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Frederick Anthony Jackson is an American R&B singer. Originally from New York City, Jackson began his professional music career in the late 1970s with the California funk band Myst…
Freddie Jackson, American soul singer
Hart Matthew Bochner is a Canadian TV, film and voice actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He has appeared in films such as Breaking Away (1979), Terror Train (1980), R…
Hart Bochner, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian, German and American actor. Waltz gained international recognition for his portrayal of villainous and supporting roles in English-language films. Hi…
Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
Sheikh Sadiq bin Abdullah bin Hussein bin Nasser al-Ahmar was a Yemeni politician and leader of the Hashid tribal federation. He succeeded his father Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar i…
Sadiq al-Ahmar, Yemeni politician (died 2023)
Kathleen Webb is an American comic book writer and artist and one of the first female writers for Archie Comics.
Kathleen Webb, American author and illustrator
Stephen Bainbridge is a former England international rugby union player. In 1983 he toured with the British and Irish Lions on their tour to New Zealand and in the 1987 Rugby World…
Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player
Michael Shipley was an Australian mixing engineer, audio engineer, and record producer. He mostly worked in Los Angeles during his career of more than 30 years. At the Grammy Award…
Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer (died 2013)
Brian Louis Allen Sutter is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and former head coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Brian is the second oldest of the famous Sutter brothers…
Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Jeffrey Allen Lahti is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an alumnus of Portland State University.
Jeff Lahti, American baseball player
Janice Elaine Voss was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Voss received her B.S. in engineering science from Purdue University, her M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT,…
Janice E. Voss, American engineer and astronaut (died 2012)
Stephanie Zimbalist is an American actress best known for her role as Laura Holt in the NBC detective series Remington Steele.
Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress
Amanda Burton is a Northern Irish actress. Her notable credits include Heather Haversham in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982–1986), Beth Glover in the ITV drama series Peak…
Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress and producer
Sir David Kim Hempleman-Adams is a British industrialist and adventurer.
David Hempleman-Adams, English businessman and adventurer
José Maria de Vasconcelos, popularly known as Taur Matan Ruak, is an East Timorese politician who served as the fifth president of East Timor from 2012 to 2017 and as the 9th prime…
Taur Matan Ruak, East Timorese politician, 3rd President of East Timor
Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos is a Paraguayan lawyer, journalist and politician who served as the 47th President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008. A member of the Colorado Party, he bec…
Nicanor Duarte, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, President of Paraguay
Doug Lawrence is an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.
Doug Lawrence, American jazz saxophonist
Derek Ringer is a British rally co-driver from Scotland. He is most closely associated with Colin McRae, with whom he won the 1995 World Rally Championship.
Derek Ringer, Scottish race car driver
Stephen Spinella is an American actor. He originated the role of Prior Walter in the original Broadway production of Angels in America, winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Feature…
Stephen Spinella, American actor
Allan James Evans is a Scottish former footballer who played for Dunfermline Athletic (1973–77), Aston Villa (1977–89), Leicester City (1989–90) and Darlington (1990–91).
Allan Evans, Scottish footballer
Rafael Ábalos is a Spanish author of the bestseller book Grimpow: The Invisible Road (ISBN 0385733747) published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mys…
Rafael Ábalos, Spanish author
Lutz Haueisen is a retired German amateur cyclist. He won two world titles in track events, in 1979 and 1981. His best achievement on the road was second place in the prologue of T…
Lutz Haueisen, German cyclist
Catherine Ena "Cate" Holmes SC is a retired Australian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, the highest ranking court in the Australian state of Q…
Catherine Holmes, Australian judge
Gerti Schanderl is a German former figure skater who represented West Germany. She is the 1973 Prize of Moscow News champion, the 1973 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist, and a four-…
Gerti Schanderl, German figure skater
David Vanian is an English rock musician, and lead singer of the punk rock band the Damned. Formed in 1976 in London, the Damned were the first British punk band to release a singl…
David Vanian, English singer-songwriter