List of Famous people born in April
Francisco Roig
Francisco 'Francis' Roig Genís is a retired professional tennis player from Spain. He is primarily a doubles player, winning 9 ATP World Tour titles and reaching 12 more finals. He sometimes acts as the alternate coach of fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal.
Jenn Murray
Jenn Elizabeth Murray is an Irish actress. In 2009, she received an IFTA Award nomination for her role in the film Dorothy Mills (2008). Her other notable roles were in Brooklyn (2015), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019).
Alaina Huffman
Alaina Kalanj is a Canadian film and television actress. She is also known professionally as Alaina Huffman best known for the Canadian television series Painkiller Jane, where she played the character Maureen Bowers. She also played Dinah Lance/Black Canary on the American television series Smallville, as well as 1st Lt. Tamara Johansen in Stargate Universe, where she was a regular cast member. She also played the demon Abaddon in the American dark fantasy television series Supernatural.
Aline Villares Reis
Aline Villares Reis is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. She is the current goalkeeping coach for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League. Aline grew up in Campinas, Brazil. At the age of 18, she moved to Orlando, FL to play college soccer. Aline was a standout player for every team she has been a part of. She is known for her athleticism, speed & agility, leaping ability and high technical level, being considered the Jorge Campos of women's soccer.
Samantha Lam
Samantha Lam Chi-mei is a Hong Kong singer and songwriter. In 1982, the television station RTHK awarded one of her songs, "Feelings of a Passage" (感情的段落), later heard from her 1983 self-titled debut album, as one of top ten gold songs of 1981–82. In 1983, Lam sang a radio hit Cantonese rendition of the well-known Mandarin song "Into Your Eyes" (你的眼神), originally sung in 1981 by Tsai Chin, for her debut album. In 1984–85, another of her songs, "ngau yu" (偶遇), a theme song for the 1984 film A Certain Romance (少女日記), was awarded as one of top ten gold songs of 1983–84 by RTHK, the seventh place of the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards by another station TVB, and the Hong Kong Film Award for the Best Movie Song (最佳電影歌曲) of 1984. Lam sang also "ouyu" (偶遇), a Mandarin version of "ngau yu", for the titled 1984 album. Since then, later singers have rendered both versions of "ngau yu", like Sammi Cheng and Zhou Xun.
Patrika Darbo
Patrika Darbo is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Nancy Wesley and Shirley Spectra in the television soap operas Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful, respectively.
Wakanojō Munehiko
Wakanojō Munehiko is a former sumo wrestler from Naha, Okinawa, Japan. He made his professional debut in January 1992, and reached the top division in September 1997. His highest rank was maegashira 6. He retired in May 2004 due to diabetes, which he had been dealing with since the age of 18 and had seen him fall from the top division all the way down to the second lowest jonidan division. After retirement he became an office worker. He needed a kidney transplant in 2006 and his mother was the donor, which was featured in Tokyo Broadcasting System Television's The Friday in January 2018. He appeared in another edition of the program in June 2018, working alongside fellow ex-sumo wrestlers Wakatoba and Wakatenro, in care for the elderly.
Alexei Starobinski
Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky is a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist. He received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics “for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation", together with Alan Guth and Andrei Linde in 2014.
Giuseppe Reina
Giuseppe "Billy" Reina is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent nine seasons in the Bundesliga with Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund and Hertha BSC.
Will Tudor
William James Sibree Tudor is an English actor, known for his role as Olyvar in the HBO series Game of Thrones from 2013 to 2015. He has also appeared in the miniseries The Red Tent, and the Channel 4 series Humans. From 2017 to 2018, he portrayed Sebastian Verlac/Jonathan Morgenstern on the Freeform series Shadowhunters.