Born in Bath, Somerset, Widdecombe is the daughter of a Ministry of Defence civil servant James Murray Widdecombe and Rita N Plummer.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Born in Brechin, Angus, Scotland, Watson-Watt was a descendant of James Watt, the famous engineer and inventor of the practical steam engine.

Born in Hammersmith, Gary Anthony James Webb was the son of a British Airways bus driver based at Heathrow Airport.

Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, Birmingham City Organist, and with violinist Alfred Mellon while being educated at his father's school.

Born Edward James Muggeridge, he was of partial Dutch descent.

* A Star Is Born ( 1954 film ), starring Judy Garland and James Mason, directed by George Cukor

Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, the daughter of James Webb, a doctor, and Maria Cook-Webb, Lucy was descended from seven veterans of the American Revolution.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica and educated in Edinburgh, the senior Alexander was the Secretary of the Treasury under United States President James Madison, and was also briefly the Secretary of War.

* Matt Monro – Singer ( Born Terence Parsons on December 1, 1930 ) Dubbed " The singers singer " and " The British Sinatra ") Famous for singing the James Bond theme " From Russia with Love " and " On Days Like These " from the film " The Italian job ".

Piru was also used in the scene in A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) starring Judy Garland and James Mason where Jack Carson's character, Libby, finds them after they are married.

* James Todd Smith ( LL Cool J ): Born in Bay Shore 1968

Born in Marion, Indiana, Davis grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine ( Carter ) Davis, brother Dave and 25 cats.

Born in St. James Parish, Louisiana, Braud came to New Orleans, in his early teens.

Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle ( née Crane ) and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Introduced by James Stewart and reprised by Frances Langford in the film Born to Dance

Born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, to Lucy Walter, and her lover, Prince Charles ( who was living in continental exile following his father's execution ), James spent his early life in Schiedam.

Born in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Hall was the son of writer James Norman Hall and Sarah ( Lala ) Winchester Hall, who was part-Polynesian.

Born in 1829 Green Flake, the slave of James Madison Flake, a convert to the LDS Church, was baptized at the age of 16 on April 7, 1844 by John Brown.

Born in Long Beach, California, to Donna and James M. Clarkson, Lana Clarkson was raised in the hills of Napa Valley, California.

Born a princess of the Italian Duchy of Modena, Mary is primarily remembered for the controversial birth of James Francis Edward, her only surviving son.

In what was later called the " great purge " of 1933, academics including Max Born, Victor Goldschmidt, James Franck, Eugene Wigner, Leó Szilárd, Edward Teller, Emmy Noether, and Richard Courant were expelled or fled.

Born the son of Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory and his wife Emilia Butler, Countess of Ossory, and grandson of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Butler was born in Dublin and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford.

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, she was the older sister of actor Jack Kelly, who played " Bart Maverick " alongside James Garner and Roger Moore in the television series Maverick.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

Joyce Kilmer ( Born: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918 ) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled " Trees " ( 1913 ), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

Born Alfred Ernest Christie, in London, Ontario, Canada, he was one of a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood who made their way to Hollywood, California, attracted by the newly developing motion picture business.

Born in London as the only child of film director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville, the family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1939, as her father would quickly make his mark in Hollywood.

Born to a distinguished family of Versailles, he received his artistic training at the Académie Julian from the impressionists Alfred Roll and Henri Gervex.

Born in Manhattan, Loomis was the son of Julia Josephine Stimson and Henry Patterson Loomis, and grandson of Alfred Lebbeus Loomis.

Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City in the NYCHA Alfred E. Smith Houses public housing development, Vandross began playing the piano at the age of three.

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 Hove, Carpenter was educated at nearby Brighton College where his father was a governor ; his brothers Charles and Alfred also went to school there.

Born in Liverpool to William Alfred Whitty ( c. 1837 – 1876 ) and Mary Louisa ( née Ashton, ca.

Born in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, Joan Bogle Hickson was a daughter of shoe manufacturer Alfred Harold Hickson and his wife, the former Edith Mary Bogle.

Born in New York City, the third son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II ( 1843 – 1899 ) and Alice Claypoole Gwynne ( 1845 – 1934 ), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University ( Class of 1899 ), where he was a member of Skull and Bones.

Born in Drouin to Alfred and Colleen Ablett, Gary Ablett grew up in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria's Gippsland region alongside his four elder brothers and three sisters.

Born Effie Brooks Pope in Salem, Ohio, she was the only child of industrialist and art collector Alfred Atmore Pope and his wife Ada Lunette Brooks.

Born John Alfred Mandel, New York, N. Y., to Alfred, a garment manufacturer, and Hannah, an opera singer, who discovered when he was aged 5 that he had perfect pitch.

Born Alfred Reginald Natzler in Vienna, Austria, he was the son of actor and opera singer Siegmund Natzler ( 1862-1913 ).

Born in Springfield near Ringarooma, Tasmania, he was the seventh son of Alfred Gaby, a farmer, and his wife Adelaide, née Whiteway.

Born in Chilaw, Ceylon, he was the son of Dr. James Alfred Ernest Corea and Letitia Grace Alice Seneviratne.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Ellen French.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and his second wife, Margaret Emerson.

Born in Clarks Hill, Indiana, Daugherty directed various episodes of popular television shows such as Gunsmoke ( 1955 ), Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1955 ), Crusader ( 1955 ), and Wagon Train ( 1957 ).

Born in Dublin, the son of Henry Keogh, barrister and magistrate of Roscommon, Alfred Henry Keogh was educated at Queen's College, Galway, and Guy's Hospital, London.