Adler Berriman Seal, or "Barry Seal" (July 16, 1939-February 19, 1986) was a pilot, allegedly with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and later drug smuggler turned Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant. After a 1984 arrest in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for money laundering and Quaalude smuggling, Seal negotiated a plea bargain that included him becoming an informant for the DEA and testifying against his former Colombian employers, …

Van Tuong Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Tường Vân, baptised Caleb) (17 August 1980 – 2 December 2005) was an Australian from Melbourne, Victoria convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. A Vietnamese Australian, he was also addressed as Nguyen Tuong Van in the Singaporean media, his name in Vietnamese custom. Drug trafficking carries a mandatory death sentence under Singapore's Misuse of Drugs Act, …

Lin Zexu (August 30, 1785 - November 22, 1850), also known as Lin Tse-hsu, was a Chinese scholar and official during the Qing dynasty. He is most recognized for his fight against opium smuggling into Guangzhou, which is considered to be the primary catalyst for the First Opium War of 1839–42.

Nils Bejerot (Stockholm, September 21, 1921 - November 29, 1988) was a Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist, best known for several things: * His role as a psychiatric advisor during the Norrmalmstorg robbery and coinage of the term "Stockholm syndrome" to refer to the way a hostage reacts in some situations. * His strong opposition against any legalization or prescription programmes for narcotic drugs, instead advocating zero tolerance.

Griselda Blanco (b. 1943 - d. ????), also known as la Madrina, the Godmother, the Black Widow and the Cocaine Queen of Miami, was a drug lord and pioneer in the Miami based cocaine drug trade and underworld. Blanco was best known for her absolute ruthlessness and sociopathic lifestyle.

José Vicente Castaño aka El Profe is a former leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing Colombian paramilitary organization. After demobilizing he was accused of murdering his brother and former AUC leader Carlos Castaño and for his role in narcotics trafficking by both the Colombian government and the government of the United States. In August 2004, the United States formally requested his extradition to the United States.

Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997), popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a gangster in the 1975 film "Let's Do It Again"), Big Poppa, Frank White (from the film "King of New York"), and his primary stage name, The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game), was an American rapper and hip hop artist.

Thomas Penfield Jackson (born January 10, 1937) was a United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia. He was appointed in 1982 after serving as president of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He is currently an attorney with the Jackson and Campbell, P.C., law firm. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1958, and from Harvard Law School in 1964.

Susan Orlean (born October 31 1955) is an American journalist whose feature writing drolly but affectionately considers "softer" subjects than some of those covered by her colleagues. She has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1982, and has contributed articles to "Vogue", "Rolling Stone", "Esquire", and " Outside". Orlean is the author of several books, including "The Orchid Thief", a profile of Florida orchid grower, …

Arthur Stanley "Neddy" Smith, (born November 17, 1944), is an Australian criminal. He was born, to an Australian mother and an American serviceman father he never knew, and brought up in Sydney. Smith has been serving a life sentence since 1989 and is presently imprisoned in Lithgow Correctional Centre after being moved from Long Bay Correctional Centre in Sydney, New South Wales, where he spent 14 years of his life.

Frances Elaine Newton was an African-American woman who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas for the April 7, 1987 murder of her husband, Adrian, 23, her son, Alton, 7, and daughter, Farrah, 21 months. All three victims were shot with a .25 caliber pistol which belonged to a man Newton was alleged to have been seeing. The prosecution suggested that the motive for the killings was to collect the US $100,000 life insurance policy.

Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi (1985 or 1986 – January 26, 2007) was a Nigerian national convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore in a trial that was described by the United Nations human rights expert, Philip Alston, as failing to meet international legal standard for criminal prosecution. Drug trafficking carries a mandatory death sentence under Singapore's Misuse of Drugs Act, and despite pleas for clemency from Amnesty International, the United Nations, …

Omar Khayam (born Bedford) is a British Muslim notable for public protest. In February 2006 he attended protests in London against the Muhammad cartoons, dressed as a suicide bomber. As this was less than a year after the lethal 7 July 2005 London bombings, his actions were featured in news reports, such as on the front page of "The Sun" which expressed outrage against his protest endorsing the deaths in London.

Warren Fellows (born 1953) is an Australian who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand in 1981 for his role in a heroin trafficking operation.

John Michael Fabrizi (December 25, 1956-) is the mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut and a member of the U.S. Democratic Party. Fabrizi holds degrees from Southern Connecticut State University as well as the University of Bridgeport and has served in numerous public service capacities. He was assistant director of Bridgeport's adult education program, and was also a teacher of fifth and sixth graders.

William James Williams, Jr. was a murderer executed by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Ohio. He was convicted of the September 2, 1991 murders of three rival drug dealers and a visitor to their Youngstown, Ohio home. Williams had returned to the neighborhood after a long absence to find that several people including Alfonda R. Madison, William L Dent, Eric Howard had taken over his drug dealing in the area.

