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Christine Ellen Hynde is an American-British singer, songwriter, and musician. She is a founding member of the rock band the Pretenders and is the band's lead vocalist, guitarist, …
Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Maurício Alberto Kaisermann, better known by his stage name Morris Albert, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. He became known in more than 50 countries for his 1974 hit "Feeling…
Morris Albert, Brazilian singer-songwriter
Mark Ware Isham is an American musician and composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a prolific and accl…
Mark Isham, American trumpet player and composer
Mark Randall McCumber is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.
Mark McCumber, American golfer
Timothy Ernest Gullikson was a tennis player and coach who was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and grew up in Onalaska, Wisconsin in the United States.
Tim Gullikson, American tennis player and coach (died 1996)
Tom Gullikson is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and raised in Onalaska, Wisconsin in the United States.
Tom Gullikson, American tennis player and coach
Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail, known professionally as Mammootty, is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam-language films. With a career spann…
Mammootty, Indian actor and producer
John Martin McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes a…
John McDonnell, English politician
Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian virtuoso concert pianist with a broad repertoire and a significant discography of solo, duo and concerto works.
Dezső Ránki, Hungarian pianist
Alexander John Gosse Downer is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and was a member of parliament (MP) fo…
Alexander Downer, Australian economist and politician, 34th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Australia
Thomas Steven Wopat is an American actor and singer. He first achieved fame as Lucas K. "Luke" Duke on the long-running television action/comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard. Since …
Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
Sarah Anne Coakley is an English Anglican priest, systematic theologian, and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. She became an honorary professor at the Logos…
Sarah Coakley, English philosopher, theologian, and academic
Stephen Paul Keirn is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in multiple National Wrestling Alliance territories as Steve Keirn as one-half…
Steve Keirn, American wrestler
William Charles Rogers is an American professional golfer who is best known as the winner of the 1981 Open Championship.
Bill Rogers, American golfer
Richard David Gill is a British-Dutch mathematician and professor emeritus at Leiden University. He has held academic positions in the Netherlands. As a probability theorist and st…
Richard D. Gill, English-Dutch mathematician and academic
Carl John Neumann, nicknamed "Johnny Reb", was an American professional basketball player and coach. At 6'6" and 200 pounds, he played at the shooting guard and small forward posit…
Johnny Neumann, American basketball player and coach (died 2019)
Hugo Porta is an Argentine retired rugby union player. Considered one of the best fly-halves the sport has seen, he is an inductee of both the International Rugby Hall of Fame and …
Hugo Porta, Argentinian rugby player
Bartholomew Patrick "Bertie" Ahern is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1997 to 2008, and as Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1994 to 2008. A Teachta Dá…
Bertie Ahern, Irish accountant and politician, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland
Normand G. Dubé is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 57 games in the National Hockey League and 148 games in the World Hockey Association. He played with …
Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player
Raymond William Robert Gravell was a Welsh rugby union centre who played club rugby for Llanelli RFC. At international level, Gravell earned 23 caps for Wales and was selected for …
Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player and actor (died 2007)
Joseph Peter Pantoliano is an American actor who has played more than 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He won an Emmy for his portrayal of the sadistic gangster Ralp…
Joe Pantoliano, American actor and producer
Ali-Ollie Woodson was an American R&B singer, musician, songwriter, keyboardist, drummer, and occasional actor best known for his twelve years with the Temptations alongside Otis W…
Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2010)
Anne Devlin is a short story writer, playwright and screenwriter born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was a teacher from 1974 to 1978, and started writing fiction in 1976 in Germ…
Anne Devlin, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter
Salva Kiir Mayardit is a South Sudanese politician who has served as the President of South Sudan since its independence on 9 July 2011. Prior to independence, he was the President…
Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudanese politician, 1st President of South Sudan