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Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress and author. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Aw…
Octavia Spencer, American actress and author[a]
Nobuhiro Nishiwaki , better known by his pen name Nobuhiro Watsuki , is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his samurai-themed series Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Rom…
Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese illustrator
Michele Bartoli is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. Bartoli was a professional cyclist from 1992 until 2004 and was one of the most successful single-day classics specialists…
Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
Timothy James Farron is a British politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2017. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland and Lonsdale…
Tim Farron, English educator and politician
James Harvey Kennedy is an American actor and comedian. Kennedy played Randy Meeks in the Scream film series (1996–2000), which saw him as a supporting character in the first and t…
Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, known as Joseph Fiennes, is an English actor. His numerous accolades include one Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for a BA…
Joseph Fiennes, English actor
Chad Alexander Archer is an American-born Australian musician. Archer is best known for his violin work in the Fremantle based Alt country/rock band The Kill Devil Hills.
Alex Archer, American-born Australian musician
Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn was an Irish actor, best known for his portrayal of Mark Healy on the 1990s family sitcom Roseanne and his role as the half-demon Allen Franc…
Glenn Quinn, American actor (died 2002)
Natarsha Belling is an Australian journalist, television and radio presenter.
Natarsha Belling, Australian journalist
Roberto Di Matteo is an Italian professional football manager and former player.
Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager
Panayotis Alexander Lalas is an American former soccer player who played as a centre-back. He is best known for his participation with the United States national team in the 1994 F…
Alexi Lalas, American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster
Alison Amanda Hinds is a British-born Bajan soca singer based in Barbados. She is often referred to as the Bajan "Queen of Soca" as a result of her impact on the genre.
Alison Hinds, British-Barbadian soca singer
Louis Mario Freese, known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper. Since 1991, he has been one of two lead rappers in the hip hop group Cypress Hill, along with Sen Dog, an…
B Real, American rapper and actor
Deborah Compagnoni Golden Collar of Sports Merit is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics.
Deborah Compagnoni, Italian skier
Richard "Richie" Hawtin is a British-Canadian electronic musician and DJ. He became involved with Detroit techno's second wave in the early 1990s, and has been a leading exponent o…
Richie Hawtin, English-Canadian DJ and producer
Dave Pybus is an English extreme metal musician, best known as the former bass player of Cradle of Filth.
Dave Pybus, English bass player and songwriter
Izabella Scorupco is a Polish actress, singer and model. She is best known for having played a Bond girl, Natalya Simonova, in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is also known…
Izabella Scorupco, Polish-Swedish actress and model
Martin Gélinas is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 1,273 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers, Quebec Nordiques, Vancouver …
Martin Gélinas, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Marcos Evangelista de Morais, known as Cafu, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of all time…
Cafu, Brazilian footballer
Kelli Renee Williams is an American actress and director. She is known for her roles as lawyer Lindsay Dole on the ABC legal drama The Practice, psychologist and deception expert D…
Kelli Williams, American actress and director
Michael Ross Doughty is an American singer-songwriter and author. He founded the band Soul Coughing in 1992, and as of The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns (2016), has released …
Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Katsuhiro Harada is a Japanese game director and producer who is currently CEO of SNK VS Studio. He is best known for his time at Bandai Namco Entertainment and for his work on th…
Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer, director, and producer
Alexander "Alex" Hidalgo Santos is a Filipino field reporter who is currently a news and radio anchor for Net 25 and DZEC Radyo Agila. Santos was a former news director for DWIZ, a…
Alex Santos, Filipino journalist
Shane Whereat is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. His outstanding speed saw him mostly play on the Wing.
Shane Whereat, Australian rugby league player