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Ziad Fazah (1954–), Liberian-born Lebanese language teacher, now living in Brazil. He is famous for claiming to speak more than fifty languages, and for a time was listed in The Guinness Book of Records. It is unclear how many languages he can in fact speak. [218] Andrew Divoff (1955–), Venezuelan actor and producer.
Ermal Mandija (born 1987) – Businessman, American attorney, intelligence and information analytics expert. Mary Ball Washington (c. 1707–1709 – August 25, 1789) – Born Marie Balaj, Mary Ball Washington had Kosovar parents who were born in Peja, Kosovo. They immigrated from Junik, Kosovo to the United Kingdom before settling in Virginia.
Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [1] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Background
Roberto Ierusalimschy (born 1960), computer scientist, known for creating the Lua programming language; Madeleine M. Joullié (born March 29, 1927) organic chemist, first woman to join the University of Pennsylvania chemistry faculty as well as the first female organic chemist to be appointed to a tenure track position in a major American ...
Yasmina Khadra (also known as Mohamed Moulessehoul) (born 1955), writer; Aïssa Khelladi, journalist, novelist and playwright; Ahmed Mahsas (1923–2013), political leader and writer; Latifa Ben Mansour (born 1950), writer, psychoanalyst, and linguist; Fodil Mezali (born 1959), journalist and writer; Hocine Mezali (born 1938), journalist and writer
People who stutter include British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, orator Demosthenes, King George VI, actor James Earl Jones, US President Joe Biden, and country singer Mel Tillis. Churchill, whose stutter was particularly apparent to 1920s writers, [ 5 ] was one of the 30% of people who stutter who have an associated speech disorder—a ...
This is a list of people associated with the modern Switzerland and the Old Swiss Confederacy. Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes notable natives of Switzerland and its predecessor states as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Switzerland.
Gerry Hughes (born 1958), sailor, first single-handed Atlantic crossing by a deaf person; Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European (EBU) welterweight champion boxer [7] Jimmy Johnstone (1944–2006), football player; George Kerr (born 1937), judo expert, winner of the 1957 gold medal in the European Judo Championships