* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

* Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ).

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

* 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian cartoonist ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – Hugh Hood, Canadian author ( d. 2000 )

* 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist ( d. 2000 )

* 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1940 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – Piper Reese, American video blogger

* 1941 – Doris Coley, American singer ( The Shirelles ) ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

* 1892 – Kin Narita, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 107 ( d. 2000 )

* 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet ( d. 2000 )

* 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer ( d. 2000 )

* 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 2000 )

* 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, English biologist ( d. 2000 )

* 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter ( 10, 000 Maniacs ) ( d. 2000 )

* 1903 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician ( d. 2000 )

* Friedensreich Hundertwasser ( 1928 – 2000 ): artist and architect

* 1929 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer ( The Jordanaires ) ( d. 2000 )

* 2000: Eve Ellis, runners up Ashley Renee, Andrea Neal,

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Led by O ' Neal, Bryant, and another Hall of Fame coach, Phil Jackson, Los Angeles won three consecutive titles between 2000 to 2002, securing the franchise its second " three-peat ".

Bryant was awarded the league's MVP award, becoming the first Laker to win the award since O ' Neal in 2000.

In 2000, Neal Broten was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

* Nick ' n Neal live in Europe-Two Separate Gorillas ( October, 2000 ) ( From the Vaults, Series 2 )

Their subsequent three studio albums recorded with producer Neal Avron ; New Found Glory ( 2000 ), Sticks and Stones ( 2002 ), and Catalyst ( 2004 ) all charted on the Billboard 200 and achieved gold certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ).

* Neal Matthews, Jr. ( 1929 – 2000 ), decorated soldier, Country Music Hall of Fame singer

* Neal Shaara, aka Thunderbird, a Marvel Comics superhero introduced in 2000

With the loss of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in 2000, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope and Gregory Peck in 2003, Marlon Brando in 2004, Shelley Winters in 2006, Deborah Kerr 2007, Van Johnson and Paul Newman in 2008, Tony Curtis and Patricia Neal in 2010 and Jane Russell and Elizabeth Taylor in 2011, the number of stars is dwindling.

* Norrick, Neal R. ( 2000 ).

Lesnar is an accomplished amateur wrestler, winning the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship and placing second in 1999, losing in the finals to 1999 world freestyle wrestling champion and future New England Patriots offensive lineman Stephen Neal.

Puttnam co-authored ( with Neal Watson ) Of Movies and Money, published in Jan 2000 by Vintage Books.

* Neal Langford-bass guitar ( 2000 – 2003 )

* Shaquille O ' Neal ( November 1993, November 2000 )

O ' Neal won the NBA MVP Award in 2000, and Bryant rose to prominence as one of the NBA's newest stars.

He was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 17th pick of the first round, but O ' Neal was unable to break into the first team in Portland and was traded to the Indiana Pacers in 2000.

This move was greeted with surprise by the Indiana fans as the Pacers had just came off an appearance in the 2000 NBA Finals, and the trade involved losing a quality player for an unproven quantity in O ' Neal.

Following his breakout season in 2000 – 01, O ' Neal earned a spot on Team USA for the 2001 Goodwill Games.

Five years removed from his only All-Star appearance, Howard was nonetheless the fourth-highest-paid player in the NBA during the 2000 – 01 season, behind Kevin Garnett, Shaquille O ' Neal and Mourning.

* Neal Robert ( 1987 ?- 95, 1998 – 2000.

** " The Merry Weirdo " ( with Allan Bednar as " Neal Brand ", in 2000 AD # 1083, 1998 )

From 2000 – 02, the Lakers, led by Shaquille O ' Neal and Kobe Bryant, won the NBA Finals in dominating performances.