Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986).
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Actor
1957 · Austria
Sir Stephen John Fry is an English actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster.
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Entrepreneur · WWE Studios · entertainment
1945 · United States
Vincent Kennedy McMahon is an American businessman and former professional wrestling promoter. McMahon, along with his later-estranged wife Linda, is co-founder of the modern WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion.
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Actor
1990 · France
Elizabeth Debicki is an Australian actress. Born in Paris and raised in Melbourne, she trained in dance before studying drama at the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. She made her feature film debut in A Few Best Men (2011).
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Actor
1988 · United Kingdom
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint is an English actor. He rose to fame for his role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, for which he was cast at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and his local theatre group.
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Actor
1961 · United Kingdom
Jared Francis Harris is an English actor. The son of the actor Richard Harris, he studied drama at Duke University and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Founder · CACI
1927–2023 · United States
Harry Max Markowitz was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.