Celebrity Names

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Fred Flintstone. ;D

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Friedrich Engels(28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895)
was a German social scientist and philosopher, was one of the fathers of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. Together they produced The Communist Manifesto (1848). Engels also edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death.

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Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff

(born April 3, 1922)[1] is an American singer, actress and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars. Day has 39 films to her credit, over 75 hours of television and as one of the most prolific recording artists in history, has recorded over 650 songs. She is an Academy Award nominee, as well as a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner. In 1989, Day received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. She is currently the top ranking female box-office star of all time according to the annual Quigley Publishing poll's "All-Time Number One Stars" list, ranking #6 of the top ten of mostly male stars (the only other female on the list is Shirley Temple.)[2]

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Karl Dönitz 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German naval Commander who served in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, and during World War II commanded first the German submarine fleet, and then the entire German Navy (Kriegsmarine).

In the final days of the war, Dönitz was named by Adolf Hitler as his successor, and after the Führer killed himself, the admiral assumed the office of President (Reichspräsident) of Nazi Germany. He held this position for about 20 days, until the final surrender to the Allies.

After the war, Dönitz was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and served ten years in prison.

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Dan Dare........Pilot of the Future, my favourite Comic Hero back in the 50s, in the best Comic ever, "The Eagle", helped to spark my lifelong interest in Science Fiction. ;D

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David Pringle (born 1 March 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor.

Pringle served as the editor of Foundation, an academic journal, from 1980 through 1986, during which time he became one of the prime movers of the collective which founded Interzone in 1982. By 1988, he was the sole publisher and editor of Interzone, a position he retained until he sold the magazine to Andy Cox in 2004. For two-and-a-half years, in 1991-1993, he also edited and published a critical magazine entitled Million: The Magazine About Popular Fiction.

Interzone was nominated several times for the Hugo award for best semiprozine, winning the award in 1995. In 2005, the Worldcon committee gave Pringle a Special Award for his work on Interzone.

In addition to his editorial work with Interzone, Pringle is known as a critic and bibliographer of the works of J. G. Ballard. He wrote the first short monograph on Ballard, Earth is the Alien Planet: J. G. Ballard's Four-Dimensional Nightmare (Borgo Press, 1979) and compiled J. G. Ballard: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall, 1984). He has also worked as a series editor for Games Workshop, in 1988-1991, commissioning shared world novels and short stories based on their Warhammer and Dark Future games.

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Prince

Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958) is an American musician. He performs under the mononym of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an unpronounceable symbol (), which he used as his stage name between 1993 and 2000, during which time he was usually referred to as The artist formerly known as Prince.

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Norman Wisdom.....comedian,though I never found him funny at all. ;D

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Wilfrid Hyde-White (12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was an English character actor.

Hyde-White was born at the rectory in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, the son of William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide Drought. He was educated at Marlborough College, where he decided on an acting career — his uncle was the actor J. Fisher White. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his stage début as Maitland in the Evans-Valentine hit comedy Tons of Money (1922) at Ryde, Isle of Wight, and his London début as a juror in Beggar on Horseback (1925) at the Queen's. On 17 December 1927 he married Blanche Hope Aitken (b. 1896/7), who used the stage name Blanche Glynne; they had one son.

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Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968)[1] is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. Newsweek has called him the most powerful actor on the planet.[2] Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globes, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammys.

Smith rose to fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince in the late 1980s and his role in the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. His most notable films include Bad Boys and its sequel; Men in Black and its sequel; Independence Day; I, Robot; Ali; The Pursuit of Happyness; I Am Legend; Hanthingy; and Seven Pounds. He is the only actor in history to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office as well as being the only actor to have eight consecutive films open at #1 on the domestic box office as a Lead Actor.[3]

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Samuel L Jackson

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Boris Yeltsin, Ex Russian drinking champion.

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Yuri Gagarin......First man in Space.

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Georgios Samaras: Ãéþñãïò ÓáìáñÜò born 21 February 1985



Good Scots name that.

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Aye Ken, definitely wan o' Jock Tamson's bairns. LOL ;D

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Son Seals,



"Son Seals was one of those great guitarists that really never got a break. I suppose one could say that Son truly lived the blues. From broken marriages, shot twice by an ex-wife, a fire that destroyed his home, his guitars stolen, and finally losing his leg, and then his life to Diabetes at a young age. That is certainly the resume of someone who lived the blues."

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Ras Sam Brown (16 December 1925-August 1998) was a Jamaican Rastafari elder well known in Kingston for his politics after he participated in the elections of 1961 with his Suffering People's Party. He received fewer than 100 votes, yet by being the first rasta to ever stand for politics his influence has been greater than this statistic suggests, especially as at the time there was generalised feeling in the Rastafarian movement that Rastas do not vote. He had a 21 point plan. Some of his ideas were:

Members of the Rastafari movement are an inseparable part of the black Jamaican people.
As such we cannot and do not proclaim any higher aims than the legitimate aims and aspiration of the black people of Jamaica.
The Rastafarian Movement stands for freedom to its fullest sense and for the recovery of dignity, self-respect and sovereignty of the black people of Jamaica.
The Rastafarian movement, for the furtherance of these ends, must have the backing and support to lead a political party of its own.
The Rastafarian movement has the backing of no political party. We are the subject of persecution and discrimination.
The Rastafarian movement therefore has decided to actively join the political struggle and create a political movement with the aim of taking power and implement measures for the upliftment of the poor and the oppressed.
All men, therefore, are free, irrespective of colour to join this political crusade. The only condition is that he must abandon evil.
In 1996 he became a roots reggae singer and poet with an album called History, Past and Present. Brown died while attending an international trade fair in Barbados

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Barry Blue

(born Barry Ian Green, 4 December 1950, London [1]), is a singer / producer / songwriter from the United Kingdom. He is best known for his hit songs, "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" (1973), which he co-wrote with Lynsey De Paul, and "Do You Wanna Dance" (1973).

He signed to Bell Records in the early 1970s and had five hit singles, including "School Love" (1974), but by the end of the decade his popularity had declined.[2] His final Top 40 hit in the UK Singles Chart occurred in October 1974, when "Hot Shot", another song co-penned with Lynsey De Paul climbed to No.23.[2] In 1989, under the banner of Cry Sisco!, Blue enjoyed another minor UK hit with a song called "Afro Dizzi Act", which reached No.42 on the UK Singles Chart.[2] A compilation album, Greatest Hits was released on Repertoire Records in 2002.

Blue continued to work in the music business as a producer for other artists, including Heatwave, Bananarama, Toto Coelo and Cheryl Lynn. Blue has also been a prolific songwriter for other acts. Among his hit compositions are "All Fall Down" for Five Star; "Kiss Me Kiss Your Baby" for Brotherhood of Man (a European million seller); "I Eat Cannibals Part 1" for Toto Coelo and "Escaping" for Dina Carroll. He has written album tracks for many more artists as well.

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Blue Lu Barker.



"Singer Blue Lu Barker was born, raised, and buried in New Orleans; her funeral even turned into a popular video broadcast spotlighting the town’s jazz funeral traditions. Like many early Louisiana performing artists, claims to her paralyzing influence over the entire country’s jazz and blues scenes tend to be made with great regularity. Thus the tale of Blue Lu Barker is one in which jazz critics on one side of the fence comment on her limited vocal range, while others come up with quotes such as this one, attributed to legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday: "Blue Lu Barker was my biggest influence." In both the ’30s and ’40s she was one of the more popular blues performers."

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Bob Monkhouse.

Robert Alan Monkhouse OBE (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003)[2] was an English entertainer. He was a successful comedy writer, comedian and actor and was also well known on British television as a presenter and game show host. Monkhouse was famous for his quick ad-lib and one-liner jokes.

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Montague Summers (1880-1948)



Montague Summers was not a witch, far from it, he was a Catholic Priest and devoutly against witchcraft, however one feels that his contribution to the literature of witchcraft deservedly earns him a mention in any roll call of witches. He was an eminent scholar and author who wrote extensively about the darker sides of witchcraft, demonology, vampirism and lycanthropy. He believed adamantly that witches were evil servants of the devil 'Satan' who throughout history deserved all the punishments they received.



