List of Famous people born on July 29th
Hisashi Yamada
Hisashi Yamada is a retired Japanese professional baseball submarine pitcher. He played with the Hankyu Braves in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1969 to 1988.
Orlando Ortega
Orlando Ortega Alejo is a Cuban-born Spanish track and field athlete who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 12.94 seconds and he was the silver medallist at the 2016 Olympics.
Lee Chang-ho
Lee Chang-ho is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank. He is regarded by many as the best Go player of the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was a student of Cho Hun-hyun 9-dan. He is the second youngest to become a professional Go player in South Korean history behind Cho Hun-hyun. He is the only player to have won all eight international competitions at least once.
Ginni Rometty
Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty is an American business executive who served as executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1, 2020. She previously served as chairman, president and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company. She retired from IBM on December 31, 2020 after a near-40 year career at IBM. Prior to becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she first joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and subsequently headed global sales, marketing, and strategy. While general manager of IBM's global services division, in 2002 she helped negotiate IBM's purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers IT consulting business, becoming known for her work integrating the two companies. As CEO, she focused IBM on analytics, cloud computing, and cognitive computing systems.
Cristina Narbona
María Cristina Narbona Ruiz is a Spanish politician who currently serves as First Vice President of the Senate. She also presides over the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
Fernando González
Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a former professional tennis player from Chile. During his career he made it to the quarterfinal round of all four Grand Slam tournaments. He played his only major final at the 2007 Australian Open, losing to top-seeded Roger Federer. He is the fourth male tennis player in history to have won each Olympic medal. The gold medal González won together with Nicolás Massú in the 2004 Olympic doubles competition was the first ever gold medal won by Chile at the Olympics.
Yūji Yoshioka
Yuji Yoshioka is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder and the current coach of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.。
Dennis Heck
Dennis Lynn Heck is an American entrepreneur and politician serving as the 17th and current lieutenant governor of Washington. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. Representative for Washington's 10th congressional district from 2013 to 2021.
Tyler Johnson
Tyler Johnson is an American professional ice hockey player. He is currently under contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Johnson won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Lightning in 2020.
Steve Bossé
Steve Bossé is a Canadian professional boxer currently competing in the heavyweight division. Bossé was a former mixed martial artist in the Light Heavyweight division of the UFC and was also known as an infamous hockey enforcer "The Boss" in the Quebec semi-professional league Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey Bossé was one of the most popular players amongst the Quebec fans.