinese:郭炳聯 pinyin;Guo Bing Lian), JP (born in 1952 in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China) is the vice-chairman and managing director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property...
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Brent R. Appel
Brent R. Appel is a justice on the Iowa Supreme Court.
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- 1977
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Michael J. Streit
Michael J. Streit is a justice on the Iowa Supreme Court.
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- 1975
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Edward Skyler
Edward "Ed" Skyler is the Deputy Mayor for Operations for New York City. Born on April 11, 1973, he is the youngest Deputy Mayor in New York City's history.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Mayor for Operations, Skyler served as Deputy Mayor for...
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Henry Pearson
Henry Pearson was killed in the Andrew Thomas Gallo DUI crash on April 9, 2009. He was a passenger in the struck vehicle with Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart.
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Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer is the current co host of Good Morning America. She has been in front of the cameras since 1978 starting her TV journalist career with CBS Morning News. Since then she became a correspondent and co anchor of 60 minutes. She moved to ABC...
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- 1967
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- 1967
Bob Woodruff
Robert Warren "Bob" Woodruff (born August 18, 1961, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) is an American television journalist. His career in journalism dates back to 1989, but is best-known for succeeding Peter Jennings as co-anchor of ABC News' weekday news...
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- 1987
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William Parente
The bodies of William Parente (59), Betty Parente (58), and their daughters Stephanie Parente (19) and Catherine Parente (11), were found in their hotel room on April 20, 2009. They had been staying at the Sheraton Hotel Dulaney Valley Road in...
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- 1973
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Tori Murden
Victoria Murden McClure is an explorer and adventurer who was the first woman to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat. She completed the journey on December 3, 1999. She was also the first woman and first American to ski to the...
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- 1995
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Louis Caldera
Louis Caldera (born April 1, 1956) was Director of the White House Military Office from January 20, 2009 until May 22, 2009 and served as the 17th United States Secretary of the Army from July 2, 1998 until January 20, 2001.
Caldera, the son of...
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- 1987
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Eva Caldera
Eva Caldera is the wife of Louis Caldera, who is currently serving as President Barack Obama's Director of the White House Military Office.
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Shannon Miller
Shannon Lee Miller (born March 10, 1977 in Rolla, Missouri, United States) is an American lawyer and artistic gymnast from Edmond, Oklahoma. She is the most decorated gymnast in U.S. History, and considered one of the greatest gymnasts the United...
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- 2007
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- 2003
Andrew Speaker
Andrew Speaker caused an international health scare in 2007 when he flew to Europe while infected with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.
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Sarah Cooksey
Sarah Cooksey is the wife of Andrew Speaker, who was detained as a tuberculosis risk in 2007.
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Mark Levy
Mark Levy was a prominent attorney who had argued cases in front of the Supreme Court.On April 30, 2009, Levy apparently committed suicide in his office at Kilpatrick Stockton, Washington, D.C.He had been laid off.
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- 1975
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Ermolao Barbaro
Ermolao or Hermolao Barbaro, also Hermolaus Barbarus (21 May 1453/1454—14 June 1493, was an Italian Renaissance scholar.
Barbaro was born in Venice, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro, and the grandson of Francesco Barbaro. At an early age he was sent to...
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- 1477
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Per Georg Scheutz
Pehr (Per) Georg Scheutz (September 23, 1785 – May 22, 1873) was a 19th-century Swedish lawyer, translator, and inventor, who is best known for his pioneering work in computer technology.
Scheutz studied law at Lund University, graduating in 1805....
