2009 People in the News
A—E
- Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Basketball player
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian president
- Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
- Danny Boyle, Director of Slumdog Millionaire
- Susan Boyle, singer and Internet sensation
- Rod Blagojevich, Former governor of Illinois (Dem.)
- Roland Burris, U.S. Senator (Dem., Ill.)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State under Pres. Obama, former First Lady
- Walter Cronkite, TV news anchor
- Tom Daschle, U.S. Senate majority leader 2001-2003
- Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate of the U.K.
- Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's Chief of Staff
- John Ensign, U.S. Senator (Rep., Nev.)
F—L
- Shepard Fairey, American artist
- Farrah Fawcett, Actor
- Al Franken, U.S. Senator (Dem., Mich.)
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard professor, African-American scholar
- Rob Gauntlett, British mountain climber and adventurer
- Timothy Geithner, Secretary of Treasury under Pres. Obama
- Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (Dem., N.Y.)
- Jon Gosselin, Reality TV star, father of 8
- Kate Gosselin, Reality TV star, mother of 8
- Judd Gregg, U.S. Senator (Rep., N.H.)
- Jaimee Grubbs, Scandal figure
- Nidal Malik Hassan, Soldier, murder suspect
- Michael Jackson, Musician, "King of Pop"
- Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana (Rep.)
- Kim Jong-il, Dictator of North Korea
- Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
- Caroline Kennedy, Daughter of President John F. Kennedy
- Ted Kennedy, U.S. Senator (Dem., Mass.)
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader
- David Letterman, Late-night talk show host
- Gary Locke, Nominee for Commerce Secretary
M—Q
- Bernhard Madoff, Money manager and Ponzi-schemer
- Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq
- Adolf Merckle, Billionaire German businessman
- Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish-American writer
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iranian presidential candidate
- John Allen Muhammad, "Beltway Sniper" (2002)
- Barack Obama, U.S. President
- Bo "First Dog" Obama, First family's Portuguese water dog
- Sarah Palin, Former Governor of Alaska (Rep.), author
- Leon Panetta, Director of the CIA under Barack Obama
- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, (Dem., Cali.)
- Sean Penn, Academy Award-winning actor
- Mackenzie Phillips, Actor, daughter of Mamas and the Papas founder
- Roman Polanski, Controversial filmmaker, actor
- Carrie Prejean, Beauty contestant, political figure
R—Z
- Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader (Nev., Dem.)
- Alex Rodriguez, Shortstop for Yankees baseball team
- Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson's ex-wife, mother of children
- Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico (Dem.), former nominee for Commerce Secretary under Pres. Obama
- Natasha Richardson, Tony Award-winning actress
- William Safire, Columnist, speechwriter
- Michaele Salahi, "White House Crasher"
- Tareq Salahi, "White House Crasher"
- Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina (Rep.)
- Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
- Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health & Human Services under Pres. Obama
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of the Special Olympics
- David H. Souter, Supreme Court Justice
- Sonia Sotomayor, Nominee for Supreme Court Justice
- Arlen Specter, Senator of Pennsylvania (Dem.)
- Ted Stevens, Former senator of Alaska (Rep.)
- Patrick Swayze, Actor
- Nadya Suleman, Mother of Octuplets
- Thierry Henry, French soccer player with a "handball" goal against Republic of Ireland in a World Cup qualifying match
- Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, U.S. Airways pilot who landed on the Hudson River
- George Tiller, Doctor
- Jett Travolta, Child of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston
- Rachel Uchitel, Scandal figure linked with Tiger Woods
- John Updike, Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer
- Addison Graves "Joe" Wilson, U.S. Representative (Rep., S. Car.)
- Oprah Winfrey, Talk-show host, actress, and producer
- Kate Winslet, Academy Award-winning actress
- Tiger Woods, Professional golfer
- Andrew Wyeth, Celebrated American artist
