Rafael Nadal

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Manacor, Spain

Rafael Nadal is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players ever and is called the king of clay. The Spanish national has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles and holds the record of winning 13 French Open Championships. He also has one Australian Open, two Wimbledon and four US Open titles to his name.

Josephine Baker

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1906

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died: 1975

Nicknamed Black Pearl and Creole Goddess, Josephine Baker was the first Black woman to appear in a motion picture. She was a revue dancer, famous for her signature banana costume. A civil rights activist, she helped the French military during World War II. She adopted 12 children of different ethnicities.

Dilraba Dilmurat

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1992

Birthplace: Ürümqi, China

Dilraba Dilmurat, also known as Dilireba, is a Chinese actor and model of Uyghur descent. She is known for her roles in films such as Mr. Pride vs Miss Prejudice and series such as The Backlight of Love. She has also been featured on Forbes China Celebrity 100 multiple times.

Imogen Poots

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1989

Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, England

Imogen Poots is an English actress best known for portraying real-life characters, such as Linda Keith in Jimi: All Is by My Side and Debbie Raymond in The Look of Love. Although Poots never received formal training in acting, she is often described as compellingly natural before the camera; she serves as an inspiration to aspiring actors without formal training.

Jefferson Davis

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1808

Birthplace: Fairview, Kentucky, United States

Died: 1889

Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. He was also the U.S. secretary of war and had fought in the Mexican–American War earlier. He was against secession. He wrote an autobiography named The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.

Tony Curtis

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1925

Birthplace: New York, United States

Died: 2010

Tony Curtis was an American actor who achieved the height of his fame in the 1950s and 1960s in a career spanning six decades. Also a well-known philanthropist, Tony Curtis helped fund the rebuilding of the Great Synagogue in Hungary. In 1998, he founded a non-profit organization called Emanuel Foundation for Hungarian Culture, which works towards the restoration of synagogues.

Anderson Cooper

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1967

Birthplace: New York, New York, United States

As one of the leading television journalists for the past 10 years, Anderson Cooper has played a prominent role in influencing several important events in the United States of America. An openly gay man, Anderson Cooper has also served as an inspiration to the entire LGBTQ community.

Mario Götze

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1992

Birthplace: Memmingen, Germany

Midfielder Mario Götze led Germany to their World Cup win in 2014, scoring the winning goal. He began his career at 9, with Borussia Dortmund. He was awarded the 2011 Golden Boy Award. His move to Bayern Munich for €37 million made him the second-most expensive German player in history.

Curtis Mayfield

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1942

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Died: 1999

Soul singer and guitarist Curtis Mayfield gained fame with The Impressions. His songs such as People Get Ready carried prominent social themes. The Grammy Hall of Fame inductee was paralyzed from the neck down after an accident during a live performance in 1990 but continued to record even after that.

Michelle Keegan

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1987

Birthplace: Stockport, Greater Manchester, England

Michelle Keegan is best known as Tina McIntyre from the soap Coronation Street, as Tracy from Ordinary Lies, and as Georgie Lane from Our Girl. She was named the Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM in 2015. She portrayed Tinkerbell in a theater production of Peter Pan.

Paulette Goddard

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1910

Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States

Died: 1990

Paulette Goddard was an American actress best known for playing the female lead in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. Goddard, who started her career as a child fashion model, went on to establish herself as a major star in the 1940s. Over the years, she has been depicted in many films by actresses like Diane Lane and Natalie Wilder.

Al Horford

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1986

Birthplace: Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Height: 6'9" (206 cm)

Chuck Barris

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birth Year: 1929

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Died: 2017

Game show creator, producer, and host Chuck Barris began his career at NBC in New York City as a page. Brilliant and creative, he moved up the ranks in the entertainment industry and was soon producing music for TV shows. He then opened his own production company and went ahead to gain fame as a game show creator.

Jill Biden

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birth Year: 1951

Birthplace: Hammonton, New Jersey, United States

The former Second Lady of the United States, Jill Biden is the wife of Joe Biden, the 2020 presidential candidate. A passionate educator who is also fiercely independent, Jill continued to work as a full-time professor even when she was the Second Lady.  A vocal supporter of community colleges, she has also been supportive of military families and cancer research.

Suzi Quatro

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1950

Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Height: 5'0" (152 cm)

Allen Ginsberg

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1926

Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, United States

Died: 1997

Allen Ginsberg, a Beat Generation poet, is best remembered for his 1956 poem Howl, which criticized U.S. capitalism and described homosexual acts, and was thus banned. He earned the National Book Award for The Fall of America and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992.

Penelope Wilton

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1946

Birthplace: Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Penelope Wilton is an English actress known for her work in theatre, film, and TV. The winner of several prestigious awards, such as the Olivier Award, Penelope Wilton was appointed an OBE for services to drama in the 2004 New Year Honours. In the 2016 Birthday Honours, she was elevated to become a DBE.

Ellen Corby

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1911

Birthplace: Racine, Wisconsin, United States

Died: 1999

Actress and screenwriter, Ellen Corby, is best known for her role in the TV  series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. In a long and productive career that spanned over six decades, she appeared in over two hundred films and TV shows. In her later years, she also trained as a teacher of transcendental meditation.

