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Timothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer, environmentalist and political activist and one of the co-authors of the original XML specification. He worked for Amazon Web…
Tim Bray, Canadian software developer and businessman
Michel François Platini is a French football administrator and former player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, Platini won the Ballon d'Or three…
Michel Platini, French footballer and manager
Green Gartside is a Welsh singer, songwriter and musician. He is the frontman of the band Scritti Politti.
Green Gartside, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
Christine Anne Orengo is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL) known for her work on protein structure, particularly the CATH database. From 2021 to 2024…
Christine Orengo, British academic and educator
Pierre Corbeil is a Quebec politician and dentist. He was the mayor of Val-d'Or, Quebec from 2013 to 2021. He was also a Member of National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for Abitibi-Est…
Pierre Corbeil, Canadian dentist and politician
Glenn Allen Anzalone, better known by his stage name Glenn Danzig, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, film director and record producer. He is the founder of the r…
Glenn Danzig, American singer-songwriter and producer
Amadou Jean Tigana is a French former football player and manager. A central midfielder, he was renowned as one of the best midfielders in the world during the 1980s. He spent his …
Jean Tigana, French footballer and manager
Christopher Francis Higgins is a British molecular biologist, geneticist, academic and scientific advisor. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 2007 to 2014. He too…
Chris Higgins, English geneticist and academic
Edmund "Eddy" Malura is a former professional German footballer.
Edmund Malura, German footballer and manager
Loren Lloyd Roberts is an American professional golfer, who has played on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.
Loren Roberts, American golfer
Victor James Marks is an English sports journalist and former professional cricketer.
Vic Marks, English cricketer and sportscaster
Michael Geoffrey Jones is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of punk rock band the Clash, until his dismissal b…
Mick Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gary "Gedde" Watanabe is an American actor. He is known for voicing the character of Ling in the animated film Mulan (1998) and its sequel Mulan II (2004), as well as playing Long …
Gedde Watanabe, American actor
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French actress and singer, known for portraying tragic and emotionally complex characters across various genres, particularly psychological films. She …
Isabelle Adjani, French actress
Shirley Cheriton is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Debbie Wilkins in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and her portrayal of Miss Prescott in the Are You Being S…
Shirley Cheriton, British actress
Charles Joseph Precourt is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet …
Charles J
Brian Joseph Vollmer is the lead singer and only remaining original member of Canadian hard rock group Helix. Since the band's inception in 1974, Vollmer had gone from lead singer …
Brian Vollmer, Canadian singer
Egils Levits is a Latvian politician, lawyer, political scientist, and jurist who served as the tenth president of Latvia from 2019 to 2023. He was a member of the European Court o…
Egils Levits, Latvian judge, jurist, 10th President of Latvia
Nikolai Demidenko is a Russian-born classical pianist.
Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator
Li Keqiang was a Chinese politician and economist who served as Premier of China from 2013 to 2023 and was the second-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Politbur…
Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2023)
Lisa Scottoline is an American author of legal thrillers.
Lisa Scottoline, American lawyer and author
'Siosaʻia Lausiʻi, Lord Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, also known as Lord Maʻafu, was a Tongan politician, military officer, and member of the Tongan nobility.
Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (died 2021)
Kim John Carr is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Victoria between 1993 and 2022. Representing the Labor Party, he was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard…
Kim Carr, Australian educator and politician, 31st Australian Minister for Human Services
Claude Rajotte is a well-known Canadian DJ/VJ/music critic from Montreal, Quebec.
Claude Rajotte, Canadian radio and television host