Category: Birth Locations

Entries Born in Asia

Entries Born in Asia

These are the people who were born on the continent of Asia, separated by country (or the modern geographic equivalent country of where they were born).

Countries:

  1. Armenia
  2. Azerbaijan
  3. Bangladesh
  4. Bhutan
  5. Brunei
  6. Cambodia
  7. Cyprus
  8. China (The People's Republic of China)
  9. Georgia
  10. India
  11. Indonesia
  12. Japan
  13. Kazakhstan
  14. Kyrgyzstan
  15. Laos
  16. Malaysia
  17. Maldives
  18. Mongolia
  19. Myanmar (Formerly Burma)
  20. Nepal
  21. North Korea
  22. Pakistan
  23. Philippines
  24. Russia
  25. Singapore
  26. South Korea
  27. Sri Lanka
  28. Taiwan (The Republic of China)
  29. Tajikistan
  30. Thailand
  31. Tibet
  32. Timor-Leste
  33. Turkey
  34. Turkmenistan
  35. Uzbekistan
  36. Vietnam
  37. Yemen

Entries Born in Africa

Entries Born in Africa

These are the people who were born on the continent of Africa, separated by country (or the modern geographic equivalent country of where they were born).

Countries:

  1. Algeria
  2. Angola
  3. Benin
  4. Botswana
  5. Burkina Faso
  6. Burundi
  7. Cabo Verde
  8. Cameroon
  9. Central African Republic
  10. Chad
  11. Comoros
  12. Congo
  13. Côte d'Ivoire
  14. The Democratic Republic of the Congo
  15. Djibouti
  16. Eritrea
  17. Eswatini
  18. Egypt
  19. Equatorial Guinea
  20. Ethiopia
  21. Gabon
  22. Gambia
  23. Ghana (Republic of Ghana)
  24. Guinea
  25. Guinea-Bassau
  26. Kenya (Republic of Kenya)
  27. Lesotho
  28. Liberia
  29. Libya
  30. Madagascar
  31. Mali
  32. Malawi
  33. Mauritania
  34. Mauritius
  35. Morocco
  36. Mozambique
  37. Namibia
  38. Niger
  39. Nigeria
  40. Rwanda
  41. Sao Tome & Principe
  42. Senegal
  43. Seychelles
  44. Sierra Leone
  45. Somalia
  46. South Africa
  47. South Sudan
  48. Sudan
  49. Tanzania
  50. Togo
  51. Tunisia
  52. Uganda
  53. Zambia
  54. Zimbabwe

Entries By Birth Locations

This Page is a Navigational One. Below I will Link The Continents of the World. From there, you will see a list of countries within that continent. If the country is listed in Orange, that means there is currently an entry on this website that is active, and you can learn about that person today! If the country is the same grey as this text, that means I do not currently have any active entries for that country, but someday soon I hopefully will!

Obviously countries and borders change throughout history, so if I have an entry of someone born into a country that no longer exists, I try my best to link them under the Present-day country in that location. Sometimes the borders of ancient lands are not exact, so in that case I have chosen the closest country I could. Some entries have certain questions or missing information about them, and so these will be listed under the "Unknown Origins" Tab. If you have documentation to provide a more accurate listing for them, I would love to see it! My goal is to one day no longer have an Unknown Origins Link, and if we work together, I'm sure we can see that future come true! Thanks everyone!

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340) Brenda Chapman

Courtesy of IMDb

340: Brenda Chapman

Film Director

Born: 1 November 1962, Beason, Illinois, United States of America

Brenda is most known for directing Pixar’s Brave (for which she shares the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film).

She is a writer, animation story artist, and director.

Brenda was the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio (Dreamworks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt).

Brenda was also the first woman to win an Oscar for directing an animated feature as mentioned above.

Sources:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152312/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

http://greatwomenanimators.com/brenda-chapman/

https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Brenda_Chapman

339) Moll King

Courtesy of Making History Tart and Titillating

339: Moll King

The Owner of King’s Coffeehouse

Born: 1696, St. Giles in the Fields, London, England (Present-day United Kingdom)

Died: 1747, Haverstock, London, England (Present-day United Kingdom)

Original Name: Elizabeth Adkins

Moll was (purportedly) a pickpocket, sex worker, and notorious member of London’s underworld.

She is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s character and novel Moll Flanders.

Moll was repeatedly charged with Keeping a Disorderly House for her business after her husband’s death; the grief of which had caused her to begin drinking excessively.

After her second husband’s death (they’d been married four months) she was accused and found guilty of beating someone up and was sent to prison until she paid the fine (which she stubbornly refused to pay until she finally got the amount reduced to less than half of what she originally owed).

Moll left her estate to her only son but dictated if he died then her money should go to caring for poor children, so obviously she wasn’t a complete deviant.

Badges Earned:

Find a Grave Marked

Sources:

https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/moll-king-proprietress-of-kings-coffee-house-in-covent-garden/

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3421893&partId=1

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199981443/elizabeth-king

338) Lynne Chinn

Here I am (in the pink dress) with my Aunt Lynne at my grandfather and her father's funeral in 2009.

338: Lynne Chinn

Mosaic Artist and All-Around Amazing Artist and Person

Born: 22 August 1962, Loch Haven, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lynne uses glass tiles to makes sculptures, religious iconography, and other commissioned works including a large low wall at a bus station in Texas.

