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List of Italian-American actors

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Italian American actors or must have references showing they are Italian American actors and are notable. As discussed in the 2005 book Hollywood Italians by Peter E. Bondanella, as well as numerous other sources, Italian-American actors have made a significant impact. The Guild of Italian American Actors was founded in 1937.

Background
Some Italian-American film directors of the silent film era included Robert Vignola, Gregory LaCava, Frank Borzage (Borzaga) and Frank Capra. Italian-American actors included Enrico Caruso in the cultural legitimation of American silent cinema, to Rudolph (Rodolfo) Valentino.

The of American film Renaissance (New Hollywood) in the 1970s coincided with Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973) and Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), Giuliana Muscio attributes this to Italian Americans becoming better educated and more affluent after World War II.

Muscio connects the prominence of Italian-American director-actors to the Capocomico of traditional Italian theatre. Such director-actors include: Danny DeVito, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Vincent Gallo, Al Pacino, Stanley Tucci, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Gary Sinise, Anne Bancroft, and Madonna.

List
The list is organized chronologically, listing Italian American actors by birth date periods.

1880

 * Robert G. Vignola (1882–1953), born in Trivigno, Basilicata, Italy, one of the first Italian-American stars in cinema, later one of the silent screen's most prolific directors.

1890

 * Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926), nicknamed The Latin Lover, was born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy, and based in the United States. He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.

1900s

 * Don Ameche (Amici) (1908–1993) 50% Italian, actor and director
 * Iron Eyes Cody (Espera Decorti) (1907–1999) son of Sicilian parents – actor, frequently played Native Americans
 * Jerry Colonna (1904–1986) actor, entertainer, musician
 * Russ Columbo (1908–1934) singer, violinist and actor, perhaps most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love", and the legend surrounding his early death
 * Lou Costello (Cristillo) (1906–1959) 62.5% Italian, 25% Irish, and 12.5% French – actor and comedian known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello
 * Renata Vanni (1909–2004) was born in Naples, Campania, Italy

1910s

 * Robert Alda (Alfonso Roberto D'Abruzzo) (1914–1986) actor, father of Alan Alda
 * Miriam Battista (1912–1980) daughter of Italian immigrants – child actress of the silent film era
 * Ernest Borgnine (Borgnino) (1917–2012) Academy Award-winning actor
 * Adriana Caselotti (1916–1997) actress known for providing the voice behind the lead character in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
 * Richard Conte (1910–1975) film actor
 * Ann Corio (1914–1999) burlesque ecdysiast and actress
 * Alfred Drake (1914-1992) Born Alfred Capurro. Famous Broadway star of many hit musicals and plays.
 * Dean Martin (Crocetti) (1917–1995) actor/singer, member of the Rat Pack
 * Al Molinaro (1919–2015) son of Italian parents – actor (The Odd Couple, Happy Days)
 * Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) his parents' Italian heritage included a Sicilian father and a mother from Liguria in northern Italy- actor and singer who many consider to be one of the finest male popular song vocalists of all time

1920s

 * Kaye Ballard (Balotta) (1925–2019) stage and television actress
 * Billy Barty (Bertanzetti) (1924–2000) film actor
 * Tony Bennett (Benedetto) (1926–2023) popular music, standards, jazz singer and actor (The Oscar)
 * Joseph Campanella (1924–2018) actor
 * Timothy Carey (Agoglia) (1929–1994) Irish father and Italian mother – film and television character actor (Peeper)
 * Richard Crenna (1926–2003) film actor (First Blood)
 * Yvonne De Carlo (Margaret Yvonne Middleton) (1922–2007) 25% Italian
 * Linda Douglas (Mary Joanne Tarola) (1928–2017) her mother was a native of Alaska, born to Swedish immigrants, while her father was originally from Italy.
 * Vince Edwards (Zoine) (1928–1996) actor, director, and singer
 * Anthony Franciosa (Papaleo) (1928–2006) film/television actor, often billed as "Tony Franciosa"
 * Vincent Gardenia (Scognamiglia) (1922–1992) stage, film, and television actor
 * Michael V. Gazzo (1923–1995) actor and Broadway playwright
 * Mario Lanza (Alfredo Cocozza) (1921–1959) tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s
 * Al Lettieri (1928–1975) film/television actor (The Godfather)
 * Henry Silva (1926–2022) actor of Sicilian and Spanish descent

1930s

 * Danny Aiello (1933–2019) film/television actor
 * Alan Alda (born 1936) actor, writer, director and political activist – father of Italian descent
 * Anne Bancroft (Italiano) (1931–2005) Academy Award-winning actress
 * Robert Blake (Gubitosi) (1933-2023) film actor, perhaps most famous for starring in the U.S. television series Baretta, and for being found not guilty of the murder of wife Bonnie Lee Bakley
 * Joseph Bologna (1934–2017) film/television actor
 * Ron Carey (Cicenia) (1935–2007) film and television actor (Barney Miller)
 * John Cazale (1935–1978) film actor (The Godfather) – father of Italian descent
 * Dominic Chianese (born 1931) television actor (The Sopranos)
 * Mary Costa (born 1930) American singer and actress, who is best known for providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 film, Sleeping Beauty.
 * Bobby Darin (Cassoto) (1936–1973) actor, singer and one of the most popular rock and roll American teen idols of the 1950s – maternal grandfather was of Italian ancestry, unclear who Darin's biological father was
 * James Darren (Ercolani) (born 1936) television and film actor, television director, and singer
 * Dom DeLuise (1933–2009) comic actor
 * Connie Francis (Franconero) (born 1938) actress and pop singer, known for her 1957 hit "Who's Sorry Now?"
 * Ben Gazzara (1930–2012) son of Sicilian parents, film/television actor
 * Joan Hackett (1934–1983) American actress of stage, television and film. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1981, Italian mother
 * Tony Lo Bianco (born 1936) film and television actor (The French Connection)
 * Garry Marshall (Masciarelli) (1934–2016) Italian-American father and part Scottish mother—actor, director, and writer – brother of Penny Marshall
 * Sal Mineo (1939–1976) son of Sicilian parents – actor and theater director, famous for his Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause
 * Tony Musante (1936–2013) stage, television, and film actor
 * Paula Prentiss (Ragusa) (born 1938) film actress – father of Italian ancestry
 * Paul Sorvino (1939–2022) actor, father of Mira Sorvino
 * Connie Stevens (Ingolia) (born 1938) Italian father and Irish mother – actress and singer
 * Marlo Thomas (born 1937) Lebanese father and Italian mother
 * Joe Viterelli (1937-2004) actor, son of Italian immigrants

