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Gregory David Clark is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2016 to 2019. He also was Secretary of State for Comm…
Greg Clark, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
James Robert Horner was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball league as a third baseman and a first base…
Bob Horner, American baseball player (died 2026)
Jerry D. Bailey is a retired American Hall of Fame jockey and current NBC Sports thoroughbred racing analyst. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys of all time.
Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey and sportscaster
Grzegorz Zbigniew Ciechowski was a Polish rock musician and film music composer.
Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish singer-songwriter, film music composer (died 2001)
Gerald Albright is an American jazz saxophonist. He earned Grammys for the albums 24/7 in 2012 and Slam Dunk in 2014 and was nominated for New Beginnings in 2008 and for Sax for St…
Gerald Albright, American musician
Colm O'Rourke is a Gaelic football manager, former player, retired secondary school principal, sports broadcaster and columnist. His league and championship career at senior level …
Colm O'Rourke, Irish footballer and sportscaster
Regina Ann Schock is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer for the rock band the Go-Go's. She joined the group in 1979 and remained a member during its mos…
Gina Schock, American drummer
Glenn Martin Tilbrook is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the English new wave band Squeeze, a band formed in the mid-1970s who b…
Glenn Tilbrook, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Alexandra Yurievna "Sasha" Aikhenvald is a Soviet-born Australian-Brazilian linguist specialising in linguistic typology and the Arawakan language family of the Brazilian Amazon ba…
Alexandra Aikhenvald, Australian linguist[better source needed]
Duško Ivanović is a Montenegrin professional basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League.
Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball player and coach
Tony Alva is an American skateboarder, entrepreneur, and musician. He is a pioneer of vertical skateboarding and one of the original members of the Zephyr Competition Skateboardin…
Tony Alva, American skateboarder and bass player
Steven Maxwell Porcaro is an American keyboardist, synth programmer, songwriter, film & television composer, and founding member of the rock band Toto, which he founded with his br…
Steve Porcaro, American keyboard player and songwriter
Garth Ancier is an American film and television producer and media executive.
Garth Ancier, American businessman
Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev, widely known as Sadhguru, is an Indian guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India. The foundation, established in 1992, operates …
Sadhguru, Indian yogi, mystic
Gloria María Milagrosa Estefan is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Estefan is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a Presidential Medal of Freedom re…
Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
Earl Cureton was an American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Twirl", he played college basketball for the Rob…
Earl Cureton, American basketball player and coach (died 2024)
Steven Ralph Schirripa is an American actor. He is regularly credited as Steven R. Schirripa, including his total of over 300 total appearances in three long running series, playin…
Steve Schirripa, American actor and producer
Ivan Šramko served as the governor of National Bank of Slovakia since January 2005 to January 2010. Šramko is notable for overseeing Slovakia's adoption of the Euro currency in 200…
Ivan Šramko, Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia
Harriet Rene "Khandi" Alexander is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She began her career as a dancer in the 1980s, and was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's worl…
Khandi Alexander, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
Rudi Gores is a German former professional football player and coach.
Rudi Gores, German footballer and manager
Peter Johannes Gertrudis Winnen is a Dutch former road racing cyclist. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in road racing and finished in 26th place. After the Games he turned …
Peter Winnen, Dutch cyclist
Ali Divandari is an Iranian cartoonist, painter, graphic designer, sculptor and journalist.
Ali Divandari, Iranian painter, sculptor, and journalist
Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 27th governor general of Canada from 2005 to 2010. She is the first Haitian Canadian and Black person to hold this …
Michaëlle Jean, Haitian-Canadian journalist and politician, 27th Governor General of Canada
José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, commonly known as José Sócrates, is a Portuguese politician who was the prime minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011. For th…
José Sócrates, Portuguese engineer and politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal