Celebrity Birthdays January 28th:

Entertainment:

Elijah Wood is an actor known for the movie “Lord of the Rings” franchise and the TV show “Wilfred”.

Ariel Winter is an actress known for the TV shows “Modern Family” and “Sofia the First”.

Calum Worthy is an actor known for the TV show “Austin & Ally” and “Pacific Rim: The Black”.

Will Poulter is an actor known for the movies “We’re the Millers” and “The Maze Runner” franchise.

Julia Lester is an actress known for the TV shows “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” and “Mr. Student Body President”.

Tom Hopper is an actor known for the TV shows “Black Snails” and “The Umbrella Academy”

Harry Still is an actor known for the TV shows “Almost Never” and Saturday Mash-Up”.

Whitney Peak is an actress known for the TV shows “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Home Before Dark”.

Katie Nolan is a sports talk show host known for her work at ESPN, Fox Sports, NBC and Apple+ TV.

Alan Alda is an actor known for the TV shows “M*A*S*H*” and “The West Wing”.

Nick Carter is a singer-songwriter-multi instrumentalist member of the most successful Pop boyband ever Backstreet Boys. He also has three solo albums and an album he worked on with NKOTB’s Jordan Knight.

Joey Fatone is a singer-actor who was apart of the Pop boyband NSYNC who sang baritone and was the host of the U.S. and Australian versions of The Singing Bee, which aired on NBC plus has hosted four other game shows.

Sarah McLachlan is a singer-songwriter who has sold over 40 million albums worldwide and her best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards.

Rick Ross is a rapper-record executive known for his “booming” vocal performance, “larger than life” persona, and vivid lyrical imagery. His lyrics form the hardships of street life and black market economic activity into a rags to riches narrative, often describing affluence, wealth, and luxury.

J Cole is a rapper who has won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song, a Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Album, three Soul Train Music Awards, and eight BET Hip Hop Awards. Also six of his albums have been certified platinum.

Sports:

Football:

Daunte Culpepper is a former quarterback who has made three Pro Bowls and led the league in both passing yards and TDs.

Basketball:

Andre Iguodala is a former one time All-Star small forward who has won four NBA Championships and was the NBA Finals MVP once.

Greg Popovich is the current head coach of the San Antonino Spurs who is in the Basketball Hall of Fame and has won five NBA Championships. He has also won two Gold Medals and one Bronze Medal.

Baseball:

Bill White is a former eight time All-Star first basemen who won seven Gold Glove Awards and won one World Series Championship in 1964 with the St Louis Cardinals.

Jermaine Dye is a former two time All-Star right fielder who has won both a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger Award. He won a World Series Championship in 2005 with the White Sox where he also won the World Series MVP.

Magglio Ordonez is a former six time All-Star right fielder who won three Silver Slugger Awards and won one batting title.

Lyle Overbay is a former first basemen who had a career high 6 RBI against the Cincinnati Reds, hitting two home runs, including a grand slam in 2005 which is a feat was also the most in a season by a Brewer. He also won two player of the week awards.

Ke’Bryan Hayes is a third basemen for the Pittsburgh Pirates who has won one Gold Glove Award.

Hunter Renfroe is a right fielder for the Kansas City Royals who has won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, given to the best college baseball player in Mississippi and won Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player Award in the minor leagues.

Other Baseball Birthdays:

Larvell Blanks, Stu Pederson, Gary Mielke, Kevin Tolar, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Bryan Ward, Chris Peters, Steve Falteisek, Jacob Cruz, Oscar Henriquez, Junior Spivey, Rod Lindsey, Bob File, Tomas De La Rosa, Phil Seibel, Doug Waechter, Elizardo Ramirez, Wesley Wright, Nate Jones,
Brandon Guyer, Jose Ceda, AJ Griffin, Zac Reininger, Jorge Guzman, Matt Manning & Luis Matos!

In Memoriam:

Sports:

Baseball:

George Wright was a former Hall of Fame shortstop who won three NL Pennants and four NA Pennants. He went into sports good business and the development of golf.

Pete Runnels was a former five time All-Star infielder who won two batting titles.