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Carl Demonte Crawford, nicknamed "the Perfect Storm", is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Bos…
Carl Crawford, American baseball player
Maik Franz is a German former footballer.
Maik Franz, German footballer
Erik Guay is a Canadian former World Cup alpine ski racer. Racing out of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Guay won the World Cup season title in super-G in 2010 and was the world champion i…
Erik Guay, Canadian skier
Travis Lazarus "Travie" McCoy is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rap rock band Gym Class Heroes, which he formed in 1997 w…
Travie McCoy, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
Anna Rawson is an Australian model and former professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour.
Anna Rawson, Australian golfer
Diána Póth is a Hungarian former competitive figure skater. She is a two-time Karl Schäfer Memorial silver medalist and a two-time Hungarian national champion. She also competed br…
Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater
David Testo is an American retired soccer player who, after his playing career ended in 2011, became the first male American professional player of that sport to come out as gay. T…
David Testo, American soccer player
Rachel Joy Scott was an American student who was the first victim of the Columbine High School massacre, in which twelve other students and one teacher were killed by Eric Harris a…
Rachel Scott, American murder victim, inspired the Rachel's Challenge (died 1999)
Leslie Lloyd Odom Jr. is an American actor, singer and songwriter. He made his acting debut on Broadway in 1998 and first gained recognition for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the …
Leslie Odom Jr., American actor and singer
Randy Wayne Frederick is an American actor.
Randy Wayne, American actor and producer
Vanessa Joy Amorosi is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. She has sold at least two million units in albums or singles worldwide.
Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter
Roger Federer is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, includ…
Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
Meagan Monique Good Majors is an Guinean and American actress and model. She first gained critical attention for her role in the film Eve's Bayou (1997) prior to landing the role o…
Meagan Good, American actress and producer
Harel Skaat sometimes known by the mononym Harel is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Milim".
Harel Skaat, Israeli singer-songwriter
Jarvis James Hayes is an American-Qatari former professional basketball player and current coach. He is an assistant coach for the Georgia Bulldogs. Hayes was selected by the Washi…
Jarvis Hayes, American basketball player
Li Jiawei is a retired Chinese-born former Singaporean table tennis player, four-time Olympian, and twice Olympic medalist. She trained in Beijing's famous Shichahai Sports School …
Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player
Taufik Hidayat is an Indonesian retired badminton player who is the current Deputy Minister for Youth and Sport of Indonesia. He is a former World champion, Olympic gold medalist, …
Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
Daniel Poohl is a Swedish journalist and publicist who served as publisher and CEO of the Expo magazine.
Daniel Poohl, Swedish journalist
Anthony Charles Capaldi is a former footballer who made nearly 250 appearances in the Football League and is a Northern Ireland former international.
Tony Capaldi, Norwegian–Northern Irish footballer
Djibril Cissé is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Djibril Cissé, French footballer
Earl Daniel Barron Jr. is an American professional basketball former player and coach. He played college basketball for the University of Memphis and had stints in the NBA with mul…
Earl Barron, American basketball player
Paul Gallen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and retired professional boxer. He played as a lock, second-row and prop forward and captained the Cronulla…
Paul Gallen, Australian rugby league player, boxer, and sportscaster
Julius Andre Maurice Jones is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre…
Julius Jones, American football player
Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah, better known by his ring name Kofi Kingston, is a Ghanaian professional wrestler. He is best known for his 20-year tenure in WWE from 2006 to 2026, whe…
Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian-American wrestler