Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : April 26

Check all the award winners born on April 26.
BirthDate
Winner
26-April-2023

David Lowenthal (United States of America, United Kingdom)

David Lowenthal is a 1965 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
26-April-1988

Macarena García (Spain)

Macarena García is an actress.
26-April-1985

John Isner (United States of America)

John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles...
26-April-1983

Jessica Lynch (United States of America)

Jessica Dawn Lynch is a former United States Army soldier who served in Iraq during the 2003...
26-April-1983

Nidhi Yasha (India)

Nidhi Yasha is a Costume Designer.
26-April-1981

Ms. Dynamite (United Kingdom)

Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley, who performs as Ms. Dynamite, is an English hip hop and R&B recording...
26-April-1981

Diogo Nogueira (Brazil)

Diogo Nogueira is a singer and songwriter from Brazil. He is the son of composer João Nogueira...
26-April-1981

Caro Emerald (Netherlands)

Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw, best known by her stage name of Caro Emerald, is a Dutch pop...
26-April-1981

Oleg Dolin (Russia)

Oleg Dolin is an actor.
26-April-1980

Jordana Brewster (United States of America, Panama)

Jordana Brewster is a Brazilian-American actress. She began her acting career in her late teens,...
26-April-1980

Channing Tatum (United States of America)

Channing Matthew Tatum is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and model. He is best known...
26-April-1979

Tarrus Riley (United States of America, Jamaica)

Tarrus Riley born Omar Riley, 26 April 1979, Bronx, New York, United States is a Jamaican...
26-April-1979

Ariane Moffatt (Canada)

Ariane Moffatt is a Québécoise singer-songwriter. Known for working across multiple musical...
26-April-1978

Avant (United States of America)

Myron Avant (born April 26, 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio), better known as Avant is an American R...
26-April-1978

Stana Katic (Canada, United States of America)

Stana Katic is a Canadian born American film and television actress. She is best known for her...
26-April-1978

Pablo Schreiber (United States of America, Canada)

Pablo Tell Schreiber is a Canadian-born American actor known for his dramatic stage work and for...
26-April-1977

Enrique Gato Borregán (Spain)

Enrique Gato Borregán is a film director and animator.
26-April-1977

Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan)

Rena Effendi is an Azerbaijani photographer. Her work is focused on themes of environment,...
26-April-1977

Tom Welling (United States of America)

Thomas John Patrick "Tom" Welling, is an American actor, director, producer and model best known...
26-April-1977

Fredrik Eklund (Sweden)

Fredrik Eklund is a New York City real estate broker, a Bravo TV reality star, a former...
26-April-1974

Louise Barnes (South Africa)

Louise Barnes is an actress.
26-April-1973

Jules Naudet (France)

Jules Naudet is a film director and a film producer.
26-April-1972

Juanita du Plessis (South Africa)

Juanita du Plessis is a famous South African singer, born on 26 April 1972 in Windhoek, Namibia...
26-April-1971

Naoki Tanaka (Japan)

Naoki Tanaka is an actor and comedian. He acts with Shozo Endo as comedy duo Cocorico.
26-April-1971

Jeanne Marie Ford (United States of America)

Jeanne Marie Ford is an American television soap opera writer. She is also an English teacher at...
26-April-1970

Kristen R. Ghodsee (United States of America)

Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and the John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of...
26-April-1970

Saranya Ponvannan (India)

Saranya Ponvannan is an Indian film actress who has predominantly appeared in Tamil language...
26-April-1970

Steve Breen (United States of America)

Stephen Paul Breen is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in...
26-April-1968

Daniela Nardini (Scotland)

Daniela Nardini is a Scottish actress of Italian ancestry, who played Anna Forbes in the BBC Two...
26-April-1966

Sandy Lam (China)

Sandy Lam, also known as Lam Yik Lin, is a Chinese singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin,...
26-April-1966

Natasha Trethewey (United States of America)

Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in June...
26-April-1964

Jimmy Stafford (United States of America)

Jimmy Stafford (April 26, 1964) is the lead guitarist and original member of the Grammy award...
26-April-1963

Arianne Phillips (United States of America)

Arianne Phillips is a costume designer. She has also been Madonna's stylist and has designed and...
26-April-1963

Jet Li (Singapore)

Li Lianjie, better known by his English stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film...
26-April-1961

José A. Santos (United States of America, Chile)

