Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.
23 December 1955
Born on the same birth date (23 December 1955): Grace Knight
Born on the same birth day (23 December): Anna of Saxony • Beau Champion • Brad Lidge • Christian Potenza • Dick Weber • Edita Gruberová • Mamnoon Hussain • Mathilde Wesendonck • Michael C. Burgess • Richard Clark Barkley • Robert Kahn (computer scientist) • Susan Lucci • Thomas Smith (diplomat) • Tore Johansen • Víctor Martínez (baseball)
Born in the same month (December 1955): Barbara Olson • Bogusław Mamiński • Carol Browner • Cassandra Wilson • Chamras Saewataporn • Chris Goodall • Dave Taylor (ice hockey) • Evan Bayh • Hector Sants • Kazuyuki Sekiguchi • Miyuki Kawanaka • Otis Birdsong • Pat Spillane • Prince Lorenz of Belgium • Rob Portman • Stephen Frost • Tony Woodcock (footballer) • Udit Narayan • Vijay Mallya