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Mims, American hip hop recording artist, orphaned at age 13; Sonny Moore, American electronic dance music producer, adopted as an infant; That Mexican OT, American hip-hop artist. Orphaned at age 8. Trent Reznor, American singer, abandoned by parents at age 5 and raised by grandparents; Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer
Rodolfo "Rudy" Reyes (born December 3, 1971, in Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American conservationist, martial arts instructor, actor, and former active duty United States Marine. He is best known for portraying himself in the HBO TV miniseries Generation Kill.
The following is a list of notable people born, raised, or closely associated with the U.S. state of New Jersey This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
His grandparents, Ilario Schirripa and Maria Capacci, were from Riace, Calabria, Southern Italy. His mother, Lorraine Schirripa [ 3 ] (née Bernstein), [ 4 ] was of Jewish descent. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 4 ] Schirripa grew up in a low-income household with four siblings, went to Lafayette High School and graduated from Brooklyn College .
Tom Hanks (born 1956), 2-time Academy Award-winning American actor, voice-over artist and movie producer, two of his mother's grandparents were Azorean, and two of his father's grandparents were Azorean, making him half Portuguese on both sides. Emeril Lagasse (born 1959), chef and host of LIVE! Cooking with Emeril. [12]
Andrea Dimitry – Greek-American soldier in the War of 1812 fought in the Battle of New Orleans; George Doundoulakis – Greek-American soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II and served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. Later becoming a physicist, he is known by his twenty-six US patents in the fields of radar ...
Bill Pullman (born 1953), actor, best known for his roles in Ruthless People, Spaceballs, Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping and Lost Highway; maternal grandparents were Dutch; Jason Ritter (born 1980), actor, [12] distant Dutch ancestry; John Ritter (1948–2003), actor, [13] distant Dutch ancestry
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.