Austin Aries born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Aries (Daniel Solwold Jr.) is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He develops an early interest in professional wrestling through watching the NWA.
The influences I had growing up I think comes out in the way I perform and maybe that’s what helps set me apart from some of the guys who grew up watching different types of wrestling. I appreciated all of it, but what originally caught my attention was that dirty wrasslin’ with those real characters and blood and Dick Murdoch and Buzz Saywer. That was the stuff that really grabbed me as a kid and really fell in love with.
Sheamus born in Dublin, Ireland
Sheamus is born in Dublin, Ireland. He develops an interest in wrestling through watching World of Sport and WWE as a child. He decides to pursue the sport as a career and enters Larry Sharpe’s Monster Factory training school on the advice of Bret Hart.
Tamina Snuka born in Fiji, Samoa
Snuka (Sarona Reiher) is born in Fiji, Samoa. She is the daughter of WWE legend “Superfly” Jimmy Snuka. Due to her family’s involvement in the world of wrestling, she decided to pursue it as a career. She trains at the Wild Samoan Training Center.
A.J. McLean born
Alexander James “A. J.” McLean is born in West Palm Beach, Florida, at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, to Denise (née Fernandez) and Bob McLean. He is of Cuban and German ancestry on his mother’s side and Scottish, Irish and English on his father’s side. His parents divorced when he was four years old.
Born in Beiruit, Lebanon
Amal Ramzi Alamuddin is born in Beirut, Lebanon, Her mother Baria, is the foreign editor of Arab newspaper, al-Hayat. In her youth she was a newsreader on Lebanese television. Her father, Ramzi, is a retired professor of business studies at the American University of Beirut. According the the Daily Mail, Ramzi married outside the Druze faith. He met Baria in a nightclub in Beirut.
Her grandfather was a government minister. Her grandmother is said to be the first woman graduate of the American University in Beirut. She has three younger siblings; a sister, Tala, and two brothers Samer and Ziad. Her cousin is Rima Alamuddin, a poet who was tragically shot dead, aged only 22, by a disgruntled boyfriend while on holiday in Lebanon from her studies at Cambridge University.
Donald Trump Jr. born in New York
Donald Trump, Jr. is born, in Manhattan, New York
Brittany Murphy born in Atlanta, Georgia
Brittany Murphy is born in Atlanta, Georgia to Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Joseph Bertolotti. She is raised by her single mother in Edison, New Jersey. She has two older half-brothers and a younger half-sister. She attends Verne Fowler School of Dance and Theatre Arts in Colonia, New Jersey. Her mother:
I raised Brittany alone. We didn’t have much at first, but we always had each other. My daughter and I were our only family, and we were inseparable and always there for each other in good times and bad.
Jeff Hardy born in Cameron, NC
Hardy is born in Cameron, North Carolina. He is the younger brother of Matt Hardy. He develops an early interest in professional wrestling.
We (He and Matt) actually got a trampoline at Christmas one year, and we started with a garden hose around the trampoline as the ring ropes and started putting on our own shows.
Timothy Ferriss born in East Hampton, NY
Timothy Ferriss is born in East Hampton, NY to Donald and Frances Ferriss. He is born six weeks premature and given a 10% chance of living.
I survive instead and grow so fat that I can’t roll onto my stomach. A muscular imbalance of the eyes makes me look in opposite directions, and my mother refers to me as “tuna fish.” So far, so good.
In 1983 he nearly fails kindergarten because he refuses to learn the alphabet.
My teacher refuses to explain why I should learn it, opting instead for “I’m the teacher–that’s why.” I tell her that’s stupid and ask her to leave me alone so I can focus on drawing sharks. She sends me to the “bad table” instead and makes me eat a bar of soap. Disdain for authority begins.
Born in Webster, South Dakota
Lesnar is born in Webster, South Dakota despite being billed from Minneapolis, Minnesota during his wrestling career. Lesnar grows up on a diary farm run by his father and begins amateur wrestling while attending Webster High School.
Layla El born in London, UK
El is born in London, England despite being billed from Miami, Florida as a wrestler due to her past as a Miami Heat dancer. El decided to pursue wrestling when her trainer suggest she audition for the RAW Diva Search in 2006.
James Storm born in Franklin, Tenn.
Storm (James Cox) is born in Franklin, Tennessee. He develops an early interest in football and professional wrestling.
I grew up watching wrestling when I was little with my mom and brother. I actually grew up watching USWA wrestling when it was owned by Jerry Jarrett.
Alberto Del Rio born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Del Rio (José Alberto Rodríguez) is born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He is the son of lucha libre legend, Dos Caras. He grows up in the wrestling business.
I decided to be a wrestler when I was a little kid. I came from a wrestling family, so it came easy. But it also means the fans expect more from you. And, in this case, coming from one of the most prestigious wrestling families, (it) puts a lot of pressure on you in the beginning.
Titus O’Neil born in Daynton Beach, Fl.
O’Neil (Thadeus Bullard) is born in Daynton Beach, Florida. He develops an early interest in sports and pursues football through high school, becoming an All-American. He continues to play football through college at the University of Florida.
John Cena born in W. Newbury, Mass.
Cena is born the second eldest of five brothers in West Newbury, Mass. Cena develops an early interest in bodybuilding and football, going on to pursue both in high school and at Springfield College.
Homicide born in Brooklyn, NY
Homicide (Nelson Erazo) is born in Brooklyn, New York. He develops an interest in professional wrestling at age five and plays football throughout school.
In High School I played strong safety for Eastern District High and had a scholarship to the University of Miami. But I took a wrong turn thinking fast money would make me go to high levels as well as hanging around the wrong crowd
Chris Martin born in Exeter, Devon, England
Chris Martin is born in Exeter, Devon, England to accountant Anthony Martin and music teacher Alison Martin. He is eldest of five siblings. He attends pre-preparatory Hylton School.
I was a naughty boy. Its always fascinated me that idea of finishing your life and then being analyzed on it.
Gail Kim born in Ontario, Canada
Kim is born in Ontario, Canada. She develops an early interest in professional wrestling.
You always have to believe that you are going to make it. When I first made up my mind that I was going to become a female professional wrestler the one thought I always had was not if, but when, I would make it.
Bobby Roode born in Ontario, Canada
Roode (Robert Roode Jr.) is born in Ontario, Canada. He becomes a fan of WWE wrestling at a young age.
Being from a smaller town in Ontario, Canada, I was limited to only WWF stuff. It was on every weekend about 4 or 5 times a day, and I lived and breathed for Saturday Night’s Main Event.
Stephanie McMahon born in Hartford, Conn.
McMahon is born in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the daughter of WWE owner, Vince McMahon. She beings modeling merchandise in WWE catalogs at age 13. She graduates from Boston University with a degree in business.