Brian Williams

• Birthplace: Elmira, New York
• Birthday: May 5, 1959

Once called “the most interesting man in television today,” throughout his journalism career, Brian Williams certainly seemed to have seen and done it all, covering almost every major breaking news event and traveling around the world. With the honors to prove it, Williams also had the distinction of being one of the most honored broadcast journalists, garnering four Edward R. Murrow awards, five Emmy’s, the duPont-Columbia University award, and the industry’s highest honor, the George Foster Peabody award. He was also named “Father o…more