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Kimberly Carnes Ellingson is an American singer and songwriter best known for her 1981 hit single, "Bette Davis Eyes". She embarked on a solo career as a songwriter and performer i…
Kim Carnes, American singer-songwriter
Lawrence Edwin Craig is an American former politician who represented Idaho in the United States Senate from 1991 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he also represented Ida…
Larry Craig, American soldier and politician
Wendy Cope is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.
Wendy Cope, English poet, critic, and educator
Geoffrey Dymock is an Australian former international cricketer. He played in 21 Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals between 1974 and 1980. On his debut, he took five wicket…
Geoff Dymock, Australian cricketer
Sir Philip Cohen is a British biochemist known for his extensive contributions to the field of biochemistry, especially to the understanding of the role of reversible protein phosp…
Philip Cohen, English biochemist and academic
Edward Gregson is an English composer of instrumental and choral music, particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles, as well as music for the theatre, film, and television.…
Edward Gregson, English composer and educator
Robert Edward Rein was an American football and baseball player and football coach. He was a two-sport athlete at Ohio State University and served as the head football coach at Nor…
Bo Rein, American football player and coach (died 1980)
Edwin Arthur Schlossberg is an American designer, artist, and author. A pioneer and leader of interactive museum installations, he is the founder and principal designer of ESI Desi…
Edwin Schlossberg, American designer, author, and husband of Carolyn Kennedy
Barry Anderson Richards is a former South African first-class cricketer. A right-handed "talent of such enormous stature", Richards is considered one of South Africa's most success…
Barry Richards, South African cricketer
Jonathon Charles Sammels is an English former footballer.
Jon Sammels, English footballer
Francis Edwin Close is a particle physicist who is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
Frank Close, English physicist and academic
Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the chairman of Wipro. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founding chairman. …
Azim Premji, Indian businessman and philanthropist
Hugh Norman Ross is a Canadian astrophysicist, Christian apologist, and old-Earth creationist.
Hugh Ross, Canadian-American astrophysicist and astronomer
Anthony Brian Watts is a British marine geologist and geophysicist and Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences, at the University of Oxford.
Anthony Watts, English geologist, geophysicist, and academic
Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of many accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, …
Helen Mirren, English actress
James Robert Davis is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of th…
Jim Davis, American cartoonist, created Garfield
Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the …
Sharon Creech, American author and educator
Mircea Lucescu was a Romanian professional football player and manager.
Mircea Lucescu, Romanian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2026)
Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend o…
Patrick Modiano, French novelist and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate
David William Sanborn was an American alto saxophonist. He worked in many musical genres; his solo recordings typically blended jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He began playing…
David Sanborn, American saxophonist and composer (died 2024)
Edie McClurg is an American retired actress and comedian. She has played supporting roles in the films Carrie (1976), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Elvira: Mistress of the D…
Edie McClurg, American actress and comedian
Sir John Ambrose Fleming was a British electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the vacuum tube radio transmitter—with which the first transatlantic radio trans…
John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (born 1849)
Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for…
Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (born 1900)
Erwin Konrad Eduard Bumke was the last president of the Reichsgericht, the supreme civil and criminal court of the German Reich, serving from 1929 to 1945. As such, according to th…
Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (born 1874)