Notable People
Bette Midler
Bette Midler was born December 1, 1945 in Honolulu, Oahu. She spent her childhood and also teen years in Hawaii. The she moved to the mainland where she became a singer and an actress. She got a part on the Broadway show Fiddler on the Roof, and over the years stared in a movie as The Rose, For the Boys, and Hocus Pocus. Bette Midler received four Grammy awards for her singing and two Academy Award nominations for acting.
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Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Onizuka was born on June 24, 1946 in Kealakekua, Hawaii. He was the first Hawaiian, the first Japanese American, and the first Buddhist astronaut in space. He was an officer in the U.S. Air Force and joined NASA in 1978. On January 28, 1986 he went on a mission with six more people. Then right after take off the space ship exploded and they all died.
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Barack Obama
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Bethany Hamilton
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Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Oahu. He lived in Hawaii most of his childhood. He moved to Illinois and became a U.S senator for the state. In 1992, Obama got married to Michelle Obama and had two kids, Malia and Sasha Obama. In 2008 he became the first African American president of the United States, and he was the 44th president. In 2009 he won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." (www.nobelprize.org)
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Bethany Hamilton was born on February 8, 1990 in Lihue, Kauai. When she was 13 years old, while surfing, she was attacked by a shark and lost her left arm. Three weeks after her shark attack, Bethany returned to the ocean surfing because she did not want to give up her love of surfing. She one day wanted to become a professional surfer, and one day she did. She won and ESPY for the Best Comeback Athlete of the year and and wrote a bestselling autobiography about her life called Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board.
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Michelle Wie
Michelle Wie was born in 1989 in Honolulu, Oahu. She began playing golf when she was just four years old and she became a professional golfers at the age of 15. Michelle became the youngest player ever to be in the U.S Curtis Cup Championship team. In 2009, she had her first win in an LPGA and won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico.
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