Born near Damascus in Syria, Abd al-Rahman, grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, was the son of the Umayyad prince Mu ' awiyah ibn Hisham and a Berber mother.

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

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

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 at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile.

Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, United States, he as a youth took the name of ' Mance ' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (" Mance " being short for emancipation ).

Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris.

Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of four he heard a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma and was greatly affected by it.

Born near Lexington, Kentucky to Carter Henry Harrison II and Caroline Russell, he was only a few months old when his father died.

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

Born at Luzzara, near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902,

Born at Wipfeld, near Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia under his original name Konrad Bickel, Celtes pursued his studies at Cologne and the Heidelberg.

Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Ludovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi Buzzi.

Born in Liévin near Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight upwards.

Born in Iesi, near Ancona, Italy, Frederick was the son of the emperor Henry VI.

Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsi near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe.

Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.

Born in Edinburgh, but raised in his mother, Nora Dalyell's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian ; his father ( Percy ) Gordon Loch, C. I. E., was an Empire civil servant ( Political Agent ) and a scion of the Loch family.

Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child.

Born in Normanby Township near Hanover, Ontario, Brusso's family lived in several locations around Ontario's Grey and Bruce Counties before moving to Galt, Ontario.

Born near Lancaster, educated at LRGS, specilised in water quality and analysis, and originated the concept of valence.

Born Margaret MacDonald, at Tipton, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer.

Born in a log cabin near Delaware, Ohio, Fairbanks's ancestry traced back to Puritan followers of Oliver Cromwell, with Jonathan Fayerbankes the first family member to reach America in 1632.

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 in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, Galicia ( then in Austria-Hungary ), Kantor graduated from the Cracow Academy in 1939.

Born to a Jewish family in Kraków, Poland, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian province of Galicia, Max Fleischer was the second oldest of six children of an Austrian immigrant tailor, William Fleischer.

Born into a traditional Jewish family in Rymanów, Galicia, in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, Rabi came to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York's Lower East Side.

Born 27 March 1955 in Santiago de Compostela ( A Coruña ), Galicia.

Born to Jewish parents as Samuel Ginsberg in Podwołoczyska ( Pidvolochysk, then Galicia, Austria-Hungary ), he adopted the name " Krivitsky " ( a name based on the Slavic root for " crooked, twisted ") as a revolutionary nom de guerre when he entered the Bolshevik intelligence around 1917.

Born in Ferrol, Galicia, Montojo studied at the Naval School in Cadiz, and was assigned as a Midshipman in 1855.

Born in Lemberg, Galicia, Austrian Empire ( now Lviv, Ukraine ), Redl came from a poor family, his father being a railway clerk.

Born in the Polish region of Galicia then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Hasidic family, Schorr began his career as a boy, singing soprano in the courts of various hassidic masters, notably the Rebbe ( Grand Rabbi ) of Rymanow.

Born in New York City, Arthur Kornberg was the son of Jewish parents Joseph and Lena Kornberg who emigrated to New York from Austrian Galicia ( now part of Poland ) in 1900 before they were married.

Born in Galicia, Lembeye lived in Cuba from the 1830s to the 1860s, and became interested in birds while he was there.

Born in Zbarazh, Galicia, he moved to Romania in 1845.

Born in Lemberg, capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a province of Austria-Hungary, to Polish-Jewish economist and zionist Bernard Hausner, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine from Poland in 1927, when his father took the post of Economic Advisor to the Polish Government first in Haifa and later in Tel-Aviv.

Born in Lubience in Galicia, Diamond immigrated to Vancouver in 1927.

Born in Vigo ( Galicia ).

Born in Ferrol, Galicia, she excelled in literature and was the first woman to attend university in Spain.

Born in Stanislawow, Galicia, province of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Arthur Burns soon immigrated with his Austro-Hungarian Jewish parents to New Jersey.

Born in Przemyśl, Habsburg Galicia, in what is today eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, he received his M. A.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 1, 1910, of Galician immigrants, he spent much of his childhood and youth in Galicia ( Spain ).

Born in As Neves, Pontevedra, Galicia, Salgado began his professional career with hometown's Celta de Vigo, making his La Liga debut on 22 January 1995 in a 0 – 4 away loss against Real Madrid.