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Bruce Edwin Benedict is an American former professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Atlanta Braves from 197…
Bruce Benedict, American baseball player and coach
Taher Elgamal is an Egyptian-American cryptographer and tech executive. Since January 2023, he has been a partner at venture capital firm Evolution Equity Partners. Prior to that, …
Taher Elgamal, Egyptian-American cryptographer
Mary-Anne Fahey credited also as Maryanne Fahey, is an Australian actress, comedian, screenwriter and children's author.
Mary-Anne Fahey, Australian actress
Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal,, is a Dominican-British barrister and politician who served as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from…
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Dominica-born English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for…
Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor. Since 1980, he has played roles in numerous Hollywood films. He is best known for starring as Sandy Cohen in the television drama seri…
Peter Gallagher, American actor
Edgar Frederick Yost III is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher and manager of the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals. He played for the Brewers, Texas Ran…
Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan is a Hong-Kong-born Japanese singer, television personality, university professor, essayist and novelist. Since 1998, Chan has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambas…
Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and author
Janet Anne Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, is a British Labour Co-operative Party politician. A former secretary and adviser to Neil Kinnock, Royall was appointed to the House…
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Konidela Chiranjeevi is an Indian actor, philanthropist and former politician known for his work in Telugu cinema. Known as Mega Star, he is widely regarded as one of the most succ…
Chiranjeevi, Indian film actor, producer and politician
David Francis Somerville Learner is a British actor who is best known for playing Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Pickle in the CITV adventu…
David Learner, British actor
Kevin Dunn is an American actor who has appeared in supporting roles in numerous films and television series since the 1980s.
Kevin Dunn, American actor
John Alexander McGeoch was a Scottish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist of the rock bands Magazine (1977–1980) and Siouxsie and the Banshees (1980–1982).
John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (died 2004)
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, who is currently serving as Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Org…
Gerd Müller, German businessman and politician
Ian A. C. Dejardin is an art historian who was director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in Dulwich, England. In August 2016 Dulwich Picture Gallery announced that he would be leavin…
Ian Dejardin, English historian and curator
Giuseppe Resnati is an Italian chemist with interests in supramolecular chemistry and fluorine chemistry. He has a particular focus on self-assembly processes driven by halogen bon…
Giuseppe Resnati, Italian chemist and educator
Robert Bridge Richardson, ASC is an American cinematographer.
Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
Michael Dale Huckabee is an American politician, diplomat, and Baptist minister serving as the 29th United States ambassador to Israel since 2025. A member of the Republican Party,…
Mike Huckabee, American minister and politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
Diana Scarwid is a retired American actress who is best known for her portrayal of Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981). She received nominations for the Academy Award for B…
Diana Scarwid, American actress
Diamanda Galás is an American musician, singer-songwriter, visual artist, and activist. Galás has attracted the attention of the press particularly for her voice — a soprano sfogat…
Diamanda Galás, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Jacob Joseph Lew is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the 28th United States ambassador to Israel from 2023 to 2025. He was the 76th United States secretary of the tr…
Jack Lew, American lawyer and politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
Jamie Moses is an English rock and pop singer and guitarist. He was formerly a member of The Brian May Band, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Mike & the Mechanics and Broken English.
Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist
Martin Jackson is a retired British drummer who played with several bands from Manchester, although his most successful roles were with Magazine in 1978 with the release of the inf…
Martin Jackson, English drummer
Aleksander Krupa, often credited as Olek Krupa, is a Polish-American film and television actor known for playing villains and criminals, such as in Eraser, Blue Streak, Home Alone …
Aleksander Krupa, Polish-American actor
Dame Julie Katharine Maxton is a British-New Zealand barrister, legal scholar, and academic administrator. Since 2011, she has been executive director of the Royal Society.
Julie Maxton, Scottish lawyer and academic