1957 births
Lino Sima Ekua Avomo
1957 births | living people | permanent representatives to the united nations birth_place =Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea spouse =Mónica Salvador Obono Asu image =Replace this image male.svg imagesize =150px smallimage = office =Permanent Representative to the UN for Equatorial Guinea 25px country = term_start =21 May 2003 term_end = predecessor = successor = president = office2 =Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to France, United Kingdom, Portugal and Switzerland term_start2 =1990 term_end2 =2000 predecessor2 = successor2 = office3 = term_start3 = term_end3 = predecessor3 = successor3 =
Lino Sima Ekua Avomo (born 4 April 1957, in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea) is the Permanent Representative of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations. He presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 21 May 2003.
Carol Brouillet
1957 births | american activists | american anti-war activists | american radio personalities | california politicians | conspiracy theorists | living people | people from california Carol Brouillet Carol Brouillet (b. August 28, 1957), an American political activist and organizer, is a Green Party candidate for the United States House of Representatives in California's 14th congressional district. Carol is a leading activist in the 9/11 Truth Movement. In 2006 she ran for Congress a first time as a Green on a 9-11 Truth, Peace, and Impeachment platform. She has co-founded several non-profit organizations that seek to connect people, vital ideas, and important information for the purpose of nurturing healthy social change, economic justice and ecological sustainability. These include the International Media Project, the Who's Counting Project, the 9-11 Truth Alliance, and the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance.
Background
Carol Liane Shepard was born August 28, 1957 in Santa Monica, California to Janet Edwina Zabel and Charles Baumert Shepard. She was raised in California. She attended Hawaii Loa College, Reed College, and the University of Grenoble. Beginning with a sailing trip around the world from 1976 to 1978, Carol continued to travel widely during the 1980s during which she read, wrote and collected experiences to help her fulfil an ambition of becoming an author. She eventually found herself organizing art exhibitions, notably of the artist, Huang Ge Sheng, whose work she discovered on a trip to China. In 1988 she met her husband Jean-Luc Brouillet and settled in Palo Alto, California. She and her husband have three boys.Peter Cox (musician)
1957 births | english male singers | english pop singers | english soul singersPeter Cox (born 17 November 1955) is an English singer/songwriter and occasional drummer, best known for being one half of eighties blue-eyed soul band Go West.
Alex Man
1957 births | hakka people | hong kong actors | indigenous inhabitant people in hong kong | living peopleAlex Man 万梓良 (1957-; Bao'an, Guangdong; born in Hong Kong), Hong Kong actor who has played leading roles in numerous movies and television serials. He won the Best Actor in the Golden Horse Awards, 1988.
Category: Hong Kong actors Category: 1957 births Category: Living people Category: Indigenous inhabitant people in Hong Kong Category: Hakka people
Kathy Tebow
1957 births | living people | miss america 1977 delegates | people from anchorage, alaska hair color=Brown}}Kathy Tebow (Sharp) (born 23 June 1957) is from Anchorage, Alaska and competed in the 1977 Miss America Scholarship Pageant.
Tebow won her first pageant title in March 1976 when she was crowned Miss Anchorage 1976 in her first attempt at the title. Two weeks later she represented Anchorage in the 1976 Miss Alaska Pageant and won the title; reigning during the nation's bicentennial year. An accomplished violinist and member of the Anchorage Symphony, Tebow performed a hungarian folk dance for the Miss Anchorage Pageant talent competition, and a footstomping rendition of Orange Blossum Special for the Miss Alaska Pageant. However, it was Tebow's performance of a classical violin piece at the Miss America 1977 Pageant that earned her a respected non-finalist talent award; the first Miss Alaska award at the national pageant in twelve years.
Akhtar Rasool
1957 births | living people | olympic field hockey players of pakistan | olympic gold medallist for pakistan | pakistani field hockey playersAkhtar Rasool is a former field hockey player and captain from Pakistan, who won the golden medal with the Men's National Hockey Team at the Hockey World Cups 1978 and again in 1982.
Carol Plum-Ucci
1957 births | american children's writers | american essayists | american library association | american novelists | book one new jersey winners | edgar allan poe award | living people | michael l. printz honor book award | new jersey writers | purdue university graduates | suspense writers | young adult literary service association | young adult novelistsCarol Plum-Ucci (born August 16, 1957 in [Atlantic City, New Jersey]) is a young adult novelist and essayist. Plum-Ucci’s most famous work to date is (The Body of Christopher Creed, for which she won a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award in 2002 and was named a Finalist to the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Describing her subjects as "the most common, timeless, and most heart-felt teenagers," Plum-Ucci is widely recognized for her use of the South Jersey shore to set scenes for engaging characters embracing suspense themes.
Butch Benton
1957 births | chicago cubs players | cleveland indians players | living people | major league catchers | major league players from florida | new york mets playersAlfred Lee "Butch" Benton (born August 24, 1957 in Tampa, Florida) was a right-handed catcher in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets, Chicago Cubs, and Cleveland Indians from 1978 to 1985.
A highly touted prospect out of Godby High School in Tallahassee, Florida, Benton was the 6th overall selection in the first round of the 1975 amateur draft. He made the jump from AA to the major leagues at age 21 in 1978 when he joined the Mets as a September call-up. He made his major league debut on September 14, pinch-hitting for Roy Lee Jackson. Facing Dan Schatzeder, Benton flew out to center field. He wouldn't break the lineup again until September 29, when he was hit by a Mike Krukow pitch as a pinch-hitter. Benton scored his first major league run as a pinch-runner the next day. Finally on October 1, the last day of the season, Benton got his first chance to play in the field, and also went 2-for-3 at the plate. His first major league hit was an RBI infield single of the Cubs' Lynn McGlothen. He knocked in a second run in the game with a single in the ninth. Benton was the sixth-youngest player to appear in the National League in 1978.
Elijah Tillery
1957 births | african american sportspeople | american boxers | heavyweights | living people | people from staten islandCarlton Elijah Tillery (born 1957-08-08 in Staten Island, NY) is a former American boxer in the heavyweight division, nicknamed "Phoenix Steel".
Des English
1957 births | carlton blues players | living people Des English (born October 9, 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFL during the 1980s.
A defender, English played in the Carlton premiership sides of 1981 and 1982. He was diagnosed with leukemia in 1986 and never played again, although he eventually recovered.
