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Deshabandu Karuppiahyage Ravindra Pushpakumara, or Ravindra Pushpakumara, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer of Tamil - Sinhalese mixed ancestry. He is a right-handed batsman and a r…
Ravindra Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer
Michael Sellers is a former American football fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He was the youngest import player to sign a Canadian Football League (CFL) deal in the…
Mike Sellers, American football player
Daniel John Rogerson is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Cornwall from the 2005 general election until his defeat at the 2015 g…
Dan Rogerson, Cornish politician
Dame Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham and Aylesford from 2010 to 2024. Crouch was app…
Tracey Crouch, English politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
Jamie Craig Langenbrunner is an American former professional ice hockey player. He is a member of the 1998–99 Dallas Stars and 2002–03 New Jersey Devils teams that won the Stanley …
Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
Torrie Anne Wilson is an American retired professional wrestler, model and fitness competitor. She is best known for her tenures in WWE and WCW.
Torrie Wilson, American model, fitness competitor, actress and professional wrestler
Jody Darryl Craddock is an English former professional footballer and artist who played as a centre back in the Premier League for Sunderland and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Jody Craddock, English footballer and coach
Jean-Claude Jacques Ducan Darcheville is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for various clubs in France, England, Scotland, and Greece. He r…
Jean-Claude Darcheville, Guianan-French footballer
Jesús Cristóbal Martínez Rodriguez is a Mexican professional wrestler who is best known as El Zorro. His gimmick started out very similar to the fictional character Zorro complete …
El Zorro, Mexican wrestler
Brian Gibson is an American musician, artist, and video game designer based in Providence, Rhode Island. Gibson is best known as the bassist for the band Lightning Bolt. In the sum…
Brian Gibson, American bass player
Yevgeni Viktorovich Nabokov is a Kazakh-born Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the San Jose Sharks, New York Islanders, and Tampa Bay Lightning of Na…
Evgeni Nabokov, Russian ice hockey player
Ingo Schultz is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres.
Ingo Schultz, German sprinter
Joseph Leynard Smith is an American former professional basketball player. A power forward, he played for 12 teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) during his 16-year c…
Joe Smith, American basketball player
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day i…
Liz Truss, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Kargo is a rock band from Istanbul, Turkey. Its current line-up includes Selim Öztürk on electric guitar, Burak Karataş on drums and Ozan Anlaş on vocals.
Serkan Çeliköz, Turkish keyboard player and songwriter
Shea Matthew Hillenbrand is an American former professional baseball third baseman and first baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diam…
Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
Frederick Paul Mascherino is an American musician best known for his work as lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist in alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday. He is currently active…
Fred Mascherino, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Alessandro Pistone is an Italian former professional football player and manager.
Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez, nicknamed "A-Rod", is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman and current businessman. Rodriguez played 22 seasons in Maj…
Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
Leonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling is a Spanish film actress and singer.
Leonor Watling, Spanish actress
Yoshihiro Akiyama , also known as Choo Sung-hoon (Korean: 추성훈) and by his nickname Sexyama, is a Japanese mixed martial artist and judoka who won the gold medal at the 2001 Asian C…
Yoshihiro Akiyama, Japanese mixed martial artist
Lanka de Silva is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who played in three Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals in 1997. He is also the current interim head coach of the Sri Lanka w…
Lanka de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
Corrado Grabbi is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was nicknamed "Ciccio" throughout his career.
Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
Jaanus Sirel is an Estonian former professional footballer. He was playing the position of defender and midfielder.
Jaanus Sirel, Estonian footballer