Artists

• Ken Burns
  Ken Burns
  Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...
  
  , documentary filmmaker
• Fred Gallagher, cartoonist
• David S. Goyer
  David S. Goyer
  David Samuel Goyer is an American screenwriter, film director and comic book writer.-Early life:Goyer was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Hebrew school and has described himself as "half Jewish"...
  
  , filmmaker
• Gerome Kamrowski
  Gerome Kamrowski
  Gerome Kamrowski was an American artist and participant in the Surrealist Movement in the United States.He was born in Warren, Minnesota and begun to study art in the early 1930s at the St...
  
  , abstract painter
• Terry LaBan
  Terry LaBan
  Terry LaBan is an alternative/underground cartoonist and newspaper comic strip artist. He is probably best known for his comic book series Cud, and his syndicated strip Edge City....
  
  , cartoonist
• Benjamin McCready
  Benjamin McCready
  Benjamin Donald McCready is an American portrait painter.Ben McCready was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has painted more than 600 commissioned portraits. Notable portrait clients include President Gerald R. Ford, President Ronald W. Reagan, President George H. W. Bush, President James Earl...
  
  , portrait painter
• Rebecca Tobey
  Rebecca Tobey
  - Early years :Rebecca was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and spent most of her childhood in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as one of three children of Elizabeth and Arthur Upton. Her mother was a painter and her father spent his professional life working as a scientist who would later chair the National Cancer...
  
  , sculptor
• Timothy Van Laar
  Timothy Van Laar
  Timothy Van Laar is an American artist, writer, and full time professor.-Art career:Van Laar produces art works in multiple formats including, paintings, drawings and installation pieces some of which have been exhibited throughout North America and Europe...
  
  , painter

Authors

• Emily Colas
  Emily Colas
  Emily Colas is an American author. Her book Just Checking illustrates her struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder , and the effects it had on her life and family. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.- External links :*...
  
  
• Nicholas Delbanco
  Nicholas Delbanco
  -Life:He was educated at Harvard University, B.A. 1963; Columbia University, M.A. 1966. He taught at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1966–84, and at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1984-85...
  
  
• Loren D. Estleman
  Loren D. Estleman
  Loren D. Estleman is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He writes with a manual typewriter....
  
   (Whitmore Lake
  Whitmore Lake, Michigan
  Whitmore Lake is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community spans the boundary between Green Oak Township in Livingston County and Northfield Township in Washtenaw County. The United States Census Bureau has defined a census-designated place with this name for...
  
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• James Hynes
  James Hynes
  James Hynes is an American novelist. He was born in Okemos, Michigan, and grew up in Big Rapids, Michigan. He lived for many years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and currently resides in Austin, Texas, where he has taught creative writing at the University of Texas...
  
  
• Laura Kasischke
  Laura Kasischke
  Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for...
  
  
• Elizabeth Kostova
  Elizabeth Kostova
  Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.-Early life:Elizabeth Z. Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville...
  
  
• Davi Napoleon
  Davi Napoleon
  Davi Napoleon, aka Davida Skurnick is an American theater historian and critic. She is a theater columnist for The Faster Times, an online newspaper, and a regular contributor to Live Design, a monthly magazine about entertainment design and designers...
  
  
• Davy Rothbart
  Davy Rothbart
  Davy Rothbart is an author, filmmaker, contributor to This American Life, and the editor/publisher of Found Magazine.-Background:...
  
  
• Mike Rother
  Mike Rother
  Mike Rother is an engineer, a researcher, teacher and speaker on the subjects of management, leadership, improvement, adaptiveness, and change in human organizations...
  
  
• Alfred Slote
  Alfred Slote
  Alfred Slote is a children's author known for his numerous sports and space novels. His writing has been described as "making space travel seem as ordinary as piling in the family wagon for a jaunt to McDonald's". Slote's 1991 novel Finding Buck McHenry was adapted into a 2000 television film...
  
  
• Sarah Weeks
  Sarah Weeks
  Sarah Weeks is a children's book author, perhaps best known for writing So B. It which in 2007 won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award and William Allen White Children's Book Award.-Life:...
  
  
• Charles Baxter
  Charles Baxter
  Charles Baxter is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.-Life:Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber Baxter. He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul, and taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan, for a year. In 1974 he received his Ph.D...
  
  

Economic figures

• Jim Buckmaster
  Jim Buckmaster
  Jim Buckmaster , a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is an American computer programmer who has been the CEO of Craigslist since 2000....
  
