Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist, one of the most prolific songwriters of his era, having written or cowritten more than 500 songs, including the hits “Calendar Girl” (1959), “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” (1960), and “Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen” (1961). Although Sedaka himself performed many of...

　　Lisa Kudrow (born July 30, 1963, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an actress who excels at applying her keen comedic timing and delivery to offbeat, eccentric characters. She rose to fame portraying the free-spirited massage therapist and coffee-shop folk musician Phoebe Buffay on the popular sitcom Friends (1994–2004). She is also known for portraying the former sitcom actress Valerie Cherish...

　　Percival Everett (born December 22, 1956, Fort Gordon (now Fort Eisenhower), Georgia, U.S.) is an American writer whose works reflect a wide range of subjects and styles and often deal head-on with philosophy and preconceptions concerning race. He has authored more than 30 books of fiction and poetry, including the novels I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), So Much Blue...

　　 　　Justin ThomasJustin Thomas during the final round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 13, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. © Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images.(more)Justin Thomas (born April 29, 1993, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.) is an American golfer who, in 2017, won his first major tournament at the 99th PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte,...

　　Nolan Arenado (born April 16, 1991, Newport Beach, California, U.S.) is a professional baseball player considered to be one of the best all-around third basemen in Major League Baseball (MLB). An elite infielder, Arenado won the Gold Glove Award in each of his first 10 seasons. He made his MLB debut with the Colorado Rockies in 2013 and quickly became...

　　Matt Gaetz (born May 7, 1982, Hollywood, Florida, U.S.) is a lawyer and a congressman representing Florida’s 1st congressional district (2017– ). He is one of the most outspoken ultraconservative members of his party, has been a staunch defender of former U.S. president Donald Trump, and played a pivotal role in the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from his role as...

　　Matthew Macfadyen (born October 17, 1974, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England) is a British stage and screen actor who has had a long and steady career playing a diverse set of characters, including the brooding Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice (2005) and the irritatingly ambitious Tom Wambsgans in the HBO series Succession (2018–23). 　　Early life and career Macfadyen is the...

　　Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978, Fort Mojave Indian Village, Needles, California, U.S.) is an American poet who won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Postcolonial Love Poem (2020). She is also a Native language activist working to revitalize the Mojave language. 　　Diaz grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village, on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation,...

　　Lisa Carrington (born June 23, 1989, Tauranga, New Zealand) is the most decorated New Zealand Olympian, having won six Olympic medals—five gold and one bronze—as a canoe sprint racer specializing in 200- and 500-meter races in a kayak. Carrington is also the first Māori woman to win an Olympic gold medal. 　　Early life Carrington is of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Ngāti...

　　 　　Linda CardelliniActress Linda Cardellini arriving at the 2020 Mercedes-Benz Annual Academy Viewing Party at Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, February 9, 2020.(more)Linda Cardellini (born June 25, 1975, Redwood City, California, U.S.) is a versatile actress who rose to prominence portraying teenager Lindsay Weir in the cult-classic coming-of-age television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000). She is also known...

　　Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (born 1976, Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish physicist known for his work in the field of twistronics, the study of how the properties of layers of two-dimensional materials change when one layer is rotated with respect to the other. 　　Jarillo-Herrero received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Valencia in Spain in 1999. He earned a...

　　 　　Lana Del ReySinger Lana Del Rey, 2023.(more)Lana Del Rey (born June 21, 1985, Manhattan, New York, U.S.) is an American singer-songwriter known for pairing glamorously morose musical themes with classic Americana and a nostalgic, cinematic visual style. Del Rey’s songs typically focus on relatable, melancholic experiences wrapped in a cultural pastiche of Hollywood’s golden era. 　　Early life The eldest...