Famous people born in the year 1947

Lata Pada, CM is an Indianborn Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer. Pada is the founder and artistic director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the founder and director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UKbased Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing. Pada founded the dance company in 1990....
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Olympia Jean Snowe is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Maine from 1995 to 2013. Snowe, a member of the Republican Party, became widely known for her ability to influence the outcome of close votes, including whether to end filibusters. In 2006, she was named one of Americas Best Senators by Time Magazine. Snowe was famously known for her ability to compromise and her strong sense of bipartisanship. Along with Susan Collins, she was considered one of the most moderate ....
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Donald Francis Hanchon, is an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.....
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Laura Catherine Schlessinger is an American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author. Her radio program consists mainly of her responses to callers requests for personal advice and has occasionally featured her short monologues on social and political topics. Her website says that her show preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics.....
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Josephine Bernadette McAliskey , usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish socialist and republican political activist. She served as a Member of the UK Parliament from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency. She lost her seat to John Dunlop of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, after coming third in a foursided contest in the general election of February 1974.....
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Laura Phillips Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer, musician and film director who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performanceart piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performanceart activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single O Superman reached number two on th....
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Donna Jean GodchauxMacKay is an American singer, best known for having been a member of the Grateful Dead from 1972 until 1979.....
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Donna Loren is an American singer and actress. A very prolific performer in the 1960s, starting while still attending Venice High School in western Los Angeles, she was the Dr Pepper spokesperson from 1963 to 1968, frequent vocalist on ABCTVs Shindig, and a cast member of the American International Pictures Beach Party movie franchise. Loren regularly performed live, and appeared on numerous variety and musical shows. She guest starred on episodic television series including Dr. Kildare, Batman....
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Orlan is a French artist, born May 30, 1947 in Sainttienne, Loire. She adopted the name Orlan in 1971, which she always writes in capital letters160 ORLAN. She lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She was invited to be a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, for the 20062007 academic year. She sits on the board of administrators for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and is a professor at the cole nationale suprieure darts de CergyPontoise.....
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James David Manning is chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church on 123rd Street in New York City. Manning grew up in Red Springs, North Carolina, born to an African American family, and has been at ATLAH since 1981. ATLAH stands for All The Land Anointed Holy, which is Mannings name for Harlem.....
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Gregory LeNoir Gregg Allman is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. He was born and spent much of his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, before relocating to Daytona Beach, Florida. He and his brother, Duane Allman, developed an interest in music in their teens, and began performing in the Allman Joys in the mid1960s. In 1967, they relocated to Los Angeles and were renamed the Hour Glass, releasing two albums for Liberty Recor....
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Lawrence Cannon, PC is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harpers former Quebec lieutenant. In early 2006, he was made the Minister of Transport. On October 30, 2008 he relinquished oversight of Transport, and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDPs Mathieu Ravignat. He was named Canadas ambassador to France in May 2012.....
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Sir James Dyson OM CBE FRS FREng is a British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2013, his net worth in 2013 was 3 billion.....
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Donald Hugh Don Henley is an American singersongwriter, producer, and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful solo career. Henley was the drummer and colead vocalist for the Eagles from 19711980, when the band broke up, and from 19942016, when they reunited. Henley sang the lead vocals on Eagles hits such as Witchy Woman, Desperado, Best of My Love, One of These Nights, Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, and The Long Run.....
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Bernard Mathew Bernie Leadon III is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Prior to the Eagles, he was a member of three pioneering and highly influential country rock bands, Hearts amp Flowers, Dillard amp Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers. He is a multiinstrumentalist coming from a bluegrass background. He introduced elements of this music to a mainstream audience during his tenure with the Eagles.....
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Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prizewinning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book The Looming Tower AlQaeda and the Road to 911. Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wrights one man show My Trip to AlQaeda and his book Going Clear.....
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Oscar B. Jackson Jr. is an American civil servant from the state of Oklahoma. Jackson is the current Oklahoma Secretary of Human Resources and Administration, having served in that position since he was appointed by Governor of Oklahoma David Walters in 1991. With almost twenty years of continuous service, Jackson is the longest serving Cabinet Secretary in State history.....
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Gregory Francis Thompson, PC, MP is a Canadian politician who served six terms as an MP.....
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Oste Erceg is a Bosnian Serb painter from Novi Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina.....
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James Simon Wallis Hunt was a British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. After retiring from racing in 1979, Hunt became a media commentator and businessman.....
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