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Annie Golden
Annie Golden, singer of The Shirts, on CBGB, her role in Hair, Squeaky Fromme in Assassins, Norma on Orange Is the New Black and decades of stage work.
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Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis made Theme Park at 17, co-founded DeepMind, sold it to Google, shared the 2024 Chemistry Nobel for AlphaFold2 and now runs Isomorphic Labs.
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Inna
Inna, born Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu, on her Black Sea coast roots, the 2009 Billboard No. 1 for Hot, Global Records, and her Spanish-language album YO.
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Shane Gillis
Shane Gillis, the Pennsylvania comic fired by SNL in 2019, on his Philadelphia start, Netflix's Tires, a stadium record and his three turns hosting the show.
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Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan, the Port Huron-born novelist behind Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, on her books and film deals as she turns 75.
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Dan McCafferty
Dan McCafferty, the Dunfermline singer who fronted Nazareth from 1968: The Shadettes, Razamanaz, Love Hurts, Hair of the Dog, his COPD retirement and death in 2022.
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Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward, the Moody Blues singer from Swindon, on joining the band in 1966, writing Nights in White Satin, Forever Autumn, his solo work and his 2026 tour.
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Ray Brown
Ray Brown, the Pittsburgh-born jazz bassist: Dizzy Gillespie's band, Ella Fitzgerald, the Oscar Peterson Trio, Los Angeles studio years and his own trios.
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Richard Carpenter
Richard Carpenter arranged and produced the Carpenters' records. His Yale and Long Beach years, A&M, three No. 1 hits, Karen's death and the royalty suit.
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Jalon Daniels
Jalon Daniels spent six seasons at Kansas, went undrafted in 2026 and won his second NFL start for Tampa Bay at Dallas. His path and his rookie contract.
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Navi Pillay
Navi Pillay, the Durban lawyer who sat on the Rwanda tribunal and ran the UN human rights office, won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. How she got there.
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Anne Carson
Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. How Sappho, a teacher in Port Hope and a life in classics shaped her work.
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