Born in Yokohama Chinatown, Japan ( though she is of partial Chinese descent ) as Linn Minmei, Minmay moved in with her uncle Shaochin ( 少江 ) and aunt Feichun ( 慧中 ) on South Ataria Island in hopes of finding the path to fulfill her dream of becoming a star.

Born in Yokohama, Japan, and graduated from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in Spring 1954.

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Emoto graduated from Yokohama Municipal University with courses in International Relations.

Born and raised in Yokohama, Japan, Nakamura began playing football competitively at age 5, playing with the local youth club side Misono FC until he entered junior high school.

Born in Kiryū, Gunma, Matsuda represented the Yokohama F. Marinos for the vast majority of his career, being promoted to the first team in 1995, at the age of 18.

Born in Shimonoseki, Sasabe graduated from Meiji University before attending the Yokohama Hōsō Eiga Senmon Gakuin ( now the Japan Academy of Moving Images ).

Born to American parents in Yokohama, Japan, he was educated at The Hotchkiss School Lakeville, Connecticut.

Born in Jerusalem in 1937 to secular parents, Steinsaltz studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry at the Hebrew University, in addition to rabbinical studies.

Born at 194 Renfrew Street, Glasgow on 21 August 1937 to mature parents, Dewar was an only child.

Born in German Pomerania, Sapir's parents emigrated to America when he was a child.

Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.

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

Born Jeffry Ross Hyman to parents Charlotte ( née Mandell ) and Noel Hyman, they lived in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, where Jeffry and his future Ramones bandmates attended Forest Hills High School.

Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in January 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States.

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 Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age ; he attended school in London and Margate.

Born in Niles, Michigan, Ring Lardner was the son of wealthy parents Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner.

Born of noble parents in Aquitaine, Severus enjoyed excellent educational advantages.

Born in Colombo, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) to British parents, he received his Bachelor's degree in Classics from the University of Oxford ( Merton College ) in 1956.

Born in Kladno, Austria-Hungary ( now in the Czech Republic ), Cermak emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1874.

Born in 1771 in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents, John Lingard entered the English College at Douai, France, to commence training for the Catholic priesthood.

Born to Alexander Beaton Ferguson, a plater's helper in the shipbuilding industry, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hardie, Alex Ferguson was born at his grandmother's home on Shieldhall Road, Govan, on 31 December 1941, but grew up in a tenement at 667 Govan Road ( which has since been demolished ) where he lived with his parents as well as his younger brother Martin.

A staunch supporter of Scottish independence, he was a member of the S. N. P .. Born in Glasgow to Donegal parents, he was raised at Glencar in Letterkenny and was educated at St. Eunan's College.

Born in New Jersey, Solanas said that she was the victim of sexual abuse by her father ; and, after her parents ' divorce, she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather as a teenager with her unruly behavior.

Born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov () to a poor family in Urzhum ( then in Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire ), Kirov lost his parents when he was young.

Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents ' marriage failed.

Born Emmeline Goulden and raised in Moss Side, Manchester, England by politically active parents, Pankhurst was introduced at the age of 8 to the women's suffrage movement.

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 as Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg to English parents, Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer and scion of the Liverpool Rathbone family, and Anna Barbara ( née George ), a violinist, he had two older half-brothers, Harold and Horace, as well as two younger siblings, Beatrice and John.

Born Ernest Evan Thompson in South Shields, County Durham ( now part of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear ), England of Scottish parents, Seton's family migrated to Canada in 1866.

Born to American parents who lived in Paris, de Branges moved to the U. S. in 1941 with his mother and sisters.

Born at Benavente Palace in Valladolid, Spain, and baptised Ana María Mauricia, she was the eldest daughter of Habsburg parents, Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria.

Born at Baflo, in the Dutch province of Groningen, Agricola was originally named Roelof Huusman.

Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.

Born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau and originally destined for a rabbinical career, Mendelssohn educated himself in German thought and literature and from his writings on philosophy and religion came to be regarded as a leading cultural figure of his time by both Germans and Jews.

Bohr and Heisenberg extended the probabilistic interpretation of the wavefunction proposed originally by Max Born.

* Johnny Mack Brown ( September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974 ) Born and raised in Dothan Alabama, was an All-American college football player and film actor originally billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career.

Born in Alba Pompeia in Italy, the son of freedman Helvius Successus, originally Pertinax made his way as a grammaticus ( teacher of grammar ), but he eventually decided to find a more rewarding line of work and through the help of patronage he was commissioned an officer in a cohort.

Born in Lisbon in 1767, the son of Peter III of Portugal, and Queen Maria I, he was originally an infante ( prince not heir to the throne ) of Portugal, and only became heir to the throne when his older brother, José, Prince of Brazil, died in 1788, of smallpox, at the age of 27.

In 2006, Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese, originally published as a webcomic on Modern Tales, was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award.

The band finally rocketed to worldwide fame after their third single " Born to Be Wild " was released in 1968, as well as their version of Hoyt Axton's " The Pusher " and were prominently used in the 1969 cult film Easy Rider ( both titles originally had been released on the band's debut album ).

Stone originally had a three-picture deal with New Regency Films which included JFK, Heaven and Earth, and Natural Born Killers.

In 1973, Bolan played twin lead guitar alongside his friend Jeff Lynne on the Electric Light Orchestra songs " Ma-Ma-Ma Belle " and " Dreaming of 4000 " ( originally uncredited ) from On the Third Day, as well as on " Everyone's Born To Die ", which was not released at the time but appears as a bonus track on the 2006 remaster.

Born in Herouël, a village in the département of the Aisne, he studied law and was originally a procureur attached to the Châtelet in Paris.

Born at Edinburgh in 1710 and originally educated for the church at the Royal High School, Short attracted the attention of Maclaurin, professor of mathematics at the university, who around 1732 gave him permission to use his rooms in the college buildings for experiments in the construction of telescopes.

Born at Dijon, and originally intended for the law, he abandoned it for the classics.

Born at Genoa, he was originally destined for the church and at the age of fifteen, against his will, was shut up in a convent.

Born in Swabia, Germany as a son of the Wirklicher Hofrat Albrecht Theodor Moll and Johanna Josepha Walpurga Moll née Hefele, he was originally named Johann Albrecht Ulrich Moll, but later changed his name.

In 2008, Cocker contributed Born to Cry, ( originally a Pulp song released on the Notting Hill soundtrack CD – though not featured in the film and co-written by Richard Hawley ) to Tony Christie's album of songs by Sheffield based songwriters, Made in Sheffield.

Born William Henry Jackson, he originally performed in minstrel and medicine shows.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he originally studied medicine at the Université de Montréal, but gave it up to pursue acting.

Born at Centelles, Catalonia, he originally trained as a civil engineer ( Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, in spanish ).

Born in Houma ( a town in Shanxi province ), Peng was originally named Fu Maogong.

Born in Paris, France, Druon was the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel, with whom he translated the Chant des Partisans, a French Resistance anthem of World War II, with music and words ( in Russian ) originally by Anna Marly.

Born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol, Hannah More was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More, a schoolmaster originally from Harleston, Norfolk.

Born in Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire, Maclean was the eldest son of John Maclean, a cordwainer originally of Kilmoluag, in the Inner Hebrides, and his wife Agnes Macmellin.