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The Esso Trinidad Steel Band was a steel band from Trinidad, active from 1942 to 1976.
Steven Springer, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2012)
Douglas William Kmiec is an American legal scholar, author, and former U.S. ambassador. He is the Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University S…
Douglas Kmiec, American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Malta
Yardena Shulamit Arazi is an Israeli singer and entertainer. In 2008 Arazi was named the most popular Israeli singer of all time at the 60th Independence Day celebration.
Yardena Arazi, Israeli singer
Burleigh Drummond is an American drummer, percussionist, producer, songwriter, and singer. He is a founding member and the only drummer/percussionist for the five-time Grammy Award…
Burleigh Drummond, American drummer and songwriter
Graeme Paul Knowles is a retired Anglican bishop who served as Acting Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 2025. He served latterly as the Acting Dean of St Edmundsbury, having …
Graeme Knowles, English bishop
Mark Richard Hamill is an American actor. He rose to frame as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983), leading to further lead parts in films like Corvette Sum…
Mark Hamill, American actor, singer, and producer
Thomas Frederick Taylor is an English football manager and former footballer. As a footballer, he played as a defender.
Tommy Taylor, English footballer and manager
Stuart Mcbeath Tosh is a Scottish drummer, songwriter and vocalist. He recorded and toured with a succession of bands during the 1970s and 1980s, including Pilot, The Alan Parsons …
Stuart Tosh, Scottish singer-songwriter and drummer
Geoffrey Ian Gallop is an Australian academic and former politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 16 February 2001 to 25 January 2006. A member of the Labor Party, …
Geoff Gallop, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Western Australia
Michel Rivard is a singer-songwriter and musician from Quebec, born in Montreal. His father, Robert Rivard, was an actor. Michel began his career at an early age appearing in a Can…
Michel Rivard, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Robert Allen McAdoo Jr. is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was a five-time …
Bob McAdoo, American basketball player and coach
James Charles Shooter was an American writer, editor and publisher in the comics industry. Beginning his career writing for DC Comics at the age of 14, he had a successful but cont…
Jim Shooter, American author and illustrator (died 2025)
James Aaron Diamond was a Scottish singer-songwriter, best known for his three top 5 hits: "I Won't Let You Down" (1982), as the lead singer of PhD; and his solo performances "I Sh…
Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (died 2015)
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean physician and politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Socialist Par…
Michelle Bachelet, Chilean politician, President of Chile
Pier Luigi Bersani is an Italian politician and was Secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), Italy's leading centre-left party, from 2009 to 2013. Bersani was Minister of Industry, …
Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian educator and politician, 6th President of Emilia-Romagna
Roslyn Schwartz is a Canadian children's author and animator.
Roslyn Schwartz, Canadian author
Miguel "Mike" Castro Enriquez was a Filipino broadcast journalist and television presenter. He started his career as a radio broadcaster in 1969, and after signing with GMA Network…
Mike Enriquez, Filipino television and radio newscaster (died 2023)
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is an English producer and writer of television and radio comedy. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the …
John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer
Simon David Manton White, FRS, is a British-German astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019. The Nava…
Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic
Brian Gilbert Greenway is a Canadian musician who is the longest-serving member of the rock band April Wine, which he joined in 1977 and performs guitar, harmonica, and vocals duti…
Brian Greenway, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician, songwriter and actor. He was the lead vocalist, principal songwriter and bassist for the rock band the Police.…
Sting, English singer-songwriter and actor
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions.
Kathryn D. Sullivan, American geologist and astronaut
Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the Universi…
Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Kevin Roosevelt Moore, known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician. He is a singer, guitarist and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a livin…
Keb' Mo', American blues musician and songwriter