1940s

 * Marc Alaimo (born 1942) television/film actor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
 * Armand Assante (born 1949) Italian father and Irish mother  – film/television actor (Mambo Kings)
 * Frankie Avalon (Avallone) (born 1940) actor and teen idol in the 1950s and early 1960s
 * Joy Behar (Josephina Ochiuto) (born 1943) actress, comedian, co-host of The View
 * Robert De Niro (born 1943) 25% Italian ancestry  – two time Academy Award-winning American film actor, director, producer and founder of the Tribeca Film Festival (Goodfellas)
 * Danny DeVito (born 1944) actor, director, Oscar nominated producer (Matilda)
 * Dennis Farina (1944–2013) son of Sicilian parents – film/television actor (Get Shorty)
 * Annette Funicello (1942–2013) actress, was Walt Disney's most popular Mouseketeer
 * Bruno Kirby (Quidaciolu) (1949–2006) son of Sicilian parents – film actor (The Godfather Part II)
 * Susan Lucci (born 1946) 50% Italian and part Swedish - Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress, who has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" and "The Queen of Daytime"
 * Patti LuPone (born 1949) singer and actress
 * Joe Mantegna (born 1947) film/television actor (The Godfather Part III)
 * Penny Marshall (Masciarelli) (1943–2018) Italian-American father and part Scottish mother  – actress, producer and director, sister of Garry Marshall
 * Al Pacino (born 1940) son of Sicilian parents  – Academy Award-winning film actor (The Godfather)
 * Vincent Pastore (born 1946) son of Sicilian parents – film/television actor, often cast as a mobster (The Sopranos)
 * Joe Pesci (born 1943) Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and singer who is often typecast as a violent mobster or funnyman (Goodfellas, Casino)
 * Bernadette Peters (Lazzara) (born 1948) actress and singer
 * Susan Sarandon (born 1946) mother of Italian ancestry – Academy Award-winning film actress (Thelma and Louise)
 * Talia Shire (born 1946) film actress, sister of Francis Ford Coppola (Rocky)
 * Nancy Sinatra (born 1940) singer and actress, daughter of Frank Sinatra
 * Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) 50% Italian, 25% Irish and part Dutch – singer and actor
 * Sylvester Stallone (born 1946) film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for Rocky and Rambo
 * Daniel J. Travanti (born 1940) son of Italian immigrants – film/television actor (Hill Street Blues)
 * Victoria Vetri (born 1944) model and actress
 * John Capodice (born on December 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois) Capodice began acting on stage in mostly Off-Broadway plays in New York City in the late 1970s.

1950s

 * Danny Bonaduce (born 1959) Italian father  – television actor (The Partridge Family)
 * Lorraine Bracco (born 1954) Italian father and mother of French descent – Academy Award-nominated actress (The Sopranos, Goodfellas)
 * Steve Buscemi (born 1957) Italian father and part Irish mother – actor (Fargo, Reservoir Dogs)
 * David Caruso (born 1956) Italian father and Irish mother – film/television actor (CSI: Miami)
 * Dennis Christopher (Carrelli) (born 1955) Italian father and Irish mother - actor (Django Unchained)
 * Tony Danza (born 1951) actor/talk show host (Who's The Boss, Family Law)
 * Vincent D'Onofrio (born 1959) son of Sicilian parents – film/television actor and director (Full Metal Jacket, Law and Order: Criminal Intent)
 * Giancarlo Esposito (born 1958) Italian father and African-American mother – film actor
 * Cristina Ferrare (born 1950) actress of Italian descent (The Impossible Years)
 * Lou Ferrigno (born 1951) bodybuilder and actor (The Hulk)
 * Robert Hegyes (1951–2012) television actor (Welcome Back, Kotter) Italian-American mother, Hungarian-American father
 * Kathy Hilton (born 1959) Italian grandfather – actress (Happy Days)
 * Cyndi Lauper (born 1953) Italian mother and Swiss/German father – singer and actress- (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)
 * Jay Leno (born 1950) Italian-American father and Scottish mother – comedian, former actor, known as host of The Tonight Show
 * Madonna (Ciccone) (born 1958) father of Italian ancestry and mother of French-Canadian ancestry – singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, entertainer (A League of Their Own, Dick Tracy)
 * Ed Marinaro (born 1950) actor and former football player
 * Peter Onorati (born 1953) Italian mother and father
 * Chazz Palminteri (born 1952) film actor (A Bronx Tale)
 * Joe Pantoliano (born 1951) film/television actor (The Sopranos)
 * Joe Piscopo (born 1951) actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
 * Victoria Principal (born 1950) father of Italian descent – actress (Dallas)
 * Jon Polito (born in 1950) - actor. Notable television roles included Detective Steve Crosetti in the first two seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street
 * Suzi Quatro (born 1950) Italian paternal grandfather
 * Ray Romano (born 1957) actor and comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond)
 * Isabella Rossellini (born 1952) Italian father and Swedish mother – actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, model
 * Rene Russo (born 1954) Italian father and Italian maternal grandfather – film actress/model (Lethal Weapon 3, The Thomas Crown Affair)
 * Jack Scalia (born 1950) film/television actor (The Genius Club)
 * Steve Schirripa (born 1957) television actor and writer (The Sopranos) – father of Italian descent, and mother of Jewish descent
 * Connie Sellecca (Sellecchia) (born 1955) actress
 * Gary Sinise (born 1955) 25% Italian ancestry  – actor (CSI: NY)
 * John Travolta (born 1954) Italian-American father and Irish-American mother – Academy Award-nominated actor, singer, dancer (Grease, Saturday Night Fever)
 * Steven Van Zandt (Lento) (born 1950) musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and disc jockey (The Sopranos)
 * Vinny Vella (1947–2019) actor and part time comedian
 * Chuck Zito (born 1953) member of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman and actor

1960s

 * Kristian Alfonso (born 1964) soap opera actress, Days of Our Lives
 * Jennifer Aniston (born 1969) Italian maternal grandfather (Friends)
 * Scott Baio (born 1961) television actor (Happy Days, Charles In Charge)
 * Matt Battaglia (born 1965) Italian father and Anglo-American mother – actor
 * Maria Bello (born 1967) Italian father and Polish mother – Academy Award-nominated film actress
 * Valerie Bertinelli (born 1960) Italian father and British-American mother – actress (One Day At A Time)
 * Jon Bon Jovi (Bongiovi) (born 1962) of Sicilian, Slovak, German, Russian ancestry – singer and film actor
 * David Boreanaz (born 1969) Italian father and part Slovak mother – television actor (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel)
 * Nicolas Cage (Coppola) (born 1964) Italian father and part German mother – 5 Academy Award-winning actor, director, and producer
 * Christy Canyon (born 1966) Armenian-Italian descent — adult actress
 * Federico Castelluccio (born 1964) Italian-born actor (The Sopranos)
 * Michael Cerveris (born 1960) Italian father
 * Damian Chapa (born 1963) mother is of Italian and German ancestry
 * Donna D'Errico (born 1968) Italian father and British-American mother – actress and model
 * Vic DiBitetto (born 1961), stand-up comedian, Internet personality, and actor. He often refers to himself as “The Donkey of Comedy,”
 * Illeana Douglas (born 1965) mother of Italian ancestry – film actress
 * Edie Falco (born 1963) Italian father and Swedish/English mother – actress (The Sopranos)
 * Diane Farr (born 1969) of Italian and Irish descent – actress (Numb3rs)
 * Jon Favreau (born 1966) mostly Italian and some French-Canadian father, and Jewish mother – actor and director (Rocky Marciano)
 * Linda Fiorentino (born 1960) film actress (The Last Seduction)
 * Joely Fisher (born 1967) Italian grandfather – film/television actress, daughter of Connie Stevens
 * Tricia Leigh Fisher (born 1968) Italian grandfather – film/television actress, daughter of Connie Stevens
 * Vincent Gallo (born 1961) independent film actor and director (Goodfellas)
 * James Gandolfini (1961–2013) film/television actor (The Sopranos)
 * Janeane Garofalo (born 1964) Italian father and Irish mother – stand-up comedian, actress, and political activist
 * Paul Giamatti (born 1967) paternal grandfather of Italian ancestry – Academy Award-nominated film actor
 * Frank Grillo (born 1963) of Italian heritage
 * Anthony Michael Hall (born 1968) 25% Italian, 75% Irish – film/television actor, former teen star
 * Michael Imperioli (born 1966) film/television actor (The Sopranos)
 * Michael Kelly (born 1968) mother is of Italian descent (Criminal Minds)
 * Artie Lange (born 1967) 50% Italian, 25% German and 25% Native American – film/television actor, stand-up comedian and radio personality
 * Matt LeBlanc (born 1967) Italian mother – television actor (Friends)
 * Ralph Macchio (born 1961) father of Italian and Greek descent, mother of Italian ancestry – film actor (The Karate Kid)
 * Max Martini (born 1969) Italian father
 * Tim McGraw (born 1967) 25% Italian – actor and country music singer
 * Christopher Meloni (born 1961) Italian father and French Canadian mother – television actor (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Oz)
 * Danny Nucci (born 1968) Italian father and Moroccan Jewish mother – film actor (Crimson Tide)
 * Erik Palladino (born 1968) Italian father and Armenian mother – actor (ER)
 * Natalie Raitano (born 1966) television actress (V.I.P.)
 * Salli Richardson (born 1967) African-American/American-Indian mother and part Italian father
 * Mark Ruffalo (born 1967) Italian father and half French-Canadian, half Italian mother – critically acclaimed film actor, (Just Like Heaven, 13 Going On 30)
 * Laura San Giacomo (born 1962) actress (Just Shoot Me!)
 * Annabella Sciorra (born 1964) film/television actress (Jungle Fever)
 * Nick Scotti (born 1966) actor, model and singer
 * Terry Serpico (born 1964) Italian paternal grandfather
 * Mira Sorvino (born 1967) Italian father and Anglo-American mother – Academy Award-winning actress, daughter of Paul Sorvino
 * Gwen Stefani (born 1969) Italian father and part Irish mother – singer, fashion designer and actress
 * Quentin Tarantino (born 1963) part Italian – film director and actor (Pulp Fiction)
 * Marisa Tomei (born 1964) Academy Award-winning film actress (My Cousin Vinny)
 * Stanley Tucci (born 1960) film/television actor (Shall We Dance)
 * Paige Turco (born 1965) actress (Person of Interest)
 * Aida Turturro (born 1962) actress, cousin of John Turturro (The Sopranos)

