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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)
Richard Alexander Leman is a former field hockey player who was a member of the gold medal-winning Great Britain squad in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Richard Leman, English field hockey player
Fuziah binti Salleh is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living in the Unity Government administration under Prime Ministe…
Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician
Vincent Lindon is a French actor and filmmaker. For his role in the film The Measure of a Man (2015), Lindon won Best Actor at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor at the 41st…
Vincent Lindon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
Sir James Loy MacMillan is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.
James MacMillan, Scottish composer and conductor
Jürgen Ligi is an Estonian politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a member and the vice-chairman of the liberal Reform Party. He was Minister of Education and Research…
Jürgen Ligi, Estonian economist and politician, 25th Estonian Minister of Defence
Manzila Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin is a British life peer-member of the House of Lords and community activist. In 2009 she was included on The Guardian's Muslim Women Power List fo…
Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin, Bangladeshi-English politician
Juan José Campanella is an Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He achieved worldwide attention with the release of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), for whi…
Juan J. Campanella, Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter
Radney Muckleroy Foster is an American country music singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer. Initially a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Foster made his recording debu…
Radney Foster, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Gene Miles is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative centre, he p…
Gene Miles, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
Reha Muhtar was a Turkish anchorman, columnist and television reporter.
Reha Muhtar, Turkish journalist
Nancy Laura Savoca is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Nancy Savoca, American director, producer, and screenwriter