Born in Kaysersberg, Schweitzer spent his childhood in the village of Gunsbach, Alsace (), where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, taught him how to play music.

Born in Mulhouse ( Mülhausen ) in Alsace, Dreyfus was the youngest of nine children born to Raphael and Jeannette Dreyfus ( née Libmann ).

Born in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France to Jean Charles Bartholdi ( 1791 – 1836 ) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi Beysser ( 1801 – 1891 ), Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor.

Born at Rappoltsweiler in Alsace, France on 13 January 1635, trained by a devout godmother who used books of devotion like Arndt's True Christianity, Spener was convinced of the necessity of a moral and religious reformation within German Lutheranism.

Born at Darmstadt, on the day of Waterloo, Ludwig von der Tann was descended from the old family of von der Tann, which had branches in Bavaria, the Alsace and the Rhine provinces, and attached his mother's name ( she being the daughter of an Alsatian nobleman, Freiherr von Rathsamhausen ) to his father's in 1868 by licence of the king of Bavaria.

Born Ruckstuhl in Breitenbach, Alsace, France, his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1855.

Born in the Vosges, his father was a cloth merchant from a Jewish family from Rappoltsweiler in Alsace.

Born in Colmar ( Alsace ) to a French royalist émigré family, first boy among six children, he was destined for a military career.

Born in Eichhoffen ( Alsace ) in 1482 ( although this date is questioned ), he also used the name Philesius Vogesigena.

Born Henri Ebel in 1896 as son of a wine-producing family from Alsace, and later a significant scholar of his times, Dr. Basilius Ebel became abbot of St. Matthias ' Abbey in Trier in 1939 and provided a sanctuary to Jews whom he admitted among the monks.

Born in Southampton into a seafaring family, Jellicoe joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1872 and was posted to HMS Britannia.

Born Aikaterini ( Catherine ) Konstantopoulou in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer, and appeared in the operatic version of Maeterlinck's " Sister Beatrice ," with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos, but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929.

Born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Miyazaki began his animation career in 1961, when he joined Toei Animation.

Born in 1899 in Mandzakala he joined the French customs administration in Brazzaville in 1919 and soon after left for France where he joined the French army to fight in Morocco during the rebellion of.

Born into poverty in Sora, Lazio ( in either 1901 or 1902-sources are divided ), he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923.

Born in Jiaocheng, Shanxi province, Hua joined the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) in 1938 as a part of counter-Japanese resistance, after having joined the Long March in 1936.

Born in Neufchâtel, Quebec, Bédard learned marksmanship as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets ' 2772 cadet corps, which she joined at the age of 15, and participated in her first biathlon event at age 15.

Born in Sanshui, Guangdong, but of Zhejiang origin, Wang went to Japan as an international student sponsored by the Qing Dynasty government in 1903, and joined the Tongmenghui in 1905.

Born in Schwetzingen and raised in Mannheim, Danzi studied with his father and with Georg Joseph Vogler before he joined the superlative orchestra of the Elector Karl Theodor in 1778 as a teenager.

Born in Bulwell, Nottingham, England, and educated at High Pavement Grammar School, Nottingham, Bird briefly joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain, while still at school .< ref >

Born in west Texas, Law joined the US Army in 1919.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Guggisberg joined the British army in 1889.

Born in Görlitz, East Germany, Jeremies joined the youth system of one of the most important clubs in the country, Dynamo Dresden, at the age of 12.

Born Marsha Wedgeworth in Laurel, Mississippi, Blackburn attended Northeast Jones High School and graduated from Mississippi State University where she joined Chi Omega, and where she also spent a few summers working with the Southwestern Company.

Born in Montpellier, France of a noble family, he joined the French army in 1773 and entered upon active service in 1780, as aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War.

Born in St. Thomas, Lower Canada, in 1795, the third son of Charles Taché and Geneviève Michon, Taché studied at the Séminaire de Québec until the War of 1812 when he joined the 5th battalion of the incorporated militia as an ensign.

" Van Zandt then joined the E Street Band in the midst of their Born to Run tours.

Born into the Esangui clan in Acoacán, Obiang joined the military during the colonial period, and attended the Military Academy in Zaragoza, Spain.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871, the year British Columbia joined Canada, Emily Carr was the second-youngest of six children born to English parents Richard and Emily ( Saunders ) Carr.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Charleston joined the Army at 15 and served in the Philippines.

Born at Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, Arlette joined Lutte Ouvrière in 1968, and became the leader of a 1974 bank workers ' strike that began with actions of employees at Crédit Lyonnais.

Born in Portugalete, Biscay, Guerrero joined Athletic Bilbao as an eight-year old, and subsequently progressed through the junior ranks of the club.

Born in Upper Manhattan, New York to Dominican parents, Santana's career in show business began with a push from his parents who wanted to keep him off the tough streets of New York.

Born in Santo Domingo to a Dominican father and a Spanish mother ( her mother was an attorney from Asturias, Spain who found herself exiled during the regime of Francisco Franco ), at an early age, her mother took her and her sister to Spain after breaking up with her father.

Born in the 19th century is spelled Méringue in French, Mereng in Haiti Creole and Haitian Méringue in the Dominican Republic.

Born to Spanish parents, Garcia was born and lived in the Dominican Republic and moved to Mexico in his childhood.

Born at Gurabo in Santiago Province being the first child of Hipolito de Jesus Mejia Diaz and Maria Josefa Dominguez, Mejía received a high school diploma from the Loyola Polytechnic Institute in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, graduating in 1962.

Born on January 16, 1980, Pujols ( an only child ) was raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, mostly by his grandmother America Pujols and 10 of his uncles and aunts.

Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.

Born in Vic, 60 km north of Barcelona, Spain ( present-day autonomous region of Catalonia ), Alemany entered the Dominican Order in 1830 and made his solemn profession in September 1831, the same year that Alemany's protégé, Patrick Manogue was born in Ireland.

Born in London, to a St. Lucian mother and Dominican father, Defoe attended St Joachim Primary School in Custom House and St Bonaventure's Catholic Comprehensive School in Forest Gate, London.

Born in the Dominican Republic, he moved to Elmhurst, in Queens, New York City at the age of eight and grew up in Corona.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he was ordained a priest for the Dominican order on December 21, 1839.

Born in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, Uribe was signed by the New York Yankees in, but was released shortly afterwards without even having played a minor league game with the club.

Born in Fleury-les-Aubrais in Loiret, France, Carré studied at l ’ école Saint-Joseph and the collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly before entering the Dominican order in 1926 and being ordained a priest in 1933.

Born on January 6, 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Peña-Álvarez is a world class flyweight ( 112 pounds ).

Born at Frankfurt-am-Main, he was educated in his native city, and joined the Dominican Order.