Born in Geneva, Pradier left for Paris in 1807 to work with his elder brother, an engraver.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence ( 1198 – 1245 ) and Beatrice of Savoy ( 1205 – 1267 ), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva.

Born in Morges on Lake Geneva, he worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Lausanne.

Born in Geneva in present-day Switzerland, Gallatin immigrated to America in the 1780s, ultimately settling in Pennsylvania.

Born in Boone, Iowa and named, in part, after the popular song Lovely Lake Geneva, Mamie Geneva Doud was the second child born to John Sheldon Doud, a meatpacking executive, and his wife, the former Elivera Mathilde Carlson.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 13, 1936, Prince Karim was declared healthy despite being born prematurely.

Born in Geneva, du Simitiere's original name was Pierre-Eugène Ducimetière or Pierre-Eugène du Cimetière.

Born in Geneva, he was twenty-one years old when he began to attend the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and from 1837 to 1839 studied at the Ecole des Mines.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, his father was an artist and in 1805 moved the family to Russia to find work.

Born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city.

Born in Geneva, New York, to educator, William Kirkland and author, Caroline Mathilda ( Stansbury ) Kirkland, he was a businessman in Chicago, then served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major.

Born to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and raised in the Canary Islands ( Spain ), Blahnik graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965 and studied art in Paris.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Neumann received degrees from the University of Rennes, the Consular Academy of Austria, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland ( formerly Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, HEI ) and the University of Michigan.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 1942, Louis Schweitzer has a degree in law and is a graduate of France's elite Institut d ' études politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po ) and École nationale d ' administration.

Born in Ohio, Chardavoyne lived for six years in Geneva, Switzerland where he attended the International School of Geneva.

Born in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Williams was informally acquainted with many of the people who developed and influenced the original Dungeons & Dragons game, going to school with Gary Gygax's son Ernie and participating in a gaming group that Gary used to playtest some of the AD & D rules.

Born in Geneva, he studied at the Conservatoire there, and later with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.

Born at Geneva, he was elder son of Captain Frederick Franks, R. N., and of Frederica Anne, daughter of Sir John Saunders Sebright.

Born in Geneva, at 25, he was designated honorary professor of ethics and the law of nature at the university of Geneva.

Francis Walker was the son of John Walker of Arnos Grove a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Linnean Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. Born into a wealthy and highly educated family Francis spent the years 1816 ( when he was seven years old ) to 1820 ( when he was eleven ) in Switzerland at Geneva, Lucerne and Vevey where the family party was joined by Madame de Staël, the poet Lord Byron and some Swiss naturalists gathered around Nicolas Théodore de Saussure.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

Born into a peasant background in Guang ' an, Sichuan, China, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was influenced by Marxism-Leninism.

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

Born in Kraków, Banach enrolled in " Henryk Sienkiewicz Gymnasium " and worked on mathematics problems with his friend Witold Wiłkosz.

Born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, Stratton arrived in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area in 1868 and worked as a carpenter.

Born in Augsburg, Holbein worked mainly in Basel as a young artist.

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse.

Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life.

Born in Parma, he worked first under Agostino Carracci in Bologna, then Annibale Carracci, in Rome.

Born in Potsdam, New York, USA, he worked as a carpenter, then moved to St. Louis in 1843 to study law.

Born Hung Kam Po in Hong Kong, both of his parents worked as wardrobe artists in the local film industry and guardianship was thrust upon his grandparents.

Born in Georgetown, Blundon worked as a general contractor in Washington, D. C., before moving to Riverdale Park in 1889.

Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died.

Born in Port Talbot, Wales, he initially worked as a teacher in both London and Cardiff.

Born in Chester, after a very short spell training for the Merchant Navy, he quit and worked as a valet in King's Cross in London.

Born Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr., at Lying-in Hospital in Harlem, New York, Belafonte was the son of Melvine ( née Love ) – a housekeeper of Jamaican descent – and Harold George Bellanfanti, Sr., a Martiniquan who worked as a chef in the National Guard.

Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in 1911, and ultimately to London ( 1919 ), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.

Born in New York City, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, but left acting when he was drafted into the U. S. Army during World War I, years before his four brothers ( Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and Zeppo Marx ) began their film career.

Born on a farm near Edinburgh and a farmer in his early years, Adams moved to London where he worked as a journalist.

Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs.

Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Cologne, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden ( c. 1455 – 1460 ).

Born into slavery and having worked under white masters for 30 years, as well as having seen many atrocities by all peoples, Dessalines did not trust the white French people.

Born in Versailles in 1663 and trained at the Paris Academy under Charles Le Brun, he came to England in 1683, where he first worked with Antonio Verrio, and then on his own.