Peller
Peller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Clara Peller (1902–1987), American manicurist and actress * Joseph Peller (born 1953), American artist and teacher * Gary Peller (born 1955), American philosopher *Shina Peller Shina Abiola Peller (born 14 May 1976) is a Nigerian entrepreneur, politician, Industrialist, and a Member of the 9th National Assembly. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Aquila Group of Companies and Club Quilox. Shina Peller ...

Clara Peller
Clara Peller (August 4, 1902 – August 11, 1987) was a Russian-born American manicurist and television personality who, already an octogenarian, starred in the 1984 "Where's the beef?" advertising campaign for the Wendy's fast food restaurant chain, created by the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency. Life and career Born in Imperial Russia, in 1902, one of eight or nine children born to Wolf Swerdlove (Swerdlov/Sverdlov; died 1949) and Yudis (aka "Julia" or "Judith") Tilkin (or Tilken; died 1952), young Clara spent most of her early life in Chicago. Her father left Russia when he was being drafted for the second time, and they settled down in Illinois. Clara married at age 20 to a local jeweler, William Peller. They had a son (Leslie) and a daughter (Marlene), but later divorced. She never remarried. She worked for 35 years as a manicurist at a local Chicago beauty salon, and later moved to the suburban North Shore area to be near her daughter, Marlene Necheles. At ag ...
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Gary Peller
Gary Peller (born 1955) is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a prominent member of the critical legal studies and critical race theory movements. Education and early career Peller received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University in 1977 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School where he served as a member of the ''Harvard Law Review''. Peller then clerked for Morris Lasker, a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is currently a member of the Maryland state bar. Academic work and influence Peller was one of the central figures at the Conference on Critical Legal Studies. With Kimberlé Crenshaw, Peller co-authored a widely cited article, "The Contradictions of Mainstream Constitutional Theory", published in the ''UCLA Law Review'', and co-edited one of the standard texts in critical race theory. Peller is among the irrationalist branch of the critical legal studies movement, arguing that ther ...
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Joseph Peller
Joseph Peller (born 1953) is an artist; he is also a teacher at the Art Students League of New York. Education Initially Peller studied with Canadian artist A.K. Scott, a pupil of the American painters Charles W. Hawthorne and George Bellows. While studying at the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto, he worked with artists Kenneth Forbes and Cleeve Horne. In New York City, Peller studied with Ronald Sherr at the National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ... and Thomas Fogarty Jr., Roberto De Lamonicam and Hilary Holmes at the Art Students League, where in 1985 he received a Revson Foundation Grant. Career Peller has also taught at the New York Academy of Art.The Art Students League of New York Catalog of the 130th regula ...
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