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Christopher Edward Speier is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop, most notably for the San Francisco Giants and the M…
Chris Speier, American baseball player and coach
Robert London is an American underground comix and mainstream comics artist. His style evokes the work of early American cartoonists such as George Herriman, Cliff Sterrett and Elz…
Bobby London, American illustrator
Donald James "Don" Moen is an American singer, songwriter, pastor, and producer of Christian worship music. A pioneer of the modern worship music movement, he served as a creative …
Don Moen, American singer and songwriter
Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the m…
Michael Whelan, American artist
David Ernest Duke is an American former politician, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992,…
David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard
Dame Lynne Janie Brindley is the former Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, a post she held until June 2020. Prior to this appointment she was a professional librarian, and served …
Lynne Brindley, English librarian and academic
Jon Hedley Trickett is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and Hemsworth, previously Hemsworth, since 1996. He was Shadow Lor…
Jon Trickett, English politician
Ewen John Chatfield is a former New Zealand cricketer. A medium-pace bowler, though Chatfield played 43 Tests and 114 One Day Internationals for his country. He is also remembered …
Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer
James Kenneth Hahn is a Los Angeles Superior Court judge and an American former lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Hahn was elected the 40th mayor of Los Angeles in 2001. He served…
James Hahn, American judge and politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
Sir Philip Lee Craven is an English sports administrator, former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, swimmer and track and field athlete. Between 2001 and 2017 he was the seco…
Philip Craven, English basketball player and swimmer
David Allan Jensen is a Canadian-born British radio DJ and television presenter. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began as a radio DJ on Radio Luxembourg. Jensen was late…
David Jensen, Canadian-English radio and television host
Carlos Humberto Caszely Garrido is a Chilean former professional footballer, nicknamed "Rey del metro cuadrado", who played as a forward.
Carlos Caszely, Chilean footballer
Hugh Anthony Cregg III, known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American actor and former singer-songwriter.
Huey Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor
John Lindley Byrne is a British-born American comic book writer and artist of superhero comics. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes; with noted work on …
John Byrne, English-American author and illustrator
Amal El Alami is a Moroccan physician, neurosurgeon and writer. He was born at Casablanca, the quartier Habous, in a nationalist family linked to the Istiqlal Party.
Amal ibn Idris al-Alami, Moroccan physician and neurosurgeon
Adriano Panatta is an Italian former professional tennis player. He won the 1976 French Open, becoming the first Italian man in the Open Era to win a major singles title. That year…
Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times b…
Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 4th President of Ukraine
Moisés Canelas Withol, better known as Moisés Canelo, was a Honduran singer and songwriter.
Moisés Canelo, Honduran singer-songwriter (died 2024)
Sir Antony Brian Baldry, is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury from 1983 to 2015.
Tony Baldry, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, British Minister of State for Agriculture
Prokopios "Prokopis" Pavlopoulos is a Greek retired politician, who served as the president of Greece from 2015 to 2020. A member of New Democracy, he previously was Minister of th…
Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and author. He has been considered by many as one of the most vocal, progressive and liberal member of the Pakistani intell…
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani physicist and academic
John Robert Morgan FLSW is a British academic working at Swansea University in Wales. He is primarily known for writing books on Classics, and for contributing to a number of jour…
J. R. Morgan, Welsh author and academic
Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer was an American singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters. Pointer scored several moderate solo hi…
Bonnie Pointer, American singer (died 2020)
Paul Charles Caravello, better known as Eric Carr, was an American musician. He was the drummer for the rock band Kiss from 1980 until his death in 1991. Caravello was selected as …
Eric Carr, American drummer and songwriter (died 1991)