List of Famous people who born in 1910
Ruan Lingyu
Ruan Lingyu, also known by her English name Lily Yuen, was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her exceptional acting ability and suicide at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema.
Mahmoud el-Meliguy
Mahmoud el-Meliguy was an Egyptian screenwriter and an actor of film, theater, and television. He started his career playing minor roles, but achieved stardom in the late 1930s. A popular and award-winning actor, he has acted in hundreds of films and was famous for his evil, villain roles.
Miguel Reale
Miguel Reale was a Brazilian jurist, philosopher, academic, politician and poet known as one of the most important jurists of Brazil. He was one of the leaders of Integralism in Brazil and an ideologue of the Brazilian Integralist Action.
Nüzhet Gökdoğan
Hatice Nüzhet Gökdoğan was a Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic. After studying mathematics and astronomy in France as a young adult, Gökdoğan joined the faculty of Istanbul University in 1934 and completed her PhD. She was elected Dean of the university's Faculty of Science in 1954, becoming the first Turkish woman to serve as a university dean, and she was later made Chair of the astronomy department, significantly expanding her department's capacity and working to improve national and international collaboration between astronomers.
Leonidas Proaño
Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba was an Ecuadorian priest and theologian. He served as the bishop of Riobamba from 1954 to 1985. He was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize and is considered one of the most important figures in Ecuadorian liberation theology.
Laurance Rockefeller
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was an American businessman, financier, philanthropist, and conservationist. Rockefeller was a son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. As a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, he provided venture capital for Intel, Apple Computer and many other successful start-ups. Rockefeller was known for his involvement in wilderness preservation, ecology and the protection of wildlife. His crusade was the establishing of a conservation ethic, and he was declared America's leading conservationist by Lady Bird Johnson.
Lobsang Rampa
Lobsang Rampa is the pen name of an author who wrote books with paranormal and occult themes. His best known work is The Third Eye, published in Britain in 1956.
Queen Ingrid of Denmark
Ingrid of Sweden was Queen of Denmark from 1947 until 1972 as the wife of King Frederick IX.
Lucian Büeler
Lucian Büeler was a Swiss civil engineer and figure skater. He was the 1935-1937 Swiss national champion. He represented Switzerland at the 1936 Winter Olympics where he placed 17th. As a civil engineer, he worked in Argentina from 1939 to 1947 and constructed South America's first artificial ice rink in Buenos Aires.
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn,, was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989 and subsequently a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage in 1990. She was the only woman to hold the position of First Secretary of State.