| Kim Kwang-Sun | ... ng of six title defenses against challengers as Leon Salazar, Hector Patri, | and Robinson Cuesta |
| Pierre Boulez | ... tre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and | ; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members h ... |
| Vegard Ulvang | Norwegians won every male cross-country skiing race, with Bjørn Dæhlie and | both collecting three gold. Ski jumper Toni Nieminen, 16, became the young ... |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... conductors closely associated with Puccini. In the 1946 RCA Victor release, | , who conducted the world premiere of the opera, conducts the NBC Symphony ... |
| Ronaldo | ... g wages and discipline, letting players such as Diego Maradona, Romário and | go rather than meeting their demands |
| Clint Eastwood | Bari is mentioned in the 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County starring | and Meryl Streep. In the film Francesca tells Robert that she comes from a ... |
| Jeremy Roenick | In the off-season, the Flyers re-vamped their lineup by signing | and finally trading Lindros to the Rangers for Kim Johnsson, Jan Hlavac, P ... |
| Georg Solti | ... e played as part of it. Famous Mahler conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, | and Bernard Haitink never performed it. Others perform Blumine before or a ... |
| Michael Jordan | ... Phil Ford, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, James Worthy and | in men's basketball; and Mia Hamm (twice), Shannon Higgins, Kristine Lilly ... |
| Gillian Apps | ... the United States' 2006 bronze medal-winning ice hockey team. Cherie Piper, | , and Katie Weatherston were among Canada's ice hockey gold medalists in 2 ... |
| Birgit Prinz | ... ei, Fan Yunjie, Zhang Ouying, Gao Hong, Zhao Lihong, and Bai Jie; Germany's | , Conny Pohlers, Steffi Jones and Maren Meinert; Norway's Hege Riise, Unni ... |
| Jesse Owens | ... e as the fastest white sprinter behind the black Americans, one of whom was | , who won both events. A possible third medal was lost when Osendarp dropp ... |
| Mia Hamm | ... son, Vince Carter, James Worthy and Michael Jordan in men's basketball; and | (twice), Shannon Higgins, Kristine Lilly, and Tisha Venturini in women's s ... |
| Jesse Owens | ... tells an anecdote about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger | about Adolf Hitler during a 1958 episode; this is one of the episodes that ... |
| Alexandre Pato | ... first game in Mexico, the team had a good performance but was defeated 2-1. | opened the scoring. In the second match, supported by over 51,000 fans cra ... |
| Clint Eastwood | ... ayed South Africa national rugby union team captain François Pienaar in the | -directed film Invictus, which is based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playi ... |
| Benvenuto Cellini | ... upil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven by jealousy of | and Michelangelo; and recounts that |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... d transcriptions, most famously in a piano version made by Russian composer | . Other selections familiar to listeners in the West are "Dance of the Tum ... |
| Tina Thompson | ... errot, who succumbed to cancer in 1999, and college stars Michelle Snow and | |
| Bernard Haitink | ... of it. Famous Mahler conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Georg Solti and | never performed it. Others perform Blumine before or after the symphony, w ... |
| Cherie Piper | ... re members of the United States' 2006 bronze medal-winning ice hockey team. | , Gillian Apps, and Katie Weatherston were among Canada's ice hockey gold ... |
| Johnny Weissmuller | ... movie theaters to see bodybuilding idols such as Reg Park, Steve Reeves and | on the big screen. "I was inspired by individuals like Reg Park and Steve ... |
| Mark Spitz | ... ael Phelps and Apolo Ohno as well as 1970s nine time swimming gold medalist | |
| Benjamin Britten | ... 3 years after the author's death, was later turned into a play, an opera by | and a film by Peter Ustinov |
| Toni Nieminen | ... with Bjørn Dæhlie and Vegard Ulvang both collecting three gold. Ski jumper | , 16, became the youngest male gold medalist of a Winter Olympic event. Pe ... |
| Arnold Bax | ... music that Brian's could reasonably be mistaken for is some of the work of | , particularly Bax's violent early symphonies (1 and 2). However, while Ba ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... d in Zaire as part of the buildup to The Rumble in the Jungle fight between | and George Foreman. Admirers of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and o ... |
| Conny Pohlers | ... , Zhang Ouying, Gao Hong, Zhao Lihong, and Bai Jie; Germany's Birgit Prinz, | , Steffi Jones and Maren Meinert; Norway's Hege Riise, Unni Lehn, and Dagn ... |
| Stanley Morison | ... Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after | had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and t ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... e English song-cycle in his version of Tennyson's Maud a little previously. | produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, ... |
| Meldrick Taylor | ... los Zárate, Azumah Nelson, Andrzej Gołota, Mike McCallum, Gerald McClellan, | , Marco Antonio Barrera, Tomasz Adamek and Ricardo Mayorga are some of the ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... on. King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including | , George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César ... |
| Lev Yashin | ... he IFFHS named Banks the second best goalkeeper of the 20th century – after | (1st) and ahead of Dino Zoff (3rd) |
| Benjamin Britten | ... , who then sold it to James Osborn, who then donated it to Yale University. | gave the first rediscovered performance of the Hamburg version in 1967, af ... |
| Edward Elgar | ... 7) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies. | tried to revive the genre in the first years of the next century |
| Samuel Eto'o | ... n without trophies. A pre-season U.S. tour and open feud between the player | and Rijkaard was later blamed for the lack of trophies. In La Liga, Barça ... |
| Pierre Boulez | ... , and Erich Leinsdorf; more recently, others have included Kurt Sanderling, | , Leonard Bernstein, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and Rafael Früh ... |
| Azumah Nelson | ... ernard Hopkins, Ricardo López, Félix Trinidad, Terry Norris, Carlos Zárate, | , Andrzej Gołota, Mike McCallum, Gerald McClellan, Meldrick Taylor, Marco ... |
| Annegret Richter | ... nning medals in all three once again. She was beaten for the 100 m title by | , and came third in a 200 m race with five German women in the first five ... |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... icordi arranged a Roman premiere for the opera, even though this meant that | could not conduct it as Puccini had hoped—Toscanini was fully engaged at L ... |
| Thomas Beecham | ... ng to establish itself as a self-governing body after the withdrawal of Sir | . In 1949 the opera The Olympians by Arthur Bliss, to a libretto by Priest ... |
| Maren Meinert | ... ihong, and Bai Jie; Germany's Birgit Prinz, Conny Pohlers, Steffi Jones and | ; Norway's Hege Riise, Unni Lehn, and Dagny Mellgren; Brazil's Sissi, Káti ... |
| Witold Lutosławski | ... law Schaeffer, Włodzimierz Kotoński, Witold Szalonek, Krzysztof Penderecki, | , Wojciech Kilar, Kazimierz Serocki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki |
| John LeClair | ... inger Recchi was traded to Montreal for Eric Desjardins, Gilbert Dionne and | early in the abbreviated season. The Flyers initially struggled out of the ... |
| Kenneth Brokenburr | ... team-mates Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene and | . An spokeswoman said the committee would look into the matter as part of ... |
| George Foreman | ... romoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, | , Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, Andrew ... |
| Ronaldinho | ... ,000 in September 2009, the sharp rise being attributed to the influence of | and then-president Joan Laporta's media strategy that focused on Spanish a ... |
| George Foreman | ... t of the buildup to The Rumble in the Jungle fight between Muhammad Ali and | . Admirers of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and other jazz musician ... |
| Venus Williams | ... ce in Stowe on hard courts in July. Vania King, Lisa Raymond, Meilen Tu and | made up the team for the U.S. A 4100 capacity stadium was built at Topnotc ... |
| Estela Giménez | ... group won the first gold medal of the new competition with a team formed by | , Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and T ... |
| Richard Strauss | ... n be considerably different; at the furthest extreme the Four Last Songs of | are normatively described as "Late Romantic" and were composed in 1946–48. ... |
| Leonard Bernstein | ... nsdorf; more recently, others have included Kurt Sanderling, Pierre Boulez, | , Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos |
| Pierre Boulez | ... centennial production of 1976 directed by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by | . Set in the industrial revolution, it replaced the depths of the Rhine wi ... |
| Clint Eastwood | ... Editing and Best Cinematography. Scorsese lost again, this time to director | for Million Dollar Baby (which also won Best Picture) |
| Jaromir Jagr | ... July 1, the Flyers traded Kris Versteeg to Florida, signed former all-star | to a 1-year contract, Anaheim's Andreas Lilja to a 2-year contract and Pit ... |
| Romário | ... icy regarding wages and discipline, letting players such as Diego Maradona, | and Ronaldo go rather than meeting their demands |
| Sarah Parsons | ... in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki. Kristin King and | were members of the United States' 2006 bronze medal-winning ice hockey te ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... these scales made him seem conservative compared with later composers like | , though they were often building on Rimsky-Korsakov's work |
| Mike McCallum | ... Félix Trinidad, Terry Norris, Carlos Zárate, Azumah Nelson, Andrzej Gołota, | , Gerald McClellan, Meldrick Taylor, Marco Antonio Barrera, Tomasz Adamek ... |
| Johannes Brahms | ... icians have influenced European classical composers such as Franz Liszt and | . The lăutari who perform at traditional Romanian weddings are virtually a ... |
| Hayley Wickenheiser | ... season games against the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins, and in 2003 | played with the Kirkkonummi Salamat in the Finnish men's Suomi-sarja leagu ... |
| Marta Baldó | ... rst gold medal of the new competition with a team formed by Estela Giménez, | , Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and Tania Lamarca |
| Barry McGuigan | ... ent to Ireland, where he lost a ten round decision to future world champion | |
| Jim Thorpe | ... sity starter as running back and linebacker in 1912, tackling the legendary | of the Carlisle Indians that year. Eisenhower broke his leg in that, his l ... |
| Sheryl Swoopes | ... s Cynthia Cooper (the WNBA's first MVP), college and national team standout | , Kim Perrot, who succumbed to cancer in 1999, and college stars Michelle ... |
| Leonard Bernstein | ... so it should not be played as part of it. Famous Mahler conductors such as | , Georg Solti and Bernard Haitink never performed it. Others perform Blumi ... |
| Dunga | ... lli, Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso and many others faced the likes of | , Careca, Taffarel and several of the team that won the World Cup in the U ... |
| Rachmaninoff | ... n the theremin include Massenet's Thaïs-Méditation (originally for violin), | 's Vocalise, and Saint-Saëns' Le cygne (The Swan) (originally for violonce ... |
| Arthur Bliss | ... er the withdrawal of Sir Thomas Beecham. In 1949 the opera The Olympians by | , to a libretto by Priestley, was premiered |
