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  2. Hedy Lamarr - Wikipedia

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    Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.

  3. List of celebrity inventors - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of celebrity inventors and their patents. (For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.)After Google released a patent search [1] online in December 2006, a website called Ironic Sans, [2] made the public aware of a number of celebrity patents found through the new patent search engine.

  4. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    [48] [49] He advocates the idea that net neutrality is a kind of human network right: "Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights." [50] Berners-Lee participated in an open letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He and 20 ...

  5. List of stage names - Wikipedia

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    Those who changed their names for religious reasons. Those who adopted a matriname: List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames; Those who changed their name(s) due to other or unknown reasons unrelated to show business of any kind. Note: Elton John is listed here because he used the name professionally before he legally adopted it in 1972.

  6. Internet celebrity - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Person who has become famous through their use of the Internet See also: Social media influencer Internet celebrities Connor Franta, Sam Pottorff, Trevi Moran, Kian Lawley, JC Caylen and Ricky Dillon at VidCon, a convention for YouTubers, in 2014 An Internet celebrity, also referred to ...

  7. Celebrity - Wikipedia

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    In his 2020 book Dead Famous: An Unexpected History Of Celebrity, British historian Greg Jenner uses the definition: . Celebrity (noun): a unique persona made widely known to the public via media coverage, and whose life is publicly consumed as dramatic entertainment, and whose commercial brand is made profitable for those who exploit their popularity, and perhaps also for themselves.

  8. AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars - Wikipedia

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    With the death of Sidney Poitier in January 2022, all male living legends and nominees have now died. There is one surviving female living legend, Sophia Loren (90), and 4 remaining female nominees: Ann Blyth (96), Claire Bloom (93), Rita Moreno (93) and Margaret O'Brien (87). The most recent nominee to die is Mitzi Gaynor, aged 93, in October ...

  9. List of fictional actors - Wikipedia

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    Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), failed male actor and successful TV actress as Dorothy Michaels – Tootsie; Carl Dougherty (no voice actor), one of the greatest monster-stars at MKO; looks like an alien; Dan Murray believes him to look like Bobby Russell, masseur of the Freaks sport team – Hollywood Monsters 2 (video game)