Interesting People: Now & Then

Now

• ADNAN KHASHOGGI
• ALAIN ROBERT - 'the French spiderman'.
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER - the Governator.
• AUNG SAN SUU KYI - recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
• BERNARD MADOFF
• DAMIEN HIRST
• DONALD TRUMP
• GEORGE SOROS
• GORDON GETTY
• GUNTER SACHS - official website.
• HANS-HERMANN WEYER, GRAF VON YORCK - "Der schöne Konsul".
• HENRY KISSINGER
• HOWARD STERN
• HUGH HEFNER
• J. K. ROWLING - British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series.
• J. MICHAEL ARRINGTON
• "JAMES BOND" - website dedicated to James Bond-lifestyle.
• JAMES LOVELOCK - known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis.
• JEFF KOONS - Amazon.com's founder.
• JIM ROGERS - legendary expatriate American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore.
• JOHN LE CARRÉ
• JÜRGEN HABERMAS
• KARL LAGERFELD
• KLAUS SCHWAB - best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.
• MADAME CLAUDE
• MARTHA STEWART
• MICHAEL MOORE
• MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV
• PARIS HILTON - international socialite & celebrity.
• RICHARD BRANSON - founder of the Virgin empire.
• ROBERT BALLARD - the man who discovered the RMS Titanic in 1985.
• RON WHITE - winner of the 13th USA Memory Championship.
• RUPERT MURDOCH
• SCOTT E. FAHLMANN
• STEPHEN HAWKING
• STEPHEN KING
• TED TURNER
• TIM BERNERS-LEE - proposed the creation of the World Wide Web on March 13, 1969.
• THOMAS PYNCHON
• TOM WOLFE
• WARREN BUFFETT - "The Oracle of Omaha".
• WILLIAM GIBSON - coined the term 'cyberspace'.
• WILLIAM HENRY GATES III

Then

• ADAM SMITH
• ADOLF HITLER
• AGATHA CHRISTIE
• AL CAPONE
• ALBERT EINSTEIN
• ALFRED NOBEL
• ALFRED SHAHEEN - inventor of the Hawaiian shirt.
• ALY KHAN
• ANAÏS NIN
• ANDY WARHOL
• ANNE FRANK
• ANTONI GAUDI
• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE ONASSIS - The True Life of Aristotle Onassis: the Golden Greek.
• ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
• ARTHUR C. CLARKE
• ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
• AXEL SPRINGER
• BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
• BASIL ZAHAROFF
• BEAU BRUMMELL
• BERNARD BERENSON
• BERNARD CORNFELD
• BERTRAND RUSSELL
• C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON - inventor of Parkinson's Law.
• CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ - Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War.
• CECIL BEATON
• CECIL RHODES
• CHARLES DARWIN
• CHARLES PONZI
• CHARLES SCHWAB
• CHRISTIAN DIOR
• CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
• CLAUS VON CLAUSEWITZ
• CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG
• CLIFFORD IRVING
• DANIEL K. LUDWIG
• DIANE VREELAND
• DR. W. DYER
• EDGAR ALLAN POE
• ELMYR DE HORY
• ELVIS PRESLEY
• EMILY POST
• ERROL FLYNN
• EVELYN WAUGH
• FRANZ KAFKA - the Kafka project.
• FREDERICK ROLFE | BARON CORVO
• FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
• GABRIELLE "COCO" CHANEL
• GEORGE BALANCHINE
• GEORGE HERBERT
• GEORGE S. PATTON, JR.
• GERTRUDE STEIN
• GIACOMO CASANOVA
• GRETA GARBO
• HEDDA HOPPER - American gossip columnist.
• HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM
• HONORÉ DE BALZAC
• HUMPHREY BOGART
• IAN FLEMING
• ISAAC NEWTON
• IVAR KREUGER
• JACK KEROUAC
• JACK THE RIPPER
• JAMES FISK
• JAY GOULD
• JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
• JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
• JESUS CHRIST
• JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
• JOHN DELOREAN
• JOHN F. KENNEDY
• JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
• JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
• JOHN PEMBERTON - inventor of Coca-Cola.
• JOSÉ LUIS DE VILLALONGA
• JOSEPH DUVEEN
• JULIUS CAESAR
• KAREN BLIXEN
• KARL MARX
• KARL POPPER - George Soros' mentor.
• KIM PHILBY - part of THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE.
• KNUT HAMSUN
• LENNY BRUCE
• LEONARDO DA VINCI
• LIBERACE
• LOUELLA PARSONS - American gossip columnist.
• LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
• MARTIN HEIDEGGER
• MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
• MEDICI FAMILY
• MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
• MICHEL NOSTRADAMUS
• MICHELANGELO
• MOLIÈRE
• NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
• NOËL COWARD
• ORSON WELLES
• OSAMA BIN LADEN
• OSCAR WILDE
• P. T. BARNUM
• PABLO PICASSO
• PIERRE PLANTARD
• PIET HEIN
• PLATO
• PORFIRIO RUBIROSA
• RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
• RAYMOND LOEWY - the father of industrial design.
• REMBRANDT
• ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
• ROBERT VESCO
• SALVADOR DALI
• SAMUEL JOHNSON
• SERGE GAINSBOURG
• SIGMUND FREUD
• SIMON WIESENTHAL
• SOCRATES
• SUN TZU - ancient Chinese military general and strategist who is traditionally believed to have authored The Art of War.
• SUSAN SONTAG
• THE RAT PACK - refers to a group that called itself "the summit" or "the clan," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.
• THOMAS EDISON
• THOMAS J.WATSON
• THOMAS MALTHUS
• TOM LEHRER
• TOM WOLFE
• TRUMAN CAPOTE
• VALENTINO | VALENTINO GARAVANI
• VLADIMIR NABOKOV
• VOLTAIRE | FFRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET
• WALTER CRONKITE - "...And that's the way it is."
• WILLIAM BLAKE
• WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
• WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
• WINSTON CHURCHILL
• YVES SAINT LAURENT