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Vanessa Redgrave (b. 1937), English actress of stage, screen and television, and a political activist.
 
Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966).
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Wilhelm Röntgen (1845 - 1923)
German engineer and physicist. Father of the X-rays. Nobel laureate.



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[ Googled: Xavier Rudd (b. 1978), Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. ]
 
 
Yves Rocher (1930 – 2009), French businessman, founder of the Yves Rocher cosmetics company.
 


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Zbigniew Rybczyński (born 1949).
Polish filmmaker and multimedia artist. I found him by chance googling but he has a place here since he produced or directed music videos for Rush, Supertramp, Alan Parsons Project, Simple Minds, Jimmy Cliff, Lou Reed and others.



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Wow, that was pretty fast run of R's.
 
 
Anne Sexton (1928 – 1974), American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse.
 
QUIZ: Which song by a well-known prog-related artist is inspired by her poem(s)?
 
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^Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel.

Boyan Slat (b. 1994)

Dutch inventor and entrepreneur, involved in getting the oceans rid of plastic.




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^ Yes. A lovely song!
 
Carol Shields (1935 – 2003), American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. I've enjoyed many of her books.
 
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Donald Sutherland (b. 1935)

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Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), Austrian painter. His work is noted for its intensity and raw sexuality.
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Frank Sinatra.




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George Soros (b. 1930)
 
György Schwarz, Hungarian-American investor and political manipulator. Likely the mightiest man on Earth (he controls the major European Commissioners and at least 226 Europarlementarians) and one of the most evil.
 
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Horace Silver (1928 – 2014), American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
 
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Ibn Saud (1875 - 1953).
First monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia.
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Jane Seymour (c. 1508 – 1537), Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of Henry VIII. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of a son who became King Edward VI. She was the only one of Henry's six wives to receive a queen's funeral.
 
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Well, let's go on...
 
Karol Szymanowski (1882 – 1937), Polish composer and pianist.
 
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Lawrence Summers (b. 1954)

American economist
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Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851), English novelist, short story writer, essayist, etc.,
best known for the Gothic horror novel Frankenstein (1818).
 
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Neil Sedaka (b. 1939).
American pop singer and composer.
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Omar Sy (b. 1978).
French actor. Well-known for his role in The Intouchables, X-Men and Jurassci World.
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Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) - English film actor, comedian and singer.

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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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