born 10 May 1970

Amanda Doss, Cambridge, Massachusetts, producer

Craig Cignarelli, birthplace unspecified, tennis instructor/friend of Erik Menendez

Dallas Roberts, Houston, Texas, actor

David Weir, Falkirk, Scotland, soccer player

Duncan Skinner, Plymouth, England, actor

Francesco Perri, Albenga, Italy, assistant director

Gina Philips, Miami Beach, Florida, actress

Harris Cohen, Livingston, New Jersey, writer

Höng Tao, Chungking, China, actress

Kim Carroll, Cork, Ireland, composer

Luan Krasniqi, Junik, Yugoslavia, Kosovar Albanian boxer

Luis B. Carranco, Mexico City, assistant director

Michele Ann Laird, New York, New York, stripper Tawny Peaks

Perry Blake, Sligo, Ireland, singer/songwriter

Sally Phillips, Hong Kong, actress

Simona Patitucci, Rome, Italy, actress

Will Gaffney (died 9 April 2000), birthplace unspecified, David Morse’s Proof of Life stand-in

Today’s Winner takes the prize for the wisdom her ancestors showed in not immigrating to the United States. Because if I had been to elementary school with a little girl whose last name was “Patitucci”, I feel certain things would not have gone well for that little girl.