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Richard Lewis Springthorpe, known professionally as Rick Springfield, is an Australian-American musician and actor. He was a member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971, th…
Rick Springfield, Australian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Stephen Paulus was an American Grammy Award winning composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His style is essentially tonal, and melodic and romantic by nature.
Stephen Paulus, American composer and educator (died 2014)
Joe Regalbuto is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Frank Fontana on the CBS television sitcom Murphy Brown, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomina…
Joe Regalbuto, American actor and director
Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the …
Martin Amis, British novelist (died 2023)
Rijkman Willem Johan Groenink is a Dutch banker. He is best known as the CEO of the Dutch bank ABN AMRO at the time that the bank was sold to a consortium of banks. The consortium…
Rijkman Groenink, Dutch banker and academic
John Smeallie Youngs, known professionally as John Savage, is an American actor. He first rose to prominence in the late 1970s for his portrayals of troubled-but-sensitive characte…
John Savage, American actor and producer
Gene Simmons, also known by his stage persona "the Demon", is an Israeli and American musician and songwriter. He was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss, whi…
Gene Simmons, Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
Allahshukur Hummat Pashazade is the Shaykh al-Islam of the Caucasus which includes the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia, and Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia…
Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Azerbaijani cleric
Leon Redbone was a singer-songwriter and musician specializing in jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley classics. Recognized by his hat, dark sunglasses, and black tie, he was born in Cyp…
Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2019)
Jeffrey Alan Cook was an American country musician. Cook was best known for being a founding member of the band Alabama, in which he contributed to occasional lead vocals, guitar, …
Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)
Leah H. Jamieson is an American engineering educator, currently the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Jamieson was a co-…
Leah Jamieson, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic
Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Strangler…
Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Svetislav "Kari" Pešić is a Serbian former basketball player and coach.
Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
John Stanley Hansen II, best known as Stan "the Lariat" Hansen, is an American retired professional wrestler.
Stan Hansen, American wrestler and actor
Darnell Hillman is an American former professional basketball player who spent nine seasons in the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association with the Indi…
Darnell Hillman, American basketball player
Robert Theodore Ammon was an American financier and investment banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was murdered in his home in 2001 by electrician Daniel Pelosi, who was c…
Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (died 2001)
Don Boudria is a Canadian former politician and current senior associate at Sandstone Group, an Ottawa-based executive advisory firm. He served in the House of Commons of Canada fr…
Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation
Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American actor. Henderson trained at Juilliard School for acting and later became a resident member of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis from 1976…
Stephen McKinley Henderson, American actor
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began appearing in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heav…
Richard Gere, American actor and producer
Hugh David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in t…
Hugh David Politzer, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Richard James Roberts is an American country rock and soft rock singer-songwriter who recorded with many influential artists over several genres. He is best known as a founding mem…
Rick Roberts, American country-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a German-American academic associated with Austrian School economics, anarcho-capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, paleolibertarianism, and opposition to de…
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, American economist and philosopher
Moira Clare Ruby Stuart is a British TV presenter and broadcaster. She was the first female newsreader of Caribbean heritage to appear on British national television, having worked…
Moira Stuart, British broadcaster