Famous people born in the year 1961

Douglas Coupland OC OBC is a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven nonfiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific fe....
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Manuel Sez is a Spanish, selftaught artist. Since 1984, he has been living and working in Valencia.....
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Manu Chao is a Frenchborn musician of Spanish origin. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and occasionally in other languages. Chao began his musical career in Paris, busking and playing with groups such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos, which combined a variety of languages and musical styles. With friends and his brother Antoine Chao, he founded the band Mano Negra in 1987, achieving considerable success, particularly in Europe. He became a solo ar....
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Ko Ko Gyi is a Burmese politician and leading democracy activist. For his protests against the military government, he spent over 17 years in prison on multiple occasions between 1989 and 2012. He was considered a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. BBC News describes him as a key member of the 8888 Generation movement. He is one of the countrys most prominent activists, second only to Min Ko Naing.....
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Douglas Alan Doug Horner is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Spruce GroveSt. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 until January 31, 2015. He was the President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Finance until Jim Prentices cabinet was sworn in on September 15, 2014. He was a candidate for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party in its 2011 leadership election, placing third.....
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Guido Westerwelle was a German politician who served as Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and as Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions. He was also the chairman of the Free Democratic Party of Germany from May 2001 until he stepped down in 2011. A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the Bundestag from 1996 to 2013.....
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James Dow Constantine , better known as Dow Constantine, is an American politician in the state of Washington where he currently serves as King County Executive, an office he has held since November 2009. He was previously in the state legislature and on the King County Council, chairing the latter before his election as Executive. Constantine is a selfidentified Democrat, although the Executives office is officially nonpartisan.....
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Leigh Bowery was a London performance artist, club promoter, and designer. He was also a significant model for the English painter, Lucien Freud. Bowery was born 26 March 1961 in Sunshine, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne. He studied music, played piano, and in Melbourne he studied fashion and design.....
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Frederick Wilford Rick Sturckow is an Engineer, United States Marine Corps officer and a NASA astronaut. Sturckow is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. He flew on STS88 and STS105 as a pilot and STS117 and STS128 as a commander. All four missions docked with the International Space Station, making Sturckow one of two people to visit the station four times. Sturckow later was assigned to the Johnson Space Center as a CAPCOM. He left NASA in May 2013 to become a pilot for Virgin Galactic.....
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Paul Douglas Coffey is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played for nine teams in the National Hockey League. Known for his speed and scoring prowess, Coffey ranks second alltime among NHL defencemen in career goals, assists, and points, behind Ray Bourque. Coffey was born in Weston, Ontario, but grew up in Malton, Ontario.....
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William Ray Billy Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter and actor.....
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Bill de Blasio is an American politician who is serving as the 109th Mayor of New York City. From 2010 to 2013, he held the citywide office of New York City Public Advocate, serving as an ombudsman between the electorate and the city government. He formerly served as a New York City Council member, representing the 39th District in Brooklyn, which contains Borough Park, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Kensington, Park Slope, and Windsor Terrace. De Blasio, the Democratic Party nominee fo....
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William Melvin Bill Hicks was an American standup comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material, encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy, was controversial, and often steeped in dark comedy. He criticized consumerism, superficiality and banality within the media and popular culture, which he characterized as oppressive tools of the ruling class that keep people stupid and apathetic.....
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William Alexander Lester III is a former racing driver who last competed in the Grand Touring category in the Rolex Sports Car Series for Autohaus Motorsports. In 1984, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley. Fresh out of college, he worked at HewlettPackard for a few years before deciding he wanted to focus on auto racing.....
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Leon Koudelak is a Czech classical guitarist.....
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Janet Tamaro is an American television writer, series creator, executive producer, and showrunner.....
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Janey Godley is a Scottish comedian and writer. Her autobiography, Handstands in the Dark, was a UK Top Ten bestseller and she was a 2006 Scotswoman of The Year finalist. She was a columnist for the Monday edition of The Scotsman newspaper from 200709.....
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Alfonso Cuarn Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer and editor best known for his dramas A Little Princess and Y Tu Mam Tambin , the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , and science fiction thrillers Children of Men and Gravity . Cuarn is the first Latin American director to win an Oscar for Best Directing.....
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Jane Leeves is an English actress, producer, comedian, singer, and dancer. She is best known for playing Daphne Moon on the television sitcom Frasier from 1993 until 2004, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. She is also known for her role Joy Scroggs on TV Lands sitcom Hot in Cleveland.....
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Nicola Luisotti is an Italian conductor. He is currently music director of San Francisco Opera.....
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