List: 1952 births

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•  Bob Costas

  Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s.

  

  32.9%
  

  30.6%
  

  36.5%
  
•  Charles Edward Jones

  Colonel Charles Edward ("Chuck") Jones (November 4, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was a United States Air Force officer, a computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program.

  

  26.5%
  

  26.5%
  

  47.1%
  
•  Caitlin Clarke

  Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as "Valerian" in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

  

  30.0%
  

  23.3%
  

  46.7%
  
•  Carol Kane

  Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress, known for her work on stage, screen and television.

  

  23.1%
  

  26.9%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Clive Anderson

  Clive Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is a former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began his success during his 15-year law career with stand-up comedy and comedic script writing, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway? on BBC Radio 4, then later, Channel 4.

  

  31.9%
  

  23.4%
  

  44.7%
  
•  Christine Lavin

  Christine Lavin (born January 2, 1952) is a New York City-based singer-songwriter and promoter of contemporary folk music. She has recorded numerous solo albums, and has also recorded with other female folk artists under the name Four Bitchin' Babes. She has also put together several compilation albums of contemporary folk artists, including On a Winter's Night. She is known for her sense of humor, which is expressed in both her music and her onstage performances.

  

  27.2%
  

  25.6%
  

  47.2%
  
•  Clive Barker

  Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into motion pictures, notably the Hellraiser series.

  

  32.0%
  

  38.0%
  

  30.0%
  
•  Douglas Adams

  Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film.

  

  47.2%
  

  33.3%
  

  19.4%
  
•  Delroy Lindo

  Delroy Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born Jamaican American actor. Lindo has been nominated for the Tony and Screen Actors Guild awards, and has won a Satellite Award. He is perhaps best known for his roles as West Indian Archie in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Catlett in Get Shorty and Woody Carmichael in the Spike Lee film Crooklyn.

  

  33.3%
  

  28.2%
  

  38.5%
  
•  Francis Fukuyama

  Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born 27 October 1952) is an American philosopher, political economist, and author.

  

  26.2%
  

  28.6%
  

  45.2%
  
•  Heather Fargo

  Heather Fargo (born December 12, 1952, in Oakland, California) is a former Mayor and former City Council Member of Sacramento, California. She was sworn in as Mayor in November 2000, replacing Jimmie Yee, and served until December 2008, when she was replaced by Kevin Johnson.

  

  27.8%
  

  44.4%
  

  27.8%
  
•  John Lynch (New Hampshire)

  John H. Lynch (born November 25, 1952) is the 90th Governor of New Hampshire, currently serving his third two-year term.

  

  33.3%
  

  44.4%
  

  22.2%
  
•  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research and lifelong fascination with the planet Mars. Robinson's work has been labeled by reviewers as literary science fiction. Robinson was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop in 2009.

  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Mr. T

  Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud; May 21, 1952) is an American actor known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team, as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III, and for his appearances as a professional wrestler. Mr. T is also well-known for his distinctive mohawk hairstyle, for wearing large amounts of gold jewelry, and for his tough guy image.

  

  37.5%
  

  0.0%
  

  62.5%
  
•  Mandy Patinkin

  Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. Patinkin is known for his roles in television series such as: Chicago Hope, Dead Like Me and the first two seasons of Criminal Minds. His film credits include The Princess Bride, Alien Nation, Yentl, Men With Guns, Run Ronnie Run, Dick Tracy, and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.

  

  20.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Mel Smith

  Mel Smith (born 3 December 1952) is an English comedian, actor, film director, writer and producer.

  

  33.3%
  

  50.0%
  

  16.7%
  
•  Neil Peart

  Neil Ellwood Peart OC, (born September 12, 1952) is a Canadian musician and author. He is best-known as the drummer and lyricist for the rock band Rush. Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario (now part of St. Catharines) working the occasional odd job. However, his true ambition was to become a professional musician. During adolescence, he floated from regional band to regional band in pursuit of a career as a full-time drummer.

  

  25.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  75.0%
  
•  Paul Reubens

  Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer and comedian, best-known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982 Reubens put up a show about a character he had been developing during the last few years.

  

  27.8%
  

  38.9%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Ralph Merkle

  Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is a researcher in public key cryptography, and more recently a researcher and speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. Merkle appears in the science fiction novel The Diamond Age, involving nanotechnology.

  

  66.7%
  

  33.3%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Robert Zubrin

  Robert Zubrin (born 19 April 1952) is an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of manned Mars exploration. He was the driving force behind Mars Direct—a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission. The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey.

  

  60.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Ryuichi Sakamoto

  Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952) is an Academy Award-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He played keyboards in the influential Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow" is the first number-one instrumental single in the Japan's Oricon charts history.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Tim Powers

  Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. His 1988 novel On Stranger Tides was optioned for adaptation into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film.

  

  0.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  75.0%
  
•  Vladimir Putin

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when president Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprising move, and then Putin won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004 he was re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.

  

  16.7%
  

  16.7%
  

  66.7%
  
•  Anita Harding

  Anita Harding (17 September 1952 - 11 September 1995) was a British neurologist. She was born in Birmingham and educated at the King Edward VI High School for Girls and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, where she qualified in 1975. She married neurology professor P.K. Thomas two years later, and trained as a neurologist. Harding made several significant contributions in the field of inherited neurologic disorders.

  

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•  David Zindell

  David Zindell (born November 28, 1952) is an American author known for science fiction and fantasy epics. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, and resides today in Boulder, Colorado; he received a BA degree in mathematics and minored in anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His first published story was "The Dreamer's Sleep" in Fantasy Book in 1984; his novelette 'Shanidar', which formed the core of his first novel "Neverness", won the Writers of the Future Contest in 1985.

  

  16.7%
  

  50.0%
  

  33.3%