In September 2008, EastEnders began a grooming and paedophilia storyline involving characters Tony King ( Chris Coghill ), Whitney Dean ( Shona McGarty ), Bianca Jackson ( Patsy Palmer ), Lauren Branning ( Madeline Duggan ) and Peter Beale ( Thomas Law ).

* 1981 – Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player

* Iziane Castro Marques, Brazil – one-time All-Star ( 2010 ) Lauren Jackson

* Lauren Jackson, Australia – two-time champion ( 2004, 2010 ), three-time MVP and eight-time All-Star

Jackson was also the home of singers Carl Perkins and Luther Ingram ; game show host Wink Martindale ; football players Ed " Too Tall " Jones, Al Wilson, Trey Teague, and Jabari Greer ; pianist Joe Hunter ( one of the Funk Brothers studio band who played on many Motown hits in the 1960s ) the rock band Full Devil Jacket, American soul singer, songwriter and actress Lauren Pritchard, originating and playing the role of the 15-year-old runaway " Ilse " in the hit Broadway show Spring Awakening for two years, Former Miss Tennessee Allison Leigh Alderson DeMarcus, and American country music artist Whitney Duncan.

Lauren Pritchard ( singer ) was born and spent her childhood in Jackson.

Australian women have made an even bigger impact in the US Women's National Basketball Association, with Lauren Jackson captaining the Seattle Storm, and the Australian women's basketball team have won three silver and one bronze medal at the Olympics.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

The franchise has been home to many high-quality players such as all-star point guard Sue Bird, sharp-shooter and 2004 Finals MVP Betty Lennox, former UConn star Swin Cash, and Australian power-forward Lauren Jackson.

The low record, however, allowed the Storm to draft 19-year old Australian standout Lauren Jackson.

Along the way, Lauren Jackson was named WNBA Western Conference Player of the Week five times, and Western Conference Player of the Month three times, on her way to being named WNBA MVP for the third time.

In 2004, the television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels aired, with actress Lauren Stamile portraying Jackson.

** Sarah Al-Rukhayyes, Tyler Allgood, Kendra Ayers, Tanner Backman, Doug Bacon, Bob Benner, Brandon Block, Stephanie Brown, David Charney, Jordan Cox, Michael De St. Aubin, Andrew Dolder, Christine Furey, Rebecca Hayes, Alex Henderson, Randall Holmes, Clay Jackson, Stephen Kesel, Allyson Klinner, Kenneth Lao, Corey Lee, Tina Maceri, Lauren Oliver, Alex Peeples, Benjamin Pendergraft, Autumn Sikorowski, Andrew Taylor, Daniel Toner, Christina Walton, Elizabeth Whitlock, Joe Wojciechowski, Katie Woods, Mary Melissa Yohn

* " Painkillers ", a song by Lauren Pritchard from Wasted in Jackson

Volcano is a 1997 disaster film directed by Mick Jackson and produced by Andrew Z. Davis, Neal H. Moritz and Lauren Shuler Donner.

Jackson is married to Roger Donazzan and they have two children-Matthew, 24, and Lauren Donazzan, 20.

Other prominent centers in women's basketball include Australian Lauren Jackson of the Seattle Storm and Karl Malone's daughter Cheryl Ford of the Detroit Shock.

Lauren Jackson, Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes have won the award three times.

Lauren Hutton, Ellen Barkin, Gerard Malanga, Joe Jackson, Joni Mitchell, Nico, David Bowie and a score of other " Lower Manhattan " celebs hung out there, as well as the artists that formerly frequented Max's and the doormen of the Mudd Club.

Lauren Jackson is the youngest # 1 draft pick, being drafted at the age of 19.

In 2005, Olympic gold medalists Amanda Beard and Jennie Finch, along with Lauren Jackson and Venus Williams, were featured.

The band were formed in 1994 and consisted of lead vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Lauren Laverne ( b. Lauren Gofton ), drummer Johnny X ( real name Pete Gofton, Lauren's brother ), lead guitarist and occasional vocalist Marie du Santiago ( b. Marie Nixon ) and bass guitarist Emmy-Kate Montrose ( b. Emma Jackson ).

During her time at college, Laverne, Nixon and Jackson formed a teen punk band called Kenickie with Laverne's brother Peter, taking the stage names Lauren Laverne, Marie du Santiago, Emmy-Kate Montrose and Johnny X.

Jackson said she came across the tune again about seven years later: " I was at Ralph Lauren and I said, ' Oh, my God!

His other daughters are Lynsey, born 1982 and Lauren, born 1988.

Peres has a younger brother, Gershon, and is a first cousin of American actress Lauren Bacall ( born Betty Joan Persky ).

Peres is the first cousin of American movie star Lauren Bacall ( born Betty Joan Perske, 1924 ).

* Lauren Slater ( born 1963 ), American psychologist and writer

* Lauren English ( born 1989 ), competitive swimmer who set the United States Open Record in the 50 Meter Backstroke.

* Lauren English ( born 1989 ), swimmer who holds the United States Open Record in the 50m backstroke.

* Ashley Lauren Fisher ( born 1975 ), actress, model and spinal cord injury activist.

* Lauren Myracle ( born 1969 ), author

Kenneth Lauren " Ken " Burns ( born July 29, 1953 ) is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs.

Thomas Lauren Friedman ( born July 20, 1953 ) is an American journalist, columnist and author.

He was married on 17 October 1984 in Kandahar to a Singaporean engineer named Lauren Marissa Norton ( born 31 January 1958 in Singapore ), who remained " Lauren Rabbani "/" Madame Mohammad Rabbani ".

* Lauren Boyle ( born 1987 ), New Zealand swimmer

Their second child, a girl, named Nina Lauren Ninette De La Hoya Corretjer, was born on December 29, 2007, on Oscar Gabriel's second birthday.

* Olympian Lauren Hough ( Equestrian, 2000 ) was born in Goshen.

***** Lauren Bush-Lauren ( born 1984 ), model for Tommy Hilfiger, daughter of Neil Bush and Sharon Smith.

Ralph Lauren ( born Ralph Lifschitz, October 14, 1939 ) is an American fashion designer and business executive, best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.

Ralph Lauren ( pronounced loren ) was born Ralph Lifschitz in the Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants, from Pinsk, Belarus: Fraydl ( née Kotlar ) and Frank Lifschitz, a house painter.

Lauren Lee Smith ( born June 19, 1980 ) is a Canadian actress.

* Lauren Parkes ( born 1987 ), American beauty pageant contestant

Lauren Berlant ( born 1957 ) is the George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where she has been teaching since 1984.

* Lauren Powers ( born 1961 ), American actress, amateur bodybuilder and firefighter