List of Famous people born in April
Benedita da Silva
Benedita Souza da Silva Sampaio is a Brazilian politician. From a humble background, she faced class and racial prejudice, overcoming it to become the first female and Afro-Brazilian governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro and, later, Minister of the said Secretary of State as well in the Government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Di Ying
Di Ying is a Taiwanese actress best known for her roles in Dou hua nu (1992) and Gatao 2: The New King (2018).
Glenn Thrush
Glenn Thrush is an American journalist, pundit, and author. He is a reporter for The New York Times, formerly a White House correspondent. He is also a contributor for MSNBC, and was previously chief political correspondent at Politico and a senior staff writer for Politico Magazine.
Patricia Blagojevich
Patricia Mell "Patti" Blagojevich, née Mell, is the former First Lady of Illinois and wife of Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of Illinois, who was impeached and removed from office. She served as First Lady of Illinois from January 2003 to January 2009. Patricia Blagojevich was also a contestant on the NBC reality show I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here in June 2009. She placed 4th in the competition.
Kōta Miura
Kōta Miura is a Japanese actor. Born in Tokyo, he graduated from the Kanto International Senior High School Foreign Languages English Course. He has acted in television drama series, feature films, web series and theatre productions, and is represented with the agency Anthem.
Agnès Thurnauer
Agnès Thurnauer is a French-Swiss contemporary artist. Primarily a painter, she also works with a number of other media and techniques.
Brock Long
William Brockmann Long is an American emergency manager who served as the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was appointed to the position by President Donald Trump in April 2017 and confirmed by the United States Senate in June 2017. He served until his resignation in March 2019, following criticism of his handling of the Hurricane Maria and an ethical complaint over using official vehicles.
Stephen Marley
Stephen Robert Nesta Marley is a Jamaican-American musician who is the son of Bob Marley and his wife Rita Marley. Marley is an eight-time Grammy Award winner, three times as a solo artist, twice as a producer of younger brother Damian Marley's Halfway Tree and Welcome to Jamrock albums, and a further three times as a member of his older brother Ziggy Marley's group Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers.
Bhanu Athaiya
Bhanu Athaiya was an Indian costume designer. She worked on over 100 films, with Indian filmmakers such as Guru Dutt, Yash Chopra, B.R. Chopra, Raj Kapoor, Vijay Anand, Raj Khosla, and Ashutosh Gowariker; and international directors such Conrad Rooks and Richard Attenborough. She was the first Indian to win an Academy Award, winning one for costume design for Gandhi in 1982.
Dominique Raimbourg
Dominique Raimbourg was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Loire-Atlantique's 4th constituency from 2001 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2017, as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.