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Frank Stephenson is a Moroccan-born Spanish-American automobile designer who has worked for Ford, BMW, Mini, Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and McLaren. He is best kn…
Frank Stephenson, Italian automotive designer and blogger
Peter John Wagner II is an American actor, singer, and golfer. He is best known for his roles on soap operas such as General Hospital, Santa Barbara, The Bold and the Beautiful, an…
Jack Wagner, American actor and singer
Christopher Sean Lowe is an English musician and songwriter who formed the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys with Neil Tennant. He is primarily the keyboardist and occasionally a vocalis…
Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player
Anthony Christian Meo is a retired English snooker player. He won the 1989 British Open by defeating Dean Reynolds 13–6 in the final, and was runner-up to Steve Davis at the 1984 C…
Tony Meo, English snooker player
Hitonari Tsuji is a Japanese writer, composer, musician, painter and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the art name Jinsei Tsuji, an alternative reading his given…
Hitonari Tsuji, Japanese author, composer, and director
Kenan İpek is a Turkish legal prosecutor and judge who served as the Minister of Justice of Turkey from 7 March to 17 November 2015. Having previously served as the Undersecretary …
Kenan İpek, Turkish lawyer and judge
Maya Ying Lin is an American architect, designer, and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio, to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. She has an older br…
Maya Lin, American architect and sculptor, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Civil Rights Memorial
Kelly Joe Phelps was an American musician and songwriter. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz.
Kelly Joe Phelps, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)
Turki bin Sultan Al Saud was deputy minister of culture and information of Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the House of Saud and was one of the grandsons of Saudi's founder King A…
Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (died 2012)
Dennis Ray "Oil Can" Boyd is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Boyd played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox (1982–1989), Montreal Expos (1990–1…
Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player
Brian Michael Higgins is an American former politician who was the U.S. representative for New York's 26th congressional district, from 2005 until 2024. The district, numbered as t…
Brian Higgins, American politician
Walter Ray Williams Jr. is an American professional tenpin bowler and competitive horseshoes pitcher. He has won 47 national PBA Tour career titles, the most in the tour’s history,…
Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler
Dylan Baker is an American actor. He gained recognition for his roles in films such as Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Happiness (1998), Thirteen Days (2000), Road to Perdit…
Dylan Baker, American actor
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English television personality, record executive, businessman, and producer. He has judged on the British television talent competition shows Pop Idol (2…
Simon Cowell, English businessman and record producer
Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who served as a councilwoman of Lima, Deputy from Lima from 1990 to 1992, Democratic Constituent Congresswom…
Lourdes Flores, Peruvian lawyer and politician
Jean-Marc Fournier is a Quebec politician and a lawyer. He represented the riding of Saint-Laurent in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2010 to 2018, and previously represented …
Jean-Marc Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician
Gavin Friday is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer, actor and painter, best known as a founding member of the post-punk group The Virgin Prunes.
Gavin Friday, Irish singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
Erik Gundersen is a former motorcycle speedway rider. Gundersen is one of the most successful speedway riders of all time, having won the Speedway World Champion on three occasions…
Erik Gundersen, Danish motorcycle racer
Peter John Gibson Horrocks CBE is a broadcast executive and a former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University. He was educated at the independent King's College School in Wimbledon a…
Peter Horrocks, English journalist and producer
Jesús Alvarado Nieves was a Mexican professional wrestler, who worked under the ring name Brazo de Oro. He was a part of the Alvarado wrestling family, the son of Shadito Cruz and …
Brazo de Oro, Mexican wrestler (died 2017)
Michael Thomas Morgan is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for 12 different teams over 25 years, and is one of 31 players in baseball hist…
Mike Morgan, American baseball player and coach
Carlos Ismael Noriega Jiménez is a Peruvian-American NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. Carlos became the first Peruvian-bor…
Carlos I. Noriega, Peruvian-American colonel and astronaut
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal statesman and politician, opposition leader and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was …
Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)
Michael Cobley is a British science fiction and fantasy author from Glasgow.
Michael Cobley, English-Scottish author