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Christoph Schlingensief Christoph Maria Schlingensief (24 October 1960, Oberhausen – 21 August 2010, Berlin) was a German theatre director, performance artist and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festivals, often accompanied by public controversies. In the final years before his death, he staged Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival and worked at several opera houses, establishing himself as a "Regietheater" artist. He posthumously won the Golden Lion for Germany in 2011 at the Venice Biennale for the best national pavilion, which was turned into an installative replica of the stage design for his autobiographical play "A Church of Fear VS. the Alien Within", alluding to his cancer illness.
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Sam Wood Samuel Grosvenor Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as "A Night at the Opera", "A Day at the Races", "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", and "The Pride of the Yankees". He was also involved in a few acting and writing projects.
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Dorian Wood Dorian Wood (born in 1975) is an American singer, composer, performance artist, visual artist and writer.
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Chris Woodhouse Chris Woodhouse is an American recording engineer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his work with the San Francisco-based garage rock acts, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, The Intelligence, Sic Alps and Fuzz.
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Jordan Wood Jordan Wood (born 1 August 1994) is an Australian canoeist. He competed in the men's K-2 200 metres and men's K-4 1000 metres events at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Christoph Letkowski Christoph Letkowski (born 16 June 1982) is a German actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 2006.
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Sam Spruell Sam Spruell (born 1 January 1977) is an English-American actor. His film credits include "The Hurt Locker" (2008), "Defiance" (2008), "" (2007), "London to Brighton" (2006), "To Kill a King" (2003) and "" (2002). His television roles include the recurring cameo of Jason Belling in "Spooks" (2007 in Episode 6.9 and 2004 in "Project Friendly Fire") and the recurring role of Wilkes in "P.O.W." (2003).
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Christoph Franz Christoph Franz (born 2 May 1960 in Frankfurt) was Chief Executive Officer of Lufthansa until 1 May 2014 (replaced by Carsten Spohr).
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Kim Wood Kim Wood (born June 23, 1969 in Hollywood, California) is an American writer and filmmaker.
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Christoph Peters Christoph Peters (born 1966) is a German author of novels and short stories. His debut novel, "Stadt Land Fluss" was published in 1999, and won the 'aspekte' prize for the best German literary debut. It was followed by a collection of short stories in 2001, and, in 2007, his first novel to be published in English, "The Fabric of Night" (Random House). Mr. Peters lives in Berlin. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2009.
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Milan Šamko Milan Šamko (born 1946 in Leipzig) is a German pianist and keyboardist. In the 1980s, he became a sought-after studio musician of the GDR.
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Liquid Stranger Martin Stääf (born 13 November 1978), aka Liquid Stranger, is a Swedish-born electronic musician, described by Generation Bass as "the epitome of Transnational Dubstep covering everything from Latin, Asian, Eastern European and Jamaican Dancehall dubs." Martin Stääf is known for his experimental approach to composition where he merges genres to create a unique style of music. Martin Woods of Chillbase describes Liquid Stranger's music as a "unique blend of Ambience, Big Band Jazz, Dubstep and Psychedelica drizzled over electronic Dub Reggae grooves." Stääf lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Chris Wood (rock musician) Christopher Gordon Blandford "Chris" Wood (24 June 1944—12 July 1983) was an English musician, most known as a founding member of the English rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason.
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Christoph Vogtherr Christoph Martin Vogtherr (born 1965) is a German art historian who is director of the Wallace Collection. In January 2016 it was announced that Vogtherr would be leaving the Wallace Collection and would become director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle on 1 October 2016.
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Stephen Carpenter Stephen "Stef" Carpenter (born August 3, 1970) is an American musician, known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the rock band Deftones.
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Sam Forrest Samuel Forrest (born 1977 in York) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the frontman of Nine Black Alps. He also co-fronts The Sorry Kisses with Hayley Hutchinson and previously played bass in York group The Halcyon Band.
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Sammy (band) Sammy was the partnership of guitarist Luke Wood and guitarist/vocalist Jesse Hartman. The band was initially signed to Smells Like Records, the label owned by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley. Later the band signed to DGC/Geffen. The band was signed to Fire Records in the UK and Europe.
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Christoph Schneider Christoph "Doom" Schneider (born 11 May 1966) is a German musician. He is the drummer of the German "Neue Deutsche Härte" band Rammstein.
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Christoph Bull Christoph Bull (born August 27, 1966) is a German composer, musician and educator, and a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) who was the first organist to record a complete commercial album at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles California using the Frank Gehry co-designed Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ, 2010's "First & Grand Walt Disney Concert Hall Premiere Recording". Christoph is also the creator of Organica, a multi-media concert and recorded album series that has been performed regularly since April 1999. Dr. Bull has performed on several soundtracks for movies and television series, including the score for the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters.
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Grahame Wood Grahame Wood is a British–American actor born in Toronto Canada. His career has kept him busy in L.A., London, Toronto, and Vancouver. He is best known for his performance in the Roland Emmerich epic, "The Patriot", and continues to forge a career out of playing the layered bad guy. Commenting on his death scene in "Saving Private Ryan", Steven Spielberg proclaimed, "That was better than the opening credits of ER!"
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Christian Schopf Christian Schopf (born 1988) is an Austrian luger who has competed since 2008. A natural track luger, he won two silver medals at the 2009 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships in Moos, Italy, earning them in the men's doubles and mixed team events.
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Sam Walker (golfer) Sam James Walker (born 1 March 1978) is an English professional golfer.