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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
Paul Vautin, nicknamed Fatty, is a former Australian rugby commentator and former professional rugby league player, captain and coach. He has provided commentary for the Nine Netwo…
Paul Vautin, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
Nancy Laura Savoca is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Nancy Savoca, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Fyodor Fyodorovich Cherenkov was a Soviet and Russian football midfielder who played for Spartak Moscow and Red Star Football Club (1990–91).
Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (died 2014)
Geoffrey Zakarian is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is the executive chef of several restaurants in New York City, Atlantic City, and Miami.…
Geoffrey Zakarian, American chef and author
Rick Bragg is an American journalist and writer known for non-fiction books, especially those about his family in Alabama. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 recognizing his work at T…
Rick Bragg, American author and journalist
Kevin Spacey Fowler is an American actor. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Aw…
Kevin Spacey, American actor and director
Joseph DeSa was an American Major League Baseball first baseman.
Joe DeSa, American baseball player (died 1986)
Hugh Donell Green is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 1991. He played college …
Hugh Green, American football player
Neil Caldwell King Jr. was an American journalist and author. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2002. His first book, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory…
Neil King Jr., American journalist and author (died 2024)
William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel Euro…
William T. Vollmann, American novelist, short story writer and journalist
Sanjay Balraj Dutt is an Indian actor and film producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema, and has also appeared in some Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi and Punjabi films. He has…
Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor, singer, and producer
Ruud Janssen is a Dutch Fluxus and mail artist currently living in Breda in the Netherlands.
Ruud Janssen, Dutch blogger and illustrator
David Jeffrey LaPoint is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was the manager of the Rockland Boulders, an American professional baseball team based in Pomona, New …
Dave LaPoint, American baseball player and manager
John James Sykes was an English guitarist and singer, best known as a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and Tygers of Pan Tang. He also fronted the hard rock group Blue Murder and r…
John Sykes, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)