List of Famous people born in April
K. Eric Drexler
Kim Eric Drexler is an American engineer best known for seminal studies of the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992.
Maxime Beaumont
Maxime Beaumont is a French sprint canoeist. He competed in the individual 200 m event at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and finished fourth and second, respectively. He won four medals in individual and two-man events at the world championships in 2013–2015.
Jean-Éric Vergne
Jean-Éric Vergne, also known as JEV, is a French racing driver who competes in the FIA Formula E Championship with DS Techeetah. He became the 2017-18 ABB Formula E Champion, after clinching fifth in the New York ePrix in 2018, and he became the first Formula E driver to win two consecutive championships after his repeat success in the 2018-19 season. He competed in Formula One for Scuderia Toro Rosso from 2012 to 2014, and was a Ferrari test and development driver from 2015 to 2016. He won the British Formula 3 Championship in 2010 and then finished runner up to teammate Robert Wickens in the 2011 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season.
Kai Michalke
Kai Michalke is German former professional footballer who played as a forward or left winger.
Metehan Güçlü
Metehan Güçlü is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a forward for French Ligue 2 club Valenciennes FC on loan from Stade Rennais.
David Bardens
David Bardens is a German physician whose case was reported internationally in 2015 after the district court of Ravensburg had ruled that he should get the €100,000 prize money that biologist Stefan Lanka had promised to anyone who could provide information about the size of the measles virus. This award was overturned by the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) Stuttgart in 2016. Although six scientific publications were submitted purporting to show the existence of measles, they failed to meet the contest requirements as set by Lanka.
Daniel Bocanegra
Daniel Eduardo Bocanegra Ortiz, is a Colombian footballer who plays as a midfielder or rightback for Club Libertad in the Paraguayan Primera División.
Indira Alfonzo
Indira Maira Alfonzo Izaguirre is a Venezuelan judge who until May 2020 served as the first vice president of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ) and as president of the Electoral Chamber. In June 2020, she sworn in as chief rector and president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) by the TSJ, to organize 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election. Her position in the CNE is contested by the National Assembly, organism in charge of selecting the CNE members, but the parliament was deemed in “unconstitutional omission” by the TSJ.
Eric Campbell
Eric Singleton Campbell, nicknamed Soup, is an American professional baseball utility player for the Seattle Mariners organization. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, and for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Heinz Schaden
Heinz Schaden is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and was the mayor of Salzburg from 1999 to 2017.