Age: 58
First Career: Professional boxer (1969-77, 1987-97)
Current Career: Entrepreneur, spokesman (since 1995)

Through the Years: Foreman, an Olympic boxing gold medalist and two-time heavyweight champion of the world, had what he describes as a near-death experience after his 1977 fight with Jimmy Young. After the fight, Foreman became an ordained minister at the Church of Lord Jesus Christ in Houston and also founded the George Foreman Youth Community Center. Foreman, who recently penned God Is in My Corner, has found his greatest fame and fortune as the spokesperson for Salton’s George Foreman Grill. Endorsing the “lean mean fat-reducing grilling machine” has brought him more than a quarter of a billion dollars. Change to: “His lifetime earnings are more than a quarter of a billion dollars, with approximately half of that related to the “lean, mean, fat-reducing grilling machine.”