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Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor. Since 1980, he has played roles in numerous Hollywood films. He is best known for starring as Sandy Cohen in the television drama seri…
Peter Gallagher, American actor
Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal,, is a Dominican-British barrister and politician who served as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from…
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Dominica-born English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for…
Edgar Frederick Yost III is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher and manager of the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals. He played for the Brewers, Texas Ran…
Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan is a Hong-Kong-born Japanese singer, television personality, university professor, essayist and novelist. Since 1998, Chan has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambas…
Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and author
Janet Anne Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, is a British Labour Co-operative Party politician. A former secretary and adviser to Neil Kinnock, Royall was appointed to the House…
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
David Francis Somerville Learner is a British actor who is best known for playing Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Pickle in the CITV adventu…
David Learner, British actor
Kevin Dunn is an American actor who has appeared in supporting roles in numerous films and television series since the 1980s.
Kevin Dunn, American actor
John Alexander McGeoch was a Scottish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist of the rock bands Magazine (1977–1980) and Siouxsie and the Banshees (1980–1982).
John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (died 2004)
Konidela Chiranjeevi is an Indian actor, philanthropist and former politician known for his work in Telugu cinema. Known as Mega Star, he is widely regarded as one of the most succ…
Chiranjeevi, Indian film actor, producer and politician
Michael Dale Huckabee is an American politician, diplomat, and Baptist minister serving as the 29th United States ambassador to Israel since 2025. A member of the Republican Party,…
Mike Huckabee, American minister and politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, who is currently serving as Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Org…
Gerd Müller, German businessman and politician
Ian A. C. Dejardin is an art historian who was director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in Dulwich, England. In August 2016 Dulwich Picture Gallery announced that he would be leavin…
Ian Dejardin, English historian and curator
Giuseppe Resnati is an Italian chemist with interests in supramolecular chemistry and fluorine chemistry. He has a particular focus on self-assembly processes driven by halogen bon…
Giuseppe Resnati, Italian chemist and educator
Robert Bridge Richardson, ASC is an American cinematographer.
Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
Diana Scarwid is a retired American actress who is best known for her portrayal of Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981). She received nominations for the Academy Award for B…
Diana Scarwid, American actress
Diamanda Galás is an American musician, singer-songwriter, visual artist, and activist. Galás has attracted the attention of the press particularly for her voice — a soprano sfogat…
Diamanda Galás, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Jacob Joseph Lew is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the 28th United States ambassador to Israel from 2023 to 2025. He was the 76th United States secretary of the tr…
Jack Lew, American lawyer and politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
Jamie Moses is an English rock and pop singer and guitarist. He was formerly a member of The Brian May Band, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Mike & the Mechanics and Broken English.
Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist
Martin Jackson is a retired British drummer who played with several bands from Manchester, although his most successful roles were with Magazine in 1978 with the release of the inf…
Martin Jackson, English drummer
Dame Julie Katharine Maxton is a British-New Zealand barrister, legal scholar, and academic administrator. Since 2011, she has been executive director of the Royal Society.
Julie Maxton, Scottish lawyer and academic
Edwin Corley Moses is an American former hurdler who won gold medals in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals and…
Edwin Moses, American hurdler
Aleksander Krupa, often credited as Olek Krupa, is a Polish-American film and television actor known for playing villains and criminals, such as in Eraser, Blue Streak, Home Alone …
Aleksander Krupa, Polish-American actor
Anthony "Anto" Thistlethwaite is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the folk rock group, The Waterboys and later as a long-standing member of Irish…
Anthony Thistlethwaite, English saxophonist and bass player
Gary Stephen Webb was an American investigative journalist.
Gary Webb, American journalist and author (died 2004)