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 to a farmers family in the small village of Zagorica east of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Jurij was 6 years old when his father Jernej Veha died.

Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings.

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 in the village of Zhaohong, northwest of the seat of Leling County, Shandong, he was educated under his uncle from his mother's side, a teacher of a traditional Confucian private school in Yanshan County.

Born into a moderately rich peasant family in Huaminglou village, Ningxiang county, Hunan province, Liu attended Ningxiang Zhusheng Middle School ( 宁乡 驻省 中学 Nìng-xiāng zhù-shěng zhōng-xué ), and was recommended to attend a class in Shanghai prepared for studying in Russia.

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 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, Keeler was brought up by her mother and stepfather in a house made from two converted railway carriages in the Buckinghamshire village of Wraysbury ( now part of Berkshire ).

* Born, Luxembourg, a village in Luxembourg

Born in Ahascragh, in the West of Ireland, he lived with his parents, seven brothers and sister across the road from the village church.

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

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 in the village of Dilyalevo, Vologda Governorate Russian Empire as the youngest of 11 children in a peasant family, the largely self-taught Ilyushin left home at an early age.

Born in Tamay ez-Zahayra village, which belongs to El Senbellawein, she is known as the Star of the East ( kawkab el-sharq ).

Born in the village of Nitshill near Glasgow, a former coal mining village whose mine had closed before Purdon grew up.

Born in the village of Iizasa in Shimosa Province he moved when young to the vicinity of the famous Katori Shrine, a venerable Shinto institution northeast of Tokyo in what is today's Chiba Prefecture.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he grew up in the Fraser Valley village of Abbotsford.

Born in a small Hakka village in the Fujian province during the final years of Late Imperial China, she attended Yenching University in the capital, then referenced as Peking.

Born in 1903 in Sriramachandrapur village under Satyabadi block, Chintamani Das is the only writer who has written biographies on all the five ' Pancha Sakhas ' of Satyabadi namely Pandit Gopabandhu Das, Acharya Harihara, Nilakantha Das, Krupasindhu Mishra and Pandit Godabarisha.

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

Born and raised in Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, Corey now lives with her husband and two daughters, in a small coastal village in Maine, a site she used as a model for the setting for her latest novel, The Skating Pond ( 2003 ).

Born in present-day New York, she survived smallpox and was orphaned as a child, then baptized as a Roman Catholic and settled for the last years of her life at the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal in New France.

Born in Saint-Geniez-d ' Olt ( Aveyron ), Chabot became a Capuchin friar in Rodez before the French Revolution, while continuing to be attracted to the works of philosophes-the reason for which he was banned from preaching in the respective diocese.

Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

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 John Smith Hurt in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age nine.

Born Mary Therese Winifred Bourke in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1944, she is the daughter of two medical doctors.

Born in Charles County, Maryland, Mudd was the fourth of ten children of Henry Lowe and Sarah Ann Reeves Mudd.

Born in Rhode Island, he was taken with the Northups when they migrated to Hoosick, New York in Rensselaer County.

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 into a working-class family in Ponders End, Middlesex, Tebbit went to Edmonton County School, an academically selective state school in north London.

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 Vickie Lynn Hogan in Harris County, Texas, Anna Nicole was the child of Donald Eugene Hogan ( July 12, 1947 – September 19, 2009 ) and Virgie Mae ( née Tabers ; born July 12, 1951 ), who married on February 22, 1967 and divorced on November 4, 1969.

Born in Sacriston, County Durham, Robson was the fourth of five sons of Philip and Lilian Robson ( née Watt ).

Born in Baltimore County, Maryland to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught.

Born in Lund, Moodysson grew up in Åkarp, Skåne County as an outcast, expressing himself through poetry.

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 into slavery in Southampton County, he launched his rebellion there which gained up to 70 slaves at its height.

* J. Marvin Hunter ( 1880 – 1957 ) Born in Mason County.

* Governor Coke Stevenson ( 1888 – 1975 ) Born in Mason County

* Leonie von Meusebach – Zesch ( 1882 – 1944 ) Born in Mason County.

Darlington County is the subject of a song of the same name on Bruce Springsteen's 1984 album, Born in the U. S. A.

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

Born into a middle class family in Bray, County Wicklow, he was educated at Christian Brothers College, Monkstown.

* KaDee Strickland, actress ( b. 1975 ) Born in Blackshear but she grew up in Patterson and went to school in Pierce County.