Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born 10 March 1940) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is known for playing Cordell Walker on "Walker, Texas Ranger". In 2006, he became the subject of an internet phenomenon known as Chuck Norris Facts.

Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12, 1923) is a nineteen-time Emmy Award-winning American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's "The Price Is Right" since September 4, 1972, making it the longest-running daytime game show in television history.

Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. He may be best known for his role as the vampire hunter in the "Blade" trilogy of movies. Snipes has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, comedies, and dramatic feature films opposite such actors as Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. On April 24, 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison for three misdemeanor convictions for willful failure to file federal income tax returns.

Pat Ament (born 1946) is an American rock climber who has achieved distinction not only with his first ascents, but as an author of more than two dozen books on the sport. Ament began his climbing career in 1958, and by the mid 1960s had established the first 5.11 climbs in Colorado (Supremacy Crack) and Yosemite (Center Slack). A former college gymnast, he was also a dedicated boulderer, and put up many challenging problems on Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder, Colorado.

Edmund Kealoha Parker was an American martial artist and teacher. He is perhaps most famous as the founder of American Kenpo. Parker was born in Hawaii and raised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He began his training in the martial arts at a young age in judo and later boxing. Some time in the 1940s, Ed Parker was first introduced to Kenpo by Frank Chow. After some time Frank Chow introduced Ed Parker to William K. S. Chow. Mr.

Eric Bischoff (born May 27 1955), is a former professional wrestling promoter and on-screen personality, most known for serving as President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later "on-air" General Manager of World Wrestling Entertainment's "RAW" brand. He still makes occasional appearances on RAW.

Billy Blanks (b. September 1, 1955) is a fitness guru, martial artist, actor, and the inventor of Tae Bo. Blanks was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the fourth of fifteen children. As a child he suffered from undiagnosed dyslexia. Blanks began his study of the martial arts at the age of fourteen. He quickly excelled, winning several local, state, and national championships. He emerged as a seven-time world Karate champion, and holds a seventh-degree black belt in tae kwon do.

Mark Dacascos (born February 26, 1964, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an actor and martial arts expert, winning numerous karate and kung fu championships between the ages of 9 and 18. He has been featured in many action films such as "Only The Strong", "Double Dragon", "Crying Freeman" and "Cradle 2 the Grave".

Lorenzo Lamas (born Lorenzo y de Santos Lamas on January 20, 1958 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television and film actor, television personality and martial artist, primarily on soap operas, movies and television, playing mostly bad guy roles. He is best-known for playing the roles of Jane Wyman's young irresponsible grandson, Lance Cumson, on the popular 1980s soap opera, "Falcon Crest", the falsely accused cop, Reno Raines, …

Bill Bixby was a popular three-time Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series. His lead television roles were as Ray Walston's young reporter, Tim O'Hara, …

William Kwai Sun Chow was instrumental in the development of the martial arts in the United States, specifically the family of styles referred to as kenpo/kempo, kajukenbo and karazenpo go shinjutsu. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii he was the third of sixteen children and first son born to Sun Chow Hoon (aka Ah Hoon Chow) and Rose Kalamalio Naehu. William’s father came to Hawaii at the age of 19 and worked in a laundry as an immigrant laborer. His mother was of Hawaiian descent.

Cynthia Rothrock (born 8 March 1957) is an American actress specializing in Martial arts films. She was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and was brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

James Masayoshi Mitose (born "Masayoshi Mitose", (December 16 1916 - March 26, 1981) was a Japanese American martial artist who brought the art of Kempo to the United States starting in the 1940s. In 1920 James Mitose was sent back to Japan to be given formal education and upbringing with family living there. While there, in addition to his normal schoolwork and university studies, he trained in the art of Kempo, …

Michael Landon (October 31, 1936 - July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in "Bonanza" (1959-1973), Charles Ingalls in "Little House on the Prairie" (1974-1982), and Jonathan Smith in "Highway to Heaven" (1984-1989).

Ernest "The Cat" Miller (born January 14, 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia), is a former professional wrestler who worked for WCW and WWE.

Steve Cardenas (born "Stephen Antonio Cardenas" on May 29, 1974) is an American actor and martial artist most noted for playing Rocky DeSantos in the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" TV series. He was born at Langley Air Force Base, in Virginia, USA and is of Mexican descent (Although he was raised in Texas). Steve's character, Rocky, replaced Jason Lee Scott (played by Austin St. John) as the Red Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series, …

Count Juan Raphael Dante (February 2, 1939- May 25, 1975) was a controversial figure in the American martial arts scene of the 1960s and 1970s.

Victor Moore (born August 23, 1943) is a 10th Degree Black Belt in Shuri-ryu karate and is one of the late Robert Trias' first Chief instructors of the Shuri-Ryu karate system. Hanshi Moore was one of the first ten original members of the Trias International Society. Moore also studied and trained with William J. Dometrich in the style of Chito-ryu. Moore has studied martial arts for over 50 years, and is a four time world champion

Darnell Garcia is an American martial artist and practitioner of karate and Tang Soo Do. He was born in New York and raised in California. He is a former International Karate Champion and teacher. He is the author of two books: "The Fighting Art of Tang Soo Do" and "Explosive Instinct and Mind Power."

