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.

Ghyslain Raza (born 1988) became widely known on the Internet in May 2003 as the "Star Wars" kid" when a video clip he recorded of himself was leaked online. At the time of his celebrity as an internet phenomenon, he was a high school student in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.

Gary Brolsma (The Numa Numa Guy) (born January 14, 1986 in Saddle Brook, New Jersey). He graduated from Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro, New Jersey in June 2004. Gary gained worldwide attention after posting onto the Internet, near the end of 2004, a webcam video of himself miming to the song "Dragostea din tei" by Moldovan pop band O-Zone. It was known as "Numa Numa", after a phrase in the song, …

Leeroy Jenkins, sometimes mis-spelled Leroy Jenkins and often elongated with numerous additional letters, is an Internet phenomenon named for a character created in "Ultima Online" and later redone by player Ben Schulz in Blizzard Entertainment's popular MMORPG "World of Warcraft". The character has become popular thanks to a video of the game that circulated around the Internet.

Andrew Michael Milonakis (born January 30, 1976, in Katonah, New York) is a Greek American comedian who plays the role of a pre-pubescent boy on his television show, "The Andy Milonakis Show", which is now mostly played on MTV2. He has a congenital growth-hormone condition that gives him the outward appearance and voice of a pre-adolescent boy, when he is in fact an adult man.

Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his electroluminiscent Tron Guy costume. He became an Internet phenomenon when his costume inspired by the movie "TRON" spread across the net from postings on Slashdot and Fark. Jay's overweight physique and skintight costume was the subject of much derision on the net.

Ellen Feiss (born circa 1987) became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 Errol Morris-directed television commercial for Apple Computer's Switch campaign grew into a cult hit. In the commercial, the then-14-year-old American high school student complained that her father's Windows PC had broken. Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of illicit drugs during the filming of the commercial, …

is the name commonly used to describe the 11-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who was charged with murdering her classmate Satomi Mitarai. The murder occurred on June 1, 2004 at an elementary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki, and involved the slitting of Mitarai's throat and arms with a retractable knife. It has come to be known as the "Sasebo Slashing". The un-named killer has since become an Internet meme cartoon character.

Brian Atene (b?. August 16, 1963) is a part-fictional former student at the Juilliard School of performing arts. His spoof video became an Internet phenomenon in 2006 when an audition tape he had made, purporting to be from, 1984 for the film "Full Metal Jacket" was posted on YouTube. The video attracted considerable attention because of the apparent hubris ("You will find in me the finest actor of the lot, the most beautifully trained, the most capable"), …

Brooke Allison "Brookers" Brodack (born April 7, 1986, in Putnam, Connecticut) is a viral video maker, believed to be the first performer to have been discovered on the YouTube website and offered a contract from the mainstream media. She began posting her short comedic videos on YouTube in September 2005. By June 2006, they had earned her an 18-month development contract from Carson Daly, the host of a late night show on NBC and former VJ on MTV.

Mahir Çağrı. The site was also included in PC Magazine's "The 25 Worst Web Sites" list (September 15 2006). Mahir claimed in various interviews that his personal webpage was hacked, with additions such as "I like sex" embedded into his webpage. The site was originally hosted on the now defunct XOOM web hosting service which advertised Mahir on their front page during the mania. Mahir Çağrı's website was quickly spread through word of mouth on the internet.

Wesley Willis (May 31, 1963 - August 21, 2003) was a musician and artist from Chicago. A diagnosed schizophrenic, he gained a sizable cult following in the 1990s after releasing several hundred songs of unique but simple music, with emphasis on his humorous stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Most of his exposure came as an internet phenomenon during the early days of peer-to-peer file sharing (via Napster).

Michael "Burnie" Burns (born 1973) is an independent filmmaker living in Texas. His most notable contributions have been in machinima, although he has also worked with live-action. In April 2003, Burns, along with several of his friends, created the internet machinima series "Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles", filmed using the Xbox video games "Halo" and Halo 2. "Red vs. Blue" was quickly acclaimed for its humor and originality, …

John Daker became the subject of an Internet phenomenon similar to that of the "Star Wars kid". A video of his vocal performance originally aired on WTVP, a public-access television station in Peoria, Illinois sometime around 1990 or 1991. In the video, he performs two songs: "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" and "That's Amore" in a pseudo-operatic voice with various odd and sometimes alarming facial expressions to accompany his vocal stylings.

