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Vin Diesel
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- Name Changers
- Famous Action Movie Stars
- Famous Cancerians
Vin Diesel
Film Actor / 1967 -
Vin Diesel is an actor known for his high-energy action movies, such as The Fast and the Furious franchise.
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Ruby Dee
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- Silver Foxes
- African-American Biopics
- Famous Scorpios
Ruby Dee
Civil Rights Activist, Actress, Playwright, Poet, Screenwriter / 1924 -
Ruby Dee is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, activist, poet and journalist, perhaps best known for starring in the 1961 film A Raisin in the Sun. She's also known for her civic work with husband Ossie Davis.
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Patricia Bath
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- Famous Black Inventors
- Famous Academics
- Famous Teachers
Patricia Bath
Educator, Inventor, Doctor / 1942 -
Patricia Bath is the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment in 1986.
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Esther Rolle
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- TV Moms: 1970s
- Gap-Toothed Grinners
- Famous Scorpios
Esther Rolle
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1920 - 1998
A stage, film and TV actress, Esther Rolle is best remembered as Florida Evans -- a character she played on two comedy series, Maude and Good Times.
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Audre Lorde
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- Famous Aquarians
- Columbia University Alumni
- Famous Poets
Audre Lorde
Poet / 1934 - 1992
Audre Lorde wrote the poetry collections From a Land Where Other People Live (1973) and The Black Unicorn (1978), as well as memoirs like A Burst of Light (1988).
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Gertrude B. Elion
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- Groundbreaking Women
- Famous Aquarians
- Famous Chemists
Gertrude B. Elion
Chemist / 1918 - 1999
American biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude B. Elion helped develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent kidney transplant rejection. She won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988.
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profile name: Patricia Bath profile occupation: Educator, Inventor, Doctor
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profile name: Esther Rolle profile occupation: Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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profile name: Ruby Dee profile occupation: Civil Rights Activist, Actress, Playwright, Poet, Screenwriter
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