Briley has received orchestral commissions, and has written songs for such artists as Céline Dion, * NSYNC, Dream, Michael Bolton, Mietta, Kenny Loggins, Pat Benatar, Jessica Andrews, 5-Star, Jeff Healey, Rebecca St. James, Nana Mouskouri, Willie Nile, Gregg Allman, Nightranger, David Hasselhoff, Patrick Swayze, Michael Monroe, Chastity Bono, Peter Tork, Nikki Webster, Hope Partlow, Natascha Sohl, Ballas Hough, Phil Stacey, Orianthi, The Maine and Barry Manilow.

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.

Modern musicians such as Little Richard, Mark Farner, Dan Peek, Donna Summer, Bob Dylan, Kerry Livgren, Dave Hope, Dave Mustaine, Nicko McBrain, Roger McGuinn, Ted Nugent, Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, Johnny Cash, Brian Welch, Keith Farley, Cliff Richard, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, and Lou Gramm were artists whose born again conversions had an impact on modern culture.

Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964 ) is an American and Academy Award winning actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, Hope Floats, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping.

Foster was born in Hope, Arkansas, to Alice Mae and Vincent W. Foster.

Walter Frederick Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, the son of Claribel Hope ( née Cowan ), a part-time music teacher, and Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister.

In a similar way, actress and singer Miley Cyrus was born Destiny Hope Cyrus, but found " Miley " more comfortable, making it her legal name.

Former U. S. Representative Oren Harris was born in Hempstead County near Hope but was reared in Nevada County before he began his law practice and political career in El Dorado.

Katherine Kiernan Maria " Kate " Mulgrew ( born April 29, 1955 ) is an American actress, most noted for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Kathryn Janeway and Ryan's Hope as Mary Ryan.

* Oswald Hope Robertson, medical pioneer who invented blood banks, born in Woolwich in 1886.

* Hope Davis ( born 1964 ), actress.

Prudence Crandall, who established a pioneering school for African-American girls, was born in 1803 in the area that is now Hope Valley.

Thomas Peacock, who founded the gentlemen's tailoring chain Hope Brothers, was born in Littleport in 1829.

* July 8-Anthony Hope, adventure novelist ( born 1863 )

Hope was born in Clapton, then on the edge of London, where his father, the Reverend Edward Connerford Hawkins, was headmaster of St John's Foundational School for the Sons of Poor Clergy ( which soon moved to Leatherhead in Surrey and is now St John's School ).

The new name was unveiled on December 17, 2003, on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers ' first flight in 1903, the year that Bob Hope was born.

David Edward Kelley ( born April 4, 1956 ) is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, and Harry's Law as well as several films.

Patricia Hope Hewitt ( born 2 December 1948 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who served in the Cabinet until 2007, most recently as Secretary of State for Health.

Harris was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Hope Gooding ( née Robinson ) and Sidney Deane Harris.

Dorothea and Ernest Simpson had one child, Audrey C. C. Simpson ( born 1924 ), who married, firstly, American journalist Murray J. Rossant ( married 5 October 1945 ), and, secondly ( on 1 April 1949 ), New York advertising executive Edmund Hope Driggs 3d.

Robards was born and raised in Chicago, the son of Hope Maxine ( née Glanville ) Robards and Jason Robards, Sr., an actor who regularly appeared on the stage and in such early films as The Gamblers ( 1929 ).

Hope was born at South Queensferry, West Lothian in Scotland the eldest son of the 6th Earl of Hopetoun and Ethelred Anne Hope.

Leslie Ann Hope ( born May 6, 1965 ) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Teri Bauer in the Fox show 24.

Hope was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Albert Schultz ( born July 30, 1963 in Port Hope, Ontario ) is a Canadian actor, director and the founding artistic director of Toronto's celebrated Soulpepper Theatre Company.

In May 1998, he had his first leading role in director Forest Whitaker's Hope Floats, with Sandra Bullock as his female lead.

* May 6 – At California's March Field, entertainer Bob Hope performs his first USO Show.

* May 29 – Bob Hope, English-born American comedian and actor ( d. 2003 )

The Hope Royal Commission delivered eight reports, four of which were tabled in Parliament on 5 May 1977 and 25 October 1977.

On 17 May 1983 the Hawke Government reappointed Justice Hope to conduct a second Royal Commission into ASIS, ASIO, ONA, DSD and JIO ( now DIO ).

It was only on the return voyage that he actually discovered the Cape of Good Hope, in May 1488.

Fibel and Hale measure hope by combining Snyder ’ s Hope Scale with their own Generalized Expectancy for Success Scale ( GESS ) to empirically measure hope .< ref > Hunt, Teresa L. ( May 1, 1997 ).

* Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ( May 25, 1977 )

Francis Hope met American concert hall singer May Yohé who had been described as " the sensation of two continents " in 1894.

In 1901, the financial situation had changed and after a " long legal fight ," he was free to sell the Hope Diamond by an " order of the Master in Chancery " to " pay off debts ," But May Yohe ran off with a rival named Putnam Strong, who was the son of the former New York City mayor William L. Strong.

Francis Hope and May Yohe were divorced in 1902.

** 22 May: Within sight of the Cape of Good Hope

The Book of the SubGenius: Being the Divine Wisdom, Guidance, and Prophecy of J. R. " Bob " Dobbs, High Epopt of the Church of the SubGenius, Here Inscribed for the Salvation of Future Generations and in the Hope that Slack May Someday Reign on this Earth ( ISBN 0-671-63810-6 ) is seen as the " bible " of the Church of the SubGenius.

After that loss, Benitez again moved up in weight, and on May 23, 1981, at age 22, he became the youngest three-time world champion in boxing history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight Champion Maurice Hope in twelve rounds in Las Vegas.

King, a native of Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, acquired some of land from Thomas Kell ( a county judge ) in and about the site of Kingsville from parts of the original grants of Leaf's Chance, William the Conqueror, Selby's Hope, John's Delight and Onion's Prospect Hill, according to a deed executed May 13, 1816.

* Hope Floats starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick, Jr. was set and filmed in Smithville, and was released at theaters across the nation on May 29, 1998.

This shift was caused by the successful circumnavigation of Africa opening up sea-trade with the east: after Portugal's Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and landed in Calicut, India in May 1498, a new path of eastern trade was possible ending the monopoly of the Ottoman Turks and their European allies, the Italian city-states.

From December 1992 to May 1993, Fort Hood soldiers deployed to Somalia for Operation Restore Hope to command and control the Joint Task Force Support Command.

* May 26-Bob Hope, English-born US actor, comedian and singer ( d. 2003 )

Within the society Bonifacio used the pseudonym May pag-asa (" There is Hope ").

On May 29, 2003, Hollywood and Vine was named " Bob Hope Square " to commemorate Hope's 100th birthday.

Saint Helena had been discovered by the Portuguese João da Nova on 21 May 1502, and with its abundance of fresh water and fat, it became a regular port of call for Portuguese ships en route between the East Indies and Europe via the Cape of Good Hope.

At a dinner with Beatty and Bert Fields, their agent, May said she would like to do a variant on the Road to ... movies of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, set in the Middle East.

The Haabet (" Hope ") and two smaller ships departed Bergen on 2 May 1721 bearing Egede, his wife and four children, and forty other colonists.

The Arkansas Supreme Court intervened and, in a ruling in May 1939, declared Hope the county seat.