Sean Berdy

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1993

Birthplace: Boca Raton, Florida

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Jalen Suggs

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 2001

Birthplace: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Height: 6'4" (193 cm)

Colleen Dewhurst

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1924

Birthplace: Montreal, Canada

Died: 1991

Canadian-American actor Colleen Dewhurst is best remembered for her Tony-winning performance in the Broadway play A Moon for the Misbegotten. She was known for her frequent appearances in Eugene O'Neill’s plays. Fans also loved her in TV projects such as Murphy Brown and Anne of Green Gables.

Melissa Mathison

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1950

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Died: 2015

Melissa Mathison was a screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, for a while but quit before graduating. She was acquainted with Francis Ford Coppola who encouraged her to pursue a screenwriting career. She was once married to actor, Harrison Ford, and had two children.

James Purefoy

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1964

Birthplace: Taunton, Somerset, England

James Purefoy is best known as Mark Antony from the HBO series Rome. He also played Joe Carroll in The Following and the titular character in the film Solomon Kane. A talented Shakespearean theater actor, he has been part of productions of King Lear and Macbeth, too.

Jade Cargill

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1992

Birthplace: Vero Beach, Florida, United States

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Charles R. Drew

Listed In: Physicians

Birth Year: 1904

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States

Died: 1950

Born into a middle-class African-American family, Charles R. Drew initially excelled in football and track and field, and ended up earning athletic scholarships to fund his studies. He grew up to be a renowned surgeon and revolutionized the storage of blood plasma in blood banks.

Kayden Boche

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1985

Birthplace: Brest , France

After his mother’s death, Kayden Boche was placed in a foster home, where he suffered abuse. The French model was scouted soon after high school and became a sensation after his Dior Addict campaigns for Christian Dior fragrances. He has also directed Jérémy Amelin's single Oh, Oh!

Dave East

Listed In: Singers

Birth Year: 1988

Birthplace: East Harlem, New York, United States

Height: 6'5" (196 cm)

Louis Hofmann

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1997

Birthplace: Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Height: 5'7" (170 cm)

Edward Winter

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1937

Birthplace: Ventura, California, United States

Died: 2001

Wasim Akram

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1966

Birthplace: Lahore

Wasim Akram is a Pakistani former cricketer, cricket commentator, and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. He is counted amongst the finest exponents of reverse swing bowling. He became a commentator and coach following his retirement as a player. He is a recipient of the Pakistan Government’s Hilal-e-Imtiaz award. 

Leo Gorcey

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1917

Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States

Died: 1969

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

Arianne Zucker

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1974

Birthplace: Northridge, California, USA

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Bill Paterson

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1945

Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland

Lalaine

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1987

Birthplace: Burbank, California, U.S.

Height: 5'3" (160 cm)

Larry McMurtry

Listed In: Writers

Birth Year: 1936

Birthplace: Archer City, Texas, U.S.

Died: 2021

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Alla Nazimova

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1879

Birthplace: Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire

Died: 1945

Alla Nazimova was a Russian-American actress who had an extensive career on Broadway. She acted in the classic plays of playwrights like Ibsen, Chekhov, and Turgenev. She eventually moved on to films and had an equally successful stint in cinema as well. She was openly bisexual and had sexual relationships with women while being married to a man.

Deniece Williams

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1951

Birthplace: Gary, Indiana, United States

The daughter of singer parents, Deniece Williams grew up singing gospel. Though she initially aspired to be a nurse and an anesthetist, she later took up music full-time and began performing at nightclubs. The Grammy-winning artist soared to fame with tracks such as They Say and I Believe in You.

Sam Mills

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1959

Birthplace: Neptune City, New Jersey, United States

Died: 2005

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Suzie Plakson

Listed In: Musicians

Birth Year: 1958

Birthplace: Buffalo, United States

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Yasmin Lee

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1983

Birthplace: Thailand

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Maurice Evans

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1901

Birthplace: Dorchester, England

Died: 1989

Billy Cunningham

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1943

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Height: 6'7" (201 cm)

Yelena Isinbayeva

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1982

Birthplace: Volgograd, Russia

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Otto Porter Jr.

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1993

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Height: 6'8" (203 cm)

M. Karunanidhi

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1924

Birthplace: Thirukkuvalai, Tamil Nadu, India

Died: 2018

The patriarch of the Karunanidhi political family of India, M. Karunanidhi had been the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for almost 20 years. The DMK leader was also a noted scriptwriter and author, having written films such as Parasakthi. His son, M. K. Stalin is the current Tamil Nadu chief minister.

James Hutton

Listed In: Scientists

Birth Year: 1726

Birthplace: Edinburgh

Died: 1797

The pioneer of modern geology, James Hutton laid down the principle of uniformitarianism in geology. While he was initially interested in chemistry, he had later also studied law and had then moved on to medicine. His iconic Theory of the Earth explained the science behind rock formations.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birth Year: 1931

Birthplace: New York City, New York, U.S.

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Red Velvet

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 1992

Birthplace: Miami, Florida, United States

Red Velvet is a professional wrestler who is currently signed to AEW. Prior to joining All Elite Wrestling, Velvet was part of the independent circuit from 2016 to 2021. She was also a part of the Fighting Evolution Wrestling promotion where she held the FEW Women's Championship title. Apart from being a professional wrestler, Red Velvet is also a dancer.

Pierre Poilievre

Listed In: Leaders

Birth Year: 1979

Birthplace: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Daryl Dike

Listed In: Sportspersons

Birth Year: 2000

Birthplace: Edmond, Oklahoma, United States

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)