Born in Los Angeles, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California law school and began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios for the rest of that decade.

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

Born and raised in Selukwe ( now Shurugwi ), a small rural town in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, Smith served in the Southern Rhodesian Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War and, after graduating from Rhodes University in South Africa, bought a farm in his home town in 1948.

Born as Lin Moniang (; Foochow Romanized: Lìng Mĕk-niòng ) in Fujian around 960 CE, worship of Mazu began around the Ming Dynasty, when many temples dedicated to her were erected all across Mainland China, later spreading to other countries with Southern Chinese inhabitants.

Born in 1864 to a clergyman and his dutiful wife, Virginia grows up as a Southern belle in the town of Dinwiddie, Virginia.

Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, he studied art at Brown University and later attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television, where he met and became friends with George Lucas.

Born in Lubbock, Texas, Leland attended Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas and obtained a bachelor's from Texas Southern University in Houston.

Born and raised in Southern New Jersey, Roger Elwood started his professional writing career shortly after graduating from high school.

Born in Argentina to Italian immigrants from the Southern town of Matera, he gained fame playing football for Estudiantes de La Plata in his youth.

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Biggs attended the University of Southern California on scholarship, studying theatre.

Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California because of his asthma.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, much of his work was done in Southern California.

Born in San Marcos, Texas, he came from a wealthy Southern family.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Mel Patton or Pell Mell, as he was nicknamed in the late 1940s, made his mark in track and field while a student at the University of Southern California, where he was coached by the famous Dean Cromwell.

Born in Alvarado, Texas, and graduate of Sunset High School in Dallas, Texas, Southern left Southern Methodist University to serve as a lieutenant in the US Army during World War II.

* " Open Season ", a song on Stuck Mojo's 2007 album Southern Born Killers

Born in in Pendleton, Oregon, Kingman was drafted by the California Angels out of high school in the second round of the 1967 Major League Baseball Draft, and by the Baltimore Orioles in the first round of the 1968 draft, but chose, instead, to attend the University of Southern California ( USC ) to play college baseball for the USC Trojans under coach Rod Dedeaux.

Born Zhào Shì ( 趙昰 ), his father was sixth Southern Song Emperor Duzong.

Born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia ( now Harare, Zimbabwe ) to parents of Jewish and Afrikaner ancestry, he moved to Northern Rhodesia, became involved with the trade unions, and entered the colonial legislative council in 1938.

Born in the Southern United States, Coffin was exposed to and developed an opposition to slavery as a child.

Born in Los Angeles, Philippi studied at the University of Southern California before going to Japan in 1957 on a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Kokugakuin University.

Born in Loughrea, Co. Galway, O ' Kelly was educated locally and began his career as a journalist with the Cork newspaper, The Southern Star.

Born the son of a mathematics professor, Hill grew up in the narrowness of the university town of Lund in southern Sweden and had to strike out his career as a landscape painter against his father ’ s will.

Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.

Born in Norway to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Sweden, and has been a resident of Switzerland since 1986.

Born in Växjö, Sweden, Wilander first came to the tennis world's attention when he won the French Open junior title, the European under-16 and under-18 championships, and the Orange Bowl under-16 event in Miami.

Born either in Tyresö, Sweden, or in Reval ( modern Tallinn, Estonia ), he was the son of Privy Councillor Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna and Barbro Axelsdotter Bielke.

Born at Landskrona, Sweden, Gullstrand was professor ( 1894 – 1927 ) successively of eye therapy and of optics at the University of Uppsala.

Born in Säter, Carl Erik was part of the Anjala League, an opposition movement during the reign of Gustav III of Sweden.

Born in the Grand Duchy of Finland at the time it was a part of the Russian Empire, he was later, due to his political activity, forced to live in political exile in Sweden, where he later would become a member of the Parliament of Sweden and the Swedish Academy.

Born in Germany, Tessin the Elder endowed Sweden with a truly national style, a well-balanced mixture of contemporary French and medieval Hanseatic elements.

Born in Helsingborg, Sweden, he became a naturalized U. S. citizen, settling in Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont.

Born and raised in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, they have played together throughout their careers ; the pair are known for their effectiveness playing off one another.

Born in Copenhagen, and educated for the diplomatic service under his father's direction, he began his career in 1787, as attaché to the representative of Denmark at the opening of the Diet of Sweden.

Born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova was still a toddler when her parents left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund, Sweden, leaving young Paulina in the care of her grandmother in Czechoslovakia, believing that their daughter could be brought out later.

Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York.

Born in Mwanza, Tanzania and having finished his primary studies at Kurasini Primary School in Tanzania, he moved with his parents to Sweden.

Born in the town of Halmstad in Halland in south-western Sweden, Wigforss studied at Lund University from 1899, and published writings on political issues in this period.

Born in Germany, Cordts grew up in Sweden, before moving to Canada with his wife Inga-Britt and his one year old son Jimmy.

Born on the Ribbingsberg manor in Västergötland in west Sweden, Leonard Gyllenhaal was son of an army officer and belonged to a family of the lower nobility.

Born in Katarina Parish () in Stockholm, Sweden, Anjou was the illegitimate son of Carl Gustaf Jungberg and his housekeeper Maria Lovisa Hagberg.

Born in Sweden, he holds both Swedish and German citizenship, and is a resident of the United Kingdom.

Born in Sweden, both of Oakley's parents were concert singers.

Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, his books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France.

Born in Uppsala, Sweden, he first enrolled in the University of Uppsala, but when it was temporarily closed in 1578 he travelled abroad.