(born 1947) Winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1968 while at the University of Southern California, O.J. Simpson signed for the Buffalo Bills where he broke single-season and single-game rushing records. Retiring in 1979, he went on to a career in television, movies and advertising, and was inducted into the football Hall of Fame in 1985. He acted in the Naked Gun series (1988, 1991, 1993), joined the commentary team for Monday Night Football and teamed up with Arnold Palmer to represent Hertz in his best-known commercials.

In 1994 he was the center of the sensational Los Angeles, CA murder case of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend. After a protracted trial, covered live and featured in talk shows and check-out counter magazines, Simpson was acquitted on all charges. But a wrongful death suit followed in 1997 in civil court, finding him liable to the sum of $33.5 million.