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William Thomas Berry is an American musician who was the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Although best known for his economical drumming style, Berry also played other…
Bill Berry, American drummer and songwriter
Mark Cuban is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National…
Mark Cuban, American businessman and television personality
Suzanne Giraud is a French music educator and composer of contemporary music. Her works are marked by a predilection for percussion, voices and strings; they resonate with her arti…
Suzanne Giraud, French music editor and composer
Robert Norman Buck was an American guitarist and founding member of the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. Buck co-wrote some of the most successful songs recorded by 10,000 Man…
Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2000)
Michael Daniel Penn is an American musician, singer, and composer. His 1989 single "No Myth" was a top 20 hit in the U.S. and successful in several other countries.
Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ernest Maurice "Kiki" VanDeWeghe III is an American former professional basketball player, coach and executive who is an advisor for the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a…
Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
Lindsey Hilsum is an English television journalist and writer. She is the International Editor for Channel 4 News, and has reported from six continents, including coverage of the m…
Lindsey Hilsum, English journalist and author
Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film and television director and screenwriter of Greek descent. She is known for her breakthrough feature film Head On (1998), and has directed televi…
Ana Kokkinos, Australian director and screenwriter
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American poet and editor. Her debut book, Dog Road Woman, won the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Di…
Allison Hedge Coke, American-Canadian poet and academic
Zion Silvan Shalom is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1992 and 2015. He held several prominent ministerial positions, including Vice P…
Silvan Shalom, Tunisian-Israeli sergeant and politician, 30th Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
Brian Voss in Cornelius, North Carolina, is a professional ten-pin bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association since 1982 at aged 24. The right-hander owns 25 PBA Tou…
Brian Voss, American bowler
Ulla Salzgeber is a German equestrian and Olympic champion who competes in the sport of dressage. Competing in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, she won two team gold medals, one …
Ulla Salzgeber, German equestrian
Mary Teresa Decker, is an American retired middle-distance and long-distance runner. During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at the 1983 World Cha…
Mary Decker, American runner
William Randall DeBarge is an American R&B/soul singer and bass guitarist, best known for being one of the original members of the popular Motown singing family group DeBarge. Rand…
Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Russell Avery Baze is a retired Canadian-American horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the Uni…
Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey
Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English musician who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from …
Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Alberto Salazar is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut …
Alberto Salazar, Cuban-American runner and coach
Deborah Anne Norville is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is a former anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she h…
Deborah Norville, American journalist
Amanda Bearse is an American actress, comedian and director. She starred in the 1985 supernatural horror film Fright Night, and later starred as Marcy Rhoades D'Arcy in the Fox sit…
Amanda Bearse, American actress, comedian and director
Carl Wilhelm Irene "Calie" Pistorius is a South African electrical engineer who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. He announ…
Calie Pistorius, South African engineer and academic
Michael Marshall Dokes was an American professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 1997, and held the WBA heavyweight title from 1982 to 1983. As an amateur he won a silver medal …
Michael Dokes, American boxer (died 2012)
Clifton James Richards is an English former first-class cricketer, who played in eight Tests and 22 ODIs for England from 1981 to 1988. He was a wicket-keeper and a useful lower-mi…
Jack Richards, English cricketer, coach, and manager
Rosalie Winterton, Baroness Winterton of Doncaster,, is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific since 2026. She …
Rosie Winterton, English nurse and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Steven Tahurata Pokere is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A second five-eighth and centre, Pokere represented Southland, Auckland and Wellington at a provincial level, and…
Steven Pokere, New Zealand rugby player