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Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, comedian, and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series Family Guy and The Orville, and co-cre…
Seth MacFarlane, American voice actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter
Takao Yoshida , better known by his ring name Taka Michinoku , is a Japanese professional wrestler, trainer, and former mixed martial artist. He primarily appears for New Japan Pro…
Taka Michinoku, Japanese wrestler and trainer
Róbert Petrovický is a Slovak former professional ice hockey right winger. He played in the NHL for the Hartford Whalers, Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning and the…
Róbert Petrovický, Slovak ice hockey player
Jason Michael Johnson is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He throws and bats right-handed.
Jason Johnson, American baseball player
Sem "Semmy" Schilt is a Dutch actor and former kickboxer, karateka and mixed martial artist. Schilt holds the distinction of being the only kickboxer to have won 5 major heavyweigh…
Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
Hassan Hamid Assad, better known by his ring name Montel Vontavious Porter or simply MVP, is an American professional wrestler, manager, Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and rapper…
Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler and actor
Aleksandar Stanojević is a professional Serbian football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of TFF 1. Lig club Fatih Karagümrük.
Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager
Vonetta Flowers is an American bobsledder. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Flowers became the first African American and the first Black athlete from any country to win a gold medal a…
Vonetta Flowers, American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper
Éric Messier is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played eight seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Colorado Avalanche and Florida Panthers.
Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
Robert Emmanuel Pires is a French former professional footballer. He is widely regarded as one of Arsenal's greatest ever players and considered by some to be one of the best winge…
Robert Pires, French footballer
Michael Buettner is an Australian rugby league official and former professional footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin r…
Michael Buettner, Australian rugby league player and official
Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto is a Colombian lawyer and presenter.
Silvia Corzo, Colombian lawyer and journalist
Adam Joseph Copeland is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under his real name and is one-half of Cage & Cope …
Edge, Canadian wrestler and actor
Michael Christian Oakes is an English football coach and former professional footballer.
Michael Oakes, English footballer and manager
Raci Şaşmaz is a Turkish film producer, writer and actor.
Raci Şaşmaz, Turkish actor, producer, and screenwriter
István Kertész was a Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor who led many of the world's orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pitt…
István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (born 1929)
Sir Arthur William Fadden was an Australian politician and accountant who served as the 13th prime minister of Australia from 29 August to 7 October 1941. He held office as the lea…
Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1894)
Kemal Tahir was a prominent Turkish novelist and intellectual. Tahir spent 13 years of his life imprisoned for political reasons and wrote some of his best known novels during this…
Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (born 1910)
Olga Grey was an American silent film actress, sometimes billed with the alternate spelling of her last name, Olga Gray.
Olga Grey, Hungarian-American actress (born 1896)
Irene Ryan was an American actress and comedienne who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television, and Broadway. She is most widely known for her portrayal of Daisy May "G…
Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (born 1902)
Carlos Alberto Menditéguy was a racing driver and polo player from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He entered 11 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scor…
Carlos Menditeguy, Argentinian race car driver and polo player (born 1914)
Arnold Clas ("Classe") Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the …
Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (born 1893)
Václav Renč was a Czech poet, children's writer, dramatist and translator. Like other Catholic ruralistic writers, his themes included God, traditions and the countryside.
Václav Renč, Czech poet and playwright (born 1911)
Asger Oluf Jorn was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International.
Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1914)