List of Famous people born in April
Nisha Ayub
Nisha Ayub is a Malaysian transgender rights activist. Ayub is the co-founder of the community-run SEED Foundation and transgender grassroots campaign Justice for Sisters and she was awarded the prestigious International Women of Courage Award in 2016.
Keira Walsh
Keira Fae Walsh is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Manchester City of the WSL. Walsh became a first-team regular during their 2014 campaign, playing a key role in the team securing the Continental Cup.
Toby Gad
Tobias "Toby" Gad is a Los Angeles-based German music producer/songwriter, best known for co-writing John Legend's biggest hit "All of Me," the highest certified single in RIAA history, and for co-writing and producing "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie and "If I Were a Boy" by Beyoncé. Other notable works include "Skyscraper" for Demi Lovato, "Who You Are" for Jessie J, "Untouched" for The Veronicas, "A Year Without Rain" for Selena Gomez & the Scene, "Don't Hold Your Breath" for Nicole Scherzinger, "Love You More" for JLS, and "I Do" for Colbie Caillat.
Batuhan Karadeniz
Batuhan Karadeniz is a Turkish professional footballer who plays for Hekimoğlu Trabzon.
Aleksey Potehin
Aleksey Yevgenevich Potekhin is a Russian pop musician. Alongside Sergey Zhukov, Potekhin was a member of the successful pop/techno band Hands Up! until it dissolved in 2006. After the break-up, Potekhin continued with a solo music career and produced acts like Superboys, J Well the former member of Discomafia. Between 2006 and 2008, he released 3 collections of dance music on site potexinstyle.ru, that included young acts Demo, Turbomoda and Planka Etc. Aleksey has also produced Trek / Blues led by Vladimir Luchnikov, the lead singer of Turbomoda and Svoi of Ruslan Achkinadze. Aleksey is the older brother of Andrei Potekhin, ex-member of Turbomoda and Revolvers. Andrey manages Aleksey Potekhin's new project of Trek / Blues.
Sayuki Takagi
Sayuki Takagi is a Japanese pop singer formerly of Hello! Project. She was a sub-leader and member of Japanese idol group Juice=Juice. Her official nickname is Sayubē (さゆべぇ). Her fruit in the group is lemon.
George Gervin
George Gervin, nicknamed "the Iceman", is an American retired professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Virginia Squires, San Antonio Spurs, and Chicago Bulls. Gervin averaged at least 14 points per game in all 14 of his ABA and NBA seasons, and finished with an NBA career average of 26.2 points per game. In 1996, Gervin was named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
Sammy Wilson
Samuel Wilson is a British politician who has been the Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for East Antrim since 2005. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East from 1998 to 2003 and for East Antrim from 2003 until 2015. He served as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1986 / 1987 and again from June 2000 to June 2001, the first person from the DUP to hold the office. He has also served as Minister of Finance and Personnel and Minister of the Environment in the Northern Ireland Executive. He supports the Eurosceptic pressure group Leave Means Leave.
Rick Byrd
Richard F. Byrd is a retired American college basketball coach who served as the head coach of the Belmont Bruins men's basketball team from 1986-2019. On February 16, 2017, with the Bruins win over Eastern Kentucky, Byrd marked his 750th career win, 658 with Belmont. He retired after the 2018-2019 season with 805 wins, which ranks twelfth all-time among NCAA Division 1 men's basketball coaches.
Matt Cardle
Matthew Sheridan Cardle is an English singer and songwriter. Cardle was born in Southampton and grew up in Halstead, Essex. Cardle has been involved in music since his early teens and has been a member of two different bands; Darwyn and Seven Summers. Cardle rose to fame after winning the seventh series of The X Factor, and received a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music and later signed a deal with Columbia Records.