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•  Akira Toriyama

  Akira Toriyama (born on April 5, 1955, in Kiyosu, Aichi, Japan) is a widely known and acclaimed Japanese manga artist known mostly for his creation of Dragon Ball in 1984. It is difficult to pinpoint the source of Toriyama's artwork inspiration. He admires Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and was impressed by Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians, which he remembers for the great art. Jackie Chan's early movies had a noticeable influence on Toriyama's stories.

  

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•  Bill Gates

  William Henry "Bill" Gates III(born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2010, excluding 2007. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock.

  

  26.8%
  

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•  Barbara Olson

  Barbara Olson (December 27, 1955–September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator and lawyer who worked for Fox News Channel, CNN and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of the television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.

  

  29.8%
  

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•  Billy Bob Thornton

  William Robert "Billy Bob" Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, director, musician, playwright and screenwriter. Thornton's early screen roles was as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire and in several early 1990s films including On Deadly Ground and Tombstone. In the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the the independent film Sling Blade, he won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay).

  

  32.3%
  

  29.8%
  

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•  Dave Winer

  Dave Winer is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in Berkeley, California. A pioneer in the areas of outliners, content management, XML-RPC, RSS, OPML, and the MetaWeblog API, he is also noted for his contribution to podcasting. Winer is the author of Scripting News, one of the oldest weblogs, established in 1997. ".. Dave Winer... whose Scripting News (scripting. com) is one of the oldest blogs.

  

  30.7%
  

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•  Ian Botham

  Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well known by his nickname "Beefy" While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.

  

  17.0%
  

  46.8%
  

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•  K. Eric Drexler

  Dr. Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955 in Alameda, California) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at MIT was revised and published as the book "Nanosystems Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and Computation" (1992), which received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992. He also coined the term grey goo.

  

  32.1%
  

  39.6%
  

  28.3%
  
•  Kelsey Grammer

  Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955), best known as Kelsey Grammer, is an American actor, producer, director, writer, voice artist and comedian best known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC situation comedies Cheers (nine years) and Frasier (eleven years), and providing the voice of Sideshow Bob on the Fox animated series The Simpsons.

  

  49.1%
  

  26.3%
  

  24.6%
  
•  Oliver Conant

  Oliver Conant (born November 15, 1955) is an American actor. Born in New York City, New York, Conant appeared as "Benji" in the 1971 coming-of-age drama, Summer of '42 and the Class of '44, appearing in both with Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser as a trio of adolescent boys. Of the three, only Houser's career continued into the '90s. He was also in Jean Kerr's 1973 Broadway farce Finishing Touches, with Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Lansing, James Woods, and others.

  

  34.4%
  

  43.8%
  

  21.9%
  
•  Paul J. McAuley

  Paul J. McAuley (born 23 April 1955), a British botanist and award-winning author. A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly "hard science fiction", dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel. McAuley began with far-future "space opera" with Four Hundred Billion Stars, its sequel Eternal Light, and the planetary-colony adventure Of the Fall.

  

  48.6%
  

  21.6%
  

  29.7%
  

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•  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (April 4, 1932–December 29, 1986) was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director. Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris, The Mirror, and Stalker. He directed the first five of his seven feature films in the Soviet Union; his last two films were produced in Italy and Sweden.

  

  36.9%
  

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  30.8%
  
•  Dedekind cut

  In mathematics, a Dedekind cut, named after Richard Dedekind, is a partition of the rational numbers into two non-empty parts A and B, such that all elements of A are less than all elements of B and A contains no greatest element. The cut itself is, conceptually, the "gap" defined between A and B. In other words, A contains every rational number less than the cut, and B contains every rational number greater than the cut. The cut itself is in neither set.

  

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•  Tied up too Tight

  "Tied Up Too Tight" is the second single from Hard-Fi's debut album Stars of CCTV. It reached #15 in the UK charts. 'Tied Up Too Tight' was set to follow the success of Hard-Fi's debut single 'Cash Machine' - a track which picked up single of the week accolades from the likes of NME, Time Out and Radio 1's Zane Lowe, who tagged 'Tied Up too Tight' as "the hottest record in the world" while receiving great support from the likes of XFM and Radio 1's Jo Whiley.

  

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•  Robert Carter (cricketer)

  

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