Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel.

Born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della ( Garaventa ) and Antonino Martino Sinatra, and was raised Roman Catholic.

Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century.

Born Farrokh Bomi Bulsara to Indian parents in Zanzibar, he was raised in Panchgani near Mumbai.

Born in Canton, China and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the gardens at Suzhou.

Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, the twelfth and last child of Thomas Wedgwood and Margret Wedgwood ( née Stringer ; d. 1766 ), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters.

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Josephus was educated alongside his brother.

Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas ( pronounced like " freeze ") was the son of two photographers, and was raised in Canada.

Born into a life of luxury, he was raised next door to the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Born John Smith Hurt in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age nine.

Born and raised in Mbewuleni, what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, Mbeki is one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, and raised in the midwestern states of Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois, Admiral Clark graduated from Evangel College and earned a Master's Degree of Business Administration ( MBA ) from the University of Arkansas.

Born and raised in Brantford, Ontario, Gretzky honed his skills at a backyard rink and regularly played minor hockey at a level far above his peers.

Born in Osaka Prefecture, he was raised in Tottori Prefecture from the age of four.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

* Born and raised in Hamburg, Schmidt is regarded in Germany as an embodiment of hanseatic values, according to which he has never accepted a medal or an order of merit ( not even the Federal Republic's Federal Cross of Merit ).

Born and raised in Damascus, he died at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem.

Born in Louisiana and raised in Florida, Lincks was inspired to write the play after visiting the Pleasant Hills Shaker village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a restored community that the Shakers occupied for more than a century, before abandoning it in 1927 because of the inability of the sect to attract new converts.

Born and raised in Chicago's South Side, Margulis, along with her three siblings, attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Born and raised in East Donegal.

Born and raised in Burt.

A staunch supporter of Scottish independence, he was a member of the S. N. P .. Born in Glasgow to Donegal parents, he was raised at Glencar in Letterkenny and was educated at St. Eunan's College.

Born in Isfahan, Iran, Soraya was the eldest child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary, a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl.

Born in Tus in Persia ( modern Iran ), and initially serving the Ghaznavid sultans, Nizam al-Mulk became chief administrator of the entire Khorasan province by 1059 C. E.

* Born in 1928 – Kashan – Iran

Born in Ardabil in Northwestern Iran, he reigned as Shah Ismail I of Iran from 1502 to 1524.

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Cohen was 13 years old when he immigrated to Israel through Iran.

Born in Iran in 1975, Hossein Derakhshan, commonly referred to as the " blogging godfather " or the " blogfather ," moved to Canada in 2000.

Born in the Iraqi Kurdistan in 1983 during the Iran – Iraq War, she witnessed the death of her family and thousands of others from a chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's government troops against the rebellious Kurds when she was five years old.

Born and raised in Iran, Peseschkian came in 1954 to Germany for his studies in medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Frankfurt am Main and Mainz.

Born in 1970 in Tehran, Iran, Ansari immigrated to the United States before the Iranian Revolution.

Born in Astrabad, Iran, he was strongly drawn to Sufism and the teachings of Mansur Al-Hallaj and Rumi at an early age.

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh () ( Born in 1936 – September 15, 1982 ) was a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France, and Iranian Foreign Minister ( November 30, 1979 – August, 1980 ) during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution.

Born in Osaka to missionary parents of Assyrian background who themselves were born in northwest Iran, Dooman knew Japanese as a native language.

Born in 1888, he began his career in the judiciary in Iran, after having completed his studies at the élite school of Dar ol-Fonoon ( House of Sciences ) in Tehran.

Born on 25 June 1923 in Tehran, Iran, he first climbed his way to college graduating with degrees in Law and Engineering from Tehran University.

Born in Hokmabad ( Hohmavar ), Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azeri Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary.

Born in Hamadan, Persia, Ehsan Yarshater studied Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran and Iran philology ( Old and Middle Iranian ) at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), University of London with Walter Bruno Henning.

Born in Islington, Browne is the son of British diplomat Sir Nicholas Browne, and, as a child, lived in many different countries, including Iran, Zimbabwe, and Belgium.

Born in Shiraz, Tabatabaee came to power in a coup d ' état with the help of Reza Khan Mirpanj, who later became the Shah of Persia ( which then came to be formally recognized as Iran by the international community ), as Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran, Peyman Nasehpour comes from a long line of musicians: his father is the famous vocalist Nasrollah Nasehpoor (" Nasehpoor " is romanization used by the rest of his family ), and his grandfather was garmon-player Agha Shakour.

Born in Tehran, Iran 1970, Ali spent most of her childhood in Panchgani, India.

Moslem Bahadori ( Born 1927, Tonekabon, Iran ) is a contemporary Iranian medical scientist, distinguished pathologist and a university lecturer .< ref >

Born in the Armenian quarter of Iran, Blade came to London when he was 7.