From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 10/Feb/2018 - Part 1

Hi Steemians,

This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.

Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.

1. Elizabeth Banks

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Elizabeth Banks is an American actress, director and producer as well and had a record opening for her debut directorial movie Pitch Perfect 2 with opening weekend gross of $69 million.

As for as her acting, she has acted in some of the big hit movies like Role Models, The Next Three Days, Pitch Perfect, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Power Rangers and The Hunger Games film series.

Besides movies, she is an active member on television acting and has acted in many soaps and serials.

She is a winner of MTV movie awards.

2. Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb was an English poet, essayist who was known for his collections of essays under name Essays of Elia and his children's book Tales from Shakespeare and was regarded as "The most lovable figure in English literature".

Charles Lamb had some other notable works which include Eliana, The Last Essays of Elia, The Adventures of Ulysses, Witches and Other Night Fears.

3. Walter Houser Brattain

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Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist and is known for the co-inventing the point-contract transistor(the first type of solid-state electronic transistor).

He along with John Bardeen and William Shockley were awarded with Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.

Before turning into researches, Brattain worked as a professor at Harvard University and Whitman College.

He was a member of National Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He was inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1974.

4. Lee Hsien Loong

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Lee Hsien Loong is a Singaporean politician and serving as current Prime Minister, the third Prime Minister of Singapore serving since 2004 and serving as Prime Minister for the fourth term.

Previously he served as Minister for Trade and Industry, Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister.

He is the highest paid head of the government in the world.

5. Justin Gatlin

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Justin Gatlin is an American sprinter who mainly participates in 100m and 200m events and is the current 100m world champion.

He won gold medal for 100m event in 2004 Athens Olympics and gold medal winner in 2005 and 2017 world championships in 100m event.

He is also gold medal winner in 200m event in 2005 world championships.

All in all, he has won 5 Olympic medals(1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals), 8 world championship medals (3 gold and 5 silver) and 2 gold medals in IAAF world relays.