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1. Michael W Smith -- Michael W. Smith
   Michael W. Smith is a professor at Temple University’s College of Education. He joined the ranks of college teachers after 11 years of teaching high school. In his research he analyzes the knowledge, skills, and dispositions experienced readers and writers need as well as what motivates adolescents’ reading and writing outside school. He uses these analyses to think about how to design more effective curricula and instruction. He has been Chair of the Literature Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, co-Chair of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research, and co-editor of Research in the Teaching of English. He was recently elected as a Fellow of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy.
2. Michael W Smith -- Music
   Life is a balancing act, and no one understands that better than Michael W. Smith. Over the last fifteen years, Michael has gone from bagging groceries to selling over six million albums, including five gold records and one platinum record. He's won two Grammy Awards, nine Dove Awards and one American Music Award. Seventeen of his songs have made it to #1 on the radio charts.
3. Michael W Smith
   The story goes that Amy's managers, Mike Blanton and Dan Harrell could not find a Christian record label that would sign Michael or a young New Yorker named Kathy Troccoli. Believing so much in these two young talents, they started Reunion Records.
4. Michael W Smith -- Artists
   In 1994, Michael founded a teen club called Rocketown in an effort to provide a place for teens to gather in a safe, loving environment. A warehouse in the Cool Springs area of Brentwood, TN was converted into a dance floor, rooms with pool tables and a coffeehouse. After three years, the club closed. The leadership continued to build a ministry devoted to kids, and a new site in downtown Nashville that reopened in 2003. In 1996, Michael founded Rocketown Records with Reunion executive Don Donahue and launched their first artist, Chris Rice. Michael and Don shared a dream to be part of a label where great songs were the focus, where artists, not acts, were developed.
5. Michael W Smith -- West Virginia
   Michael Whitaker Smith has become one of the most enduringly popular artists on the Christian Contemporary Music front and is ... finding considerable success as a mainstream artist. He was born in Kenova, West Virginia, the son of an oil refinery worker and a caterer. He became a devout Christian at age ten and spent his teens hanging around with a solid support group of fellow believers who frequently gathered to play and make music. After high school, that support group split up, and Smith turned to alcohol, drugs and wild times. He scraped through a couple semesters of college and began honing his songwriting skills. In 1978, a songwriting company expressed interest in his songwriting, and he moved to Nashville, where he played with local bands, including Rose.
6. Michael Landon
   Michael Landon was an American actor, producer and director who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles as "Little Joe" Cartwright in Bonanza (1959-1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974-1982), and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven (1984-1989). He ... hosted the annual long-running coverage of the "Tournament of Roses Parade" with Kelly Lange, also on NBC. Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz in the New York City borough in the Queens neighborhood of Forest Hills, New York. Landon's father, Eli Maurice Orowitz, was a Jewish American actor and movie theater manager, and his mother, Peggy O’Neill, was an Irish American Catholic dancer and comedienne. Maurice was the Orowitz' second child; his sister, Evelyn, was born three years earlier.
7. Michael Williams
   Michael Williams has been an active blues and jazz guitarist around New England since 1987. He has recently been performing with Grammy winner James Cotton, and has performed throughout the U.S. and Canada with Michelle Willson and others, including Mighty Sam McClain, David “Fathead” Newman, Sugar Ray Norcia, Darrell Nulisch, Tone Cool recording artists The Love Dogs, and blues piano virtuoso David Maxwell. Williams' playing, songwriting, and arranging are featured on Ms. Willson's CD So Emotional, which earned a four-star review in Down Beat magazine.
8. Michael Craig
   Born in India to a British military officer, "Michael Craig" was in his teens when he entered films in 1949 as an extra, or, as "Leslie Halliwell" so euphemistically put it, a "crowd artist." That same year, Craig made his inaugural stage appearance in The Merchant of Venice. Groomed for stardom by the Rank Organisation, he began receiving speaking parts in 1954. On the whole, his stage work, which consisted largely of Shakespeare, was more rewarding than his film efforts. As leading man in such films as "Upstairs and Downstairs" (1959) and "Mysterious Island" (1961), Craig was required to do little more beyond looking handsome and dependable. One of his few movie roles of substance was in "The Angry Silence" (1960), which he co-wrote (he would later contribute to the script of 1981's "The Killing of Angel Street").
9. Michael Redgrave
   (CBS)On the day she was born, her father, renowned actor Michael Redgrave, was appearing on stage in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." During the curtain call, the show's lead, Laurence Olivier proclaimed "tonight a great actress has been born."
10. Michael Moore -- Filmmaker Michael Moore
    Michael Moore isn't camera shy. In fact, he's as famous for his on camera antics as he is for his directorial efforts espousing liberal causes he personally supports. This sets Moore apart from cinema verite filmmakers who remain inconspicuous when filming and maintain an attitude of objectivity about the subjects and issues they're covering. In contrast, Moore's his own main protagonist. He confronts subjects on camera, dramatically proves points, convinces audiences and fires them up to take action. Moore's filmmaking is a political platform.

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