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Publish date: 2024-05-07
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1. Bono was born Paul David Hewson on May 10, 1960, at Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.

2. He has one brother, Norman, who's 8 years older.

3. Mother Iris (née Rankin) was Protestant and father Brendan Robert "Bob" Hewson was Catholic and they had originally planned to raise their older son Protestant and the other Catholic, but both brothers ended up at the Church of Ireland with their mum.

4. He was a gifted chess player as a boy and competed internationally at 12.

5. "Home was a pretty regular three-bedroom house," Bono told Rolling Stone in 2005. "The third bedroom, about the size of a cupboard, they called the 'box room'—which was my room."

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