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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist and politician who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.
Salah Abdeslam
Salah Abdeslam is a Belgium-born French national. He is suspected of being the only surviving member of the group directly involved in the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015 through providing logistical support for the assailants, driving them to their target locations, and having some involvement in the manufacture of the explosives used.
Carrie Lam
Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is a Hong Kong politician serving as the fourth and current Chief Executive of Hong Kong since 2017. She served as Chief Secretary for Administration from 2012 to 2017 and Secretary for Development from 2007 to 2012.
Mary in Islam
Maryam ibnat Imran, the mother of Isa (Jesus), English: Mary, daughter of Amram, holds a singularly exalted place in Islam as the only woman named in the Quran, which refers to her seventy times and explicitly identifies her as the greatest of all women, stating, with reference to the angelic saluation during the annunciation, "O Mary, God has chosen you, and purified you; He has chosen you above all the women of creation." In the Quran, her story is related in three Meccan chapters and four Medinan surahs, and the nineteenth Surah titled Maryam, is named after her. The Quran refers to Mary more often than the Bible.
George Lam
George Lam Tse Cheung, also known professionally by his surname Lam, is a Hong Kong-based veteran Cantopop singer, singer-songwriter, music producer and actor, with a career that has so far lasted more than four decades. Lam produces most of his own albums, writes many of his own songs, occasionally writes for other artists, and covers other people's songs. Lam has a wide vocal range and is capable of interpreting and performing many different genres of music. He is heavily involved with planning and designing his concerts and his LP/CD covers. He was the one who came up with the first Cantopop rap, "Ah Lam's Diary", and he also pioneered the stringing together of multiple hit Cantopop songs to create a 10-minute long medley which is called "10 Minutes 12 Inches". In 2019, Lam interwove his songs together to put on a musical-like concert, Lamusical.
Raymond Lam
Raymond Lam is a Hong Kong actor and singer who has acted roles in the television dramas A Step into the Past, Moonlight Resonance, Highs and Lows and Line Walker and was dubbed the King of Chok after his role in The Mysteries of Love.
Terence Lam
Terence Lam Ka-him is a Hong Kong composer, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Lam had a musical interest at a young age, having started to learn playing the piano when he was four or five years old. He attended the Lingnan University, where he received the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Contemporary English Studies in 2013. During his university studies, Lam participated in several college singing competitions, where he met the singer-songwriter Chet Lam who brought him into the music industry. In 2014, he became a composer, signing a contract for Warner Chappell Music Hong Kong where at one point he was composing one song a week.
Karena Lam
Karena Lam is a Taiwanese Canadian, actress and singer based in Hong Kong. In 2015, she won the Best Actress award at the Golden Horse Awards for her role in Zinnia Flower, making her the first person ever to have won all of the following three Golden Horse awards: Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer.
Taran Killam
Taran Hourie Killam is an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his television work on shows such as The Amanda Show, How I Met Your Mother, Mad TV, New Girl, Saturday Night Live, and Single Parents. Killam is also known for his portrayal of a teen pop star in the 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie Stuck in the Suburbs.
Fawad Alam
Fawad Tariq Alam is a Pakistani cricketer who plays for Sindh and Pakistan national cricket team. He came back into Pakistan's test team after a gap of 88 tests and more than 10 years, second longest gap by a Pakistani in test cricket after Younis Ahmed’s 104 tests gap.
Yammie Lam
Yammie Lam Kit-ying, also known as Yammie Nam, was a Hong Kong actress and most notable for her performances in TVB drama series The Greed of Man and Looking Back In Anger, as well as in the film series A Chinese Odyssey. Lam was found dead in her apartment at Leung Ma House in Stanley, Hong Kong. She was last seen on 31 October 2018, aged 55.
James Bolam
James Christopher Bolam, is an English actor, best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies programme Grandpa in My Pocket.
Wong Cho-lam
Wong Cho-lam is a Hong Kong entertainer currently working for TVB. He works as a stage actor, stage director, television actor, voice actor, DJ, television host, lyricist, scriptwriter and singer. He is also the host of Hunan TV's World's Got Talent.
Mashari Al-Ballam
Mashari Saleh Mohsen Al-Ballam, was a Kuwaiti actor. He played many complex roles, such as the epileptic patient in the series Paths of Doubt, and the deaf mute in the series Jarrah Al-Zaman.
Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. He led the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election. He won the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office in this manner.
Joseph in Islam
Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn ʾIbrāhīm is a prophet mentioned in the Quran, and corresponds to Joseph, a person from the Tanakh, the Jewish religious scripture, and the Christian Bible, who was estimated to have lived in the 16th century BCE. It is one of the common names in the Middle East and among Muslim nations. Of all of Jacob's children, Joseph was the one given the gift of prophecy. Although the narratives of other prophets are mentioned in various Surahs, the complete narrative of Joseph is given only in one Surah, Yusuf, making it unique. It is said to be the most detailed narrative in the Qur'an and bears more details than the Biblical counterpart.
Jimmy Haslam
James Arthur Haslam III is an American businessman and sports executive. He is the chief executive officer of the Pilot Flying J truck stop chain, co-owner with his wife Dee of both the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL), and Columbus Crew SC of Major League Soccer (MLS) - with which he has an MLS Cup Championship to his credit. His father Jim Haslam founded the Pilot Corporation in 1958 as the Pilot Oil Corporation.
Sandy Lam
Sandy Lam, is a Hong Kong singer, actress and album producer. She rose to fame in the 1980s as a Cantopop singer, before expanding her fan base significantly in Asia, releasing more than 30 stylistically diverse albums in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese.
Rasikh Salam
Rasikh Salam Dar is an Indian cricketer. In December 2018, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians in the player auction for the 2019 Indian Premier League. He became the third cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir to be picked in the Indian Premier League. At 17 years and 353 days, he became the youngest player to make their debut for the Mumbai Indians. However, in June 2019, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) banned him for two years following a discrepancy with his birth certificate.
Eman Lam
Eman Lam Yee-man is a Hong Kong singer and songwriter. Lam and Ellen Joyce Loo were part of the vocal duo at17.
Bill Haslam
William Edward Haslam is an American billionaire businessman and politician, who served as the 49th Governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party and was previously the mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee from 2004 to 2011.
John the Baptist in Islam
Yaḥyā ibn Zakarīyā, identified in English as John the Baptist, is considered in Islam a prophet and messenger of God (Allah) who was sent to guide the Children of Israel. He is believed by Muslims to have been a witness to the word of God who would herald the coming of Isa Al-Masih.
Brahim Abdeslam
The Brussels ISIL terror cell were a group accused of involvement in large-scale terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 and Brussels in early 2016, as well as other attacks against European targets. The terror cell is connected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a jihadist terrorist organisation primarily based in Syria and Iraq.
Solomon in Islam
Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd was, according to the Quran, a Malik and Nabī (Prophet) of the Israelites. Islamic tradition generally holds that he was the third King of Jewish people, and wise ruler for the nation.
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam was a Bengali poet, writer, musician and the national poet of Bangladesh. Popularly known as Nazrul, he produced a large body of poetry and music with themes that included religious devotion and rebellion against oppression. Nazrul's activism for political and social justice earned him the title of "Bidrohi Kobi". His compositions form the avant-garde music genre of Nazrul Geeti.
Ajith Kollam
Ajith Kollam was an Indian film actor, who predominantly appeared in Malayalam cinema. He had acted in more than 500 films in all South Indian languages. He mainly acted in villain roles. he acted in Tamil movie Airport (1993)
Mirkelam
Fergan Mirkelam (born 20 May 1966, Istanbul) is a Turkish singer. He first became known with his song "Her Gece" in 1995.
Frankie Lam
Frankie Lam Man-lung is a Hong Kong actor. He entered a singing contest and subsequently, signed a contract with TVB. He left TVB in 2011 to join HKTV.
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam
Phanindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam was a prominent politician of the Indian National Congress and later the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha from the Salem constituency from 1984 to 1996 and Tiruchirapalli constituency from 1998 to 2000. He served as the Minister of State for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in the P. V. Narasimha Rao government from July 1991 to December 1993 and as the Union Minister for Power in the Vajpayee Government from 1998 to 2000. He was the grandson of former Chief Minister of Madras, P. Subbarayan and the nephew of former Indian Chief of Army, General P. P. Kumaramangalam.
Siu-Por Lam
Lam Siu-por is a Hong Kong mathematician and the husband of Carrie Lam, the fourth Chief Executive of Hong Kong since 2017.