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Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1988. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed light heavyweigh…
Michael Spinks, American boxer
Ian Kevin Curtis was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead vocalist, songwriter, and occasional guitarist of the band Joy Division, with whom he released the …
Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1980)
Nicholas Paul Harberd an Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. He was previously Sibthorpian Professor and se…
Nicholas Harberd, British botanist, educator, and academician
Barry James Melrose is a Canadian–American retired broadcaster and former professional ice hockey player and head coach. Melrose played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) and Na…
Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
Ashoke Sen FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist and ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. A former distingu…
Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
Stephen Charles Mortimer, also nicknamed "Turvey", is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played as a halfback. Mortimer played a Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs club re…
Steve Mortimer, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator
Joseph Satriani is an American rock guitarist, composer, record producer, and songwriter. Early in his career, he worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students ac…
Joe Satriani, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Wayne Taylor is a South African sports car racing driver and team owner. He won the 1996 and 2005 24 Hours of Daytona, and the 2005 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototy…
Wayne Taylor, South African racing driver
Anthony Robert Kushner is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Among his stage work, he is most known for Angels in America, which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony A…
Tony Kushner, American playwright and screenwriter
Julie Isabel Bishop is an Australian former politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018 and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2018. She wa…
Julie Bishop, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Bryan John Trottier is a Canadian and American former professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders and Pittsb…
Bryan Trottier, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
Mark Reed Crispin is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laborator…
Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (died 2012)
Paul Thomas Cook is an English musician, best known as the drummer and a founding member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is nicknamed "Cookie" by friends in the punk musi…
Paul Cook, English drummer
Thomas "Tommy" N'Kono is a Cameroonian former professional footballer. One of the greatest goalkeepers from the continent of Africa, he was mainly associated with Espanyol, whom he…
Thomas N'Kono, Cameroonian footballer
Michael Pointer is an English drummer. He is known for his work in the neo-prog bands Marillion and Arena.
Mick Pointer, English neo-progressive rock drummer
Scott Douglas Sanderson was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, New York Ya…
Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2019)
Peter Eric James Prentice was a Canadian politician who served as the 16th premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the House of Commons…
Jim Prentice, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Alberta (died 2016)
Michael Joseph Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense atto…
Michael Connelly, American author
Charles Joseph Crist Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 and as the U.S. representative for Florida's 13th congr…
Charlie Crist, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Florida
Frances Hamilton Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the Cali…
Frances Arnold, American scientist and engineer
Peter Arthur Fincham is a British television producer and executive. From 2008 until 2016, he was the director of television for the ITV network. He was also formerly the controlle…
Peter Fincham, English screenwriter and producer
Dorothy Stuart Hamill is a retired American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion in ladies' singles.
Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
Thomas Richardson is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Tommy "Wildfire" Rich. He is a one time former National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight C…
Tommy Rich, American wrestler
Timothy Maurice Tremlett is a former English cricketer and current director of cricket of Hampshire County Cricket Club. He is the father of England Test cricketer Chris Tremlett w…
Tim Tremlett, English cricketer and coach