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Gene Siskel, American film critic, orphaned at age 9 & raised by aunt and uncle; Barbara Stanwyck, American actress, raised in foster homes from age 2; Barbra Streisand, American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker; Lana Turner, American actress; Andy Warhol, American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as ...
Meagan Good - actress (paternal grandfather) [1] [2]; Cuba Gooding, Jr. - actor (paternal grandfather was from Barbados) Omar Gooding - actor (same grandfather as Cuba Jr.); Adrian Holmes - Canadian actor (ancestry vague)
This is a list of notable Amish and their descendants, including both those who lived or are living culturally as Amish or Amish Mennonite as well as those who recognize themselves culturally as Amish or Amish Mennonite descendants but may or may not practice Anabaptist beliefs.
The word is derived from the Latin celebrity, from the adjective celeber ("famous," "celebrated"). Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of notability, although the word notable is mistaken to be synonymous with the title celebrity, fame, prominence etc. As in Wikipedia, articles written about notable people doesn't necessarily ...
Kate Adie (born 1945), print and broadcast journalist; Ruth Ainsworth (1908–1984), children's writer of the Rufty Tufty Golliwog series; Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), novelist and historian; John Blackburn (1923–1993), novelist who wrote thrillers, horror novels, including The Flame and the Wind (1967)
Jonny Buckland (1977–), guitarist and songwriter, born in Islington and raised in Pantymwyn, Wales. [8] [9] Francis Ronalds (1788–1873), inventor of electric telegraph, lived in Canonbury, then Highbury Terrace, from 1789 to 1813 [10] Alfred Ronalds (1802–60), fly fishing author, born at 1 Highbury Terrace in 1802 [11]
This is a list of people from the Louisville metropolitan area which consists of the Kentucky county of Jefferson and the Indiana counties of Clark and Floyd in the United States. Included are notable people who were either born or raised there, or have maintained residency for a significant period.
Alan Arkin (1934–2023), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, grandparents were Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish and German Jewish immigrants René Auberjonois (1940–2019), Tony Award-winning character actor (and grandson of the painter), best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson and ...