George Dillman is a martial arts instructor who is controversial due to his claims regarding the use of pressure points and "Knockout" Chi. He refers to the art of using pressure points as Kyusho jitsu. He calls his style of karate Ryukyu kempo tomari-te.

Raymond M. "Ray" Lloyd is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling in the late 1990s under the ring name Glacier.

John Athanas Pachivas (b. May 3, 1927 - d. February 14, 2000), was a student of the martial arts for nearly sixty years. He began teaching in the early 1950's. Pachivas is the highest ranking person (10th degree Black Belt) in Shuri-ryu karatedo in the world; title of Grandmaster. He is also the highest ranked American in Okinawan Kobudo. Pachivas also possessed Master degrees in; Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Kempo, Aikido, and Shotokan.

John ("Johnny") Linebarger is currently the director of KoSho Karate in Tucson, Arizona. He holds the rank of Shihan, as well as an 8th degree black belt in karate, an 8th degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo, and a 9th degree black belt in Tai-ho Jitsu. He is also an Assistant Chief Instructor of Shuri-ryu karate. He has won many national and world tournament championships, including the triple crown (first places in kata, kumite, …

Donna Judge (Shihan Donna Judge) is the 8th-ranking Shuri-Ryu Karatedo fighter and is the founder and senior instructor of Suncoast Karate school, or dojo. She is a former student of Hanshi Pachivas. She has been a devoted participant in martial arts since 1974 and is a highly-respected instructor of karate. She uses traditional training in accordance with the methods of Okinawan Shuri-Ryu Karate-do. Her instruction by Hanshi Pachivas enabled her to travel extensively.

James R. Webb was elected as the President of the United States Judo Association in 2006. He is a former national judo champion, national coach and national referee, and holds a seventh degree black belt in judo, a sixth degree black belt in jujutsu, and a second degree black belt in karate. He is also a graduate of both the Kodokan Judo Summer Course and Kodokan Judo Kata Course in Japan.

Ridgely Abele began his Karatedo and Kobudo training in 1964 in Miami, Florida, under the direction of Hanshi John Pachivas then later under Hanshi Robert Trias. In 1971, he was certified to teach Karatedo and Kobudo and in 1982, Grandmaster Robert A. Trias appointed Kyoshi Abele as Chief Instructor of Shuri-ryu. He travels, trains and teaches extensively throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong & China.

Nicholas Raymond Cerio was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 9, 1936 and died on October 7, 1998. He was involved with the martial arts for over forty years and was instrumental in popularizing and spreading kenpo, initially in Rhode Island and other locations in New England and later to other locations around the United States. He founded a branch of Kenpo Karate known as Nick Cerio’s Kenpo. Cerio grew up in the Federal Hill District of Providence, …

Kathleen H. Liebert (born October 1, 1967 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000. Liebert grew up on Long Island in New York. She attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie where she earned a bachelors degree in business and finance. She was hired by Dun & Bradstreet, but left, unhappy with corporate life.

Tom Saviano is a Kenpo master and the founder of Saviano's White Tiger Kenpo and couch and trainer to Keith Hackney during his UFC career. He began his martial arts training in March of 1964, in the art of Goju Shorei Karate in Chicago, Illinois. He was an avid tournament competitor from 1964 through 1969. Later, he trained with Joe Gangi, a Kang Chwan Do Kung Fu stylist. His first exposure to Kenpo was in 1980 under John McSweeney, …

Milt Calander (b. 1949) was a student of Shuri-ryu Grandmaster Robert Trias for 17 years, from 1972 to 1989. He is a 6th Dan in Okinawan Shuri-Ryu karate and has owned his own karate schools. Before that, he served and lived in Grandmaster Trias' headquarters dojo in Phoenix, Arizona as the headquarter's chief staff instructor for both Shuri-ryu and the United States Karate Association from 1974 to 1977. Mr.

William James "Kimo" Wall was born in Hawaii in 1943. ("Kimo" is the Hawaiian equivalent of "Jim".) At the age of six he began training in Goju-ryu karate under teachers who had studied with Miyagi Chojun during his three-year stay in Hawaii. In 1961 he joined the US Marine Corps and was stationed in Okinawa, where he trained Goju-ryu karate in the dojo of Higa Seiko. Matayoshi Shinho taught kobudo (ancient weapons) in the same building, and Kimo studied under him as well.

Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon is a stunt woman and stunt double in the US movie industry. She is a three-time World Kickboxing Champion and a black belt in Yoshukai karate. She has also been credited as Cheryl Wheeler, Cheryl M. Wheeler, and Sheryl Wheeler. She has been stunt double for Rene Russo, Kathleen Turner, and Goldie Hawn.

Kurt McKinney (born February 15, 1962 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American actor. A black belt in Karate, he starred in a 1980's action movie. He also starred as Matt Reardon on the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light" from 1994-2000 and from 2005-present, and as the first Ned Ashton on "General Hospital" from 1988-1991. He moved to Hollywood in the mid-1980s and found fame within months. His first acting role was starring in the action movie "No Retreat, …

Randall G. Hassell is the Chief Instructor for the American Shotokan Karate Alliance (ASKA), Senior Editor of Tamashii Press, President of the American JKA Karate Association (AJKA), and a Founding Fellow of the International Karate Society (IKS). Sensei Hassell began his study of the history and philosophy of martial arts in general (and karate-do in particular) while majoring in English Literature at Washington University in St. Louis.