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Richard Swedberg is a Swedish sociologist. He is currently professor emeritus at the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. In the Fall of 1998, Swedberg was a Fellow at th…
Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist and academic
Jesper Christensen is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has made the transition to English language projects, including The Interpreter and Revelations. He has also …
Jesper Christensen, Danish actor, director, and producer
Judith Adele Finnigan is an English television presenter and writer. She co-presented ITV's This Morning and the Channel 4 chat show, Richard & Judy (2001–2008) alongside her husba…
Judy Finnigan, English talk show host and author
Enrico Fumia is an Italian automobile and product designer. He is widely known for his work with the car design firm Pininfarina, helping to design and package a new sports car ver…
Enrico Fumia, Italian automobile and product designer
James Hood was a Scottish Labour Party politician, who served as a Member of Parliament from 1987 until being defeated in 2015. He represented the Clydesdale constituency until 200…
Jimmy Hood, Scottish engineer and politician (died 2017)
Thomas Stewart Udall is an American diplomat, attorney, and politician who served as a United States senator for New Mexico from 2009 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he …
Tom Udall, American lawyer and politician, 28th New Mexico Attorney General, United States Senator from New Mexico
Emma Georgina Rothschild is an English economic historian, a professor of history at Harvard University. She is director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard, a…
Emma Georgina Rothschild, English historian and academic
Gustaf Van Roosbroeck is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer who competed in the 1970s.
Staf Van Roosbroeck, Belgian cyclist
Grace Beverly Jones is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, model and actress. She began her modelling career in New York, signing with Wilhelmina Models. After moving to Paris, she work…
Grace Jones, Jamaican-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker is a British writer of non-fiction and fiction books since 1985. In 1994, her novel Consider the Lily won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award…
Elizabeth Buchan, English author and critic
Joseph Vincent Camilleri, aka Jo Jo Zep, is a Maltese Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Camilleri has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons …
Joe Camilleri, Maltese-Australian singer-songwriter and saxophonist
Jonathan Stephen Geoffrey King, known professionally as Jonathan "Nash" Hyde, is an Australian-British actor. He portrayed Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury in the comedy film Richie…
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-English actor
Denis MacShane is a British former politician, author, commentator and convicted criminal who served as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 to 2005. He was Member of Parliament …
Denis MacShane, Scottish journalist and politician, UK Minister of State for Europe
Gerard Hugh Sayer, known by his stage name Leo Sayer, is an English singer and songwriter who has been active since the early 1970s. He is best known for his 1978 Grammy Award-winn…
Leo Sayer, English-Australian singer-songwriter and musician
Tomás Sánchez is a Cuban painter and engraver, known for his landscapes. Sánchez is the most expensive living Cuban painter.
Tomás Sánchez, Cuban painter and engraver
Kesavan Venugopal, better known by his stage name Nedumudi Venu, was an Indian actor and screenwriter from Kerala, who predominantly worked in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more th…
Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor and screenwriter (died 2021)
Myriam Boyer is a French actress. She appeared in more than eighty films and television shows since 1970. At the age of 18, she married Roger Cornillac with whom she had a son, Clo…
Myriam Boyer, French actress, director, and producer
Richard Dembo was a French director and screenwriter.
Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (died 2004)
Bülent Arınç is a conservative Turkish politician. He served as the 22nd Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2002 to 2007 and as a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey between 2009…
Bülent Arınç, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Marianne Elliott is an Irish historian who was appointed OBE in the 2000 Birthday Honours.
Marianne Elliott, Northern Irish historian, author, and academic
Klaus Meine is a German singer, best known as the longtime frontman and primary lyricist of the hard rock band Scorpions. Meine and guitarist Rudolf Schenker are the only two membe…
Klaus Meine, German rock singer-songwriter
Dayle Haddon was a Canadian model and actress, known for promoting anti-aging products manufactured by L'Oréal. Additionally, she was credited as the author of Ageless Beauty: A Wo…
Dayle Haddon, Canadian model and actress (died 2024)
Wubbo de Boer was a Dutch civil servant.
Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant (died 2017)
Peter Roy Sears is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than six decades, he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from …
Pete Sears, English bass player