Best known for her role on Top Chef Season 4, Antonia Lofaso is one of America's most loved chefs and shows off her culinary skills with her feisty Italian personality on Top Chef: All Stars. Most recently Lofaso has gone from television personality to business owner and is currently executive chef and owner of Black Market in Studio City, California.... read full bio
Antonia Novello was the first female and first Hispanic to be appointed surgeon general of the United States. As a former pediatrician, her focus was on the health concerns of children and youth. As leader of the 6,500 employees of the Public Health Service, she directed the nation's attention to AIDS-infected children, the perils of smoking and teenage drinking, and... read full bio
Antwone Fisher was born in prison to a teenaged mother. He became a ward of the state, and was placed in foster care immediately. He spent two years in a loving foster home, but the foster mother had become too attached to Antwone and he was subsequently placed in a foster home where he would suffer twelve years of abuse.... read full bio
Apollo Robbins, otherwise known as The Gentleman Thief, is a performer, speaker, consultant and one of the world's leading experts on pickpockets, confidence crimes and deception. A pioneer in the application of deception to operational environments, Robbins uses pick-pocketing and sleight-of-hand to demonstrate perception management, diversion techniques and self-deception. Drawing from his twenty-plus years of experience as an entertainer and... read full bio
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Ariel Dorfman is a renowned author and playwright who witnessed the coup in Chile in the 1970s, which inspired many of his plays and novels. He combines politics and human rights is most of his works. He has been a literature and Latin American Studies professor at Duke University since 1985. Dorfman has written multiple critically acclaimed plays including Death... read full bio
An outspoken political advisor, talk show host and entrepreneur, Armstrong Williams is the host of The Armstrong Williams Show and the nationally syndicated radio show, The Right Side With Armstrong Williams. He has worked for such conservative political figures as Senator Strom Thurmond and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and has been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show... read full bio
Arne Duncan served as secretary of education for six years. During his time in office, he secured congressional support for President Obamas investments in education. Such efforts included the American Recovery and Reinvestment Acts $100 billion to fund 325,000 teaching positions, increases in Pell grants, reform efforts such as Race to the Top and Investing in Innovation and interventions in... read full bio
Art Holst is a motivational speaker whose career includes being a top salesman in building materials, infantry captain and officiator for the National Football League for fifteen years. A legend in the speaking industry, Art Holst's broad background provides the foundation for his messages spiced with inspiration, humor, and poetry. For twelve years, he worked as Administrator of the Forest... read full bio
Art Metrano is an American actor and comedian of Greek-Turkish-Jewish-Sephardic ancestry. Metrano may be best known for his role as Capt. Mauser in Police Academy 2 and Police Academy 3. He left the series due to a serious fall at home that seriously injured his spinal cord and left him disabled. Also known for his frequent appearances on The Tonight... read full bio
Art Smith is an American chef with high-profile clients such as Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, The King of Sweden, and former Florida governors Bob Graham and Jeb Bush. The Southern cuisine expert attended Florida State University while completing culinary internships with The Greenbrier and the Walt Disney Magic Kingdom College Program. He has since published three award-winning cookbooks, Back to... read full bio
Art Turock is an authority in the field of breakthrough performance." His ideas have been published in Success Magazine, USA Today, Reader's Digest, The One Minute Manager series, Association Management, and Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work. A master at turning theoretical concepts into hard-hitting practicality, he has presented to hundreds of major professional associations and Fortune 500 companies.... read full bio
Arthur Benjamin is a math professor at Harvey Mudd College, but dubs himself Mathemagician, as he performs high-speed mental calculations on stage. He has appeared on TED Talks several times to demonstrate his quick-thinking and fantastical math abilities. For example, Benjamin is able to rapidly square numbers up to five digits faster than a calculator and tell people what day... read full bio
Arthur C. Brooks is an expert on public policy and economics who has published extensively on social entrepreneurship, the connections between culture, politics, and economic life. A behavioral economist by training, he has written three books on the social value and economic impact of nonprofits, volunteerism, and charitable giving. He is the author of a major study of association membership... read full bio
Arthur Frommer is one of the foremost travel writers in the world. His book Europe on 5 Dollars a Day inspired companies like Lonely Planet. His commitment to low budget travel has kept him a go-to in the travel industry for 50 years. He is currently the CCO of frommer.com and hosts a weekly travel-based radio show with his daughter... read full bio
Arthur Laffer is an American economist who became influential during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board. He is best known for the Laffer curve, an illustration of tax elasticity which asserts that, in certain situations, a decrease in tax rates could result in an increase in tax revenues. Laffer is the author and co-author... read full bio
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger has been the publisher of The New York Times since 1992 and the chairman of the board since 1997. He succeeded his father and name sake in both positions. He was a reporter with The Raleigh Times from 1974 to 1976, and a London correspondent for The Associated Press from 1976 to 1978. He joined The New... read full bio
At the helm of the body-positive movement of the new decade is supermodel Ashley Graham, who went down in history as the first plus-size model to appear on the cover of the prestigious Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. At the young age of thirteen, she began what would become a revolutionary fashion career, when she signed with an international modeling agency.... read full bio
Ashley Judd is an American television and film actress, humanitarian, political activist, and philanthropist. The daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd and the half-sister of Wynona Judd, Ashley Judd is best known for an ongoing acting career spanning more than two decades. She has increasingly become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism as well. Judd has starred... read full bio
Born to a single, teenage mother, placed in Florida's foster care system by the age of three and ultimately being adopted from a Children's Home at the age of twelve, Ashley Rhodes-Courter is the quintessential American success story. She later chronicled her harrowing life story in the New York Times Bestseller Three Little Words, which is currently being adapted into... read full bio
