Chips of The Rock

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

• Other names: The Rock, The People's Champion, The Great One, The Brahma Bull

• Born: May 2, 1972

• Age: 31

• Ethnicity: Samoan-African American

• Local schools: Washington Intermediate, McKinley High

• Married to: The former Dany Garcia

• Children: Simone Alexandra Johnson, born Aug. 14, 2001

• Height: 6-feet-6

• Weight: 245 pounds

• Wrestling links: Father Rocky Johnson and maternal grandfather Chief Peter Fanene Maivia were professional wrestlers in th World Wrestling Federation

• Trivia notes:

• First-ever seven-time WWE world champion
• Once appeared with Martha Stewart Living to share a family recipe
• Favorite eyebrows not his own: Groucho Marx's
• Previously wrestled under the names of Rocky Maivia and Flex Kavana
• Once offered a Dunkin' Donuts promotional deal, where a donut was going to be named after him — but declined to nibble
• Played football at the University of Miami
• The Rock action figure is one of the most popular WWE dolls
• Stands tall as a wax figure at Madame Tussaud's museum
• His reported $5.5 million paycheck for "The Scorpion King" (2002) earned him a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-paid actor receiving top billing for the first time.