Patty Duke

As a child star, Patty Duke was famous for her portrayal of Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker. She first ... more

Jake Lloyd

Jake Lloyd appeared in television commercials and series (including semi-regular roles in E. R. and The Pretender) before making his film debut in 1996's Unhook the Stars. He co- ... more

Frances McDormand

A versatile character actor since the early 1980s, Frances McDormand is best known as deadpan Sheriff Marge Gunderson in the Coen brothers film Fargo ... more

Elisabeth Harnois

Elisabeth Harnois is the ethereal blonde who starred in the short-lived prime-time soap opera Point Pleasant (2005-06), in which she played Christina Nickson, Satan's daughter and a mysterious ... more

Dave Chappelle

Cable TV star Dave Chappelle is a comedian known for racially-charged and sometimes raunchy humor, earning him comparisons to the 1970s comedy superstar Richard Pryor. ... more

D. Boon

D. Boon and childhood friend Mike Watt, with drummer George Hurley, formed The Minutemen in the late 1970s. As part of the Los Angeles punk scene, The ... more

Abigail Powers Fillmore

Abigail Powers married Millard Fillmore in New York in 1826 and went on to become First Lady when her husband succeeded Zachary Taylor as president in 1849. Abigail ... more

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra

Yogi Berra is a Hall of Fame baseball player-coach-manager who, as catcher and clutch hitter, anchored the New York Yankees during their championships of ... more

Art Fleming

Art Fleming hosted the original version of the TV quiz show Jeopardy! from 1964 to 1975. The show's popularity and distinctive format -- contestants were given an answer and had to ask the ... more

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher was the United Kingdom's first woman prime minister. She held the office of PM for 11 years -- longer than anyone in the 20th century. ... more

Ice Cube

Ice Cube went from being an innovative and controversial rapper to being a movie star famous for the successful movies Friday (1995) and ... more

Queen Rania

Rania Al Abdullah has been the queen of Jordan since 1999, when her husband, Abdullah II, became king. Born in Kuwait to ... more

King Hussein I

Said to be a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad, Hussein was the longtime ruler of the nation of Jordan. Schooled in Egypt and at the British Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, the ... more

King Abdullah II

King Abdullah II has ruled Jordan since the 1999 death of his father, King Hussein I. As king, Abdullah has continued his father's policy of making Jordan a moderate ... more

Woody Allen

Woody Allen's on-screen persona is well known: a comical and brainy New Yorker in nebbishy glasses, nervous about sex, death and modern times. Once ... more

Kenny Baker

Kenny Baker was already an accomplished circus and cabaret performer when he took the role of R2-D2 in the 1977 sci-fi film Star Wars. His height won him the part: at ... more

Tim Kaine

Tim Kaine jumped to national prominence in 2008, when he was rumored to be a potential running mate for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Kaine was ... more

Joseph Biden

Democrat Joseph Biden has been a U.S. senator from Delaware since 1973. He was born in Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Delaware at age 10. He earned an undergraduate degree from the ... more

Evan Bayh

Evan Bayh has been a U.S. senator from Indiana since 1999. A conservative Democrat from a heartland state, Bayh is also part of a political family: his ... more

Humphrey Bogart

As much an influential screen personality as an actor, Humphrey Bogart played the bravely cynical saloonkeeper Rick Blaine in the beloved 1942 film ... more