- Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Leo Cook on July 31, 1963, also known as Norman Cook) is a British big beat musician. He stopped using 'Quentin' and began calling himself 'Norman' while a schoolboy, long before he adopted any other pseudonym. - Amarillo Slim
Amarillo Slim (born Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. December 31, 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas) is a professional gambler, famous for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the main event at the World Series of Poker in 1972. - Watermelon Slim
Bill Homans, professionally known as "Watermelon Slim", is an American blues musician. He plays both guitar and harmonica. Homans has been performing since the 1970s and has been linked to several notable blues musicians, including John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Champion Jack Dupree, Bonnie Raitt, "Country" Joe McDonald, and Henry Vestine of Canned Heat. His music is rooted in the Mississippi Delta style, playing his dobro guitar lap-style with a slide. - Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams is an English singer, songwriter and fashion designer. Beckham is part of the successful pop group Spice Girls, and was dubbed 'Posh Spice' as part of the pop group. Since the Spice Girls followed separate careers, Beckham has released four UK Top 10 singles. - Langhorne Slim
Langhorne Slim is a young folk singer, born Sean Skolnick on August 20, 1980, based out of Brooklyn, New York. Originally hailing from Langhorne, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, part of the SUNY system. He began to gain public notice through several years of touring with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. - Iceberg Slim
Iceberg Slim (August 4, 1918 - April 28,1992), also known as Robert Beck and born as Robert Lee Maupin, was an African American writer who started out as a pimp and whose writings were particularly successful among black audiences; his descriptions of the pimp lifestyle had considerable influence on African-American culture. - Guitar Slim
Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (December 10 1926 - February 7 1959) is a New Orleans blues guitar player from the 1940s and 1950s best known for the million-selling song produced by Johnny Vincent at Specialty Records, "The Things That I Used to Do", a song that is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. - Soulja Slim
Soulja Slim was an American rapper who achieved modest success on Master P's No Limit record label. - T-Bone Slim
Matti Valentine Huhta (c.1890? - May 11?, 1942) better known by his pen name T-Bone Slim, was a humourist, poet, songwriter, hobo, and a labour activist in the Industrial Workers of the World. Very little is known of his early life or his death. He was born in Ashtabula, Ohio to Finnish working-class immigrants sometime before the turn of the century, married at a young age, and left the area around 1910, … - Lightnin' Slim
Otis Hicks (March 13 1913 - July 27 1974), better known by the stage name Lightnin' Slim, was an American blues artist. Specialising in Louisiana and swamp blues, Lightnin' was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died of stomach cancer in Detroit, Michigan. Lightnin' moved from Missouri to Louisiana at the age of thirteen. Taught guitar by his older brother Layfield, Lightnin' was playing bars in Baton Rouge by the late 1940s. - Sunnyland Slim
Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew, was a blues pianist born on a farm near Vance, Mississippi. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1925, where he performed with many of the popular blues musicians of the day. In 1942 he followed the great migration of southern workers to the industrial north in Chicago. At that time the electric blues was taking shape there, and through the years Sunnyland Slim played with such musicians as Muddy Waters, Robert Jr. Lockwood, and Little Walter. - Magic Slim
Magic Slim (born Morris Holt on August 7, 1937 in Torrence, Mississippi) is a blues singer and guitarist. He and Magic Sam are the best known representatives of the West Side Chicago blues. - Mississippi Slim
Mississippi Slim is the stage name of Carvel Lee Ausborn (born 1923), a hillbilly singer with a radio show on Tupelo's WELO during the later 1940s. Ausborn was born in Smithville, Mississippi. According to Peter Guralnick, he had taken up guitar at the age of thirteen to pursue a career in music. He was inspired by Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Ausborn's cousin Rod Brasfield, a then prominent country comedian who toured with Hank Williams. - Rupert Grint
Rupert Alexander Grint (born August 24, 1988) is an English actor best known for playing Ron Weasley in the "Harry Potter" films. - Slim Harpo
Slim Harpo was a blues musician. Born James Moore in Lobdell, Louisiana, the eldest in an orphaned family, Moore worked as a longshoreman and building worker during the late 1930s and early 1940s. One of the foremost proponents of post-war rural blues, he began performing in Baton Rouge bars under the name Harmonica Slim. He later accompanied Lightnin' Slim, his brother-in-law, both live and in the studio, … - Slim Thug
