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Born 1958

London, England

War correspondent who first came to public attention during the Persian Gulf War

"I remember I wanted to have a reason to be in the middle of things, with all the movers and shakers. I wanted to be a foreign correspondent."

Christiane Amanpour in People magazine.

As the London-based chief international correspondent for CNN, Christiane Amanpour is one of the best-known and most-respected journalists in the world. She first came to public attention during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, when she reported on all aspects of the conflict from inside Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Amanpour went on to even greater fame after the war, largely on the strength of her award-winning coverage of the ethnic strife in the former Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia.

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