Steven John Naismith (born 14 September 1986) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a winger for English club Everton and the Scotland national football team.Naismith began his career with Kilmarnock in 2004. He spent four years with the Ayrshire side where he won the SFWA Young Player of the Year award in 2006 and the SPFA Young Player of the Year award the following season. Naismith joined Rangers in the summer of 2007 for a fee of £1.9m. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Mordellistena longicauda is a beetle in the Mordellistena genus which is in the Mordellidae family. It was described in 1930 by Ray. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Victor Ivan Lynn (January 26 1925 – December 6 2010) was a professional ice hockey player in the NHL. He played for all of the NHL's Original Six teams. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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