| Gary Hurring | ... rently coaching at Capital Swim Club in Wellington. He co-coaches alongside | |
| Mahonri Young | ... self a leading expert in home economics. Other descendants include sculptor | , best-selling novelist Orson Scott Card, women's right activist Susa Youn ... |
| Pierre Boulez | ... lence) – showing how the sound of one drone could make music. Also in 1949, | befriended John Cage, who was visiting Paris to do research on the music o ... |
| Georg Solti | ... Wagner himself did not envisage. The production by Peter Hall, conducted by | at Bayreuth in 1983 is an example of the former, while the production by R ... |
| Josep Guardiola | ... arça failed to emulate the success of previous years, Barça B youth manager | took over Frank Rijkaard's duties at the conclusion of the season. Guardio ... |
| Vince Carter | ... Rachel Dawson in field hockey; Phil Ford, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, | , James Worthy and Michael Jordan in men's basketball; and Mia Hamm (twice ... |
| King Haakon VII | ... r returning to Britain, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of | and Queen Maud (George's sister) |
| Kristine Lilly | ... (158). She is the second most capped female player in soccer history behind | , appearing in 275 international matches throughout her career |
| Haakon VII of Norway | ... , Prince of Denmark. He was given the name Olav when his father became King | in 1905 |
| Petra Kronberger | ... inen, 16, became the youngest male gold medalist of a Winter Olympic event. | won both the combined event and the slalom, while Bonnie Blair won both th ... |
| Sergei Prokofiev | ... that quotes the children's song Frere Jacques, transposed into a minor key. | 's Lieutenant Kijé Suite features a difficult and very high double bass so ... |
| Richard Strauss | ... e Russian-German composer Ludwig Minkus, a tone poem by the German composer | , a German film (1933) directed by G. W. Pabst, a Soviet film (1957) direc ... |
| Maurice Greene | ... uring a competition in Reno, Nevada in 1996. He was timed at 5.56A seconds. | matched that performance in 1999, but his run was never ratified as a worl ... |
| Kristin King | ... th his gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki. | and Sarah Parsons were members of the United States' 2006 bronze medal-win ... |
| Briana Scurry | ... y Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Christie Pearce, Tiffany Roberts, | , Kate (Markgraf) Sobrero, Tisha Venturini, Saskia Webber and Sara Whalen |
| John von Neumann | ... the brain as essentially a digital computer in disguise, as for example in | 's 1958 book, The Computer and the Brain. Over the years, though, accumula ... |
| Rafael Sóbis | ... tunning the 80,000 são-paulinos attending the match at the Morumbi stadium, | scored twice in the second half before defender Edcarlos scored for São Pa ... |
| György Ligeti | ... ed for existing recordings of classical works, including pieces by composer | rather than the score by Alex North, although Kubrick had also hired Frank ... |
| Gail Emms | ... ed many other champions of sport past and present including Stephanie Cook, | , Liz Yelling and Paula Radcliffe who is Life Vice President of Bedford & ... |
| Quinn Buckner | ... e won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, having won it in the 2005–06 season. | and Jim Cleamons have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Mav ... |
| Lauren Jackson | ... st Ken Maynard of Ettamogah Pub fame, were all born in Albury. Basketballer | , who currently plays with the Seattle Storm of the WNBA, was also born in ... |
| King Haakon | ... Norwegian troops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's | , Crown Prince, and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue t ... |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... copper baron, arts enthusiast, and part-time violinist. He originally asked | to be the Philharmonic's first music director; however, Rachmaninoff had o ... |
| Yehudi Menuhin | ... Armstrong, Dean Martin, Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, Percy Grainger, Art Tatum, | , Bing Crosby, The Moody Blues, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra ... |
| Mark Spitz | The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany saw swimmer | set seven World Records and win a record seven gold medals. The 1976 Summe ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... e Philharmonic in concerts and/or world premieres of their works, including | , William Kraft, John Harbison, Witold Lutosławski, Aaron Copland, Pierre ... |
| Richard Avedon | ... ck cover, the album also included the famous photos of The Beatles taken by | copyrighted on 17 August 1967. The whole project uses exclusively differen ... |
| Nuria Cabanillas | ... l of the new competition with a team formed by Estela Giménez, Marta Baldó, | , Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and Tania Lamarca |
| Simon Gagne | ... Bay. Despite winning Game 6 on the late-game heroics of Primeau and winger | , the Flyers came up short once again losing Game 7 in Tampa, 2–1 |
| Carmelo Anthony | ... innesota Vikings, Dwight Freeney, defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts, | , forward for the New York Knicks, Tim Green, who played football for the ... |
| Olivier Messiaen | Prime numbers have influenced many artists and writers. The French composer | used prime numbers to create ametrical music through "natural phenomena". ... |
| Tisha Venturini | ... , Christie Pearce, Tiffany Roberts, Briana Scurry, Kate (Markgraf) Sobrero, | , Saskia Webber and Sara Whalen |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | ... ity, met with Soviet dissidents, and secured an exit visa for famed cellist | . Kennedy's Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees continued to focus on Vi ... |
| Plácido Domingo | ... ") on a 1981 EMI recording of Puccini's Tosca which featured Renata Scotto, | , and Renato Bruson, with James Levine conducting. He had earlier sung the ... |
| Benjamin Britten | ... ems of a pacifist or non-liturgical nature; for example, the War Requiem of | juxtaposes the Latin text with the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Krzysztof Pende ... |
| Zina Garrison | The 2007 Fed Cup Semifinals between the United States team (coached by | ) and Russia took place in Stowe on hard courts in July. Vania King, Lisa ... |
| Bernard Haitink | ... ard Jones at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1994–1996, conducted by | , is an example of the latter |
| Charles Gounod | ... a matter of debate. Other men closely linked to her included the composers | (she created the title role in his opera Sapho) and Hector Berlioz (who in ... |
| John von Neumann | ... ing physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, | , Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cy ... |
| Prokofiev | ... the 20th century, composers such as Wagner, Mahler, Beethoven, Busoni, and | also requested notes below the low E. There are two common methods for mak ... |
| Michael Johnson | ... -studded history: Pietro Mennea set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions | and Donovan Bailey went head-to-head over the distance in 1997, and improv ... |
| Grant Hill | ... uld become the most famous of the trio, winning Co-Rookie of the Year (with | ) in 1994–95 and eventually a perennial All-Star |
| Clint Eastwood | ... was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite | in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. In 1976, he starred as the pro ... |
| Paula Radcliffe | ... sport past and present including Stephanie Cook, Gail Emms, Liz Yelling and | who is Life Vice President of Bedford & County Athletic Clu |
| Plácido Domingo | ... times of day at which each act takes place. Featuring Catherine Malfitano, | and Ruggero Raimondi, the performance was broadcast live throughout Europe |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... me idiom being taken up by classical composers including Claude Debussy and | . Blues music was published and popularized by W. C. Handy, whose "Memphis ... |
| John von Neumann | ... the U.S. Navy had decided to build a large scale computer, on the advice of | . Atanasoff was put in charge of the project, and he asked Mauchly to help ... |
| Olivier Messiaen | ... s the pit orchestra in a production of the opera Saint François d'Assise by | ; it was the first time an American orchestra was given that opportunity. ... |
| Adrian Boult | ... mpson, himself a significant composer and BBC Music Producer, who asked Sir | to programme the Eighth Symphony in 1954. From then on Brian composed anot ... |
| Clifford Curzon | ... Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, Craig Charles, Sir | , Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, Ste ... |
| Robert Rauschenberg | ... of painting and sculpture. This trend in art is exemplified by the work of | , whose "combines" in the 1950s were forerunners of Pop Art and Installati ... |
| Witold Lutosławski | ... es of their works, including Igor Stravinsky, William Kraft, John Harbison, | , Aaron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky, John Williams, Jerry Goldsm ... |
| Kim Johnsson | ... up by signing Jeremy Roenick and finally trading Lindros to the Rangers for | , Jan Hlavac, Pavel Brendl, and a 2003 third-round draft pick (Stefan Ruzi ... |
| Magic Johnson | ... to 300. The honorees inducted in 2002 included the Harlem Globetrotters and | , a five-time NBA champion, three-time NBA finals MVP and Olympic gold med ... |
| Roger Federer | ... ors, including Switzerland's biggest sporting hero and frequent participant | , a Basel native who describes the city as "one of the most beautiful citi ... |
| Olivier Messiaen | ... met Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts, who had just completed studies with | (analysis) and Darius Milhaud (composition) in Paris, and Stockhausen reso ... |
| Michael East | Notable people famous in sports known for being born in Portsmouth such as | , a Commonwealth Games gold medal winning athlete, Richard Harwood cellist ... |
| Benjamin Britten | ... tures a difficult and very high double bass solo in the "Romance" movement. | 's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra contains a prominent passage ... |
| Bjørn Dæhlie | Norwegians won every male cross-country skiing race, with | and Vegard Ulvang both collecting three gold. Ski jumper Toni Nieminen, 16 ... |
| Robert Rauschenberg | ... others collaborated with artists Robert Morris, Robert Whitman, John Cage, | , and engineers like Billy Klüver. These performances were often designed ... |
| Krešimir Ćosić | ... r and 4-time NBA All-Star Mel Hutchins '51, and three-time Olympic medalist | '73. BYU also claims notable professional football players including two-t ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... l premieres, and introduced Los Angeles audiences to important new works by | and Arnold Schoenberg. The orchestra responded well to his leadership, but ... |
| Haakon VII of Norway | ... nderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King | and Queen Maud of Norway. At birth Olav was given the names Alexander Edwa ... |
| Lorena Guréndez | ... tition with a team formed by Estela Giménez, Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, | , Estíbaliz Martínez and Tania Lamarca |
| Pierre Boulez | ... travinsky, William Kraft, John Harbison, Witold Lutosławski, Aaron Copland, | , Steven Stucky, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Adams, Thomas Adès, ... |
| Ronaldinho | ... La Liga and the Supercopa de España in 2004–05, and the team's midfielder, | , won the FIFA World Player of the Year award |
| Herbert von Karajan | ... tations of the piece by Rattle's immediate predecessors, Claudio Abbado and | . He has also worked with the Toronto Children's Chorus. Rattle and the BP ... |
| Herbert von Karajan | ... nd chorus with Renata Tebaldi as Tosca and Mario Del Monaco as Cavaradossi. | 's acclaimed performance with the Vienna State Opera was in 1963, with Leo ... |
| Jefferson Pérez | ... s won only two medals in the Olympic Games, both gained by 20 km racewalker | , who took gold in the 1996 games, and silver 12 years later. Pérez also s ... |
| Miguel Indurain | ... sionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner | winning the inaugural individual time trial event |
| Shannon MacMillan | ... r, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, | , Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Christie Pearce, Tiffany ... |
| Nadia Comăneci | ... sion channels such as E!. Young sports icons are considered teen idols like | , Mary Lou Retton, Shawn Johnson, Michael Phelps and Apolo Ohno as well as ... |
| Pelle Lindbergh | ... r Wayne Gretzky on February 6, 2000, and number 31, last worn by goaltender | (1981–85), was removed from circulation after his death in November 1985 |
| Ingemar Stenmark | ... in the municipality, has fostered the internationally famous alpine skiers | , Stig Strand and Anja Pärson |
| Claudio Arrau | ... ventually attended a music conservatory in Berlin, one year behind virtuoso | , and studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Eugene d'Albert. He won the covete ... |
| Peter Forsberg | ... o Avalanche, utilized the parts of the trade on their way to two cups, with | becoming a franchise player |
| John von Neumann | He knew well and was in conversation with | , Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregor ... |
| Hiroki Kuroda | ... or league team with five. They included Japanese pitchers Takashi Saito and | ; South Korean pitcher Chan Ho Park; and Taiwanese pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo a ... |
| Joe Frazier | ... hen it showed the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing-match between Muhammad Ali and | |
| Carl Lewis | ... e Olympic medal winner. Only 2 other men in history, Frankie Fredericks and | , have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. He is the curre ... |
| Michael Blackburn | ... kolyi. Kitesurfers also do the crossing. Australian Olympic bronze medalist | set a record in October 2005 when he crossed the strait in just over 13 ho ... |
| Bruno Walter | An arrangement by | for piano four hands (two players at one piano) was published in 1906 |
| Kristine Lilly | ... ucar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, | , Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Chris ... |
| Bob Maitland | 1952 saw BSA establish a Professional Cycling Team. | a successful amateur cyclist and the highest placed British finisher in th ... |
| Manon Rhéaume | ... en's competition are required to wear protective full-face masks.One woman, | , appeared as a goaltender for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning in preseason ... |
| Kurt Angle | | of the United States won the gold medal in 100 kg (220 lb) freestyle wrest ... |
| W. A. Dwiggins | ... ts alone. The College Publications Committee commissioned noted typographer | to create a line drawing version of the seal in 1940 that saw widespread u ... |
| Adam Nelson | ... Casey Cramer. Dartmouth has also produced a number of Olympic competitors. | has won silver medals in the shotput in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2 ... |
| Taffarel | ... richello, Fernando Alonso and many others faced the likes of Dunga, Careca, | and several of the team that won the World Cup in the United States ten ye ... |
| Thorleif Haug | ... ronze medal. After fifty years an error had been discovered in the score of | |
| Harald V | ... died in the evening of a myocardial infarction. An interview given by King | , and hints in a biography by Jo Benkow, who was the president of the parl ... |
| Jonah Lomu | ... mony and game, as well as the All Blacks versus England semi-final that saw | run in four tries |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... nstant status to the new orchestra. A friend of composers Gustav Mahler and | , Gabrilowitsch demanded a new auditorium be built as a condition of his a ... |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | ... re's glory", where he also quoted the opening phrase of "Rule, Britannia!". | quoted "La Marseillaise" at some length during the fifth reel of the film ... |
| Leopoldo Serantes | ... h Korea for economic, social and cultural ties, supporting Filipino athlete | in the Olympics, and to discuss Unification talks to end North Korea's hos ... |
| Tiffeny Milbrett | ... ielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, | , Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Christie Pearce, Tiffany Roberts, Briana S ... |
| Josep Samitier | ... lona enjoyed considerable success during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1945, with | as managers and players like César, Ramallets, and Velasco, they won La Li ... |
| Lionel Messi | ... elona won the UEFA Super Cup after defeating Porto 2–0 thanks to goals from | and Cesc Fábregas. This extended the club's overall amount of official tro ... |
| Edward Elgar | ... n. Norrington caused controversy during the 2008 Proms season by conducting | 's Enigma Variations, and the Last Night of the Proms, in non-vibrato styl ... |
| He Kexin | ... bers of China's women's gymnastics team, including double gold medal winner | , were too young to compete under the Fédération Internationale de Gymnast ... |
| Alexander Karelin | ... for both World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. | won his third Olympic gold medal as a Greco-Roman wrestler |
| Manu Ginóbili | ... h 2.6 ticks to go, Nowitzki converted a three-point play to force overtime. | , the one who fouled Dirk was the same person who gave San Antonio their f ... |
| Anja Pärson | ... the internationally famous alpine skiers Ingemar Stenmark, Stig Strand and | |
| Richard Avedon | ... in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move; Paris, Texas; and Faraway, So Close!. | 's photo of her, nude with a large python, was marketed as a poster |
| Sir Georg Solti | ... an international superstar of opera), and the 1973 RCA Victor conducted by | with Montserrat Caballé as Mimì and Plácido Domingo as Rodolfo which won t ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... e twentieth century, the concerto grosso has been used by composers such as | , Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williams ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... s via satellite when it showed the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing-match between | and Joe Frazier |
| Johannes Brahms | ... . The full lyric possibilities of a string of choral songs were realized by | in his Rinaldo, that—like the Walpurgisnacht—was set to a text by Goethe. ... |
| Andre Agassi | ... exander Karelin won his third Olympic gold medal as a Greco-Roman wrestler. | won the gold medal in men's tennis, which would eventually make him the fi ... |
| Anders Haugen | In 1974 the final medal of Chamonix 1924 was presented. | , who until then had been recorded as finishing fourth in the ski jumping ... |
| Linford Christie | The 100 m Olympic Gold and Silver medallist, | of Great Britain famously had frequent false starts that were marginally b ... |
| Leon Spinks | ... ncluding a club in suburban Detroit with former heavyweight boxing champion | working as a bartender. McLain also earned quite a bit of money hustling g ... |
| Adelina Patti | ... re, either, by British and North American arbiters of good singing. Indeed, | and Luisa Tetrazzini were the only Italian sopranos to enjoy star status i ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... ann Goetz. Later composers who wrote chamber works for this quintet include | , Colin Matthews, Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and John Woolrich. Slightly large ... |
| Natalia Partyka | ... cs because she does not use a prosthetic leg while swimming. Polish athlete | , who was born without a right forearm, competed in Table Tennis in both t ... |
| Mark Cavendish | ... won by sprint specialist and reigning Tour de France green jersey champion, | , with his team mate lead out man, Mark Renshaw finishing second. Cavendis ... |
| Leonard Bernstein | ... iginally written for the cello) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by | . The third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony features a solo for ... |
| Steffi Graf | ... ventually make him the first man and second player overall (after his wife, | ) to win what is referred to as the Golden Slam, which consists of an Olym ... |
| Jorginho | ... fter being defeated by Flamengo, containing famous players as Zico, Bebeto, | , Leandro, Edinho, Leonardo, Andrade, Zinho and Renato Gaúcho (who was ele ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... fect of, "You should give me lessons." (Some versions of this story feature | rather than Ravel as the composer; however Stravinsky confirmed that he or ... |
| Carla Overbeck | ... Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, | , Cindy Parlow, Christie Pearce, Tiffany Roberts, Briana Scurry, Kate (Mar ... |
| Tiffany Roberts | ... MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Christie Pearce, | , Briana Scurry, Kate (Markgraf) Sobrero, Tisha Venturini, Saskia Webber a ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... has been described as neoclassical, but is very different from the works by | labeled with that term, owing more to the contrapuntal language of Bach th ... |
| Tim Foster | ... st in the country. It was on Bedford’s River Great Ouse that Olympic rower, | , honed his skills as a member of Star Club; indeed the Borough has produc ... |
| Claudio Abbado | ... stav Mahler's Symphony No. 6. In 1999, Rattle was appointed as successor to | as the orchestra's principal conductor. The appointment, decided on in a 2 ... |
| Clara Hughes | ... peed Skating, and was present to see her former teammates Cindy Klassen and | win their personal and national record achievements |
| William Sterndale Bennett | ... festival, and in 1849 went to London as a private composition student under | . He studied with Sterndale Bennett three years |
| Muhammad Ali | ... gation cases with boxers that were focused on fraud. In 1982 he was sued by | for underpaying him $1.1 million for a fight with Larry Holmes. King calle ... |
| Olivér Halassy | ... istory by becoming the first amputee to qualify for the Olympic Games since | in 1936. She was able to compete in the Olympics rather than the Paralympi ... |
| Cindy Klassen | ... ter Olympics for Speed Skating, and was present to see her former teammates | and Clara Hughes win their personal and national record achievements |
| Gillis Grafström | Finding himself in a unique situation, the figure skater | is the first one ever to successfully defend his Summer Olympics title at ... |
| Sergei Prokofiev | ... and a Cantata for Wartime, op. 95, for women's voices and orchestra (1943). | composed Semero ikh (1917–18; rev. 1933), and in 1939 premiered a cantata ... |
| Mary Lou Retton | ... ch as E!. Young sports icons are considered teen idols like Nadia Comăneci, | , Shawn Johnson, Michael Phelps and Apolo Ohno as well as 1970s nine time ... |
| Thomas Beecham | ... znetsova as Yaroslavna. London saw the same production in 1914 conducted by | , again with Chaliapin as Galitsky. In 1915 the United States premiere too ... |
| Nadia Boulanger | ... was to be a second-rate Ravel. Instead, Ravel recommended that Gershwin see | in Paris. Ravel's high praise of Gershwin in an introductory letter to Bou ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... to grosso has been used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, | , Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, He ... |
| Jarome Iginla | ... tion has fans of the Calgary Flames shout "Iggy, Iggy, Iggy, Oi Oi Oi" when | fought or scored in a game. This was especially popular during his 50 goal ... |