1970s

 * Sasha Alexander (born 1973) television actress (NCIS, Rizzoli & Isles)
 * Victor Alfieri (born 1971) Italian-born television actor
 * Chad Allen (Lazzari) (born 1974) Italian father and Anglo-American mother – film/television actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
 * Lauren Ambrose (D'Ambruoso) (born 1978) father of Italian descent and mother of German, Irish, and English descent – film/television actress (Six Feet Under)
 * Lisa Ann (Corpora) (born 1972) of Italian and French descent – adult actress
 * Leila Arcieri (born 1973) Italian father and African-American mother – actress and model
 * Billie Joe Armstrong (born 1972) Italian great-great-grandparents
 * Sara Bareilles (born 1979) of Italian, German, Portuguese, and French descent
 * Jason Biggs (born 1978) father of English and Italian descent, mother of Italian descent – film and television actor (American Pie)
 * Mike Birbiglia (born 1978) comedian, actor, and filmmaker of part Italian descent
 * Danielle Bisutti (born 1976) actress and singer of Italian descent (True Jackson, VP)
 * Cara Buono (born 1974) television actress (The Sopranos)
 * Eddie Cahill (born 1978) Italian mother and Irish father – film/television actor (Miracle, CSI: NY)
 * Bobby Cannavale (born 1971) Italian-American father and Cuban mother – film/television actor (Third Watch)
 * Linda Cardellini (born 1975) part Italian ancestry – actress
 * Tracee Chimo (born 1979) mother of Irish and Italian descent
 * Jessica Collins (Capogna) (born 1971) film actress (The Young and the Restless)
 * Mark Consuelos (born 1971) Mexican father and Italian mother
 * Rachael Leigh Cook (born 1979) Italian mother and Anglo-American father – film actress (She's All That)
 * Sofia Coppola (born 1971) Italian father – director, actress, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola
 * Drea de Matteo (born 1972) Emmy-winning actress (The Sopranos)
 * Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) paternal grandfather of Italian ancestry – Academy Award winner (Titanic)
 * Jennifer Esposito (born 1973) film/television actress (Spin City)
 * Ben Falcone (born 1973) of Italian, English, German and Irish descent
 * Joey Fatone (born 1977) pop singer and actor ('N Sync, My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
 * Vanessa Ferlito (born 1977) actress (CSI: NY)
 * Johnny Galecki (born 1975) of Polish, Irish, and Italian descent
 * Jennifer Gareis (born 1970) of part Italian descent – actress (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful)
 * Luciano Giancarlo (1972–2007)
 * Debbie Gibson (born 1970) of Italian, German and possibly Russian descent
 * Aria Giovanni (born 1973) Italian-Yugoslavian father and French-German-Irish-West Indian mother — nude model and actress
 * Joy Giovanni (born 1978) actress and former WWE wrestler
 * Carmine Giovinazzo (born 1973) of partial Italian descent – film/television actor (CSI: NY)
 * Carla Gugino (born 1971) father of Italian ancestry – film actress
 * Lindsay Hartley (born 1978) Jewish father and mother of Greek and Italian descent – soap opera actress (Passions)
 * Liza Huber (born 1975) maternal grandfather of Italian ancestry
 * Bianca Kajlich (born 1977) mother of half Italian descent
 * Joey Lawrence (born 1976) of part Italian descent
 * Natasha Leggero (born 1974) of Italian descent
 * Joe Lo Truglio (born 1970) Irish-Italian
 * Domenick Lombardozzi (born 1976) of Italian heritage – actor
 * Gina Lynn (born 1974) of Italian and Dutch descent – adult actress
 * Joe Manganiello (born 1976) Italian father and Austrian-Armenian mother – movie and TV actor
 * Marisa Miller (Bertetta) (born 1978) paternal great-grandfather of Italian descent — model and actress
 * Chris Messina (born 1974), actor, director, writer, and producer
 * Kelly Monaco (born 1976) model and actress (General Hospital)
 * Brittany Murphy (Bertolotti) (1977–2009) father of Italian ancestry – film actress
 * Alessandro Nivola (born 1972) Italian paternal grandfather and Jewish paternal grandmother; his father was born in Italy – film actor (Face/Off, Goal!)
 * Annie Parisse (born 1975) Italian ancestry on father's side
 * Lana Parrilla (born 1977) mother is of Italian descent
 * Chelsea Peretti (born 1978) father is Italian-American
 * Gina Philips (born 1970) Italian father
 * Zachary Quinto (born 1977) Italian father and Irish mother – film/television actor (Heroes, 24, Star Trek)
 * Stephen Rannazzisi (born 1977) of Italian and Irish descent
 * Tara Reid (born 1975) part Italian ancestry
 * Leah Remini (born 1970) Italian father and Jewish mother – film/television actress (The King Of Queens)
 * Kelly Ripa (born 1970) 75% Italian and 25% Irish – actress (All My Children, Live with Regis and Kelly)
 * Elisabeth Röhm (born 1973) Italian maternal grandfather
 * Jai Rodriguez (born 1979) Italian mother and Puerto Rican father – actor and culture guide (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
 * Adam Scott (born 1973) of Italian descent on his mother's side
 * Amber Valletta (born 1974) paternal grandfather of Italian descent – actress (Revenge, Legends)
 * Vince Vaughn (born 1970) of part Italian descent – actor/producer
 * Milo Ventimiglia (born 1977) father is of Italian descent – actor/producer (Heroes)
 * Cerina Vincent (born 1979) Irish-Italian father, Italian mother – nude model and actress (Not Another Teen Movie)
 * John Lloyd Young (born 1975) mother of Italian ancestry – theater/film actor, Tony Award winner (Jersey Boys)

1980s

 * Michael Angarano (born 1987) television/film actor (Sky High, Will & Grace)
 * Justin Baldoni (born 1984) Italian father and Jewish mother – television actor (Everwood)
 * Troian Bellisario (born 1985) father is of half Italian and half Serbian descent
 * Rachel Bilson (born 1981) Italian mother and Jewish father – film/television actress (The O.C.)
 * Corbin Bleu (born 1989) Italian mother and Jamaican father – film/television actor (High School Musical)
 * Francis Capra (born 1983) Italian and Dominican descent
 * Gina Carano (born 1982) Italian descent – former MMA fighter and actress
 * Aya Cash (born 1982) mother of Italian descent
 * Loan Chabanol (born 1982)
 * Lacey Chabert (born 1982) father is of 1/4 Italian descent
 * Mark Copani (born 1981) Italian father and Jordanian mother – actor and professional wrestler
 * Genevieve Cortese (born 1981) has Italian, French and Flemish ancestry
 * Alexandra Daddario (born 1986) actress of mixed English, Hungarian, Irish, Slovak and Italian descent
 * Matthew Daddario (born 1987) actor of mixed English, Hungarian, Slovak, Irish and Italian descent
 * Majandra Delfino (born 1981) father of Italian descent (Roswell)
 * Jessica DiCicco (born 1980) voice actress
 * Dane DiLiegro (born 1988) father of Italian descent
 * Chris Distefano (born 1984) stand-up comedian/actor
 * Tiffany Dupont (born 1981) Italian father - actress
 * Alexis Dziena (born 1984) has Irish, Italian and Polish ancestry (Invasion)
 * Cameron Esposito (born 1981) Italian-American parents
 * Chris Evans (born 1981) maternal grandfather of Italian ancestry – film actor (The Avengers, Fantastic Four)
 * Briana Evigan (born 1986) maternal grandfather was of Italian ancestry (Step Up 2: The Streets)
 * Alberto Frezza (born 1989) Italian-American actor (Station 19)
 * Janine Harouni (born 1988) Lebanese-American father and mother of Irish and Italian ancestry.
 * David Henrie (born 1989) maternal grandparents were Italian – television actor (How I Met Your Mother, Wizards of Waverly Place)
 * Paris Hilton (born 1981) Italian great-grandfather – television/film actress (House of Wax)
 * Brooke Hogan (born 1988) paternal grandfather of Italian ancestry
 * Paul Iacono (born 1988) Italian-American parents
 * Ellie Kemper (born 1980) Italian from her maternal grandfather, along with English, French, and German ancestry
 * Katrina Law (born 1985) has German, Taiwanese and Italian ancestry – television/film actress (Spartacus: Blood and Sand)
 * Floriana Lima (born 1981) of Italian, Irish, English, Spanish and Portuguese descent
 * Lindsay Lohan (born 1986) Irish and Italian ancestry – television/film actress (The Parent Trap, Mean Girls)
 * Michelle Lombardo (born 1983) Italian father and Irish mother – actress and model
 * Brooke Lyons (born 1980) has Italian, Irish and Portuguese descent
 * Tina Majorino (born 1985) 25% Italian ancestry – film/television actress (Napoleon Dynamite, Veronica Mars)
 * Kate Mara (born 1983) maternal grandmother of Italian descent (House of Cards)
 * Rooney Mara (born 1985) maternal grandmother of Italian descent (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
 * Lea Michele (born 1986) Sephardic Jewish father and Italian Catholic mother; Michele was raised Catholic – (Glee)
 * Kate Micucci (born 1980) Italian ancestry
 * Rachel Nichols (born 1980) 3/16ths Italian descent (through her mother)
 * Aleksa Palladino (born 1980) Italian ancestry
 * Rosanna Pansino (born 1985) has Italian, Croatian, German, and Irish ancestry
 * Shawn Pyfrom (born 1986) 12.5% Italian ancestry – television/film actor (Desperate Housewives)
 * Christina Ricci (born 1980) father of half Italian ancestry – film actress (The Addams Family)
 * Amber Rose (born 1983) has Italian, Cape Verdean, Irish and Scottish ancestry
 * Dylan Ryder (born 1981) adult film actress of Italian and German descent
 * Jason Schwartzman (born 1980) Jewish father and Italian mother – film actor, son of Talia Shire (Rushmore)
 * Alia Shawkat (born 1989) mother is of Norwegian, Irish, and Italian descent
 * Marina Squerciati (born 1984) of Italian descent
 * Bobbi Starr (born 1983) Italian and Hungarian ancestry
 * Steven Strait (born 1986) father is of English descent and mother is of Italian descent — model, singer, and actor (Sky High, Magic City)
 * Brooklyn Sudano (born 1981) Italian father
 * Taryn Thomas (born 1983) Italian ancestry
 * Kate Voegele (born 1986) Italian ancestry
 * Casey Wilson (born 1980) Irish and Italian heritage

1990s

 * Annabelle Attanasio (born 1993) father is of Italian descent
 * Sofia Black-D'Elia (born 1991) father is of Italian descent and mother is Jewish
 * Jake Cannavale (born 1995) Italian grandfather
 * Michael Cimino (born 1999) of Italian-German and Puerto Rican descent
 * Pete Davidson (born 1993) actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
 * Seychelle Gabriel (born 1991) father is of Mexican and French descent while mother is of Italian ancestry
 * Leila George (born 1992) both parents (Vincent D'Onofrio and Greta Scacchi) are of Italian descent
 * Elizabeth Gillies (born 1993) Italian grandmother — television and Broadway actress/singer (Victorious)
 * Selena Gomez (born 1992) mother of Italian descent
 * Ariana Grande (born 1993) television and Broadway actress/singer (Victorious)
 * Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (born 1996) Italian father – actress (Game of Thrones)
 * Aria Mia Loberti (born 1994) of Italian descent
 * Ali Lohan (born 1993) part Irish and part Italian – television actress, musician
 * Laura Marano (born 1995) father is of Italian descent – television actress (Austin & Ally)
 * Vanessa Marano (born 1992) father is of Italian descent – television actress (Switched at Birth; Without a Trace; The Young and the Restless)
 * Vincent Martella (born 1992) television actor (Everybody Hates Chris; Phineas and Ferb)
 * Julianna Rose Mauriello (born 1991) Italian father
 * Dylan O'Brien (born 1991) of partial Italian descent – film/television actor (Teen Wolf; The Maze Runner)
 * Victoria Pedretti (born 1995) three-quarter Italian father
 * Brent Rivera (born 1998) of Mexican and Italian descent.
 * Grace Rolek (born 1997) of African-American, Italian, Polish and Japanese descent
 * Bonnie Rotten (born 1993) of Italian, German, Polish and Jewish descent – adult actress
 * Cassie Scerbo (born 1990) full Italian ancestry
 * Christian Serratos (born 1990) father is of Italian descent – film/television actress (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide; The Walking Dead)
 * Bella Thorne (born 1997) Cuban, Irish, and Italian descent (Shake it Up)

2000s

 * Francesca Capaldi (born 2004)
 * Gaten Matarazzo (born 2002)

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Khas people

Khas tribe, (खस) popularly known as Khashya, according to the 2015 constitution of Nepal are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, in what is now the South Asian country of Nepal, as well as the Indian states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam and Sikkim.

Historically, Khas were the speakers of an ancient Khas language from the Indo-Aryan language family and the earliest recorded speakers of the Western Pahari languages. The large portion of the Indo-Aryan speakers throughout lower Himalayas were the Khas people. An intrusion of this tribe from the Western and Northwestern Himalayas into Central Himalayas is substantiated by the early linguistic evidences related to the Nepali language. They were also known as Parbatiyas/Parbates and are currently known as Paharis/Pahadis. (literally, "from the hills"). They were also referred to as Yartse in Tibet and are also known as Khasan by Bhotia people. The term Khas has now become obsolete, as the Khas people have adopted communal identities because of the negative stereotypes associated with the term Khas. In Nepal the native speaker of Nepali language are known as Khas people.

According to the Constitution of Nepal, Bahun, Kshetris, Thakuris, and Sanyasis (Dashnami) who are citizens of Nepal should be considered as "Khas Arya" for electoral purposes.

Indo-Aryan origin theories
They have been connected to the Khasas mentioned in the ancient Hindu literature. Irish linguist Sir G.A. Grierson asserted that "..the great mass of the Aryan speaking population of the lower Himalaya from Kashmir to Darjeeling is inhabited by tribes descended from the ancient Khasas of Mahabharata." Historian Bal Krishna Sharma and Dor Bahadur Bista speculates that the Khas people were of Indo-European origin. Historian Baburam Acharya speculates that Khas are a sub-clan of Aida, an "Arya" clan that originated at Idavritt (modern day Kashmir to Nepal). Khas were living in the Idavaritt in the 3rd millennium BCE. and the original meaning of the term Khas was Raja or Kshatriya (Yoddha). He further speculates that Kashmir has been named from its local residents Khas as Khasmir. In the 2nd millennium B.C.E., one group of Khas migrated towards Iran while the other group migrated east of Sutlej river settling only in the hill regions up to Bheri River. Historian Balkrishna Pokhrel contends that Khas were not the Vedic Aryans but Aryans of the latter periods like the Gurjara, Darada, Shaka, and Pallava. He further asserts that post-Vedic Aryans were akin to Vedic Aryans in terms of language and culture. Irish linguist Sir George Abraham Grierson asserted that the Khasas were one of the warrior "Kshatriya tribe of Aryan origin" with linguistic connections to both Sanskrit and Iranian languages, who lost claim to Vedichood due to non-observance of Vedic rules. Roman geographer Pliny The Elder described the ancient Khasas/Khasiras (referred as 'Casiri') as one of the Indian ethnicity.

Saka origin theories
Historian Rahul Sankrityayan proposes the origin of the Khasha tribe from the Shaka tribe and further identifies Khashas and Shakas to have been two different waves of the same race. The Shakas were in Indian subcontinent before the first century BCE while the Khashas spread over the Himalayas and extensively populated the mountainous regions of Uttarakhand and the later waves of Shakas got diffused into them. Historian Omchand Handa contends that the "sun worship" among Khashas is a Shaka legacy and perhaps the standing Surya images with long boots which was commonly found at the Khasha belt of Himalaya. Some examples of it are the Bara-Aditya at Katarmal and Surya images of Baijnath, Bageshwar and Dwarahat.

Medieval history in Uttarakhand-Nepal
Khasas are believed to have arrived in the western reaches of Nepal at the beginning of first-millennium B.C. or middle of first-millennium A.D. from the north-west. The earliest linguistic evidences related to Nepali language also substantiates the linguistic intrusion of an Indo-Aryan speaking Khasa tribe from the West or Northwest Himalayas into Central Himalayas at the present day regions of Western Nepal. It is likely that they absorbed people from different ethnic groups during this immigration. They had extensively populated the mountainous regions of Uttarakhand and they had entirely dominated the inner Himalayan belt up to Nepal. Previously, Khashas had strongly established themselves from Afghanistan to Nepal from ancient period and as per internal evidences, they managed the village level theocratic republics like Gram-Rajya and Mandals under various local clans and identities.

The ruling Katyuri dynasty (700-1065 CE) of Kumaon who were of Khas origin, was one of the ruling houses of Joshimath that claimed the sovereignty over other Gram Rajyas of the entire territory. The Katyuris ruled from Joshimath in the Alaknanda Valley and later they shifted their capital to Baijnath. They have also been connected to the medieval Khasa Malla kingdom. The Khasa kings of West Nepal-Uttarakhand formed the famous Malla Kingdom, which ruled Humla from the eleventh century before collapsing and splintering into local chiefdoms during the fourteenth century. In the initial phase, majority of Khas people became Brahmins and others became Kshatriyas.

History in Kashmir
The ruling Lohara dynasty (1003-1320 CE) of Kashmir were from the Khas tribe as per the 12th century text Rajatarangini written by the local Kashmiri Pandit historian Kalhana. Furthermore, Rajatarangini describes the rulers of Rajapuri (modern Rajauri) as the "lord of the Khasas". The Khasa chiefs of Rajapuri freely intermarried with Kshatriya rulers of Kashmir while the Khasa chief of Lohara, Simharaja, married a daughter of Shahi Kings of Kabul. The descendants of the royal family of Rajauri later became Muslim Rajput chiefs and they retained the rulership of the territory till 19th century. The inhabitants of Karnah region in northwestern Kashmir, were Khasas and they were represented by the modern Bomba (tribe) who independently ruled the northwestern Kashmir till the Sikh conquest of Kashmir. There was also an independent Khasa lord at the castle located in the foot of Banahal Pass in the territory of Visalata and Dengapala ("Thakkura Dengapala") was a Khasa chief at the banks of Chandrabhaga (modern Chenab river).

Modern history in Nepal
Until the 19th century, the Gorkhali referred to their country as Khas Desh (Khas country). As they annexed the various neighboring countries (such as Nepal or Newa of the Newar people) to the Gorkha kingdom, the terms such as Khas and Newar ceased to be used as the names of countries. The 1854 legal code (Muluki Ain), promulgated by the Nepali Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana, himself a Khas, no longer referred to Khas as a country, rather as a jāt (species or community) within the Gorkha kingdom.

The Shah dynasty of the Gorkha Kingdom, as well as the succeeding Rana dynasty, spoke the Khas language (now called the Nepali language). However, they claimed to be Rajputs of western Indian origin, rather than the native Khas Kshatriyas. Since outside Nepal, the Khas social status was seen as inferior to that of the Rajputs, the rulers started describing themselves as natives of the Hill country, rather than that of the Khas country. Most people, however, considered the terms Khas and Parbatiya (Pahari/Pahadi or Hill people) as synonymous.

Jung Bahadur also re-labeled the Khas jāt as Chhetri in present-day Nepal. Originally, the Brahmin immigrants from the plains considered the Khas as low-caste because of the latter's neglect of high-caste taboos (such as alcohol abstinence). The upper-class Khas people commissioned the Bahun (Brahmin) priests to initiate them into the high-caste Chhetri order and adopted high-caste manners. Other Khas families who could not afford to (or did not care to) pay the Bahun priests also attempted to assume the Chhetri status but were not recognized as such by others. They are now called Matwali (alcohol-drinker Khas) Chhetris. Because of the adoption of the Chhetri identity, the term Khas is rapidly becoming obsolete. According to Dor Bahadur Bista (1991), "the Khas have vanished from the ethnographic map of Nepal".

Nepal
Modern-day Khas people are referred to as Hill Brahmin (Bahun), Hill Kshatriya (Thakuri/Chhetri) and Hill Dalit. Further, historian Pokharel adds the Gharti, Damai, Kami, Sarki, Hudka, Tamote, Gaine and Badi to the Khas communities. In modern times, Khas people are popularly referred by the term "Khas Arya".

India-Pakistan
In Kumaon and Garhwal regions of Uttarakhand in India, too, the term Khas has become obsolete. The Khas people of Kumaon termed as Kumaoni khash jimdar, after being elevated to the Rajput status by the Chand kings. During Chand rule in Kumaon, Khas and Rajput were differentiated by their sacred thread, Khas were allowed to wear only 3 thread (3 palli)sacred thread whereas Rajput used to wear 6 palli sacred thread.The term Khas is almost obsolete, and people resent being addressed as Khas because of the negative stereotypes associated with this term. Furthermore, the Kanets of Kangra and Garhwal, Khasa of Jaunsar-Bawar and the bulk population of Garhwal and Kumaon (referred as "Khasia") are descended from the Khasas. Generally, the Khas people are referred as Rajputs or Kanets in the Himachal Pradesh. According to E.T. Atkinson, the Jaunsar-Bawar is the representative Khasiya tract and it "'..forms a very important links between the almost Hinduized Khasiyas of Kumaon and their brethren converts to Islam on the ethnical frontier of the mountains of Hindu Kush and apparently gives customs and practices of Khasiya race in full force at the present day which distinguished them thousands of years ago.'"

Historian Sir Marc Aurel Stein identified the modern Khakha Rajputs of Azad Kashmir as the descendants of Khasas mentioned in the Rajatarangini. The Khasa tribe in Karnah region in northwestern Kashmir were represented by the modern Bomba (tribe).

Communities
Historian Balkrishna Pokhrel writes the communities or caste in Khas group were hill Bahun, Chhetri, Thakuri, Gharti, Damai, Kami, Sarki, Hudka, Tamote, Gaine and Badi. The tribal designation Khas refers to in some contexts only to the alcohol drinker Khas group, i.e. Thakuri and Chhetri, but in other contexts may also include the low status (generally untouchable) occupational Khas groups such as Kāmi (blacksmiths), Damāi (tailors), and Sārki (shoemakers and leather workers). Khas people are addressed with the term Khayan or Parbatiya or Partyā, Parbaté meaning hill-dweller by Newars. The hill Khas tribe are in large part associated with the Gorkhali warriors.

Historian-linguist E.T. Atkinson in his 1886 CE Kumaon gazetteer, mentions that there are 250 'septs among Khasiya Brahmins' and 280 'septs among Khasiya Rajputs' who represent the Khasa tribe. He states that the 90% of the Brahmins of Kumaon belong to the Khas tribe. The Khasiya Brahmins are mentioned to have been chiefly cultivators and agriculturalists and most of them worship chiefly Bhairava, Shiva, Vishnu, the more common forms of the Shakti and village deities. Most of them derive their surnames from their village of origin. The Khasiyas of Uttarakhand never attempted to connect themselves with plain regions until recently they found that such connections increases personal dignity.

Khas people of the Western Himalayas are considered similar to the Khas people of the Garhwal, Kumaon and Nepal. They are generally referred as Rajputs or Kanets in the Himachal Pradesh. The Khasas of Jaunsar-Bawar who are represented by the Jaunsari Rajputs and Brahmins) practiced polyandrous marriages.

Languages
Irish Linguist George Abraham Grierson in his Linguistic Survey of India stated that the Khas tribe were the earliest recorded speakers of the Western Pahari languages. He further asserted that the Khas people made the bulk population of the Indo-Aryan speakers throughout the lower Himalaya from Kashmir to Darjeeling.

The Khas people of Nepal originally referred to their language as Khas kurā (Khas speech), which was also known as Parbatiya (the language of the hill country). The Newar people used the term Khayan Bhaya, Parbatiya and Gorkhali as a name for this language, Gorkhalis themselves started using this term to refer to their language at a later stage. In an attempt to disassociate himself with his Khas past, the Rana prime minister Jung Bahadur decreed that the term Gorkhali be used instead of Khas kurā to describe the language. Meanwhile, the British Indian administrators had started using the term Nepal (after Newar) to refer to the Gorkha kingdom. In the 1930s, the Gorkha government also adopted this term to describe their country. Subsequently, the Khas language also came to be known as Nepali language. It has become a national language of Nepal and lingua franca among the majority of population of Northern region of West Bengal, Sikkim and Bhutan. Historian Balkrishna Pokhrel contends that the Khas language of Nepal belonged to neither the Iranian language family, nor the Indian languages, but to the mid Indo-Iranian languages.

Music
Deuda song and folk dance performed on the occasion of various festivals in the Sudurpashchim and Karnali provinces of Nepal.

Religion
The majority of Khas profess Hinduism; some of them also follow Buddhism and some were also converted to Christianity. The Khas people also had their own religion known as Masto religion where 12 Masto gods were worshipped. These gods were said to be sons of Shiva. Masto worship was prevalent throughout all of the Western Himalayan region. Masto is worshipped in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir regions of India as Mahasu, Mahesh, and Mahashiv.

Medieval Khas families and dynasties

 * Katyuri kings
 * Lohara dynasty
 * Khas Malla rulers
 * Gorkha kingdom

Modern Khas

 * Bir Bhadra Thapa
 * Sanukaji Amar Singh Thapa
 * Bhimsen Thapa
 * Jung Bahadur Rana
 * Kalu Pande (Kaji)
 * BP Koirala
 * Bhanubhakta Acharya
 * Prithvi Narayan Shah
 * Shivaram Singh Basnyat (Badabir senapanti)
 * Kehar Singh Basnyat
 * Damodar Pandey
 * Abhiman Singh Basnyat
 * Kirtiman Singh Basnyat
 * Bakhtawar Singh Basnyat
 * Dhokal Singh Basnyat
 * Rana Jang Pande
 * Kunwar Inderjit Singh
 * Subarna Shamsher Rana
 * Sher Bahadur Thapa
 * Surya Bahadur Thapa
 * Jhalak Man Gandarbha

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Bom Jardim de Minas

Bom Jardim de Minas is a city of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The name means Good Garden of Minas (Gerais).

It is situated in the southern part of Minas Gerais and in the middle of the Mantiqueira Mountains, at 1,200 meters high, which gives the city a mild climate.

The only paved road that reaches Bom Jardim de Minas is the BR-267, which connects the city to the southern part of the State of Minas Gerais and the region of Juiz de Fora.

Population: 6,459 inhabitants.

It was founded in 1770 with the formation of a farm land in current city. When it came near the farm houses, became a parish and then the district with the installation of the chapel on May 2, 1856. And finally, in 1938, the district was upgrade to city, with two districts, headquarters and Taboão.

Currently, the city has been increasing in the festivities such as Carnival. An agricultural exhibition in May, and a feast in honour of Jesus Christ in August. Along with the natural attractions of waterfalls and mountain scenery these contribute to the tourism industry of the city.

History
In 1770 Arriaga Manoel de Oliveira, accompanied by his wife and six children, founded the Colony of Campo Vermelho near the current city. They were attacked by a tribe of Indians who inhabited the region and during the attack one of his sons was killed. Manoel Arriaga, very saddened by the fact, turned away from the colony and settled on the banks of the Milho Branco stream where he set up a farm which in time became the city.

Years later, Manoel Arriaga was visited by the illustrious Captain Antonio Correia de Lacerda and his family. He joined with Manoel Arriaga in expanding the farm and beginning the cultivation of land on a large scale.

At the request of Captain Lacerda the chapel of Bom Jardim, today the old parish church, was erected in the village centre.

Some years later, with the union of families Arriaga and Lacerda, the farm received the name "Fazenda do Bom Jardim". The origin of the name was due to a well maintained garden near the farmhouse.

In 1856 the village of Senhor Bom Jesus do Bom Jardim was instituted by provincial Law No. 761 of May 2 as belonging to the municipality of Turvo.

The effect of State Law No. 843 of 7 September 1923 was to rename the District to "Bom Jardim" but continuing to belong to the municipality of Turvo. Soon after, under State Law No. 1160, the City of Turvo had its name changed to Andrelândia. The Municipality with the name of Bom Jardim, was created by Decree-State Law No. 148 of December 17, 1938. It consisted of two districts: the headquarters, originally part of the Municipality of Andrelândia, and Taboão from the city of Rio Preto. By Decree-State Law No. 1058 of 31 December 1943 the City of Bom Jardim changed its name to Bom Jardim de Minas and included the new district of Arantina, split off from the District Headquarters. In 1962 Arantina was emancipated and Bom Jardim de Minas reverted to having the two districts of Headquarters and Taboão.

Geography
The area of the municipality is 395 km2, representing 0.07% of the state, the region 0.045% and 0.005% of the entire Brazilian territory. Located on the banks of the Rio Grande in the southern region of the state of Minas Gerais, and the Serra da Mantiqueira.

It is located 281 km from Belo Horizonte, the state capital. The relief of the municipality consists of plateaus, with an average elevation of 1,100 meters, however, this average decreases toward the Rio Grande, to form the lowland rain that is circumvented by the "sea of hills and mountains," with higher topographic level. The highest point is the Serra da Bandeira in Taboão at elevation of 1733 meters.

The region consists of many Taboão high elevation mountains with many water springs, which means that there are several waterfalls in the region. The headwaters of the Rio do Peixe, one of the largest rivers in the region, located in the hills district Taboão.

Climate
The city has mesothermal highland tropical climate, with cold and dry winter rains and higher, taking into account the situation of latitude and elevation ranging from 990 m to 1733 m. According to regional averages, the winter is hardly unpleasant unless one or the other day, the coldest month, July, has averaged approximately 55 °F and 61 °F, daily maximum of 71 °F and 73 °F and minimum of 41 °F to 50 °F and may reach even with minimum absolute in Celsius Scale up to 0 °C (32 °C), and may even gear.

Mayors of Bom Jardim de Minas
This list composes all the mayors of the city of Bom Jardim de Minas, with their respective years since the birth of the city in 1938.

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Paul Anderson (weightlifter)

Paul Edward Anderson (October 17, 1932 – August 15, 1994) was an American weightlifter, strongman, and powerlifter. He was an Olympic gold medalist, a world champion, and a two-time national champion in Olympic weightlifting. Anderson contributed significantly to the development of competitive powerlifting.

Early life
Anderson was born in Toccoa, Georgia, the only son of Ethel Bennett and Robert Anderson. As a teenager, he began his early weight training and training on his own in his family's backyard to increase his size and strength so that he would be able to play on the Toccoa High School football team, where he earned a position as first-team blocking back. He used special homemade weights that his father created out of concrete poured into a wooden form. Anderson attended Furman University on a football scholarship, where he began lifting weights. He later moved to Elizabethton, Tennessee, with his parents, where he met weightlifter Bob Peoples, who would greatly influence him in squat training and introduce him into weightlifting circles.

Career
In 1955, at the height of the Cold War, Anderson, as winner of the USA National Amateur Athletic Union Weightlifting Championship, traveled to the Soviet Union, where weightlifting was a popular sport, for an international weightlifting competition. In a newsreel of the event shown in the United States the narrator, Bud Palmer, commented as follows: "Then, up to the bar stepped a great ball of a man, Paul Anderson." Palmer said, "The Russians snickered as Anderson gripped the bar, which was set at 402.5 pounds, an unheard-of lift. But their snickers quickly changed to awe and all-out cheers as up went the bar and Anderson lifted the heaviest weight overhead of any human in history." "We rarely have such weights lifted," said the solemn Russian announcer as Anderson hoisted 402.41 lb in the two-hand press. Prior to Anderson's lift, the Soviet champion, Alexey Medvedev, had matched the Olympic record of the time with a 330.3 lb press. Anderson then did a 402.5 lb press. At a time when Americans were engaged in a symbolic Cold War battle with the Soviet Union, Anderson's strength — and his singular, tank-like appearance — became a rallying cry to all.

During the 1955 World Championships in Munich, Germany, that October, Anderson went on to establish two other world records (for the press [407.7 lb] and total weight cleared [1129.5 lb]) as he easily won the competition in his weight class to become world champion. Upon his return to the United States, Anderson was received by then Vice-President Richard Nixon, who thanked him for being a goodwill ambassador.

In 1956, Anderson won a gold medal in a long, tough duel with Argentine Humberto Selvetti in the Melbourne, Australia, Olympic Games as a weightlifter in the super-heavyweight class (while suffering from a 104 F fever). The two competitors were tied in the amount of weight lifted, but because Anderson, who weighed in at 137.9 kg, was lighter than Selvetti at the time, who weighed 143.5 kg, Anderson was awarded the gold.

In 1958, Paul tried his hand in professional wrestling. He wrestled in Chicago most notably wrestling against Bozo Brown in the International Amphitheater on November 7, 1958.

Anderson could not compete in the 1960 Olympics because he had been ruled a professional for accepting money for some of his weightlifting and strength exhibitions, including a stint in professional wrestling. Thus at the 1960 Olympics the Soviet heavyweight Yury Vlasov bested records set at the 1956 Olympics, with Anderson not competing in the contest. A short time later, however, not to be outdone by the Russian as the World's Strongest Man, Anderson lifted the same weight as Vlasov three times in quick succession, demonstrating unbelievable strength. This feat solidified his position as the most dominant lifter in the world and cemented his legacy as the strongest of the strong.

In 1961, Anderson and his wife Glenda founded the Paul Anderson Youth Home, a home for troubled youth, in Vidalia, Georgia. They both helped to build and support the home with an average of 500 speaking engagements and strength exhibitions per year—notwithstanding the congenital chronic kidney disease that eventually killed him at age 61. He would perform stunts such as hammering a nail with his bare fist and raising a table loaded with eight men onto his back.

The Guinness Book of World Records (1985 edition) lists his feat of lifting 6270 lb in a back lift as "the greatest weight ever raised by a human being". Anderson turned professional after the 1956 Summer Olympics, and thus many of his feats of strength, while generally credible, were not done under rigorous enough conditions to be official. In fact, controversy surrounding the figure in the 1985 Guinness Book led to its withdrawal in subsequent editions; the currently listed Guinness record is 5,340 lbs, set by Gregg Ernst in 1993.

Personal life
In 1950, Anderson married Glenda Garland. The couple were devout Christians. They had one daughter, born 1966.

While competing, Anderson weighed 275 - 370 lb and was 5 ft tall or less.

Death
As a child, Anderson suffered from Bright's disease (now known as chronic nephritis), a kidney disorder, and he eventually died from kidney disease on August 15, 1994, at the age of 61.

Legacy
Anderson's true life testimony can be heard through the Unshackled! radio ministry. It was first broadcast as program number 2521 and later redramatized as program number 3478. Unshackled! has also produced a comic booklet telling Anderson's story, which includes breaking a brick and stopping bank robbers.

Paul Anderson Memorial Park, located at the corner of East Tugalo Street and Big A Road in Toccoa, is named for Anderson. The park features a life-size sculpture of him performing an overhead barbell lift. The sculpture was created by Jerry McKenna, renowned American sculptor.

Was once a contestant on "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx. Paul and his partner answered four questions correctly, winning them $1000.

In July 2019, an episode of the History Channel show The Strongest Man in History featured Paul Anderson's story and several of his historic feats of strength.

Official records
Olympic weightlifting

Done in official competition

 * Clean and press: 408.5 lb on 1955-10-16, in Munich at the 1955 World Championships
 * Snatch: 335 lb on 1956-06-02 in Philadelphia at the 1956 Senior Nationals
 * Clean and jerk: 440 lb on 1956-06-02 in Philadelphia at the 1956 Senior Nationals
 * Total: 1175 lb. Clean and press: 400 lb. Snatch: 335 lb. Clean and jerk: 440 lb on 1956-06-02 in Philadelphia at the 1956 Senior Nationals

Unofficial lifts
Powerlifting

Guinness also listed Anderson's best powerlifts

Done in small exhibitions or training (according to Anderson himself)

 * Squat: 1200 lb raw
 * Bench press: 628 lb raw
 * Deadlift: 820 lb raw

Olympic weightlifting

Best gym lifts (according to Anderson himself)

 * Clean and press: 485 lb
 * Snatch: 375 lb
 * Clean and jerk: 485 lb

Other lifts

Done in small exhibitions or training

 * Best "authenticated" full squat: 930 lb – as a professional at Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1965
 * Full squat: 1206 lb
 * Assisted deadlift (using metal hooks attached to the wrists): 1000 lb
 * Push press: 560 lb (off the rack)
 * Military press: 435 lb
 * One-arm side press: 380 lb

Quotes about Anderson

 * Chuck Ahrens (Muscle Beach strongman of the 1950s)
 * "I could do 310 in a standing one-arm side press with a dumbbell. Paul could do it for reps with ease."

 * Ed Coan (powerlifting record-breaker)
 * "Though I never met him personally until the Strength Symposium in Florida, I saw films of him lifting in his heyday, with such absolute ease it was astonishing. Using his strength to benefit others is something that should make all powerlifters proud. What a great benefactor to mankind."

 * Jon Cole (powerlifter of the early 1970s)
 * "My love and respect for Paul runs deep. His ability to lift enormous weights in limited movements surpasses all. Those who attempt to discredit him shame our sport."

 * Bill Kazmaier (3-time World's Strongest Man)
 * "He's the king of strength. His backlift was unbelievable. But more amazing was his total commitment as a Christian."

 * Don Reinhoudt (one of the strongest powerlifters of all time)
 * "Paul was an inspiration to me. Some of his feats may never be surpassed."

 * Oliver Sacks (neurologist and Muscle Beach powerlifter)
 * "A lot of lifters gathered at Sydney's on Santa Monica Beach near the base of the Pier. Here, as they got pissed [drunk], their stories became more and more fantastic. One heard of deltoids like watermelons and squats of a thousand pounds. This last turned out to be a solid fact for the incredible Paul Anderson. He was squatting with almost twice as much as anyone else's maximum."

 * Yuri Vlasov (Anderson's major competitor in heavyweight weightlifting)
 * "Anderson overcame the limits of human capabilities .. I eagerly absorbed the crumbs of information about his training from the sports magazines. I tried to understand the nature of his amazing power. I did not associate it only with body weight. There should have been something in his training, different from the accepted norms"

 * Bruce Wilhelm (2-time World's Strongest Man)
 * "Absolutely no question, Paul was the strongest of the strong. His physical deterioration and prolonged illness for the last 16 years of his life was a fate unbefitting such a great strongman and humanitarian. Paul was really a powerlifter and did the overhead lifts only because powerlifting as a sport did not exist 40 years ago. He excelled and was world and Olympic champ because he was far stronger than anyone else. When I hear people talk that a powerlifter will never win an Olympic gold medal, I tell them that Paul Anderson already did it, almost forty years ago."

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Po, Asturias

Po is a parish of the municipality of Llanes, Asturias, in the coast of northern Spain. The small town of Po is situated about 2 kilometers from the capital of the municipality.

It has the shortest name in Spain.

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Talk:Hossein Kaebi

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he is one of irans key players, and pretty notable considering he was named in world football magazine as one of the 12 young players to look out for last year.

Kaebi is an Arab
Kaebi is an Arabic title - this is not disputed. So why deny it? What is the agenda behind stating when a successful Iranian is Persian, but suppressing the ethnicity of successful non-Persian Iranians? Why do you people always try to dodge these questions?

Whether or not he is a member of the former Arab rulers is not something I can answer. It seems like he must have had some relationship.--88.109.32.246 17:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Says whom? "Ahwaz"? If we're suppose to go by the person's name, then Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani must be a Persian. Provide a source that says Kaebi is an Arab. --ManiF 17:12, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, Ahwaz is his home city so everyone there knows he is Arab. Look up the history of Khuzestan anywhere. The Bani Kaab are Arabs. Read it here on Wikipedia. The Bani Kaab are an Arab tribe strongly associated with Khuzestan particularly when it was Arabistan. Kaebi is an Arabic name just as Smith is an English name. It is a fact. You are not Iranian if you don't know this.--88.109.32.246 17:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I wasn't talking about the city of Ahvaz, don't act coy "Ahwaz". Someone's name alone is not an indication of ethnicity, see my previous comment. If Kaebi is indeed an Arab, then there should be at least a source that mentions this fact. --ManiF 17:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I think you have confused me with another. It is true that a name alone is not necessarily an indication of ethnicity, but in the case of the Bani Kaab, it is a certainty.--88.109.32.246 18:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Al-Isfahani means from Isfahan - it can apply to anyone from Isfahan. Kaebi could come from Kuwait or Iraq or Iran, but it is always the tribal name. Kaab is not a place. The Bani Kaab ruled the area for a long time under the Qajar dynasty. Please ask any Iranian user of Wikipedia.--88.109.32.246 17:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Isfahani was an Arab with a Persian surname, the opposite could be true about Kaebi. Just provide a source that says Kaebi is an Arab so we can verify this claim, a source in Persian language would do the job too. --ManiF 17:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Al-Isfahani is not a Persian or an Arab surname. It is a nisba of place of origin not ethnicity. Bani Kaab is an Arab tribal name and Kaebi means he is from that tribe. I am not saying he is direct a relative of the former ruling Arab families. He might also have a Persian mother or grandmother. But it is safe to say he is of Arab lineage from the paternal line and is therefore an Arab.--88.109.32.246 18:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I temporarily added "He is a Khuzestani Arab" to that unsourced paragraph about his family roots, until a source is provided for that entire paragraph and the unverifiable claims within it. We'll give it a week. --ManiF 17:43, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I will look for source but it will probably be in Arabic or Farsi.--88.109.32.246 18:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * That's fine, as long as it's a reliable and verifiable source. --ManiF 21:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * What do you consider a reliable and verifiable source?--88.111.42.201 00:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

 * A newspaper article, an interview with Kaebi, a published book, see WP:VERIFY --ManiF 01:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Which international match did he score that goal?
The infobox shows that he scored 1 goal for Iran. Which country did he score against and when? - Wolcott 26 August 2007 —The preceding  signed but undated.

 * Against New Zealand in 2003. Nokhodi 20:08, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much. But the official Iranian national team website states that he scored 2 goals. Got any info on the 2nd goal Kaebi scored? - Wolcott 10:52, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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The Rae Report was the result of a provincial review of post-secondary education led by former Ontario Premier Bob Rae. After the Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty brought in a fully funded tuition fee freeze at public colleges and universities in April 2004, it announced a sweeping review of public post-secondary education was to take place.

Review process
In the summer of 2004, the government announced that Rae was to head the review. As a backup to the former premier, a seven member advisory panel was announced: Leslie Church, Ian Davidson, Bill Davis, Don Drummond (economist), Inez Elliston, Richard Johnston and Huguette LaBelle. Bill Davis was a Progressive Conservative and former Education Minister and Premier of Ontario. Don Drummond is currently a Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Richard Johnston was formerly a leadership rival to Rae at the 1982 Ontario NDP convention. The panel also included a young Liberal and a former adviser to the federal government.

Rae toured the province in fall of 2004, hosting many town-halls and roundtables.

Conclusions
The final report called for deregulation of tuition fees and the introduction of a scheme to finance university and college education - income-contingent loan repayments. The report also called for an increase in public funding of colleges and universities - about half of what had been cut in the past decade, as well as upfront grants for students who come from households with an income of less than $22,000 per annum.

Criticism
Rae's appointment was opposed by many students, who had seen his government permit a 57% increase in tuition fees and the elimination of need-based grants. (The Rae administration cut back on social services as a whole in the early nineties to reduce the deficit caused by the recession.) The composition of the advisory panel also came under fire as none of its members had a record of support for reduced or frozen tuition fees.

Rae was also criticized for having drawn conclusions prior to the consultation phase of the review. In May 2004, Rae speculated about the possibility of an outright deregulation of tuition fees - to the outrage of student advocacy groups.

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