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Ralph Coates was an English professional footballer who played as a winger. Coates played for Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur and Orient, making 480 appearances in the Football League. …
Ralph Coates, English international footballer (died 2010)
Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator, biographer, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former Poet Laureate o…
Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author
Alberto Fernando Quintano Ralph, commonly known as El Mariscal, is a Chilean former professional footballer. He played as a defender for Universidad de Chile in Chile's Primera Div…
Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer
Franz "Bulle" Roth is a former German footballer. He earned four caps for the Germany national football team and was nicknamed "the Bull" due to his physical playing style.
Franz Roth, German footballer
Nour El-Sherif, born Mohamad Geber Mohamad Abd Allah was a prominent Egyptian actor. He has 6 films in the Top 100 Egyptian films list.
Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor and producer (died 2015)
Ginette Reno is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. She has received nominations for the Genie and Gemini Awards and is a multi-recipient of the Juno Award. She is a gold an…
Ginette Reno, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
Larissa A. Schneider Grunig is a public relations theorist and feminist, and she is known as one of the most published and influential scholars in public relations. A professor eme…
Larissa Grunig, American theorist and activist
Rodney Procter Frelinghuysen is an American former politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 11th congressional district from 1995 to 2019. The…
Rodney Frelinghuysen, American politician and lobbyist
Carl XVI Gustaf has reigned as the King of Sweden since 15 September 1973. Having reigned for 52 years, he is the longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history and the second longest…
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Bill Plympton is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 Academy Award–nominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts…
Bill Plympton, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
Donald Arthur Schollander is an American former competition swimmer, five-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events. He won a total of five gold medals a…
Don Schollander, American swimmer
Lesley Gore was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. At the age of 16, she recorded her first hit song "It's My Party", a U.S. number one in 1963. She followed it up with t…
Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)
Sir David Courtney Suchet is an English actor. He is known for his work on stage and in television. He portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial Oppenheimer (1980) and recei…
David Suchet, English actor
Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley is a British actress, presenter, author, television producer, activist and former model. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in th…
Joanna Lumley, English actress, voice-over artist, author, and activist
John Woo Yu-sen is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. The recipient of various accolades, including a Hong Kong Film Award for Be…
John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter
Norman Yew Heen Chow is an American football coach and former player who is an offensive analyst for the Vienna Vikings of the European League of Football (ELF). He was the head fo…
Norm Chow, American football player and coach
Gregory Girard Gumbel was an American television sportscaster. He was best known for his various assignments for CBS Sports. Gumbel became the first African-American announcer to c…
Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster (died 2024)
John Edward Barnard, is an English engineer and racing car designer. Barnard is credited with the introduction of two new designs into Formula One: the carbon fibre composite chass…
John Barnard, English car designer
Gary Lee Bauer is an American civil servant, activist, and former political candidate. He served in President Ronald Reagan's administration as Under Secretary of Education and Chi…
Gary Bauer, American political activist
John Marshall Watson is a British former racing driver and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1985. Watson won five Formula One Grands Prix…
John Watson, British race car driver
James Milton Kelly was an American athlete, martial artist actor, and professional tennis player. After winning several karate championships, he rose to fame in the early 1970s app…
Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (died 2013)
Thelma Houston is an American singer and actress. Beginning her recording career in the late 1960s, Houston scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her recording of "Don't Leave Me Th…
Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco singer and actress
Marvin Ronald Hubbard was an American professional football fullback who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Oakland Raiders.
Marv Hubbard, American football player (died 2015)
William Kreutzmann Jr. is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fello…
Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer