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Danielle Gardner, known professionally as Danielle Dax, is an English rock musician, music producer, and artist most active from the late-1970s to the mid-1990s.
Danielle Dax, English singer-songwriter and producer
Khaled El Sheikh is a Bahraini singer.
Khaled El Sheikh, Bahraini singer-songwriter
Emilio Antonio Fossas Morejon is a Cuban former left-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1988 to 1999 for the Texas Rangers, Milwauk…
Tony Fossas, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
Marvin Roland Lewis Jr. is an American professional football coach who served as the head coach for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons. He …
Marvin Lewis, American football player and coach
Lawrence Hogan Mize is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and currently plays on the Champions Tour. He is well known for one career-defining shot – a chip …
Larry Mize, American golfer
Kevin David Sorbo is an American actor, director and producer. He has had starring roles in two television series: as Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) and a…
Kevin Sorbo, American actor and producer
Randy Kerber is an American pianist, composer, orchestrator, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema.
Randy Kerber, American keyboard player, composer, and conductor
Rudi Cerne is a German TV presenter and former figure skater. He is the 1984 European silver medalist and a two-time West German national champion. He competed at two Winter Olympi…
Rudi Cerne, German figure skater and journalist
Jan Paul Beahm was an American singer who, along with longtime friend Pat Smear, co-founded the punk rock band the Germs and was best known as their lead vocalist. In 1980, he comm…
Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (died 1980)
Robert Kagan is an American columnist, neoconservative scholar, and U.S. foreign policy analyst and commentator. He is a leading advocate of liberal internationalism.
Robert Kagan, Greek-American historian and author
Kenneth Graham Sansom is a former professional footballer who played as a left-back. An England international, he played for clubs such as Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Newcastle United…
Kenny Sansom, English footballer
Richard Weldon was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing Maryland District 3B, which then included parts of Frederick and Washington County, Maryland. He defeate…
Richard B. Weldon Jr., American sailor and politician
Shaun Paul Cassidy is an American singer, actor, television producer and screenwriter. He has created or produced a number of television series, including American Gothic, Roar, an…
Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His novels and short stories, which almost always take place in his native Scotland, are known …
Irvine Welsh, Scottish author and playwright
Karen Young is an American film, television, and stage actress.
Karen Young, American actress
John Marty Stuart is an American country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter, and musician. Active since 1968, Stuart initially toured with Lester Flatt, and then in Johnny Cash…
Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Andy Straka is a Shamus Award-winning American crime novelist. Born and raised in upstate New York and a graduate of Williams College, he worked in publishing and medical sales for…
Andy Straka, American author
Martin Cooper is an English musician. He is the secondary keyboardist and occasional saxophonist for the band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, whom he first joined in 1980.
Martin Cooper, English saxophonist, composer, and painter
Masato Nakamura is a Japanese musician, bass guitarist, and record producer. He is a member of the J-pop band Dreams Come True, which was formed in 1988 and went on to sell over 5…
Masato Nakamura, Japanese bass player and producer
Robert S. Nevil is an American pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and guitarist who had five Billboard top 40 hits including his songs "C'est la Vie", "Dominoes", and "Wot's …
Robbie Nevil, American singer-songwriter
Chen Yanyin is a Chinese sculptor whose work was featured in the Chinese Fine Arts Chronicle, 2008. Her work was also part of "Between Ego and Society: An Exhibition of Contemporar…
Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor
Louise Lecavalier OC is a Canadian dancer known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance.
Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer and choreographer
Barbara Kooyman is an American musician based in Austin, Texas. In the 1980s, she, her then-husband Pat MacDonald, and a drum machine formed the recording act Timbuk 3 whose 1986 s…
Barbara Kooyman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Wendy Rosenberg Makkena is an American actress best known for playing Sister Mary Robert in the film Sister Act (1992) and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) and num…
Wendy Makkena, American actress