| Von Neumann | ... ied heat flow and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. | , Turing, Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major cont ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... ng Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead, Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung, | 's Oedipus rex, and Paul Hindemith's Cardillac |
| Nellie Kim | ... urtado, both immigrants from the Azores. She was named after Soviet gymnast | . Her parents were born on and emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s. Her ... |
| Cindy Parlow | ... Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, | , Christie Pearce, Tiffany Roberts, Briana Scurry, Kate (Markgraf) Sobrero ... |
| Nadia Boulanger | ... ime during which he applied to study composition with the famous instructor | who, along with several other prospective tutors such as Maurice Ravel, re ... |
| Edward Elgar | ... ebussy quoted the anthem in the coda of his piano prelude, Feux d'artifice. | quoted the opening of "La Marseillaise" in his choral work The Music Maker ... |
| Pierre Deligne | ... w "mainstream-for-Princeton"; but this assimilation (through David Mumford, | and others) hardly includes all of the content |
| Leon Spinks | ... 700,000 for his fight with Tex Cobb and was underpaid $250,000 for fighting | . Holmes sued King over the accounting and auditing for the Gerry Cooney f ... |
| Deng Yaping | ... ' four major events (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open). | of China won two gold medals in Women singles and doubles of table tennis. ... |
| Mikis Theodorakis | ... lis, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, soprano Maria Callas, composers such as | , Nikos Skalkottas, Iannis Xenakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Eleni Karaindrou, Ya ... |
| Danielle Goyette | ... While with the Dinos, Wickenheiser will be playing for her former teammate, | , who is the team's head coach. Wickenheiser will be working to complete a ... |
| Sir Peter Scott | ... erland and Mongolia) have joined the IWC. This shift was first initiated by | , the then head of the World Wildlife Fund. Labelling the IWC a "butchers' ... |
| John Amaechi | ... n and first rugby footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay. | , who played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Ca ... |
| Asafa Powell | ... Maurice Greene, who has 52, and Jamaica's former 100 m World Record holder | |
| Ignacy Paderewski | ... studied the technique of the famous Polish pianist and later family friend | and at eight met him backstage at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. "I was i ... |
| Brahms | ... ould later bring him greatest acclaim, particularly the works of Beethoven, | and Mahler, though he gave the Los Angeles premieres of some of fellow Los ... |
| Johannes Brahms | ... e orchestral bass solos are somewhat rare, there are some notable examples. | , whose father was a double bass player, wrote many difficult and prominen ... |
| Sandra Schmirler | ... ardson curling team of the 1950s. In recent years Olympic Gold medal winner | and her rink occasioned vast civic pride; the Sandra Schmirler Leisure Cen ... |
| Pietro Mennea | ... States. The 150 metres, though rarely competed, has a star-studded history: | set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions Michael Johnson and Donovan Ba ... |
| Brandi Chastain | Michelle Akers, | , Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, ... |
| Zoltán Czibor | ... 60, and two influential Hungarians recommended by Kubala, Sándor Kocsis and | , the team won another national double in 1959 and a La Liga and Inter-Cit ... |
| Chris Pronger | ... Brian Boucher, and significantly upgrading the defense with the addition of | from Anaheim. Pronger came at a price, costing the Flyers Joffrey Lupul, L ... |
| Natalie du Toit | South African swimmer | , whose left leg was amputated following a motor scooter accident, qualifi ... |
| Bonnie Blair | ... c event. Petra Kronberger won both the combined event and the slalom, while | won both the 500 m and 1000 m speed skating events and Gunda Niemann took ... |
| Susan Auch | ... lt. Prior to the Nagano Games, she was training with her teammate and rival | , both being coached by Susan's brother, Derrick Auch. In Nagano, Susan Au ... |
| Mike Dunham | A few big names in sports have lived, or were born here. | (longtime NHL goalie, now Goalie coach for the NY Islanders), Isaiah Kacyv ... |
| Witold Lutosławski | ... ergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and | , among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes |
| Clint Eastwood | ... ith (1991), the Oliver Stone-directed JFK (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), and | 's A Perfect World (1993), all of which provided box office or critical ac ... |
| Kenny Carr | ... r the NBA including hall of famer David Thompson and players Tom Gugliotta, | , Spud Webb, Cedric Simmons, Julius Hodge, J.J. Hickson, Josh Powell, and ... |
| Kevan Gosper | ... ublish their work freely in China". However, by 30 July 2008, IOC spokesman | had to retract this optimistic statement, announcing that the internet wou ... |
| Decima Norman | The star of the games was the Australian athlete | , who won five gold medals in track and field. Margaret Dovey, the future ... |
| Donovan Bailey | ... etro Mennea set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions Michael Johnson and | went head-to-head over the distance in 1997, and improved Mennea's record ... |
| Shawn Johnson | ... ports icons are considered teen idols like Nadia Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, | , Michael Phelps and Apolo Ohno as well as 1970s nine time swimming gold m ... |
| Brahms | ... ion production of Porgy and Bess ever presented. Rattle's 2007 recording of | ' Ein deutsches Requiem received praise from BBC Music Magazine, as "Disc ... |
| Pelle Lindbergh | ... on won the next four games and the series. A month into the 1985–86 season, | was fatally injured in a car accident. The team rallied and showed perseve ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers | , Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin |
| Bebeto | ... title after being defeated by Flamengo, containing famous players as Zico, | , Jorginho, Leandro, Edinho, Leonardo, Andrade, Zinho and Renato Gaúcho (w ... |
| Clint Eastwood | ... of Osceola. The ill will of these actions was to be the basis for the 1976 | film The Outlaw Josey Wales |
| Clint Eastwood | ... 2006, featuring newer, pristine film clips, and additional interviews with | , Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and ot ... |
| Lorrie Fair | Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain, Tracy Ducar, | , Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, ... |
| Prince Carl of Denmark | ... in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom to | and Princess Maud of Wales, (daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kin ... |
| Dida | ... and Jorginho Paulista of Udinese, Fábio Júnior and Gustavo Bartelt of Roma, | of Milan, Álvaro Recoba of Inter, Thomas Job, Francis Zé, Jean Ondoa of Sa ... |
| Bill Russell | ... resident Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures including Boston Celtics legend | and the top management of the Red Sox |
| Herbert von Karajan | ... to 18:51. Similar slowings took place in the other movements. Around 1954, | flew especially to hear Klemperer conduct a performance of the Eroica, and ... |
| Stanley Morison | ... t who created Times New Roman. Traditionally the inventor was thought to be | , and it made its debut in the Oct. 3, 1943 issue of The Times of London. ... |
| Jan-Ove Waldner | ... o wins singles crowns at Olympic Games, World Championships, and World Cup. | of Sweden first completed the grand slam at 1992 Olympic Games. of China i ... |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | ... occasional works were seldom among their composers' best. Examples include | 's Poem of the Motherland, op. 47 (1947) and The Sun Shines over Our Mothe ... |
| Jaromir Jagr | ... yers went 25–9–3 and outscored their opponents 128–98 enroute. Lindros tied | for the regular season scoring lead (though Jagr won the Art Ross Trophy w ... |
| Oscar Peterson | ... erforming in festivals and concerts with such musicians as Louis Armstrong, | , Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She ... |
| Thomas Beecham | ... imì. It is the only recording of a Puccini opera by its original conductor. | , who worked closely with Puccini when preparing a 1920 production of La b ... |
| Ilya Bryzgalov | ... NHL Entry Draft. To finish the day, the Flyers signed former Phoenix goalie | to a 9-year, $51.5 million deal, after trading for his rights on June 7. O ... |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | ... iod of Nazi activity in Europe. A notable exception is the Russian composer | whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions ... |
| Joy Fawcett | Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain, Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, | , Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacM ... |
| Lori Fung | ... ern European countries were forced to boycott by the Soviet Union. Canadian | was the first rhythmic gymnast to earn an Olympic gold medal. The Group co ... |
| William Sterndale Bennett | ... hildren. One of his sons was named Sterndale after the English composer Sir | . At this point (1907) a development unusual in British 20th century music ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... er, as well as the people that helped him in baseball. Because his idol was | , Henderson decided to use the words "greatest of all time." These words h ... |
| Oscar Peterson | ... rimental group; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and | , respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations o ... |
| Annelise Coberger | ... gest races. Kim Kihoon earned gold medals in both men's short track events. | of New Zealand won the southern hemisphere's first Winter Olympic medal—a ... |
| Pelle Lindbergh | ... t few seasons were young talent such as Brian Propp, Tim Kerr, Dave Poulin, | and Mark Howe, who upon arrival instantly became the Flyers' top defensema ... |
| Usain Bolt | Rogge commented that | 's gestures of jubilation and excitement after winning the 100 meters in B ... |
| Apolo Ohno | ... ols like Nadia Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, Shawn Johnson, Michael Phelps and | as well as 1970s nine time swimming gold medalist Mark Spitz |
| Frankie Fredericks | ... and Tobago and four-time Olympic medal winner. Only 2 other men in history, | and Carl Lewis, have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. H ... |
| Li Xiaoping | ... ters in their formal names, although there are famous male examples such as | and Yo-Yo Ma. People from the countryside previously often bore names that ... |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | ... om the French influence, Gershwin was intrigued by the works of Alban Berg, | , Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, and Arnold Schoenberg. He also asked Sc ... |
| Muhammad Ali | In 1972 | set his training camp in Deer Lake, and it still stands today complete wit ... |
| Brahms | ... Rattle was the pianist Alfred Brendel. In 2007, the BPO/Rattle recording of | 's received the Classic FM Gramophone best choral disc award |
| Augie Ojeda | ... would shout "Augie Augie Augie, Oi Oi Oi" in reference to utility infielder | . (In many dialects of American English, "Augie" and "Oggy" are homophones ... |
| Mia Hamm | ... n, Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, | , Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cin ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... ,000 for facing Earnie Shavers, was underpaid $2 million for his fight with | , that King cut his purse by $700,000 for his fight with Tex Cobb and was ... |
