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Nigel Griggs is an English musician, best known as bass guitarist in the band Split Enz. He is the brother of Paul Griggs from the 1970s vocal group Guys 'n' Dolls.
Nigel Griggs, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
Michael James Nazir-Ali is a Pakistani-born British Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop. He served as the 106th Bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009 and, before that, as Bi…
Michael Nazir-Ali, Pakistani-English bishop
Nikolas Asimos was a Greek composer, singer and performance artist. His real surname was Asimopoulos (Ασημόπουλος). Asimos was a very special case of a counter-culture artist, most…
Nikolas Asimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1988)
Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish musician who was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy. He was noted for his distinctive…
Phil Lynott, Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1986)
Daniel Sivan is an Israeli Emeritus professor in the Department of Hebrew Language at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Daniel Sivan, Israeli scholar and academic
Joop A. Donkervoort is a Dutch businessman and founder of Donkervoort car manufacturer of Netherlands.
Joop Donkervoort, Dutch businessman
Diana Nyad is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan in record time.
Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author
Vasiliki Papathanasiou, known professionally as Vicky Leandros, is a Greek singer based in Germany. She is the daughter of singer, musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou. In …
Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
Shelley Lee Long is an American actress, singer, and comedian. For her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers, Long received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstan…
Shelley Long, American actress
Loretta Devine is an American actress. She is known for numerous roles across stage and screen. Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway produc…
Loretta Devine, American actress and singer
Richard Lewis Springthorpe, known professionally as Rick Springfield, is an Australian-American musician and actor. He was a member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971, th…
Rick Springfield, Australian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Stephen Paulus was an American Grammy Award winning composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His style is essentially tonal, and melodic and romantic by nature.
Stephen Paulus, American composer and educator (died 2014)
Joe Regalbuto is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Frank Fontana on the CBS television sitcom Murphy Brown, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomina…
Joe Regalbuto, American actor and director
Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the …
Martin Amis, British novelist (died 2023)
Rijkman Willem Johan Groenink is a Dutch banker. He is best known as the CEO of the Dutch bank ABN AMRO at the time that the bank was sold to a consortium of banks. The consortium…
Rijkman Groenink, Dutch banker and academic
John Smeallie Youngs, known professionally as John Savage, is an American actor. He first rose to prominence in the late 1970s for his portrayals of troubled-but-sensitive characte…
John Savage, American actor and producer
Gene Simmons, also known by his stage persona "the Demon", is an Israeli and American musician and songwriter. He was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss, whi…
Gene Simmons, Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
Allahshukur Hummat Pashazade is the Shaykh al-Islam of the Caucasus which includes the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia, and Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia…
Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Azerbaijani cleric
Leon Redbone was a singer-songwriter and musician specializing in jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley classics. Recognized by his hat, dark sunglasses, and black tie, he was born in Cyp…
Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2019)
Jeffrey Alan Cook was an American country musician. Cook was best known for being a founding member of the band Alabama, in which he contributed to occasional lead vocals, guitar, …
Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)
Leah H. Jamieson is an American engineering educator, currently the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Jamieson was a co-…
Leah Jamieson, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic
Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Strangler…
Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Svetislav "Kari" Pešić is a Serbian former basketball player and coach.
Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach