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Kyongae Chang is a South Korean astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens.
Kyongae Chang, South Korean astrophysicist and academic
Dennis Dugan is an American film director, actor, and comedian. He is known for directing the films Problem Child, Brain Donors, Beverly Hills Ninja and National Security, and his …
Dennis Dugan, American actor and director
Dean Ford was a Scottish singer and songwriter best known for his tenure as lead vocalist and frontman of the beat pop group Marmalade from 1966 to 1974. Ford co-wrote the group's …
Dean Ford, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018)
Freddie Mercury was a British singer, songwriter and pianist who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen, which he co-founded with guitarist Br…
Freddie Mercury, British singer and songwriter (died 1991)
Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He has released twenty-six studio albums, four live albums, and six compilations. Some of his b…
Loudon Wainwright III, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Ronald Bruce Boone is an American former professional basketball player. He had a 13-year career in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (N…
Ron Boone, American basketball player and commentator
Roger David Verdon Knight is an English administrator, cricketer and schoolmaster. He was awarded the OBE in 2007. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC…
Roger Knight, English cricketer and educator
Shirley M. Malcom currently serves as a Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Malcom is a trustee of Caltech,…
Shirley M. Malcom, American scientist, academic and educator
Willie Murphy Crawford was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in the major leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1964–1975), St. Louis Cardinals (1976), Housto…
Willie Crawford, American baseball player (died 2004)
Joe Klein is an American political commentator and author. He is best known for his work as a columnist for Time magazine and his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman…
Joe Klein, American journalist and author
Suzyn Waldman is an American sportscaster and former musical theater actress. Since the 2005 season, she has been the color commentator for New York Yankees baseball, working with …
Suzyn Waldman, American sportscaster
L. C. Henderson Greenwood was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college …
L. C. Greenwood, American football player (died 2013)
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry …
Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Wong Kan Seng is a Singaporean former politician who served as the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, from 2005 to 2011. Currently, he is the chairman of both UOB Bank and C…
Wong Kan Seng, Singaporean business executive, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
James Keays Jr. was a Scottish-born Australian musician who fronted the rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972 and…
Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Bruce Palmer was a Canadian musician best known as the bassist in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
Bruce Palmer, Canadian folk-rock bass player (died 2004)
Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie, known in France as MAM, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member o…
Michèle Alliot-Marie, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
James Ray Hines was an American track and field athlete and National Football League (NFL) player, who held the 100-meter world record for 15 years. In 1968, he became the first ma…
Jim Hines, American sprinter and football player (died 2023)
Donald George Powell is an English musician who was the drummer for glam rock and later hard rock group Slade for over fifty years, from 1966 until he was dismissed by Dave Hill in…
Don Powell, English rock drummer
Yvon Éthier better known as Patrick Norman is a Canadian country musician. He sings both in French and English and has had hits in Quebec and in the rest of Canada.
Patrick Norman, Canadian singer-songwriter
Redbone is an American rock band that was originally formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1969 by brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas. All members during their commercial peak were of Ch…
Tony Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)
Neil Alexander Lyndon is a British journalist and writer. He has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent, the Evening Standard the Daily Mail and the Telegraph.
Neil Lyndon, British journalist and writer
Frank Wilton Marshall is an American film producer and director. He often collaborated with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Am…
Frank Marshall, American director and producer
Full Professor of Georgian Technical University Henri Kuprashvili is a Georgian Doctor of Political Sciences, First Class State Councillor who is most notable for breaking a Guinne…
Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer