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Steve Wozniak

Name at birth: Stephen Gary WozniakKnown to the world simply as "Woz," Steve Wozniak is the computer whiz who with Steve Jobs created the Apple Computer company in 1976. Wozniak was the computer…

Noah Wyle

Noah Wyle played medical student John Carter (later Dr. John Carter) on the hit TV series E.R., becoming one of the show's many medical heartthrobs during its run from 1994-2009. Wylie left the show…

William Hewlett Biography

William Hewlettelectronics entrepreneurBorn: 5/20/1913Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Mich. electronics entrepreneur who, with David Packard, scraped together $538 in 1938 and started an electronics…

William Hewlett 2001 Deaths

William HewlettAge: 87 electronics entrepreneur who, with David Packard, scraped together $538 in 1938 and started an electronics company in Palo Alto, Calif. The company, Hewlett Packard,…

Daniel Case III 2002 Deaths

Daniel Case IIIAge: 44 influential investment banker who, as head of J.P. Morgan HQ (formerly Hambrecht & Quist), financed many of Silicon Valley's leading high-tech companies, including…

Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg's remarkable career has included stops at the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury, Google and Facebook, where she's been Chief Operating Officer since 2008. Sheryl Sandberg grew up in North…

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the social networking site Facebook. The success of Facebook made Zuckerberg a paper billionaire at the age of 24; Forbes ranked him…

J. D. Vance

J.D. Vance wrote the memoir Hillbilly Elegy, a 2016 bestseller that made him a political celebrity and launched his career as an expert on the troubles of poor, white Americans. Vance grew up…

Anthony Michael Hall Biography

Anthony Michael Hall (Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall)actor, singerBorn: 4/14/1968Birthplace: Boston Anthony Michael Hall first won accolades in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), but is…

Hewlett-Packard Biography

Hewlett-Packard The original Silicon Valley pioneers, the pair used their Stanford degrees to turn their garage-based business into one of the largest computer manufacturing companies in the…