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Craig Anthony Hodges is an American former professional basketball player and former head coach of the Westchester Knicks of the NBA Development League. He played in the NBA for 10…
Craig Hodges, American basketball player and coach
John Albert Elway Jr. is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 16-year career as a quarterback with the Denver Broncos of the National Football Leagu…
John Elway, American football player and manager
Roland Joseph "Rollie the Goalie" Melanson is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL). After a lengthy career in the NHL with the New …
Roland Melanson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Jack Wilson McConnell, Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale, is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2001 to …
Jack McConnell, Scottish educator and politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland
Murray James Cook, AM is an Australian musician, actor, and DJ. Cook was one of the founding members of the children's band the Wiggles from 1991 to 2012. Cook provided guitar, voc…
Murray Cook, Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer
Michael Beattie is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at club level for the St. George Dragons (captain) and Cas…
Michael Beattie, Australian rugby league player and coach
Lynn Alice Jennings is a retired American long-distance runner. She is one of the best female American runners of all time, with a range from 1500 meters to the marathon. She excel…
Lynn Jennings, American runner
Evelyn "Champagne" King is an American singer. Her first hit was the disco single "Shame", which was released in 1977, at the height of disco's popularity. King had other hits from…
Evelyn "Champagne" King, American soul/disco singer
Kevin Robert Swords is an American rugby player. He won 36 caps between 1985 and 1994, and was the first American to play for the Barbarians. His brother Brian Swords also played f…
Kevin Swords, American rugby player
Vincent John Martin, known professionally as Vince Clarke, is a British synth-pop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been the main composer and musician of the band Erasure since …
Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
Roland Walter Ratzenberger was an Austrian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at three Grands Prix in 1994.
Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (died 1994)
Maria Wasiak is a Polish politician who served as Minister of Infrastructure and Development of Poland and the President of Polish State Railways.
Maria Wasiak, Polish businesswoman and politician, Polish Minister of Infrastructure and Development
Kevin Anthony Ford is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and NASA astronaut. Ford has received a number of special honors and awards, some of which are the Air Force Meritor…
Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
Ralph Lee Sampson Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. A 7-foot-4-inch (2.24 m) phenom, three-…
Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
Malcolm Norman Meninga is an Australian professional rugby league coach and a former professional rugby league footballer.
Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league player and coach
Yūko Asano is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for Kura. She was born in Kobe.
Yūko Asano, Japanese actress and singer
Wally John Fullerton-Smith is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origi…
Wally Fullerton Smith, Australian rugby league player
Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker born in Córdoba, whose work focuses on biographical, cultural, and historical subjects. He is co-founder of Heritage Film Project …
Eduardo Montes-Bradley, Argentine journalist, photographer, and author
Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is…
Yann LeCun, French-American computer scientist
David Francis Baerwald is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and musician.
David Baerwald, American singer-songwriter, composer, and musician
Caroline Quentin is an English actress, broadcaster and television presenter. Quentin became known for her television appearances, portraying Dorothy in Men Behaving Badly (1992–19…
Caroline Quentin, English actress
Curtis Lamar Rouse was an American professional football offensive lineman who played six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Minnesota Vikings and the San Diego…
Curtis Rouse, American football player (died 2013)
Anna Maria Bligh is an Australian lobbyist and former politician who served as the 37th Premier of Queensland, in office from 2007 to 2012 as leader of the Queensland Labor Party. …
Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Queensland
Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro abducted Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus from the roads of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and later held them captive in his ho…
Ariel Castro, Puerto Rican-American convicted kidnapper and rapist (died 2013)