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Jeff Bezos

Name at birth: Jeffrey Preston JorgensenJeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com and one of the richest people in the world. Jeff Bezos was born to Jacklyn and Ted Jorgensen; after their divorce,…

Pat Robertson

Name at birth: Marion Gordon RobertsonPat Robertson was the founder, chairman and prominent public face of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). One of America's leading televangelists, he also…

Victor Borge

Name at birth: Børge RosenbaumVictor Borge was once called "the funniest pianist on Earth" by The Washington Post. He toured the world for decades with his popular one-man show, which mixed classical…

Jessica Lynch

On 3 April 2003, The Washington Post reported the dramatic rescue of a prisoner of war: U.S. Army Private Jessica Lynch, a 19 year-old supply clerk assigned to the 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company…

George P. Shultz

George Pratt Shultz was an economist and Republican presidential adviser known best as the U.S. Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan from 1982-89. An academic who thrust himself into politics,…

Tina Brown Biography

Tina Brownmagazine publisherBorn: 11/21/1953Birthplace: Maidenhead, England Christina Hambley Brown graduated from St. Anne's College, Oxford University, in 1974. After working as a reporter…

Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters was the veteran broadcaster whose TV career extended from her prominent 1970s interviews with world leaders through her 21st-century successes with the morning show The View. Barbara…

G. Gordon Liddy

Name at birth: George Gordon Battle LiddyG. Gordon Liddy led the team of political burglars whose capture in 1972 led to the Watergate scandal that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in…

John Boehner

John Boehner was a longtime Congressman from Ohio who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2010 until his sudden resignation in October of 2015. A lifelong Ohioan, John…

Colin Powell

Name at birth: Colin Luther PowellColin Powell was the first Black American to be U.S. Secretary of State. He served in that office from 2001-05. Colin Powell was a career soldier who fought in the…