List of Famous people born on June 11st
Erika Salumäe
Erika Salumäe is an Estonian track bicycle racer who won the first Olympic gold medal for Estonia after the country regained its independence in 1991. As of 2016, she remains as the only Estonian female medalist at the Summer Olympics after regaining their independence.
Walter Zuber
Betsy Gotbaum
Elisabeth A. Gotbaum is an American civil servant, politician and a former New York City Public Advocate. She was elected Public Advocate for New York City in 2001 and reelected in 2005. She was the third woman elected to a citywide post in NYC history. The other two were Carol Bellamy, who served as city council president from 1978 to 1985, and Elizabeth Holtzman, who served as comptroller from 1990 to 1993. She is a Democrat.
Lars Schmidt
Lars Reinhold Schmidt was a Swedish theatrical producer, director and publisher. He owned theaters in Paris, France and Sweden. Schmidt was instrumental in bringing American theater to the European stage. He produced and translated numerous post-war American plays in Europe; including A Street Car Named Desire, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Oklahoma! and Anne Frank. He is considered one of the most important cultural personalities of the 20th century evolution and commercialization of European theatre. In a 1964 Life magazine article, he was called "Europe's most important theatrical producer." Lars Schmidt married three-time Academy Award-winning film star Ingrid Bergman in December 1958.
Natalya Sindeyeva
Natalya Vladimirovna Sindeyeva is a Russian journalist, founder, main owner and chief executive officer of the Dozhd media holding, which includes Dozhd TV channel, the Republic.ru online magazine and the Big City magazine. Co-founder and former general producer of the Silver Rain radio station, founder of the Silver Galosh anti-award. Three times laureate of the "Media Manager of Russia" prize, honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Radio.
Barbara Minty
Barbara Minty, also known as Barbara Minty McQueen, is a former fashion model who was the third wife and widow of American film star Steve McQueen.
Kang Ho-dong
Kang Ho-dong is a South Korean television host and comedian, who first became known to Koreans as one of the top Korean traditional wrestlers.
Snehasish Ganguly
Snehasish Chandidas Ganguly is a former Indian first class cricketer. Although he didn't play international cricket like his younger brother Sourav, Snehasish had a career with Bengal which spanned ten years. After retiring from cricket, he focused on his family printing business. Over the past 15 years, Ganguly has taken NK Gossain Printers and grown it into one of the best known printing companies in the region. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Lux.
Parris Glendening
Parris Nelson Glendening is an American politician who served as the 59th Governor of Maryland from January 18, 1995 to January 15, 2003. Previously, he was the County Executive of Prince George's County, Maryland from 1982 to 1994 as a member of the Democratic Party.
Boyce McDaniel
Boyce Dawkins McDaniel was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS). McDaniel was skilled in constructing "atom smashing" devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and helped to build the most powerful particle accelerators of his time. Together with his graduate student, he invented the pair spectrometer.