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Chaney Kley Minnis was an American actor. During his career he was best known for his recurring role as Officer Asher on the FX drama The Shield and as the lead in the horror movie…
Chaney Kley, American actor (died 2007)
Scott Quinnell is a Welsh former rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He was a number eight for Wales, Llanelli RFC, Llanelli Scarlets, Richmo…
Scott Quinnell, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster
Anna Umemiya is a Japanese television personality and model. Born in Tokyo, she is the daughter of a Japanese father and an American mother, herself a former model. Her father, Ta…
Anna Umemiya, Japanese model and actress
Okkert Brits is a former South African track and field athlete who specialised in the pole vault. He was the silver medallist at the World Championships in Athletics in 2003. He wa…
Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
Paul John Doucette is an American musician best known for being the drummer, rhythm guitarist, and backing vocalist of the band Matchbox Twenty. Doucette is also known as a film co…
Paul Doucette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
Max Wilson Ferreira de Lima is a racing driver of Brazilian parentage. He won the Stock Car Brasil title in 2010, claimed seven podiums at the International Formula 3000 Championsh…
Max Wilson, German-Brazilian race car driver
Mark Alan Butcher is an English cricket commentator and former English Test cricketer, who played county cricket for Surrey from 1992 until his retirement in 2009. He was a left-ha…
Mark Butcher, English cricketer and singer
Raúl Casanova is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball catcher who played recurrently from 1996 to 2008.
Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
Anthony Calvillo is an American professional football coach and former quarterback who is currently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Montreal Alouettes of t…
Anthony Calvillo, Canadian football player
Martin Grainger is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. He made 380 appearances and scored 44 goals in the Football League and Premier League. He was…
Martin Grainger, English footballer and manager
Manuel Vidrio Solís is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Manuel Vidrio, Mexican footballer, coach, and manager
Jean-Luc Brassard is a Canadian freestyle skier who won the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Brassard has been credited with popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to …
Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian skier and radio host
Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee…
Ava DuVernay, American director and screenwriter
Todd Christopher Young is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Indiana, a seat he has held since 2017. From 2011 to 2017, he was the…
Todd Young, American politician
Marvin Darnell Harrison Sr. is an American former professional football wide receiver who played his entire 13-year career for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football Leagu…
Marvin Harrison, American football player
Jaap-Derk Buma is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 143 international matches for the Netherlands, in which he scored nineteen goals. The striker made his debut for th…
Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player
Dalip Singh Rana, better known by his ring name The Great Khali, is an Indian-born American former professional wrestler, promoter, and actor. He is best known for his tenure with …
The Great Khali, Indian professional wrestler
Dame Denise Rosemarie Lewis is a British sports administrator and former sports presenter and athletics athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon.
Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
James Moyer Franks, better known by his stage name Jimmy Pop, is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter, and one of the founding member…
Jimmy Pop, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Marietta Tan Subong, known professionally as Pokwang, is a Filipino comedian, actress, television host and singer.
Pokwang, Filipino comedian, actress, television host and singer
Ravindu Dhirajlal Shah is a Kenyan former cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman. He was part of Kenya's 1999, 2003 and 2007 World Cup squads.
Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
Gerald Alphonse "Jay" Witasick Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched all or parts of 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1996 to 2007, prim…
Jay Witasick, American baseball player and coach
Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japane…
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Francis Alexander O'Connor was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Supply and Shipping (1946–1948) and later the Department of Supply (1953–19…
Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (born 1894)