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Lynn Kanuka-Williams is a Canadian athlete from Regina, Saskatchewan. She competed in 3000m races, as well as a smaller number of 1500m races.

Chris Van den Durpel is a Belgian impressionist and actor. He became known for his parody of Paul Jambers and Herman Le Compte and self-made characters such as Kamiel Spiessens, Jimmy B.,Snelle Eddy, Ronny King and Firmin Crets. He is also famous as an imitator of famous Flemish and Dutch people.

Dennis C. Stewart is a retired male judoka from Great Britain, who competed for the United Kingdom at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the bronze medal in the Men's Half-Heavyweight division after being defeated in the semi-finals by Brazil's eventual gold medalist Aurélio Miguel.

Joachim Wuermeling a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria. Between 2005 and 2008, he served as State Secretary for the European Union in the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology.

Eli Biham is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department. Starting from October 2008 and till 2013, Biham was the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, after serving for two years as chief of CS graduate school. Biham received his Ph.D. for inventing (publicly) differential cryptanalysis, while working under Adi Shamir. It had, it turned out, been invented at least twice before. A team at IBM discovered it during their work on DES, and was requested/required to keep their discovery secret by the NSA, who evidently knew about it as well.

Richard Henry Ronald Benyon, Baron Benyon is a British Conservative Party politician. He was first elected as the MP for Newbury in 2005 and was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Benyon had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 by prime minister Boris Johnson, after voting against the government, and sat as an independent MP until he had the whip restored by the prime minister on 28 October.