Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent.

Born to Serbian father Spasa and Croatian mother Danica, Milan's first years were spent in Zagreb, SR Croatia, where his father, an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, was stationed at the time.

Born in Los Angeles, Walsh played running back in the San Francisco Bay Area for Hayward High School in Hayward.

Born Laura Augusta Gainor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her family moved west to San Francisco during her childhood.

Born in Romania, Pascal lives in the San Francisco, CA area of the US, and works in association with Christopher J.

Born in Los Angeles, Kavner grew up in Southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School and later San Diego State University.

Born in Roma in 1904 and moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1910.

Born in San Diego, he grew up in Rawlins.

Born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi, into a musical family in Milan, Rota was a renowned child prodigy — his first oratorio, L ' infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923 ; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926.

Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake.

Born in San Francisco, California, Weinberger served in the 41st Infantry Division in the Pacific theater of World War II.

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hench attended numerous art and creative schools across the country, including the Art Students League of New York, the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

Born 15 March 1943, Sylvester Stewart was the second of five children raised in Vallejo, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area.

Born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to George G. Gatley and Elizabeth " Bessie " Crabb.

Born in Los Angeles, Palast attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School and transferred to San Fernando Valley State College ( now California State University, Northridge ) in 1969, before his senior year of high school.

Born in Hamburg and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at San José State University, California and Goldsmiths College, London.

Born in San Francisco, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University.

Born in California, Adleman grew up in San Francisco, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his BA degree in mathematics in 1968 and his Ph. D. degree in EECS in 1976.

Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California.

Born in San Francisco, California, and raised in the College Park neighborhood of Orlando, Florida.

Robert Edward Machado ( better known simply as Rob Machado ) ( b. October 16, 1973 Sydney, Australia ) is an Australian Born American professional surfer from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a community in Encinitas ( San Diego County ), California.

Born in Shanghai, Soong arrived in the United States at the Port of San Francisco, CA on June 30, 1904 aboard the SS Korea at the age of 14 to begin her education at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.

Born in Benediktbeuern, he moved to Rome in 1711 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta.

Born in San Francisco, California, Heilmann attended Sacred Heart High School, the same school that Joe Cronin attended.

Born in Eastland, Texas, Hayden Fry was descended from one of the Texas First Families ; his great-great-grandfather fought beside General Sam Houston in the Mexican War against Santa Anna in the battle of San Jacinto.

Born in the Suicide Slum district of Metropolis, he is instilled with a desire to become a self-made man.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

Born in a village in the Jalandhar district of Punjab, India, Dosanjh emigrated to the United Kingdom at the age of 17 before moving to Canada almost four years later.

Born in the village of Vayalar, in Alappuzha district, Kerala, Vayalar belonged to an aristocratic family but became a poet of the proletariat inspired by revolutionary ideals.

Born the son of Abdul Haqhas, a Pashtun and native of the Sarobi district in Kabul province, Ahady holds a Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) and a Ph. D in political science from the post-graduate faculty of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, north of Chicago.

Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Adams was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from the state's second Congressional district in 1931, and graduated in 1935 with an appointment to the rank of ensign.

Born Nontsikelelo Thethiwe in the Tsomo district of the Transkei on 21 October 1918, she was the second of five children of Bonilizwe and Monikazi Thethiwe.

Born in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham, England on 31 October 1890, son of a coal merchant called Arthur Brockhurst, he soon showed precocious drawing skills and entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of twelve.

Born in the Gorodok village of Vyazma uyezd ( district ) of Smolensk Governorate.

Born in the Huayang district of Sichuan, in 1906 he was admitted to the national military academy in Paoting in north China.

Born in the village of Užulėnis, Taujėnai rural district of Ukmergė district municipality, Antanas Smetona was sent to the primary school in Taujėnai.

Born of the cafés-concerts and cabarets of the Montmartre district of Paris and influenced by literary realism and the naturalist movements in literature and theatre, chanson réaliste was a musical style which was mainly performed by women and dealt with the lives of Paris's poor and working class.

Born at Muthukulam near Kayamkulam in Onattukara, Alleppey district, he was the sixth son of Thundathil Anantha Padmanabha Pillai and Njavarakkal Devaki Amma.

Born in 1933 at Carnmoney, a district of the modern-day borough of Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland, Cooper is most famous for appearing in the 1967 film, Casino Royale, a James Bond satire based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel of the same name.

Born at Tohra village of Patiala district in Punjab in September 1924, he had an early interest in religion and was an active Akali worker even before the partition of India.

Born in Carterton, a small town in the Wairarapa district in New Zealand ’ s North Island, Charles lived in Masterton where he worked as a bank teller and demonstrated great golfing potential.

Born in Chandepalle a small village in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh, India, she had her first samādhi, a state of complete spiritual absorption, at the age of six, which lasted for a whole day.

Born in 1803 in Belgrade, Maine, originally a storekeeper and millkeeper, he was the 24th Governor of Maine from 1855 to 1856, represented Maine's fourth district in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863 and served in the Maine state legislature.

Born as the son of a customs officer he spent his childhood at the border district near the walls of Copenhagen.

Born in July 1939 in the Hugariah district ( Taiz ) of North Yemen, he was educated in Aden, where he subsequently worked in an oil refinery from 1957 to 1961 as an apprentice.

Born in Hartum ( now a district of Hille ), Westphalia.

Born in the Netherthorpe district of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Wilkinson began his playing career with local team Sheffield United, before joinging cross-city rivals Sheffield Wednesday.

Born in Smarhoń ( now in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus ), Vilna district in the Russian Empire, he immigrated with his family at the age of three to Palestine, where his father became a Hebrew teacher at a Tel-Aviv elementary school.