Entertainment

J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling is a British author best known for creating the seven-novel Harry Potter series. She has also written adult fiction and the Cormoran Strike crime series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, alongside charitable work focused in part on children and young people.

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson is a screen and stage actor, film producer, and director. Her career includes BAFTA and Tony Award wins, two Academy Award nominations in 2020, a producer credit on Fly Me to the Moon, and the 2025 directorial debut Eleanor the Great.

Jim Iyke

Jim Iyke, publicly identified as James Ikechukwu, is a Nigerian Nollywood actor and film executive producer. His documented work includes a starring role in Last Flight to Abuja and his executive-production debut with the 2021 film Bad Comments.

Basketmouth

Basketmouth, the professional name of Bright Okpocha, is a Nigerian stand-up comedian and entertainment producer known for work across live comedy, television and web series, music projects, acting, and streaming comedy programming.

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Edward Nolan

Christopher Edward Nolan is a London-born filmmaker known for directing films including Memento, the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Dunkirk and Oppenheimer. He won the Academy Award for Directing for Oppenheimer and, as of August 2026, served as president of the Directors…

George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin is an American novelist and short-story writer known for fantasy, science fiction, and horror. His principal public significance comes from A Song of Ice and Fire, the epic fantasy sequence adapted by HBO as Game of Thrones.

Kaffy

Kafayat Oluwatoyin Shafau

Kafayat Oluwatoyin Shafau, professionally known as Kaffy, is a Nigerian dancer, choreographer and creative entrepreneur known for dance performance, professional training and dance-related enterprise. Her career includes a widely reported 2006 longest-dance-party achievement…

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise is an American actor and film producer known for a screen career extending from the early 1980s through his long-running work as the star and a producer of the Mission: Impossible series. His recognition includes three Academy Award acting nominations, a Best Picture…

Genevieve Nnaji

Genevieve Nnaji is a Nigerian screen actor, producer and filmmaker associated with Nollywood. She made her feature directorial debut with Lionheart, in which she also starred; Netflix acquired worldwide rights to the film in 2018 as its first original film from Nigeria.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an American television host, producer, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for hosting the nationally syndicated The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 to 2011. Her public career also encompasses film, media leadership, philanthropy and advocacy.

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu is a Nigerian television presenter and media personality best known as the host of Big Brother Naija and presenter of Channels Television's Rubbin' Minds. A lawyer by training, he entered public life as a housemate on the first Big Brother Nigeria in 2006…

Osita Iheme

Osita Iheme is a Nigerian actor widely known as Pawpaw for his comic role in the Nollywood film Aki na Ukwa alongside Chinedu Ikedieze. His public recognition includes Nigeria's Member of the Order of the Federal Republic national honour, which he received in 2011.

Sofía Vergara

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara

Sofía Vergara is a Colombian-born actor, television personality, and producer best known for playing Gloria on ABC's Modern Family. Her other prominent public roles include starring in and executive producing Netflix's Griselda and serving as a judge on America's Got Talent.

Mr Macaroni

Adebowale "Debo" Adedayo

Adebowale "Debo" Adedayo, known publicly as Mr Macaroni, is a Nigerian actor, digital content creator, producer and satirist. He is known for online comedy that draws on Nigerian social realities and for public advocacy concerning police brutality, social justice and government…

Marques Brownlee

Marques Brownlee, known professionally as MKBHD, is a technology reviewer and video creator recognized for his coverage of consumer electronics. His work has expanded into a network of video channels, a studio team and the technology podcast Waveform.

Iyabo Ojo

Iyabo Ojo is a Nigerian actor, producer and filmmaker known for work in Yoruba-language and English-language screen productions. Her wider public profile includes reality television and advocacy related to calls for an investigation into singer MohBad's death.

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and the founder of the business that became Ralph Lauren Corporation. He is known for building the Polo-branded fashion enterprise and, as of August 22, 2026, serves as the corporation's Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer.

Duro Olowu

Duro Olowu is a Lagos-born Nigerian-British fashion designer and curator known for womenswear that combines distinctive prints and textiles with fluid silhouettes and tailored construction. He founded his eponymous label in 2004 and has also curated major gallery and museum…

Veekee James

Veekee James is a Nigerian fashion designer and the creative figure behind the VeeKee James brand, known for bespoke bridal couture and red-carpet designs worn by public figures at the Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards.

Hailey Bieber

Hailey Rhode Bieber

Hailey Rhode Bieber is an American model and beauty entrepreneur who founded rhode, a skincare and color-cosmetics brand launched in 2022. Reporting published in March 2026 identified her as the brand's chief creative officer and head of innovation following its acquisition by…

Iman

Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid

Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, known professionally as Iman, is a Somali-born fashion model and entrepreneur. Following a prominent international modeling career, she founded IMAN Cosmetics in 1994 to address the limited range of makeup shades available to women of color.

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is a South African-born, naturalized American actor and producer known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Monster. She is also the founder of Denver and Delilah Productions and the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, and the United Nations lists…

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Stephanie Linus

Stephanie Linus, formerly known professionally as Stephanie Okereke, is a Nigerian actress and filmmaker known for writing, directing and producing Through the Glass and Dry. Dry received major African film awards in 2016, and her public work has included regional advocacy for…

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is an American film director and producer known for films including Jaws, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan. He founded Amblin Entertainment, co-founded DreamWorks SKG, and established the organization now known as USC Shoah Foundation.