List of Famous people born in July
Zachi Noy
Zachi Noy is an Israeli actor.
Jaime Pressly
Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. For her role as Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, Pressly won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and garnered nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in films such as Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Joe Dirt (2001), I Love You, Man (2009), and A Haunted House 2 (2014). Since 2014, she stars as Jill Kendall in the sitcom television series Mom, for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Natalya Tenyakova
Natalya Maksimovna Tenyakova is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1994), Laureate of the Golden Mask Award (1995) and the Stanislavsky Prize (2005).
Iliana Rupert
Iliana Rupert is a French basketball player for Tango Bourges Basket and the French national team.
Wang Xiaohong
Wang Xiaohong is a senior police officer and politician of the People's Republic of China. He is a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Public Security. He is also Chief of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Eriq La Salle
Erik Ki La Salle, professionally known as Eriq La Salle, is an American actor, director, writer and producer known for his performances in the films Coming to America (1988) and especially as Dr. Peter Benton in the NBC medical drama ER which earned him three NAACP Image Awards and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
Mai Asada
Mai Asada is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She won two gold medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and placed fourth at the 2003 and 2004 World Junior Championships. She made her senior international debut at the 2006 Four Continents Championships, where she placed sixth.
Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist. She has recorded and performed with her family's band The Staple Singers and also as a solo artist.
Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess player. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. Since September 2015, she has been inactive as a tournament player. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12. She is the only woman to be a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, which she did in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005; she had previously participated in large, 100+ player knockout tournaments for the world championship. She is the first, and to date only, woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of No. 8 in 2005. She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking in 1996. She was the No. 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014.
Beck
Beck David Hansen is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. He has musically encompassed folk, funk, soul, hip hop, electronic, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia. He has released 14 studio albums, as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music.