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Idrissa Akuna "Idris" Elba (born 6 September 1972) is a British television, theatre, and film actor who has starred in both British and American productions. He grew up in Canning Town, East London.
One of his first acting roles was in the soap opera Family Affairs.
He is known for playing Russell "Stringer" Bell, a Baltimore drug lord and aspiring businessman, in HBO's critically acclaimed show The Wire.
Elba is a DJ under the moniker DJ Big Driis/Big Driis the Londoner, and a hip-hop soul recording artist.

 

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"Alex" Rodriguez is an American baseball third baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. Well known by his nickname A-Rod

 

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Zeno Colo ( Abetone , 30 June 1920 - San Marcello Pistoiese , 12 May 1993 ) was an alpine skier Italian .
He was one of the strongest Italian skiers of all time, the world record holder of the flying kilometer champion and world and Olympic in the 1950s .

 

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Oleh Romanovych Luzhny (born 5 August 1968 in Lviv - is a retired Ukrainian footballer and manager of SC Tavriya Simferopol. His name is alternatively Romanised as Oleg Luzhny. Played for national team,Torpedo Lutsk,SKA Karpaty Lviv,Dynamo Kyiv,Arsenal,Wolverhampton Wanderers,Venta)

 

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Yul Brynner was a Russian-born American stage and film actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the king of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony awards.

 

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Rocco Antonio Tano ( Rocco Siffredi Ortona , 4 May 1964 ) is a pornographic actor , director , film producer and designer Italian , who also worked in the film is not hardcore.

 

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Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler) (20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German children's books author. More than 50 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translated into 55 languages. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).

 

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René Adler (born 15 January 1985 in Leipzig, Saxony, East Germany - is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper in the German Bundesliga for Hamburger SV and for the German national team (U-17,U-18,U-21 and senior).He started at age six playing for VfB Leipzig's youth side. After nine years for Leipzig, Adler joined the youth system of Bayer 04 Leverkusen)

 

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Robert Enke (24 August 1977 – 10 November 2009) was a German football goalkeeper.
Enke played at leading clubs in several European countries, namely Barcelona, Benfica and Fenerbahçe, but made the majority of his appearances for Bundesliga side Hannover 96 in his homeland.
He won eight full international caps for the German national team between 2007 and his death in 2009, and was part of the squad which finished as runners-up in Euro 2008.
On 10 November 2009, Enke committed suicide. At the time of his death, he was widely considered to be a leading contender for the German number one spot at the 2010 World Cup

 

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Edgar Steven Davids (born 13 March 1973 in Paramaribo, Suriname - is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Football League Two side Barnet where he is also head coach. After beginning his career with Ajax, he subsequently played in Italy for Milan and Juventus before a loan spell with Barcelona. He went on to play for Internazionale and Tottenham Hotspur before returning to Ajax. Having struggled with injuries for two years, Davids returned to competitive football during a brief spell with Crystal Palace before retiring at the age of 37. In 2012 was appointed to a player/captain/joint head coach role with the League Two side Barnet; he made his debut on 19 October 2012 with a 4-0 win over Northampton Town.
He was capped 74 times by the Netherlands at international level, scoring six goals, and represented his country at the FIFA World Cup (once) and the UEFA European Football Championship (three times). His dreadlocked hair and protective goggles – which he wore due to glaucoma – made Davids one of the most recognisable players of his generation. A combative and creative midfielder, Davids was nicknamed "the Pitbull" by Louis van Gaal because of his marking ability. He was one of the players chosen by Pelé to feature in the FIFA 100, a list of the world's greatest living footballers)

 

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Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an award-winning English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays the electric organ, synthesizers, bass, drums, guitar, mandolin, violin and other strings. A star performer for nearly 50 years, he has also done notable work as a producer.
In addition to his solo career, Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.
In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his "enduring influence on generations of music makers." In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood has won 2 Grammy Awards.

 

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Diego Della Valle ( Sant 'Elpidio a Mare , 30 December 1953 ) is an entrepreneur Italian , president, CEO and majority shareholder of Hogan and Tod's , as well as owner of Fiorentina .

 

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Édouard Cissé (born 30 March 1978 in Pau, France - is a French football player who is currently a free agent after his contract with AJ Auxerre was terminated.
He is a midfielder, 1.86 metres tall. Cissé previously played for Monaco in France and West Ham in the English Premiership (where he scored once against Charlton Athletic) and Paris Saint-Germain. On 28 June 2007, it was confirmed that Cissé had signed a 2 year contract (with an option of a third) with Beşiktaş J.K. of Turkey for a fee of €1.5 million per annum. He played well with Fabian Ernst and left the club on 3 June 2009 to sign with Olympique Marseille. On 18 August 2011, he joined AJ Auxerre on a two-year contract)

 

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Elle Macpherson (born 29 March 1964) is an Australian businesswoman, television host, model, and actress. She is well known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s

 

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(Arthur) Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940), usually known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. When Adolf Hitler continued his aggression by invading Poland, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of the Second World War.

 

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Neven Subotic (born 10 December 1988 in Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia - is a Serbian footballer who plays for Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga. He made his first-team debut in the 2006–07 season for 1. FSV Mainz 05. In 2008, he signed with Dortmund. He also competes internationally for Serbia.

 

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Slim,http://www.sat-universe.com/redirec...ipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh#cite_note-1 Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot, Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine purpose built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit.

 

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Hannes Reinmayr (born 23 August 1969 in Wien - is a retired Austrian football player who currently works as co-trainer at Austria Kärnten.
Reinmayr started his professional career at Austria Wien but did not managed to get playing time and moved to First Vienna in 1990. After a season at Stahl Linz he moved abroad to play for German clubs MSV Duisburg and Bayer Uerdingen before enjoying considerable successes in 6 years at Sturm Graz, winning two league titles and three domestic cups as well as playing two years in the UEFA Champions League group stages. He then played another half season in Germany before ending his pro career at SV Mattersburg.
He then became player and co-trainer at lowly SK St. Andrä. Also played for national team.

 

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Charles Robert Redford, Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In 2010 he was awarded French Knighthood in the Legion d'Honneur. At the height of Redford's fame in the late 1960s to 1980s, he was often described as one of the world's most attractive men and remains one of the most popular movie stars.

 

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Daniel Michael "Danny" DeVito, Jr. is an American actor, comedian, director and producer. He first gained prominence for his portrayal of short statured dispatcher Louie De Palma on the ABC and NBC