  , CEO of Craigslist
  Craigslist
  Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities featuring free online classified advertisements, with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums....
  
  
• Thomas Knoll
  Thomas Knoll
  Thomas Knoll is an American software engineer best known for initiating the development of Adobe Photoshop. He was the lead developer until version CS4, and currently contributes to work on the Camera Raw plug-in to process raw images from cameras.Knoll was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and...
  
  , creator of Adobe Photoshop
• Tom Monaghan
  Tom Monaghan
  Thomas Stephen "Tom" Monaghan is an entrepreneur and Catholic philanthropist and activist who founded Domino's Pizza in 1960. He owned the Detroit Tigers from 1983-1992....
  
  , founder of Domino's Pizza
  Domino's Pizza
  Domino's Pizza, Inc. is an international pizza delivery corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Founded in 1960, Domino's is the second-largest pizza chain in the United States and has over 9,000 corporate and franchised stores in 60 countries and all 50 U.S....
  
  
• Gene Sperling
  Gene Sperling
  Gene B. Sperling is an American lawyer and political figure, currently serving as a Counselor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. He is also on the staff of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he serves as Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center on Universal Education. He...
  
  , economic advisor

Luthiers

• Gregg Alf
  Gregg Alf
  Gregg T. Alf is a prominent contemporary American violin maker based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Alf made his first violin in 1975...
  
  
• David Burgess
• Joseph Curtin
  Joseph Curtin
  Joseph Curtin is a contemporary violinmaker.Established in Ann Arbor, co-founder with Gregg Alf of the firm Curtin & Alf.He was a 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". He has also directed workshops on violin design through the Violin Society of America, a group of...
  
  
• Herb David
  Herb David
  Herb David is the owner of the Herb David Guitar Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan which opened on April 1962. Over the years, Herb has worked on hundreds of instruments, including the instruments of Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Bob Seger and many more...
  
  

Musicians

• Buff1
  Buff1
  Jamall Bufford, formerly known as Buff1, is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based rapper/songwriter. His roots lie with the Ann Arbor rap crew known as the Athletic Mic League , with whom he released two studio albums . He is currently managed by A-Side Worldwide...
  
  
• Muruga Booker
  Muruga Booker
  Muruga Booker is an American drummer, recording artist, and Orthodox priest.- Biography :Booker was born Steven Bookvich in Detroit, Michigan on December 27, 1942 and is of Serbian decent. His father, Melvin Bookvich, was a shoemaker who played accordion. He has a wife, Shakti; a son, Aaron; and a...
  
  
• Chris Bathgate
  Chris Bathgate
  Chris Bathgate is an American indie folk singer-songwriter and musician. He is prominent in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti folk music scene in Michigan. In 2007, Bathgate signed to , on which he released his most prominent album to date, A Cork Tale Wake. His most recent release was Salt Year, a full...
  
  
• Brownsville Station
  Brownsville Station (band)
  Brownsville Station was a rock band from Michigan that was popular in the 1970s. Original members included Cub Koda , Mike Lutz , T.J. Cronley , and Tony Driggins...
  
  
• Chenille Sisters
  Chenille Sisters
  The Chenille Sisters, an American contemporary folk band, includes singer Grace Morand, guitarist and songwriter Connie Huber, and singer/songwriter Cheryl Dawdy...
  
  
• Dabrye
  Dabrye
  Dabrye is an alias of Ann Arbor, Michigan-based musician Tadd Mullinix , whose Winking Makes A Face was the first album released by Ann Arbor’s Ghostly International...
  
  
• Disco D
  Disco D
  David Aaron Shayman, better known by his stage name Disco D , was an American record producer and composer. He started as a teenage DJ in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he helped DJ Godfather popularize the Detroit electronic music called "Ghettotech"...
  
   (1980–2007), record producer, composer
• Deniz Tek
  Deniz Tek
  Deniz Tek is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter and a founding member of Australian group Radio Birdman who broke up, for the last time, after their last European tour in 2007...
  
  , guitarist with Australian rock band Radio Birdman
• Frontier Ruckus
  Frontier Ruckus
  Frontier Ruckus is an American folk-rock band from Michigan. The project is centered on the lyrically intensive songs of Matthew Milia, and was formed by Milia and banjo player David Winston Jones while living in Metro Detroit. The band released its debut full-length record, The Orion Songbook,...
  
  , indie folk, alt-country band
• Mayer Hawthorne
  Mayer Hawthorne
  Mayer Hawthorne is an American singer, producer, songwriter, arranger, audio engineer, DJ, rapper and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The stage name "Mayer Hawthorne" is a combination of Cohen's real middle name and the name of the street he grew up on in Michigan...
  
  , singer, songwriter and musician
• Roger
  Roger Miller (rock musician)
  Roger Miller is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-founding the groups Mission of Burma and Alloy Orchestra.His main instruments are guitar and piano...
  
  , Ben, and Larry
  Laurence B. (Larry) Miller
  Laurence Bond Miller is an American rock and avant garde guitarist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who has formerly been a member of such Detroit/Ann Arbor bands as Destroy All Monsters, Sproton Layer, M3, Nonfiction, The Empty Set, and Larynx Zillion's Novelty Shop.- Biography :Destroy All...
  
   Miller
• Scott Morgan
  Scott Morgan
  Scott Morgan is an American rock & roll and soul musician, most known for his work with the Sonic's Rendezvous Band, the Rationals, The Solution as well as his solowork.-The Rationals:Morgan's first band was The Rationals...
  
  
• My Dear Disco
  My Dear Disco
  Ella Riot is a musical group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Released in January 2009, their debut full-length album, DanceThink LP, fuses electro-pop, funk, rock, and techno into a distinctive sound the band members have dubbed "DanceThink." Named one of the most promising bands in the nation by the...
  
  
• Randy Napoleon
  Randy Napoleon
  Randy Napoleon is a jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger who is a member of The Freddy Cole Quartet and the leader of the Randy Napoleon Trio. He has toured with Benny Green, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra , led by John Clayton, Jeff Clayton and Jeff Hamilton, and with Michael Bublé.-Early...
  
  , jazz guitarist
• Bob Seger
  Bob Seger
  Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s...
  
  
• Steven Springer
  Steven Springer
  Steven Springer is an American guitarist and songwriter known for his innovative smooth soft touch guitar style...
  
  
• SRC
  SRC (band)
  The SRC was a Detroit-based rock band from the late 1960s. From 1966 to 1972, they were a staple at many Detroit rock venues, such as the Grande Ballroom.-The early years:...
  
  
• Tally Hall
  Tally Hall (band)
  Tally Hall is an American rock band formed in December 2002 based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with a relatively significant cult following. Once under the Atlantic Records recording label, Tally Hall is, again, signed to indie label Quack! Media who previously helped finance and nationally distribute...
  
  
• Taproot
  Taproot (band)
  Taproot is a four-piece rock group from Ann Arbor, Michigan. They are most known for their hit single "Poem" , as well as a number of other singles from 2000 to the present.-Pre-formation:...
  
  
• Dave Sharp
  Dave Sharp (bass guitarist)
  Dave Sharp was the touring bass guitarist for the rock band Melvins during their 1993 tour. He currently plays in several bands including Jungle with Muruga Booker and Steven Springer, Spheres of Influence, and his own band the Dave Sharp Secret Seven....
  
  
• Andrew W.K.
  Andrew W.K.
  Andrew W.K. is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker. He is the host of the television series Destroy Build Destroy.-Early life & career:Andrew Wilkes-Krier was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
  
  
• The White Ravens
  The White Ravens
  The White Ravens are an indie rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, featuring brother/sister singer songwriters, Amy and Will Bennett. Amy and Will are currently 18 and 17 years old and formed their band over five years ago. Will composes the music and plays piano and guitar. Amy writes the lyrics,...
  
  
• Ben Wilson
  Ben Wilson (musician)
  Ben Wilson is an American musician, most famous as the keyboardist for the jam band Blues Traveler.Wilson attended the alternative Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating in 1985. Wilson joined Blues Traveler in January 2000 following the death of longtime bassist Bobby Sheehan in...
  
  , keyboard player in Blues Traveler
  Blues Traveler
  Blues Traveler is a rock band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band has been influenced by a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock...
  
  
• Wolf Eyes
  Wolf Eyes
  Wolf Eyes is a post-industrial/noise band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.-History:Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1998, and John Olson in 2000...
  
  
• Jeff Young
  Jeff Young
  Jeff Young is an American guitarist. He graduated from Musicians Institute in 1985, and is best known for his time with the thrash metal band Megadeth, appearing on the 1988 album So Far, So Good... So What!...
  
