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Marissa Mayer

Name at birth: Marissa Ann MayerMarisa Mayer was hired as Google employee #20 in 1999, which made it all the more surprising when she left the company to become CEO of search rival Yahoo in 2012.…

Edison Chen

Edison Chen is a Canadian actor who rocketed to fame in the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the early 2000s, then abruptly withdrew from his career in 2008 as the result of a sex scandal. Also…

Jenn Sterger

Florida State University student Jenn Sterger parlayed two seconds of national TV time into years of Internet fame and an on-camera job with the New York Jets. After Jenn Sterger and two friends…

Larry Page

Name at birth: Lawrence Edward PageLarry Page and his friend Sergey Brin created the search engine Google in 1998. Larry Page's father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State, and…

Joseph Kony

Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, an armed rebel group that has terrorized parts of Uganda for more than two decades and which gained extra fame on the Internet in 2012. Joseph…

Sarah Silverman

Comedian Sarah Silverman found success in the early 2000s as a good-looking, foul-mouthed Jewish girl who makes jokes about taboo subjects. Silverman grew up in New Hampshire and started her comedy…

Andy Milonakis

Comedian Andy Milonakis landed his own series on MTV in 2005, thanks in large part to "The Superbowl Is Gay," a short comedy film he posted on the Internet in 2003. The film, featuring Milonakis…

Margaret C. Meg, Whitman Biography

Margaret C. “Meg,” Whitmanbusiness executiveBorn: 1957Birthplace: New York She grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N.Y. When Whitman entered Princeton University, she planned a…

1997 Medal of Technology Recipients

Norman R. Augustine, Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp. in Bethesda, Md., for visionary leadership in maintaining the United States' preeminence in the aerospace industry, and for…

Awkwafina

Name at birth: Nora LumAwkwafina is the stage name of Nora Lum, a New York City media personality who went from a hit YouTube video called "My Vag" to co-starring in Ocean's 8 with Sandra Bullock,…