Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to a Welsh father, Brinley (" Bryn ") Newton-John, and a Berlin-born mother, Irene Helene ( Born ), the eldest child of the Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist Max Born.

Born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky, to Joseph Dunn, a steamboat inspector for the United States government, and Adelaide Henry, a concert pianist / music teacher from Newport, Kentucky, Irene Dunn would later write " No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the river boats with my father.

Born in Salford, Lancashire, to Irene Acton ( 1928 – 2000 ; since 1962 Irene Hook ), and John Woodhead.

Born in Belize City, in what was then British Honduras, to William and Irene ( née Escalante ) Price, he entered politics in 1947 with his election to the Belize City Council.

Born John Allan Jones, the only son of actors Allan Jones and Irene Hervey.

Born Beulah Irene Herwick in Venice, California, she began her acting career after being introduced to a casting agent from MGM.

Born in Gżira, Malta to Irene and Martin De Battista, he is the oldest of 3 brothers.

Born in Royal Leamington Spa, England, he was adopted by Henry and Irene Dingley, growing up in Coventry and then in Binstead near Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

Born Irene Edmondson in the farming town of Oakville, Manitoba, she is the daughter of Mark Edmondson, a farmer and one-time political candidate.

Born in Terre Haute, Indiana to Stanley S. and Irene Lederer Dreyfus, Dreyfus was educated at Harvard University, earning three degrees there, with a BA in 1951, an MA in 1952, and a PhD in 1964, under the supervision of Dagfinn Føllesdal.

Born Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones, he was the youngest son of Raymond Ray-Jones ( 1886 – 1942 ), a painter and etcher who died when his son was only eight months old, and Effie Irene Pearce, who would work as a physiotherapist.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Hearn studied philosophy at Southwestern at Memphis, now Rhodes College before he embarked on a career in the theater, training for the stage with actress turned acting coach Irene Dailey.

Born in Southport, he married Dorothy Irene Deakin at the United Reformed Church in Belmont, Lancashire in 1941, and they lived in Egerton, near Bolton.

In it are reproduced lines and poems by Irene Klatt, Omar Cáceres, William Blake, Hölderlin, Rilke, Shelley, D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Leopardi, Virgil, and Ezra Pound's translation of poems of the troubadour Bertran de Born.

Born in London, England, Dunn is the daughter of the Canadian steel magnate Sir James Dunn, 1st baronet ( 1874 – 1956 ) and his second wife, Irene Clarice Richards, a former musical-comedy actress who had previous been married to Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry.

Born Anne Irene McGill in Casper, Wyoming, she was one of six children of a surgeon and grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she attended St. Francis DeSales High School.

Born between 1280 and 1292 Michael Shishman was the son of the despot Shishman of Vidin by an unnamed daughter of the sebastokrator Peter and Anna ( Theodora ), herself daughter of Ivan Asen II ( r. 1218-1241 ) and Irene Komnene of Epirus.

Born Irene Frances Luther in Buffalo, New York, to Mabel A.

In the early 1980s, Johnny Mathis invited Gladys to record two duets – " When A Child Is Born " ( previously a hit for Mathis ) and " The Lord's Prayer ".

Born Gladys Lindeman in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of a chorus girl who put her on stage at a very early age.

Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, she was raised in Los Angeles.

Born in Hunslet, Leeds, Hall was the only son and elder child of Walter Hall, an engineer's fitter, and his wife, Gladys ( née Gibbon ).

Born Gladys Margaret Tayler in Peking, she returned to England as a child and became Oxford's first graduate in Chinese in 1940.

Born in the ghetto ( called " Judengasse " or Jewish-alley ) of Frankfurt, Mayer developed a finance house and spread his empire by installing each of his five sons in the five main European financial centres to conduct business.

Born in London, Nathaniel Rothschild was the fourth child of Nathan Mayer Rothschild ( 1777 – 1836 ) and Hannah W. Cohen ( 1783 – 1850 ).

* 2012: Born and Raised-John Mayer ( producer )

Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

Born in Brooklyn, Kushner was educated at Columbia University and later obtained his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary ( JTS ) in 1960.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950, Hazel grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey because his mother, Grace Cook, wanted her son to grow up in an environment without the pressures of drugs and crime that she felt pervaded New York City.

* Preacher Roe Born Elwin Charles Roe ( February 16, 1916 – November 9, 2008 ), major league baseball left-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers.

Born to self-educated Russian-Jewish immigrants Alex Festinger ( an embroidery manufacturer ) and Sara Solomon Festinger in Brooklyn, New York, Leon Festinger attended Boys ' High School and received a bachelor's in science at City College of New York in 1939.

Born Jerome Solon Felder in 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, his parents were Jewish immigrants.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ruth Joan Bader was the second daughter of Nathan and Celia ( née Amster ) Bader.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Boxer graduated from Brooklyn College.

Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, Beebe left college before obtaining a degree in order to work at the then newly opened New York Zoological Park, where he was given the duty of caring for the zoo's birds.

Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City to Italian immigrants Sophia and Salvadore Petrillo, Dorothy became pregnant while still in high school, resulting in a marriage to Stanley Zbornak in order to legitimize the baby.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Bryan grew up with a deep desire to go into show business, stumbling through the industry for several years before finding steady if unsatisfying work as a bit player and occasional film narrator in Hollywood.

Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1899 to immigrant parents, Capone was recruited by members of the Five Points Gang in the early 1920s.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 19 August 1930, Frank ( Francis ) McCourt was the eldest son of Malachy and Angela McCourt.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Drucker attended Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in a wealthy family.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the oldest of seven children and was classed as " mentally unstable " by a psychologist.

Born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, the son of a Nazarene pastor, Wyclef moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York, when he was nine before moving again to northern New Jersey.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lord was the son of Irish-American parents.

Born Philip Silver on Thursday, May 11, 1911, in Brooklyn, New York, in the working-class Brownsville section, he was the eighth and youngest child of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Saul and Sarah ( née Handler ) Silver.

Born as Alfred Capurro in New York City, the son of parents emigrated from Recco, Genoa, Drake began his Broadway career while still a student at Brooklyn College.

Born in Naples, Italy, Capone moved to New York City with his family and grew up in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.

Born Frank Frazzetta in Brooklyn, New York City, he removed one " z " from his last name early in his career to make his name seem less " clumsy ".

Born in Houston and raised in Prairie View, Texas, he has lived in Brooklyn, New York, for much of his professional career.