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Bryan William Redpath is a Scottish former rugby union player and coach. He is the Director of Rugby at London Scottish.
Bryan Redpath, Scottish rugby player and coach
Benedict Wong is an English actor. He began his career on stage before starring in the film Dirty Pretty Things (2002), which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination…
Benedict Wong, English actor
Derek John McInnes is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is manager of Scottish Premiership club Rangers. In his playing career, his longest spells were…
Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer and manager
Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott, also known as Misdemeanor, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She began her musical career as a member of the R&B girl…
Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer and actress
Troy Fitzgerald Brown is an American professional football coach and former player who serves as an offensive assistant for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL…
Troy Brown, American football player and actor
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, programmer, and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series …
Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
Christian Camargo is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. He is best known for his role as Brian Moser in the Showtime drama Dexter and army officer John Cambridge in…
Christian Camargo, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Neil Jenkins, is a Welsh former rugby union player and current coach. He played fly-half, centre, or full back for Pontypridd, Cardiff, Celtic Warriors, Wales and the British & Iri…
Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser to display inline images; …
Marc Andreessen, American software developer, co-founded Netscape
Adam David Vernon Foote is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. As a player, he was best known for his physical presence and gritty play as a stay-at-home de…
Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
Gregory Ronald St Clair Goodridge is a Barbadian former professional footballer. He has captained the Barbados national team and played professionally in the English Football Leagu…
Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer and coach
Evelyn Lau is a Canadian novelist, poet, and short story writer.
Evelyn Lau, Canadian poet and author
Leisha Hailey is an American actress and musician known for playing Alice Pieszecki in the Showtime Networks series The L Word and The L Word: Generation Q. Hailey first came to th…
Leisha Hailey, American singer-songwriter and actress
Scott Andrew Muller is a former Australian and Queensland cricketer of German ancestry.
Scott Muller, Australian cricketer
Andriy Kovalenco is a Ukrainian-born Spanish rugby union player. He plays as a fly-half.
Andriy Kovalenco, Ukrainian-Spanish rugby player
Loni Love is an American comedian, television host, actress, author, and former electrical engineer. While working as an electrical engineer in the early 2000s, she switched to mus…
Loni Love, American comedian, actress, and talk show host
Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi is an American former competitive figure skater, author and philanthropist. A former competitor in women's singles, Yamaguchi is the 1992 Olympic champion,…
Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
Daniel Dumile, also known by his stage name MF Doom or simply Doom, was a British and American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Noted for his intricate wordplay, signature …
MF Doom, English-American rapper (died 2020)
Mark Neeld is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. He was senior coach of the Melbour…
Mark Neeld, Australian footballer and coach
Mark LoMonaco, known by his ring name Bubba Ray Dudley, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE as an ambassador. He is best known for being one-half of t…
Bubba Ray Dudley, American professional wrestler
James Rash is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He played Dean Craig Pelton on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Te…
Jim Rash, American actor, comedian, and filmmaker
Corey Scott Feldman is an American actor, activist, and musician. As a youth, he became well known for his roles in popular 1980s films such as Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (…
Corey Feldman, American actor
Ed Kowalczyk is an American singer, songwriter, musician who is the lead singer of the rock band Live. He launched a solo career after leaving Live in 2009, releasing his first alb…
Ed Kowalczyk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalizi…
Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist