Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : January 8

Check all the award winners born on January 8.
BirthDate
Winner
08-January-1986

Yash (India)

Naveen Kumar Gowda, known by his stage name Yash is an Indian film actor who primarily works in...
08-January-1986

Jamie T (England)

Jamie Alexander Treays, known by his stage name Jamie T, is an English singer-songwriter from...
08-January-1983

Tarun Kumar (India)

Tarun Kumar Bhatti, better known as Tarun, is an Indian film actor who primarily works in Telugu...
08-January-1981

Lauren Hewett (Australia)

Lauren Hewett is an Australian actress best known for her role in Ocean Girl as Mera, and also...
08-January-1980

Adam Goodes (Australia)

Adam Goodes is a professional Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans in the...
08-January-1980

Sam Riley (United Kingdom)

Sam Riley is an English actor and singer best known for the performance in the 2007 biographical...
08-January-1979

Sarah Polley (Canada)

Sarah E. Polley OC is a Canadian actress and film director. Polley first attained notice in her...
08-January-1979

Donna Agnesia (Indonesia)

Donna Agnesia is an Indonesian actress, model and presenter.
08-January-1976

Amy Williams (United States of America)

Amy Williams is a set decorator, production designer, art director and actor.
08-January-1976

Alexandre Pires (Brazil)

Alexandre Pires do Nascimento is a Brazilian singer. Pires was previously the singer of group Só...
08-January-1975

Harris Jayaraj (India)

Harris Jayaraj' is an Indian film composer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has written scores and...
08-January-1972

Jacob Sager Weinstein (United States of America)

Jacob Sager Weinstein is an American humorist, comedy writer, and screenwriter. For three years...
08-January-1971

Géraldine Pailhas (France)

Géraldine Pailhas is a French actress. She had her first international success in 1995 as Doña...
08-January-1971

Jason Giambi (United States of America)

Jason Gilbert Giambi is an American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter...
08-January-1970

Rachel Friend (Australia)

Rachel Friend is an Australian actress and journalist.
08-January-1970

Noel Alumit (United States of America)

Noël Alumit is an American novelist, actor, and activist. He has been identified as one of the...
08-January-1969

Damon Lee (United States of America)

Damon Lee is an award-winning producer, accomplished executive, and talented filmmaker with...
08-January-1968

Nicki Ledermann (Germany)

Nicki Ledermann is a makeup artist.
08-January-1968

Catalina Saavedra (Chile)

Catalina Saavedra Pérez is a Chilean film, stage and television actress. She is better known to...
08-January-1967

Willie Anderson (United States of America)

Willie Lloyd Anderson, Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player. After attending...
08-January-1967

R. Kelly (United States of America)

Robert Sylvester Kelly, known professionally as R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and...
08-January-1967

Steve Jacobs (Australia, United States of America)

Steve Jacobs is an Australian born film director and actor. He directed the movie La Spagnola,...
08-January-1966

Catherine Wearing (England)

Catherine Wearing was a television and film producer.
08-January-1966

Andrey Zolotukhin (Russia)

Andrey Zolotukhin is an animator, costume designer, film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
08-January-1965

Jennifer Abbott (Canada)

Jennifer Abbott is a Canadian director, cinematographer and editor, best known as a documentary...
08-January-1965

Pascal Obispo (France)

Pascal Michel Obispo is a French singer-songwriter. Pascal Obispo was born in Bergerac,...
08-January-1965

Maria Pitillo (United States of America)

Maria Pitillo is an American actress who has starred in film and on TV, most notably as Audrey...
08-January-1964

Robert Maggio (United States of America)

Robert Maggio is a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
08-January-1964

Ron Sexsmith (Canada)

Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario...
08-January-1963

Marcel Jean (Canada)

Marcel Jean is a film producer, screenwriter and film director.
08-January-1959

Martin Langer (Germany, West Germany)

Martin Langer is a cinematographer.
08-January-1958

Marjorie Priceman (United States of America)

Marjorie A. Priceman is the author and/or illustrator of over 30 picture books for children -...
08-January-1958

Lou Aronica (United States of America)

Lou Aronica is an American editor and publisher, primarily of science fiction. He co-edited the...
08-January-1958

Kiyoshi Sasabe (Japan)

Kiyoshi Sasabe is a Japanese film director.
08-January-1957

Calvin Natt (United States of America)

Calvin Leon Natt is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'6" forward, Natt...
08-January-1957

Wendy Mesley (Canada)

