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Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls is a British adventurer, television presenter and former SAS trooper. He holds several world records in hostile environments, and appeared in numerous …
Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
Lauren Chantel Burns is an Australian taekwondo practitioner and Olympic champion. She won Australia's first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, …
Lauren Burns, Australian taekwondo practitioner
Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen, better known by his stage name Samoth is a Norwegian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist in the country's black metal scene. He is well known for his dis…
Samoth, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBTQ rights activist. He is known for writing the film Milk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Or…
Dustin Lance Black, American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist
Fragiskos "Frankie" Alvertis is a Greek former professional basketball player and general manager of Panathinaikos Athens. As a player, he was the long-time captain of Panathinaiko…
Fragiskos Alvertis, Greek basketball player, coach, and manager
Flávio da Conceição is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Flávio Conceição, Brazilian footballer
Hideki Matsui , nicknamed "Godzilla", is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees…
Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
Valeri Vladimirovich "Val" Bure is a Russian-American former professional ice hockey player. He was a right winger for 10 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montre…
Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player
Stephen Gilchrist Glover, known professionally as Steve-O, is a British-born American stunt performer, comedian, television personality, and podcaster. He rose to fame in the early…
Steve-O, American stunt performer
Glenicia James is a Saint Lucian former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter. She appeared in five One Day Internationals for the West Indies in 2003, all against Sri Lank…
Glenicia James, Saint Lucian cricketer
Joseph May is a British-born Canadian actor, who has appeared in television and film. He is best known for his role as Adam Moseby in Bugs, Andy Button in the television series Epi…
Joseph May, British-born Canadian-American actor
Evangelia Psarra is a Greek archer who has competed at the Summer Olympics six times from 2000 to 2020.
Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
Vincenzo Montella is an Italian football manager and former striker. He is the current head coach of the Turkey national football team.
Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov, also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, was a left-handed Russian Olympic champion sabre fencer. In the Olympics he won two gold medals, a silver med…
Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (died 2015)
Douglas Andrew Mientkiewicz is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1998 to 2009, most prominentl…
Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Netrokona-1 constituency. In 2008, he was elected as a member of the Bangladesh …
Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi, Bangladeshi member of parliament
Robert James Kelly III is an American former professional football player who was a safety for four seasons with the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL) and on…
Rob Kelly, American football player
Craig Andrew Lowndes is an Australian racing car driver in the Repco Supercars Championship racing for Team 18. He is also a TV commentator.
Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver
Flavio Roma is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Flavio Roma, Italian footballer
Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Pa…
Jo Cox, British politician (died 2016)
Donald Adeosun Faison is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his leading role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC/NBC comedy-drama Scrubs, and a supporting role as Murray in b…
Donald Faison, American actor
Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay is an Indian politician and former actor who is currently serving as the ninth chief minister of Tamil Nadu since May 2026. He is the founder and presid…
Vijay, Indian actor
Joel Edgerton is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is known for his portrayal of Will McGill on the first two seasons of the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us (2001…
Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
Mark Allan Hendrickson is an American former baseball and basketball player. Hendrickson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) and played power forward in the National Baske…
Mark Hendrickson, American basketball and baseball player