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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
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
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
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
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, born as Diana Moore, subsequently known as Morning Glory Ferns, Morning Glory Zell and briefly Morning G'Zell, was an American community leader, writ…
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (died 2014)
Pierre Rapsat was a Belgian singer-songwriter who had a very successful career in his homeland and also spells of popularity in other Francophone countries. Outside these areas, he…
Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer and songwriter (died 2002)
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton is an English composer, broadcaster on music and non-party political member of the House of Lords, speaking as an advocate…
Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
Keith Gull is a British microbiologist who is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular microbiology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Univer…
Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
Michael Piller was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was best known for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise.
Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (died 2005)
Michael Walter Field, is a former Australian politician, holding office as the Premier of Tasmania between 1989 and 1992. Field is also a former chancellor of the University of Tas…
Michael Field, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Tasmania