Summers was born Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augustus Montague Summers in Clifton near Bristol, England on the 10th of April 1880. The youngest of seven children, his father was a prominent banker and justice of the peace. He was raised as an Anglican but later converted to Catholicism. Educated at Trinity College Oxford, he also studied at Litchfield Theological College and by the time he was 26 had earned both Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees.

Summers entered the Roman Catholic Church and became a priest in 1909, but his standing and position within the church has never really been made clear. He was commonly known as the “Reverend Montague Summers”, but lived much of his time as a private civilian and was never attached to any particular church or religious foundation. Some reports have hinted that he had a special brief from high up in the Catholic hierarchy to write about and denounce witchcraft and the occult. He taught at various schools and wrote books on literature and drama, but much of his time seems to have been devoted to academic studies on the darker side of witchcraft and demonology.

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Sonny Bono

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Bono

Paul David Hewson KBE (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Irish rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2.[1][2][3] He has been referred to as Bono, his stage- and nickname, by his family and fellow band members since his adolescence.[2] Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes.[4][5] During their early years Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious tone.[4] As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.[2][4] Based on weeks that Bono's compositions have spent on the charts, he is the fifty-fifth most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history.[6]

Outside U2 he has collaborated and recorded with numerous artists,[7][8][9] sits on the board of Elevation Partners, and has refurbished and owns The Clarence with The Edge.[10][11] Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red.[2][12] He has organized and played in several benefit concerts and has met with influential politicians.[12][13][14] Bono has been praised and criticized for his activism and involvement with U2.[15][16][17] He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time,[15][18][19] among other awards and nominations.

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Howlin' Wolf.............Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.

With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match [Howlin' Wolf] for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits."[1] Many songs popularized by Burnett—such as "Smokestack Lightnin'," "Back Door Man" and "Sthingyful"—have become standards of blues and blues rock.

At 6 feet, 6 inches (198 cm) and close to 300 pounds (136 kg), he was an imposing presence with one of the loudest and most memorable voices of all the "classic" 1950s Chicago blues singers. Howlin' Wolf's voice has been compared to "the sound of heavy machinery operating on a gravel road". Although the two were reportedly not that different in actual personality, this rough edged, slightly fearsome musical style is often contrasted with the less crude but still powerful presentation of his contemporary and professional rival, Muddy Waters, to describe the two pillars of the Chicago Blues representing the music.

Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), Little Walter Jacobs and Muddy Waters are usually regarded in retrospect as the greatest blues artists who recorded for Chess in Chicago. Sam Phillips once remarked of Chester Arthur Burnett, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.'

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Billy Bob Thornton[1] (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, director, musician, playwright and screenwriter. His rise to fame began in the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film Sling Blade, for which he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Thomas Joshua Cooper, a white Cherokee Indian was born in San Francisco, California, United States in 1946. Cooper is one of the world's most celebrated, distinctive and respected photographers- living and dead.

He currently resides in Glasgow, UK where he founded the Fine Art Photography Department at the world-renowned Glasgow School of Art in 1982. He is now a senior researcher in the faculty of Fine Art, holding a Professorial role and Head of Department.

Personally I think most of his pictures are crap, our Nocky is much better at it.

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Thanks for the confidence booster Ken, the cheque's in the post. ;D

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Charles Atlas...........I tried his course when I was about 14, but must have done the exercises wrong,

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Archibald McIndoe achieved international fame during the war, for his pioneering work with plastic surgery on Battle of Britain fighter pilots. The skills developed by McIndoe and his team on members of the Guinea Pig Club set standards used on burns victims throughout the rest of the war and in years after.



Archibald McIndoe was born on May 4th 1900 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was the second of four children and his father was a printer. McIndoe was taught at Otago High School and later studied medicine at Otago University. After qualifying from university, McIndoe became a house surgeon at Waihato Hospital. From here, he was awarded a New Zealand Fellowship to study pathological anatomy in the United States. While in America, McIndoe published several papers on chronic liver disease. For this work, he received the John William White Scholarship for foreign study.

In 1930, McIndoe came to London. However he could find no work and on the suggestion of Sir Harold Gillies, McIndoe took up a job as a clinical assistant in the department of plastic surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1932, McIndoe passed his FRCS exams and was given a position as General Surgeon and lecturer at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. In 1934, McIndoe obtained a Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons. McIndoe held this post until 1939 when he became a consulting surgeon. In the previous year, McIndoe had been appointed the RAF's consultant in plastic surgery.

