Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : May 8

Check all the award winners born on May 8.
BirthDate
Winner
08-May-1989

Katy B (England)

Kathleen Anne Brien, better known as Katy B, is an English singer and songwriter, and a graduate...
08-May-1987

Aneurin Barnard (United Kingdom)

Aneurin Barnard is an award-winning Welsh stage and screen actor.
08-May-1986

Jesse Santana (United States of America)

Jesse Santana, born May 8, 1986) is an American pornographic actor who has appeared in gay...
08-May-1984

Martin Compston (United Kingdom)

Martin Compston is a Scottish actor and former professional footballer. He is perhaps most...
08-May-1984

Amanda Falk (Canada)

Amanda Falk is a Christian recording artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She received a Juno...
08-May-1983

Vicky McClure (England)

Vicky Lee McClure is an English actress, best known for her work in the films of Shane Meadows...
08-May-1981

Stephen Amell (Canada)

Stephen Amell is a Canadian actor, known for portraying Oliver Queen in The CW series Arrow.
08-May-1975

Enrique Iglesias (Spain, United States of America)

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, simply known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish-American...
08-May-1975

Jodhi May (United Kingdom)

Jodhi Tania May is an English stage, film and television actress. She remains the youngest...
08-May-1972

Donald Dickie

Donald Dickie is a former professional Australian rules footballer notable for his brief...
08-May-1972

Sisse Graum Jørgensen (Denmark)

Sisse Graum Jørgensen is a film and television producer.
08-May-1965

Shiny Abraham (India)

Shiny Wilson is a retired Indian athlete. She has been a National Champion in 800 metres for 14...
08-May-1964

Melissa Gilbert (United States of America)

Melissa Ellen Gilbert is an American actress and television director. Gilbert began her career...
08-May-1964

Bobby Labonte (United States of America)

Robert Alan "Bobby" Labonte is an American stock car racing driver. The 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup...
08-May-1963

Kevin Jennings (United States of America)

Kevin Brett Jennings is an American educator, author, and administrator. He was the Assistant...
08-May-1963

Michel Gondry (France)

Michel Gondry is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is noted for his...
08-May-1962

Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (United States of America, Mexico)

Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon is a Mexican-American composer and chair of the composition department at...
08-May-1962

Esteban Roulet (Argentina)

Esteban Roulet is a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-May-1962

Valery Todorovsky (Russia, Soviet Union)

Valery Petrovich Todorovsky is a Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer of Jewish...
08-May-1962

Karen A. Page (United States of America)

Karen Page is half of the James Beard Award-winning author team of Karen Page and Andrew...
08-May-1961

Greg Thomey (Canada)

Greg Thomey was born May 8, 1961 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Hailing from Newfoundland, Greg...
08-May-1961

Maristella Noemí Svampa (Argentina)

Maristella Noemí Svampa is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
08-May-1960

László Pyber (Hungary)

László Pyber is a Hungarian mathematician. He works in combinatorics and group theory. He is a...
08-May-1960

Patrick McKenna (Canada)

Patrick McKenna born May 8, 1960, in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian comedian and actor. He is...
08-May-1958

Mark Fincannon (United States of America)

Mark Fincannon is a casting director.
08-May-1958

Roddy Doyle (Republic of Ireland)

Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of ten novels for...
08-May-1958

Jack Gulick (United States of America)

Jack Gulick is an American documentary film, music television, and event producer and director.
08-May-1958

Lovie Smith (United States of America)

Lovie Lee Smith is the current head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football...
08-May-1957

Bill Cowher (United States of America)

William Laird "Bill" Cowher is a former professional American football coach and player in the...
08-May-1957

Rino Katase (Japan)

Rino Katase is a Japanese actress. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 11th...
08-May-1954

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Ghana, United States of America, United Kingdom)

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and...
08-May-1953

Tony Sperandeo (Italy)

Tony Sperandeo is an Italian actor of cinema and television. Sperandeo is notable for frequently...
08-May-1952

Francesca Rochberg (United States of America)

Francesca Rochberg is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-May-1952

Maurizio Zaccaro (Italy)