José Adeón Santos León is a retired Chilean thoroughbred jockey who has been honored by the...
26-April-1961

Joan Chen (United States of America, China)

Joan Chong Chen is a Chinese and American actress, film director, screenwriter, and film...
26-April-1961

Serge Bromberg (France)

Serge Bromberg is a film producer, screenwriter and film director.
26-April-1958

Giancarlo Esposito (United States of America)

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best...
26-April-1958

Billy Kirsch (United States of America)

Billy Kirsch is a lyricist.
26-April-1955

Mike Scott (United States of America)

Michael Warren "Mike" Scott is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball...
26-April-1955

Chen Daoming (China)

Chen Daoming is an award-winning Chinese actor who has starred in various genres of film and...
26-April-1955

Brad W. Foster (United States of America)

Brad W. Foster is an American illustrator, cartoonist, writer and publisher. He is a fixture at...
26-April-1951

Billy Newton-Davis (Canada)

Billy Newton-Davis is a Canadian R&B, jazz and gospel singer-songwriter.
26-April-1951

Fernando Valverde (Spain)

Fernando García Valverde is an actor.
26-April-1951

Tor Bomann-Larsen (Norway)

Tor Bomann-Larsen is a Norwegian illustrator, children's writer, non-fiction writer, novelist...
26-April-1949

Dominic Sena (United States of America, Italy)

Dominic Sena is an American film director and music video director. As a film director, he is...
26-April-1949

Morio Kazama (Japan)

Morio Kazama (風間杜夫, Kazama Morio) is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting...
26-April-1948

Josef Bierbichler (Germany)

Josef Bierbichler is a German actor.
26-April-1947

Richard Talbert (England, United States of America)

Richard John Alexander Talbert is a contemporary British-American ancient historian and...
26-April-1947

John D. Joannopoulos (United States of America)

John D. Joannopoulos is the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics at MIT.
26-April-1946

Marilyn Nelson (United States of America)

Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator and children's book author. She is the author or...
26-April-1945

Howard Davies (United Kingdom)

Stephen Howard Davies CBE is a British theatre and television director. Davies, the son of a...
26-April-1945

Paal-Helge Haugen (Norway)

Paal-Helge Haugen is an award-winning Norwegian lyricist, novelist, dramatist and children's...
26-April-1944

Richard Bradshaw (England)

Richard James Bradshaw, O.Ont was a British opera conductor and the General Director of the...
26-April-1944

Thomas Farber (United States of America)

Thomas Farber is a 1978 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
26-April-1943

Peter Zumthor (Switzerland)

Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect and winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal...
26-April-1941

Birgit Hutter (Austria)

Birgit Hutter is a costume designer.
26-April-1940

Giorgio Moroder (Italy)

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder is an influential Italian record producer, songwriter, performer and...
26-April-1939

Robert L. Patten (United States of America)

Robert L. Patten is a 1980 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
26-April-1939

David Gries (United States of America)

David Gries is an American computer scientist at Cornell University, United States primarily...
26-April-1939

Cherry Muhanji (United States of America)

Cherry Muhanji is an award winning author.
26-April-1938

Manuel Blum (United States of America)

Manuel Blum is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his...
26-April-1937

Tom Yohe (United States of America)

Tom Yohe was a television producer and songwriter.
26-April-1937

Gareth Gwenlan (United Kingdom)

Gareth Gwenlan OBE is a British television producer, best known for his work on shows such as...
26-April-1937

Jonathan Beecher (United States of America)

Jonathan French Beecher is a historian who has taught at the University of California, Santa...
26-April-1935

Patricia Reilly Giff (United States of America)

Patricia Reilly Giff was born on April 26, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. She is an author and...
26-April-1935

Herbert A. Leibowitz (United States of America)

Herbert A. Leibowitz is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
26-April-1933

Carol Burnett (United States of America)

Carol Creighton Burnett is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer. She is best known...
26-April-1933

Arno Allan Penzias (United States of America)

Arno joined NEA in 1997 as a Venture Partner from Bell Labs where he headed its research...
26-April-1933

Rosemary De Angelis (United States of America)

Rosemary De Angelis is an award-winning American stage, screen, and television actress.
26-April-1932

Francis Lai (France)

Francis Lai is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores. While in his...
26-April-1932

Roland Dressel (Germany)

Roland Dressel is a cinematographer.
26-April-1932

Michael Smith (Canada, United Kingdom)