McIndoe started to work at the now famous Blond-McIndoe Research Centre based at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, at the start of the war and he himself found fame for the pioneering work he did with pilots horrifically burned in their planes during the Battle of Britain. In all the time at the hospital, McIndoe did not wear a military uniform and was never himself subject to military discipline despite working for the RAF and with RAF pilots.

Both the Hurricanes and Spitfires were powered by powerful engines that gave both planes the speed they needed during the battle. These engines were powered by aviation fuel and both planes carried considerable quantities of this highly inflammable liquid. If one of the fighters caught fire – which was a very common occurrence if hit by enemy fire – the flames spread very quickly throughout the plane, causing appalling injuries to a pilot. Those who survived such occurrences could be horrifically burned. It was the work done on these men that made McIndoe – and the burns unit - world famous. Such was the pioneering work done by McIndoe, that the pilots were nicknamed “Guinea Pigs” simply because what was being done on them was so new and no-one was over sure whether the operations would be successful. Pilots who underwent plastic surgery belonged to the Guinea Pig Club.

McIndoe dealt with deep burns. He knew that early grafts were vital if the patient was not going to suffer from loss of function as well as disfigurement. He also knew that many of his patients (or "his boys") as McIndoe liked to call the pilots were going to spend a considerable time in hospital. Some of his "boys" had over thirty operations on them. McIndoe's big 'enemy' was graft rejection by the patient. He learned by experience - both good and bad - hence his "boys" being 'guinea pigs'. For those who worked with McIndoe, he was known either as the "The Boss" or "The Maestro".

McIndoe also go the local community of East Grinstead involved. Because of their disfigurement and the intensity of their operations, the recovering pilots could not mix in the community. Despite the injured pilots heroism, there was a general feeling that the public would not have been able to handle their physical appearance in normal day-to-day circumstances. Two good friends of McIndoe - Neville and Elaine Blond - assisted in developing more community help and support for the pilots so that they did not feel ostracised from the very people they had been helping to protect as fighter pilots. The Blond's persuaded some families in East Grinstead to accept into their homes as guests the recovering pilots at the hospital. Gradually more and more families agreed to help thus bringing the pilots more and more into the town's community.

McIndoe did not just limit his work to a medical/physical level. He realised that the injured pilots needed some form of psychological rehabilitation and he did his best to facilitate this. After the war, McIndoe received many awards for his work. During the war he was awarded a CBE and he was knighted in 1947. In 1949, Sir Archibald McIndoe became a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1958, he became its vice-president. McIndoe also founded BAPS (the British Association of Plastic Surgeons).

Very few people can claim to have pioneered a new medical technique but McIndoe, along with his team, can claim this honour. McIndoe died in 1960 and is buried in the RAF's church of St Clement Danes. In March 1961, a new burns research unit was established at Queen Victoria's Hospital and it was named the Blond-McIndoe Unit in honour of the work done by him.

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Hey KC so it was his fault that we got the likes of Jordan


Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning English singer, songwriter and occasional actor, best known for his work as lead vocalist of The Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones started in the early 1960s as a rhythm and blues cover band with Jagger as frontman. Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards developed a songwriting partnership and by the mid-1960s the group had evolved into a world-class rock band. Frequent conflict with the authorities, including alleged drug use, and his romantic involvements ensured that during this time Jagger was never far from the headlines, and he was often portrayed as a counterculture figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception.

In the 1970s, Jagger, with the rest of the Stones, became tax exiles, consolidated their global position and gained more control over their business affairs with the formation of the Rolling Stones Records label. During this time, Jagger was also known for his high-profile marriages, first to Bianca Jagger, and later to Jerry Hall. In the 1980s Jagger released his first solo albums. He was knighted in 2003.

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I dont think Jorden would want to look like some of those pilots who he put back together Elvis.

Juliette Gréco (born 7 February 1927) is a French actress and popular chanson singer.




Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal grandparents. Gréco also became involved in the Résistance, and was caught but not deported because of her young age. She moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1946 after her mother left the country for Indochina