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Oleksandr Vasiliovych "Alex" Jesaulenko is a former Australian rules footballer and who played for the Carlton Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Footbal…
Alex Jesaulenko, Austrian-Australian footballer and coach
Sanjit "Bunker" Roy is an Indian social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College. He was selected as one of Time 100's 100 most influential personalities in 2010 for …
Bunker Roy, Indian educator and activist
Eric Simms is an Indigenous Australian former professional and national representative rugby league footballer who has been named among the nation's finest of the 20th century. His…
Eric Simms, Australian rugby league player and coach
Eamon Martin Dunphy is an Irish media personality, journalist, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer. He grew up playing football for several youth …
Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer and journalist
Paul McCarthy is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Paul McCarthy, American painter and sculptor
Alan Roger Mulally is an American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive. He was the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1998 to 2006, and later as president and chief …
Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman
Loni Kaye Anderson was an American actress. She is best known for playing receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982), which earned her nominatio…
Loni Anderson, American actress (died 2025)
Ron Jones was a British television director.
Ron Jones, English director and production manager (died 1993)
George Ian Kenneth Ireland was a Scottish actor and theatre director. Ireland was best known to television viewers for his role in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV in the 1980s, and fo…
Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (died 2014)
Alan Cedric Page is an American former Minnesota Supreme Court judge and professional football player. After playing college football at the University of Notre Dame, Page gained n…
Alan Page, American football player and jurist
Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of romance novels, including 19 New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.
Barbara Delinsky, American author
Aleksandr Yudaevich Gorelik was a Soviet pair skater. He competed with Tatiana Zhuk. They are the 1965 World bronze medalists and the 1966 and 1968 World silver medalists. At the E…
Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater and sportscaster (died 2012)
Jens Juul Holst is a Danish physician and physiologist. He is known for discovering and describing the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone in the gut that plays an i…
Jens Juul Holst, Danish physician and physiologist known for discovering GLP-1
Dorothy Elizabeth Denning is a US-American information security researcher known for lattice-based access control (LBAC), intrusion detection systems (IDS), and other cyber securit…
Dorothy E. Denning, American computer scientist and academic
Lars Engqvist is a Swedish politician. He served as chairman of the youth organization of the Swedish Social Democrats from 1972 to 1978, and then worked as a journalist. He was th…
Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
Gary W. Gregor is an American former professional basketball player.
Gary Gregor, American basketball player
Robin David Jackman was an English cricketer, who played in four Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1974 and 1983. He was a seam bowler…
Robin Jackman, Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2020)
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE, FRSL is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her lo…
Posy Simmonds, English author and illustrator
Ronald David Mael is an American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, music programmer, and film director. He is the keyboardist and principal songwriter in the pop and…
Ron Mael, American keyboard player and songwriter
Dennis Howard Marks was a Welsh drug smuggler and author who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases.
Howard Marks, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer, and legalisation campaigner (died 2016)
Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, …
Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter
Wim Wenders is a German filmmaker and photographer. Regarded as a major figure of New German Cinema and widely considered an auteur director, he has received various accolades, inc…
Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
Begum Khaleda Zia was a Bangladeshi politician who twice served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime mi…
Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (died 2025)
Robert Elmer Balaban is an American actor and filmmaker. Aside from his acting career, Balaban has directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and fil…
Bob Balaban, American actor, director, and producer