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): Courteney Cox • Dave McAuley • Edvard Grieg • Frank Clement (racing driver) • Georg Wüst • Ian Greenberg • John Paintsil • Lakshmi Mittal • Scott Norton • Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin • Tia-Adana Belle • Tore André Flo

Born in the same month (June 1939): Bernd Hoss • Budge Rogers • Colin Thubron • Dick Vitale • Eric Fernie • Ian Hunter (singer) • Jackie Stewart • Jean-Claude Germain • John Schlee • Lou Brock • Neil Hawke • Peter Mayle • Ramakant Desai • Ron Lynch (rugby league) • Tony Hatch • Yuli Turovsky