Paul Harvey

Name at birth: Paul Harvey Aurandt

The radio show Paul Harvey News and Comment was first broadcast nationally in 1951 and continued into the 21st century, making Harvey one of the longest-lasting and best-known voices on American radio. Harvey's program -- an idiosyncratic mix of headlines, comments, quips and advertisements, all voiced by Harvey -- is syndicated to hundreds of radio stations around the country daily. Harvey is famous for his work ethic: he writes and records his shows six days a week from studios in Chicago. His brisk, quirky delivery and signature greeting "Hello, Americans!" have been widely (if fondly) parodied. In 1976 Harvey began a companion radio feature, The Rest of the Story, telling little-known tales from the lives of famous people.