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Anthony Brian Watts is a British marine geologist and geophysicist and Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences, at the University of Oxford.
Anthony Watts, English geologist, geophysicist, and academic
Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the chairman of Wipro. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founding chairman. …
Azim Premji, Indian businessman and philanthropist
Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of many accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, …
Helen Mirren, English actress
James Robert Davis is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of th…
Jim Davis, American cartoonist, created Garfield
Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the …
Sharon Creech, American author and educator
Mircea Lucescu was a Romanian professional football player and manager.
Mircea Lucescu, Romanian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2026)
Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend o…
Patrick Modiano, French novelist and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate
David William Sanborn was an American alto saxophonist. He worked in many musical genres; his solo recordings typically blended jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He began playing…
David Sanborn, American saxophonist and composer (died 2024)
Edie McClurg is an American retired actress and comedian. She has played supporting roles in the films Carrie (1976), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Elvira: Mistress of the D…
Edie McClurg, American actress and comedian
William Floyd Weld is an American attorney, businessman, author, and politician who served as the 68th governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Weld was Gary Johnson’s running …
William Weld, American lawyer and politician, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
Douglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his…
Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Joanna Cassidy is an American actress and former model. She began working as a model in the 1960s and made her professional acting debut in 1973, appearing in the thriller films Th…
Joanna Cassidy, American actress
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)