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Suzanne Pleshette Biography

sitcom actressDied: January 19, 2008 (Los Angeles, California) Best Known as: actress who played Emily Hartley on "The Bob Newhart Show" Suzanne…

Tom Cruise

(Thomas Cruise Mapother IV)actorBorn: 7/3/1962Birthplace: Syracuse, New York Versatile actor known for both the wide range of roles he has played and his boyish good looks. One of Hollywood's…

Joseph Barbera

animator, producerBorn: 3/24/1911Birthplace: New York City He joined MGM studios in 1937 and, with William Hanna, created the characters Tom and Jerry in 1940 and went on to garner seven Academy…

Herman Russell Branson

physicistBorn: 1914Birthplace: Pocahontas, Va. As chair of the Department of Physics at Howard University, Herman Branson helped the scientific community gain new insight into organic molecules and…

Jeanie Buss

sports management executiveBorn: 1961? Buss grew up in Hollywood, the third of six children of sports tycoon Jerry Buss. She studied business at the University of Southern California. When she was…

Samuel Goldwyn

(Samuel Goldfish)film producerBorn: 7/1879Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland After emigrating to America at age 13 and a brief career in glovemaking and sales, he partnered with Cecil B. DeMille to found…

Black Football Players

Notable African-American Football Players Jerry Rice   Browse more African-American biographies by category…

Daniel LIPINSKI, Congress, IL (1966)

LIPINSKI, Daniel, (son of William Oliver Lipinski), a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., July 15, 1966; B.S., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1988; M.S…

Margaret Cho

actress, comedianBorn: 12/5/1968Birthplace: San Francisco Cho, the daughter of Korean immigrants, grew up in San Francisco's Haight district in the 1970s. Needless to say, her childhood was…