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Adam John Hollioake is a former cricketer who represented England and is now a cricket coach. He has also competed as a professional boxer and had one fight as a mixed martial arti…
Adam Hollioake, Australian cricketer and mixed martial artist
Devang Jayant Gandhi is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman and a very occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played for Bengal, Hadleigh and Thun…
Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer
Asko Künnap is an Estonian designer, writer, and artist.
Asko Künnap, Estonian poet and illustrator
Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan was an Irish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band the Cranberries. O'Rio…
Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2018)
Gene Pritsker is a composer, guitarist, rapper and record producer living in New York City. He moved to the United States with his family in 1978 and lived in Sheepshead Bay, Brook…
Gene Pritsker, American composer
Shane Mosley, often known by his nickname "Sugar" Shane Mosley, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2016. He held multiple world championships in thr…
Shane Mosley, American boxer and trainer
David Arquette is an American actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler. He began his acting career with a main role as Keith "Two-Bit" Matthews on the Fox drama televisio…
David Arquette, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and wrestler
Brooke Lisa Burke is an American television and fitness personality, model, author, actress, and businesswoman. She is known for hosting the E! Network travel show Wild On! (1999–2…
Brooke Burke, American actress and television personality
Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. Among other accolades, he has won two Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for a…
Martin Freeman, English actor
Lachlan Keith Murdoch is a businessman and mass media heir. He is the son of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News C…
Lachlan Murdoch, English-Australian businessman
Dustin O'Halloran is an American composer and pianist. Aside from releasing music as a recording artist, O'Halloran is a film and TV composer, as well as one half of ambient act A …
Dustin O'Halloran, American pianist and composer
Daniel Bozhilov Petrov is a Bulgarian former boxer. He won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 in the Light Flyweight …
Daniel Petrov, Bulgarian boxer
Joseph Jean Pierre Sévigny is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Pierre Sévigny, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Joe Bravo is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. The son and grandson of jockeys, he began his professional career in Thoroughbred flat racing at Calder Race Course in…
Joe Bravo, American jockey
Eric Allen Stonestreet is an American actor. He is known for portraying Cameron Tucker in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which he received two Emmy Awards for Outsta…
Eric Stonestreet, American actor
Henry Jackson Thomas is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had the lead role of Elliott Taylor in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which he …
Henry Thomas, American actor and guitarist
Richard Paul Ashcroft is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He formed the alternative rock band the Verve in 1990 and served as the sole songwriter, lead singer and rhyth…
Richard Ashcroft, English singer-songwriter and musician
Younes El Aynaoui is a Moroccan coach and former professional tennis player.
Younes El Aynaoui, Moroccan tennis player
José Luis Jair Soria, best known under the ring name Shocker, is a Mexican retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)…
Shocker, Mexican wrestler
Benjamin John Gregory Alexander, also known by the nickname "Boods", was an Australian rugby league footballer who played as a halfback or hooker for the Penrith Panthers in the Ne…
Ben Alexander, Australian rugby league player (died 1992)
Goran Ivanišević is a Croatian former professional tennis player and current coach. He was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in J…
Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player and coach
Stella Nina McCartney is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of English musician Paul McCartney and American photographer and activist Linda McCartney. McCartney is mo…
Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
Manabu Namiki is a Japanese video game composer who is primarily known for his work in shoot 'em up games. He has worked at game companies such as Allumer, NMK, Raizing and M2. In…
Manabu Namiki, Japanese pianist and composer
Jeff Loomis is an American musician, best known for his role as lead guitarist in the progressive metal band Nevermore as well as brief tenures in its precursor, Sanctuary. In 2014…
Jeff Loomis, American guitarist and songwriter