| Luisa Tetrazzini | ... tish and North American arbiters of good singing. Indeed, Adelina Patti and | were the only Italian sopranos to enjoy star status in London and New York ... |
| Richard Strauss | ... formance and became a fervent enthusiast of the new music being produced by | and the British composers of the day. Through attending music festivals he ... |
| David Mumford | ... his work is now "mainstream-for-Princeton"; but this assimilation (through | , Pierre Deligne and others) hardly includes all of the content |
| Richard Strauss | Toward music more adventurous than Wagner's, especially that of | and later Claude Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov's mind remained closed. He would ... |
| Sándor Kocsis | ... of the Year in 1960, and two influential Hungarians recommended by Kubala, | and Zoltán Czibor, the team won another national double in 1959 and a La L ... |
| Michael Phelps | ... considered teen idols like Nadia Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, Shawn Johnson, | and Apolo Ohno as well as 1970s nine time swimming gold medalist Mark Spit ... |
| Richard Strauss | ... e many difficult and prominent parts for the double bass in his symphonies. | assigned the double bass daring parts, and his symphonic poems and operas ... |
| Julie Foudy | ... randi Chastain, Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, | , Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Ove ... |
| Hideo Nomo | ... were the second team to start a Japanese player in recent history, pitcher | , the first team to start a Korean player, pitcher Chan Ho Park, and the f ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... ce, Gershwin was intrigued by the works of Alban Berg, Dmitri Shostakovich, | , Darius Milhaud, and Arnold Schoenberg. He also asked Schoenberg for comp ... |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... n it was founded in 1919, and had turned to conducting at the suggestion of | . He had conducted the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl on a number of occasi ... |
| Mikis Theodorakis | ... enen based on diverse texts, the title taken from a poem of Bertolt Brecht. | composed the cantatas According to the Sadducees and Canto Olympico. Herbe ... |
| René Thom | ... Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Lafforgue, Maxim Kontsevich, Dennis Sullivan and | . The long-term visitors are Christophe Breuil, Dirk Kreimer, Ofer Gabber ... |
| Alexei Zhitnik | ... 2007 first and third-round draft picks at the deadline. Veteran defenseman | was traded to the Atlanta Thrashers for prospect defenseman Braydon Coburn ... |
| Martin Brodeur | Boucher and the Flyers consistently outplayed | and New Jersey and pulled off the upset in five games. However, the victor ... |
| Maxim Kontsevich | ... khail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Lafforgue, | , Dennis Sullivan and René Thom. The long-term visitors are Christophe Bre ... |
| Tania Lamarca | ... nez, Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and | |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... (1954) and the result was reminiscent of earlier works by Aaron Copland and | with its "jazz-based harmonies and exciting additive rhythms." A year late ... |
| Benjamin Britten | ... Jennings). Their work involved poets such as W. H. Auden, composers such as | , and writers such as J. B. Priestley. Among the best known films of the m ... |
| Brahms | ... e basis of works by many other composers. The most notable examples include | 's Variations on a Theme of Paganini and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Them ... |
| Michelle Akers | In March 2004, Hamm and former U.S. teammate | were the only two women, and the only two Americans, named to the FIFA 100 ... |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... t for a number of composers. Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, | , Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławs ... |
| Romário | ... against Cameroon. Both players scored six goals in the tournament. Brazil's | , with five goals, won the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player |
| Asafa Powell | ... tood as the Commonwealth record from 1996 until 2005, when it was broken by | , and is the current Canadian record (shared with Bruny Surin since 1999). ... |
| Michelle Akers | ... necessary to form the eight-team league. The twenty founding players were: | , Brandi Chastain, Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopou ... |
| Nadia Comăneci | ... eam difficulty began to increase dramatically in the 1970s. Olga Korbut and | pioneered advanced tumbling combinations and aerial skills on beam; other ... |
| Fritz Kreisler | ... considerable controversy. The view that continuous vibrato was invented by | and some of his colleagues is held to be shown by early sound recordings, ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... quaintances in rhyme goes back to the dozens, and was portrayed famously by | in his boxing matches. The winner of a battle is decided by the crowd and/ ... |
| Estíbaliz Martínez | ... s formed by Estela Giménez, Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, | and Tania Lamarca |
| Richard Avedon | ... the most respected fashion photographers in the world, including Herb Ritz, | , Mert & Marcus, Peter Lindbergh, Annie Leibovitz, and Patrick Demarchelie ... |
| Laurent Lafforgue | ... Pierre Deligne, Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, | , Maxim Kontsevich, Dennis Sullivan and René Thom. The long-term visitors ... |
| Louis Smith | ... d in city until his death after a high-speed crash at Brands Hatch; as does | , who at the 2008 games became 's first gymnast to win an individual Olymp ... |
| Rachmaninoff | ... ost notable examples include Brahms's Variations on a Theme of Paganini and | 's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
| Michelle Kwan | ... DuPont; and Andy Fastow, Former CFO of Enron. Other notable alumni include | , Olympic medallist and World Champion figure skater from the United State ... |
| Olga Korbut | Balance beam difficulty began to increase dramatically in the 1970s. | and Nadia Comăneci pioneered advanced tumbling combinations and aerial ski ... |
| Joni Pitkanen | ... an 8-year, $52 million contract. Continuing to revamp their defensive core, | and Geoff Sanderson were traded to Edmonton for Oilers captain Jason Smith ... |
| Alexei Zhamnov | ... d Primeau (concussion) in February forced the Flyers to trade for Chicago's | , who filled in well and kept the Flyers afloat. On March 5, 2004, the Fly ... |
| Mark Inglis | Double-amputee climber | revealed in an interview with the press on 23 May 2006, that his climbing ... |
| Lorena Guréndez | ... ound. The team was formed by Estela Giménez, Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, | , Estíbaliz Martínez and Tania Lamarca |
| Wladimir Klitschko | He is currently training heavyweight | , among others |
| Bonnie Blair | ... Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year in 1994, together with | . In addition, he received the Oscar Mathisen Award three times: in 1990, ... |
| Richard Avedon | ... United States and cast her in his film, Tess (1979). In 1981, photographer | photographed Kinski with a Burmese python coiled around her naked body |
| Frederick Delius | ... title What Man Tells Me, or alternatively What the Night tells me (of Man). | based his major choral-orchestral work A Mass of Life (1904-5) on texts fr ... |
| Josef Albers | Artists using this technique include | |
| Sean Burke | ... ar (netting 51), the first time for an American-born player, and goaltender | was acquired at the trade deadline. Burke proved ineffective in net, as th ... |
| Josef Albers | ... of Piet Mondrian. There Noland also studied Bauhaus theory and color under | and he became interested in , specifically his sensitivity to color |
| Obadele Thompson | ... time of 9.88 s, beating Namibia's Frankie Fredericks (9.96 s) and Barbados' | (10.00 s). The Commonwealth Games 100 m record remains unbroken |
| Olivier Messiaen | ... schule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, and later studied with | in Paris, and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. One of t ... |
| Muhammad Ali | King entered the boxing world after convincing | to box in a charity exhibition for a local hospital in Cleveland with the ... |
| Sebastian Coe | ... Vancouver Olympic Torch relay. He handed off the flame to the next runner, | |
| Adelina Patti | ... chnique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, | . Nilsson became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1869 |
| Pierre Deligne | Jean Bourgain, Alain Connes, | , Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Laffo ... |
| Usain Bolt | ... cord (shared with Bruny Surin since 1999). His Olympic record was broken by | at the 2008 Beijing Olympics |
| William Walton | Portsmouth Point is an overture for orchestra by the English composer | . The work was inspired by Rowlandson's print depicting Portsmouth Point. ... |
| Lance Armstrong | ... at the Pont de Pedra. Later, other well-known professional cyclists such as | came to live in the city |
| Nuria Cabanillas | ... thmic group all-around. The team was formed by Estela Giménez, Marta Baldó, | , Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and Tania Lamarca |
| Pavel Datsyuk | ... dy and/or stick to fool a defender or the goalie. Many new players, such as | , Mike Legg and Patrick Kane, have picked up the skill of "dangling," whic ... |
| Michael Phelps | ... als altogether, while the United States had the most medals total with 110. | broke the records for most gold medals in one Olympics and for most career ... |
| Mark Tewksbury | ... in the contest. The party's tribute to Martin was hosted by former Olympian | . Martin's press secretary denied that the tribute was low key due to the ... |
| Maurice Greene | ... d won the bronze medal at those World Championships, finishing third behind | . Two years later, he came in sixth in the individual final, but did win a ... |
| Daniel Vettori | ... were other players who were considered pure left arm orthodox bowlers like | , Nicky Boje but picked up their game as batsman over time and got better ... |
| Maurice Greene | ... mission will affect team-mates Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, | and Kenneth Brokenburr. An spokeswoman said the committee would look into ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... or qué nací?", the first movement of three in his fourth book of Madrigals. | 's final composition, The Owl and the Pussy Cat, is a palindrome |
| Marta Baldó | ... y women's rhythmic group all-around. The team was formed by Estela Giménez, | , Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and Tania Lamarca |
| Curtis Joseph | ... kup. They chose to sign former Panther John Vanbiesbrouck over former Oiler | , who ended up signing with Toronto. The 1998–99 season was marred by a li ... |
| Olli Jokinen | ... contest being hosted at the Wachovia Center. Boucher stopped final shooter | to clinch the 7th seed in the East and a 1st-round matchup with New Jersey |
| Tim Montgomery | ... ded to silver after all the times and performances of the American sprinter | (who was second in the 100 m and won the 4 x 100 m with the US team) were ... |
| Alain Connes | Jean Bourgain, | , Pierre Deligne, Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford II ... |
| Charles Mackerras | ... et in Portsmouth Harbour. Using the operetta music of Sullivan (arranged by | ) and The Bumboat Woman's Story by Gilbert, John Cranko's 1951 ballet Pine ... |
| Alfred Brendel | ... Welt. One musician who wrote to the press to defend Rattle was the pianist | . In 2007, the BPO/Rattle recording of Brahms's received the Classic FM Gr ... |
| Patrick Kane | ... ender or the goalie. Many new players, such as Pavel Datsyuk, Mike Legg and | , have picked up the skill of "dangling," which is fancier deking and requ ... |