Wendy Mesley is a Canadian television host and reporter. She hosted CBC Television's consumer...
08-January-1957

Ted Leonsis (United States of America)

Theodore John Leonsis is an American sports team owner, venture capital investor, filmmaker,...
08-January-1957

David Lang (United States of America)

David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer...
08-January-1955

Harriet Sansom Harris (United States of America)

Harriet Sansom Harris, often credited as Harriet Harris, is an American actress best known for...
08-January-1955

Mike Reno (Canada)

Joseph Michael John "Mike" Reno is a Canadian drummer/musician and the lead singer of the rock...
08-January-1953

Damián Alcázar (Mexico)

Damián Alcázar is a Mexican actor. To an English-speaking audience, he is probably best known as...
08-January-1953

Bruce Sutter (United States of America)

Howard Bruce Sutter is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He was...
08-January-1952

A. Sreekar Prasad (India)

Sreekar Prasad is a film editor.
08-January-1951

Paul Dresher (United States of America)

Paul Joseph Dresher is an American composer. Dresher received his B.A. in music from the...
08-January-1951

Peter Liechti (Switzerland)

Peter Liechti is a film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.
08-January-1951

Karen Tei Yamashita (United States of America)

Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese-American writer. She is an Associate Professor of Literature...
08-January-1948

Francis Latreille (France, United States of America)

Francis Latreille is a French American artist and photographer who was awarded World Press Photo...
08-January-1947

Marina Neyolova (Russia, Soviet Union)

Marina Neyolova is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actress. She has appeared in 37 films...
08-January-1947

David Bowie (England)

David Robert Jones, known by his stage name David Bowie, is an English musician,...
08-January-1947

Karl Klare (United States of America)

Karl E. Klare is a Matthews Distinguished University Professor of labor and employment law and...
08-January-1947

David Gates (United States of America)

David Gates is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan, about a...
08-January-1945

Kathleen Noone (United States of America)

Kathleen Noone is an American film, stage and television actress, best known roles for Ellen...
08-January-1945

Nancy Bond (United States of America)

Nancy Barbara Bond is an American author of children's literature. In 1977 her first book, a...
08-January-1945

Dave Hodge (Canada)

Dave Hodge is a Canadian sports announcer who currently works for TSN, and has worked in the...
08-January-1945

Kojo Nnamdi (United States of America)

Kojo Nnamdi is an American radio journalist. He is the host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show, and The...
08-January-1944

Richard Bowes (United States of America)

Richard Bowes is an American authorof science fiction and fantasy. Richard Bowes was born in...
08-January-1944

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro (Brazil)

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro is a Brazilian diplomat and legal scholar. Pinheiro was born in Rio de...
08-January-1942

Stephen Hawking (United Kingdom)

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author...
08-January-1942

John Shelton Reed (United States of America)

John Shelton Reed is a sociologist and essayist, author or editor of nineteen books, most of...
08-January-1942

Richard Beggs (United States of America)

Richard Beggs is an American sound designer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film...
08-January-1940

Sid Ganis (United States of America, Greece)

Sidney Ganis is a Greek-American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such...
08-January-1939

Ruth Maleczech (United States of America)

Ruth Maleczech was an American avant-garde stage actress, the daughter of Yugoslavian immigrant...
08-January-1939

Nanda (India)

Nanda is an Indian film actress of Hindi films and Marathi films.
08-January-1938

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (United Kingdom, Australia)

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, FRS is an Australian scientist who has been...
08-January-1937

Shirley Bassey (Wales)

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the mid-1950s and has...
08-January-1935

Elvis Presley (United States of America)

Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer, musician, and actor. Regarded as one of the most...
08-January-1934

Eugene Helfand (United States of America)

Eugene Helfand is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-January-1934

Jacques Anquetil (France)

Jacques Anquetil was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de...
08-January-1933

Jean-Marie Straub (France)

Jean-Marie Straub is a film director, editor and producer, actor and screenwriter.
08-January-1933

Juan Marsé (Spain)

Juan Marsé is a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter. In 2008 he was awarded the...
08-January-1933

Nolan Miller (United States of America)

Nolan Bertrandoff Miller was an American fashion and jewelry designer on QVC and a television...
08-January-1932

Lívia Gyarmathy (Hungary, Kingdom of Hungary)

Lydia Gyarmathy is a film director and screenwriter.
08-January-1932

Wayne A. Meeks (United States of America)

Wayne A. Meeks is a 1979 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-January-1931

Bill Graham (United States of America)

Bill Graham was an American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death...
08-January-1929