Before stepping into the world of mosaic works, Lynne was an oil painter and a writer for a Denver Fashion Magazine.

Lynne is a graduate from McClintock High School in Tempe, Arizona and the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver, Colorado.

Lynne has been married to her husband Louis for over thirty years and is an amazing sister, ex-sister-in-law, and aunt.

And yes, I’m biased, she’s my aunt and I love her! Mwah (Insert kissy face).

Sources:

She’s literally my aunt, and I’m a genealogist, so…

Also, if you don’t believe me you can check out her website here:

http://www.lcmosaics.com/

337) Misty May-Treanor

Courtesy of E-Online

337: Misty May-Treanor

Retired Professional Beach Volleyball Player

Born: 30 July 1977, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Misty holds three Olympic Gold Medals.

In August of 2012, she became the most successful female beach volleyball player of all time (alongside teammate Kerri Walsh).

Misty’s father played in the 1968 US Men’s National Volleyball Championship, proving volleyball skills is in her blood.

Misty had to leave Dancing With the Stars before being eliminated after rupturing her Achilles tendon during practice.

She has also appeared on an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place.

Sources:

https://www.teamusa.org/usa-volleyball/athletes/Misty-May-Treanor

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Misty-May-Treanor

336) Carrie E Buck Detamore

Courtesy of the Catholic Thing

336: Carrie Buck Eagle Detamore

Victim and Plaintiff in the US Supreme Court Case Buck V Bell

Born: 15 March 1906, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Died: 28 January 1983, Waynesboro, Virginia, United States of America

The case legalized and allowed thousands of US citizens to be sterilized for being “feeble-minded”.

Carrie’s story is eponymous with the Eugenics movement in the United States.

When Carrie was a teenager, she was raped by a relative of her foster family and became pregnant with her daughter Vivian.

Because she had an “illegitimate” child and her mother was also deemed sexually promiscuous, Carrie, her daughter, and her mother were all institutionalized and Carrie, her mother, and her sister were all sterilized against their will. The doctors and nurses who performed the operations never told the women what was happening to them or what the surgery really entailed.

After she was sterilized, Carrie was paroled and worked odd jobs throughout her life. She married twice and was known to love reading. Her daughter Vivian died at the age of eight after falling ill, though her school teachers remembered her intelligence and she made the honor roll in at least one year.

Years later, when a journalist caught wind of the story, he tracked down Carrie’s sister Doris and told her the truth, much to the dismay of her and her husband.

Carrie’s story is featured prominently in Dinesh D’Souza’s Hillary’s America, as well as in the book Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen. I cannot recommend the book enough, and I even made an episode about it and the eugenics movement on my (sadly now inactive) YouTube channel which I will link to the left.

Badges Earned:

Find a Grave Marked

Located In My Personal Library:

Here is Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History by Andrew Carroll

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen

Sources:

Imbeciles by Adam Cohen

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/supreme-court-and-sterilization-carrie-buck

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18751764/carrie-elizabeth-detamore

335) Ida B Wells

Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune

335: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

Journalist, Researcher, and Activist

Born: 16 July 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States of America

Died: 25 March 1931, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Born into slavery, Ida was left in charge of her younger siblings after her parents were killed in a yellow fever epidemic when she was a young teenager.

In 1884, she sued a train car company for throwing her off of a first-class car even though she had a ticket (she won the case at a local level, but the ruling was overturned in federal court).

Ida quickly moved to writing in local papers about the injustice of lynching black men—the violence against her became so bad she had to flee to Chicago.

Even though she helped found the NAACP she was not listed in that role for many years (today she is), possibly because she cut ties with the organization early on.

Ida balanced motherhood (four children) with her activism work and traveled internationally pushing for the betterment of fellow people of African descent. She is remembered for being one of the first African American women to keep her maiden name after marrying (her husband was Ferdinand Barnett, Ida changed her name to the hyphenated Wells-Barnett).

Ida and her organization, the Alpha Suffrage Club, were crucial in seeing Women’s Suffrage passed in Illinois in 1913. Ida was especially active in the suffrage movement for the betterment of African American women, and clashed at times with white suffragettes who fought to continue the discrimination of women of color.

Ida was also active in politics and was a member of the Republican party, joining after hearing her parents’ stories with their involvement during Reconstruction in the South. Her story is featured in Dinesh D’Souza’s Hillary’s America.

Badges Earned:

Find a Grave Marked

Rejected Princess

Located In My Personal Library:

Ida B The Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B Wells by Michelle Duster

America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins

Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath

The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes, and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson

Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Time Magazine's 100 Women of the Year (Ida appears in the 1920 article, "the Suffragists")

Sources:

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett

https://www.nps.gov/people/idabwells.htm

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/ida-b-wells

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7862236/ida-bell-wells

334) Jennifer Lee

Courtesy of Fast Company

334: Jennifer Lee

Director, Screenwriter, Playwright, and Chief Creative Officer at Walt Disney Animation Studios

Born: 22 October 1971, East Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Jennifer is best known for being the writer and co-director of Frozen which won her an Academy Award.

She also helped write Wreck it Ralph, Zootopia, and various other works.

In 2019, Jennifer also helmed the sequel, Frozen II, for Disney’s animation studios.

Sources:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1601644/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Jennifer_Lee

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/frozen-2-director-jennifer-lee-lead-disney-animation-1202177340/