| Kristine Lilly | ... his match also marked her 259th international appearance; only her teammate | has played in more internationals |
| Tyler Hamilton | In the Spring of 1997 Marty Jemison, | and George Hincapie moved to Girona as teammates of the US Postal Service ... |
| Johannes Brahms | Music by late Romantic composers such as Richard Wagner and | is now played with a fairly continuous vibrato. However, some musicians sp ... |
| Richard Strauss | Zweig enjoyed a close association with | , and provided the libretto for Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman). S ... |
| Jean Bourgain | ... mathematicians who were or are now permanent professors at the IHÉS include | , Alain Connes, Pierre Deligne, Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Os ... |
| Estela Giménez | ... ew competition by women's rhythmic group all-around. The team was formed by | , Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and T ... |
| Usain Bolt | ... r most career gold medals for an Olympian by winning eight swimming events. | secured the traditional title of "World's Fastest Man" by setting new worl ... |
| Arvydas Sabonis | CB Valladolid is the town's basketball team and they play in the Liga ACB. | played in this team. The matches are held in the Polideportivo Pisuerga |
| Bernard Williams | ... mains unclear though how the admission will affect team-mates Jon Drummond, | , Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene and Kenneth Brokenburr. An spokeswoman said ... |
| Shannon Miller | ... anded on one foot. The US women's gymnastics team won its first gold medal. | of the United States won the gold medal on the balance beam event, the fir ... |
| John von Neumann | ... nother 5 bits — and so it was 16-bits. Nevertheless the small word size led | to conclude the machine would be worthless |
| Nida Senff | ... 0 m freestyle. In the 100 m backstroke, she finished second behind teammate | . (Senff missed a turning point and had to swim back before completing the ... |
| Charles Jewtraw | The first gold medal awarded in the Olympic Winter games was won by | of the United States in the 500-meter speed skate |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | The Russian | was one of the first composers to include parts for the theremin in orches ... |
| Sergei Prokofiev | ... udents who later found fame included Anatoly Lyadov, Alexander Spendiaryan, | , Ottorino Respighi, Witold Maliszewski, Mykola Lysenko, Artur Kapp, and K ... |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... scherzo) of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from the 1952 studio recording with | conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra |
| King Harald | ... It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. | was consecrated at Nidaros Cathedral on June 23, 1991 |
| Kerron Clement | Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist | (Track and Field |
| Clarence Hill | ... ver to compete in the Olympic Games. Bermuda has had one Olympic medallist, | , who won a bronze medal in boxing. Bermuda also competed in Men's Skeleto ... |
| Peter Forsberg | ... indros' rights, the Flyers parted with six players, trading Steve Duchesne, | , Ron Hextall, Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Chris Simon, a 1993 first round ... |
| Pierre Boulez | ... d on February 24 of the same year at the Opera Garnier and was conducted by | , with Teresa Stratas singing the lead role; the production (by Patrice Ch ... |
| Shawn Marion | ... avericks still had Nowitzki, Kidd and Jason Terry plus other pieces such as | , Tyson Chandler, J.J. Barea and Caron Butler. They returned to the NBA Fi ... |
| Marc-André Fleury | ... school and college fraternity Scouts Royale Brotherhood of the Philippines. | , a Canadian ice hockey goaltender, has a fleur-de-lis logo on his mask |
| Dan Gable | ... ose and black. Its most famous alumnus is former amateur wrestler and coach | . Its current principal is Dr. Gail Moon. East's school mascot is the "Tro ... |
| George Abel | ... formal launch of CSICOP, astronomer Dennis Rawlins, along with Paul Kurtz, | and Marvin Zelen (all subsequent members of CSICOP) began investigating th ... |
| John Russell Pope | ... as designed to house the Elgin Marbles by the American Beaux-Arts architect | . Although completed in 1938, it was hit by a bomb in 1940 and remained se ... |
| Nicky Boje | ... ers who were considered pure left arm orthodox bowlers like Daniel Vettori, | but picked up their game as batsman over time and got better at it. Sanath ... |
| Carl Lewis | ... e, although without a world record, by winning the rare 200 m/400 m double. | won his 4th long jump gold medal at the age of 35 |
| Boulez | ... clude analyses of music by Mozart, Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, Goeyvaerts, | , Nono, Johannes Fritsch, Michael von Biel, and, especially, Webern (Texte ... |
| Stravinsky | ... and perhaps most notably, in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a | festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez; it was during this Paris ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... e's The Firebird, but refused the part, as she could not come to terms with | 's avant-garde score, and the role was given to Tamara Karsavina. All her ... |
| Sasha Cohen | ... e technical program but slipped to third after two jumping errors. American | finished fourth, after a fall on the back end of a triple lutz-triple toe ... |
| Benjamin Britten | ... important works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, is often described as a cantata. | composed at least six works he designated as cantatas: The Company of Heav ... |
| Quinn Buckner | ... h eventually got him banned from the NBA, and the injuries and former coach | 's disciplinary approach. The mid-90s were considered the only positive pe ... |
| Sonja Henie | | , at just eleven years old, skates in the ladies' figure skating competiti ... |
| Mark Pavelich | ... ucci (in 1916) and John Mayasich (in 1933). More recently, Eveleth produced | , who played on the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that memorably defeated the Sov ... |
| Orlando Hernández | ... osing several months' interest. In 2002, following an argument with pitcher | , Henderson stated, "He needs to grow up a little bit. I ain't a kid. When ... |
| Arthur Bliss | ... ated with the 'pastoral' tradition, such as Arnold Bax, Lennox Berkeley and | , were attracted to Housman's poetry. A 1976 catalogue listed 400 musical ... |
| Erik Christopher Zeeman | In a 1964 paper, | showed that the causality preserving property, a condition that is weaker ... |
| Valeri Kharlamov | ... viets to leave the ice midway through the first period, protesting a hit on | , whom Clarke had slashed on the ankle in the famous Summit Series '72, by ... |
| Donovan Bailey | | of Canada won the men's 100 m, setting a new world record of 9.84 seconds ... |
| Johannes Brahms | ... Emperor Napoleon III and settled in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 1870, however, | persuaded her to sing in the first public performance of his Alto Rhapsody ... |
| Kurt Angle | ... rring in the NBC sitcom, Community); athletics, such as gold-medal wrestler | ; politics, such as Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch; business, such as self-made bil ... |
| Lance Armstrong | ... f several cycling groups and the seven-time Tour de France champion cyclist | , as well as environmentally and economically minded bicycle commuters. Co ... |
| Harald Bohr | ... applicable characterization of the gamma function was not given until 1922. | and Johannes Mollerup then proved what is known as the Bohr–Mollerup theor ... |
| Sir John Barbirolli | ... s premiere performance of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements in 1946. | was offered the position of Music Director after his contract with the New ... |
| Marie-José Pérec | ... h later culminated in a 150-metre race between the two to settle the issue. | equaled Johnson's performance, although without a world record, by winning ... |
| Bart Veldkamp | ... is countryman Ådne Søndrål) and silver on the 10,000 m (behind Dutch skater | ) |
| Georg Solti | In 1960, the orchestra, led again by Chandler, signed | to a three-year contract to be music director after he had guest conducted ... |
| Richard Strauss | The book inspired | to compose the tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, which he designated "fre ... |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... hly enough to be recorded for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony conducted by | (in Carnegie Hall in 1945, with the composer present). The earlier Mississ ... |
| Amar'e Stoudemire | Phoenix won Game One 127–102 with a 40-point game by | . Steve Nash was also given his NBA MVP award during that game, a game in ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... ught, including Glazunov, or those he taught privately at his home, such as | . Apart from Glazunov and Stravinsky, students who later found fame includ ... |
| Joe Frazier | ... lic and/or private memorial services included Michael Jackson, Jimmy Cliff, | , Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC ... |
| Julie Foudy | ... international play at the end of the tour; the others are longtime captain | and Joy Fawcett (Fawcett did not play due to back surgery after the Olympi ... |
| Arnold Bax | ... en composers not directly associated with the 'pastoral' tradition, such as | , Lennox Berkeley and Arthur Bliss, were attracted to Housman's poetry. A ... |
| Javier Mascherano | ... f total votes. Rosell signed David Villa from Valencia for €40 million. and | from Liverpool for €19 million. In November 2010, Barcelona defeated their ... |
| Jason Kidd | ... 0s were considered the only positive period for the Mavs, led by The 3 J's: | , Jim Jackson and Jamal Mashburn. Kidd would become the most famous of the ... |
| Yehudi Menuhin | ... Ulrika Jonsson, Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, | (and later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Mi ... |
| Michelle Smith | ... the Gold Medals in both the 100 metres and 200 metres breaststroke events. | of Ireland won three gold medals and a bronze in swimming. She remains her ... |
| Carl-Gustaf Rossby | ... t calculations were done on April 1, 1954 and BESK handled weather data for | and the SMHI meteorological agency, statistics for the telecommunications ... |
| Clint Eastwood | ... orest Theater, bohemian writer and actor Perry Newberry, and actor-director | , who was mayor for one term, from 1986 to 1988 |
| Josep Guardiola | ... e assembled the so-called Dream Team. He used a mix of Spanish players like | , José Mari Bakero, and Txiki Begiristain while signing international star ... |
| Stravinsky | ... heory. Although these include analyses of music by Mozart, Debussy, Bartók, | , Goeyvaerts, Boulez, Nono, Johannes Fritsch, Michael von Biel, and, espec ... |
| Peter Forsberg | ... lacing the high-profile names of Amonte, LeClair and Roenick were superstar | , along with defensemen Derian Hatcher and Mike Rathje, as well as several ... |
| Dunga | ... he bar, and Brazil were crowned champions. The trophy was handed to captain | from the hands of the vice-president Al Gore. The Brazilian national team ... |
| Frankie Fredericks | ... Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, setting a record time of 9.88 s, beating Namibia's | (9.96 s) and Barbados' Obadele Thompson (10.00 s). The Commonwealth Games ... |
| Eric Lindros | ... Jay Snider won the hard fought arbitration battle for 1991 #1 overall pick | against the Rangers. It was determined that Quebec had made a deal with th ... |
| René Thom | ... zing theories were a dominating feature of the first ten years at the IHÉS. | was another prominent figure in its early history. Dennis Sullivan is reme ... |
| Frederick Delius | ... itten for public performance without specific religious observance, such as | 's Requiem, completed in 1916 and dedicated to "the memory of all young Ar ... |
