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Will WRIGHT born William Ralph WRIGHT
After graduating at 16 from Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he enrolled in Louisiana State University, transferring two years later to Louisiana Tech. Beginning with a start at an architecture degree, followed by mechanical[...]
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Adam DRIVER born Adam Douglas DRIVER
Driver was born in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California, on November 19, 1983, the son of Nancy (née Needham) Wright, a paralegal, and Joe Douglas Driver. His father's family is from Arkansas and his mother's family is from Indiana.[...]
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Justin Whitlock DART
He was born on August 17, 1907. After marrying Ruth Walgreen, Dart became an executive with his father-in-law's (Charles Walgreen) company, the Walgreens Drugstore chain. At Walgreens, he introduced the concept of placing the pharmacy counter at[...]
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Trip HAWKINS born William Murray HAWKINS
Hawkins designed his own undergraduate major at Harvard University in Strategy and Applied Game Theory.
Hawkins was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts (EA), a video[...]
George MACKENZIE OF ROSEHAUGH born George MACKENZIE
Mackenzie, who was born in Dundee, was the son of Sir Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin (died c. 1666) and Elizabeth Bruce, daughter of the Reverend Peter Bruce, minister of St Leonard's, and Principal of St Leonard's Hall in the University of St[...]
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Meghan MARKLE born Rachel Meghan MARKLE
Markle was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Markle is of mixed race, and self-identifies as such: "My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. ...I have come to embrace [it, and] to say who I am, to share where I'm from, to[...]
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