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Uppalapati Venkata Suryanarayana Prabhas Raju , known mononymously as Prabhas, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He is one of the highest-paid actors in …
Prabhas, Telugu film actor
Jorge Iván Solís Pérez is a Mexican former professional boxer. He is a former holder of various minor and regional titles including, the Jalisco State Featherweight title, Mexican …
Jorge Solís, Mexican boxer
Robert Allan "Bud" Smith is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for St. Louis Cardinals from 2001 to 2002. He is best known f…
Bud Smith, American baseball player
Benjamin David Gillies is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer of Australian rock band Silverchair from 1992 until the band went on hiatus in 2011. In 2003, Gillies fo…
Ben Gillies, Australian drummer and songwriter
Marijonas Petravičius is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player. He was a member of the Lithuania national team. He mainly played the center position, but he could als…
Marijonas Petravičius, Lithuanian basketball player
Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released six studio albums: Fur and Gold (2006)…
Bat for Lashes, English singer
Robert William Hulse is an English former footballer who played as a striker.
Rob Hulse, English footballer
Mariana Klaveno is an American actress best known for her television roles as Lorena Ball (Krasiki) in the HBO series True Blood, as the psychopath Abby in the Lifetime movie While…
Mariana Klaveno, American actress
João Nuno Silva Cardoso Lucas was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
João Lucas, Portuguese footballer (died 2015)
Milena Leticia Roucka is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, valet and model. She was known for her time in WWE under the ring name Rosa Mendes. She managed former WWE Tag Te…
Rosa Mendes, Canadian-American wrestler and model
Movsar Buharovich Barayev, earlier known as Suleimanov, was a Chechen Islamist militia leader during the Second Chechen War, who led the seizure of a Moscow theater that led to the…
Movsar Barayev, Chechen terrorist (died 2002)
Hiroyuki Yamamoto is a Japanese former footballer who played as a defender.
Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer
Olcay Çetinkaya is a Turkish former professional footballer. He played as a goalkeeper.
Olcay Çetinkaya, Turkish footballer
Jawed Karim is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi descent. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a vi…
Jawed Karim, American computer scientist
Natina Tiawana Reed was an American singer, rapper and actress. She was born in Queens and raised in Atlanta, where she pursued a career in music beginning in her early teens. Disc…
Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (died 2012)
Martin Škoula is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman, who enjoyed a lengthy career in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Colorado Avalanche, Mighty Ducks of An…
Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
Ignasi Giménez Renom was the mayor of Castellar del Vallès from 2007 and president of the Consell Comarcal del Vallès Occidental from 2015 until his resignation from the position i…
Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan lawyer and politician
Andrew-Lee Potts is an English actor and director. He is best known for his role as the quirky Connor Temple on ITV's British science fiction programme Primeval and Space's Canadia…
Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director, and producer
Jason Alan Bartlett is a Filipino American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, and San Diego P…
Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
Muhsin Ertuğrul, also known as Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director.
Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (born 1892)
Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, writer, animator, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of Americ…
Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (born 1907)
Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. was a Canadian-American investment banker, businessman and philanthropist, with a career that spanned 70 years.
Cyrus S
Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or so…
Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (born 1918)
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. Natta's work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the developmen…
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)