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•  Abdul Rashid Dostum

  Abdul Rashid Dostum ('Abd al-Raszhid Dostum or Dostam) (born 1954) is a former pro-Soviet fighter during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and is considered by many to be the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community. He joined the Afghan military in 1978, fighting with the Soviets and against the mujahideen throughout the 1980s before switching sides and joining the mujahideen. Dostum would again switch sides and has become infamous for his switching of allegiances.

  

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•  Bruce Sterling

  Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.

  

  39.0%
  

  24.4%
  

  36.6%
  
•  Bill Joy

  William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, is an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He is widely known for having written the essay "Why the future doesn't need us", where he expresses deep concerns over the development of modern technologies. He has two children, Hayden and Maddie.

  

  29.2%
  

  27.1%
  

  43.8%
  
•  Bill Mumy

  Charles William "Bill" Mumy, Jr. (born February 1, 1954), is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community. He is known primarily for his roles in movies and television, character-type roles, and his work in television production. The red-headed Mumy came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, most notably as Will Robinson, the youngest of the three children of Prof. John and Dr.

  

  37.8%
  

  27.0%
  

  35.1%
  
•  Elvis Costello

  Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter of Irish heritage. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the New Wave musical genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs.

  

  15.9%
  

  27.3%
  

  56.8%
  
•  Iain Banks

  Iain Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

  

  29.3%
  

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•  James Cameron

  James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), ' (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009). In the time between making Titanic and his return to feature films with Avatar, Cameron spent some years creating documentary films, and also co-developing the digital 3-D Fusion Camera System.

  

  26.2%
  

  31.0%
  

  42.9%
  
•  Coen brothers

  Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from screwball comedies to hardboiled thrillers, to movies where genres blur together. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until recently Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing.

  

  36.3%
  

  31.3%
  

  32.5%
  
•  John Hagelin

  John Hagelin (born June 9, 1954) is an American particle physicist, three-time candidate of the Natural Law Party for President of the United States, and a leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement in the US. Hagelin was a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and is now Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at Maharishi University of Management.

  

  26.7%
  

  37.8%
  

  35.6%
  
•  Jock Taylor

  Jock Taylor (March 9, 1954 - August 15, 1982) was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer. John Robert Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, and entered his first sidecar race at the age of 19, as the passenger to Kenny Andrews (1974). The following year he took part in his first race as a driver.

  

  34.2%
  

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•  PuTTY

  PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols. The name "PuTTY" has no definitive meaning, though 'tty' is the name for a terminal in the Unix tradition, usually held to be short for teletype. PuTTY was originally written for Microsoft Windows, but it has been ported to various other operating systems.

  

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•  Dantu District

  Dantu is a district under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang in Jiangsu Province. There are two islands that belong to Dantu, in addition to the Yangtze River at the north it has a town. It is bordered to the east by the Jiajiang neighborhood in Yangzhong. To the south-east lies Danyang and to the west is Jurong. The Yangtze River borders Dantu to the north. The district covers an area of 748.8 square kilometers and as of 2003 had a population of 370,000. The postal code for Dantu is 212100.

  

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•  Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor

  Ustad Atta Mohammed Noor is the current governor of Balkh Province in Afghanistan. He is an ethnic Tajik and was a high school teacher before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During the Afghan Communist regime, Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor joined the Jamiat Islami party. He joined an anti-Soviet Mujahideen resistance group in northern Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and later became a commander in the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.

  

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•  Fulwood, South Yorkshire

  

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•  CKX, Inc

  

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