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Ulysses Lee "Junior" Bridgeman Jr. was an American professional basketball player and businessman. Bridgeman played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee B…
Junior Bridgeman, American basketball player and businessman (died 2025)
Lydia Tamasin Day-Lewis is a British television chef and food critic, who has also published a dozen books about food, restaurants, recipes and places. She writes regularly for The…
Tamasin Day-Lewis, English chef and author
Rita Rudner is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Beginning her career as a Broadway actress, Rudner noticed the lack of female comedians in New York City and turned to sta…
Rita Rudner, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
Wayne Maxwell Clark is a former Australian cricketer who played in 10 Test matches and two One Day Internationals from 1977 to 1979.
Wayne Clark, Australian cricketer
Sarana VerLin is an American violinist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was the vocalist/violinist of the bands Natasha and Dark Carnival, and violinist for numero…
Sarana VerLin, American singer-songwriter and violinist
Rocky Mattioli is an Italian-born Australian former boxer at junior middleweight, and former world champion.
Rocky Mattioli, Italian-Australian boxer
Stephen Wilson Tom is an American actor best known for hosting the HBO comedy series Funny or Die Presents.
Steve Tom, American actor
Arie Luijendijk, nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman," is a Dutch former auto racing driver, and winner of the 1990 and 1997 Indianapolis 500 races. He was inducted into the Indianapoli…
Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver and sportscaster
Altaf Hussain is a British Pakistani politician who is known as the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. He fled Pakistan in 1992 after the Operation Clean-up crackdown against…
Altaf Hussain, Pakistani-English soldier and politician
Reinhard Marx is a German Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising since 2008. Pope Benedict XVI made him a cardinal in 2010. He is a former member of t…
Reinhard Marx, German cardinal
Richard Peter John Fairbrass is an English singer and television presenter, best known as lead singer of the pop group Right Said Fred, who achieved hits in the early 1990s includi…
Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
Ségolène Royal is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, she participated in the 2007 French presidential election but lost to Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round.
Ségolène Royal, French politician
Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell OStJ FRGS is a retired English journalist and news presenter. The latter half of his career was as royal correspondent for BBC News.
Nicholas Witchell, English journalist
Richard Allen Harvey is an English composer and musician. Originally a member of the mediaevalist progressive rock group Gryphon, he is best known now for his film and television s…
Richard Harvey, English mandolin player, keyboard player, and composer
Ron Rash is an American poet, short story writer and novelist and the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University.
Ron Rash, American novelist, short story writer, poet
Dolores Keane was an Irish folk singer. She was a founding member of the group De Dannan and later pursued a solo recording and touring career.
Dolores Keane, Irish singer and actress
Douglas A. Melton is an American medical researcher who was the Xander University Professor at Harvard University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2…
Douglas A. Melton, American biologist and academic
Sir Paul Robert Stephenson is a British retired police officer who served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2009 to 2011.
Paul Stephenson, English police officer
Sri Mātā Amritānandamayī Devi, often known as Amma ("Mother"), is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, godwoman, guru and humanitarian. She is the chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapee…
Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint
Claudio Gentile is an Italian football manager and former player who played as a defender in the 1970s and 1980s.
Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer and manager
Gregory Norman Ham was an Australian musician. He was best known as a member of the 1980s band Men at Work. Besides singing and being occasional lead vocalist of the band, he playe…
Greg Ham, Australian keyboard player, saxophonist and songwriter (died 2012)
Otmar Hasler is a former politician from Liechtenstein who served as Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2001 to 2009. He was previously the President of the Landtag of Liechtenst…
Otmar Hasler, Liechtensteiner educator and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the first black woman elected to …
Diane Abbott, English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Mona Baker is former professor of Translation Studies and founder of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies of the University of Manchester in England.
Mona Baker, Egyptian-British professor