List of Famous people born on April 20th
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Charles Faulks is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently A Week in December (2009) and Paris Echo, (2018) and a James Bond continuation novel, Devil May Care (2008), as well as a continuation of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013). He was a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff.
Guy Rocher
Guy Rocher is a Canadian academic and sociologist.
Leo Percovich
Galileo Galilei Percovich Lopes, known professionally as Leo Percovich, is a Uruguayan former professional footballer, who currently serves as a first team coach at Championship club Middlesbrough.
Elena Benarroch
Elena Benarroch is a Moroccan-Spanish fashion designer born in Tangier in 1955 within a Moroccan Jewish family. She opened a furrier's in Madrid in 1979 and has won many awards in Spain.
Gilles Lupien
Joseph Leonard Gilles Lupien was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played five seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Hartford Whalers from 1977 to 1982. After retiring, he became a sports agent, businessman, and was an owner of the Longueuil Chevaliers and the Victoriaville Tigres.
David Filo
David Robert Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.
Matías Zunino
Paul Matías Zunino Escudero is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a midfielder for L.D.U. Quito in Ecuador.
Bernile Nienau
Bernhardine Nienau, called Bernile, was a German girl who became known as "the Führer's child" because of her close friendship with Adolf Hitler that lasted from 1933 to 1938. One of her grandmothers was Jewish.
Meryame Kitir
Meryame Kitir is a Belgian politician of the Forward party who has been serving as Minister of Development Cooperation and Urban Policy in the De Croo Government since October 2020. She has also been serving on the Genk municipal council since 2019, and previously sat on the Maasmechelen municipal council from 2006 to 2016.
Sakiko Shimizu
Sakiko Shimizu is a Japanese swimmer.