Famous People with Name Debra

Debra Winger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Winger: is an Academy Award- nominated American actress. Born Mary Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a Jewish family. In the early 1970s she spent several years volunteering in a Kibbutz in Israel and serving in the Israel Defense Forces.

Debra Hill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Hill: was an American screenwriter and film producer who co-wrote the horror film Halloween, its first sequel Halloween II, and The Fog. Hill was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She entered the movie business in 1975 and was unhappy with the level of condescension she experienced because of her gender. She started as a production assistant on adventure documentaries, and progressed through jobs as a script supervisor, assistant director and second unit director.

Debra ("Debby") Joanne Wurzburger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra ("Debby") Joanne Wurzburger: is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she finished in ninth position in her only start, the 800m Freestyle.

Debra Ann Miceli            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Ann Miceli: is a former professional wrestler for the American Wrestling Association, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation. She is also a former world champion monster truck driver.

Debra Byrd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Debra Byrd: is an American vocalist who has worked with Barry Manilow and Bob Dylan, appeared on Broadway, and serves as the head vocal coach for American Idol and Canadian Idol, also singing backup for the contestants.

Dennis Marshall Maxwell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dennis Marshall Maxwell: was a prominent poet from Costa Rica. A popular anecdote says that Debravo wrote his first poems on banana paper. Eventually, his first works would get published in a local magazine called "El Turrialbeño" by the time he was in the ninth grade. He would soon leave school to start working for the Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social (Social Security).

Jules Régis Debray            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jules Régis Debray: is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia.

Patrice Debray            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Patrice Debray: is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haute-Saône department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.