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Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal comm…
Jeanette Winterson, English journalist and novelist
Brian Earl Thompson is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film The Terminator. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film Cobra. His f…
Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Rebecca De Mornay is an American actress who has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she starred in Risky Business. D…
Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
Ramón Ángel Díaz is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the most successful Argentine coach in history with 17 titles, the second most successful manager in Rive…
Ramón Díaz, Argentine footballer and manager
Raymond Elgaard is a former Canadian Football League (CFL) slotback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1983 through 1996, including winning the 77th Grey Cup in 1989. A big man,…
Ray Elgaard, Canadian football player
Chris Austin Hadfield is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force colonel, test pilot, and CSA astronaut. As the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has …
Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
Sadenia "Eddi" Reader MBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known for her work as the lead vocalist of the folk and soft rock band Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo car…
Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Timothy Perry Shriver is an American disability rights activist, film producer, and former educator who has been Chairman of Special Olympics since 1996 and is the founder of UNITE…
Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist
Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He works in computer algebra and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the Am…
Stephen Wolfram, English-American physicist and mathematician
Akkineni Nagarjuna is an Indian actor best known for his works primarily in Telugu cinema, as well as in a few Hindi and Tamil films. He has appeared in over 90 films and is a reci…
Nagarjuna, Indian film actor, Producer and Businessman
Mark Alexander Jackson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Demons, St Kilda Saints and Geelong Cats in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and for…
Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer
Ralph Krueger is a Canadian-born German professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the former head coach of the Edmonton Oilers and Buffalo Sabres of the National Hocke…
Ralph Krueger, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Jessica Sibley Upshaw was an American politician and lawyer.
Jessica Upshaw, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Drungo LaRue Hazewood was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Baltimore Orioles in 1980. He spent the majority of his career in the minor leagues, pl…
Drungo Hazewood, American baseball player (died 2013)
Guy Laliberté is a Québécois billionaire businessman and poker player. Along with Gilles Ste-Croix, he is the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, which was founded in 1984. The Canadia…
Guy Laliberté, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and poker player, founded Cirque du Soleil
Kevin Harrington is an Australian stage, television and film actor and comedian, who is perhaps best known for his roles as Kevin Findlay on the Australian drama SeaChange in the 1…
Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
Armin Kogler is an Austrian former ski jumper.
Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper
Frank Schirrmacher was a German journalist, literature expert and essayist, writer, and from 1994 co-publisher of the national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist and publisher (died 2014)
William John Root is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played six seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Lea…
Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey player
Thomas Michael Foley is an American former professional baseball infielder and coach who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Montr…
Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
Éric Serra is a French film composer, known as a frequent collaborator of director Luc Besson. He is a five-time César Award nominee, winning once for The Big Blue (1988).
Éric Serra, French composer and producer
Michael Earl was an American puppeteer. A four-time Emmy Award-winner whose credits include Mr. Snuffleupagus on Sesame Street (1978–1981) and Dr. Ticktock in Ticktock Minutes, a m…
Michael Earl, American actor, singer, and puppeteer (died 2015)
David Laurence Frost is a South African professional golfer who was ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Frost has 29 professi…
David Frost, South African golfer
John Hawkes is an American actor. He is the recipient of two Independent Spirit Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Awa…
John Hawkes, American actor