  , guitarist in Megadeth
  Megadeth
  Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
  
  
• Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
  
  
• Samiyam
  Samiyam
  Sam Baker, alias Samiyam, is an instrumental Hip-Hop producer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is best known for his work with experimental producer, Flying Lotus, and his 8-bit Video Game inspired Hip-Hop beats. In 2008, Samiyam released his debut album, Rap Beats Vol. 1. The album was self-released...
  
  

Classical

• William Albright
  William Albright (musician)
  William Albright was an American composer, pianist and organist.Albright was born in Gary, Indiana, and began learning the piano at the age of five, and attended the Juilliard Preparatory Department , the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan , where he studied composition with...
  
   (1944–1998), composer, pianist
• Leslie Bassett
  Leslie Bassett
  Leslie Bassett is an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition...
  
  , composer
• William Bolcom
  William Bolcom
  William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...
  
  , pianist, composer
• James Dapogny
  James Dapogny
  James Dapogny is an American jazz musicologist, pianist and bandleader, active principally in the traditional jazz revival scene....
  
  , pianist, jazz scholar
• Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg and Roger Sessions...
  
   (1906–1997), composer
• Katt Hernandez
  Katt Hernandez
  Katt Hernandez is a violinist living in Stockholm, Sweden with strong connection to Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. Katt's violin playing employs many virtuostic extended techniques, as well as microtones. Her influences range a vast gamut of music, and...
  
  , violinist
• Joan Morris
  Joan Morris
  Joan Morris, is a mezzo-soprano,Born in Portland, Oregon, she is one half of the famous musical duo of Bolcom and Morris. Her musical partner and husband is composer/pianist William Bolcom...
  
  , vocalist
• William Revelli
  William Revelli
  William D. Revelli was the director of bands, including the Michigan Marching Band, at the University of Michigan for 36 years from 1935-1971. During his 36 years as director, the Michigan Marching Band won international acclaim for its musical precision...
  
   (1902–1994), band director
• George Balch Wilson
  George Balch Wilson
  George Balch Wilson is an American composer who is particularly known for his contributions to electronic music. In 1955 he won the Prix de Rome for composition. He taught for more than 30 years on the faculty of the University of Michigan where he notably founded and directed the school's...
  
  , composer

Actors

• Austin Nichols
  Austin Nichols
  Austin Nichols is an American film, television actor and director who is perhaps best known for his role as Julian Baker in The CW drama series One Tree Hill. He is also known for his roles in films such as The Day After Tomorrow and Wimbledon...
  
  
• Martha Vickers
  Martha Vickers
  Martha Vickers was an American television and film actress.-Early life and career:Born Martha MacVicar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she began her career as a model and cover girl...
  
   (1925–1971)
• Grace Lee Whitney
  Grace Lee Whitney
  Grace Lee Whitney, also known as Ruth Whitney and Lee Whitney is an American actress and entertainer. She is best known for playing the role of Janice Rand on the Star Trek television series and subsequent films.-Early life:...
  
  
• Darren Criss
  Darren Criss
  Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and a founding member and co-owner of the theater company StarKid Productions. He currently portrays Blaine Anderson, an openly gay high school student, on the FOX television series Glee...
  
  

Athletes

• Evan Bates
  Evan Bates
  Evan Bates is an American ice dancer. With former partner Emily Samuelson, he is the 2009 U.S. silver medalist, the 2009 Four Continents bronze medalist, and the 2008 World Junior Champion. He currently skates with Madison Chock....
  
  , figure skater
• Keith Bostic, NFL defensive back
• Rebecca Bross
  Rebecca Bross
  Rebecca Bross is an American artistic gymnast. She won the all-around and three events at the junior national championships in 2007. At the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil, Bross won a team gold, individual all-around second, and the first place in floor exercise. She was a member of the U.S...
  
  , artistic gymnast
• Ian Cole
  Ian Cole
  Ian Cole is an American professional ice hockey defenseman. He is currently playing with the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League . -Playing career:...
  
  , professional hockey prospect
• Ali Curtis
  Ali Curtis
  Ali Curtis is a former American soccer forward. He was the 1999 Hermann Trophy and 2000 MAC Award winner before spending four seasons in Major League Soccer.-College:...
  
  , professional soccer player
• Alison Gregorka
  Alison Gregorka
  Alison Gregorka is an American water polo player. She started playing at the age of 14. She was a member of the US water polo team that won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She is now coaching High school Water polo in Lake Oswego, Oregon...
  
