Born in Los Angeles, Holbrook grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and began drawing at an early age.

* Johnny Mack Brown ( September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974 ) Born and raised in Dothan Alabama, was an All-American college football player and film actor originally billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career.

* Mack Vickery, Nashville songwriter, singer, musician, and Alabama Music Hall of Fame Inductee 2003. Born in Town Creek, Alabama June 8, 1938.

* Robert J. Bentley ( Born February 3, 1943 ) Alabama Republican Governor ( 2011-).

Born in Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama, Williams moved to Georgiana, where he met Rufus Payne, a black street performer who gave him guitar lessons in exchange for meals or money.

Born John Henry Kendricks in Detroit, Michigan, Ballard along with his brother, Dove Ballard, grew up and attended school in Bessemer, Alabama after the death of their father.

Born Nell Ruth Hardy to Horace and Edna Mae Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama, Carter was one of nine children.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia with a major in History, a Master's degree from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Trinity College and an honorary Doctor of Sacred Letters degree from the University of Toronto, another honorary degree from the University of Alabama, and in 1973 attended Harvard University's Advanced Management Program.

Born in New York City, she was the only daughter and eldest child of William Kissam Vanderbilt, a New York railroad millionaire, and his first wife, a Mobile, Alabama belle and budding suffragist, Alva Erskine Smith ( 1853 – 1933, later Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont ).

Born in Brighton, Alabama, Hall graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1971.

Born Thomas John Kummer in Birmingham, Alabama, Sebring was the son of an accountant, Bernard Kummer, and his wife Margarette.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Shelby received his law degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he went on to serve as city prosecutor ( 1963 – 1971 ).

Born in Alabama, Barnett had become the editor of the Chicago Conservator in 1878.

Born in Colorado he moved to Anniston, Alabama at an early age, Byron began racing in 1932 and was successful racing in Talladega by the start of the 1940s.

Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California because of his asthma.

Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Jones was the son of Bob Jones, Sr., the university's founder.

Born in Union Springs, Alabama, Blount served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, having trained as a B-29 pilot.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia and named after the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father was pastor before moving to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

Born in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, Morris began his career as a jazz trumpeter, working and recording with Earl Bostic, Milt Buckner, Arnett Cobb, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Griffin, Buddy Rich, Dinah Washington, Big Joe Turner, and Lionel Hampton.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote as Margaret Walker.

These sections of the state are where jokes are often heard with punch lines of " Yep, I'm from L. A. too: Lower Alabama "; or references to natives of southeastern Alabama being " Born in East L. A ." ( better known as the title of a Cheech Marin song parody of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U. S. A .).

Born in Kenner, Louisiana, United States, and growing up in a suburb of New Orleans, Price had formal musical training in trumpet and piano, sang in his church's gospel choir, and was a member of a combo in high school.

Born in a Brahmin family and growing up in Mumbai, Gavaskar was named India's Best Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year in 1966.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and growing up in nearby Westport, Martin began modeling at 17, and appeared in the original film version of The Poseidon Adventure ( opposite Gene Hackman ) at the age of 19.

The band Wilco has shown a growing krautrock influence in their music, specifically on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and several songs on A Ghost Is Born, especially " Spiders ( Kidsmoke ).

Born at 22 Quaker Road, Cork City, County Cork, Ireland, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers, Mulhare intended to study medicine, but was sidetracked by a growing interest in acting.

Born in a blizzard to a British Romanichal family near Fenborough Station in England, Meggan adapted to the cold by growing fur, to the horror of her family.

Two years went by before Born in the U. K., which aimed to explain Gough's experience of growing up in the United Kingdom.

Born in Delhi to a Punjabi family and growing up in Ahmedabad, Sethi won his first major English billiards event in 1982, the Indian National Billiards Championship ( an international event despite its name ), defeating Michael Ferreira, and later went on to win the NBC again four years in a row, 1985 – 1988, and made a comeback in both 1997 and 1998 to reclaim the title.

Born in Southampton to Welsh parents, he spent his early years growing up in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, South Wales where he attended Heol Llanishen Fach primary school, and then Whitchurch Grammar School ; and later in Stokenchurch, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where he attended the Royal Grammar School.

Born in Martha Brae, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, near the sugar and banana growing areas, Shearer attended St Simon's College after winning a parish scholarship to the school.

Born Mauricio Jose Morales in Martinez, California and growing up in San Francisco, California, Benard is of Salvadorian and Nicaraguan ethnicity.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, and growing up in Nebraska City, Nebraska, he was the younger brother of Joy Morton, founder of Morton Salt, and the son of Julius Sterling Morton, who had served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland.

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 in Hong Kong on May 19, 1939, and growing up in Kowloon Tong, Nancy Kwan is the daughter of Kwan Wing Hong, a Cantonese architect, and Marquita Scott, a model of English and Scottish ancestry.

Born in Chicago, Andrew spent most of his youth growing up in central New Jersey where he later started playing bass with local bands while attending Princeton High School.

Born in Glasgow but growing up in Dundee, he became World Cadet ( Under 17 ) Champion in 1978, and won the first of his seven Scottish Championship titles that year.

Born c. 1830 in Manyambaladugu ( in what is now southeastern Guinea ), the son of Dyula traders, Samore grew up in West Africa being transformed by growing contacts with the Europeans.

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, van Breda Kolff gained an affection for the sport of basketball while growing up in Montclair, New Jersey.

Born in Subiaco, and growing up in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Worsfold attended South Fremantle Senior High School in Beaconsfield, graduating in 1985.

Born Rich is a 2003 documentary film about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's richest families.

In 2003, she was featured in Born Rich, a documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's most affluent families.

Born in New York City, New York, he began working in the city's growing motion picture industry at a young age and directed his first silent film short in 1914.

Born as Zelig Harry Lefkowitz, by the time he was six years old Zelig was a well-known pickpocket and thief while growing up on New York's Lower East Side

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Born in Liverpool, England, he spent virtually his entire childhood growing up in Motherwell, Scotland.