Few names come with as much groundbreaking Hollywood history attached as Paul Newman. Born 100 years ago on January 26, 2025, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Newman conquered the silver screen in the '60s and '70s, turning in performances that were often iconic -- and sometimes, so powerful, they changed popular culture (would we have our current boom of charming anti-heroes without Newman's Butch Cassidy or Cool Hand Luke?).

But Newman was always modest about his talent and success. As he wrote of his professional beginnings in his posthumously published 2022 memoir, "It was my appearance that got me in the door. Where the hell would I have been if I looked like Golda Meir?"

Though he passed in 2008 after a battle with lung cancer, Newman's influence is still with us. So celebrate his centenary with five things you probably didn't know about the blue-eyed legend.