| Kate (Markgraf) Sobrero | ... la Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Christie Pearce, Tiffany Roberts, Briana Scurry, | , Tisha Venturini, Saskia Webber and Sara Whalen |
| Anton Rubinstein | ... ownward path". Worse still to Rimsky-Korsakov was the faint praise given by | , a composer opposed to the nationalists' music and philosophy. Rimsky-Kor ... |
| Christie Pearce | ... e Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, | , Tiffany Roberts, Briana Scurry, Kate (Markgraf) Sobrero, Tisha Venturini ... |
| Johannes Brahms | ... y, wrote The Gambler while compulsively gambling at the Baden-Baden Casino. | ' local residence, the Brahmshaus, can still be visited today |
| Johannes Brahms | ... object of interest for a number of composers. Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, | , Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg ... |
| Usain Bolt | ... tator for CBC Television at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He estimated that had | not slowed down near the end of the 100m dash (which he still won in recor ... |
| Sugar Ray Leonard | ... arns became one of Steward's most successful and popular fighters, fighting | , knocking out Roberto Durán, and challenging undisputed Middleweight Cham ... |
| Amy Van Dyken | | won four gold medals in the Olympic swimming pool, the first American woma ... |
| Constantine II of Greece | ... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King | (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ... |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | Musicians and composers Niccolò Paganini, | , and Robert Johnson are thought to have had the disease. Bradford Cox of ... |
| Plácido Domingo | ... sical acts including Charles Aznavour, Cher, Serj Tankian, Jivan Gasparyan, | , Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Joe Cocker, John McLaughlin, Brazzaville, The A ... |
| Joe Frazier | ... reeminent promoters the following year with the third fight between Ali and | in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, which King deemed the "Thrilla ... |
| Bruno Walter | ... sky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and Albert Schweitzer, Andrei Tarkovsky | , and Alternative Nobel Prize winner |
| Daniel Barenboim | ... as several members of the orchestra were earlier reported to have preferred | for the post. Nevertheless, Rattle won the post and proceeded to win over ... |
| Angela Ruggiero | ... uding goaltenders Kelly Dyer, Erin Whitten, Manon Rhéaume, and defencewoman | |
| Philip Johnson | ... ly criticized, both from the point of view of postmodern architects such as | , Charles Moore and Michael Graves who advocated a return to pre-modern st ... |
| King Haakon VII | ... f Norwegians. In 1940, when Norway was under attack from the German forces, | received the power from the parliament to govern the country, in its best ... |
| Richard Avedon | ... An anecdote in some contradiction is recorded during a broad interview with | , celebrated New York portraitist |
| Lasse Kukkonen | ... er was sent to the Detroit Red Wings via Chicago in exchange for defenseman | . The Flyers also acquired goaltender Martin Biron from the Buffalo Sabres ... |
| Claudio Abbado | ... isons with interpretations of the piece by Rattle's immediate predecessors, | and Herbert von Karajan. He has also worked with the Toronto Children's Ch ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... ic rather late, thanks to his teachers at university. He cites Béla Bartók, | , Perotin, Leonin, Claude Debussy and Organum musical style as important i ... |
| Dennis van der Geest | ... amy, Gerard Cox, Wouter Bos, Jan Marijnissen, Robert Eenhoorn, Arjan Erkel, | , DJ Paul Elstak, , Vincent Le Blanc, and Renate Verbaan |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young | . The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were s ... |
| Oscar Peterson | ... wn, Perlman has also played jazz, including an album made with jazz pianist | , and klezmer. Perlman has been a soloist for a number of movie scores, no ... |
| Mario Lemieux | ... rdiopulmonary resuscitation pioneer Peter Safar. Pittsburgh Penguins legend | used to reside in Mt. Lebanon as well, though he now resides in Sewickley, ... |
| Brahms | ... ic requiem, and which provided inspiration for the mighty German Requiem by | |
| Simon Rattle | ... ilips and Telarc Records. Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, and Sir | also made several recordings with the orchestra in the 1980s, adding to th ... |
| Flo Hyman | Contributors to public perception of Marfan syndrome include | , an Olympic silver medalist in Women's Volleyball (1984) who died suddenl ... |
| Boris Becker | ... a hotel, several apartment buildings, an observatory, and a private marina. | , Oprah Winfrey, and Mel Brooks are among the celebrities with homes on th ... |
| Dominic Seiterle | ... son have all won medals in track and field events. Former heavyweight rower | is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at t ... |
| Rob Hayles | ... old medal winning athlete, Richard Harwood cellist, was born in Portsmouth, | , cyclist and Olympic Games medal winner, Tony Oakey, Former British light ... |
| Tania Lamarca | ... nez, Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, Estíbaliz Martínez and | |
| Oscar Peterson | ... bassist Ray Brown (1926–2002), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, | , Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet; hard ... |
| Magic Johnson | ... y Guggenheim CEO Mark Walter and including former Los Angeles Lakers player | , baseball executive Stan Kasten and film mogul Peter Guber, was announced ... |
| Elliott Carter | ... o Davidovsky's Synchronisms No.11 for double bass and electronic sounds and | 's Figment III, for solo double bass. The German composer Gerhard Stäbler ... |
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | ... tional and western music, such as the blend of Qawwali and western music by | . Pakistan has many famous folk singers, such as the late Alam Lohar, who ... |
| Xavi | | presently holds the team record for number of total games played (626) as ... |
| Allen Iverson | ... hool sports play a large role in the City's culture. Sporting stars such as | , Michael Vick, Mike Tomlin, Scorpio Brown, Aaron Brooks and Antoine Bethe ... |
| Joy Fawcett | ... lay at the end of the tour; the others are longtime captain Julie Foudy and | (Fawcett did not play due to back surgery after the Olympics). Hamm retire ... |
| Olivier Messiaen | ... ften departs radically from musical tradition and his work is influenced by | , Edgard Varèse, and Anton Webern, as well as by film (Stockhausen 1996b) ... |
| Rudolph Ruzicka | ... uced in sizes as small as 20 micrometers across. The design has appeared on | 's Bicentennial Medal (Philadelphia Mint, 1969) and elsewhere |
| Clint Eastwood | ... the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Seven film-makers including Wim Wenders, | , Mike Figgis, and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90 minute film (Sco ... |
| Leonard Bernstein | ... and André Previn on both Philips and Telarc Records. Michael Tilson Thomas, | , and Sir Simon Rattle also made several recordings with the orchestra in ... |
| Meldrick Taylor | ... lled, not once, but twice", threatened to break Larry Holmes' legs, cheated | out of $1 million and then threatened to have Taylor killed. Though the do ... |
| Johannes Brahms | She also arranged instrumental works by Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert and | as songs. She was on very friendly terms with Clara Schumann |
| Charles Barkley | ... s, science lessons or magic tricks. When they introduce themselves to kids, | also appears, but is immediately shooed away by Jay. In the "Science Sez" ... |
| Dennis van der Geest | Raemon Sluiter, Lee Towers, | , Robert Eenhoorn and Renate Verbaan have all officially been Feyenoord am ... |
| Eugène Ysaÿe | ... iticized for lacking characteristics of true polyphonism, as pointed out by | . Yehudi Menuhin, on the other hand, suggested that this might have been t ... |
| Adam Nelson | ... ympics, respectively. Arthur Shaw, Earl Thompson, Edwin Myers, Marc Wright, | , Gerry Ashworth, and Vilhjálmur Einarsson have all won medals in track an ... |
| Vaughan Williams | ... te Victorian street music. Brian's music often includes a violin solo, like | 's music, but whereas with Vaughan Williams the solo violin writing is lon ... |
| Georg Solti | | accepted the post in 1960, but resigned in 1961 without officially beginni ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... minent, while the 19th-century tradition of sacred cantatas also continued. | composed both kinds: "festival" cantatas such as Toward the Unknown Region ... |
| Shawn Marion | ... game), Boris Diaw and Tim Thomas to go along with Nash and fellow All-Star | . Phoenix had to play seven game series against the two Los Angeles teams, ... |
| Richard Strauss | ... ore recent music by European composers. He hissed unabashedly when he heard | 's opera Salome, and told Diaghilev after hearing Claude Debussy's opera P ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... e would seem to suggest his remarkable significance. (Ballantine 1977, 244) | expressed great, but not uncritical, enthusiasm for Stockhausen's music in ... |
| Bob Hayes | ... he world of track and field for speedy skill position players. For example, | , once considered the fastest man in the world, was drafted by and played ... |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music. In 1945, | and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of ... |
| Manon Rhéaume | ... rth American minor leagues, including goaltenders Kelly Dyer, Erin Whitten, | , and defencewoman Angela Ruggiero |
| Benjamin Britten | ... African-American cast), a BBC mime production starring Marcel Marceau, and | 's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwill: Variations on 'A Ch ... |
| Colin Jackson | ... ity has been the birthplace of sports stars such as Tanni Grey-Thompson and | as well as many Premier League, Football League and international football ... |
| Susan Solomon | Since 2001 the organization has hosted the senior staff and recent chair, | , of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on clim ... |
| Plácido Domingo | ... 70s and 1980s saw a proliferation of recordings, many of live performances. | first recorded Cavaradossi in 1973, and continued to do so at regular inte ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... , London, Decca, Mercury, RCA, Chandos and DSO labels. The DSO recording of | 's The Rite of Spring was the first CD to win the prestigious Grand Prix d ... |
| Estíbaliz Martínez | ... m formed by Estela Giménez, Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez, | and Tania Lamarca |
| Lennox Lewis | In May 2005, King was sued by | , who wanted $385 million from the promoter, claiming King used threats to ... |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young | . Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repe ... |
| Charles Gounod | The series used a curious little tune by the French composer | (1818–1893), the composer of the 1859 opera Faust, as the theme for his te ... |
| Youssou N'Dour | In 2004 Senegalese musician | released his Grammy Award winning album Egypt, which documents his Mouride ... |
| Phil Ford | ... letes of the year from North Carolina include Rachel Dawson in field hockey | ;, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, James Worthy and Michae ... |
| Graeme Lloyd | ... e Blue Jays as part of a trade for Roger Clemens, along with Homer Bush and | . He continued to win north of the border, with records of 17–10 and 20–8 ... |
| Jonathan Toews | ... scoring race with 30 points, one point ahead of Conn Smythe Trophy winner, | |
