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Valeri Vladimirovich "Val" Bure is a Russian-American former professional ice hockey player. He was a right winger for 10 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montre…
Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player
Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov, also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, was a left-handed Russian Olympic champion sabre fencer. In the Olympics he won two gold medals, a silver med…
Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (died 2015)
Douglas Andrew Mientkiewicz is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1998 to 2009, most prominentl…
Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Netrokona-1 constituency. In 2008, he was elected as a member of the Bangladesh …
Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi, Bangladeshi member of parliament
Robert James Kelly III is an American former professional football player who was a safety for four seasons with the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL) and on…
Rob Kelly, American football player
Craig Andrew Lowndes is an Australian racing car driver in the Repco Supercars Championship racing for Team 18. He is also a TV commentator.
Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver
Flavio Roma is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Flavio Roma, Italian footballer
Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Pa…
Jo Cox, British politician (died 2016)
Donald Adeosun Faison is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his leading role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC/NBC comedy-drama Scrubs, and a supporting role as Murray in b…
Donald Faison, American actor
Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay is an Indian politician and former actor who is currently serving as the ninth chief minister of Tamil Nadu since May 2026. He is the founder and presid…
Vijay, Indian actor
Mark Allan Hendrickson is an American former baseball and basketball player. Hendrickson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) and played power forward in the National Baske…
Mark Hendrickson, American basketball and baseball player
Daniel Alan Byles is a former British politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 2010 to 2015.
Dan Byles, English sailor, rower, and politician
Christopher Gene Guccione is an American umpire in Major League Baseball. He wears number 68.
Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire
Glen David Metropolit is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who most notably played over 400 games in the National Hockey League (NHL)
Glen Metropolit, Canadian ice hockey player
Joel Edgerton is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is known for his portrayal of Will McGill on the first two seasons of the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us (2001…
Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
Nisha Ganatra is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent. She wrote, directed, and produced the independent comedy drama Chutney Po…
Nisha Ganatra, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
Derek Sanderson Jeter, nicknamed "the Captain", is an American former professional baseball player, businessman, and baseball executive. A shortstop, Jeter spent his entire 20-year…
Derek Jeter, American baseball player
Jason Daniel Kendall is an American former professional baseball catcher who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also played …
Jason Kendall, American baseball player
Christian Kane is an American actor and singer-songwriter. His television roles include Lindsey McDonald in Angel, Eliot Spencer in Leverage and its revival Leverage: Redemption, J…
Christian Kane, American singer-songwriter and actor
Christopher Paul O'Neill, is a British-American financier and husband of Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, with whom he has three children. He declined to…
Christopher O'Neill, English-American businessman
Robert Stanley Dyrdek is an American actor, producer, reality TV personality, and former professional skateboarder. He is best known for his roles in the MTV reality and variety sh…
Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder, entrepreneur, and reality television star
Katrin Auer is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has represented Traunviertel since October 2024.
Katrin Auer, Austrian politician
Hezekiél Sello Sepeng, is a South African middle distance runner who won silver in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996, the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Champions…
Hezekiél Sepeng, South African runner
Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada is an Ecuadorian retired race walker. He specialised in the 20 km event, in which he won the first two medals his country achieved in the Olympic G…
Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker