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Charles William Jeffrey Athey is a retired English first-class cricketer, who played for England, and first-class cricket for Gloucestershire, Yorkshire and Sussex; he also played …
Bill Athey, English cricketer, footballer, and coach
William Morgan Cassidy is an American politician and physician who is the senior United States senator from Louisiana, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Par…
Bill Cassidy, American politician and physician
Brian Christopher Broad is an English cricket official, broadcaster, and former player. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cu…
Chris Broad, English cricketer and referee
Andrew Clay Silverstein known professionally as Andrew Dice Clay is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence in the late 1980s with a brash, deliberately offe…
Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
Uwe Foullong is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, he has represented North Rhine-Westphalia since 2025.
Uwe Foullong, German politician
Joel Gallen is an American director and producer. He is the founder of Tenth Planet Productions, a Los Angeles-based production company.
Joel Gallen, American director, producer and screenwriter
Mark Charles Jefford Nicholas is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer and broadcaster. He played for Hampshire from 1978 to 1995, captaining them from 1985 to his re…
Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sportscaster
Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, writer, comedian, producer, and former trade union leader. She played Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which …
Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
Kang Seok-woo is a South Korean actor. He made his acting debut in 1978 in the Kim Soo-yong film Yeosu , then starred in his first television drama Ordinary People in 1982. Kang wa…
Kang Seok-woo, South Korean actor
Éva Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, known for her work in theoretical computer science. For he…
Éva Tardos, Hungarian mathematician and educator
John Neuman Cook is an American professional golfer, who won eleven times on the PGA Tour and was a member of the Ryder Cup team in 1993. He was ranked in the top ten of the Offici…
John Cook, American golfer
Wade Dooley is an English former rugby union player who played lock forward. He played for England 55 times and was nicknamed the "Blackpool Tower", as a result of being 6 feet 8 i…
Wade Dooley, English rugby player
Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo is a Brazilian career diplomat who served as Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 2013 until 2020. Since 2020, he has been Execut…
Roberto Azevêdo, Brazilian engineer and diplomat, 6th Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Timothy Westwood, often known professionally simply as Westwood, is a British DJ and presenter. He was described by The Guardian in 2022 as "a veteran of the hip-hop scene whose op…
Tim Westwood, English radio and television host
William Fagerbakke is an American actor. He voices Patrick Star in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise, and played Michael "Dauber" Dybinski on the sitcom Coach. He also appeared i…
Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
Yngve Moe was a Norwegian bass guitarist and founding member of the rock band Dance with a Stranger.
Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (died 2013)
Russell Wendell Simmons is an American entrepreneur, writer and record executive. He co-founded the hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings, and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Fa…
Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, known professionally as Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and film producer. His most noted film roles were as Frank Catton in the Oc…
Bernie Mac, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
Lee Jay Thompson, nicknamed Kix or El Thommo, is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and composer. In a career spanning 5 decades, Thompson came to prominence in …
Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist
Bruce David Grobbelaar is a Zimbabwean former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most prominently for English club Liverpool between 1981 and 1994, and for the Zim…
Bruce Grobbelaar, Zimbabwean footballer and coach
Joselito "Joey" Perez Marquez is a Filipino actor, comedian, politician, and former professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
Joey Marquez, Filipino basketball player, actor, and politician
Michael Whitaker Smith is an American musician who has charted in both contemporary Christian and mainstream charts. His biggest success in mainstream music was in 1991 when "Place…
Michael W. Smith, American singer-songwriter and actor
Dame Jayne Christensen is a British professional ice dancer and former competitor. She and her skating partner Christopher Dean are considered amongst the greatest ice dancers of a…
Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
Ini Kamoze is a Jamaican reggae singer who began his career in the early 1980s and rose to prominence in 1994 with the signature song "Here Comes the Hotstepper". The single topped…
Ini Kamoze, Jamaican singer-songwriter