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Susanne Elisabeth Wuest is an Austrian actress from Vienna.

Alexander Gordon Shelley is an Echo Music Prize-winning English conductor. He is currently music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, as well as principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Shelley was the unanimous winner of the 2005 Leeds Conductors Competition. From 2009 to 2017 he was chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. He is also artistic director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen's Echo and Deutsche Gründerpreis winning "Zukunftslabor".

Artur Taymazov is an Ossetian-Uzbek-Russian wrestler and politician. He was Uzbekistan's most decorated Olympian before being stripped 2 gold medals for doping. In 2016, he was elected to the 7th State Duma of the Russian Federation representing Yabloko.

Hideaki Sorachi is the pen name of a Japanese manga artist best known for Gin Tama. As of May 2016, the Gin Tama manga has sold 50 million units in Japan.

Guy Luyindula Makanda, known as Peguy Luyindula, is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Aurore Lalucq is a French economist and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

Jun Hirose is a former professional Japanese baseball player. He played as an outfielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Eliot Ward Higgins, who previously wrote under the pseudonym Brown Moses, is a British citizen journalist and former blogger, known for using open sources and social media for investigations. He has investigated the Syrian Civil War, 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. He first gained mainstream media attention by identifying weapons in uploaded videos from the Syrian conflict. He is the founder of Bellingcat, a website for the citizen journalist to investigate current events using open-source information such as videos, maps and pictures.

Eva Llorach is a Spanish actress. Her breakout performance was her role in the 2018 drama film Quién te cantará, which earned her the Goya Award for Best New Actress in 2019.

José de Avillez Burnay Ereira, known as José Avillez, is a Portuguese chef and restaurateur. He is one of the most renowned Portuguese chefs. In the beginning of 2012, José Avillez opened the fully renovated Belcanto winning a Michelin star that same year. In 2014, Belcanto earned its second Michelin star and in 2019 was considered one of the 50 best restaurants in the world by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Currently, he has several restaurants in Portugal, in Lisbon and Porto, and also in Dubai. His cooking style, contemporary and Portuguese-inspired, has earned him several national and international accolades, including 2015's “Chef of the Year” by WINE magazine.