Ward Connerly

Wardell Anthony "Ward" Connerly is an American political and anti-affirmative action activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent (1993–2005). He is also the founder and the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, a national non-profit organization in opposition to racial and gender preferences, and is the president of Californians for Equal Rights, a non-profit organization active in the state of California with a similar mission. He is considered to be the man behind California's Proposition 209 prohibiting race- and gender-based preferences in state hiring, contracting and state university admissions, a program known as affirmative action.

15 June 1939

Born on the same birth day (15 June): Annelies Bredael • Antoine-François de Fourcroy • Bryan Clauson • Harry Langdon • Henry McLeish • Ice Cube • Irfan Hadžić • Jack Horner (paleontologist) • Jim Varney • Neil Patrick Harris • Riccardo Paletti • Wilbert Awdry

Born in the same month (June 1939): Alan Connolly (cricketer) • Amarildo (footballer, born 1939) • Bernd Hoss • Brereton C. Jones • Brigitte Fontaine • Colin Thubron • David Hobbs (racing driver) • Denis de Belleval • Dick Vitale • George Reid (Scottish politician) • Ian Hunter (singer) • Ileana Cotrubaș • Jackie Stewart • Jean-Claude Germain • Peter Mayle • R. D. Burman • Zainuddin Maidin