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James Ure is a Scottish singer-songwriter and record producer. His stage name, Midge, is a phonetic reversal of Jim. Ure enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands …
Midge Ure, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Aleksander Veingold is an Estonian chess player, who won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1975 and International Master title in 1983.
Aleksander Veingold, Estonian chess player and coach
Gus Williams was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Wizard", he was a two-time NBA All-Star playing for the Sea…
Gus Williams, American basketball player
David Bowditch Morse is an American actor. Morse became widely known for his role as Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–88), and he has …
David Morse, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Leslie Dennis Heseltine is an English television presenter, actor and comedian. He presented Family Fortunes from 1987 to 2002.
Les Dennis, English comedian and actor
David John Threlfall is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series Shameless. He has also directed…
David Threlfall, English actor and director
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is a retired American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Ha…
Pat Day, American jockey
Gregory Ralph Evigan is an American film, stage, and television actor. He began his career in theater, appearing in the Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar, followed by a…
Greg Evigan, American actor
Kazumi Watanabe is a Japanese guitarist. Other guitarists such as Luke Takamura and Sugizo have cited him as an influence.
Kazumi Watanabe, Japanese guitarist and composer
Elizabeth Clifford is a Canadian retired alpine skier.
Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier
Tariano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was a founding member of the Jackson 5, a group who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with…
Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
Peter Phillips is a British choral conductor, musicologist and writer. He is the founder of The Tallis Scholars as well as Gimell Records. He has been the owner of the Musical Time…
Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist
Lawrence John Miller is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, podcaster, and columnist. He is primarily regarded as a character actor, with The A.V. Club noting that he "can be…
Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
Anthony Lawrence Carey is an American musician, composer, producer, and singer/songwriter. In his early career he was a keyboardist for Rainbow. After his departure in 1977, he beg…
Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
Paulo Roberto Falcão, usually known as simply Falcão, is a Brazilian former footballer and football manager. He is universally considered one of the greatest Brazilian players of a…
Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
Kathiravelu Shanmugam Kugathasan is a Sri Lankan Tamil social activist, politician and Member of Parliament. A member of the Tamil National Alliance, he has represented Trincomalee…
K. S. Kugathasan, Sri Lankan politician
Brinsley Forde MBE is a British singer and actor of Guyanese parentage who is best known as the founder member of the reggae band Aswad and as a child actor in the children's telev…
Brinsley Forde, British singer and actor
Joseph Bowie is an American jazz trombonist and vocalist. The brother of trumpeter Lester Bowie, Joseph is known for leading the jazz-punk group Defunkt and for membership in the E…
Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader
Domenico Penzo is an Italian retired professional footballer, who played as a forward.
Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer
Lionel Eugene Hollins is an American professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketba…
Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach
William Goldwyn Nunn III was an American actor. He was known for his collaborations with director Spike Lee, notably as Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing (1989). He also portrayed…
Bill Nunn, American actor (died 2016)
Charlotte Irene Caffey is an American guitarist and keyboardist, best known for her work in the rock band the Go-Go's in the 1980s, including writing "We Got the Beat".
Charlotte Caffey, American guitarist and songwriter
Eric Faulkner is a guitarist, songwriter and singer, best known as a member of the Scottish pop band the Bay City Rollers.
Eric Faulkner, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Keith Gordon Green was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. Born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, he was a child performer and recording artist before turning to cont…
Keith Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and minister (died 1982)