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Brendan Michael Perry is a British singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as half of the duo Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard.
Brendan Perry, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Sakis Tsiolis is a Greek professional football manager and former player.
Sakis Tsiolis, Greek footballer and manager
Sandip K. Verma, Baroness Verma known until 1977 as Sandip K. Rana, is a British Indian politician in the United Kingdom. An appointed member of the House of Lords, she is Minister…
Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma, Indian-English businesswoman and politician
Erwin Olaf Springveld, professionally known as Erwin Olaf, was a Dutch photographer from Hilversum. Time magazine described his work as straddling "the worlds of commercial, art an…
Erwin Olaf, Dutch photographer (died 2023)
Julie Burchill is an English writer. Beginning as a staff writer at the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has since contributed to newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, T…
Julie Burchill, English journalist and author
Ian Maxtone-Graham is an American television writer and producer. He has formerly written for Saturday Night Live (1992–1995) and The Simpsons (1995–2012), as well as serving as a …
Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer
Stephen Eric Pearcy is an American musician who is the founder, singer and songwriter of the heavy metal band Ratt. He has also created the bands Firedome, Crystal Pystal, Arcade, …
Stephen Pearcy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
David Ian Shore is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South. He created the series House and more recently, Battle Creek and developed The …
David Shore, Canadian screenwriter and producer
Victoria Mérida Rojas, better known as Victoria Abril, is a Spanish film actress and singer based in France. She is possibly best known to international audiences for her performan…
Victoria Abril, Spanish actress and singer
Marc Craig Cohn is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for the song "Walking in Memphis", which was a top 40 hit from his 1991 album Marc Cohn and was nominated for Son…
Marc Cohn, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Richard Dacoury is a former French professional basketball player. He retired in 1998, as the basketball player who won the most French League titles during his career, with 9. Dac…
Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
William Oliver Campbell is an American film and television actor. He first gained recognition for his recurring role as Luke Fuller on the television series Dynasty, and as the tit…
Billy Campbell, American actor
Pauline Perpetua Sheen is a retired English actress. She began her career with roles on various television series, before fronting her own comedy sketch show, Pauline's Quirkes, in…
Pauline Quirke, English actress
James Kerr is a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter, best known for being the frontman of the rock band Simple Minds. Commercially successful singles released by Simple Minds …
Jim Kerr, Scottish singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Kevin Scott Nash is an American retired professional wrestler, actor and podcaster. He is signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is also known for his tenures in World Champion…
Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler and actor
Clive Adrian Stafford Smith is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against capital punishment in the United States. He worked to overturn de…
Clive Stafford Smith, English lawyer and author
Ellen Kuras is an American cinematographer, known for documentary and narrative film, as well as music videos and commercials, both from studio and independent media.
Ellen Kuras, American director and cinematographer
Sandra Sue Pesavento, known professionally as Sandy West was an American singer, drummer and songwriter. She was one of the founding members of the Runaways, a teenage all-girl roc…
Sandy West, American singer, drummer and songwriter (died 2006)
Richard Stephen Sambora is an American musician, songwriter and singer. He was a member of the rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013. Sambora was the band's lead guitarist; he also …
Richie Sambora, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans 40 years. In the mid-1980s and 1990s, she released four singles that entered …
Suzanne Vega, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
David Brown is a former Australian meteorologist and TV weather presenter.
David Brown, Australian meteorologist
Tupou VI is King of Tonga since 2012, having previously served as Prime Minister of Tonga from 2000 to 2006 during the reign of his father, Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV. He became king afte…
Tupou VI, King of Tonga
Karl John Friston is a British neuroscientist and theoretician at University College London. He is an authority on brain imaging and theoretical neuroscience, especially the use of…
Karl J. Friston, English psychiatrist and neuroscientist
Charles Quinton Murphy was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was best known as a writer and cast member of the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show, and a…
Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian (died 2017)