Michael Riegels, QC is currently the chairman of the Financial Services Commission of the British Virgin Islands. He is also the president of the British Virgin Islands Red Cross. He is a qualified barrister and was formerly the senior partner of Harneys from 1984 to 1997, and was the president of the BVI Bar Association from 1996 to 1998. Michael Riegels was also part of the "gang of five" who drafted the original International Business Companies Act in 1984, …

Miguel Suero (born circa 1958) is a Dominican drug dealer who made headlines in the late 1990's to his affiliation with the New York City-based Latin Kings crime syndicate. Born in the Dominican Republic, he later moved to Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. Known by his nicknames "La Negra Tomasa", "Macy Gray", and "Whoopi Goldberg", he worked mainly in clubs such as the Roxy, Crobar, and Exit, …

Ciro Mancuso (1949 -) was a Nevada based drug dealer convicted of running a $140-million marijuana smuggling operation for more than a decade. In cooperation with a foreign exchange student from Thailand, Ciro Mancuso built one of the largest domestic drug cartels in U.S. history. The son of immigrants from Italy, Ciro was a real estate developer before venturing into the lucrative narcotics business.

Piri Thomas (born Juan Pedro Tomas September 10, 1928 in Spanish Harlem in New York City) is a Puerto Rican-Cuban who is influential in the Nuyorican Movement as a writer and poet.

Serge Ayoub (ca. 1965 -) is a former French neo-Nazi skinhead leader who was active in 1980s. He was born to a family of Lebanese immigrants. He is also known for his affair with Tabatha Cash. He worked in various fields of neo-Nazi movement. He organised a group of hooligans known as the "Luxembourg gang", among the PSG supporters. He was the founder of a Nazi youth league called "Revolutionary Nationalist Youth", …

Daniel Rocha (died June 9, 2005) was an 18-year-old who was shot and killed in southeast Austin, Texas by police officer Julie Schroder, a seven year veteran of the Austin Police Department, on June 9, 2005. The officer was responding to a report of drug trafficking when she pulled over a dark Chevrolet Suburban carrying Rocha and two others. This was the 11th police-related death in Austin since 1998 - all victims were of non-Caucasian origin.

Simon Rouse (born 24 June, 1951 in Heaton, Bradford, West Yorkshire) is an English actor. He is probably best known for playing the role of DCI Jack Meadows in the long-running ITV police drama "The Bill". Prior to "The Bill", he had a long career working mainly with the BBC, appearing twice in their "Play for Tomorrow" strand, a sci-fi offshoot of the "Play for Today" series.

James Tahi Hepi is a convicted drug smuggler who is reported to have transported amphetamines and marijuana across Australia between the years 2000 and 2002 with his business partner Bradley John Murdoch. In 2002, James Hepi was charged with drug smuggling and was found guilty but was only given a suspended sentence. This was due to information he provided to the police with regard to Peter Falconio disappearing.

Gabriel Hudon is a convicted terrorist and drug dealer (as well, it should be noted, a human being, earth citizen and a non-white-collar criminal). In 1961, Hudon joined the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN), a political organization dedicated to the promotion of Quebec independence from Canada. Through the RIN, Hudon met Georges Schoeters and Raymond Villeneuve, left-wing radicals who supported his belief in armed revolution.

Terry Clark (1944-1983), known as "Mr Asia", was the ruthless head of a New Zealand drug syndicate which imported heroin into New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1970s, and was responsible for a string of deaths. He was imprisoned for the murder of his associate Marty Johnstone, whose battered and handless body was found in "Eccleston Delph", a flooded quarry in the north of England. He died in prison in 1983, officially of natural causes, …

Martin "The Viper" Foley (24.11.1952) is one of the Republic of Ireland's most well known criminals. He rose up from a street drug dealer to be an associate of Martin Cahill, one of Ireland's most notorious criminals. He has 33 convictions. He is considered a key figure in the McCormack-Foley crime family from Crumlin in Dublin

Ryōichi Sasakawa (May 18, 1899 - July 14, 1995) was a Japanese businessman, suspected World War II criminal, fascist, organized crime figure, renowned shipbuilder, philanthropist and goodwill ambassador. He is most famous for his ties to the Unification Movement and his boast of being "the world's richest fascist". During the Sino-Japanese War, Sasakawa rose to prominence by using his wealth to fund paramilitary forces in China, …

Paul Hayward was an Australian man who was convicted in Thailand, alongside Warren Fellows and William Sinclair, for attempting to export 8.5 kilograms of heroin to Australia. Hayward played professional rugby league with the Newtown Jets and had been selected to represent Australia as a boxer at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Under the Olympic rules of that time, he was disqualified from competing after he turned professional.

Denise Laferrière is a Quebec politician in Gatineau, Quebec. She is the councillor for the district of Hull. Lafferiere studied at McGill University and obtained a bachelor's degree in English drama before moving to Gatineau. She was later the president of the Commission Scolaire Outaouais-Hull (CSOH) which later changed to Commission Scolaire des Portages-de-l'Outaouais after a merger with the former Aylmer school board in 1998.

Aurora Martínez Sánchez, usually credited simply as “Aurora Martínez,” is the credited director of at least 72 publicly released movies. Martínez’s films are produced almost exclusively in Mexico, with dialogue in Spanish and marketed to the Latin American population. Although her productions receive virtually no theatrical release in the United States, they can be found in many U.S. video outlets, both in VHS and DVD format.

Robert Dale Rowell was a murderer executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Texas. He was convicted of the May 10, 1993 murder of Raymond David Mata in a Houston, Texas crack house.