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Moon, Warren

(Encyclopedia)Moon, Warren (Harold Warren Moon, Jr.), 1956โ€“, African-American football player, b. Los Angeles. Moon quarterbacked the Univ. of Washington Huskies to a Rose Bowl title in 1978, but he went undrafte...

Marriner, Sir Neville

(Encyclopedia)Marriner, Sir Neville, 1924โ€“2016, British conductor, b. Lincoln, England, grad. Royal College of Music, London (1946), studied Paris Conservatory. A violinist, he taught at the Royal College (1949โ€...

Kleinrock, Leonard

(Encyclopedia)Kleinrock, Leonard, 1934โ€“, American computer scientist, b. New York City, B.E.E. City College of New York (1957), Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1963). Moving to the Univ. of Californi...

Gretzky, Wayne

(Encyclopedia)Gretzky, Wayne (Wayne Douglas Gretzky), 1961โ€“, Canadian ice hockey player, b. Brantford, Ont. He played with the Edmonton Oilers (1978โ€“88), Los Angeles Kings (1988โ€“96), St. Louis Blues (1996), a...

Ghez, Andrea Mia

(Encyclopedia)Ghez, Andrea Mia, 1965โ€“, American astrophysicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1992. She has been on the faculty at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, since 1994. G...

Deukmejian, George

(Encyclopedia)Deukmejian, George (Courken George Deukmejian, Jr.), 1928โ€“2018, American political leader, b. Menands, N.Y., grad. St. Bernardine of Siena College (now Siena College), 1949, St. John's Univ. law sch...

Davis, Al

(Encyclopedia)Davis, Al (Allen Davis), 1929โ€“2011, American football executive, b. Brockton, Mass. After coaching mainly college teams in the 1950s, he was (1960โ€“62) a coach with the Los Angeles, then San Diego,...

Chamberlain, Wilt

(Encyclopedia)Chamberlain, Wilt (Wilton Norman Chamberlain), 1936โ€“99, American basketball player, b. Philadelphia. At the Univ. of Kansas he was a two-time All-American center. During 14 seasons in the National B...

Sharpe, William Forsyth

(Encyclopedia)Sharpe, William Forsyth, 1934โ€“, American economist, b. Boston, Mass., Ph.D. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1961. After working at the Rand Corporation, he taught at the Univ. of Washington (1961โ...

Thomas, Michael Tilson

(Encyclopedia)Thomas, Michael Tilson, 1944โ€“, American conductor, composer, and pianist, b. Hollywood, Calif. A musical prodigy, he won Tanglewood's Koussevitsky Prize at 24 and shortly thereafter (1969) made his ...