List of Famous people born in June
Darío Loperfido
Darío Lopérfido is an Argentine politician, cultural promoter and journalist who served as General and Artistic Director of Teatro Colón since February 2015 till his resignation in 2016.
Li Xiaopeng
Li Xiaopeng is a former Chinese international footballer who is the current head coach of China. As a football player he would spend his entire professional football career playing for Shandong Luneng, while internationally he would be a participant of the 2000 AFC Asian Cup, 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 AFC Asian Cup.
Sho Kosugi
Sho Kosugi is a Japanese martial artist, actor, filmmaker and writer with extensive training in Shindō jinen-ryū Karate, Kendo, Judo, Iaido, Kobudo, Aikido and Ninjutsu. A former All Japan Karate Champion, he gained popularity as an actor during the 1980s, often playing ninjas. He starred in a trilogy of ninja-themed martial arts films produced by Cannon Films, before earning a starring role in the primetime television series The Master.
Petra De Sutter
Petra De Sutter is a Belgian gynaecologist and politician representing the Groen party who has been a Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020. In this capacity, she oversees Belgium's public administration and public enterprises.
Kris Tompkins
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist, and former CEO of Patagonia, Inc.. She is the widow of businessman and conservationist Doug Tompkins, who died in 2015. The two worked together to create large wilderness conservation areas in Chile and Argentina. Kris continues with strong efforts in South America today, alongside those who have been with the various areas from the beginning, working to revert the lands to their original state.
Hassan Shehata
Hassan Shehata is an Egyptian former professional football player who played as a Forward, and is a former football manager. Shehata led Egypt to three successive titles at the African Cup of Nations in 2006, 2008 and 2010, becoming the first ever, and to date, only coach to win 3 consecutive Africa Cup of Nations titles. Shehata is one of only two coaches to win the Africa Cup 3 times, along with Ghana's Charles Gyamfi.
Gauthier Destenay
Gauthier Christian Destenay is a Belgian architect who is the husband of Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel.
Donald Johanson
Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering – with Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb – the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.
Polly Swann
Polly Swann is a British rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. She is a former World and European champion in the women's coxless pairs, having won the 2013 World Rowing Championships at Chungju in Korea, and the 2014 European Rowing Championships at Belgrade, Serbia with her partner Helen Glover. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the women's eight.
John Edrich
John Hugh Edrich, was an English first-class cricketer who, during a career that ran from 1956 to 1978, was considered one of the best batsmen of his generation. Born in Blofield, Norfolk, Edrich came from a cricketing family, his four cousins, Eric Edrich, Bill Edrich, Geoff Edrich and Brian Edrich, all having played first-class cricket. He was educated at the private Bracondale School between the ages of eight and seventeen, during which time he played cricket at weekends and was coached by former cricketer C. S. R. Boswell.