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Udonis Haslem
Udonis Johneal Haslem is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, where he was a key member of four NCAA tournament teams. Haslem began his professional career in France with Chalon-sur-Saône and then signed with his hometown Miami Heat in 2003. He has won three NBA championships while playing for the Heat.
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
Baldwin IV, called the Leper or The Leper King, reigned as King of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death. He was the son of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his first wife, Agnes of Courtenay.
John Clem
John Lincoln Clem, famously known as Johnny Shiloh, was a United States Army general who served as a drummer boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1915, having attained the rank of brigadier general in the Quartermaster Corps; he was at that time the last veteran of the American Civil War still on duty in the U.S. Armed Forces, although others similarly aged and experienced such as Albert A. Michelson rejoined the military after World War I started. By special act of Congress on August 29, 1916, he was promoted to major general one year after his retirement.
Christophe Willem
Christophe Frédéric Durier, better known by his stage name Christophe Willem, is a French singer and the winner of the fourth edition of Nouvelle Star in 2006.
Zinedine Soualem
Zinedine Soualem is a French actor. He has appeared in at least five films directed by Cédric Klapisch.
Leo Harlem
Leonardo González Feliz, better known as Leo Harlem, is a Spanish comedian and late-blooming actor.
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into over 40 languages and have sold over 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has been made into a feature film three times. In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Lem's science fiction works explore philosophical themes through speculations on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of communication with and understanding of alien intelligence, despair about human limitations, and humanity's place in the Universe. His essays and philosophical books cover these and many other topics.
Abu Salem
Abu Salem ( AH-boo sah-LEM; born Abu Salem Abdul Qayoom Ansari, also known as Aqil Ahmed Azmi 'and Abu Samaan, is an Indian gangster and terrorist convicted to 25 years life sentence, who hails from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh. Abu Salem worked in the D-Company as a driver transporting weapons and contraband. Later he rose among the ranks after he introduced a new strategy of hiring unemployed youths from his hometown Azamgarh to come to Mumbai, execute shoot-outs and return to Azamgarh the next day remaining untraced by the Mumbai police.
Baldwin V of Jerusalem
King Baldwin V, was King of Jerusalem together with his uncle, King Baldwin IV, from 1183 to 1185; upon his uncle's death, he was the sole ruler from 1185 to 1186 under the regency of Count Raymond III of Tripoli. He was succeeded by his mother Sibylla and stepfather Guy of Lusignan.
Narcissus of Jerusalem
Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem was an early patriarch of Jerusalem. He is venerated as a saint by both the Western and Eastern Churches. In the Roman Catholic Church, his feast day is celebrated on October 29, while in the Eastern Orthodox Church it is celebrated on August 7.
Fafá de Belém
Fafá de Belém, born Maria de Fátima Palha de Figueiredo in Belém do Pará on August 9, 1956, is a Brazilian singer considered one of the great female singers of MPB. She took her stage name from the city of her birth and in addition to a successful recording career that spans over three decades, it is fair to say that she has been one of the great sex symbols of Brazilian pop music. Her husky mezzo-soprano voice is known for its extensive emotional range, from tender ballads, to sensual love songs, to Portuguese fados all the way to energetic sambas and lambadas.
Linda Wallem
Linda Wallem is an American actress, writer, and producer.
Fernando Daquilem
Fernando Daquilema Ruiz was an Ecuadorian indigenous leader, considered a hero for the struggle for the rights of his people.
Hidaya Sultan al-Salem
Hidaya Sultan al-Salem,, sometimes transliterated as Hedaya, was a Kuwaiti journalist and author, who owned and edited the one of Kuwait's earliest political magazines al-Majalis in Kuwait City, Kuwait. She was Kuwait's first female to serve as an editor of a publication. She was a feminist and secularist, and she campaigned against corruption and on behalf of women's rights and suffrage in Kuwait. She was the first journalist to be killed in Kuwait since the Committee to Protect Journalists began recording these acts in 1992.
Walid Muallem
Walid Mohi Edine al Muallem was a Syrian diplomat and Ba'ath Party member who served as foreign minister from 2006 to 2020 and as deputy prime minister from 2012 to 2020.
Tiff Macklem
Richard Tiffany "Tiff" Macklem is a Canadian banker and economist who serves as the current Governor of the Bank of Canada. He was also the former Dean of the Rotman School of Management and had previously served as the Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada.
Abu Bakr Salem
Abu Bakr Salem Balfaqih was a Yemeni singer born on March 17, 1939 in Tarim,Hadhramout. He is also nicknamed Abu Aseel, The Father of Khaleeji Music ., and The one with the golden larynx. Abu Bakr is famously known in the Arab world by his unique riveting voice. He is one of the few musicians in the Arab world who succeeded at being a singer, poet, and composer at the same time and thus, he is considered a complete artist. Before drawing his path in the music world, Abu Bakr worked as a teacher for three years, drawing on his training at a teachers’ institute in Yemen. Some of Abu Bakr's patriotic odes to Yemen celebrated the significant historical events such as the abolition of the monarchy in the north in 1962, the independence of the south in 1967, and the unification of both the South and North Yemen in 1990. In addition to the Yemeni nationality, Abu Bakr also held the Saudi nationality after he moved to Saudi Arabia in the 70's. During his musical career, he worked with other pioneers in the Khaleeji music field including Talal Maddah, Tariq Abdul-Hakim and Shadi Gulf. His last release was a duet with young Yemeni singer and winner of the “Khaleeji Star” Fouad Abdulwahed. Abu Bakr Salem died on December 10, 2017.
Maria Zilda Bethlem
Maria Zilda Bethlem, also known as Maria Zilda, is a Brazilian actress. She is known for the role Verônica in the Rede Globo telenovela Vereda Tropical.
Isabella II of Jerusalem
Isabella II, also known as Yolande of Brienne, was a princess of French origin who became monarch of Jerusalem.
Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Baldwin I also known as Baldwin of Boulogne, was the first count of Edessa from 1098 to 1100, and the first king of Jerusalem from 1100 to his death. Being the youngest son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida of Lorraine, he was destined for a church career, but he abandoned it and married a Norman noblewoman, Godehilde of Tosny. He received the County of Verdun in 1096, but he soon joined the crusader army of his brother Godfrey of Bouillon and became one of the most successful commanders of the First Crusade.
El Hedi ben Salem
El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor, best known for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Nordahl Wallem
Nordahl Eriksen Wallem was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Werner Scholem
Werner Scholem was a member of the German Reichstag in 1924–1928 and a leading member of the Communist Party of Germany. Werner Scholem and his wife Emmy were portrayed in the 2014 documentary "Between Utopia and Counter Revolution".
Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Baldwin III was King of Jerusalem from 1143 to 1163. He was the eldest son of Melisende and Fulk of Jerusalem. He became king while still a child, and was at first overshadowed by his mother Melisende, whom he eventually defeated in a civil war. During his reign Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the Second Crusade tried and failed to conquer Damascus. Baldwin captured the important Egyptian fortress of Ascalon, but also had to deal with the increasing power of Nur ad-Din in Syria. He died childless and was succeeded by his brother Amalric.
Sylvie Guillem
Sylvie Guillem is a French ballet dancer. Guillem was the top-ranking female dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet from 1984 to 1989, before becoming a principal guest artist with the Royal Ballet in London. She has performed contemporary dance as an Associate Artist of London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. Her most notable performances have included those in Giselle and in Rudolf Nureyev's stagings of Swan Lake and Don Quixote. In November 2014, she announced her retirement from the stage in 2015.