List of Famous people born on July 12nd
Luis Abinader
Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who is serving as the 54th and current President of the Dominican Republic. He served as the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for President of the Dominican Republic in the 2016 and 2020 general elections.
Frédéric Salat-Baroux
Frédéric Salat-Baroux is a French civil servant serving as the chief of staff of President Jacques Chirac between 2005 and 2007.
Chantal Jouanno
Chantal Jouanno is a French politician who served as Minister of Sports in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 14 November 2010 and 26 September 2011, succeeding to Roselyne Bachelot and being replaced by David Douillet, before taking office as senator on 1 October 2011. She was a close ally of president Sarkozy and former president of ADEME.
Jake Wood
Jake Dylan Wood is an English actor, known for his roles as Jackson and Max Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He has also made guest appearances in series including Only Fools and Horses and Red Dwarf. In 2014, Wood competed on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing alongside professional dancer Janette Manrara. In the United States, he is known as the voice of the GEICO gecko. In 2018, he began co-hosting Pound for Pound, a boxing podcast with Spencer Oliver.
Sanjay Manjrekar
Sanjay Vijay Manjrekar
pronunciation (help·info) is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer. He played international cricket for India from 1987 until 1996 as a right-handed middle order batsman. He scored around four thousand runs in international cricket and occasionally doubled as a wicket-keeper. Following the conclusion of his cricket career, he now works as a cricket commentator.
Kaylee McKeown
Kaylee Rochelle McKeown is an Australian swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, winning the 100 metre backstroke at the 2020 summer games staged in Tokyo in 2021. She is the current world record holder of the women's 100-metre backstroke. She competed in the women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. She won the 100 metre backstroke at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics setting a new Olympic record of 57.47 seconds.
Hüsnü Şenlendirici
Hüsnü Şenlendirici is a Turkish musician. He comes from a family of musicians: his grandfather Hüsnü Şenlendirici played clarinet and trumpet, his other grandfather Otmar Köfteci used to play clarinet, and his father Ergün Şenlendirici played trumpet.
Jason Wright
Jason Gomillion Wright is an American businessman who is the president of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). Born in the Greater Los Angeles area, he attended Northwestern University in the early 2000s and played running back for the Wildcats while earning a degree in psychology. Wright went undrafted following graduation and was briefly a member of the NFL's San Francisco 49ers in 2004 before serving as a reserve running back and special teamer for the Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, and Arizona Cardinals. He served as a team captain and NFLPA representative with the latter during the 2011 NFL lockout before retiring that same year.
Satoshi Ōmura
Satoshi Ōmura [satoɕi oːmu͍ɽa] is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of various pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Tu Youyou.
André Esteves
André Santos Esteves is a Brazilian billionaire businessman. Among Brazilian billionaires, Esteves is ranked 6th with a net worth of R$20.75 billion, according to Forbes business magazine. He currently serves as Senior Partner at BTG Pactual, the biggest investment bank in Latin America, and also as Board Member of Conservation International.