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Christopher Thomas James Chessun is a British Anglican bishop. He became Bishop of Southwark in the Church of England in 2011.
Christopher Chessun, English Anglican bishop
Jerry Ciccoritti is a Canadian director.
Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Maureen Denise McCormick is an American actress, singer and author, best known for her role as Marcia Brady on the ABC television sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969–1974). She reprised t…
Maureen McCormick, American actress
William John Emmott is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen boo…
Bill Emmott, English journalist and author
Christopher John Foreman, nicknamed Chrissy Boy, is an English musician, songwriter, and composer. In a career spanning more than 45 years, Foreman came to prominence in the late 1…
Chris Foreman, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
David Beresford Grant is an English singer and vocal coach.
David Grant, English singer
Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin, known professionally as Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress. She is the winner of two Goya Awards and a European Film Award. She is known for being…
Cecilia Roth, Argentinian actress
Gordon Singleton was a Canadian world-record holding track cyclist. In 1982, he became the first Canadian cyclist to win a world championship. He was the first, and only, cyclist i…
Gordon Singleton, Canadian Olympic cyclist (died 2024)
Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat is an Australian former professional tennis player who reached a highest singles ranking of world No. 4 in 1979.
Dianne Fromholtz, Australian tennis player
José Luis Montes Vicente was a Spanish professional football player and manager.
José Luis Montes, Spanish footballer and manager (died 2013)
Fred Alex Ottman is an American retired professional wrestler. He worked for the World Wrestling Federation from 1989 to 1993 under the ring names Tugboat and Typhoon. As the forme…
Fred Ottman, American wrestler
Charles William Ashworth, known professionally as Charlie Peacock, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, and author. His albums include Love Press Ex-Curio, …
Charlie Peacock, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
Perween Warsi, was the founder and Chief Executive of S&A Foods until 2015.
Perween Warsi, Indian-English businesswoman
Douglas James Burgum is an American businessman and politician who has served as the 55th United States secretary of the interior since 2025 under President Donald Trump. A member …
Doug Burgum, American businessman and politician
Pierre-Louis Lions is a French mathematician. He is known for a number of contributions to the fields of partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. He was a rec…
Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician and academic
David Lee Freedman is an Australian thoroughbred racehorse trainer. and Hall of Fame inductee. In partnership with brothers Anthony, Michael, and Richard, he has been a prolific wi…
Lee Freedman, Australian horse trainer
Stuart Bruce Greenwood is a Canadian actor and producer. He has starred in five films by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan and has been nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards, onc…
Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor and producer
Sidath Wettimuny is a Sri Lankan former cricketer, who played Test cricket and One Day Internationals as an opening batsman from 1982 to 1987. Wettimuny was a typical 1980s opening…
Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer
Rohinton Fali Nariman is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Before being elevated as a judge, he practised as a senior counsel at the Supreme Court. He was appointed the…
Rohinton Fali Nariman, Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Jacqueline Yvonne "Jackée" Harry is an American actress, comedian, and television personality. She starred as Sandra Clark, the nemesis of Mary Jenkins, on the NBC sitcom 227 (1985…
Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality
Andrew Edward King was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made 350 appearances and scored 92 goals in the Football League in the 1970s and 1980s, and…
Andy King, English footballer and manager (died 2015)
Russell William Wallace Jr. is an American former professional stock car racing driver and team owner, who raced from 1980 to 2005 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup Series, most not…
Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
Lorraine Desmarais C.M. is a French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer.
Lorraine Desmarais, Canadian pianist and composer
Freedom Neruda is an Ivorian journalist. In 1996, he was imprisoned for seditious libel after writing a satirical article about Ivorian President Henri Konan Bédié. The following y…
Freedom Neruda, Ivorian journalist