- Jacques Rogge
Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Born in Ghent, Dr. Count Rogge competed in yachting in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and played on the Belgian national rugby union team. Rogge served as president of the Belgian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992, and as president of the European Olympic Committees from 1989 to 2001. - Juan Antonio Samaranch
Don Juan Antonio Samaranch i Torelló, Marquis of Samaranch is a Spanish sports official and was president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001. He was a close friend of Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco. - Dick Pound
Richard William Duncan Pound, OC, OQ (born March 22, 1942) is a partner of the Canadian law firm Stikeman Elliott and the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) based in Montreal. He is a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and was a one-time candidate for the presidency of that organization. - Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French pedagogue and historian best known for founding the International Olympic Committee. - Kevan Gosper
Richard Kevan Gosper (born 19 December, 1933) was an Australian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He competed for Australia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia where he won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Graham Gipson, Leon Gregory and David Lean. - Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage (September 28 1887 - May 8 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. He has been heavily criticized for decisions he took as a member of the United States Olympic Committee and as president of the International Olympic Committee, many of which would now be classed as racist. Born in Detroit, Brundage studied civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1909. - Carl Lewis
Frederick Carlton ("Carl") Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is a retired American track and field athlete who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is pursuing an acting career. - Bob Ctvrtlik
Robert ("Bob") Jan Ctvrtlik (born July 8, 1963 in Long Beach, California) is an American volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist, businessman and member of the International Olympic Committee. Ctvrtlik is a 1985 graduate of Pepperdine University. His name is pronounced - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki (born Gianna Daskalaki on December 12, 1955 in Heraklion, Crete) is a Greek politician and business woman. Being born in very simple and poor conditions in Heraklion, Crete, and raised by her mother, a cleaning-lady and her father a warder she early pursued her ambitions, being one of the best pupils in class. She is best known for being the president of the bidding and organizing committee for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. - Jean-Claude Killy
Jean-Claude Killy is a French alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion. Killy was born in Saint-Cloud, but brought up in Val d'Isère. Following his international success, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1969. Killy was a World Cup champion in 1967 and would repeat in 1968. Killy won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of all three gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, in the slalom, giant slalom and downhill events. - Walter Mayer
Walter Mayer (born March 17 1957) is an Austrian Cross-country skier and coach. He won the Vasaloppet in 1980, and finished second in 1992. As a coach, he was banned from the 2006 and 2010 Olympics after blood transfusion equipment was found in a house used by Austrian skiiers during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mayer was accused of blood doping violations and the International Olympic Committee announced the ban after a three-month investigation. - Beckie Scott
Beckie Scott (born August 1, 1974 in Vegreville, Alberta) is a retired Canadian cross-country skiing athlete and as of February 23, 2006, an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu. Scott was born in Vegreville, Alberta, but grew up in Vermilion, Alberta. She began cross-country skiing at the age of five. She entered her first competition at age seven, … - Nawal el Moutawakel
Nawal El Moutawakel (born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first Muslim and African female Olympic champion. Although she had been a quite accomplished runner, the victory of El Moutawakel, who studied at Iowa State University at the time, was a surprise. - Marc Hodler
Marc Hodler was a Swiss lawyer, President of the International Ski Federation (1951-1998), and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Hodler is best known for having exposed the Olympic bid scandal for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter games in December 1998. Born in Berne, Hodler had been president of the International Ski Federation from 1951 to 1998 and had been an IOC member since 1963. - Ottavio Cinquanta
Ottavio Cinquanta is President of the International Skating Union and a member of the International Olympic Committee. He has held the ISU position since 1994 and the IOC position since 1996. Prior to becoming ISU President, he was one of the members of its Technical Committee for short track speed skating from its inception in 1975, and was elected Vice President for speed skating in 1992. Cinquanta grew up in Milan, Italy where he trained as a speed skater. - Ivan Slavkov
