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Robert Craig Knievel, professionally known as Evel Knievel, was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Over the course of his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps.

Sandra Ravel was an Italian film actress of the 1930s.

Matthias Augustinus Wilhelm Georg Opdenhövel is a German television presenter.

Maxence Danet-Fauvel is a French actor and model.

Golda Rosheuvel is a Guyanese-British actress and singer. She is known for her theatre work.

Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party and who twice ran for presidential nomination of that party.

Robert Edward Knievel II is an American daredevil and son of stunt performer Evel Knievel. He has also used the moniker "Kaptain Robbie Knievel".

Jean-François Revel was a French journalist, philosopher, and a member of the Académie française from June 1998 onwards. A socialist in his youth, Revel later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics.

Laura Natalia Esquivel, known professionally as Laura Esquivel, is an Argentine and Italian actress and singer, who gained international popularity for her debut acting role as Patricia "Patito" Castro in the popular Argentine children's telenovela, Patito Feo.

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.

Robert Hugh Carvel is an English actor. He has twice won a Laurence Olivier Award: for his performances as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical and Rupert Murdoch in Ink. For the latter role, he also won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Nicolas Revel né Ricard is a French senior civil servant. He has been the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff since 3 July 2020.

On 21 June 1998, Daniel Nivel, member of the National Gendarmerie was assaulted in the city of Lens by German football hooligans during the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He fell into a six-week coma and was left with permanent disability.

Sean Covel is an American film producer best known for being a producer of Napoleon Dynamite.

Élodie Clouvel is a French female modern pentathlete. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed finishing in 31st place which also marked her maiden appearance at the Summer Olympics. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2016 Olympic Games. She is also currently serving as the second lieutenant of the National Gendarmerie. Her father Pascal Clouvel was a middle and long-distance runner while her mother Annick Clouvel was also a long-distance runner.

Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.

Jean Nouvel is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008. A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.

José Sosa Esquivel was a Mexican tenor. He is best known for being the father of the famed singer José José. He died because of his alcoholism, after leaving his family.

Catherine Rouvel is an acclaimed French actress. Her career spans from 1959 in television to 2004.

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983), during which he was detained, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months; during that period he also received, among other distinctions, the Pope John XXIII Peace Memorial.

William Jacobus vanden Heuvel was an American attorney, businessman, and author, as well as a diplomat. He was known for advising Robert F. Kennedy during the latter's campaigns for Senate in 1964 and president in 1968. Vanden Heuvel established the Roosevelt Institute in 1987. He was the father of Katrina vanden Heuvel, longtime editor of The Nation magazine, and Wendy vanden Heuvel, children from his marriage to author/editor Jean Stein, the daughter of MCA founder Jules C. Stein.

Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel, was a British business executive, Labour life peer and member of the House of Lords. In his 20s he played first-class cricket while at university and for several seasons afterwards. He was the stepfather of Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury.