Same name

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Michelle M.

Gordon Cooper (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004)

Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. was one of the seven original astronauts inProject Mercury, the first manned space effort by the United States. He was the first American to sleep in orbit, flew the longest spaceflight of the Mercury project, and was the last American to be launched alone into Earth orbit and conduct an entire solo orbital mission.

Was portrayed by Dennis Quaid in The Right Stuff.

Claimed to have seen a UFO (and believed that the government was covering up information about UFOs).

Same name

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Michelle M.

Charles Henry “Chuck” Cooper (September 29, 1926 – February 5, 1984)

Chuck Cooper was the first African American player to be drafted by an NBA team (Boston Celtics), in 1950.

Cooper’s experience was laced with racial prejudice and, at times, rampant segregation on road trips at restaurants and hotels.

Cooper later earned a Masters in Social Work degree from the University of Minnesota, served on Pittsburgh’s school board, and became the city’s first African American department head as director of parks and recreation.

Same name

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Michelle M.

Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975)

film/television/theater actor – starred in The Hangover, Limitless, The A-Team, Kitchen Confidential, Alias, etc.

Speaks French, loves to cook, is a teetotaler, was People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive (2011), has two rescue dogs – Samson and Charlotte