Ivan Slavkov (born May 11, 1940) is a Bulgarian sports boss linked to the Communist-era nomenklatura. He served as President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC) between 1982 and 2005 and was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) between 1987 and 2005. During the Communist regime in Bulgaria, Slavkov married Lyudmila Zhivkova, daughter of Bulgaria's Communist leader Todor Zhivkov. - Andrew Jennings
Andrew Jennings is an investigative reporter, writer and documentary filmmaker. He is best known for his work concerning corruption in sports organizations and the politics of international sports, particularly within FIFA and the International Olympic Committee. - Demetrius Vikelas
Demetrius Vikelas, also known as Bikelas (February 15, 1835 - July 20, 1908) was a Greek businessman and the first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896. Born in Ermoupoli, on the island of Syros in Greece, he was often sick as a child. Because of his bad health, he had a spotty education. He left home at 17 to work for his uncle in London, first as a bookkeeper, and then as a partner. - Sam Ramsamy
Sam Ramsamy (b. 27 January 1938 in Durban) is an educator, activist and sports administrator from South Africa. Ramsamy was a physical education lecturer and a primary school teacher. In the 1980s, he was a high-profile anti-apartheid campaigner in London and was chairman of South Africa's non-racial Olympic committee during the apartheid years from 1976 to 1990, … - Alexandre de Merode
Prince Alexandre de Merode (1934 - November 19, 2002) was a member of a Belgian princely house and the head of drug testing policy for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Born in Etterbeek, Belgium, de Merode was criticized for his lax policies regarding drug testing in the Olympic Games. For example, following the 1984 Summer Olympics, several test results were destroyed "accidentally" while in de Merode's hotel suite. - Henri de Baillet-Latour
Count Henri de Baillet-Latour (more formally, Henri, comte de Baillet-Latour; March 1, 1876 - January 6, 1942) was a Belgian aristocrat and the third president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). De Baillet-Latour became a member of the IOC in 1903 and later co-founded the Belgian Olympic Committee. He was one of the organisers of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, awarded the previous year. - Lee Kun-Hee
Lee Kun-hee (born January 9, 1942) is the current chairman of Samsung Group. Lee has an Economics degree from Waseda University in Tokyo and an MBA from George Washington University in the United States. He speaks Korean, English, and Japanese. In 1996, Lee became a member of the International Olympic Committee. With an estimated net worth of $3.4 billion, he and his family rank among the Forbes richest people in the world. - Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Kathleen Blair (born March 18, 1964 in Cornwall, New York) is a retired American speedskater. One of the top female skaters of her time, and one of the most decorated female athletes in Olympic history, Blair competed for the United States in four Olympics, and in her Olympic career won five gold medals and one bronze medal. Blair was raised in Champaign, Illinois. After graduation from Centennial High School in Champaign, … - Olga Danilova
Olga Danilova (born June 10, 1970) is a Russian cross country skier who competed from 1991 to 2002. Her statistics are listed as: * Height: 191 cm * Weight: 59 kg Danilova won a total of eleven medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, including four golds (4 x 5 km: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001), four silvers (5 km: 1999, 10 km: 2001, 15 km: 2001, 30 km: 1999), and three bronzes (5 km + 10 km combined pursuit: 1995, 5 km: 1997, 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit: 2001). - Timothy Fok
Timothy Fok (b. 1952-), GBS, JP, Chinese name FOK Tsun Ting, the son of Henry Fok, is a Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication functional constituency. He is not affiliated to any political party, but is aligned with the conservative so-called "pro-China" wing of LegCo, and is also a Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. - Richard Carrion
Richard L. Carrion is the current President and CEO of Popular, Inc., a financial holdings corporation based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and parent company of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Banco Popular North America and E-Loan. Carrion was born to one of the richest families in Puerto Rico, his grandfather being one of the founders of Popular, Inc. (BPPR). After his father's death, Carrion became the leader of that banking empire. - Ng Ser Miang
Ng Ser Miang is a sportsman, diplomat and businessman from Singapore. The former sailor has won a silver medal in the South-east Asian Peninsular Games, and is currently the patron of the Singapore Sailing Federation. He is a vice-president of the Singapore National Olympic Council and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He was elected to the IOC executive board at the 117th IOC Session on 9 July 2005, with 86 of 99 votes, … - Robert Smith
