List of Famous people born on April 8th
Gennady Golovkin
Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He is a two time middleweight world champion, having held the IBF and IBO titles since 2019. He previously held the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF and IBO titles between 2014 and 2018 and was ranked as the world's best boxer, pound for pound, from September 2017 to September 2018 by The Ring magazine. As of January 2021, he is ranked as the world's seventh best active boxer, pound for pound, by the TBRB, eighth by BoxRec, and tenth by Boxing Writers Association of America, The Ring and ESPN. He is also ranked as the world's best active middleweight by BoxRec, The Ring, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) and second by ESPN.
Julian Lennon
John Charles Julian Lennon is an English singer, musician, photographer and philanthropist. He is the founder of the White Feather Foundation.
Robin Wright
Robin Gayle Wright is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and has earned a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award for her work in television.
Katee Sackhoff
Kathryn Ann Sackhoff is an American actress known for playing Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009) and for voicing Bitch Pudding on Robot Chicken (2005–present). She was nominated for four Saturn Awards for her work on Battlestar Galactica and won the award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2005.
Josh Widdicombe
Josh Michael Widdicombe is an English comedian and radio and television presenter, best known for his appearances on The Last Leg (2012–present), Fighting Talk (2014–2016), Insert Name Here (2016–2019), Mock the Week (2014–present) and his BBC Three sitcom Josh (2015–2017). He also competed in the first series of Taskmaster in 2015.
CeeDee Lamb
Cedarian "CeeDee" Lamb is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oklahoma and was drafted by the Cowboys in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut
Jean-Pierre Pernaut is a news reader and broadcaster on French television. He is widely known simply by his initials, JPP.
Blac Youngsta
Sammie Marquez Benson, professionally known as Blac Youngsta, is an American rapper from Tennessee. He is signed to Yo Gotti's label Collective Music Group (CMG) and Epic Records. After a series of mixtapes upon being signed, his 2017 single "Hip Hopper" and 2018 single "Booty", became the most successful, with the latter peaking at number 73 on the Billboard Hot 100. Both songs appear on his debut studio album 223 (2019), which peaked at number 42 on the Billboard 200.
John Schneider
John Richard Schneider is an American actor and country music singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Beauregard "Bo" Duke in the American television action/comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard, Jonathan Kent in the 2001–11 TV series Smallville, and James "Jim" Cryer on the television series The Haves and the Have Nots, created by Tyler Perry.
John Christie
John Reginald Halliday Christie, known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and alleged necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. Christie murdered at least eight people—including his wife, Ethel—by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. The bodies of three of Christie's victims were found in a wallpaper-covered kitchen alcove soon after he had moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953. The remains of two more victims were discovered in the garden, and his wife's body was found beneath the floorboards of the front room. Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife's murder, for which he was hanged.