  , water polo player – 2008 Olympic silver medalist
• Eliot Halverson
  Eliot Halverson
  Eliot Jon Halverson is an American figure skater. He is 2007 US Junior National Champion.-Personal life:Halverson was born in Bogotá, Colombia and was adopted from Colombia at age five months. He lived and trained in Saint Paul, Minnesota from his move to the United States until 2008, when he...
  
  , figure skater
• Jim Harbaugh
  Jim Harbaugh
  James Joseph "Jim" Harbaugh is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. Harbaugh agreed to a five-year deal with the San Francisco 49ers on January 7, 2011. Previously, he was the head coach at...
  
  , NFL quarterback, NFL coach
• Madison Hubbell
  Madison Hubbell
  Madison L. Hubbell is an American ice dancer. She competed with her brother Keiffer Hubbell from 2001 to 2011. They are the 2010 Four Continents bronze medalists, two-time U.S. pewter medalists and 2006-2007 Junior Grand Prix Final champions. She currently skates with Zachary Donohue.- Personal...
  
  , figure skater
• Keiffer Hubbell
  Keiffer Hubbell
  Keiffer J. Hubbell is an American ice dancer. He competed with his sister Madison Hubbell from 2001 to 2011. They are the 2010 Four Continents bronze medalists, two-time U.S. pewter medalists and 2006-2007 Junior Grand Prix Final champions.- Personal life :Keiffer Hubbell was born in Lansing,...
  
  , figure skater
• Steven Kampfer
  Steven Kampfer
  Steven Kampfer is an American professional ice hockey defenseman who is currently playing for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League...
  
  , professional hockey player
• Aaron Krickstein
  Aaron Krickstein
  Aaron Krickstein , nicknamed "Marathon Man", is a former American professional tennis player, who competed on the ATP Tour from 1983 to 1996. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he currently competes on the Outback Champions Series Over-30 tour.Krickstein reached his career high ATP ranking of World No....
  
  , tennis player
• Veronica Pershina
  Veronica Pershina
  Veronica Pershina is a former Soviet pair skater. With partner Marat Akbarov, she was the 1985 European bronze medalist and 1979 World Junior champion. She was trained by Stanislav Zhuk and Irina Rodnina....
  
  , figure skater, coach
• Emily Samuelson
  Emily Samuelson
  Emily Samuelson is an American ice dancer. With former partner Evan Bates, she is the 2009 U.S. silver medalist, the 2009 Four Continents bronze medalist, and the 2008 World Junior Champion. She currently skates with Todd Gilles....
  
  , figure skater
• James Toney
  James Toney
  James Nathanial Toney is an American professional boxer who has held world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight divisions. Toney currently fights in the heavyweight division in boxing and also now competes in mixed martial arts.-Boxing career:Toney's amateur boxing...
  
  , professional boxer
• Charlie White
  Charlie White (figure skater)
  Charlie White is an American ice dancer. With partner Meryl Davis, he is the 2011 World champion, 2010 Olympic silver medalist, the 2010 World silver medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion, two-time Four Continents champion and three-time U.S...
  
   – ice dancer, Olympic silver medalist and World silver medalist

Political/media figures

• T. Casey Brennan
  T. Casey Brennan
  Terrance Casey Brennan is an American comic book writer.During the 1970s, he wrote for Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics anthologies Creepy and Eerie, and Vampirella...
  
  , JFK assassination figure, comic book writer
• Jill Carroll
  Jill Carroll
  Jill Carroll is an American former journalist who was kidnapped and ultimately released in Iraq. Carroll was a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor at the time of her kidnapping...
  
  , journalist, kidnapped in Iraq
  Iraq
  Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  
  
• Jay Nordlinger
  Jay Nordlinger
  Jay Nordlinger is an American journalist. He is a senior editor of National Review, the conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955. He also writes a column for the magazine’s website, "National...
  
  , conservative political columnist
• Neil Oliver Staebler (1905–2000), congressman, Democratic politician
• L. D. Taylor
  L. D. Taylor
  Louis Denison Taylor was elected the 14th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, he was elected seven times between 1910 and 1934, serving a total of 11 years....
  
   (1857–1946), mayor of Vancouver
• Mike Tirico
  Mike Tirico
  Michael Todd Tirico is an announcer for ESPN's presentation of Monday Night Football, and second lead broadcaster for ESPN's presentation of the NBA. In addition, Tirico hosts a multitude of programming on ESPN/ABC. He was the host of ABC's golf coverage from 1996 to 2007, and continues in that...
  
  , sportscaster
• Kristina and Karissa Shannon, Playboy
  Playboy
  Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
  
  models