| Andrés D'Alessandro | ... ks to figures such as Kléber, Alecsandro, Giuliano and Argentine midfielder | . This saw the Colorados face off against Argentine champions Banfield; th ... |
| Michael Tippett | ... Robinson, Ned Rorem, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, | , and Kurt Weill |
| Vilhjálmur Einarsson | ... , Earl Thompson, Edwin Myers, Marc Wright, Adam Nelson, Gerry Ashworth, and | have all won medals in track and field events. Former heavyweight rower Do ... |
| Benjamin Britten | ... ve been made by composers from a classical, music-school background such as | or Percy Grainger |
| Herbert von Karajan | ... y distinguished recordings, including the 1972 Decca recording conducted by | with Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo and Mirella Freni as Mimi (made before P ... |
| Simon Rattle | ... ure was musically satisfactory, other conductors including Kurt Sanderling, | , and Esa-Pekka Salonen, fared better at the box office. Previn clashed fr ... |
| Benjamin Britten | ... Epstein is mounted on the exterior of the new cathedral near the entrance. | 's War Requiem, regarded by some as his masterpiece, was written for the o ... |
| Nadia Boulanger | ... a Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris in an attempt to study with | , where he began to compose An American in Paris. After returning to New Y ... |
| Jon Drummond | ... d medal. It remains unclear though how the admission will affect team-mates | , Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene and Kenneth Brokenburr. An ... |
| Stravinsky | ... on two other Grammy Awards, one Choral Performance Award for a recording of | 's Symphony of Psalms in 2007, and another for Best Orchestral Performance ... |
| Nadia Comăneci | ... ise final and a silver on the beam — becoming the only female gymnast since | to win an individual event gold after winning the all-round title in the s ... |
| Tara Lipinski | ... school, that was once attended by Olympic Gold Medal-winning figure skater | . It operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden |
| Prakash Padukone | ... oker champion, Pankaj Advani and former All England Open badminton champion | |
| Alan Pascoe | ... medal winner, Tony Oakey, Former British light-heavyweight boxing champion, | , Olympic medallist, was born in Portsmouth, Sir Alec Rose, famous single- ... |
| Lauren Jackson | ... ennis grand slam winner Margaret Court, 2003, 2007 and 2010 WNBA MVP winner | , NRL Player Adrian Purtell, and Test cricketer Steve Rixon, among other c ... |
| Andre Agassi | ... vent has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, | , Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, before they t ... |
| Muhammad Ali | In 1971, | attempted to purchase a home in Virginia Manor, but racial discrimination ... |
| Sam Perkins | ... -round picks that eventually materialized into Rolando Blackman in 1981 and | in 1984 |
| Jade Johnson | ... strong, Kevin Jacobsen, Phil Dwyer, Ken Brodziak, Denis Handlin, Stan Rofe, | , Terry Blamey and Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum. These were the people largely resp ... |
| Edwin Myers | ... he 1936 and 1976 Winter Olympics, respectively. Arthur Shaw, Earl Thompson, | , Marc Wright, Adam Nelson, Gerry Ashworth, and Vilhjálmur Einarsson have ... |
| Kerri Strug | ... dividual event gold after winning the all-round title in the same Olympics. | of the United States women's gymnastics team vaulted with an injured ankle ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... cTell was born on December 3, 1944 in Farnborough, Kent. He was named after | - Frank had worked as the composer's gardener before the war. A second son ... |
| John Russell Pope | ... 1 in 1917, and 40 cents in 1938. The first six toll houses were designed by | , the architect who designed the rotunda in the American Museum of Natural ... |
| Mavis Freeman | ... athogen of Q fever was discovered in 1937, when Frank Macfarlane Burnet and | isolated the bacterium from one of Derrick’s patients. It was originally i ... |
| Benjamin Britten | ... One notable setting is part of the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings by | |
| Maurice Greene | ... r believed to be by Boldon to John Smith, his former coach, accusing Smith, | and his former agent, Emmanuel Hudson, of betraying him by obtaining banne ... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Mason was the flugelhorn soloist for the world premiere of | 's Symphony No. 9 on 2 April 1958. The novelty of the flugelhorn (often se ... |
| Carl Lewis | ... 100 m concurrently (World Champion, Olympic Champion & World Record Holder) | ;was the first to achieve this feat |
| Benjamin Britten | ... eph Kerman described Tosca as a "shabby little shocker", while the composer | declared that he was "sickened by the cheapness and emptiness" of Puccini' ... |
| Marc Wright | ... 976 Winter Olympics, respectively. Arthur Shaw, Earl Thompson, Edwin Myers, | , Adam Nelson, Gerry Ashworth, and Vilhjálmur Einarsson have all won medal ... |
| Leon Štukelj | Slovene gymnast | arose at the opening ceremony as one of the oldest living sportsmen in the ... |
| Kristine Lilly | ... Michael Jordan in men's basketball; and Mia Hamm (twice), Shannon Higgins, | , and Tisha Venturini in women's soccer |
| Raelene Boyle | ... r drug use after the 1972 Olympics, so that she could safely have children. | , who had finished second to Stecher in both the 100 and 200 metres at the ... |
| Hege Riise | ... any's Birgit Prinz, Conny Pohlers, Steffi Jones and Maren Meinert; Norway's | , Unni Lehn, and Dagny Mellgren; Brazil's Sissi, Kátia and Pretinha; and C ... |
| Lilia Podkopayeva | | became an all-around olympic champion in women's gymnastics. Podkopayeva a ... |
| Pierre Boulez | ... team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor | and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President Georges Pompidou, af ... |
| Johannes Brahms | ... included Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Wagner, and | . In those years there were more millionaires living in Wiesbaden than in ... |
| Muhammad Ali | | lit the Olympic torch during the opening ceremonies of the games and recei ... |
| Jamie Salé | ... Olsen), guest appearances by Peter Mansbridge, Battle of the Blades winners | and Craig Simpson, and the Dragons of Dragons' Den. The special also featu ... |
| Michael Jordan | ... son and Barry Bonds have come closest to dominating a baseball game the way | could a basketball game. |
| Katie Weatherston | ... 2006 bronze medal-winning ice hockey team. Cherie Piper, Gillian Apps, and | were among Canada's ice hockey gold medalists in 2006 |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... Zeitmasse and Gruppen may be seen in the work of many composers, including | 's Threni (1957–58) and Movements for piano and orchestra (1958–59) and ot ... |
| Leroy Burrell | ... m/s wind in the 100 m (the previous record was set in July 1994 by American | at 9.85 seconds). Many Canadians felt his victory restored the image of Ca ... |
| Muhammad Ali | ... Martin Celebrity Roasts, most notably at the roasts for Sammy Davis Jr. and | . In 1975, he released a comedy album that was taped live at Mr. Kelly's i ... |
| Bobby Seay | ... g the retired Todd Jones. Rodney responded with 37 saves in 38 tries, while | , Brandon Lyon and young Ryan Perry shored up the middle relief that plagu ... |
| Bruno Walter | ... ors with whom the orchestra has had close ties include Sir John Barbirolli, | , Leopold Stokowski, Albert Coates, Fritz Reiner, and Erich Leinsdorf; mor ... |
| Katy Sexton | ... ist, was born in Portsmouth, Sir Alec Rose, famous single-handed yachtsman, | , former world champion swimmer, Roger Black (Olympic medallist) was also ... |
| Tony Amonte | ... 03, Roman Cechmanek had a 1.83 GAA and the Flyers acquired Sami Kapanen and | prior to the trade deadline; however, they fell one point short of a secon ... |
| Brian Boitano | ... on stage at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Connecticut as part of | 's Skating Spectacular, taped for a New Year's Day NBC television broadcas ... |
| Sonja Henie | ... c links with actress Joanne Rio (whom he claimed he nearly married), skater | , aging Hollywood icon Mae West, and famous transsexual Christine Jorgenso ... |
| Herb Lubalin | In 1977, Zapf and his friends Aaron Burns and | founded a company called "Design Processing International, Inc." in New Yo ... |
| Kimmo Timonen | ... shville for the rights to negotiate with impending unrestricted free agents | and Scott Hartnell. Both were signed to six-year contracts. After much spe ... |
| Lionel Messi | ... managed to score over 100 league goals at Barcelona: César Rodríguez (192), | (165), Ladislao Kubala (131) and (108) |
| Pierre Monteux | ... the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under the direction of French maestro | . Gershwin suffered "musical blackouts" during his final performances. In ... |
| Patrick Kane | ... away from elimination. A late Hartnell goal in Game 6 forced overtime, but | scored just over 4 minutes into overtime to eliminate the Flyers and give ... |
| Maurice Greene | ... cond 100 m performances in history, with 28, behind former training partner | , who has 52, and Jamaica's former 100 m World Record holder Asafa Powell |
| Leonard Bernstein | ... combined dissonance with elements of blues and jazz. Kazan also approached | to score On the Waterfront (1954) and the result was reminiscent of earlie ... |
| Sami Kapanen | In 2002–03, Roman Cechmanek had a 1.83 GAA and the Flyers acquired | and Tony Amonte prior to the trade deadline; however, they fell one point ... |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... led Mandu çarará, based on an Indian legend collected by Barbosa Rodrigues. | composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951–52, which used stanzas from ... |
| Benjamin Britten | ... red again until 1966 when Donald Mitchell unearthed it. The following year, | conducted the first performance of it since Mahler's time at Aldeburgh. Th ... |
| Isaac Stern | ... ith a number of other notable musicians, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, | , and Yuri Temirkanov at the 150th anniversary celebration of Tchaikovsky ... |
| John Barbirolli | Other conductors with whom the orchestra has had close ties include Sir | , Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Albert Coates, Fritz Reiner, and Erich ... |
| Plácido Domingo | ... RCA Victor conducted by Sir Georg Solti with Montserrat Caballé as Mimì and | as Rodolfo which won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. The e ... |
| Arturo Toscanini | ... ing" and "Il Canto degli Italiani". In his 1944 film, the Italian conductor | also incorporated "The Internationale" for the Soviet Union and "The Star- ... |
| Marcus Stephen | ... c Games, where team members have been somewhat successful in weightlifting. | has been a medallist, and he was elected to Parliament in 2003, and was el ... |
| Chris Chelios | ... ion, contract holdout issues and injury, the suspension given for attacking | at the end of the Montreal playoff series the previous spring. Holmgren re ... |
| Roger Black | ... famous single-handed yachtsman, Katy Sexton, former world champion swimmer, | (Olympic medallist) was also born in Portsmouth, Robert Styles, an FA Prem ... |
| Dagny Mellgren | ... ohlers, Steffi Jones and Maren Meinert; Norway's Hege Riise, Unni Lehn, and | ; Brazil's Sissi, Kátia and Pretinha; and Canada's Charmaine Hooper, Sharo ... |
| Joseph Joachim | ... ve it, although great violin pedagogues of the past such as Carl Flesch and | explicitly referred to vibrato as a movement towards the bridge, meaning u ... |
| Kobe Bryant | ... t with a core of new players led by Raja Bell (who clotheslined Lakers star | in a first-round series game), Boris Diaw and Tim Thomas to go along with ... |
| Bernard Haitink | ... 1982 David Lloyd-Jones recording is in English. On the other hand, the 1990 | and the 1962 Oscar Danon recordings are Western performances sung in Russi ... |