He was born in South Bank, Middlesbrough, the son of an English father and an Irish mother.

Belkhodja was born in Paris to an Algerian father and a French mother on 15 April 1955.

Samir Amin was born in Cairo, the son of an Egyptian father and a French mother (both medical doctors).

Harold was born in Decatur, Georgia, the son of an engineer father and a mother who was a real estate agent.

Tickle was born on September 5, 1959 in Guildford, Surrey, the only son of a university professor father, and an artistic mother.

Hill was born in 1957 in Newmarket, Ontario, the son of American immigrants to Canada - a black father and a white mother.

Mohyeldin was born in Cairo, Egypt to an Egyptian father, and a Palestinian mother.

Copon was born in Chesapeake, Virginia to a Filipino father, and a German mother.

He was born in south London, the only son of a clerk and a perceptive mother who encouraged him to write as a youngster.

Giovanni Falcone was born in a poor district of Palermo in 1939, the son of a state clerk and a very religious mother.