Real Name: Paul David Hewson, Before Bono was born a fortune teller told his mother that she would have a son who's name begin with "P", and that he would become famous.

Born: May 10, 1960 in Dublin, Ireland

Family: Wife Alison (Ali), whom he married August 21, 1982. Parents Bobby and Iris. Brother Norman, who is seven years older.

Pets: Two German Shepards, Fanny and Angel.

Height: 5'8

Paul Hewson was born on May 10th 1960, at Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, to Bob and Iris Hewson. He has an older brother, Norman who was born in 1953. Bob was catholic and Iris protestant, so their marriage was unusual. The boys were baptized in a protestant church, so technically are protestant. Paul didn't like his first school much at all so when the new school was built he attended Mount Temple High School, where he was one of the "cool" kids, he was always messing about in class, a typical clown, and had a tendency to do weird things. He fell into a group of kids called "The Lypton Village", who were just as weird as he was. It was in this group that the name Bono Vox was born. The Lypton Village believed that names were something that shouldn't be given at birth, because they can't possibly reflect who you are. Paul's first name was Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbangbang, but it very quickly became Bono Vox. Meaning "perfect voice" in latin, it was the name of a local hearing aid store and the Lypton Village thought it fit Bono perfectly. Not for his singing voice, at that stage Bono couldnt carry a tune, but for the fact he was always in good voice -he never shut up. He became life-long friends with most of The Lypton Village, which included Derek Rowan (Guggi),and Fionan Hanvey (Gavin Friday).

During his years at Mount Temple he met Alison Stewart, and liked her immediately, although she considered him just a friend. This started to change in 1974, when Bono's mother died of a brain hemorrhage after she had a stroke at her father's funeral. Alison took the role of "temporary mother", she made sure Bono did things like eat, sleep and go to school. For the first time since they had met, Bono wasn't wearing any masks in front of Alison, and she began to like what she saw.

When Bono read Larry's note about starting up a band, he immediately was interested. He went along to that first meeting, and claimed to be able to sing and play guitar. In reality he could do neither. He was good at organising the boys and kinda played manager until Adam was kicked out of school and could persue that full time. Upon meeting David Evans, Bono christened him The Edge. When the group got down to 4, they got down to serious business,Bono writing songs andlearning to sing, and they started to come together as a band.

Bono, The Edge and Larry had joined the Shalom bible group, and there was immense pressure to give up his rock and roll lifestyle. When they all finally worked through their religious issues, they realised they could be both things and got on with their lives.

Part of this getting on with things was his marriage to Alison Stewart on August 21st 1982, in Raheny Dublin. They remain married to this day, not without their share of ups and downs, probably because Bono doesn't spend much time at home, and Alison is independent enough not to mind. Their first daughter, Jordan, was born May 10th 1989 and another daughter Memphis Eve was born July 7th 1991, and a son named Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q born August 18, 1999.

Bono is desperate to communicate and connect with his audiences, and in the early (and not so early) days this meant doing just about anything that took his fancy on stage. Climbing was a particular favourite,if there was any form of scaffolding on or near the stage, Bono would find an opportunity to scale it. More often than not he was able to come down again unharmed, but in 1987 he fell off the scaffolding he had scaled and ended up dislocating his shoulder. It was at this time the band imposed a "climbing ban" on Bono and so far he has stuck to that. The band has also banned Bono off coffee, because he gets uncontrollably hyper.

Bono was arrested twice in 1987 (along with Paul McGuinness)the first time for playing without permission in the "Where The Streets Have No Name" video, and the second time for graffiting "Rock n Roll" on a San Fransisco statue. There was already graffiti on it, and when Bono had finished it said "Rock and Roll stops the traffic!". He was ordered to pay for the cleanup, and later the case was dropped.