Michael Smith CC, OBC, FRS was a British-born Canadian biochemist. He was the winner of the 1993...
26-April-1931

Julius Moravcsik (United States of America)

Julius Matthew Emil Moravcsik was an American philosopher who specialized in ancient Greek...
26-April-1931

Bernie Brillstein (United States of America)

Bernard Jules "Bernie" Brillstein was an American film and television producer, executive...
26-April-1931

Paul Almond (Canada)

Paul Almond, OC is a Canadian former television and motion picture screenwriter, director and...
26-April-1930

Will Steven Armstrong (United States of America)

Will Steven Armstrong was a production designer.
26-April-1930

Bruce Jay Friedman (United States of America)

Bruce Jay Friedman is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
26-April-1929

Gordon Hunt (United States of America)

Gordon E. Hunt is an American actor, voice actor, director of stage, film, and voiceover and...
26-April-1928

Vivian Perlis (United States of America)

Vivian Perlis is a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
26-April-1927

Harry Gallatin (United States of America)

Harry J. " The Horse" Gallatin is a retired American professional basketball player and coach...
26-April-1927

Anne McLaren (United Kingdom)

Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, DBE, FRS, FRCOG was a leading figure in developmental...
26-April-1926

David Coleman (United Kingdom)

David Robert Coleman, OBE was an English sports commentator and TV presenter who worked for the...
26-April-1925

David Loye (United States of America)

David Loye is an award winning author.
26-April-1924

Russell Nype (United States of America)

Russell Nype is an American actor and singer. Born in Zion, Illinois, Nype made his Broadway...
26-April-1923

Maleen Pacha (Germany, Romania)

Maleen Pacha was a costume designer, production designer, set decorator and film art director.
26-April-1922

Ze’ev Lev (Israel)

26-April-1922

Asger Aaboe (Denmark)

Asger Hartvig Aaboe was a historian of the exact sciences and mathematician who is known for his...
26-April-1922

Mike Kellin (United States of America)

Mike Kellin was an American actor.
26-April-1921

Jimmy Giuffre (United States of America)

James Peter Giuffre was an American jazz clarinet and saxophone player, composer and arranger...
26-April-1920

Melford Spiro (United States of America)

Melford Elliot Spiro is an American cultural anthropologist specializing in religion and...
26-April-1918

Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands)

Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold...
26-April-1917

I. M. Pei (United States of America, China)

Ieoh Ming Pei, commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect often called the...
26-April-1916

Dorothy Salisbury Davis (United States of America)

Dorothy Salisbury Davis is an American crime fiction writer. She was an adopted child, raised in...
26-April-1915

Herbert Kubly (United States of America)

Herbert Oswald Nicholas Kubly was an American author and playwright. For his first book,...
26-April-1914

James Rouse (United States of America)

James Wilson Rouse, founder of The Rouse Company, was a pioneering American real estate...
26-April-1914

H. L. Gold (United States of America, Canada)

Horace Leonard "H. L." Gold was a science fiction writer and editor. Born in Canada, Gold moved...
26-April-1914

Andreas Tietze (Austria)

Andreas Tietze was a world-renowned Austrian Turcologist and one of the founders of Turkic...
26-April-1914

Bernard Malamud (United States of America)

Bernard Malamud was an American author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and...
26-April-1912

A. E. van Vogt (Canada)

Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most...
26-April-1909

Marianne Hoppe (Germany)

Marianne Hoppe was a distinguished German theatre and film actress.
26-April-1901

Harald Braun (Germany)

Harald Braun was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 21 films...
26-April-1898

Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville...
26-April-1897

Nitin Bose (India)

Nitin Bose was an Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter of the nation's film...
26-April-1897

Douglas Sirk (Germany, Denmark)

Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the...
26-April-1896

Jules C. Stein (United States of America)

Jules C. Stein was an American physician and businessman who co-founded Music Corporation of...
26-April-1889

James Wordie (United Kingdom)

Sir James Mann Wordie CBE FRSE was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist.
26-April-1887

Frank Alexander de Pass (United Kingdom)

Frank Alexander de Pass VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
26-April-1886

Ma Rainey (United States of America)

Ma Rainey was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first...
26-April-1879

Owen Willans Richardson (United Kingdom)

Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
26-April-1871

Cyrus Wesley Peck (Canada)

Cyrus Wesley Peck VC DSO and Bar was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and...