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Sarah Virginia Wade is a British former professional tennis player. She won three major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British w…
Virginia Wade, English tennis player and sportscaster
Butch Hancock is an American country recording artist and songwriter. He is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but he has principally performed…
Butch Hancock, American country-folk singer-songwriter and musician
Ashley Alexander Mallett was an Australian cricketer who played in 38 Tests and 9 One Day Internationals between 1968 and 1980. Until Nathan Lyon, he was Australia's most successfu…
Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer and author (died 2021)
James Beck Gordon was an American musician, songwriter and convicted murderer. Gordon was a session drummer in the late 1960s and 1970s and played drums in the blues rock supergrou…
Jim Gordon, American rock drummer and convicted murderer (died 2023)
David Arthur Granger is a Guyanese former politician and retired military officer who served as the ninth president of Guyana from 2015 to 2020. A member of the People’s National C…
David Arthur Granger, Guyanese politician, 9th President of Guyana
Peter Charles Lewis is one of the founding members of the band Moby Grape. Three of his better known songs with Moby Grape are "Fall on You" and "Sitting by the Window" from the se…
Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jürgen Wilhelm Möllemann was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Minister of State at the Foreign Office (1982–1987), as Minister of Education and …
Jürgen Möllemann, German soldier and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (died 2003)
Alexander, Crown Prince of Serbia and Yugoslavia, is the head of the House of Karađorđević, the former royal house of the defunct Kingdom of Yugoslavia and its predecessor the King…
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
John Haggitt Charles Patten, Baron Patten, is a British politician. He was formerly Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxford and subsequently for Oxford West and Abingdon.
John Patten, Baron Patten, English politician, Secretary of State for Education
Patrick Doherty is a retired Sinn Féin politician, who served as the abstentionist Member of Parliament (MP) for West Tyrone from 2001 to 2017. He was also a Member of the Northern…
Pat Doherty, Irish Republican politician
Paule Baillargeon is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and was a n…
Paule Baillargeon, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
Charles Clyde Bowden was an American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was best known for his work documenting violence on the Mexico-…
Charles Bowden, American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist (died 2014)
Lawrence Edwin Craig is an American former politician who represented Idaho in the United States Senate from 1991 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he also represented Ida…
Larry Craig, American soldier and politician
Kimberly Carnes Ellingson is an American singer and songwriter best known for her 1981 hit single, "Bette Davis Eyes". She embarked on a solo career as a songwriter and performer i…
Kim Carnes, American singer-songwriter
Robert Edward Rein was an American football and baseball player and football coach. He was a two-sport athlete at Ohio State University and served as the head football coach at Nor…
Bo Rein, American football player and coach (died 1980)
Edwin Arthur Schlossberg is an American designer, artist, and author. A pioneer and leader of interactive museum installations, he is the founder and principal designer of ESI Desi…
Edwin Schlossberg, American designer, author, and husband of Carolyn Kennedy
Wendy Cope is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.
Wendy Cope, English poet, critic, and educator
Geoffrey Dymock is an Australian former international cricketer. He played in 21 Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals between 1974 and 1980. On his debut, he took five wicket…
Geoff Dymock, Australian cricketer
Barry Anderson Richards is a former South African first-class cricketer. A right-handed "talent of such enormous stature", Richards is considered one of South Africa's most success…
Barry Richards, South African cricketer
Sir Philip Cohen is a British biochemist known for his extensive contributions to the field of biochemistry, especially to the understanding of the role of reversible protein phosp…
Philip Cohen, English biochemist and academic
Edward Gregson is an English composer of instrumental and choral music, particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles, as well as music for the theatre, film, and television.…
Edward Gregson, English composer and educator
Jonathon Charles Sammels is an English former footballer.
Jon Sammels, English footballer
Francis Edwin Close is a particle physicist who is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
Frank Close, English physicist and academic
Hugh Norman Ross is a Canadian astrophysicist, Christian apologist, and old-Earth creationist.
Hugh Ross, Canadian-American astrophysicist and astronomer