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Vincent Kennedy McMahon is an American businessman and former professional wrestling promoter. McMahon, along with his later-estranged wife Linda, is co-founder of the modern WWE, …
Vince McMahon, American wrestler, promoter, and entrepreneur; co-founded WWE
Daniel Hulet was a Belgian cartoonist.
Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist (died 2011)
Hannah Louise Shearer, also known as Hannah Shearer or Hannah L. Shearer, is a writer who was credited with writing five episodes whilst on the staff of Star Trek: The Next Generat…
Hannah Louise Shearer, American screenwriter and producer
Thomas Joseph Ridge is an American politician and author who served in the George W. Bush administration as the assistant to the president for homeland security from 2001 to 2003 a…
Tom Ridge, American sergeant and politician, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security
Douglas R. Campbell was a judge who served on the Federal Court of Canada. He was Canada's longest-serving judge, serving a total of 46 years.
Douglas R. Campbell, Canadian lawyer and judge
Marianne Sägebrecht is a German film actress.
Marianne Sägebrecht, German actress
Robert Joseph Segarini was an American-Canadian recording artist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio host. During a professional music career primarily developed between 1968 …
Bob Segarini, American-Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2023)
Chris Copping is a musician and singer-songwriter who was a member of Procol Harum in the 1970s, and has also composed for TV and film. He predominantly plays organ, piano and bass…
Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Wyomia Tyus is a retired American track and field sprinter, and the first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m.
Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter
Sir George Ivan Morrison is a Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career started in the 1960s. Morrison's albums have performed well in the UK and Irela…
Van Morrison, Northern Irish singer-songwriter
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-American violinist. He has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a state dinner for Elizabeth II at the Wh…
Itzhak Perlman, Israeli-American violinist and conductor
Robert Lawrence Welch Jr. was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971 to 1974. He had a successful solo career in the late 1970s. …
Bob Welch, American singer and guitarist (died 2012)
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi was a Yemeni politician and military officer who served as the second president of Yemen from 2012 until his resignation in 2022. He previously served as the…
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemeni general and politician, 2nd President of Yemen (died 2026)
George Michael Biondo is a musician who served as bass guitarist of the Canadian rock band Steppenwolf from April 1970 to October 1976. Born in New York, Biondo has been based in S…
George Biondo, American bass player and songwriter
Peter Goddard is a British mathematical physicist who works in string theory and conformal field theory. Among his many contributions to these fields is the Goddard–Thorn theorem.
Peter Goddard, English physicist and mathematician
Martha Porter Saxton was an American professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College who authored several prominent historical biographies.
Martha Saxton, American Historian (died 2023)
Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. was an American virtuoso guitarist who combined blues, rockabilly, jazz, and country to create a musical style he called "redneck jazz", a term which he took…
Danny Gatton, American guitarist (died 1994)
William Kenwright was an English theatre and film producer. He was also the chairman of Everton Football Club for nearly two decades, from 2004 until his death in 2023.
Bill Kenwright, English actor, singer, and producer (died 2023)
Eva Bergman is a Swedish film, theatre and television director who worked at Dramaten. She is the daughter of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and was married to crime writer Henni…
Eva Bergman, Swedish director and screenwriter
Alastair Ian Stewart is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a style o…
Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jacques Gérard Lemaire is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and head coach who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. He spent his entire twelve-year National Hockey…
Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Victor Pollard is an English-born former Test and One-Day International cricketer and footballer who represented New Zealand at the international level in both sports.
Vic Pollard, English-New Zealand rugby player and footballer
Curtis Alexander Price, KBE was Warden of New College, Oxford, from October 2009 to September 2016. He was previously principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and …
Curtis Price, American musicologist and academic
Peter Edwin Storey is an English former footballer. Able to play at full-back or more commonly as a defensive midfielder, he picked up a reputation in the Football League as an agg…
Peter Storey, English footballer