Dr. Robert E. "Ish" Smith, (born May 15, 1936), is the former President of the International Baseball Federation, which is the international governing body for the sport of baseball, and the United States Baseball Federation. As President of the International Baseball Association from 1981 to 1993, he is the person most credited with getting the sport of baseball accepted into the Olympic Games as an official gold medal sport. - Bruno Grandi
Bruno Grandi (born May 9, 1934) is an Italian sportsman, currently president of the FIG (Federation Internationale de Gymnastique) since 1996 and a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2000. He was also an Italian junior gymnast, but has achieved more gymnastics success in a non-performing capacity, rising to become president of the FIG - Gian-Franco Kasper
Gian-Franco Kasper (born January 24, 1944 in St. Moritz) is a Swiss ski official who has been president of the International Ski Federation (FIS) since 1998. Kaspar also serves as a member both of the International Olympic Committee (since 2000) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (since 2003). He earned his degrees in journalism, philosophy, and psychology from the University of Zurich in 1966. - Sigfrid Edström
Johannes Sigfrid Edström was a Swedish industrial and sports official. Edström was born in the tiny village of Morlanda, on the island of Orust, Bohuslän. He studied at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and later in Switzerland and the United States. In his youth, he was a top sprinter, capable of finishing the 100 m in 11 seconds. He was director of the electrotechnical company ASEA from 1903 to 1933, and president of the board from 1934 until 1939. - Bud Greenspan
Bud Greenspan, (born September 18 1926) in New York, New York, is an eight-time Emmy Award-winning film director, writer, and producer. - Vanderlei de Lima
Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima is a marathon athlete from Brazil. De Lima received international renown after a spectator, an Irish priest, attacked him in the Marathon race at the 2004 Summer Olympics, when he was leading the race at 35 kms. He was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal, for Sportsmanship after the race, in which he had still managed to win the bronze medal. At the age of eight, Vanderlei began working with his father as peasant in farms near his hometown. - Pál Schmitt
Pál Schmitt is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. Schmitt is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and chairs the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee. - Mustapha Larfaoui
Mustapha Larfaoui (born November 27, 1932) is a member of the International Olympic Committee from Algeria. He is President of swimming's world governing body, FINA, and the first African to hold the presidency of world swimming. Larfaoui is a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency's executive committee and part of the IOC's Olympic Games study and marketing commission. He is a member of the IOC's evaluation commission for the 2012 Olympic Games. - Evangelos Zappas
Evangelis Zappas aka Evangelos Zappas was a Greek businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the modern international Olympic Games. He was born in northern Epirus (today part of Albania) in 1800 and moved to Bucharest in 1831. In 1856 he wrote to King Otto of Greece offering 400 shares in the steamship company so that the dividends could be used to establish the Olympic Games, the Olympiad, and to provide prizes to the Olympian victors. - Pernilla Wiberg
Pernilla Wiberg is one of Sweden's most famous and talented alpine skiers. She won the giant slalom gold in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the combination gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. She was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2002. Wiberg was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1991. - João Havelange
Dr. Jean-Marie Faustin Goedefroid de Havelange, usually known as João Havelange (born May 8, 1916 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was the president of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. He succeeded Sir Stanley Rous and was succeeded by Joseph Blatter. Since 1963, João Havelange has been a member of the International Olympic Committee. Havelange's father left his home country of Belgium in order to start a new life in Brazil. He died when João was only 17 years old. - Spyros Samaras
Spyros Samaras (1861-1917) was a Greek composer. His most famous work is the Olympic Anthem, the words of which were contributed by Kostis Palamas. The Anthem was first performed during the opening ceremony of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games. It was declared the official anthem of the Olympic movement by the International Olympic Committee in 1958 and has been used at every Olympic opening ceremony since the 1964 Summer Olympics. - Robert Korzeniowski
Robert Korzeniowski is a former Polish racewalker. He has won four gold medals at the Summer Olympics and has won three world championships. Korzeniowski is a three-peat winner of the 50 km walk at the Summer Olympics. He won 1996 in Atlanta, 2000 in Sydney, and 2004 in Athens. In addition, he became the first athlete to claim both the long distance and the short distance crown, when he won the 20 km title at the 2000 games. He won world championship titles in 1997, 2001, …
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