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Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about …
Tonga gains independence from the British Empire
Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez is a Filipino singer and actress. She is considered one of the most influential figures in Philippine popular culture and is known for her vocal…
Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
Andrew Gee is an Australian rugby league administrator and former football operations manager at the Brisbane Broncos of the NRL. Also a former player with the club, he was a Queen…
Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league player and manager
Hans Välimäki is a Finnish chef, and since 1998, was the owner of the now closed restaurant Chez Dominique. Välimäki was the chief judge of the Sub culinary show Top Chef Suomi and…
Hans Välimäki, Finnish chef and author
Tayfur Havutçu is a Turkish football manager and former professional player who was most recently the manager of Süper Lig club Kasımpaşa. He was part of the Turkey national team s…
Tayfur Havutçu, Turkish international footballer and manager
Damien William Fleming is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer who played for the Australian national cricket team and domestic cricket for Victoria. He played in…
Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
Dean Barry Austin is an English football manager and former professional player who is head of recruitment at Coventry City.
Dean Austin, English footballer and manager
Tionne Tenese Watkins, also known by her stage name T-Boz, is an American singer and actress. Watkins rose to fame in the early 1990s as a member of the best selling girl group TLC…
Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Jason Michael Lee is an American actor, filmmaker, photographer, and former professional skateboarder. He is known for playing Earl Hickey in the television comedy series My Name I…
Jason Lee, American skateboarder, actor, comedian and producer
Melania Knauss Trump is a Slovenian and American former model serving as the first lady of the United States since 2025, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2021 as the third w…
Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily known for her ethnographic…
Kristen R
Richard James Fromberg is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
Richard Fromberg, Australian tennis player
Erik Nicklas Lidström is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman and current vice president of hockey operations for the Detroit Red Wings. He played 20 seasons in the …
Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player and scout
Diego Pablo Simeone González, nicknamed "Cholo", is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He has been the manager of La Liga club…
Diego Simeone, Argentinian footballer and manager
Andre Kirk Agassi is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 101 weeks…
Andre Agassi, American tennis player
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress. Known for her collaborations with Quentin Tarantino, she has performed in over fifty film and television productions since the 1980s, acr…
Uma Thurman, American actress
Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for being the guitarist for the band Suede from 1989 to 1994, appearing on the albums…
Bernard Butler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
William Emerson Arnett is a Canadian and American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development and the titular c…
Will Arnett, Canadian actor and producer
Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team. A point guard, she played col…
Dawn Staley, American basketball player
Michael Gwyl Bevan is an Australian former international cricketer. He played as a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm wrist spin bowler. Bevan is widely considered as one of t…
Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer and coach
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globaliza…
Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist
Luis Enrique Martínez García, known as Luis Enrique, is a Spanish football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer and manager
Douglas Dale Christie is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Doug Christie, American basketball player and coach
Hao Haidong is a Chinese former international footballer. He holds the record for being China's top goalscorer.
Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer