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Actors, Actresses and Entertainers

Harry Belafonte - Singer / Entertainer

George Burns - Actor / Comedian

Stephen J. Cannell - TV Writer / Producer - Director of Hill Street Blues, Rockford Files

Cher - Singer / Actress

Tom Cruise - Actor

Walt Disney - Created / Produced animated cartoons: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck

Danny Glover - Actor

Tracey Gold - Actress

Whoopi Goldberg - Actress / Comedian

David Jones - Helicopter Pilot / Stunt Man

Jay Leno - "Tonight Show" host

Tom Smothers - Comedian

Aaron Spelling - TV / Film Producer Dynasty

Quentin Tarantino - Actor / Producer / Director

Lindsey Wagner - Actress, Bionic Woman

Henry Winkler - Actor, The Fonz



Famous Athletes

Ann Bancroft - only woman to go to the North Pole by dog sled (1986)

Bruce Jenner ? U.S. Olympic decathlon gold medalist 1976; fitness expert

Greg Louganis ? won 48 national diving titles; U.S. Olympic diving silver medalist 1976; gold medalist '84 & '88; World Diving Champion 1986

Nolan Ryan ? Pitcher for Texas Rangers

Jackie Stewart ? Race Car Driver

Russell White ? Football Running Back

Eric Wynalda ? Professional Soccer Player (1994)



Presidents, Inventors, Authors and More

Alexander Graham Bell ? Invented the Telephone

Leonardo da Vinci ? Italian sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician, inventor, artist, multi-talented genius; designs in geometry; helicopter; Mona Lisa painting

George Bush ? U.S. President (1988-1992)

George Washington ? First U.S. President

Woodrow Wilson ? U.S. President (1913-1920); League of Nations

Thomas Edison ? inventor; 1300+ inventions (microphone; phonograph; incandescent light)

Henry Ford ? Manufactured Ford Automobiles

Winston Churchill ? British Prime Minister

Paul Ehrlich ? Bacteriologist 'side chain theory' (Nobel Prize in medicine - 1908)

Michael Faraday ? Discovered Electromagnetic Induction

General George Patton ? WW II

King Karl XI ? one of Sweden's wisest kings

Wm. Butler Yeats ? Poet; Nobel Prize 1923

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