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Emmy-nominated actor Christina Applegate played Kelly Bundy on the sitcom Married… with Children and has starred in other TV shows and movies such as Dead to Me and Anchorman.

Zsa Zsa Gabor was an actress and socialite famous for her bubbly, flirtatious persona — referring to nearly everyone as “darling.” She was married nine times.

Fourteen-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift made a splash in the country music world in 2006 and is now one of the biggest pop music stars.

American college student Amanda Knox was twice convicted and acquitted in the 2007 murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy. She has since become an author and activist.

From ‘Some Like It Hot’ to ‘The Defiant Ones,’ Tony Curtis was the reigning Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s. He is also known as actress Jamie Lee Curtis’s dad.

Engineer Lonnie Johnson invented the massively popular Super Soaker water gun and is developing a thermoelectric device to convert solar energy into sustainable power.

Cyndi Lauper is an award-winning American singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with a string of pop hits such as “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”

Buddy Holly was a singer/songwriter whose records, conveying a sense of the wide-open spaces of West Texas and unstoppable joie de vivre, remain vital today.

Actor and radio performer Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar in 1940, for her supporting role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind.

Derek Hough spent a decade as a pro dancer on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ before becoming a judge on ‘World of Dance’; he’s also appeared in movies, stage shows and TV productions.