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Brian Robert McBride is an American former soccer player who played as a forward for Columbus Crew, Fulham and Chicago Fire. He is the sixth-highest all-time leading goalscorer for…
Brian McBride, American soccer player and coach
Poppy Montgomery is an Australian actress. She played FBI agent Samantha Spade on the CBS mystery drama Without a Trace and Detective Carrie Wells on the CBS/A&E police drama Unfor…
Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
Robin Tunney is an American actress. She made her film debut in Encino Man (1992) and rose to prominence with leading roles in the cult films Empire Records (1995) and The Craft (1…
Robin Tunney, American actress
Alexis Alexoudis is a Greek former footballer. Alexoudis played most of his career for OFI and Panathinaikos.
Alexis Alexoudis, Greek footballer
Nobuharu Asahara is a former Japanese athlete who specialized in the 100 meters and long jump. He won the 100 m at the Japanese national championship on five occasions in 1996, 19…
Nobuharu Asahara, Japanese sprinter and long jumper
Neil George Doak is a Northern Irish former cricketer and rugby union player. He is the former head coach of the Ireland U20 rugby union team.
Neil Doak, Northern Irish cricketer and rugby player
Tomáš Valášek is a Slovak diplomat and politician. From 2013 to 2017 he served as the ambassador of Slovakia to NATO. From 2020 he is a Member of the National Council.
Tomáš Valášek, Slovak diplomat and politician
Irene van Dyk is a former netball international who represented both New Zealand and South Africa. Between 2000 and 2014 she made 145 senior appearances for New Zealand. She was a …
Irene van Dyk, South African-New Zealand netball player
Damien Oliver is an Australian retired thoroughbred racing jockey. Oliver comes from a racing family; his father Ray Oliver had a successful career until his death in a race fall d…
Damien Oliver, Australian jockey
Selma Blair is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, and the Hellboy franchise.
Selma Blair, American actress
Louis van Amstel is a Dutch-American ballroom dance champion, professional dancer, and choreographer who appears on the American reality television series Dancing with the Stars.
Louis Van Amstel, Dutch dancer and choreographer
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. Widely regarded as one of the gr…
Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and manager
Robbie McEwen is an Australian former professional road cyclist. He is a three-time winner of the Tour de France points classification in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and, at the peak of hi…
Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
Denis Žvegelj is an ex-Slovenian rower and Olympic medallist. He was born in Jesenice, SR Slovenia.
Denis Žvegelj, Slovenian rower
Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball primarily as a first baseman, from 1993 to 2009, m…
Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan political figure. He was the second son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his second wife Safia Farkash. He was a part of …
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan engineer and politician (died 2026)
Jai Desmond Taurima is an Australian retired athlete who competed in the long jump.
Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper and police officer
Dawud Wharnsby is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, performer, educator and television personality. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his work in the musical/poetic g…
Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms. He is the first Vietnamese natio…
Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese-French mathematician and academic
Christopher Michael Leslie is a British business executive and former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from …
Chris Leslie, English politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Geeta Tripathee is a Nepali poet, lyricist, essayist, literary critic and scholar. An eminent writer in Nepali, Geeta Tripathee has two volumes of poetry collection, one of lyrical…
Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic
Alessandro Antine Nivola is an American actor. His work includes both screen and stage, and his accolades include a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a Tony…
Alessandro Nivola, American actor
Joshua Paul Davis, better known by his stage name DJ Shadow, is an American DJ and record producer. His debut studio album, Endtroducing....., was released in 1996. He uses layered…
DJ Shadow, American DJ and record producer
Sandra Cam is a Belgian retired freestyle swimmer who represented her country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, Spain (1992) and Atlanta, United States (1996). She …
Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer