Born to the Quraish tribe of Saudi Arabia, Nami served as a muezzin at the Seqeley mosque after having reportedly become very religious sometime in early 1999.

Born into a very wealthy landowning family in the north of Mexico, he was the proto-type of the respectable upper-class politician ; a background which supplied the centre around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce.

Heisenberg's matrix mechanics formulation was based on algebras of infinite matrices, a very radical formulation in light of the mathematics of classical physics, although he started from the index-terminology of the experimentalists of that time, not even aware that his " index-schemes " were matrices, as Born soon pointed out to him.

Born Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, Alexander was adopted as heir apparent by his slightly older and very unpopular cousin, the Emperor Elagabalus at the urging of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa — who was grandmother of both cousins and who'd arranged for the emperor's acclamation by the Third Legion.

The Persian historian Tabari quotes Ibn Abbas ( d. 686-8 ) as saying: " Born to Noah were Shem, whose descendants ' colors are a black complexion with a light-brownish undertone ( bayādh ) and a dark blackish brown ( Udmah ); Ham, whose descendants ' colors are true black ( sawād ) and a few are a black complexion with a light-brownish undertone ( bayādh qalīl ); and Japheth, whose descendants are very fair-skinned ( al-shuqrah ) and olive-skinned ( al-humrah )".

Born in the town of Xi ' e in Nanyang Commandery ( located north of modern Nanyang City, Henan province ), Zhang Heng came from a distinguished but not very affluent family.

Born on October 12, 1891, she was a very gifted child who enjoyed learning.

Born as Renate Meißner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and pentathlon.

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Bertrand Stone and Philena Heald Ball, Lewis Stone's hair turned gray very prematurely ( reportedly by age 20 ).

Born in Chester, after a very short spell training for the Merchant Navy, he quit and worked as a valet in King's Cross in London.

Born in Rimini in Romagna to Rolando Pratt and Evelina Genero, Hugo Pratt spent most of his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan family environment.

Born to a very wealthy family, Meyerbeer began his musical career as a pianist, but soon decided to devote himself to opera, spending several years in Italy studying and composing.

Born into the very wealthy Cavendish family at Handsworth in the county of Yorkshire, William's family had a good relationship with the ruling Stuart monarchy and began to gather prominence after he was invested as a Knight of the Bath and soon inherited his father's Northern England estates.

Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life.

Stipe was once very close to fellow singer Natalie Merchant and has recorded a few songs with her, including one titled " Photograph " which appeared on a pro-choice benefit album titled Born to Choose, and they appeared live with Peter Gabriel singing Gabriel's single " Red Rain " at the 1996 VH1 Honors.

Born and raised in Lisbon, she has been very successful in her home country of Portugal.

Born into a rich family, he was orphaned at a very young age.

Born at Le Havre, Normandy, in northern France, she is said to have been very plain as well as without fortune, but she was exceedingly well-educated.

Born at Augsburg, he studied at Tübingen, and in 1558, when very short of money ( caused, according to some, by his intemperate habits ), he was appointed to succeed Jakob Micyllus in the professorship of Greek at the University of Heidelberg ; he exchanged it for a chair of logic ( publicus organi Aristotelii interpres ) in 1562.

Born in Padua at night, he received classical Jewish and Italian educations, showing a predilection for literature at a very early age.

Born into a working-class family, Rodney was a very bright student, attending Queen's College in Guyana, where he became a champion debater and athlete, and then attending university on a scholarship at the University College of the West Indies ( UCWI ) in Jamaica, graduating in 1963 with a first in history, thereby winning the Faculty of Arts prize.

Born in Millville, New Jersey, Waldman only lived in New Jersey very briefly.

Born in Liverpool, McDonnell's family moved to the south of England when he was very young ; his father became a bus driver and was a branch secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union.

Born into a large and well to do family ( with 6 sisters and 5 brothers ) in Dubrovnik, Držić was trained and ordained as a priest — a calling very unsuitable for his rebel temperament.

Born in humble circumstances, Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age.

Born in La Paz, Bolivia to humble mestizo parents, Belzu was educated by Franciscan friars.

Born to a humble family in Normandy, he owed his advancement to royal favour.

Born in 1944 in a humble family from Asturias.

Born into a humble family, Wee Kim Wee was the son of a clerk, Wee Choong Lay and his wife Chua Lay Hua.

Born at Pirescôxe ( also known as Pirescouxe, Pirescoche, Piriscouxe and Pires Coche ), located in Santa Iria de Azóia, Loures, Lisbon District, Jerónimo de Sousa was born into a humble working-class family in the Portugal of the late 1940s, dominated by the right-leaning regime of António de Oliveira Salazar.

Born in Malacca in 1798 to an immigrant Hokkien father and Peranakan mother, Tan rose from humble origins.

Born in Brentford, he was the eldest son of a carpenter, Roy Thomas Gardner, and his wife Iris Joan ( nee Paine ) and was brought up in Middlesex and Surrey in humble surroundings.

Born in Sunpu to humble origins, Yui is said to have been gifted in his youth ; he was taken in by a number of rōnin from the area, who taught him recent history, and likely swordsmanship and military strategy as well.

Born at Ruvo di Puglia / Bari into a family of humble means, Cotugno underwent physical and economic hardships to get an education.

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.