Short answers, pulled from the story.
George Lucas created the Star Wars franchise and wrote and directed the original Star Wars film. In the earliest version of the screenplay, Solo was an alien of the Ureallian race with green skin, enormous gills and no nose.
Harrison Ford played Han Solo in Star Wars 1977. He was cast over many other actors who auditioned after George Lucas was won over by his performance during auditions for American Graffiti.
Vader froze Han Solo in carbonite and gave him to the bounty hunter Boba Fett who planned to deliver him to Jabba. Before Solo is put into carbonite hibernation Leia confesses her love for him.
Han lived as an orphan on the planet Corellia before joining the Imperial Navy as a flight cadet. Three years later Solo has been expelled from the Imperial Flight Academy for insubordination and now serves in the Imperial Army.
In the Legends universe Solo's parents are Jonash and Jaina Solo and the Solo ancestry can be traced back thousands of generations. Three centuries before the events of Star Wars one of Solo's ancestors ruled the planet Corellia.