Favorite people
by linneagb | created - 26 Apr 2021 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicPeople I look up to
1. Anne Frank
Writer | Anne Frank Remembered
Born in Germany in 1929 and raised and raised in Germany and Amsterdam. In 1942, shortly after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, she and her family were forced to go into hiding to escape Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Hiding with another family and a dentist in an annex behind the ...
2. Chris Columbus
Producer | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Ohio, Chris Columbus was first inspired to make movies after seeing "The Godfather" at age 15. After enrolling at NYU film school, he sold his first screenplay (never produced) while a sophomore there. After graduation Columbus tried to sell his fourth script, "...
3. Jamie Oliver
Self | The Naked Chef
Jamie Oliver's cheeky manner, constant use of the word 'pukka', and down to earth personality have won him legions of fans around the world. He has sold millions of cookery books, opened a restaurant, starred in several TV shows and revolutionised UK school dinners.
He was born May 27th, 1975 and ...
4. Clara Henry
Actress | Solsidan
Clara Henry is known for Solsidan (2010), Konsten att få sin mamma att gråta (2014) and Sjukt oklar (2018).
5. Anders Bagge
Soundtrack | Evolution
Anders Bagge was born on January 16, 1968 in Enskede, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is a composer and producer, known for Evolution (2001), Legally Blonde (2001) and Swimming Pool (2003). He was previously married to Sarah Johansson and Laila Bagge.
6. Pink
Actress | Thanks for Sharing
Pink was born Alecia Beth Moore in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and was later raised in Philadelphia. Her parents, Judith Moore (née Kugel), a nurse, and Jim Moore, a Vietnam veteran, divorced when she was very young. Her mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, while her father has Irish, German, ...
7. Torey Hayden
Writer | Trapped in Silence
Torey Hayden was born on May 21, 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA. She is a writer, known for Trapped in Silence (1986), Untamed Love (1994) and Loose Women (1999).
8. Justin Baldoni
Producer | Five Feet Apart
Justin Baldoni is an actor, director, producer, speaker, and entrepreneur who is focused creating impactful media and entertainment.
After creating and directing the award-winning documentary series, My Last Days, Baldoni made his feature film directorial debut this year with FIVE FEET APART. He ...
9. Dhar Mann
Writer | Dhar Mann
Dhar Mann is a mission-driven entrepreneur, filmmaker and one of the highest viewed content creators in the world today. In addition to having founded multiple businesses, his motivational videos on life and business have been viewed billions of times and shared by millions of people. Dhar Mann is ...
10. Miep Gies
Miep Gies was born on February 15, 1909 in Vienna, Austria. She was a writer, known for Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988) and Anne Frank Remembered (1995). She was married to Jan Gies. She died on January 11, 2010 in Abbekerk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
11. Astrid Lindgren
Writer | Ronja Rövardotter
Grew up in Småland outside Vimmerby in the south of Sweden. Her first book came out in 1944, and she made a breakthrough the following year with the stories about Pippi Longstocking. Countless stories about Pippi and other characters of Astrid's imagination and excellent story telling ability were ...
12. Tori Roloff
Self | Little People, Big World: Wedding Farm
Tori Roloff was born on May 3, 1991 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She has been married to Zachary Roloff since July 25, 2015. They have three children.
13. Barack Obama
Producer | Leave the World Behind
U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a white American from Wichita, Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr., who was black, was from Alego, Kenya. They were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left...
14. Michelle Obama
Producer | Leave the World Behind
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married to former President Barack Obama.
Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois,...
15. Waris Dirie
Actress | The Living Daylights
Waris Dirie was born in 1965 in Somalia. She is an actress and writer, known for The Living Daylights (1987), Desert Flower (2009) and Samia (2024).
16. Freddie Mercury
Soundtrack | Flash Gordon
Freddie Mercury was born on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, sent him off to a private school in India, from 1955 til 1963. In 1964, he and his family flew to England. In 1966 he started his education at the Ealing College of Art, where he graduated in 1969. He ...
17. Cecilia Wallin
Actress | Tjenare kungen
Cecilia Wallin was born in 1985 in Uddevalla, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. She is an actress and director, known for Tjenare kungen (2005), Solstorm (2007) and Sommaren med Göran: En midsommarnattskomedi (2009).
