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Sarah Connor
Sarah Connor is a German singer and songwriter. Raised in Delmenhorst, she became part of a church choir at the age of six. Connor rose to prominence after she signed with X-Cell Records in 2000 and released her debut album Green Eyed Soul (2001) the following year. She followed it with a series of successful albums, including Unbelievable (2002), Key to My Soul (2003), Naughty but Nice (2005), Christmas in My Heart (2005), Soulicious (2007), Sexy as Hell (2008) and Real Love (2010). Several songs from these albums became hit singles on the pop record charts, including the number-one hits "From Sarah with Love", "Music is the Key", "Just One Last Dance", "Living to Love You" and "From Zero to Hero". In 2015, Connor's first German language project Muttersprache became her second chart topper after a decade.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired attorney, politician, and the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1981 until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman nominated and confirmed. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, she was considered the swing vote for the Rehnquist Court and the beginning of the Roberts Court.
Meghan Trainor
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor is an American singer-songwriter and talent show judge. She rose to prominence after signing with Epic Records in 2014 and releasing her debut single "All About That Bass", which reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold 11 million copies worldwide, and drew criticism for its lyrical content. Trainor has released three studio albums with the label and has received various awards and nominations, including the 2016 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. O'Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a new arrangement of Prince's song "Nothing Compares 2 U."
Josh O'Connor
Josh O'Connor is an English actor. He is known for his portrayal of Prince Charles in seasons 3 and 4 of the Netflix drama The Crown, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA. He is also known for his portrayal of Johnny Saxby in the 2017 film God's Own Country, directed by Francis Lee, for which he won a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, and for his portrayal of Lawrence Durrell in the ITV series The Durrells. He also appeared as Marius in BBC One's miniseries of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables.
Piers O'Conor
Piers O'Conor is an English rugby union fullback for Bristol Bears in Premiership Rugby. O'Conor has previously played for Wasps, Bedford and Ealing Trailfinders. Born in Sydney, Australia, O'Conor is qualified to play international rugby for Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and England. He has played for Ireland at under-19s level and England at under-20s level.
Des O'Connor
Desmond Bernard O'Connor was an English comedian, singer and television presenter.
Misty May-Treanor
Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor is a retired American professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, was the most successful female beach volleyball player with 112 individual championship wins in domestic and international competition.
Dave Challinor
David Paul Challinor is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers, Stockport County and Bury. He is the manager of National League club Stockport County.
Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer. Reznor serves as the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until 2016. The first Nine Inch Nails album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a commercial and critical success. Reznor has since released 11 more Nine Inch Nails studio albums.
Donald O'Connor
Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor was an American actor, dancer, and singer. He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule.
Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Her notable films include There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), The Birds and the Bees (1956), and South Pacific, the 1958 motion picture adaptation of the stage musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Josh Radnor
Joshua Thomas Radnor is an American actor, filmmaker, author, and musician. He is best known for portraying Ted Mosby on the popular, Emmy Award-winning, CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film Happythankyoumoreplease, for which he won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
Tom O'Connor
Thomas Patrick O'Connor was an English comedian, television presenter, and actor. He was best known for presenting game shows such as Crosswits, The Zodiac Game, Name That Tune, Password and Gambit.
Jack Reynor
Jack Reynor is an Irish actor. His notable roles include the lead in Lenny Abrahamson's film What Richard Did (2012), for which he won an IFTA Award for Best Film Actor, the blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction, Glassland, for which he won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival, Macbeth, Sing Street, Midsommar, and the CBS All Access streaming series Strange Angel.
Frances O'Connor
Frances Ann O'Connor is an English-Australian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Mansfield Park (1999), Bedazzled (2000), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and Timeline (2003). O'Connor has won an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Blessed (2009), and earned Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film nominations for her performances in Madame Bovary (2000) and The Missing (2014).
Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974), "Let Me Know " (1979), and "I Am What I Am" (1983).
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
Natalia Grosvenor
Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster,, was a British landowner, businessman, philanthropist, Territorial Army general, and peer. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton. He was Chairman of the property company Grosvenor Group. In the first ever edition of The Sunday Times Rich List, published in 1989, he was ranked as the second richest person in the United Kingdom, with a fortune of £3.2 billion with only The Queen above him.
Carroll O'Connor
John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor, producer, and director whose television career spanned four decades. A lifelong member of the Actors Studio, in 1971, O'Connor found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–79) and its spinoff, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–83). O'Connor later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–95), where he played the role of Sparta, Mississippi, police chief William "Bill" Gillespie. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You.
Ruairi O'Connor
Ruairi O’Connor is an Irish actor. He is known for his role as Henry Tudor, the future Henry VIII, in Starz series The Spanish Princess. He has also starred in Handsome Devil and The Devil Made Me Do It.
Jerry Trainor
Gerald William Trainor is an American actor, comedian and musician. He is known for his roles in the Nickelodeon shows Drake & Josh, iCarly, and T.U.F.F. Puppy.
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor is an English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, the FINA World Aquatics Championships and the LEN European Aquatics Championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. A specialist in the 200 metres individual medley, she is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion in the event, and has won silver medals in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, 2016 European Aquatics Championships, the 2014 World Short-Course Championships and the 2013 and 2015 European Short Course Championships – on each occasion behind World and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszú. With six Commonwealth Games medals in total from 2014, O'Connor was England's most decorated athlete at those Games.
Pete Gaynor
Peter Thomas Gaynor is an American Certified Emergency Manager who served as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security under President Trump. Gaynor previously served as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was appointed as Acting Administrator by President Donald Trump on March 8, 2019, and became Administrator on January 16, 2020.
Reed O'Connor
Reed Charles O'Connor is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2007.
Jane Minor
Jane Minor, also known as Gensey Snow, was an African-American healer and slave emancipator, one of the few documented enslaved healing practitioners in United States history.
Peter O'Connor
Peter O'Connor was an Irish track and field athlete who set a long-standing world record for the long jump and won two Olympic medals in the 1906 Intercalated Games.
Ben O'Connor
Ben Alexander O'Connor is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam AG2R Citroën Team.
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor was an American film, stage, and television actress and painter.
Cătălina Ponor
Cătălina Ponor is a Romanian former artistic gymnast who competed at three Olympiads: 2004, 2012, and 2016. She won three gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens on balance beam, floor and as part of the Romanian team. She also earned a silver medal on floor and bronze medal as part of the Romanian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, as well as multiple World Championship and European Championship medals. She announced her plans to retire from gymnastics after the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, in Montreal. During her career, she won 23 Olympic, World and European medals. More than half of them (12) were gold medals.