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Allen Cedric Cowlings is an American former professional football player and actor. He played college football for the USC Trojans before being selected fifth overall in the first …
Al Cowlings, American football player and actor
Barry "The Fish" Melton is an American guitarist and songwriter who is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of rock bands Country Joe and the Fish and Dinosaurs. He appears o…
Barry Melton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Tom "Bones" Malone is an American jazz musician, arranger, and producer. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone but he also plays saxophone, trumpet, tuba, flute, …
Tom Malone, American trombonist, composer, and producer
Dale Hey was a Canadian-American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Buddy "Jack" Roberts. Primarily a tag team wrestler, Roberts is known for his appearances as …
Buddy Roberts, American wrestler (died 2012)
Christopher Allport was an American actor.
Christopher Allport, American actor (died 2008)
Timothy Wright, generally credited as Rev. Timothy Wright or Reverend Timothy Wright on recordings, was an American gospel singer and pastor.
Timothy Wright, American gospel singer, pastor (died 2009)
Linda Lou Chavez is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column…
Linda Chavez, American journalist and author
George Stanley Clinton Jr. is an American composer, songwriter, arranger, and session musician.
George S
Gregg Alan Rolie is an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter. Rolie served as lead singer of the bands Santana and Journey – both of which he co-founded. He also helmed rock …
Gregg Rolie, American rock singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Paul Young was a British singer and songwriter. He achieved success in the bands Sad Café and Mike + the Mechanics.
Paul Young, English singer-songwriter (died 2000)
Bernard René Giraudeau was a French sailor, actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer.
Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)
Linda Thorson is a Canadian actress known for playing Tara King in The Avengers (1968–69).
Linda Thorson, Canadian actress
Dolores Brooks, also known as Sakinah Muhammad or La La Brooks, is an American singer and actress. She is best known as the third lead singer of the girl group The Crystals and the…
Dolores "LaLa" Brooks, American pop singer
Meredith Ann Baxter is an American actress and producer. She is known for her roles on the CBS sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie (1972–1973), ABC drama series Family (1976–1980) and the …
Meredith Baxter, American actress
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian Nobel laureate, lawyer, writer, teacher and a former judge and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. In 2003, Ebadi was awarded the No…
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
Ivonne Coll Mendoza is a Puerto Rican actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Puerto Rico 1967 and competed in the Miss Universe 1967 pageant but did not place…
Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican-American model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disr…
Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
John Ralston Saul is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Saul is most widely known for his writings on the nature of individualism, citizenship and t…
John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author
Michael Edward Gross is an American television, film, and stage actor. He is notable for playing Steven Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties (1982–1989) and survivalist Burt Gummer in …
Michael Gross, American actor
Joseph Charles Molland II was an English singer-songwriter and guitarist whose recording career spanned five decades. He was best known as a member of Badfinger, the most successfu…
Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)
Harold Wade Phillips is an American football coach. He has served as the head coach of the Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Roughnecks, and San Antonio Brahma…
Wade Phillips, American football coach
Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín is a Spanish philosopher, essayist and author.
Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butle…
Octavia E
Howard Kaylan is an American retired musician and songwriter, who was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s rock band The Turtles, and, with bandmate and friend Mark Volma…
Howard Kaylan, American pop-rock singer-songwriter and musician