18. Stina Wollter
Actress | Profitörerna
Stina Wollter was born on May 24, 1964 in Sweden. She is an actress, known for Profitörerna (1983), Tillsammans med Strömstedts (2017) and På spåret (1987).
19. Kronprinsessan Victoria
Self | Ett porträtt av John E. Franzén
Heir to the throne of Sweden (by a change in the constitution effected when she was just two years old, that gives the succession to the eldest child of the current ruler, regardless of gender), Victoria has been gently groomed for the part by representative duties, traineeships at the Swedish ...
20. Prins Daniel
Self | Gomorron
Prins Daniel was born on September 15, 1973 in Universitetssjukhuset, Örebro, Sweden. He has been married to Kronprinsessan Victoria since June 19, 2010. They have two children.
21. John Grogan
Writer | Marley & Me
John Grogan was born on March 20, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Marley & Me (2008), Marley and the Runaway Pumpkin (2011) and Marley's Big Adventure (2011).
22. Jo Frost
Producer | Supernanny
Jo Frost is a global parenting and family expert who is best known as "Supernanny" and has returned to television in the states as the star and executive producer of "Jo Frost: Nanny on Tour." Frost has over 25 years of experience in childcare. In 2004, Frost rose to international fame by producing...
24. Jazz Jennings
Actress | Mean Girls
Jazz Jennings was born on October 6, 2000 in Florida, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Mean Girls (2024), Dangling Hope (2017) and Painting Leah (2016).
25. Hayley Okines
Self | Discovery Health CME
Hayley Okines was born on December 3, 1997 in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England, UK. She died on April 2, 2015 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK.
26. Malala Yousafzai
Writer | He Named Me Malala
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Pakistan. She is a human rights activist who advocates for the rights of women and girls and worldwide access to education. She survived an assassination attempt in 2012 and continued her activism. She is the co-founder of the Malala Fund, an ...
27. Bethany Hamilton
Soundtrack | Soul Surfer
Bethany Hamilton is a Hawaii native who began her surfing career at age 11. By age 13, she was an accomplished surfer and well-respected in the surfing world. She came to national attention after her left arm was bitten off by a tiger shark on October 31, 2003. She has since made a full recovery ...
28. Yossi Ghinsberg
Writer | Jungle
Yossi Ghinsberg is a multifaceted, cosmopolitan figure. He is the Author of the international bestselling memoir Jungle, a true story of survival against all odds in the Amazon rain-forest that has sold over one million copies
A natural storyteller, Yossi is an accomplished public speaker who has ...
29. Princess Diana
Self | Charles & Diana: Never Meant to Be
Princess Diana was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Diana's activism and glamour made her an international icon and earned her an enduring popularity.
Diana was born into the British nobility ...
30. James Herriot
Writer | All Creatures Great & Small
Alf Wight ("James Herriot") was born on 3 October 1916 in Sunderland, near Newcastle. However the family moved to Yoker, a suburb of Glasgow, when Alf was three weeks old. He attended Glasgow Veterinary School. He moved to Thirsk, North Yorkshire, in 1940, to work for Donald Sinclair ("Siegfried ...
31. Billy Gilman
Actor | Billy Gilman: Oklahoma
Billy Gilman was born on May 24, 1988 in Hope Valley, Rhode Island, USA. He is an actor, known for Billy Gilman: Oklahoma (2000), Billy Gilman: Warm and Fuzzy (2000) and Billy Gilman: There's a Hero (2001).
32. Barbro Svensson
Actress | Pang i bygget
Barbro Svensson was born on March 9, 1938 in Järvsö, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Pang i bygget (1965), Svenska Floyd (1961) and Das Studium der Weiber ist schwer (1960). She was married to Kjell Kaspersen, Lasse Berghagen and Börje Landar. She died on April 3, 2018 in ...
33. Marko Lehtosalo
Soundtrack | 10 000 timmar
When he was 6 months old, his mother moved to Orminge, outside Stockholm, Sweden. He was a ordinary kid until 19. At the age of 19 he got education at Nacka Local Television. There, he did the show "The Man" where he played the host. In the show, there was a song, that was kind of a theme. This ...
34. Bill Gates
Actor | Frasier
Born William Henry III is an American entrepreneur, business mogul, investor, philanthropist, and widely known as one of the most richest and influential people in the world. William Henry III was born to attorney, William Henry II and teacher, Mary Maxwell Gates in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Bill ...
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