Famous People with Name Debra

Debra Jean LaFave            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Jean LaFave: is a model and former teacher at Angelo L. Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, Florida, who plead guilty in 2005 to statutory rape charges stemming from her affair with a 14-year-old student in 2004.

Debra Lynn Messing            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Lynn Messing: is an Emmy- and SAG-winning American actress, known for portraying Grace Adler in Will & Grace and for appearing in a series of film roles. She starred as Molly Kagan in the 2007 television series The Starter Wife.

Debra Paget            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Paget: is an American actress and entertainer who made a name for herself in the 1950s and early-1960s in a variety of feature films including Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments and Love Me Tender, the film début of Elvis Presley.

Debra Winger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Winger: is an Academy Award- nominated American actress. Born Mary Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a Jewish family. In the early 1970s she spent several years volunteering in a Kibbutz in Israel and serving in the Israel Defense Forces.

Debra Hill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Hill: was an American screenwriter and film producer who co-wrote the horror film Halloween, its first sequel Halloween II, and The Fog. Hill was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She entered the movie business in 1975 and was unhappy with the level of condescension she experienced because of her gender. She started as a production assistant on adventure documentaries, and progressed through jobs as a script supervisor, assistant director and second unit director.

Dennis Marshall Maxwell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dennis Marshall Maxwell: was a prominent poet from Costa Rica. A popular anecdote says that Debravo wrote his first poems on banana paper. Eventually, his first works would get published in a local magazine called "El Turrialbeño" by the time he was in the ninth grade. He would soon leave school to start working for the Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social (Social Security).

Jules Régis Debray            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jules Régis Debray: is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia.

Patrice Debray            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Patrice Debray: is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haute-Saône department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.