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Nurten Yılmaz is an Austrian politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she represented Vienna North West from October 2013 to D…
Nurten Yılmaz, Austrian politician
Daniel Oliver Hampton is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for twelve seasons with the Chicago Bears from 1979 to 1990 in the National Foot…
Dan Hampton, American football player
Chris Roupas is an American former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 5 in, 220 pound shooting guard, he played for Aiolos in Athens, Greece during the 1982–83 season.
Chris Roupas, American basketball player
Alannah Joy Currie is a New Zealand artist based in London. She is a musician and activist, best known as a former member of the pop band Thompson Twins.
Alannah Currie, New Zealand singer-songwriter
Michael Eric Hurst ONZM is a British-born New Zealand actor, director, and writer. He is known as a theatre actor, especially in Shakespearean roles, and more widely known for his …
Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor and director
Vladimir Petrovich Tkachenko is a retired Soviet and Russian professional basketball player. Tkachenko won two Summer Olympic Games medals and three FIBA World Cup medals with the …
Vladimir Tkatchenko, Russian basketball player
Ethan Jesse Coen is an American filmmaker. Working alongside his brother Joel, he has directed, written, edited and produced many feature films, the most acclaimed of which include…
Ethan Coen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Mark Reed Levin is an American conservative broadcast news analyst, columnist, lawyer, political commentator, radio personality, and writer. He is the host of syndicated radio show…
Mark Levin, American lawyer, radio host, and author
Sidney Alvin Moncrief is an American former professional basketball player. As an NCAA college basketball player from 1975 to 1979, Moncrief played for the University of Arkansas R…
Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player and coach
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and from June to September 2013, holding off…
Kevin Rudd, Australian politician and diplomat, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
Stephen Carney was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League as a defender for Newcastle United, Carlisle United, Darlington, Rochdale and Hartlepool Uni…
Steve Carney, English footballer (died 2013)
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, musician and writer. He is the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is ch…
Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor
Johnette Napolitano is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and bassist for the rock band Concrete Blonde.
Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Giuseppe Saronni, also known as Beppe Saronni, is an Italian former racing cyclist. He had remarkable success riding in the Giro d'Italia. In 1980 he won 7 stages and finished 7th …
Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager
Wolfgang Wolf is a German football coach and a former player.
Wolfgang Wolf, German footballer and manager
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin was a Russian statesman and military figure. He was a commander of the Russian Space Forces, then First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia, then Gen…
Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (died 2014)
Mark Einar Johnson is an American ice hockey coach for the University of Wisconsin–Madison women's ice hockey team. He is a former National Hockey League (NHL) player who appeared …
Mark Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach
Rosalind Chao is an American actress. She appeared as Soon-Lee Klinger in the mid-1980s CBS show AfterMASH, Rose Hsu Jordan in the 1993 movie The Joy Luck Club, the recurring chara…
Rosalind Chao, American actress
Michael Søren Madsen was an American actor. He was widely known for starring in Quentin Tarantino's films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and The Hateful…
Michael Madsen, American actor and producer (died 2025)
Glenn Dee Hubbard is an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman for the Atlanta Braves and Oakland Athletics f…
Glenn Hubbard, American baseball player and coach
Bob Staake STAK is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children's book author and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod.
Bob Staake, American author and illustrator
Klaus "Auge" Augenthaler is a German former professional football player and manager. A defender, he won seven Bundesliga titles in his 15-year club career with Bayern Munich. He a…
Klaus Augenthaler, German footballer and manager
Michael Dweck is an American visual artist and filmmaker. Best known for his narrative photography, Dweck's work "explores ongoing struggles between identity and adaptation in enda…
Michael Dweck, American photographer and director
Oscar Ilton de Andrade was a Brazilian politician. A member of the Liberal Front Party, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 2003.
Oscar Andrade, Brazilian politician (died 2026)