Hulk Hogan born in Augusta, Ga.
Hogan (Terry Bollea) is born in Augsta, Georgia despite being billed from Hollywood, Calif. for most of his wrestling career. He develops and early interest in music and begins playing bass guitar as a young man. He is spotted by the Brisco Brothers while playing music at a bar and convinced to pursue professional wrestling.
Roddy Piper born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Piper (Roderick George Toombs) is born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada despite being billed from Glasgow, Scotland during his career. After a dispute with his father, Piper leaves home and stays in youth hostels and works odd jobs. He begins playing bagpipes as a young man. He makes his professional wrestling debut at age 15, playing his own entrance music on his bagpipe. The announcer calls him Roddy the Piper which later sticks as his ring name, Roddy Piper.
Jonathan Jay Pollard born in Galveston, TX
Jonathan Jay Pollard is born in Galvaston, Texas to Jewish parents. He has two older siblings. When he is seven years old, his family moved to South Bend, Indiana when his father, a renowned microbiologist is hired to teach at Notre Dame. As he grew up, Pollards parents instill a strong love for the State of Israel. He went to a Hebrew Day School and Stanford University. Pollard is bullied a great deal as a child for being Jewish and for his connection to Israel.
I grew up with a racial obligation to Israel. I got beaten up, but at least I knew the Israelis would beat up a couple Arab countries and maybe I would feel better.
Stieg Larsson born in Västerbotten
Karl Stig-Erland Larsson is born in the town of Skelleftehamn in the Västerbotten region of northeast Sweden, about 400 miles north of Stockholm. He is the first child of Erland and Vivianne. He is raised by his maternal grandparents in Västerbotten after his father contracts arsenic poisoning from his job at a smelting plant. When he is nine, his grandfather, Severin Boström, dies of a heart attack and he moves to the city of Umeå to live with his parents and his younger brother, Joakim. His grandfather is a survivor of imprisonment by the Nazis and is an outspoken political activist. Stieg’s favorite pastime during childhood is reading Enid Blyton and Astrid Lindgren, the author of The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. He later begins writing novels of his own. His father:
When Stieg was 12 I read a novel he had written in a notebook. It was then that we gave him a typewriter — it was his thirteenth birthday and I remember it was very expensive at that time. It was also very noisy, so we had to make space for him in the cellar. He would write in the cellar and come up for meals, but at least we could sleep at night.
Denzel Washington born in Mount Vernon
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is born in Mount Vernon, New York. His father, Denzel Washington, Sr. is a Pentecostal minister and his mother Lennis, is a beautician. A middle child, he has an older sister named Lorice and a younger brother named David. At the age of 14, his parents’ divorce. Washington starts hanging out on the streets and getting into fights.
I started heading toward the streets, getting into all sorts of trouble. My three closest friends ended up in penitentiaries.
Rowan Atkinson born in Consett, England
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is born in Consett, England to farmer and company director Erick Atkinson and Ella May. He is youngest of four brothers. He attends Durham Choristers School. The school headmaster, Canon John Grove:
He is shy with a slight stutter and a slightly rubbery face.
Jake Roberts born in Gainesville, Ga.
Roberts (Aurelian Smith Jr) is born in Gainesville, Georgia. He develops an interest in professional wrestling as a young man and begins his career as a referee with Mid-South Wrestling. He later makes his wrestling debut for the company.
Dallas Page born in Point Pleasant, NJ
Page (Page Joseph Falkinburg Jr.) is born in Point Pleasant, NJ. As a child he overcomes ADD, illiteracy and dyslexia.
I was a kid growing up dealing with ADD and Dyslexia. I’m fifty-eight years young. I grew up in a time when people didn’t know what ADD and Dyslexia was.
Tom Hanks born in Concord, California
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is born in Concord, California to Amost Mefford Hanks, a cook, and Janet Marylyn Frager, a hospital worker.
I was a geek, a spaz. I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy. At the same time, I was the guy who’d yell out funny captions during film strips.
Guzman born in La Tuna Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico
Joaquin Guzman Loera is born in La Tuna Badiraguato, Sinaoloa, Mexico as the fourth child to Emilio Guzman and Consuelo Loera. His older siblings are Arturo, Ovidio and Miguel. Guzman and Loera will later give birth to Aurelio, Armido, and Bernarda. His father is involved in the drug trade, growing and selling marijuana and opium. He will suffer abuse from his father who will eventually kick him out of the house. He is poorly educated and ultimately follows his father into the drug trade, but operating independently from his father.
Bret Hart born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hart is born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the eighth child of professional wrestling legend Stu Hart. After pursuing amateur wrestling in high school and at Mount Royal College, he decided to follow in his family’s footsteps and become a professional wrestler. He trains with his father and brothers at the Hart Family Dungeon.
Stephen Fry born in Hampstead, London
Stephen John Fry is born in Hampstead, London to Physicist Alan John Fry and Historian Marianne Eve Fry. He has an elder brother named Roger and a younger sister named Joanna. He attends Cawston Primary School in Cawston, Norfolk.
I came from what on the surface would have looked like a very typical English family in as much as I say a typical one that an American might regard as typical. It was a country house with gardeners and nice staff and it looked rather grand and I was sent away at the age of seven to a prep school, which in England is from seven to thirteen is prep school, sent away to boarding school two hundred miles from home and that sort of again was very traditional English.
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Alan Eugene Jackson is born on October 17, 1958, in Newnan, Georgia. His father, Eugene, is an auto-worker, and mother, Ruth, is a homemaker.
Scott Hall born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland
Hall is born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland despite being billed from Florida during his WWE career. He develops an interest in professional wrestling as a young man and decides to pursue the sport as a career. He makes his professional debut in 1984 with Championship Wrestling from Florida.
Sting born in Omaha
Sting is born in Omaha, Nebraska despite being billed from Venice Beach, California during his wrestling career. Sting develops an early interest in body building.
I never did the powerlifting thing, but the goal was to lift heavy. Four plates squatting for reps – 4-5, 8-10, 315 for 20, 225 for 50 – leg extensions, leg curls and that’s how we trained every single week. On the bench , my best was 435 – I was younger and I was on the gas, too. There were guys who weighed a lot less than I did who could easily do that. But I didn’t really train for power or strength. I trained for size. That’s all I was training for.
Sean Bean born in Sheffield, England
Sean Bean is born in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire county, England. His father is Brian Bean, a fabrication shop owner, and his mother is Rita, nee Tuckwood, who works as a secretary at his father’s workshop. Growing up on a council estate, he is a fan of art and glam rock but also enjoys football.
A common misperception of me is…that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I’m pretty mild-mannered most of the time.
On advice learned from his mother:
Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There’s an inherent goodness in most people. Don’t pre-judge people – that was me Mam’s advice anyway.
Hugh Laurie born in Oxford, England
James Hugh Calum Laurie is born in Oxford, England, to William G. R. M. Laurie and Patricia Laurie. His father is an Olympic gold winner who works as a doctor while his mother is a housewife. He has an older brother and two older sisters.
At times, I got the feeling that my mother just didn’t like me very much.
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Nancy Shevell born in New York
Nancy Shevell is the second of three children born to billionaire Myron (Mike) and Arlene Shevell.
Nancy grows up in Edison, New Jersey, playing with toy trucks alongside her dolls, and visiting truck terminals managed by her father, who owns the haulage company New England Motor Freight. In high school her interests include skiing and flying, and she is a member of her school’s all girl football team.
Bono born in Dublin
Paul Hewson is born in the suburb of Ballymun. He is the second child of Catholic father Brendan Robert Hewson, and Protestant mother Iris Elizabeth Rankin. He experiences an admittedly average childhood until the age of 14, when his mother dies of a brain hemorrhage at his grandfather’s funeral.
The way you see the world is shaped way before you go into the world. It’s shaped through the way you see a community. It’s shaped through the way you see a street. I live comfortably all over the world and people say it’s incredible that you are really a ‘wherever I lay my hat, that’s my home’ person. But I am partly that because of the way I grew up in Finglas — sleeping on a couch, or because my mother died when I was a kid I was in the house on my own a lot of the time, so I’d knock on the door of the Hanveys at teatime, you know, or the Rowens at lunchtime.
It might be London, it might be New York, but that ability to feel comfortable where I am was definitely instilled in me on Cedarwood Road.
At the time of his mother’s death, he is known as ‘Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang.’ Later this name evolves into ‘Bonavox of O’Connell Street,’ and is eventually shortened to ‘Bonavox,’ ‘Bono Vox,’ and finally ‘Bono.’
He attends school, but is more into girls than his studies. While in school, he is initially interested in acting, but responds to an ad looking for musicians and meets up with the remaining members of what would later become U2. He also meets his future wife.