List of Famous people born in March
Abdias do Nascimento
Abdias do Nascimento was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician. Also a poet, dramatist, and Pan-African activist, Nascimento created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people’s human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation. He served as Rio de Janeiro State Secretary for the Defense and Promotion of Afro-Brazilian People and Secretary of Human Rights and Citizenship. While working as curator of the Black Arts Museum project, he began developing his own creative work (painting), and from 1968 on, he exhibited widely in the U.S., Brazil and abroad. He received national and international honors for his work, including UNESCO’s special Toussaint Louverture Award for contribution to the fight against racism, granted to him and to poet Aimé Césaire in 2004. He was officially nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
Haruhiro Hamaguchi
Haruhiro Hamaguchi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Patrick Patterson
Patrick Patterson is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously played for the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings, Toronto Raptors and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Bruno Podalydès
Bruno Podalydès is a French writer, film director, producer and actor. His brother Denis Podalydès is also an actor.
Joe Sutter
Joseph Frederick Sutter was an American engineer for the Boeing Airplane Company and manager of the design team for the Boeing 747 under Malcolm T. Stamper, the head of the 747 project. Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine has described Sutter as the "father of the 747".
Jessica Boehrs
Jessica Boehrs is a German singer and actress. Boehrs started her singing career in 1996 in the band, JessVaness, and produced vocals for a Hands Up project Novaspace, which performed a few Top-10 hit-singles including "Time After Time", "Guardian Angel", and "Beds Are Burning". She also appeared in EuroTrip (2004) as Mieke, the object of Scott Thomas's European vacation quest. While Boehrs was with Novaspace, she sang on the albums Supernova and Cubes.
Rustam Minnikhanov
Rustam Nurgaliyevich Minnikhanov is a Russian politician who has served as the second President of Tatarstan, a federal subject of Russia, since 2010.
Jesse Bochco
Jesse John Bochco is an American television director and producer. He is the son of television producer/writer Steven Bochco and actress Barbara Bosson.
Alice Kinsella
Alice Nicole Kinsella is an English artistic gymnast and member of the British national gymnastics team. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event. She is the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2019 European champion on the balance beam.
Jerry Greenfield
Jerry Greenfield is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.