Another piece in our series First Names First! Pick one of the names that you see below. Then follow the Wikipedia link to read about that person, and to see what if anything he or she could contribute your life with. Inspiration, passion, enlightenment, encouragement, empathy, etc. Give a couple of minutes to this for lives lived have all something worthwhile to tell us.
This time it is all about Kevin! Kevin of Glendalough* hermit/founder of Glendalough Monastery/Irish saint - White Mountain, Ireland (498) Kevin McCarthy* actor – Seattle, WA USA (1914) Kevin Laffan* actor/ playwright (Emmerdale) – Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England (1922) Kevin Conway* actor/director - New York City, NY USA (1942) Kevin Kline* actor – St. Louis, Missouri USA (1947) Kevin Whately* actor – Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (1951) Kevin Killian* poet/author/playwright - Long Island, NY USA (1952) Kevin Warwick* computer engineer/robotics – Coventry, England (1954) Kevin O’Leary* businessman/ politician/investor (Shark Tank) – Montreal, QC Canada (1954) Kevin Costner* actor/director/producer – Lynwood, CA USA (1955) Kevin Conroy* actor/ voice actor (Batman) – Westbury, NY USA (1955) Kevin Dunn* actor – Chicago, IL USA (1956) Kevin Curran* writer (The Simpsons etc)/voice actor – Hartford, CT USA (1957) Kevin Pollak* actor – San Francisco, CA USA (1957) Kevin Bacon* actor – Philadelphia, PA USA (1958) Kevin Sorbo* actor – Mound, MN USA (1958) Kevin Gage* (b Gaede) actor – WI USA (1959) Kevin Spacey* actor – South Orange, NJ USA (1959) Kevin Doyle* actor – Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England (1960) Kevin Mahaney* sailor (OS)/commercial real estate developer – Bangor, ME USA (1962) Kevin James* American magician - France (1962) Kevin Chapman* actor – Boston, MA USA (1962) Kevin J.O’Connor* actor – Chicago, IL USA (1963) Kevin McCarthy* politician – Bakersfield, CA USA (1965) Kevin James* actor/screenwriter/producer – Stony Brook, NY USA (1965) Kevin Cheveldayoff* hockey player/manager/GM – Saskatoon, SK Canada (1970) Kevin Scannell* professor of mathematics and computer science - Boston, MA USA (1970) Kevin Smith* actor/film director/comic book writer - Red Bank, NJ USA (1970) Kevin Durand* actor – Thunder Bay, ON Canada (1974) Kevin Burkhardt* sportscaster/ television host (Alone) – Bloomfield, NJ USA (1974) Kevin Connolly* actor/ director – New York City, NY USA (1974) Kevin Weekes* hockey goalie/studio hockey analyst - Toronto, ON Canada (1975) Kevin Federline* musician – Fresno, CA USA (1978) Kevin Hart* actor – Philadelphia, PA USA (1979) Kevin Bieksa* hockey player/Hockey Night in Canada host – Grimsby, ON Canada (1981) Kevin Anderson* tennis player - Johannesburg, South Africa (1986) Kevin Shattenkirk* hockey player - New Rochelle, NY USA (1989) Kevin K.** Finnish computer programmer – Stockholm, Sweden (1989) Kevin Connauton* hockey player – Edmonton, AB Canada (1990) Kevin de Bruyne* football player - Ghent, Belgium (1991) Kevin Mayer* athlete/decathlon - Argenteuil, France (1992) Kevin Volland* football player – Marktoberdorf, Germany (1992) Kevin Lankinen* hockey goalie - Helsinki, Finland (1995) Kevin Labanc* hockey player - Staten Island, NY USA (1995) Kevin Stenlund* hockey player – Stockholm, Sweden (1996) Updated 2025-0305 Helsinki PS. The picture depicts Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer in Footloose from 1984