Famous People with Name Holden

Holden Álvaro Roberto            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Holden Álvaro Roberto: founded and led the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) from 1962 to 1999. His memoirs are unfinished.Roberto and Barros Necaca founded the Union of Peoples of Northern Angola, later renamed the Union of Peoples of Angola, on July 14, 1956. Roberto, serving as UPA President, represented Angola in the All-African Peoples Congress of Ghana which he secretly attended in Accra, Ghana in December 1958.

William Holden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Holden: was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was named one of the "Top 10 stars of the year" six times (1954-1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list as #25.Holden, eldest of three sons, was born as William Franklin Beedle, Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois, the son of Mary Blanche (née Ball), a schoolteacher, and William Franklin Beedle, Sr., an industrial chemist. The family, which moved to South Pasadena, California when he was three, was of English descent; Holden's paternal great-grandmother, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, while some of his mother's ancestors immigrated to the U.S. in the 17th century from Millenback, Lancaster, England.

Rebecca Holden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rebecca Holden: She moved to Hollywood and her first appearance on TV was a guest spot on Three's Company, but it wasn't until 1983 when she got her big break starring on the 1982 hit TV series Knight Rider as April Curtis during the show's second season from 1983 to 198

Mari Kim Holden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mari Kim Holden: is an American cycle racer. She won the world time trial championship in 2000 after winning a silver medal in the Olympic Games time trial in Sydney, Australia. She also won six U.S. championships, becoming the first American woman to win three consecutiv

George W. Holden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George W. Holden: was a professional heavyweight boxer, born in Medford, Massachusetts. George fought his first professional boxing match against Tony Lampton on August 24, 1967 in Portland, Maine and his last match on April 13, 1972 against Jimmy McDermott, also in Portla

Reuben Andrus Holden III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Reuben Andrus Holden III: was a tennis player during the early part of the 20th Century. Holden played on the Yale University tennis team, a tennis powerhouse in those years along with Harvard, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1910, at the age of 20, Holden won the