Famous people born in the year 1950

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Pancho Carter

Pancho Carter


Duane C. Carter, Jr. , nicknamed Pancho, is a retired American race car driver. He is most famous for his participation in CART races. He won the pole position for the 1985 Indianapolis 500, and won the 1981 Michigan 500.....
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Googoosh

Googoosh


Faegheh Atashin , also known by her stage name Googoosh , is an Iranian singer and actress of Azeri origin. She is known for her contributions to Persian pop music, but also starred in a variety of movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s. Her overall impact and contributions to Persian pop earned her the title of the most iconic female popsinger from those regions. She has recorded songs in Persian, Tajiki, Azerbaijani, T....
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Francis Collins

Francis Collins


Francis Sellers Collins is an American physiciangeneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.....
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Goran Bregovi

Goran Bregovi


Goran Bregovi is a Bosnian musician and one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He left Bosnia and Herzegovina before the Bosnian War. Recently, he announced his official return to Sarajevo and set up a Roma education foundation.....
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Maggie MacNeal

Maggie MacNeal


Maggie MacNeal is a Dutch singer. MacNeal had released one solo single before teaming up with Willem Duyn , a cover of I Heard It Through the Grapevine written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong made famous by Marvin Gaye, was produced by Hans van Hemert.....
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Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi


Narendra Damodardas Modi , born 17 September 1950 is the 15th and current Prime Minister of India, in office since 26 May 2014. Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from Varanasi. He led the BJP in the 2014 general election, which gave the party a majority in the Lok Sabha, for the first time since 1984.....
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Gordon Ray Roberts

Gordon Ray Roberts


Gordon Ray Roberts is a retired United States Army officer and a Medal of Honor recipient for his conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on 11 July 1969 while an infantryman with the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War.....
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Pappo

Pappo


Norberto Anbal Napolitano, commonly known by his stage name Pappo , was an Argentinian guitarist, singersongwriter and composer. He is regarded as one of the best popular artists of his country. He had been considered by B.B. King as one of the best guitarists of all time.....
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Jakaya Kikwete

Jakaya Kikwete


Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete was the fourth President of Tanzania, in office from 2005 to 2015. Prior to his election as President, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2005 under his predecessor, Benjamin Mkapa. He has also served as the Chairperson of the African Union in 20082009 and the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community Troika on Peace, Defence and Security in 20122013.....
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Paresh Rawal

Paresh Rawal


Paresh Rawal is an Indian film actor, thespian and politician known for his works notably in Bollywood. He is currently a member of the Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party . Rawal speaks Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and Telugu languages fluently. In 1994, he won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in the films Woh Chokri and Sir. For the latter, he received his first Filmfare Award for Best Comedian. This was followed by Keta....
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Natalie Cole

Natalie Cole


Natalie Maria Cole was an American singersongwriter, and actress. The daughter of Nat King Cole, she rose to musical success in the mid1970s as an RampB artist with the hits This Will Be, Inseparable, and Our Love. After a period of failing sales and performances due to a heavy drug addiction, Cole reemerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteens Pink Cadillac. In the 1990s, she rerecorded standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Un....
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Howard Chaykin

Howard Chaykin


Howard Victor Chaykin is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material. Chaykins influences include the comicbook artist Gil Kane and the mid20th century book illustrators Robert Fawcett and Al Parker.....
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Howard Finkel

Howard Finkel


Howard Finkel is an American semiretired professional wrestling ring announcer, being employed by WWE since 1977. He began working for Vince McMahon, Sr.s World Wide Wrestling Federation in 1975, making him the companys longest tenured employee, and has been a ring announcer since 1977.....
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Imre Szekeres

Imre Szekeres


Imre Szekeres is a Hungarian politician of the Hungarian Socialist Party and former Minister of Defense.....
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Pasquale Condello

Pasquale Condello


Pasquale Condello is an Italian criminal known as a member of the Ndrangheta. He is also known as Il supremo for his role at the top of the crime syndicate. He was a fugitive since 1990 and included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy until his capture in February 2008. Investigators called him the Provenzano of Calabria a reference to Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian boss of bosses who was arrested in 2006 after some 40 years as a fugitive.....
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Graham Parker

Graham Parker


Graham Parker is an English singersongwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker amp the Rumour.....
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Malcolm Hardee

Malcolm Hardee


Malcolm Hardee was an English comedian, author, comedy club proprietor, compre, agent, manager and amateur sensationalist.....
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Huey Lewis

Huey Lewis


Hugh Anthony Cregg III , known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.....
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Malcolm Sinclair

Malcolm Sinclair


Malcolm Sinclair is an English stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher in the television series Pie in the Sky , although he has an extensive number of film, television and theatre roles to his credit. His brother is Keith Sinclair, the Bishop of Birkenhead.....
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Laurie Lewis

Laurie Lewis


Laurie Lewis , is an American bluegrass musician.....
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