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CLEVELAND

Most Famous People Born in Cleveland, United States

Notable people
2,168
Peak decade
1950s
Median birth year
1942
Most distinctive
Baseball 6.3×

A Great Lakes industrial city whose distinctive professions are baseball at six times the global rate, novelists, screenwriters, music, and basketball — the shape of a postwar industrial city that built a deep entertainment-and-letters bench out of its working-class neighbourhoods. Halle Berry, Henry Mancini, Jerry Siegel (who invented Superman here with Joe Shuster), and Tracy Chapman all belong to this bench. The 19th-century tail is thin; the city was essentially built by the oil and steel booms of the 1890s.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cleveland during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 303 notable births.

What Cleveland Is Known For

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Football is Cleveland's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (226).

Cleveland over-indexes on baseball6.3× the global rate.

Cleveland under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Football226
  2. Actor171
  3. Politician163
  4. Baseball156
  5. Music81
  6. Basket66
  7. Lawyer61
  8. Singer57
  1. Baseball1566.3×
  2. Novelist293.4×
  3. Screenwriter293.1×
  4. Music812.6×
  5. Basket662.4×
  6. Business452.1×
  7. Artist381.7×
  8. Film451.7×
  1. Politician1630.6×
  2. Writer480.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Cleveland's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 171 of 2,168 notable people

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Halle Berry

Born 1966

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Burgess Meredith

1907 - 1997

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Hal Holbrook

Born 1925

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Dorothy Dandridge

1923 - 1965

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Debra Winger

Born 1955

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Carol Kane

Born 1952

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Anna Gunn

Born 1968

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Monica Potter

Born 1971

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Alan Ruck

Born 1956

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Majel Barrett

1932 - 2008

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Keir Dullea

Born 1936

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Bill Cobbs

Born 1934

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Kath Soucie

Born 1967

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Brian Donlevy

1901 - 1972

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James Pickens Jr.

Born 1954

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Jack Weston

1924 - 1996

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Howard Da Silva

1909 - 1986

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0063 ACTOR

Brian Stepanek

Born 1971

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Lauren Shuler Donner

Born 1949

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Mary Carey (actress)

Born 1980

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Joe Seneca

1919 - 1996

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Franklin Cover

1928 - 2006

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Isabela Moner

Born 2001

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Mark Stevens (actor)

1916 - 1994

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Sharon Kane

Born 1956

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Lili Reinhart

Born 1996

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Greg Morris

1933 - 1996

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John Howard (American actor)

1913 - 1995

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Jonathan Freeman (actor)

Born 1950

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Gene Reynolds

1923 - 2020

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Shawna Leneé

Born 1987

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Jake Paul

Born 1997

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Thom Barry

Born 1950

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Paul Eiding

Born 1957

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Paula Jai Parker

Born 1969

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Catalina Cruz

Born 1979

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Imani Hakim

Born 1993

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Miriam Flynn

Born 1951

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Daniel Waters (screenwriter)

Born 1962

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Max Perlich

Born 1968

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Jack Riley (actor)

1935 - 2016

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Jay Grdina

Born 1967

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Janis Carter

1913 - 1994

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Dorothy Hart

1922 - 2004

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Diane McBain

Born 1941

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LaWanda Page

1920 - 2002

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Oscar Apfel

1878 - 1938

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Mitchell Lichtenstein

Born 1956

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Sean Kanan

Born 1966

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Bumper Robinson

Born 1974

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Clarence Kolb

1874 - 1964

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Nick Gehlfuss

Born 1985

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Elaine Joyce

Born 1945

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Lew Wasserman

1913 - 2002

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Helen Gibson

1892 - 1977

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Florence Rice

1907 - 1974

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Calvin Levels

Born 1954

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Ken Lynch

1910 - 1990

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Charles Gordone

1925 - 1995

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Martha Smith

Born 1953

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Kaye Ballard

1925 - 2019

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Dick Latessa

1929 - 2016

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Alice Calhoun

1900 - 1966

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Marge Redmond

1924 - 2020

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Rory O'Malley

Born 1980

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Lindsey Meadows

Born 1982

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Mel Stewart

1929 - 2002

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Denny Dillon

Born 1951

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Chuck Cooper (actor)

Born 1954

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Harry Woods (actor)