Qian Zhijun, or 钱浚 in Chinese, also known as Xiao Pang, is a Chinese teenager who has become an Internet phenomenon in China since 2003 due to a photograph of himself being superimposed onto a number of celebrities using image editing software. As of November 2006, Qian Zhijun lives in Shanghai, weighs 100kg (apx 220 lbs), is 19 years-old, and works at a gas station.

Katilce de Almeida Miranda is a Brazilian woman and an Internet phenomenon, especially on the relationships service orkut and Brazil. Recently she received millions of scrap messages in the orkut service. This is due to her getting to dance with and kiss U2 lead singer Bono during a concert in the city of São Paulo on February 20, 2006.

The Luke Johnson Phone Experiment was started by 27 year-old Arizona resident Luke Johnson. On September 18, 2006, Luke posted a self-made video on YouTube inviting the world to call him on his cell phone. The stated purpose of the experiment is to see how many people will call someone they have never met. Since the inception of the experiment, Luke has received calls from around the planet. As of April 19, 2007 he has 136,768 telephone calls.

The Libby Hoeller Videos (sometimes Libby Hoeler, Libby Heller or Elizabeth Hoeller) were a series of five erotic videos released on the Internet between 1999 and 2001. The videos were widely downloaded and became somewhat of an internet phenomenon. They depict a girl, then a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, performing stripteases to music in her dorm room.

Olli Mikko Hokkanen is a young man from Mikkeli, Finland, who became an internet phenomenon in Finland after failing his attempt to drink 1.5 litres of Coca-Cola on "Ennätystehdas" ("Record Factory") television show.

Zhu Zhiqiang (b. 1976) is an internet designer and lives in Beijing, China where he is an Internet phenomenon. He makes money from of his animations using advertisements for major companies. Each of his designs features the "logo" Xiao Xiao. In July, 2004 the 28 year old Zhu sued Nike Inc. for their unauthorized use of one of his stickfigure designs in an advertisement. Zhu won the case, until a higher court overruled the decision.<sup>1</sup&gt;

Armi Anja Orvokki Aavikko, (born in Helsinki on September 1, 1958 - died in Espoo on January 2, 2002, from pneumonia, brought on by chronic alcoholism, was a Finnish beauty queen and singer. She was best known for her duets with Ilkka Lipsanen, (artist name "Danny"). She was chosen as Miss Finland in 1977. Armi achieved some posthumous fame in 2006 when an old music video "I Wanna Love You Tender" featuring herself and Danny became a notorious Internet phenomenon.

Jack Rebney, also known as The Angriest Man In The World, The World's Angriest RV Salesman, or simply Winnebago Man, is the subject of an internet phenomenon, for a collection of outtakes from an industrial film he made for Winnebago Industries in 1988. The original outtake clip, created by the Midwestern production company hired to edit the final video product, …

Dennis 'Danger' Madalone is an American Stunt-Coordinator-turned-musician. He is probably best known for his work on three of the Star Trek spin-offs - "Star Trek: the Next Generation", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager". In 2002, he released his song and music video "America We Stand As One" on his website, America We Stand As One.

Hugh Gallagher won Scholastic Press, Inc.'s national writing contest in 1990 with a satiric personal essay. His essay contains many humorous, hyberbolic statements of his accomplishments, ending with the line, "But I have not yet gone to college." His essay, which he did submit to colleges, has become an urban legend among high school students undergoing the college admissions process. It also became a popular Internet phenomenon in the late 1990s.

Natoporn Taemeeruk,called as 道Taew by her followers is a Thailand actress,she rose to prominence after her appearance with other two chinese idols Yi Jianlian and Liu Yifei in a Television advertisement for the biggest chinese Dairy producer :zh:内蒙古伊利.She is now an internet phenomenon for young chinese netizens.

Silke Fritzen (born April 1, 1984 in Emden) is a German woman who, still a schoolgirl, was chosen the 125th greatest German in history in the 2003 ZDF-network program Unsere Besten ("Our Best"). The results were determined by a poll accessible on the Internet, which apparently made it vulnerable to fan manipulation. She was a moderator for an Internet science fiction forum, and the forum's members decided that they should nominate Fritzen, …