Slim Thug (born Stayve Jerome Thomas on September 8, 1980 in Houston, Texas) is an American rapper. He gained mainstream attention for his contribution to the popular single from rapper Mike Jones, "Still Tippin". He began his career with Swishahouse in the 1998. In 2000, after only a year and a half of being an artist on Swishahouse, having to split the earnings with a group of artists when you're the biggest star on the label, … - Slim Dusty
David Gordon "Slim Dusty" Kirkpatrick, AO, OBE (June 13, 1927—September 19, 2003) was an iconic Australian country music singer-songwriter. He has sold more than five million albums and singles in Australia. - Slim Gaillard
Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1916 - February 26, 1991) was a African-American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play. Along with Gaillard's date of birth, his family lineage and place of birth are disputed. One account is that he was born in Santa Clara, Cuba of a Greek father and an Afro-Cuban mother ; another is that he was born in Pensacola, Florida to a German father and an African-American mother. - Slim Moon
Slim Moon (b. Matthew Moon on October 15, 1967 in Missoula, Montana) is the founder of the rock music label Kill Rock Stars. He also runs its sister label 5 Rue Christine. Slim and his wife Portia, who now runs KRS, have decided to close 5RC. In 2007, 5RC will release its last records. During the course of his music career, he has had jobs as a musician, a spoken word artist, a promoter, an agent, a manager, a music store owner, and a marketer. - Slim Dunlap
Bob "Slim" Dunlap (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician. He is a Minnesota-based guitarist and singer-songwriter who is best known for replacing The Replacements' original lead guitarist, Bob Stinson. Dunlap joined the band in 1987, after the release of the album "Pleased to Meet Me". Dunlap played lead guitar for the Replacements until they broke up in the summer of 1991. - Slim Keith
Slim Keith was a New York socialite. Born Nancy Gross in Salinas, California, she invented her persona as a teenager. When she grew into a chic woman, she became known among the socially elite as Slim. There were many qualities that made Slim a fascination to those around her. They included intelligence, a great sense of humor, beauty and a terrific interest in men. From an early age she knew how to dress well. - Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972), commonly known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. Having sold seventy million albums worldwide, Eminem is one of the best-selling musicians of the early 2000s, and one of the best-selling rappers of all time. Eminem was discovered by pioneer gangsta rapper and producer Dr. Dre, … - Carlos Slim Helú
Carlos Slim Helú Aglamaz is a Mexican businessman. Slim has a substantial influence over the telecommunications industry in Mexico and in much of the rest of Latin America as well. He controls "Teléfonos de México" (Telmex), Telcel and " América Móvil " companies. Though he maintains an active involvement in his companies, his three sons Carlos Slim Domit, Marco Antonio Slim Domit and Patrick Slim Domit and his son in law Daniel Hajj Aboumrad, … - James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts. Taylor's career began in the mid-1960s, but he found his audience in the early 1970s, singing sensitive and gentle acoustic songs. He was part of a wave of singer-songwriters of the time that also included Joni Mitchell, Tom Rush, Cat Stevens, Carole King, John Denver, Elton John, Jackson Browne as well as Carly Simon, whom Taylor later married. - Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 - July 19, 2002) was an important American folklorist and musicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain. - Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible (born Raymond Burns, 24 April, 1954) is a singer and guitarist (and sometimes bassist) who grew up in Croydon, England and founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an (alternative) pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image. His signature headwear is a red beret. - Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand (born June 4, 1975 in Grays, Essex, England) is an English radio and television personality, comedian, actor, and newspaper columnist. Brand dresses in a flamboyant bohemian fashion describing himself as looking like an "S&M Willy Wonka". Brand's current style consists of black eyeliner, drainpipe jeans, Beatle boots, and long, shaggy, backcombed hair. - George Garrett
George Palmer Garrett, Jr. (born June 11, 1929) is an American poet and novelist. He has been the poet laureate of Virginia since 2002. His novels include "The Finished Man"," Double Vision", and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of "Death of the Fox", "The Succession", and "Entered from the Sun". He has worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Hollins University and, for many years, the University of Virginia. - Peter Green
Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, October 29 1946, in Bethnal Green, London) is a British blues-rock guitarist and founding member of the band Fleetwood Mac. A highly regarded figure in the British blues movement, Green inspired B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." Green's playing was marked with a distinctive keen vibrato and economy of style, … - Jay Munly
Jay Munly (also credited as Munly and Munly Munly) is a banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado. He is one of the major participants in the "Denver Sound", music that mixes elements of country, Gothic, and gospel. He is a member of Slim Cessna's Auto Club and Denver Broncos UK as well as the leader of his own band, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots. - Lester Quitzau
Lester Quitzau (born September 21, 1964 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian folk and blues guitarist. In addition to his own albums, he also collaborates in the roots trio Tri-Continental with Bill Bourne and Madagascar Slim, and in a touring and recording partnership with folk-pop singer Mae Moore, to whom Quitzau is married. - Cage Kennylz
Cage (real name Christian Palko, sometimes known as Cage Kennylz) is an American hip hop artist from New York City. He is known for his acid rap horror-core lyrics, inspired by his experiences in a mental institution as a teenager. He is also notable for a short-lived feud with Eminem (insults directed at him on "The Slim Shady LP") in the late 1990s. - Maxine Elliott
Maxine Elliott (February 5,1868 - March 5,1940) was an American stage actress, and was considered one of the most glamorous actresses of the turn of the 20th Century. It is said that reviewers disagreed "over whether it was her beauty or her acting ability that attracted attention" In addition to her stage skills, Elliott was also savvy in business. She was born in Rockland, Maine as Jessie Dermott and adopted her stage name in 1889, … - James M. Gavin
James Maurice "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin (born as James Nally Ryan; March 22, 1907-February 23, 1990 rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the United States Army. He was also referred to as "The Jumping General", because of his practice of taking part in combat drops with the paratroopers he commanded. Gavin was the youngest Major General commanding a division since the United States Civil War. - Simon Williams
Simon Williams (born 16 June 1946) is an English actor who is best known for playing James Bellamy in the period drama "Upstairs, Downstairs". He is known for playing Dr. Charles Cartwright in the sitcom "Don't Wait Up" and Sir Charles Merrick in medical drama "Holby City". He frequently plays upper-class roles. - Mahmoud Karim
Mahmoud el Karim (1916-1999) was a squash player from Egypt. He won the British Open men's title four consecutive times from 1947-1950. Karim first played golf and tennis at the Gezira Sporting Club in Cairo before discovering squash at the age of 15. He enjoyed it so much, that he came to devote all his time to the sport. In 1947, Karim captured the British Open title for the first time. - Nigel Ayers
Nigel Ayers is a multimedia artist born in Tideswell, Derbyshire, England, in 1957. His sound art has included numerous audio releases and live performances through his genre-busting group Nocturnal Emissions. His sound art collaborations includes work with Bourbonese Qualk, C.C.C.C., Andrew Liles, Lustmord, Randy Grief, Robin Storey, Expose Your Eyes, Z’ev, and Zoviet France. - American Horse
American Horse (ca. 1820?-1876) was a minor headman of the Miniconjou Lakota during the Plains Indian wars of the last half of the nineteenth century. More commonly known as Iron Plume, he was probably present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Slim Buttes. Following the native victory over General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn in June 1876, the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne moved eastward where by early fall, … - Stephanie Beard
Stephanie Beard (born August 27, 1980 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian actress, voice actress and television and radio personality. Her radio host persona goes by Suga BayBee, and as co-host of "The Zone", she was called Sugar. From 2001 to 2007, Beard has hosted "The Zone", a series of short interstitial segments aired between regular weekday programming on the Canadian children's network YTV. - Rodney Childers
Rodney Childers (born June 7, 1976, in Mooresville, North Carolina) is a NASCAR crew chief. He currently works with Scott Riggs and the #10 Valvoline Dodge Charger fielded by Evernham Motorsports. Before becoming crew chief, Childers himself was a racer, competing in the World Karting Association when he was 12 years old.
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