List of Famous people born in April
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, born on 2 April 1951, is a Lebanese left-wing militant. Born in the town Al Qoubaiyat in northern Lebanon, he joined the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF) when the group formed following the discontinuation of the PFLP-EO. He became leader of the organization, and conducted its operations from France, where he used the aliases Salih al-Masri and Abdu-Qadir Saadi.
Andrew Wiles
Sir Andrew John Wiles is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal by the Royal Society. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000, and in 2018 was appointed as the first Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford. Wiles is also a 1997 MacArthur Fellow.
Emiliano Papa
Emiliano Ramiro Papa is an Argentine football left back or left winger who plays for Arsenal de Sarandí in the Argentine Primera División.
Jonathan dos Santos
Jonathan dos Santos Ramírez is a Mexican professional footballer who captains and plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy and the Mexico national team.
Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater who has won an all time record nine World Allround Championships as well as a record ten European Allround Championships. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meters at the Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics, and won a record 21 gold medals at the World Single Distance Championships; eight in the 5000 meters, five in the 10,000 meters, and eight in the team pursuit. Kramer is the current world record holder in the team pursuit, and broke the world records in the 5000 meter and 10,000 meter events three times. By winning the 2010 World Allround Championship, Kramer became the first speed skater in history to win four consecutive world allround championships, and eight consecutive international allround championships. He was undefeated in the 18 international allround championships he participated in from the 2006/2007 season until the 2016/2017 season. From November 2007 to March 2009 he was ranked first in the Adelskalender, but despite his dominance as an all-round skater he has since been overtaken on that list by Shani Davis and, more recently, by his team mate Patrick Roest.
Kyle Higashioka
Kyle Harris Higashioka is an American professional baseball catcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted in the seventh round of the 2008 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut in 2017.
Linford Christie
Linford Cicero Christie is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He was the first European to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m and still holds the British record in the event. He is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100 m and 4 × 100 metres relay.
George Pușcaș
George Alexandru Pușcaș is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for English club Reading and the Romania national team.
Winston Peters
Winston Raymond Peters is a New Zealand politician serving as Leader of New Zealand First since its foundation in 1993. Peters served as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1996 to 1998 and 2017 to 2020, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2008 and 2017 to 2020, and Treasurer of New Zealand from 1996 to 1998. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 1981, 1984 to 2008 and 2011 to 2020.
Anastasia Mishina
Anastasia Viktorovna Mishina is a Russian pair skater. With her skating partner, Aleksandr Galliamov, she is the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist and 2019 Internationaux de France champion. On a junior level she is the 2019 World Junior champion, the 2018 World Junior bronze medalist, 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and 2019 Russian national junior champion.