* Mary McCormack ( born 1969 ), birthplace.

St Mary's parish was the birthplace of Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington.

Dinwiddie County was the birthplace of Elizbeth ( Burwell ) Hobbs Keckly, a free black dressmaker who worked for two presidents ' wives: Mrs. Jefferson Davis and later Mary Todd Lincoln.

Their friend Professor Slocombe claims that Penge was the true birthplace of the Virgin Mary ( he also claims that Chiswick is the original Babylon ).

Union County is the birthplace of Thomas Warren Bennett, Mary Alice Smith ( Little Orphan Annie ), Cincinnatus Hiner " Joaquin " Miller, Jay Hall Connaway, Major General Frederick Leroy Martin and Ambrose Burnside.

El Monte was the birthplace of singer – guitarist Mary Ford, of Les Paul & Mary Ford fame.

Perry was the birthplace of Mary Baird, wife of William Jennings Bryan, and the earliest known presentation of Bryan's famous ' Cross of Gold ' speech was at a church social at the Perry Presbyterian Church.

Buckland was the birthplace of Mary Lyon, founder of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, now known as Mount Holyoke College.

* Weatherford is also the birthplace and was the home of Mary Martin, a Broadway star, known for her portrayal of Peter Pan.

The museum, built on the site of paelontologist Mary Anning's birthplace and family shop off Bridge Street, houses a large collection of local memorabilia, historical items and exhibits explaining the local geological and palaeontological treasures.

Grenville's birthplace is unknown, but he spent much of his childhood at Clifton Arundell House after his mother remarried Thomas Arundell following the death of his father Sir Roger Grenville, who was Captain of the Mary Rose when it sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545.

Following his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Placentia was the birthplace of Mary Tudor ( later Queen Mary I ) in February 1516.

It is believed that the house was the birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, later Queen, ruling for a mere 9 days before being overthrown by Mary I. Jane was executed in 1553 and when her father was executed the following year the estate passed to the crown.

Maryborough is the birthplace of P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books, who moved to Bowral at age eight.

Maryborough is also the birthplace of the late Mary Hansen of Stereolab, whose father Brendan Hansen represented Maryborough on the Maryborough City Council, Queensland State Parliament, and Federal Parliament.

* Ballymahon is the birthplace of Mary Flynn.

Under the influence of Archbishop Chicheley, who had himself founded two colleges in imitation of Wykeham, and Thomas Bekynton, king's secretary and privy seal, and other Wykehamists, Henry VI, on 11 October 1440, founded, in imitation of Winchester College, a college in the parish church of Eton by Windsor not far from our birthplace, called the King's College of the Blessed Mary of Eton by Windsor, as a sort of first-fruits of his taking the government on himself.

It is known for being the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U. S. president, and the home of Mary Baldwin College, a women's college.

Kilbarchan was the birthplace of Mary Barbour, the Scottish political activist who led the Glasgow rent strike of 1915 and later became Glasgow's first woman councillor.

Dunster was the birthplace of the song All Things Bright and Beautiful when Cecil Alexander was staying with Mary Martin.

Empress Helena came to the Holy land in AD 326 and began to excavate holy sites, including Golgotha, The Nativity in Bethlehem and the birthplace of Mary.

Ardoyne is also famed as the birthplace of the former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese née Lenaghan.

The city is the site of the last residence of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the birthplace of Commodore Matthew C. Perry and the Reverend William Ellery Channing.

It is also the birthplace of astronomer Milton L. Humason and agronomist Perry Greeley Holden.

Stockport is the birthplace of tennis player, Fred Perry the last Briton to win the Men's Singles titles at Wimbledon and the US Open ( in 1936 ), making him the last British male to win a Grand Slam title.

Vinton's birthplace of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania is also the birthplace of Perry Como.

Modena has a strong sporting tradition, linked mainly to motor racing as the birthplace of Enzo Ferrari, founder of the eponymous motor racing team and car manufacturer which is based in nearby Maranello.

It was the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare ( Chiara d ' Offreducci ), the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death.

Cyrene was the birthplace of Eratosthenes and there are a number of philosophers associated with the city including Aristippus, the founder of the School of Cyrene, and his successor daughter Arete, Callimachus, Carneades, Ptolemais of Cyrene, and Synesius, a bishop of Ptolemais in the 4th century AD.

Bracken was the birthplace on Sept. 9, 1816 of John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College and Kentucky '` s most noted abolitionist.

Henryville is the birthplace of " Colonel " Harland Sanders ( 1890-1980 ), founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Dodson was the birthplace of the Alexandria businessman Morgan W. Walker, Sr. ( 1893 – 1983 ), the founder of what became Continental Trailways and Walker-Roemer dairy and a director of the former Guaranty Bank and Trust Company.

* Is the birthplace of BET founder Bob Johnson.

Hamilton has the distinction of being the birthplace and boyhood home of department-store founder James Cash Penney ( J. C. Penney ) who was born September 16, 1875.

Scipio was the birthplace of James Strang, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ), a faction of the Latter Day Saint movement.

It was the birthplace, in 1874, of IBM founder Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Bryan is the birthplace of 2006 Indianapolis 500 champion — and current NASCAR driver -- Sam Hornish, Jr., Bob Hartman, founder of the Christian rock pioneer group " Petra ", and of Mark Winegardner, chosen to be the author of the novel The Godfather Returns.

Sykesville is the birthplace of Olga Madar ( 1915 – 1996 ), first woman to be a vice-president in the United Auto Workers ( 1970 ) and founder of the Coalition of Labor Union Women in 1974.

During the North Song Dynasty, Luoyang was the ' Western Capital ' and birthplace of Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of Song Dynasty.

It was the birthplace of William of Wykeham, founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford.

In a nod to Baltimore's position as the home of Avalon Hill and the birthplace of the commercial wargame hobby, Don Greenwood, a game designer with Avalon Hill and founder of the convention, suggested calling the show " Origins ".

This region is the birthplace of many notable figures in South Africa's history, such as Pixley ka Isaka Seme ( founder of the African National Congress and the first Black lawyer in South Africa ), John Langalibalele Dube ( founding president of the ANC ), Mangosuthu Buthelezi ( founder of the IFP ), Chief Albert Luthuli ( ANC president and the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ), Anton Lembede ( founding president of the ANC Youth League ), Jacob Zuma ( current President of South Africa ), and Bhambatha.

Shaoshan () is a county-level city in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, noted as the birthplace of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China.

It was the birthplace of Anna Marie Jarvis, the founder of Mother's Day as a national holiday in the United States.

It was the birthplace of Robert de Sorbon, ( 1201 – 1274 ), who was a chaplain and Confessor to King Louis IX of France, as well as being the founder of the Sorbonne, the University of Paris.

The city was among several taken in the Roman conquest in 75 BC ; the Romans built the Via Militaris in the 1st century, with Naissus being one of its key towns ; it is also the birthplace of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor and the founder of Constantinople, and Constantius III and Justin I.

Shullsburg was the birthplace of George Safford Parker, the inventor of the fountain pen and founder of Parker Pen Company.

Ofunato is also the birthplace of MOS Burger founder