Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956) is an American figure skater. She a 1976 Olympic Winter Games gold medalist and Ladies World Figure Skating Champion.

Hamill was born in Chicago, Illinois to Chalmers and Carol Hamill. 

Anita Brookner CBE (born 16 July 1928) is an English novelist and art historian who was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.

Brookner's father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had emigrated from Poland and founded a tobacco factory.

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kango Manta Zogbin Kidjo is a Grammy Award-winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative videos.

BBC African Service included her in its list of the continent's 50 most iconic figures. Time Magazine called her "Africa's premier diva".

Like many other amazing women entertainers of the twentieth-century, Marlene Dietrich was beautiful, charismatic and willful.

She began reinventing herself from the age of about 11, when she created the name Marlene (pronounced mar-lay-na) from parts of her two given names Marie and Magdalene.

Mary Wesley, CBE (24 June 1912 – 30 December 2002) was an English novelist. She reportedly worked in MI5 during World War II.

During her career, she became one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 best-sellers in the last 20 years of her life.

Mary Aline Mynors Farmar was born in Englefield Green, Surrey, the third child of Colonel Harold and Violet Mynors Farmar.