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David Alan Grier is an American actor and comedian. Known for his roles on stage and screen, Grier gained popularity playing multiple roles in the American sketch comedy television…
David Alan Grier, American actor, singer, and comedian
Alan Douglas Ruck is an American actor. He is known for portraying Cameron Frye in John Hughes's film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), as well as television roles as Stuart Bondek …
Alan Ruck, American actor
Jerry Faye Hall is an American model and actress. She began modeling in the 1970s and became one of the most sought-after models in the world. She transitioned into acting, appeari…
Jerry Hall, American model and actress
Montel Brian Anthony Williams is an American television host and actor. He is known for hosting the daytime tabloid talk show The Montel Williams Show, which ran in syndication fro…
Montel Williams, American talk show host and television personality
Robert Sinclair MacKay is a British mathematician and professor at the University of Warwick. He researches dynamical systems, the calculus of variations, Hamiltonian dynamics and …
Robert Sinclair MacKay, British academic and educator
Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara is a Paraguayan politician and businessman who is serving as president of the Colorado Party since 2023, having previously served as president of Paragua…
Horacio Cartes, Paraguayan businessman and politician, President of Paraguay
James David Lofton is an American former professional football player and coach. He played in the National Football League (NFL) as a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers (1978…
James Lofton, American football player and coach
Terry Stephen Puhl is a Canadian former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder from 1977 to 1991, most prominently as a m…
Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player and coach
Michael Lederer is an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist currently living in Berlin, Germany. Die Welt has called him "an archaeolo…
Michael Lederer, American author, poet, and playwright
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is …
Tom Hanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Thomas Miller McClintock II is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 5th congressional district since 2009. His district stretches from the Sac…
Tom McClintock, American lawyer and politician
Datuk K. Rajagobal is a Malaysian football manager and former player. He is the former head coach of the Malaysia national team and the under-23 football team, guiding the team to …
K. Rajagopal, Malaysian football manager
Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the …
Amitav Ghosh, Indian-American author and academic
Robin Renucci is a French film and television actor and film director.
Robin Renucci, French actor and director
Sela Ann Ward is an American actress. Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–96), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award fo…
Sela Ward, American actress
Mel Harris is an American actress best known for her role as Hope Murdoch Steadman in the ABC drama series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe nomina…
Mel Harris, American actress
Pauli Antero "Pate" Mustajärvi was a Finnish rock singer. He was known as the vocalist, frontman and until his death in late 2025 the only original member of Popeda as well as a so…
Pate Mustajärvi, Finnish rock singer (died 2025)
Sandra Faye "Sandi" Patty is an American Christian music singer, known for her wide soprano vocal range and expressive flexibility.
Sandi Patty, American singer and pianist
Mario Melvin Soto is a Dominican former pitcher, mostly as a starter, for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1977 through 1988. He currently works in the Reds'…
Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
Mark "The Animal" Mendoza is an American bassist and a former member of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He joined the band in 1978 after leaving the Dictators. He briefly play…
Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter
Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1988. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed light heavyweigh…
Michael Spinks, American boxer
Ian Kevin Curtis was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead vocalist, songwriter, and occasional guitarist of the band Joy Division, with whom he released the …
Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1980)
Ashoke Sen FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist and ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. A former distingu…
Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
Nicholas Paul Harberd an Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. He was previously Sibthorpian Professor and se…
Nicholas Harberd, British botanist, educator, and academician