Biggest Deal in 2008: Won a Golden Globe for Outstanding Female Actress for a Comedy Series, a SAG award, numerous Emmy Awards and was named one of Barbara Walters’ most fascinating people of 2008. Co-starred with former cast member of Saturday Night Live Amy Poehler in the movie Baby Mama, which has made $60 million domestically to date.

Tina Fey writes, stars in and is the executive producer of NBC's acclaimed comedy 30 Rock. She was the first female head writer of Saturday Night Live and won an Emmy Award and two Writers Guild awards for her work. She made her screen debut co-starring with Jimmy Fallon on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and continued in that role for six seasons.

Biggest Deal in 2008: Broke the Olympic record for the most Gold medals (eight) won in a single Olympic event. He set seven world records.

Michael Phelps went a perfect 8-for-8 in Beijing, breaking former Olympian Mark Spitz’s 1972 single-sport record for Gold medals. Phelps has won 14 Olympic Gold medals, the most held by any Olympian. He began swimming at 7 as an outlet for his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Phelps used the $1 million bonus he earned from Speedo to start a charitable foundation to promote water safety and youth swimming.

Biggest Deal in 2008: Launched $58 million advertising campaign to promote the Pickens Plan.

T. Boone Pickens created his Pickens Plan, an energy policy aimed at reducing America’s addiction to foreign oil. During the span of his long career, he has created thousands of jobs, and has donated nearly $700 million to health and medical research, entrepreneurship, education and athletics, and his alma mater, Oklahoma State University.

Biggest Deal in 2008: Touted as one of the most powerful women in America and sets the standard for how large American companies can expand internationally.

As CEO and chairman, Indra Nooyi grew PepsiCo to a $39 billion food and beverage giant through acquisitions and product offerings, growing the company internationally by 22 percent in 2007 and moving PepsiCo toward healthier products. She pushed for PepsiCo to buy Quaker Oats and Tropicana and in 2007 spent $1.3 billion on acquisitions like Naked Juice. Nooyi also leads the PepsiCo Foundation, fostering selfsufficient communities worldwide.

Biggest Deal in 2008: Led the U.S. basketball team to win Gold in the 2008 Bejing Olympics.

LeBron James of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers was selected as the first overall draft pick at age 18. He signed a $90 million shoe contract with Nike before his NBA debut. In 2004, he and his mother, Gloria, founded the LeBron James Family Foundation to assist disadvantaged children and single-parent families. In 2006, James co-founded LRMR Marketing, a sports-marketing company.