Maurizio Zaccaro, is an Italian film director, cinematographer, editor and screenwriter.
08-May-1952

Lee Deok-hwa (South Korea)

Lee Deok-hwa is a South Korean actor.
08-May-1952

Beth Henley (United States of America)

Elizabeth Becker "Beth" Henley is an American dramatist and actress. She writes primarily about...
08-May-1951

James Galvin (United States of America)

James Galvin is an American poet. He has published six collections of poetry, most recently As...
08-May-1951

Philip Bailey (United States of America)

Philip Irvin Bailey is an American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist...
08-May-1951

Mike D'Antoni (United States of America)

Michael Andrew "Mike" D'Antoni is an American former professional basketball player and the...
08-May-1948

Maurizio Nichetti (Italy)

Maurizio Nichetti is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. His 1989 film The Icicle...
08-May-1948

Stephen Stohn (Canada, United States of America)

John Stephen Stohn is a Canadian-based, American-born entertainment lawyer and television...
08-May-1947

Ron Miller (United States of America)

Ron Miller is an artist and author who lives and works in South Boston, Virginia in the United...
08-May-1947

Vera Schwarcz

Vera Schwarcz is Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. Her BA was from...
08-May-1947

H. Robert Horvitz (United States of America)

Howard Robert Horvitz is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm...
08-May-1945

Beverly Shaffer (Canada)

Beverly Shaffer is a filmmaker in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Shaffer spent the bulk of her...
08-May-1945

Keith Jarrett (United States of America)

Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical...
08-May-1945

John F. C. Wardle (United Kingdom, United States of America)

John F.C Wardle is a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
08-May-1943

Tom Maniatis (United States of America)

Tom Maniatis, is an American professor of molecular and cellular biology. Maniatis is a graduate...
08-May-1943

Pat Barker (England)

Pat Barker CBE, FRSL is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction,...
08-May-1942

Angel Cordero, Jr. (United States of America)

Angel Tomas Cordero, Jr., is one of the leading thoroughbred horse racing jockeys of all time...
08-May-1942

Geoffrey Cowan (United States of America)

Geoffrey Cowan is an American lawyer, professor, author, and playwright. He is currently the...
08-May-1940

Ricky Nelson (United States of America)

Eric Hilliard Nelson — known as Ricky Nelson, later also as Rick Nelson — was an American actor,...
08-May-1938

Pierre Deslongchamps (Canada)

Pierre Deslongchamps FRS is a Canadian chemist, and professor at Université de Sherbrooke. He...
08-May-1937

Richard Hellie (United States of America)

Richard Hellie is a 1973 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-May-1937

Robert Adams (United States of America)

Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the...
08-May-1937

Shin Seong-il (South Korea)

Shin Seong-il is a South Korean actor, film director, producer, and former politician. He was a...
08-May-1937

Mike Cuellar (United States of America)

Miguel Ángel Cuellar Santana [KWAY-ar] was a Cuban left-handed starting pitcher who spent...
08-May-1937

Thomas Pynchon (United States of America)

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his...
08-May-1936

William Roger Louis (United States of America)

William Roger Louis, CBE FBA, also known as Wm. Roger Louis, or Roger Louis, informally, is an...
08-May-1936

Reginald Ely Zelnik (United States of America)

Reginald Ely Zelnik is a 1971 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-May-1936

Kazuo Koike (Japan)

Kazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.
08-May-1936

Kevin Crease (Australia)

Kevin John Crease was a South Australian television presenter and news presenter. He was most...
08-May-1935

Jerry Moss (United States of America)

Jerome S. "Jerry" Moss is an American recording executive, best known for being the co-founder...
08-May-1935

Fred Hole (United Kingdom)

Fred Hole was an English art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category...
08-May-1934

Lawrence Badash (United Kingdom)

Lawrence Badash is a 1984 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-May-1932

Martin Starger (United States of America)

Martin Starger is a well known entertainment entrepreneur. He led ABC Entertainment during its...
08-May-1930

David Herlihy (United States of America)

David Herlihy was an American historian who wrote on medieval and renaissance life. He was...
08-May-1930

Gary Snyder (United States of America)

Gary Snyder is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet, he is also an essayist,...
08-May-1930

Heather Harper

Heather Harper CBE is a Northern Ireland-born British operatic soprano. She was born in Belfast,...
08-May-1929

Miyoshi Umeki (Japan, United States of America)

Miyoshi Umeki was a naturalized American Academy Award-winning actress and standards singer. She...
08-May-1928

Larry Levine (United States of America)

Larry Levine was an American audio engineer, known for his cooperation with Phil Spector on the...
08-May-1928

James Babcock Meriwether (United States of America)

James Babcock Meriwether is a 1963 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-May-1927

Ole Ivar Lovaas (Norway, United States of America)

Ole Ivar Løvaas PhD was a Norwegian-American clinical psychologist at UCLA. He is considered to...
08-May-1927

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (United States of America)

Nora Marks Dauenhauer is an American poet and short-story writer and a scholar of the language...
08-May-1926

David Attenborough (United Kingdom)

Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FZS FSA is an English broadcaster and...
08-May-1926

David Hurst (Germany, United Kingdom)

David Hurst is a British-German actor. He is best known for Hello, Dolly as Rudolph the headwaiter.
08-May-1924

Laz Barrera (United States of America)

Lazaro Sosa Barrera was a Cuban-born American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born...
08-May-1924

Charles B. Fitzsimons (United States of America, Republic of Ireland)

Charles B. Fitzsimons was an Irish actor who emigrated to the United States, where he became a...
08-May-1923

Gerta Hüttl-Folter Worth (Austria)

Gerta Hüttl-Folter Worth was a 1963 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-May-1922

Mary Q. Steele (United States of America)

Mary Quintard Govan Steele was a noted American author and naturalist. She wrote over 20 books...
08-May-1922

Lucille S. Hurley

Lucille S. Hurley is a 1962 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-May-1920

Maurice Cranston

Maurice William Cranston was an English philosopher, professor, and author. He served for many...
08-May-1920

Frank Blaker (India)

Frank Gerald Blaker VC MC was a British-Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and...
08-May-1920

Saul Bass (United States of America)

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and Academy Award winning filmmaker, best known for...
08-May-1916

Burton Ralph Pollin (United States of America)

Burton Ralph Pollin is a 1973 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-May-1915

Jan Scott (United States of America)

Jan Scott was a film production designer.
08-May-1915

Milton Meltzer (United States of America)

Milton Meltzer was an American historian and author best known for his history nonfiction books...
08-May-1911

Theodore R. Sarbin (United States of America)

Theodore Roy Sarbin, known as "Ted Sarbin", was an American psychologist and professor emeritus...
08-May-1911

Robert Johnson (United States of America)

Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues singer and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936...
08-May-1910

Mary Lou Williams (United States of America)

Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds...
08-May-1909

James Marston Fitch (United States of America)

James Marston Fitch was an architect and a Preservationist, one of the founders of the Graduate...
08-May-1908

Fred Hynes (United States of America)

Fred Hynes was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound...
08-May-1907

Michael Loew (United States of America)

Michael Loew was an American Abstract Expressionist artist who was born in New York City. In the...
08-May-1906

Roberto Rossellini (Italy, Kingdom of Italy)

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was...
08-May-1905

Arturo de Córdova (Mexico)

Arturo de Córdova was a Mexican film actor. He made over one hundred films in all.
08-May-1902

André Michel Lwoff (France)

André Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist.
08-May-1899

Friedrich Hayek (United Kingdom, Austria)

Friedrich August von Hayek CH, born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and...
08-May-1898

Ernst Guillemin (United States of America)

Ernst Adolph Guillemin was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist at the...
08-May-1895

Edmund Wilson (United States of America)

Edmund Wilson was an American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters.
08-May-1895

Fulton J. Sheen (United States of America)

Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church known for his preaching...
08-May-1865

Charles FitzClarence (United Kingdom)

Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence VC was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the...
08-May-1828

Henry Dunant (Switzerland, France)

Jean Henri Dunant, also known as Henry Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist...