Anthony Asquith - English film director. Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) are his major works
Erich Auerbach - German philologist, comparative scholar and literary critic. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature is his major work
Marco Bellocchio - Italian film director, screenwriter and producer
Sherrod Brown - American politician, born Sherrod Campbell Brown. He is a member of the Dempocratic Party
Eric Dane - American actor. He is Dr. Mark Sloan in Grey's Anatomy medical drama television series
Jean-Marie Floch - French semiologist. He wrote Sémiotique, marketing et communication : sous les signes, les stratégies
Imre Kertész - Hungarian writer, a concentration camp survivor. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002. He wrote Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Imre Lakatos - Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, and epistemologist. Born Imre Lipschitz
Hedy Lamarr - Pseudonym of Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Austrian-born American actress and inventor
Fernando Meirelles - Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed the film The Constant Gardener
Canadian biologist, born Jack William Szostak. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn.
Szostak is pronounced SHOS-tahk.