Trying to make list 1, into list 2 shown in the code below by removing the brackets and commas within the brackets so I can use the strings for SQLite select queries:
[('Mark Zuckerberg',), ('Bill Gates',), ('Tim Cook',), ('Wlliam Sidis',), ('Elon Musk',)]
['Mark Zuckerberg', 'Bill Gates', 'Tim Cook', 'William Sidis', 'Elon Musk']