Born in Wellington, Martin attended Chilton St. James School, where she performed numerous festivals and productions including the national Shiela Winn Shakespeare festival, the New Zealand College Theatresports competition and a variety of school plays.

Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Born in Madison County, Kentucky, near the city of Richmond, in 1809, Carson moved at the age of one year with his parents and siblings to a rural area near Franklin, Missouri.

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

Born Mary Therese Winifred Bourke in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1944, she is the daughter of two medical doctors.

Born in Charles County, Maryland, Mudd was the fourth of ten children of Henry Lowe and Sarah Ann Reeves Mudd.

Born in Rhode Island, he was taken with the Northups when they migrated to Hoosick, New York in Rensselaer County.

Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.

Born in the village of Scorniceşti, Olt County, Ceaușescu moved to Bucharest at the age of 11 to work in factories.

Born in the village of Zhaohong, northwest of the seat of Leling County, Shandong, he was educated under his uncle from his mother's side, a teacher of a traditional Confucian private school in Yanshan County.

Born into a working-class family in Ponders End, Middlesex, Tebbit went to Edmonton County School, an academically selective state school in north London.

Born and raised in the United States from immigrant parents – a Hispanic / Mexican father, Francisco Estévez from Salceda de Caselas in Galicia ( Spain ) and a first-generation Irish mother, Mary-Anne Phelan from Borrisokane in County Tipperary – he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts.

Born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Harris County, Texas, Anna Nicole was the child of Donald Eugene Hogan ( July 12, 1947 – September 19, 2009 ) and Virgie Mae ( née Tabers ; born July 12, 1951 ), who married on February 22, 1967 and divorced on November 4, 1969.

Born in Sacriston, County Durham, Robson was the fourth of five sons of Philip and Lilian Robson ( née Watt ).

Born in Baltimore County, Maryland to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught.

Born in Lund, Moodysson grew up in Åkarp, Skåne County as an outcast, expressing himself through poetry.

Born Ernest Evan Thompson in South Shields, County Durham ( now part of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear ), England of Scottish parents, Seton's family migrated to Canada in 1866.

Born into slavery in Southampton County, he launched his rebellion there which gained up to 70 slaves at its height.

* J. Marvin Hunter ( 1880 – 1957 ) Born in Mason County.

* Governor Coke Stevenson ( 1888 – 1975 ) Born in Mason County

* Leonie von Meusebach – Zesch ( 1882 – 1944 ) Born in Mason County.

Darlington County is the subject of a song of the same name on Bruce Springsteen's 1984 album, Born in the U. S. A.

Born in Virginia in 1763, she and her husband, Thomas Crawford, moved to Green County, Kentucky, in 1805.

Born into a middle class family in Bray, County Wicklow, he was educated at Christian Brothers College, Monkstown.

* KaDee Strickland, actress ( b. 1975 ) Born in Blackshear but she grew up in Patterson and went to school in Pierce County.

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 .).