Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en 1944
Alice Waters
Alice Waters es una chef, activista, educadora y escritora estadounidense. Es fundadora y propietaria del restaurante Chez Panisse en Berkeley, California. Ha sido pionera del movimiento Slow food y desde 2002 es la vicepresidenta internacional de esta organización dedicada a preservar las tradicionales alimentarias locales, proteger la biodiversidad y promover productos de calidad a pequeña escala y la agricultura sostenible a nivel mundial.
Robert L. Crawford, Jr.
Robert Lawrence Crawford Jr. is an American actor who portrayed the character Andy Sherman on the NBC television series Laramie in 1959 and 1960. He was cast as the younger brother of Slim Sherman, portrayed by John Smith, owner of the fictitious Sherman Ranch and Relay Station some twelve miles east of Laramie, Wyoming. Their co-star was Robert Fuller in the role of former gunfighter Jess Harper. Crawford's role on Laramie ended in 1960, when Andy Sherman was shipped off to boarding school. Crawford is sometimes credited as Bobby Crawford Jr., or without the generational suffix as Bobby Crawford or Robert L. Crawford.
Barbara D. Underwood
Barbara Dale Underwood is an American lawyer currently serving as the Solicitor General of New York. She was first appointed to the position in January 2007 by Andrew Cuomo, who was then serving as the state's Attorney General. Underwood was reappointed in 2011 by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Anthony Pellicano
Anthony Pellicano is a former high-profile Los Angeles private investigator and convicted criminal known as a Hollywood fixer. He notably served a term of thirty months in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, firearms and homemade grenades. In 2008, he began serving an additional sentence for subsequent convictions for other crimes, including racketeering and wiretapping. Several other people were also convicted of crimes associated with their involvement with his illegal activities, including his actress girlfriend Sandra Will Carradine, film director John McTiernan, Beverly Hills police officer Craig Stevens, Los Angeles police sergeant Mark Arneson, and attorney Terry Christensen.
Brian Butterworth
Brian Lewis Butterworth FBA is emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. His research has ranged from speech errors and pauses, short-term memory deficits, dyslexia, reading both in alphabetic scripts and Chinese, and mathematics and dyscalculia. His book The Mathematical Brain has been translated into four languages. He was Editor-in-Chief of Linguistics (1978–1983) and a founding editor of the journals Language and Cognitive Processes and Mathematical Cognition. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Dieter Birr
Dieter "Maschine" Birr is a German singer, guitarist and composer. He was a longtime member of the rock band Puhdys, which dissolved in 2016.
John Paul DeJoria
John Paul Jones DeJoria is an American entrepreneur, a billionaire and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and The Patrón Spirits Company.
Kim Deitch
Kim Deitch, es un historietistista estadounidense que fue una importante figura del comic underground de los años 60, permaneciendo activo desde entonces con una obra muy variada, para la que en ocasiones ha usado el seudónimo de Fowlton Means.
Whitfield Diffie
Bailey Whitfield "Whit" Diffie es un criptógrafo estadounidense y un pionero en la criptografía asimétrica. En 2015 fue merecedor del Premio Turing por sus contibuciones a la criptografía moderna.
Sherry Lansing
Sherry Lee Duhl conocida como Sherry Lansing es una ejecutiva de la industria cinematográfica estadounidense. Ha sido directora ejecutiva de Paramount Pictures y presidenta de producción de 20th Century Fox. Muchos creen que fue la primera mujer en dirigir una productora de Hollywood, y que fue la primera mujer al frente de una productora que tuvo una estrella en el Paseo de la Fama, pero en realidad fue Lucille Ball. En 1996, se convirtió en la primera mujer en ser nombrada Pionera del Año por la Fundación de Pioneros del Cine. En 1999, fue nombrada miembro de la Junta de Regentes de la Universidad de California. En 2005, se convirtió en la primera directora de un estudio de cine en colocar huellas de manos y pies en el Teatro Chino de Grauman. En 2001, fue nombrada una de las 30 mujeres más poderosas de Estados Unidos por Ladies' Home Journal, y The Hollywood Reporter la nombró cuarta en su lista Power 100 en 2003.