1889 - 1968

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Amber Lee Connors

Born 1991

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Tony Pope

1947 - 2004

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Frank Beal

1862 - 1934

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Vivian Dandridge

1921 - 1991

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Mark Hentemann

Born 1969

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Josh Robert Thompson

Born 1975

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Judyann Elder

Born 1948

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Jazsmin Lewis

Born 1976

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George Buza

Born 1949

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Anthony Chisholm (actor)

1943 - 2020

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Donald Buka

1920 - 2009

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Marianne McAndrew

Born 1942

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Virginia Leith

1932 - 2019

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Larry Roberts (actor)

1926 - 1992

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Dan Yeager

Born 1965

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Lloyd Battista

Born 1937

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Air Force Amy

Born 1974

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Murray Salem

1950 - 1998

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Virginia Patton

Born 1926

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Scott Newman (actor)

1950 - 1978

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Jerry Hausner

1909 - 1993

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Ruth Maleczech

1939 - 2013

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Sherry Alberoni

Born 1946

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S. John Launer

1919 - 2006

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Julianne Buescher

Born 1965

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Sean Grandillo

Born 1992

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Joseph Bova

1924 - 2006

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Earl Billings

Born 1945

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Cristina Ferrare

Born 1950

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Margaret Joslin

1883 - 1956

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Duane Davis

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Adrienne Marden

1909 - 1978

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Ben Andrews

Born 1985

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Amy Stoch

Born 1958

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Penny Porsche

Born 1961

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Mickey Katz

1909 - 1985

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Kris Zimmerman

Born 1958

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Amber Ivy

Born 1993

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Michael Nardelli

Born 1983

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Mary Bridget Davies

Born 1978

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Anjali Bhimani

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Maeve McGuire

Born 1937

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Madlaine Traverse

1875 - 1964

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Billy Varga

1919 - 2013

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Peter Bergman (comedian)

1939 - 2012

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Frank Runyeon

Born 1953

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John Steven Sutherland

Born 1983

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Elita Proctor Otis

1860 - 1927

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Denise Galik

Born 1950

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James Wilder (actor)

Born 1968

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Hans Bachmann

Born 1954

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Jacqueline Anderson

Born 1975

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Riley Hatch

1862 - 1925

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Marguerite Namara

1888 - 1974

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Tammy Pescatelli

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Dolores Faith

1941 - 1990

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Randy Becker

Born 1970

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Mitch Longley

Born 1965

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Mother Love

Born 1953

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Madelyn Clare

1894 - 1975

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Rick Glassman

Born 1984

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Dawn Maxey

Born 1966

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Tom Nagel

Born 1980

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Zach Sherwin

Born 1978

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B. J. Arnau

1941 - 1989

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Vaughan Glaser

1872 - 1958

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John Henton

Born 1960

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Eleanore Whitney

1917 - 1983

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Barrie Youngfellow

Born 1950

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Ed Brigadier

1949 - 2012

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Mark Setlock

Born 1968

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Dave Hill (comedian)

Born 1988

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Peter Lawson Jones

Born 1952

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Ralston Hill

1927 - 1996

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Phil Baron

Born 1949

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Linda Porter (actress)

1933 - 2019

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William M. Kramer

1920 - 2004

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Marsha Clark

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Lawson J. Deming

1913 - 2007

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Toby Radloff

Born 1957

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Warren Ostergard

Born 1974

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Herb Ellis (actor)

1921 - 2018

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Blake Young-Fountain

Born 1981

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Jean Inness

1900 - 1978

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Charla Doherty

1946 - 1988

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Joyce Kurtz

Born 1958

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Max Dill

1876 - 1949

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Thu Tran

-

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Aylam Orian

Born 1968

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Stephen Waldschmidt

-

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Leon Isaac Kennedy

Born 1949

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Cully Richards

1908 - 1978

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Lawrence Hecht

Born 1960

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Terrence Currier

Born 1934

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Adam Riegler

Born 1998

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1924 ACTOR

Ron Kuhlman

Born 1948

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Gus Heege

1862 - 1898

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2006 ACTOR

Charles A. Bigelow

1862 - 1912

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Dagne Crane

Born 1936

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Walter Belcher

Born 1969

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Georgie Stone

1909 - 2010

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