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Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick
2-Time Tony Award Winner

Film

Matthew Broderick is an actor and singer. He has won two Tony Awards, one for Best Featured Actor in a Play for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1983), and one for Best Actor in a Musical for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (1995).

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Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon
Grammy Award Winner and Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Music

Willie Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He received a Grammy Award and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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Jim Parsons
Jim Parsons
4-Time Emmy Award Winner

Television

Jim Parsons is known for playing Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory". He has received several awards for his performance, including four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and a Golden Globe Award.

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Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin
Academy Award Nominee and 3-Time Emmy Award Winner

Film

Alec Baldwin is an American actor, writer, producer, and comedian. From 2006 to 2013, he starred on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock", winning two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on the show.

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BBMak
BBMak
Recording Group

Music

BBMak is an English pop group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns, and Stephen McNally. Together, they sold three million albums, and had hit singles worldwide between 1999 and 2003 when they disbanded.

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Michael B. Jordan
Michael B. Jordan
Actor

Film

Michael B. Jordan is an American actor. He is known for his film roles as professional boxer Adonis Creed in the "Rocky" sequel film "Creed" (2015), and antagonist Erik Killmonger in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film "Black Panther" (2018).

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Liam Hemsworth
Liam Hemsworth
Actor

Film

Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He played the roles of Josh Taylor in the soap opera "Neighbours" and Marcus in the children's television series "The Elephant Princess". His older brothers, Luke Hemsworth and Chris Hemsworth, are also actors.

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Dakota Fanning
Dakota Fanning
Screen Actors Guild Award Nominee

Film

Dakota Fanning rose to prominence at the age of seven for her performance as Lucy Dawson in the drama film "I Am Sam" (2001), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination at age eight, making her the youngest nominee in SAG history.

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Troye Sivan
Troye Sivan
Recording Artist

Music

Troye Sivan is a South African-born Australian singer, songwriter, actor, and YouTube personality. As a YouTube personality, Sivan used to upload video blogs regularly and, as of 2016, has over 4 million subscribers and over 241 million total views.

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Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper
4-Time Academy Award Nominee and 2-Time Golden Globe Award Nominee

Film

Bradley Cooper is an actor, director, and producer. His films have earned $7.8 billion. Nominated for various accolades, including four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globes, he appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 on two occasions.

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George Clinton
George Clinton
Member, Parliament-Funkadelic

Music

George Clinton is a singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer. His Parliament-Funkadelic collective (which primarily recorded under the distinct band names Parliament and Funkadelic) developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music.

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Parliament
Parliament
Recording Group

Music

Parliament is a funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as part of his Parliament-Funkadelic collective. Less rock-oriented than its sister act Funkadelic, Parliament drew on science-fiction and outlandish performances in their work.

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Funkadelic
Funkadelic
Recording Group

Music

Funkadelic is a band that was most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, pioneered the funk music culture of that decade. Relative to its sister act, Funkadelic pursued a psychedelic sound.

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Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic
Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Music

Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American funk music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the individual bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s.

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Kurupt
Kurupt
Member, Tha Dogg Pound

Music

Kurupt began his career in the early 1990s, when he was signed to Death Row Records and shortly after formed the duo Tha Dogg Pound with Daz Dillinger. After leaving Death Row in 1996, he signed with A&M and released his debut studio album, "Kuruption!".

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Das EFX
Das EFX
Recording Group

Music

Das EFX is an American hip-hop duo. It consists of emcees Dray (also known as Krazy Drayz) and Skoob (also known as Books). They named themselves "DAS" standing for "Dray and Skoob" and "EFX" meaning "effects". They rose to popularity in the early 1990s .

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EPMD
EPMD
Recording Group

Music

EPMD's name is a concatenation of the members' names "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars", referencing its members: emcees Erick Sermon ("E" a.k.a. E Double) and Parrish Smith ("PMD" a.k.a. Parrish Mic Doc).

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Redman
Redman
Member, Method Man & Redman

Music

Redman is a rapper, DJ, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an artist on the Def Jam label. He is also well known for his collaborations with his close friend Method Man, as one-half of the rap duo Method Man & Redman.

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Method Man
Method Man
Grammy Award Winner

Music

Method Man is an American rapper, producer, and actor. He is known as a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He is also one half of the hip-hop duo Method Man & Redman. He took his stage name from the 1979 film "Method Man".

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Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Recording Artist

Music

Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician, and producer with a career that has spanned more than 50 years. He has sold more than 80 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists.

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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Pulitzer Prize Special Award Winner

Music

Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years. He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.

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Iggy Azalea
Iggy Azalea
Recording Artist

Music

Iggy Azalea was featured on Ariana Grande's single "Problem", which peaked at No. 2 while "Fancy" was No. 1. Azalea joined The Beatles as the only acts to rank at numbers one and two simultaneously with their first two Billboard Hot 100 entries.

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Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
9-Time Emmy Award Winner, 2-Time Grammy Award Winner, and 2-Time Peabody Award Winner

Television

Stephen Colbert is best known for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program "The Colbert Report" from 2005 to 2014, and the CBS talk program "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" beginning in September 2015.

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Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

Technology

Sheryl Sandberg is an American technology executive, activist, and author. She is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook and founder of Leanin.org. As of June 2015, she is reported to be worth over $1 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook.

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Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill
Actor

Film

Henry Cavill is an English actor. He gained prominence and international fame for playing Superman in the DC Extended Universe, starring in "Man of Steel" (2013), "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016), and "Justice League" (2017).

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