Saeed Jaffrey (India, United Kingdom)

Saeed Jaffrey OBE is an Indian-born British actor, who has appeared in numerous British movies...
08-January-1929

Donald J. Olsen (United States of America)

Donald J. Olsen is a 1967 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-January-1927

Charles Tomlinson (England)

Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE is a British poet and translator, and also an academic and artist...
08-January-1925

Tharon Musser (United States of America)

Tharon Musser was an American lighting designer who worked on more than 150 Broadway...
08-January-1923

Herbert Katzman (United States of America)

Herbert Katzman is a 1968 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
08-January-1923

Giorgio Tozzi (United States of America)

Giorgio Tozzi was an American operatic bass. He was a mainstay for many years with the...
08-January-1923

Bryce DeWitt (United States of America)

Bryce Seligman DeWitt was a theoretical physicist renowned for advancing gravity and field theories.
08-January-1920

Osamu Hayaishi (Empire of Japan)

Osamu Hayaishi is a Japanese biochemist and a professor at Osaka Bioscience Institute.
08-January-1919

Erna Baumbauer (Germany)

Erma Baumbauer was a German casting agent. She has been called the "grand dame of German casting...
08-January-1919

Philip Selznick (United States of America)

Philip Selznick was professor of sociology and law at the University of California, Berkeley. A...
08-January-1918

Frank John Kerr (England, Australia)

Frank John Kerr was an Australian astronomer and physicist who made contributions to human...
08-January-1918

Bruce Kingsbury (Australia)

Bruce Steel Kingsbury, VC was an Australian soldier of the Second World War. Serving initially...
08-January-1918

William E. Gordon (United States of America)

William Edward Gordon was a physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the...
08-January-1917

Peter Taylor (United States of America)

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a U.S. author and writer.
08-January-1916

Netrabahadur Thapa (Nepal)

Netrabahadur Thapa VC was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and...
08-January-1915

Robert Ford (Canada)

Robert Arthur Douglas Ford, CC was a Canadian poet, translator and diplomat. Born in Ottawa,...
08-January-1912

Tadashi Imai (Japan)

Tadashi Imai was a Japanese film director known for social realist filmmaking informed by a...
08-January-1912

José Ferrer (Puerto Rico)

José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón, best known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor,...
08-January-1909

Ashapoorna Devi (India)

Ashapurna Devi is a screenwriter.
08-January-1905

Grete Mosheim (Germany)

Margarete Emma Dorothea "Grete" Mosheim was a German film, theatre, and television actress of...
08-January-1903

Robert D. Webb (United States of America)

Robert D. Webb was an American film director. He directed 16 films between 1945 and 1968.
08-January-1901

Robert Sherbrooke (United Kingdom)

Rear Admiral Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke VC CB DSO DL was an English recipient of the Victoria...
08-January-1900

Jack Cornwell (United Kingdom)

John Travers Cornwell VC, commonly known as Jack Cornwell or as Boy Cornwell, is remembered for...
08-January-1895

John Moyney (United Kingdom)

John Moyney VC was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
08-January-1892

Basil O'Connor (United States of America)

Basil O'Connor was an American lawyer. In co-operation with US-President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
08-January-1892

Gordon Hollingshead (United States of America)

Gordon Hollingshead was an American movie producer, associate producer and assistant director...
08-January-1891

Walther Bothe (Germany, Netherlands)

Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in...
08-January-1890

Louis LaCoss (United States of America)

Louis LaCoss was a journalist and editorial writer. After graduating from the University of...
08-January-1889

Paul Hartmann (Germany)

Paul Hartmann was an actor.
08-January-1889

Russell Owen (United States of America)

Russell Owen was an American journalist employed by The New York Times. He covered Arctic and...
08-January-1881

Linnie Marsh Wolfe (United States of America)

Linnie Marsh Wolfe is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
08-January-1872

Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts (United Kingdom)

Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts VC, son of the famous Victorian commander Field Marshal...
08-January-1869

Arnold Genthe (United States of America)

Arnold Genthe was a German-born American photographer, best known for his photos of San...
08-January-1868

Frank Watson Dyson (United Kingdom)

Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is...
08-January-1867

Emily Greene Balch (United States of America)

Emily Greene Balch was an American economist and writer. She became a Quaker and won the Nobel...
08-January-1857

Augustus Thomas (United States of America)

Augustus Thomas was an American playwright, born in St. Louis, Missouri. The son of a doctor, he...
08-January-1823

Alfred Russel Wallace (United Kingdom)

Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and...