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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
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
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
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
José Néstor Pékerman Krimen is an Argentine professional football coach. His last team managed was the Venezuela national team. As a youth level coach for Argentina, he won the FIF…
José Pékerman, Argentine footballer, coach, and manager
Peter VII was the Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa from 1997 to 2004. During his reign, Petros VII was credited with reviving the Greek Orthodox churc…
Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (died 2004)
Russell Dean Pees is an American football coach who is a senior advisor for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He was the defensive coordinator for the Rav…
Dean Pees, American football player and coach
David "Clem" Clempson is an English rock guitarist who has played in a number of bands, including Colosseum and Humble Pie.
Clem Clempson, English guitarist and songwriter
Iris Robinson is a former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician in Northern Ireland. She is married to Peter Robinson, who was First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2008 to …
Iris Robinson, Northern Irish politician
Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, she was …
Dianne Hayter, German-English politician
Darryl Grant Cotton was an Australian pop, rock singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor. He was a founding member of Australian rock group Zoot in 1965, with Beeb Birtles…
Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)
Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer. In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading golfers in the world, winning eight major championships and heading …
Tom Watson, American golfer and sportscaster
Barry Siegel is an American journalist. He is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2002 for his piece "A Fath…
Barry Siegel, American journalist and academic
Edward Allen Hinds FInstP FAPS FRS is a British physicist noted for his work with cold matter.
Edward Hinds, English physicist and academic