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Vanessa Briscoe Hay is an American singer for the Athens, Georgia bands Pylon, Supercluster and Pylon Reenactment Society.
Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Timmy Mallett is an English television presenter, broadcaster, author and artist. He is known for his striking visual style, colourful glasses and shirts, and a giant pink foam mal…
Timmy Mallett, English radio and television host
Stuart "Stu" Mead is an American artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Stu Mead, American painter and illustrator
David Neil Twohy is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for working on science fiction-action films, most notably The Chronicles of Riddick series.
David Twohy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Maria Cornelia Frederika "Rita" Verdonk is a Dutch politician and businesswoman formerly affiliated with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and later Proud of the N…
Rita Verdonk, Dutch journalist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
Denis Leslie Watson is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe.
Denis Watson, Zimbabwean golfer
Sir Mark Edward Welland, is a British physicist who is a professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and head of the Nanoscience Centre. He has been a fellow of St J…
Mark Welland, English physicist and academic
Dan Gutman is an American writer, primarily of children's fiction.
Dan Gutman, American author
Akio Ishii , known professionally as LaSalle Ishii , is a Japanese TV personality, actor, director, writer, columnist, and politician. He named himself after his high school Japane…
LaSalle Ishii, Japanese actor and director
Lonnie Jewel Shelton was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player who played from 1976 to 1985.
Lonnie Shelton, American basketball player (died 2018)
Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFT…
Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor
Don David John Profumo, 6th Baron Profumo of the Kingdom of Sardinia, FRSL, is an English novelist and son of former British government minister and key subject of the Profumo affa…
David Profumo, English author and academic
Aaron Pryor was an American professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 1990. He was a two-time light welterweight world champion, having held the WBA title from 1980 to 1983, and…
Aaron Pryor, American boxer (died 2016)
Sheldon Whitehouse is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic P…
Sheldon Whitehouse, American politician
Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, composer, and a 17-time Grammy nominee. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in N…
Fred Hersch, American pianist and composer
John Adam is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for the North Sydney Bears in the New South Wales Rugby League c…
John Adam, Australian rugby league player
Toshio Hosokawa is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music …
Toshio Hosokawa, Japanese composer
Cheryl Studer is an American soprano who has sung at many of the world's foremost opera houses. Studer has performed more than eighty roles ranging from the dramatic repertoire to …
Cheryl Studer, American soprano and actress
Richard Marvin DeVos Jr. is an American businessman, author, and former politician. The son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, he was CEO of the multi-level marketing company from …
Dick DeVos, American businessman
Catherine Hardwicke is an American film director, production designer, and screenwriter. Her directorial work includes Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film…
Catherine Hardwicke, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
Richard Wayne Mullins was an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter best known for his worship songs "Awesome God" and "Sometimes by Step". Some of his albums …
Rich Mullins, American singer-songwriter (died 1997)
Glynis Barber is a South African-British actress. She is known for her portrayals of Sgt. Harriet Makepeace in the British police drama Dempsey and Makepeace, Glenda Mitchell in Ea…
Glynis Barber, South African-English actress
Robin Eubanks is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks. Younger brother Shane Eubanks, twin to Duane…
Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator
Gale Anne Hurd is an American film and television producer, the founder of Valhalla Entertainment, and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America. Her notable …
Gale Anne Hurd, American producer