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Drusilla Modjeska is a contemporary Australian writer and editor.
Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
Daniela Payssé was a Uruguayan senator for the Broad Front party.
Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician (died 2018)
José Perramón Acosta is a former Spanish handball player. He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
José Perramón, Spanish handball player
Jaime Nicolás Ravinet de la Fuente, is a Chilean politician, lawyer, academic and businessman. From 1990 to 2000 he was Mayor of Santiago, before becoming the Minister for Housing,…
Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician
Robert Seagren is a retired American pole vaulter, the 1968 Olympic champion.
Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
Rüdiger Wittig is a professor of geobotany and ecology at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist
James Robert Baker was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern …
James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (died 1997)
Franklin Mitchell Beamer is an American former college football player and coach, most notably for the Virginia Tech Hokies.
Frank Beamer, American football player and coach
Joseph Egan was a Scottish singer-songwriter. Along with Gerry Rafferty, Egan was one of the two main members of the folk rock band Stealers Wheel, and co-writer of their hit song …
Joe Egan, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2024)
Dafydd Elis Elis-Thomas, Baron Elis-Thomas, was a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1984 to 1991 and represented the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency in …
Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Welsh academic and politician (died 2025)
Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, conductor, and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for Peter J…
Howard Shore, Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
Robert George Holland was a New South Wales and Australian cricketer. He was, because of his surname, nicknamed "Dutchy".
Bob Holland, Australian cricketer and surveyor (died 2017)
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Med…
Philip Pullman, English author and academic
Keith Stuart Brian Reid was an English lyricist and songwriter.
Keith Reid, English songwriter and lyricist (died 2023)
Diana Gittins, is a former associate lecturer in creative writing for the Open University and a published writer of fiction and non-fiction books.
Diana Gittins, American-English sociologist, author, and academic
Lewis McDonald Grizzard Jr. was an American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South. Although he spent his early career as a newsp…
Lewis Grizzard, American comedian and author (died 1994)
Richard Loncraine is a British film and television director.
Richard Loncraine, English director and screenwriter
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "mus…
Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
Lucien Van Impe is a former Belgian cyclist, who competed professionally between 1969 and 1987. He excelled mainly as a climber in multiple-day races such as the Tour de France. He…
Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
Sir Christopher Anthony Woodhead was a British educationalist. He was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England from 1994 to 2000, and was one of the most controversial f…
Chris Woodhead, English civil servant and academic (died 2015)
Barbara Jane Heal is a British philosopher, and since 2012, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Jane Heal, English philosopher and academic
James Webster Hill is an American sportscaster and former professional football player who is the lead sports anchor and sports director at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. He played as a d…
Jim Hill, American football player and sportscaster
Erick Lee Purkhiser, better known by the stage name Lux Interior, was an American singer-songwriter and a founding member of the American rock band the Cramps from 1976 until his d…
Lux Interior, American singer-songwriter (died 2009)
Lee David Loughnane is an American musician who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section as well as a…
Lee Loughnane, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player