I think he's an astronaut  but I don't remember his name

yes .. methinks you might be right Wannabe .. Maybe JG ?

Yes he WAS an Astronaut. He passed away April 2021. His initials were M.C.

Michael Collins.

You've got him Sheba over to you for a pic.

Michael Collins (October 31, 1930 April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was also a test pilot and major general in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Thanks Sandy.  This one shouldn't take too long.

He recenty left us.

But what was his name dorian ?

It looks Dorian is busy with Christmas so I'll keep the game going thanks to his clue Ray Liotta

You've got him Santa.  Who's next ?

 Raymond Allen Liotta was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams and Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, and the titular Cocaine Bear in Cocaine Bear. He was a Primetime Emmy Award winning actor and received nominations for a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Thanks Sheba now who is this guy

Maybe a Rapper, or a Netball player ? 

Sisqo ?

Not sisqo our man with a (I think) Rwandan name is about to star in the lead role in a very popular TV series. I had never heard of him before this and I suspect the hair do is for the TV series because on the net he has mostly normal hair. More clues later if this doesn't give him away

Clue time our man is a Rwandan-Scottish Actor

Maybe Pharrell Williams ?  [I don't really think so.]

No not Pharrell Williams. Best not to look for a black man with blonde hair look for a Rwandan-Scottish actor who will play the lead role in a popular TV series that started when I was in my teens.

Ncuti Gatwa.

Having trouble getting Sandys' reply to me posted,, so I'll post the next pic, and try and get it on as soon as Possible.

Who is the guy between the two young Ladies?

Thanks Sheba for posting that I don't know why my post wouldn't work.

You're welcome Sandy.

watsea wrote:

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Re Sheba's photo.
I think that bloke, between the ladies, is Lew Hoad, champion Aussie tennis player.

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 Spot on Ted.  Who's next?

Lewis Alan Hoad (23 November 1934 3 July 1994) was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur (the Australian Championships, French Championships and two Wimbledons). He was a member of the Australian team that won the Davis Cup four times between 1952 and 1956. Hoad turned professional in July 1957. He won the Kooyong Tournament of Champions in 1958 and the Forest Hills Tournament of Champions in 1959. He won the Ampol Open Trophy world series of tournaments in 1959, which included the Kooyong tournament that concluded in early January 1960. Hoad's men's singles tournament victories spanned from 1951 to 1971.

Hoad was ranked the world No. 1 amateur in 1953 by Harry Hopman, by Noel Brown and by the editors of Tennis de France, and also in 1956 by Lance Tingay, by Ned Potter, and by Tennis de France. He was ranked the world No. 1 professional for 1959 in Kramer's Ampol point ranking system, and by Robert Barnes (Kramer's Australian manager).

Serious back problems plagued Hoad throughout his career, possibly caused by a weight-lifting exercise which he devised in 1954. The back injury became particularly intense following the 1956 Wimbledon championships, continued periodically, and led to his semi-retirement from tennis in 1967. Afterwards he made sporadic appearances at tournaments, enticed by the advent of the Open Era in 1968 and was seeded No. 7 for the 1968 Wimbledon Championships and seeded No. 12 for the 1970 French Open.

Following his retirement in 1973, Hoad and his wife Jenny Staley Hoad constructed, owned and operated a tennis resort, Lew Hoad's Campo de Tenis and Lew Hoad Tennis Village in Fuengirola, Spain, near Málaga. Hoad died of leukaemia on 3 July 1994.

When I first saw Sheba's pic of Lew, I thought that I knew the face. An Aussies golfer, who?  Brain ticked over a bit more, tennis!! Aha.

Ok, for someone else now.  Who do we have?

Rodney Fox, knew him well, used to belong to the same spearfishing club, fellow South Australian.

My better half just reminded me, she nursed Rodney at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after he was attacked by a shark whilst spear fishing at the Aldinga Dropoff.

Santa,

Correct.  It is Rodney Fox.  I reckoned that a SA waterman might pick this one.  The posted photo was taken in Victor Harbor, apparently.  By the way, I love the Cornish pasties in Moonta.

I have attached couple of other Rodney Fox pics after his bio. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Who is the next ID person?

Rodney Winston Fox (born 9 November 1940) is an Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of an attack by a great white shark, and one of the world's foremost authorities on that species.^[1][2] He was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame in 2007.^[3] He was born in Adelaide.

On 8 December 1963, whilst participating in the 1963 South Australia Spearfishing Championship at Aldinga Beach, Fox was attacked by a great white shark, and badly bitten around the chest and arm. His story of the attack and escape has been published many times. He is regarded as a miracle survivor of one of the world's worst non-fatal shark attacks.^[5]

In the attack, Fox's abdomen was fully exposed and all his ribs were broken on his left hand side. His diaphragm was punctured, his lung was ripped open, his scapula was pierced,^[6] his spleen was uncovered, his artery was exposed, and he was minutes away from his veins collapsing due to the loss of large amounts of blood.^[7] The tendons, fingers, and thumb in his right hand were all cut and to this day he has part of a shark tooth embedded in his wrist. His wounds required 462 stitches after the attack.

Fox went on to design and build the first underwater observation cage to dive with the great white shark, and for over 40 years has led major expeditions to film and study his attacker.^[10] He arranged and hosted the very first great white shark expedition to welcome sport divers, and has run hundreds of expeditions in the thirty years since.

Fox is regarded as a world authority on the great white shark and has a great reputation as an expedition leader and producer of shark documentaries. He has been involved in some way with most great white shark films made in the 20th century. He has hosted expeditions for over 100 major feature and documentary films with film makers and shark researchers from 16 different countries. Disney, Universal, IMAX, Cousteau Society, and National Geographic have enlisted his help and have filmed and studied the great white shark from his cages.

Fox's life since the attack has involved consulting and co-ordinating film crews and arranging and guiding ecotourismadventure trips and expeditions specialising in great white sharks and other marine creatures. He also travels the world giving talks to people about his experiences with sharks and the need for conservation efforts to continue. His talks and films on the great white shark have educated swimmers and divers to the realistic potential of a shark attack. He delivers a firm message that "sharks are not all that bad, we have very few confrontations with them and we should look after all our fishes especially the great white". He positions it as an important "keystone predator" directly controlling the diversity and abundance of other species in the great web of life.

Fox has a large private collection of displays and items from 40 years film making on the ocean which are on tour around Australia and the world. They feature great white shark models, shark proof cages from the film Jaws (which he was one of the consultants for along with Ron Taylor and Valerie Taylor), giant and ancient fossil shark teeth, plus photos and video highlights from many films that he has been involved in.

Fox, along with his son, Andrew, after more than 40 years, still continue to run Rodney Fox Great White Shark Expeditions, a shark cage diving operation to view great white sharks in the wild off Southern Australia. This operation also acts as a platform for much needed further research of great white sharks as well as encouraging quality natural history documentaries on the species.

Fox and Andrew, along with shark researcher Dr. Rachel Robbins, founded the Fox Shark Research Foundation (FSRF) which is devoted to the study and conservation of the great white shark.

The great white shark is listed by the IUCN as a vulnerable species. The Fox Shark Research Foundation is endeavouring to expand our understanding of great white sharks, using the latest technologies and methods of research and working in collaboration with other scientific institutions.

Fox currently strives to further raise public awareness of the plight of all shark species through his dive operation and research foundation, via publications, public speaking, and the films his operations facilitate. 

In 2009, Fox was nominated for the 2010 Indianapolis Prize, the world's largest individual monetary award for animal species conservation.

The Rodney Fox Shark museum is in Mile End, South Australia. ^[11]