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Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is the most famous chimpanzee expert in the world. A colleague of anthropologist Louis Leakey in Kenya in the late 1950s, she began studying the social organization of chimpanzees in…

Jaime Hernandez

Jaime Hernandez is the artist and writer who co-created the comic book series Love and Rockets. With his older brothers Mario and Gilbert, Hernandez put out the first issue in 1981, and the next year…

Hockney, David

(Encyclopedia) Hockney, David, 1937–, English painter, studied Royal College of Art. Moving from a distorted, semiexpressionist form of pop art, Hockney developed a highly personal realistic style,…

Zachary Levi

Name at birth: Zachary Levi PughZachary Levi became the star and title character of the television series Chuck in 2007. On stage since childhood, Zachary Levi spent his teen years in southern…

Paulina Peavy

Name at birth: Pauline Ellen WhitePaulina Peavy was a 20th century American artist cast into the realm of "outsider art" because her mind-bending paintings were, according to her, messages from a…

Lisa See

Lisa See is the author of the non-fiction family history On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family and the novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. See, who is one-…

America Ferrera

America Ferrera was fresh out of high school when her 2002 film Real Women Have Curves won her raves from independent film critics. From there she landed a few small roles in feature films before…

Jonathan Frakes

Jonathan Frakes played roguish Commander William T. Riker in the TV and film versions of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94). Frakes started his acting career on the New York stage, but in the…

Linda Johnson Rice Biography

Linda Johnson Ricemagazine publisher, executiveBorn: 1957? Linda Johnson graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Journalism and, in 1987, earned a master's degree in…

Bob Cope Biography

Bob CopeAge: 58 former defensive coordinator for Kansas State University; on his second stint with the Wildcats; was on coach Bill Snyder's original staff from 1989–90, then left for…