Jonathan Demme

•  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks, regarded as standard texts in the field. He regards his teaching job as his most important work.

  

  27.9%
  

  34.9%
  

  37.2%
  
•  George Lucas

  George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award-nominated American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic science fiction franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.0 billion as of 2009.

  

  33.3%
  

  31.4%
  

  35.3%
  
•  Gary Busey

  Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American film and stage actor and artist.

  

  34.6%
  

  30.8%
  

  34.6%
  
•  Jack L. Chalker

  Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 – February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for a time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

  

  27.3%
  

  34.1%
  

  38.6%
  
•  James Heckman

  James Joseph Heckman (born 19 April 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Distinguished Chair of Microeconometrics at University College, London, and University College, Dublin. Heckman shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2000 with Daniel McFadden for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics.

  

  22.9%
  

  25.7%
  

  51.4%
  
•  Kinky Friedman

  Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular Will Rogers and Mark Twain. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the six-person race.

  

  36.7%
  

  18.4%
  

  44.9%
  
•  Kary Mullis

  Kary Banks Mullis (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Mullis shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith. Mullis received the prize for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a process first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana that allows the amplification of specific DNA sequences. The improvements provided by Mullis have made PCR a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology.

  

  34.2%
  

  15.8%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Klaus Maria Brandauer

  Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 22 June 1944) is an Austrian actor, film director, and pedagogue.

  

  35.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  45.0%
  
•  Leonard Peltier

  Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is an American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There has been debate over Peltier’s guilt and the fairness of his trial.

  

  53.8%
  

  15.4%
  

  30.8%
  
•  Mary Robinson

  Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish senate (1969–1989).

  

  47.1%
  

  29.4%
  

  23.5%
  

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•  David Ortiz

  David Américo Ortiz Arias is a Dominican Major League Baseball designated hitter who has played for the Boston Red Sox since 2003. Previously, Ortiz played for the Minnesota Twins. Nicknamed "Big Papi," Ortiz is a five-time All-Star and holds the Red Sox single-season record for home runs with 54, set during the 2006 season. "Big Papi" is 6′4″ and weighs 230 pounds (104 kg). Ortiz plays first base in NL parks.

  

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  100.0%
  

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•  Toms River High School South

  Toms River High School South is a comprehensive four-year public high school, and was the first high school established in Dover Township, Ocean County, as part of the Toms River Regional Schools. Originally, the school opened in 1891 as Toms River High School. In 1969, when the high school was found to be too small to accommodate the fast-growing community, a second high school, Toms River High School North was opened and South was appended onto the school's original name.

  

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  0.0%
  

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•  United States presidential election in Alabama, 2000

  The 2000 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 7, 2000 throughout all 50 states and D.C. , which was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President. Alabama was won by Governor George W. Bush by a 14.9% margin of victory. He won the majority of the counties and congressional districts of the state.

  

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•  Siege of The North

  

  45.8%
  

  25.0%
  

  29.2%
  
•  Xenosaga: Episode II

  

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