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Brad Drewett was an Australian tennis player and ATP official. He was the 1975 and 1977 Australian Open junior champion and the youngest player at age 17 to win the title since Ken…
Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (died 2013)
Michael Ryan Flatley is an American and Irish former professional performer and choreographer of Irish dance. Flatley is credited with reinventing traditional Irish dance by incorp…
Michael Flatley, American-Irish dancer and choreographer
Robert Gibson is an American professional wrestler. He is best known as one half of the tag team known as The Rock 'n' Roll Express, with Ricky Morton. He has competed in singles c…
Robert Gibson, American wrestler
David Eric Robertson is an American conductor. He was chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and was formerly music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 200…
David Robertson, American conductor
Michael Joseph MacNeil is a Scottish songwriter and keyboardist. He is best known as a former member of the group Simple Minds.
Mick MacNeil, Scottish keyboard player and songwriter
William Darrell Mays Jr. was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson. Throughout his career, he promoted a wide variety of products, including OxiClean, Or…
Billy Mays, American salesman (died 2009)
David Lee Henderson, nicknamed "Hendu", was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, San Francis…
Dave Henderson, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2015)
Tatsunori Hara is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and manager. He played 15 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants, and also spent …
Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach
David Alan Adkisson was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name David Von Erich. A member of the Von Erich family, he is best known for his appearances wit…
David Von Erich, American wrestler (died 1984)
Kenneth J. Green is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. Green has won eleven tournaments as a pro, inclu…
Ken Green, American golfer
Tomy Winata is an Indonesian businessman with interests in banking, property, and infrastructure, whose wealth comes from his business deals for the Indonesian Military. His philan…
Tomy Winata, Indonesian businessman and philanthropist, founded the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation
Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician, best known as guitarist and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations …
Thurston Moore, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
DaMon William "Monti" Davis was an American professional basketball player. He was a 6-foot-7-inch (201 cm) 205 pounds (93 kg) forward and played collegiately at Tennessee State Un…
Monti Davis, American basketball player (died 2013)
James Leighton is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Leighton started his career with Aberdeen, where he won seven domestic trophies and the 1982…
Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer and coach
Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High Sch…
Alexei Filippenko, American astrophysicist and academic
Angela Hewitt is a Canadian classical pianist. She is best known for her Bach interpretations.
Angela Hewitt, Canadian-English pianist
Sir Christopher Colin Dean is a British ice dancer considered, with his skating partner, Jayne Torvill, amongst the greatest ice dancers of all time. The pair won a gold medal at t…
Christopher Dean, English figure skater and choreographer
Kimmo Hannu Tapio Hakola is a Finnish composer. Born in Jyväskylä, he studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara and Magnus Lindberg at Sibelius Academy. He first came to promi…
Kimmo Hakola, Finnish composer
Terrance Stanley Fox was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, having had one leg amputated due to cancer, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to r…
Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (died 1981)
Michael Hitchcock is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and television producer.
Michael Hitchcock, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Gail Dines is professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Gail Dines, English-American author, activist, and academic
Simon Nye is an English screenwriter, best known for television comedy. He wrote the hit sitcom Men Behaving Badly, and all of the four ITV Pantos. He co-wrote the 2006 film Flushe…
Simon Nye, English screenwriter and producer
Cynthia Rowley is an American fashion designer, known for her books, television appearances and "flirty" and "carefree" women's clothing designs.
Cynthia Rowley, American fashion designer
Catherine Bush is an English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. She is noted for her eclectic style, unconventional lyrics and innovative dance performances.…
Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter and producer