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Steven Patrick Morrissey, mononymously known as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter. He came to prominence as the frontman and lyricist of the rock band the Smiths, who …
Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer
Kwak Jae-yong is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He studied physics at Kyung Hee University. He achieved success with his debut film Watercolor Painting in a Rainy D…
Kwak Jae-yong, South Korean director and screenwriter
Mehbooba Mufti Sayed is an Indian politician and leader of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP), who served as the 9th chief minister of the erstwhile state Jammu …
Mehbooba Mufti, Indian politician
Marcella Mesker is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.
Marcella Mesker, Dutch tennis player and sportscaster
Göran Per-Eric "Pelle" Lindbergh was a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who played five seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was t…
Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-American ice hockey player (died 1985)
Barry Robert O'Farrell is an Australian former politician who was Australia's High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan from February 2020 to 30 June 2023. O…
Barry O'Farrell, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales
Julian Peter McDonald Clary is an English comedian, actor, novelist and presenter. He began appearing on television in the mid-1980s. Since then, he has also acted in films, on tel…
Julian Clary, English comedian, actor, and author
Manolis K. Kefalogiannis is a Greek politician of the New Democracy party from Heraklion, Crete, who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.
Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
Richard James Wamsley is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames a…
Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Ole Bornedal is a Danish film director, actor and producer.
Ole Bornedal, Danish actor, director, and producer
Risto Mannisenmäki is a former rally co-driver and two-times world champion with driver Tommi Mäkinen.
Risto Mannisenmäki, Finnish racing driver
Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as …
Rupert Everett, English actor and novelist
Mel George Gaynor is a British drummer, singer and recording artist, best known as the longtime drummer for the rock band Simple Minds.
Mel Gaynor, English drummer
Stephen Hanley is an Irish-born English musician best known as the bass guitarist in the Fall from 1979 to 1998 and with House Of All since 2022. His distinctive and muscular bassl…
Steve Hanley, Irish-English bass player and songwriter
Philip Brown is an English former professional footballer and coach who is currently director of football at National League North club Peterborough Sports.
Phil Brown, English footballer, coach, and manager
Randy S. Ferbey is a Canadian retired curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion. He recently coached the Rachel Homa…
Randy Ferbey, Canadian curler
Frank Arthur Hyppolite Vanhecke is a Belgian politician. Vanhecke started his career in Belgian politics as a student by joining the Jong Studentenverbond and later the Nationalist…
Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
Andrea de Cesaris was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1994.
Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver (died 2014)
Philip Wilson, Baron Wilson of Sedgefield, is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from a 2007 by-election until 2019. A member of the Labour…
Phil Wilson, English politician
Martin John Brundle is a British former racing driver and broadcaster who competed in Formula One from 1984 to 1996. In endurance racing, Brundle won the World Sportscar Championsh…
Martin Brundle, English racing driver and sportscaster
Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citi…
Rineke Dijkstra, Dutch photographer
Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker. Her career began during the 1970s New York City no wave scene as the singer and guitarist of …
Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
Samuel Davis Mills Jr. was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints and Carolin…
Sam Mills, American football player (died 2005)
Juan Rodrigo Camacho is a retired male long-distance runner from Bolivia, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. He set his pers…
Juan Camacho, Bolivian runner