- John Birmingham
John Birmingham (born August 7, 1964) is an Australian author. Birmingham was born in Liverpool UK and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1970. He grew up in Ipswich, Queensland. He attended the St Edmunds Christian Brother's College in Ipswich, and the University of Queensland in Brisbane. His only stint of full time employment was as a researcher at the Defence Department. After this he returned to Queensland to study law but he did not complete his legal studies, … - David Urquhart, Bishop Of Birmingham
The Rt. Revd. David Andrew Urquhart (born 1952) is the ninth Bishop of Birmingham. Urquhart was educated at Rugby School and Ealing College Business School (BA 1970). After a career in commercial management with British Petroleum, Urquhart trained for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He was ordained in 1984 and served in Hull before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Coventry in 1992. - Joe Birmingham
Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6 1884 - April 24 1946), baseball player. Birmingham was an outfielder who occasionally played the infield for the Cleveland Naps. He was a mediocre hitter, but he had one of the strongest throwing arms and he was a fine defensive center fielder. He was named the manager of the Naps in 1912 after Harry Davis was fired, and he stayed at the helm for three more seasons. His tenure was marked with a bit of controversy, … - Simon Birmingham
Simon John Birmingham (born 14 July 1974 in Adelaide, South Australia), Australian politician, is a Senator for South Australia, nominated by the Liberal Party under Section 15 of the Australian Constitution to fill the Senate seat left vacant following the death of Senator Jeannie Ferris in April 2007. He is the youngest member of the Australian Senate at the age of 32. Until his nomination for the Senate, … - George Birmingham
George M. Birmingham is a former Irish Fine Gael politician. George Birmingham was born in Dublin in 1954. He was educated at St. Paul's College, Trinity College, Dublin and King's Inns where he qualified as a barrister. He first became involved in politics in 1979 when he became a member of Dublin City Council. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1981 general election as TD for Dublin North Central. - Billy Birmingham
Billy Birmingham (Born 1953) is an Australian humourist and sometime sports journalist, most noted for his parodies of Australian cricket commentary in recordings under The Twelfth Man name. He was the writer of the comedy hit "Australiana" 1983 which was made famous by performer Austen Tayshus. Birmingham is also a regular on the panel discussion show "The Back Page", alongside Mike Gibson and Peter FitzSimons. - Christian Birmingham
Christian Birmingham is a well-known British illustrator/artist and author, who has worked with many authors, including Michael Morpurgo (in books such as "The Butterfly Lion", "The Silver Swan", and "Dear Olly"). He has also written and retold several books. His website can be found here www.christianbirmingham.com - Daniel G. Birmingham
Daniel G. Birmingham (b. 1968), better known as "Dan Birmingham", is the Chairman of the nine-member County Legislature in Putnam County, New York. He is also an attorney with a Wall Street law firm, practicing in the area of municipal and public finance. Birmingham received a Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America in 1995 and a B.A. from the same university in 1990. - Stephen Birmingham
Stephen Birmingham, born May 28, 1932 in Hartford, Connecticut, is an author. Born to Thomas Birmingham and Editha Gardner Birmingham, he received a BA from Williams College in 1953. He is a former teacher of writing at the University of Cincinnati. He has written over thirty books and is now retired. Birmingham has written extensively about the upper classes in America. - Dan Birmingham
Dan Birmingham is a St. Petersburg, Florida based trainer who is best known for his work with World Light Middleweight Champion Winky Wright. Birmingham has been training Wright since he began his boxing career, and has remained with him through the present time. Birmingham is also the trainer of 2000 Olympian, and former IBF Super middleweight Champion, and fellow St. Petersburg native, Jeff Lacy, and highly touted boxing prospect Chad Dawson. - Artur Davis
Artur Genestre Davis (b. October 9 1967), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing, a district created under the Voting Rights Act to be black-majority, and which includes the rural black belt. It encompasses the counties of Choctaw, Sumter, Greene, Perry, Hale, Dallas, Wilcox, and Marengo. It also includes parts of Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Pickens and Clarke Counties. - Spencer Bachus
Spencer Thomas Bachus III (b. December 28 1947), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing. The district, Alabama's wealthiest, includes sections of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, along with their most affluent suburbs. - Spencer Prior
Spencer Justin Prior (born 22 April 1971 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex) is an English professional footballer. He was a central defender who retired at the end of the 2006-07 Football Season. He finished his career playing for his Hometown Club Southend United ]]. He previously played for [Southend United Norwich City, Leicester City, Derby County, Manchester City and Cardiff City. Prior began his career with Southend, for whom he made 135 league appearances. - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Richard Tandy
Richard Tandy (born 26 March 1948, in Birmingham, England), is best known as the keyboard player in the rock band, Electric Light Orchestra ("ELO"). His palette of keyboards (including Mini Moog, clavinet, mellotron and piano) was an important ingredient in the group's sound, for example on the albums "A New World Record", "Out of the Blue", "Discovery" and "Time". A former pupil of Moseley School, where he first met future bandmate Bev Bevan, … - Kelvin Burt
Kelvin Burt is a British auto racing driver, born September 7, 1967 in Birmingham but now living in Tamworth. After attending the Jim Russell Racing Drivers' School in 1987 he turned to Formula Ford racing, battling hard against David Coulthard for the championship. He won his class in a British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park, before spending 1991 winning the Formula Vauxhall Lotus series, and being voted Autosport Club Driver of the Year. - Ruben Studdard
Christopher Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978) is an American pop/R&B/gospel singer who rose to fame as winner of the second season of the "American Idol" television program. - K. M. Peyton
Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M. Peyton (born 2 August 1929, Birmingham, England) is a British author. She has written than fifty novels, including the much loved "Flambards" series and its sequels for which she won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award. She began writing when she was nine, first publishing under her maiden name of Kathleen Herald. Fidra Books is currently publishing Fly-By-Night with the sequel, … - Walker Percy
Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990) was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels, the first of which, "The Moviegoer", won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age," and his work exhibited a unique combination of existentialism, Southern sensibility, and deeply-felt Catholicism. - Courteney Cox Arquette
Courteney Bass Cox Arquette is an American actress and former fashion model, best known for her role as Monica Geller in the long-running television series "Friends". She now plays Lucy Spiller, an executive editor of a tabloid magazine, on the popular drama "Dirt" on FX Networks. - Duncan Birmingham
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Taylor Reuben Hicks (born October 7, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Hicks got his start as a professional musician in his late teens and performed around the Southeastern United States for well over the span of a decade, during which he also released two independent albums. He rose to prominence in the year 2006 as the winner of the fifth season of "American Idol". Upon winning the music competition, he was signed to Arista Records, … - J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon) from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a devout Roman Catholic. - Andrew Toney
Andrew Toney (born November 23 1957 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers from 1980-1988. He was dubbed the "Boston Strangler" by Boston sportswriters during the 76ers' and Boston Celtics' rivalry in the early 1980s because of his ability to single-handedly dominate games against the Celtics. - Ray Reach
Ray Reach (b. August 3, 1948) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist residing in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a member of several active performing groups, including the "Magic City Jazz Orchestra", the "Night Flight Big Band" and "Cleve Eaton and the Alabama All-Stars". From 1998 to 2005, he was Director of Jazz Ensembles at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), … - Charles Barkley
Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. Commonly nicknamed "Sir Charles" and "The Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley established himself as one of the most dominating power forwards in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected to both the All-NBA First Team and All-NBA Second Team five times, and All-NBA Third Team once. - Carl Lewis
Frederick Carlton ("Carl") Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is a retired American track and field athlete who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is pursuing an acting career. - Kate Jackson
Catherine Elise Jackson, (born on October 29, 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama), is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, primarily for her roles in soap operas and television is best known for her roles as Gerald S. O'Loughlin's nurse and Sam Melville's wife, Jill Danko, in the 1970s crime drama, "The Rookies", as Sabrina Duncan, in the 1970s television series "Charlie's Angels", and as Bruce Boxleitner's wife, … - Diana DeGarmo
Diana Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer and Broadway actress. She was the second place finalist to winner Fantasia Barrino on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series "American Idol", narrowly missing the win by about 2% (approximately 1.3 million votes) out of over 65 million votes. - Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, … - Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell (born 30 July 1979) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who divides his time between the European Tour and the PGA Tour. McDowell was born in Portrush, Northern Ireland. Like an increasing number of promising junior UK golfers McDowell took a golf scholarship at an American university. He attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1998 to 2002. - Natalee Holloway
Natalee Ann Holloway (born October 21, 1986), from Mountain Brook, Alabama, United States, disappeared on May 30, 2005 during a graduation trip in Aruba. Holloway remains officially missing to this day, although according to Aruban authorities, she is most likely dead. The disappearance generated a media sensation in both the U.S. and Aruba and sparked considerable interest in the Netherlands. - Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (b. April 2, 1947, Birmingham, Alabama) is a country, folk and alternative music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous big-name artists. - Pat Sullivan
Patrick Joseph Sullivan (born January 18, 1950) is a former American football player, winner of the 1971 Heisman Trophy, and college football coach. Sullivan was formerly the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and is currently the head coach for Samford University. - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born September 15, 1960 in Fayette, Alabama) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He formerly held the same position at Indiana University. - Richard North Patterson
Richard North Patterson is an American author of fiction. He was born in Berkeley, California, the eldest child of a retired corporate executive and a housewife. While still a child, he moved with his parents to Ohio. He grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland and graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University. - Steven Ford Brown
Steven Ford Brown is a rock music critic, poet, publisher and translator in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Brown grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Houston and Harvard University's Extension School. For almost a decade he worked in the European Equities Department of a private investment firm in Boston's Financial District. - Shannon Shorr
Shannon Shorr (born 1985 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a professional poker player, recently moved from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Las Vegas, Nevada. Shorr grew up in Birmingham, where he was a baseball player at Shades Valley High School. - Frank Gatski
Frank Gatski was an American football player. Gatski was born on March 13, 1919 in Farmington, West Virginia. Gatski attended Marshall University and Auburn University and played as a center and linebacker. In the 1940s and 1950s he played center for the NFL teams Cleveland Browns (1946–56) and Detroit Lions (1957). In 12 seasons, Gatski's teams played for the league title 11 times. - E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist (Myrmecology, a branch of entomology), researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), and naturalist (conservationism). Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his scientific humanist ideas concerned with religious, moral, and ethical matters.
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