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Yasuko Komiyama is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kawagoe, Saitama, she attended Keio University and received a master's degree from Nihon University. After having served in the assembly of Saitama Prefecture for two terms since 1995, she ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 2000 as an independent and in 2001 as a member of Ichirō Ozawa's Liberal Party. She ran once again in 2003, this time as a member of the DPJ, and was elected for the first time.

Vusi Sidney Mahlasela Ka Zwane is a Sotho South African singer-songwriter.

Karina Skibby is a road cyclist from Denmark. She represented her nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the women's road race and at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the women's road race.