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Marc Steven Bell, better known as Marky Ramone, is an American drummer. He began playing in hard rock bands in the New York City area, notably Dust and Estus. He was asked to drum …
Marky Ramone, American drummer and songwriter
David Michael Hasselhoff, nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor, singer, and television personality. Hasselhoff first gained recognition on the soap opera The Young and the Re…
David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and producer
Matheus J. "Thé" Lau was a Dutch musician and writer. Besides his solo career, he was the lead singer of the Dutch band The Scene. He was born in Bergen, North Holland.
Thé Lau, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon …
Robert R. McCammon, American author
Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was an American guitarist, and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He co-wrote many of the band's songs with frontman and…
Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1990)
Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She was a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark fro…
Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer
Jay Jay French is an American guitarist, manager, record producer and the only continuous founding member of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He is a columnist, author and moti…
Jay Jay French, American guitarist
John Anthony Barrasso III is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wyoming, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Republica…
John Barrasso, American physician and politician
Ahmad Husni bin Mohamad Hanadzlah is a former Second Minister of Finance of Malaysia. He was appointed on 10 April 2009 when Najib Razak became Prime Minister. He was also the Memb…
Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Malaysian economist
Phillip Douglas Russell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played over one thousand games in the National Hockey League. Russell featured in the 1973 Stanl…
Phil Russell, Canadian ice hockey player
Paul Anthony Hibbert was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1977. He was born in Brunswick, Victoria.
Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer and coach (died 2008)
William Donald Nyrop was an American professional ice hockey player. He played 207 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Minnesota North Stars from 19…
Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player and coach (died 1995)
John Howard Rutsey was a Canadian musician best known as a founding member and original drummer of Rush. He performed on the band's 1974 debut album, but left shortly after its rel…
John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (died 2008)
Janis Siegel is a multiple grammy-winning American jazz singer, best known as a member of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer.
Janis Siegel, American jazz singer
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, photographer, painter, and musician. He has earned acclaim as an independent filmmaker, and is considered to be one of the most pro…
Gus Van Sant, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura, better known as Eduardo Souto de Moura, is a Portuguese architect who was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 and the Wo…
Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
Dame Glynis Marie Breakwell is a British social psychologist, researcher and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath. In January 2014 she was listed in the Science Council…
Glynis Breakwell, English psychologist and academic
Marvin Jerome "Bad News" Barnes was an American professional basketball player. A forward, he was an All-American at Providence College, and played professionally in both the Ameri…
Marvin Barnes, American basketball player (died 2014)
Roxanne Hart is an American actress. She played Brenda Wyatt in the 1986 film Highlander, and Nurse Camille Shutt on the CBS medical drama series Chicago Hope (1994–1998). Hart rec…
Roxanne Hart, American actress
Glenn A. Baker is an Australian journalist, commentator, author and broadcaster known for his vast knowledge of rock music. He has written books and magazine articles on rock music…
Glenn A. Baker, Australian journalist and author
Vajiralongkorn, also known by his regnal name Rama X, is King of Thailand, reigning since 2016. He is the tenth monarch of the Chakri dynasty, the reigning dynasty of Thailand sinc…
Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand
Norman Roy Blackwell, Baron Blackwell is a British former businessman, civil servant, Conservative politician, campaigner and policy advisor.
Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, English businessman and politician
Joseph Johnson is an English former professional snooker player and a snooker commentator for Eurosport. As an amateur, he became the British under-19 champion in 1971, defeating G…
Joe Johnson, English snooker player and sportscaster
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou is a Greek politician and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the New Democracy from 2004 to 2009, . As a member of the European Par…
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician