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Bill Parcells

Born: Aug. 22, 1941Football coached NY Giants to 2 Super Bowl titles (1987,91); retired after 1990 season then returned in 1993 as coach of New England; took hapless Pats from 2-14 in 1992 to Super…

Sir Alfred Hitchcock

directorBorn: 8/13/1899Birthplace: London, England British director famous for his dark, voyeuristic suspense films. He is best known for Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), North by…

Jeremy Irons

actorBorn: 9/19/1948Birthplace: Isle of Wight, England Academy and Tony Award-winning film, stage and televsion actor known for his intensity and patrician cool. His films include The French…

Ben Kingsley

(Krishna Banji)actorBorn: 12/31/1943Birthplace: Yorkshire, England Academy Award-winning polished stage and movie actor whose films include Gandhi (1982), Betrayal (1983), Turtle Diary (1985),…

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber

composerBorn: 3/22/1948Birthplace: London, England Tony Award-winning composer known for his larger-than-life works of the 1970s and 1980s that made London the city of new musicals. His works…

Peter Sellers

actorBorn: 9/8/1925Birthplace: Southsea, England Inimitable, eccentric film actor who starred in the British comic radio series The Goon Show before making his mark as the bemused Inspector…

H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells

writerBorn: 9/21/1866Birthplace: Bromley, Kent, England Pioneering writer whose novels The Time Machine (1985), The Invisible Man (1897) and War of the Worlds (1898) were among the first science-…

Kate Winslet

actressBorn: 10/5/1975Birthplace: Reading, England Lovely English actress who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the leading role in the epic blockbuster Titanic (1997).…

Michael Apted

director, producerBorn: 2/10/1941Birthplace: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England Earning critical acclaim for his films Agatha (1979) and Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), he later directed Gorillas…

Johnny Rotten

(John Lydon)musician, singer, songwriterBorn: 1/31/1956Birthplace: England Rotten stomped and screamed his way into music history with punk anthems like “ God Save the Queen” and “Anarchy in the UK…