Born into poverty, he was elected emir upon the abdication of his predecessor, and would rule under Ottoman suzerainty, being appointed wali or governor of Mt Lebanon, the Biqa valley and Jabal Amil.

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 into poverty, Powers blames the Colbys for his father's suicide.

Born into poverty in Iowa, Sunday spent some years at the Iowa Soldiers ' Orphans ' Home before working at odd jobs and playing for local running and baseball teams.

Born into poverty in 1882, Hobbs wished to pursue a career in cricket from an early age.

* Born to poverty.

Born into poverty, he is now a highly reluctant member of the nobility, having been made both a knight and a duke, as well as an ambassador.

Born in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother ( Ivy Webb from Croydon ), Mangano lived in poverty caused by the Second World War.

Born in El Azizia near Tablat about 60 Km in the south of Algiers, Algeria, Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law.

Born in Niort ( Deux-Sèvres ), he belonged to a noble Protestant family of Languedoc which had been reduced to poverty by the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

Born Amabel Ethelreid Normand in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, she grew up in extreme poverty.

Born into poverty in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Barney Ewell was one of the world's leading sprinters of the 1940s.

Born in Isernia, Molise, he was raised in poverty and dropped out of school at a young age, moving to Cremona and beginning working on a railroad there in 1909.

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, William Dudley Pelley grew up in poverty.

Born around 1720 probably in Fauquier County, Virginia, he died in poverty while fighting Native American allies of British troops during one of the last engagements of the Revolutionary War around June 4, 1782 in Jefferson County, Virginia ( now Kentucky ).

Born into a family with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing to the financial failure of her father.

Born of Lithuanian Jewish parents, Levine grew up in the South End of Boston, where he observed a street life composed of European immigrants and a prevalence of poverty and societal ills, subjects which would inform his work.

Born and raised in South Africa, he never adjusted to the idealistic poverty imposed by his father.

Born into poverty, he quickly rose to fame and high reputation among fellow musicians.

Born in Vienna, Grünfeld lost a leg in an early childhood which was beset by poverty.

Born Bhadase Sagan Maraj in the tiny village of Caroni, the young Hindu's first ambition was to take his family out of the poverty, deprivation and degradation that had been their lot ever since his father stepped off an indentured labourers ' boat.

Born into poverty, Jerry Jarrett was exposed to the wrestling business at a very early age.

Born in Los Angeles, California, to parents who managed to work their way out of poverty to become billionaires, Julian was sent to the Xavier Institute in hopes that he would learn to use his powers with some discretion.

Born a serf, Shevchenko was orphaned when he was twelve and grew up in poverty and misery.

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

Born in Louisiana and raised in Florida, Lincks was inspired to write the play after visiting the Pleasant Hills Shaker village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a restored community that the Shakers occupied for more than a century, before abandoning it in 1927 because of the inability of the sect to attract new converts.

Born 1734 Virginia, died 1799 Louisville, Kentucky

Born in Virginia in 1763, she and her husband, Thomas Crawford, moved to Green County, Kentucky, in 1805.

Born in Winchester, Kentucky, lived in Mount Vernon and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery just north of town.

Born in Madison County, Kentucky, near the city of Richmond, Kit Carson was raised in Franklin.

Born in Butcher Hollow, near Paintsville, Kentucky, USA, to a coal miner father, she married at the age of 15, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Vanetta Lynn, Jr. ( 1926 – 1996 ), nicknamed " Doo ".

Born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky, to Joseph Dunn, a steamboat inspector for the United States government, and Adelaide Henry, a concert pianist / music teacher from Newport, Kentucky, Irene Dunn would later write " No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the river boats with my father.

Born near Golconda, Illinois, to a Scots-Irish family, he attended Cumberland College in Kentucky and served as deputy sheriff of Livingston County, Kentucky, from 1839 to 1844.

Born in Palmyra, New York, his family moved to Pennsylvania, back to New York, to Ohio then to Louisville, Kentucky ( 1827 – 1830 ) then back to Ohio while his father, Seneca Lapham, worked on the canals in various locations.

Born in Kentucky, Bowie spent most of his life in Louisiana, where he was raised and later worked as a land speculator.

Born in Paris, Kentucky, Morgan moved at the age of fifteen to Cincinnati, Ohio in search of employment.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Thatcher's family moved to Butler County, Kentucky in 1874 and settled near Morgantown.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of Robert Smith Todd, a banker, and Elizabeth ( Parker ) Todd, Mary was raised in comfort and refinement.

Born in Bradfordsville, Kentucky, on March 5, 1834, Rose was studying Latin at age 5 and received an excellent education until his father died in 1849.

Born on December 31, 1860 in Newport, Kentucky, Thompson grew up on a succession of Army posts and had decided on the military as a career by the age of sixteen.

Born in Glasgow, Kentucky, Diane Sawyer is the daughter of Jean W. Sawyer – an elementary school teacher – and Erbon Powers " Tom " Sawyer, a judge .< ref >

Born Millicent Vernon Hammond, she was the middle of three children born to renowned politician and later Ambassador to Spain, Ogden Haggerty Hammond ( October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956 ) of Louisville, Kentucky and his first wife, Mary Picton Stevens ( May 16, 1885 – May 7, 1915 ) of Hoboken, New Jersey.

Born in Ashland, Kentucky, England moved with her family to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, when she was two years old.

Born in Elkton, Kentucky, Bristow was the son of Francis Bristow, a Whig member of Congress in 1854-1855 and 1859-1861.

Born near Lunenburg, Virginia, he moved to Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1796 with his parents John Barry, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and Susannah ( Dozier ) Barry.

Born John Patrick Goggin in Louisville, Kentucky, his parents soon abandoned him and he spent a delinquent youth in foster homes and boarding schools.