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Michael Byron Nifong is a former American attorney who was disbarred after serving as the Durham County District Attorney in North Carolina. He was removed from this position, disb…
Mike Nifong, American lawyer and politician
John Steptoe was an author and illustrator children's books dealing with aspects of the African-American experience. He is best known for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (1987), which…
John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (died 1989)
Rajiv Malhotra is an Indian-American author, public intellectual, and a proponent of Hindutva. He is the founder of Infinity Foundation, an organisation known to focus on Indic stu…
Rajiv Malhotra, Indian author
Mirza Masroor Ahmad is the current and fifth leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. His official title within the movement is Fifth Caliph of the Messiah. He was elected on 22 A…
Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Pakistani-English caliph and scholar
The Bellamy Brothers are an American country music duo from Darby, Florida. The duo consists of brothers David Milton Bellamy and Homer Howard Bellamy. The duo had considerable mus…
David Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher Uni…
Henry Louis Gates Jr., American historian, scholar, and journalist
Sir Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman is an American-British author, broadcaster, musician, businessman and cultural campaigner who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom. He presented …
Loyd Grossman, American-English singer, guitarist, and television host
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 26 May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is th…
Narendra Modi, Indian politician; Chief Minister of Gujarat and 14th Prime Minister of India
John Waldo "Fee" Waybill is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead singer and songwriter of San Francisco rock band The Tubes. Waybill has al…
Fee Waybill, American singer-songwriter and producer
Dame Siobhan Davies DBE, often known as Sue Davies, is an English dancer and choreographer. She was a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, and became…
Siobhan Davies, English dancer and choreographer
Chris Heister is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and former Leader of the Opposition on Stockholm County Council. She was elected to the Riksdag in 1991 and served until 2002. …
Chris Heister, Swedish politician, Governor of Stockholm County
Darryl Glen Sittler is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1970 until 1985 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Philade…
Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing (2000–06), hospital…
Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
Sampath Kumar, known by his stage name Vishnuvardhan, was an Indian actor who worked predominantly in Kannada cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil, Hindi, Telu…
Vishnuvardhan, Indian actor (died 2009)
Michael Richard Edward Proctor is a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He is Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge and, until 2023, …
Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician, and academic
Loredana Bertè is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress. She has worked with prominent Italian songwriters such as Pino Daniele, Ivano Fossati, Mario Lavezzi, Mango and Enrico …
Loredana Bertè, Italian singer
Matthew Albert Blair was an American professional football linebacker who played for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) for all 12 seasons of his career fr…
Matt Blair, American football player (died 2020)
Eduard Oja was an Estonian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic. His father was a forest warden. Between 1919 and 1925 he studied at Tartu Teachers' College at Tartu Unive…
Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, and critic (born 1905)
Anders Peter Nielsen was a Danish sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in rifle shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olymp…
Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (born 1867)
Ernst Robert Curtius was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittela…
Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (born 1886)
Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law …
Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (born 1895)
Sir John Ernest Adamson CMG was an English educationalist. He was director of education in Transvaal, modern day South Africa from 1905 to 1924 and played an important role in deve…
John Ernest Adamson, English educationalist and Director of Education of the Colony of Transvaal (born 1867)
George Murray Hulbert was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who was a United States representative from New York and a United States district judge of the United States Di…
George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1881)
Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha, known as Vital Brazil, was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and immunologist, known for the discovery of the polyvalent anti-ophidic se…
Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician and immunologist (born 1865)