Bill Janklow
Janklow was born in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1956 to 1959. He graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1964 and received a law degree in 1966. During his political career Janklow, a [...]
Anwar Sadat
Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat - President of Egypt born on December 1918 – 6 October 1981 was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. In his eleven [...]
Thomas Alva Edison
Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. "The Wizard of Menlo Park" was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention. In 1880 Edison founded the [...]
Cardinal John Krol
John Joseph Krol was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 26, 1910, to Polish immigrant parents. By the time he was 18, John Krol was manager of the meat department of a large chain store. However, when a Lutheran co-worker [...]
Larry King
Raised by his widowed mother, Larry King born Lawrence Zeiger grew up under modest circumstances in Brooklyn. His father, a bar owner, died when he was nine, and his mother had to go on welfare to support King [...]
George Lucas
George Lucas is the director who created Star Wars and has gone on to have a great career as an independent director/producer with a personal fortune estimated in the region of $4 billion. Unfortunate, as with so many of the [...]
Don Francisco
Don Francisco was born on December 28, 1940 in Talca, Chile as Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld. As a young man, Don left Chile and traveled to New York to become a tailor, but upon his arrival took an immediate interest [...]
Bryan Busby
“I love my job. It was a childhood dream of mine to do TV weather. Since the third grade, this is what I wanted to do. I have a blast up there and I hope it shows." Coming to KMBC [...]
Jason Johnson
Born in Santa Barbara, California, Jason Johnson, starting pitcher for the Camden Riversharks, attended Conner High School in Burlington, Kentucky, prior to being signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992 as an undrafted free agent. The right-handed pitcher has played [...]
James “Catfish” Hunter
James Hunter was born on April 8, 1946 in Hertford, North Carolina. He attended Perquimans High School, where he played many different sports, including baseball and football. Near the end of his high school career, a hunting accident cost Hunter [...]
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was one of five children living with his single mother. Throughout his high school and junior college career, Robinson was involved in many sports, including football, basketball, [...]
Hank Stram
Hank Stram was born Henry Louis Stram on January 3, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. His Polish father, Henry Wilczek, was a professional wrestler. He wrestled using the name Stram, thus a new family name was born. Hank Stram attended high [...]
Ham Richardson
Tennis star Hamilton “Ham” Richardson was born in Baton Rouge, Louisana, in 1933. A competitor in the postwar tennis revival, he was a number one ranked player, a Rhodes scholar, and a father. He competed in his first tennis tournament [...]
Gary Hall Jr.
Gary Hall Jr. was born on September 26, 1974 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Claim to Fame: Gold medal Olympic swimmer. His successful career in swimming began by the influence of his father, Gary Hall Sr., uncle Charles Keating Ill, and maternal [...]
Kellie Keuhne
Kelli Kuehne was diagnosed with diabetes long before she took up golfing.Now the former University of Texas All-American makes a living firing golf balls down the course. In her 11 years on the LPGA tour, she's recorded 26 top 10 [...]
Jonathan Hayes
Jonathan Hayes, the football player, got his start at the University of Iowa where he was switched to tight end as a junior after spending his first two seasons at linebacker. He earned first-team All-America honors as a senior and [...]
Jo Ann Washam
Born in Auburn, Washington in 1950, Jo Ann Washam is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. At thirteen, she won the Auburn Golf Course club championship and went onto play college golf at Washington State University. [...]
Jay Leeuwenburg
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Jay Leeuwenburg was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 12. Driven by his love for sports, Leeuwenburg learned to manage his diabetes despite his strenuous lifestyle and pursued football in high school and college, [...]
Jay Hewitt
Jay Hewitt is an Iron-man Triathlete, member of the U.S. National Long Course Triathlon Team, a professional motivational speaker, and a practicing lawyer. While in his first year of law school at the University of South Carolina School of Law, [...]
Jay Cutler
Jay Cutler was born on April 29, 1983 in Santa Claus, Indiana. He attended Heritage Hill High School in Lincoln City, Indiana where he started as quarterback for the football team 3 out of the 4 years he was there. [...]
Mike Sinclair
A former defensive end for the National Football League’s Seattle Seahawks and the Philadelphia Eagles, Mike Sinclair won the Pro-Bowl three times, in 1996, ‘97, and ’98, and led the NFL in sacks that same year. Sinclair was the winner [...]
Mike Echols
Mike Echols was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and is best known for playing as a cornerback with the Tennessee Titans. He played football for his entire four years at the University of Wisconsin and was drafted to the Titans in [...]
Michelle McGann
Michelle Quote: "It's my love of the game that has kept me playing one of the most strategic and challenging sports even when faced with adversity at age 13." Michelle McGann was born on December 30, 1969, in Singer Island, [...]
