List of Famous people born on September 9th
David Bennent
David Bennent is a Swiss actor.
Drew Timme
Drew Timme is an American college basketball player for the Gonzaga Bulldogs of the West Coast Conference (WCC). Listed at 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) and 235 pounds (107 kg), he plays the power forward and center positions.
Chris Coons
Christopher Andrew Coons is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Delaware since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010. He was the 1983 Truman Scholar from Delaware, and the first recipient of the award to serve in the United States Senate.
B. J. Armstrong
Benjamin Roy "B. J." Armstrong Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Armstrong won three NBA championships during his career as a point guard for the Chicago Bulls.
Rana Kapoor
Rana Kapoor is an Indian former banker who is currently in jail for accusations of money laundering. He is a co-founder, and former managing director and CEO of Yes Bank, an Indian private sector bank, with its registered office in Mumbai. He was arrested on March 8, 2020 by the India's Enforcement Directorate over accusations of fraud worth over $100 million.
George Franklin Grant
George Franklin Grant was the first African-American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of a wooden golf tee.
Joe Theismann
Joseph Robert Theismann is an American former professional gridiron football player, sports commentator, corporate speaker and restaurateur. He rose to fame playing quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). Theismann spent 12 seasons with the Washington Redskins, where he was a two-time Pro Bowler and helped the team to consecutive Super Bowl appearances, winning Super Bowl XVII over the Miami Dolphins and losing Super Bowl XVIII. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Nadezhda Vasilyevna Rumyantseva was a popular Soviet and Russian actress. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1991).
Dennis M. Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the "R" in K&R C, and commonly known by his username dmr.
Maria Rita
Maria Rita is a Brazilian singer. Born Maria Rita Camargo Mariano, she is the daughter of famed pianist/arranger César Camargo Mariano and the late Brazilian singing legend Elis Regina and sister to Pedro Mariano and music producer João Marcelo Bôscoli. Her namesake is family friend and famed Brazilian rock legend Rita Lee. She studied at New York University, and worked as a journalist at a magazine for adolescents.