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Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. He is widely regarded as the greatest point guard of all time and one of the greate…
Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle miss…
Scott Altman, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Marc Sergeant is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. After Sergeant stopped his cycling career, …
Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist and manager
Jacek Kazimierski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Jacek Kazimierski, Polish footballer
Eric Matthew Schlosser is an American journalist and food writer. He is known for his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons…
Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author
David Koresh was an American cult leader and preacher who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect, Koresh claimed to…
David Koresh, American cult leader (died 1993)
Thomas Prichard is an American retired professional wrestler and author better known by the ring name Dr. Tom Prichard. He is the older brother of Bruce Prichard.
Tom Prichard, American wrestler and trainer
Chris Mortimer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for the Canterbury-Bankstown, Penrith, New South Wales and for …
Chris Mortimer, Australian rugby league player
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Pr…
Jonathan Franzen, American novelist and essayist
Ivan Neville is an American multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to the other members of The Neville Brothers.
Ivan Neville, American singer-songwriter
Richard Charles Pierce is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Deuces" and "Big Paper Daddy", he was selected as an NBA All-Star (1991) and was twice the N…
Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
Anne Hobbs is a British former professional tennis player.
Anne Hobbs, English tennis player and coach
James Robert McMahon Jr. is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, most notably with the Chicago Bear…
Jim McMahon, American football player and coach
Juan Croucier is a Cuban-born American musician. He is best known as the bassist for the hard rock/glam metal band Ratt.
Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
Pia Gjellerup is a Danish politician representing the Social Democrats. She has been a Member of Parliament (Folketinget) since 8 September 1987 and has occupied three different ca…
Pia Gjellerup, Danish lawyer and politician, Danish Minister of Finance
Mark Williams is an English actor, comedian, presenter and screenwriter. He first achieved widespread recognition as one of the central performers in the BBC sketch show The Fast S…
Mark Williams, English actor
Edwyn Stephen Collins is a Scottish musician, producer and record label owner. Collins was the lead singer for the 1980s post-punk band Orange Juice, which he co-founded. After the…
Edwyn Collins, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
George Kalovelonis is a former tennis player from Greece, who represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he was defeated in the fir…
George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player and coach
Steven A. Levy is an American politician and lawyer who served as the seventh County Executive of Suffolk County, New York, elected on November 4, 2003. Originally a fiscally conse…
Steve Levy, American lawyer and politician
Bernardo Rocha de Rezende, known as Bernardo Rezende and nicknamed Bernardinho, is a Brazilian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current coach of the female volleyball …
Bernardo Rezende, Brazilian volleyball coach and player
Lane Smith is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He is the Kate Greenaway medalist (2017) known for his eclectic visuals and subject matter, both humorous and …
Lane Smith, American author and illustrator
Ian Woodward Falconer was an American author, illustrator, set designer, and costume designer. Falconer was a muse to pop artist David Hockney, with whom he collaborated on designi…
Ian Falconer, American author and illustrator (died 2023)
Ruth Ann Swenson is an American soprano who is renowned for her coloratura roles.
Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano and actress
Oliver Newton Colvile was a British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.
Oliver Colvile, English lawyer and politician