- Chulalongkorn
King Chulalongkorn the Great or Rama V (royal name: Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua was the fifth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand. He is regarded as one of the greatest kings of Siam. The Thais call him "The Great Beloved King" Chulalongkorn was born September 20, 1853 in Bangkok as the oldest son of King Mongkut (Rama IV) and Queen Debsirinda. - David Lee
David Lee, along with Fandi Ahmad and V. Sundramoorthy, are considered some of the best Singaporean footballers of their generation. David Lee represented Singapore in soccer during the 1980s and 1990s while making his name for himself as one of the top goalkeepers in Southeast Asia. With his enormous build and confidence behind his defence, he often sent fear to opposition strikers. Unfortunately for the trio, for all their legendary performances on the pitch, … - Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow (born 1925 in New York City) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who covered Asia from 1959 as chief correspondent for "Time" and "Life" magazines. Until 1974 he was in southeast Asia reporting for the "Saturday Evening Post", the "London Observer", the "Washington Post", and NBC News. He is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies). - Anthony Reid
Anthony Reid is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia. His doctoral work at Cambridge University examined the contest for power in northern Sumatra in the late 19th century, and he extended this study into a book "The Blood of the People" on the national and social revolutions in that region 1945-49. He is most famous for his "Age of Commerce" thesis, developed during his time at the Australian National University in Canberra. - Alfred W. McCoy
Alfred McCoy is author of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror" (Metropolitan Books, The American Empire Project, 2006) and a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. - Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa. Chossudovsky has taught as visiting professor at academic institutions in Western Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has worked as a consultant for international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, … - Ibn Battuta
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: "' was a Berber Sunni Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a Qadi or judge. However, he is best known as a traveler and explorer, whose account documents his travels and excursions over a period of almost thirty years, covering some 73,000 miles (117,000 km). These journeys covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, … - Jason Mraz
Jason Thomas Mraz (born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond. His last name is from the Slavic word "mraz", meaning "frost". Mraz is an eclectic artist with multiple and varied stylistic influences, including pop, rock, folk, jazz, country, and hip hop/rap. He has played with various artists, including The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews Band, Paula Cole, John Popper, Makana, … - Nicholas Tarling
Nicholas Tarling was born in 1931 and received his secondary education at St Albans School. As an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge, he was supervised by, among others, the late Sir John Plumb. He also earned his PhD at Cambridge, supervised by Dr Victor Purcell. In 1957 he took up a teaching post at The University of Queensland in Gordon Greenwood's Department of History and Political Science. There, he taught courses in both European and Asian history. - David Kilcullen
David Kilcullen, Ph.D. (born 1967) is a leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. A former Australian Army officer, he left the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2005 and is now a senior civil servant, seconded to the United States State Department. He is currently serving as Senior Counterinsurgency Adviser, Multi-National Force - Iraq, a civilian position on the personal staff of American General David Howell Petraeus. - Milton Osborne
Milton Osborne is an Australian historian, author, and consultant specializing in Southeast Asia. He graduated from the University of Sydney and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Osborne held academic positions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Singapore. Osborne's main historical contribution has been to synthesise the history of the region as a whole, rather than concentrate on the histories of the present-day nations. - Nan
nan (Thai: แนน), real name Sujelux Klongakkara, is a Thai pop musician. nan achieved instant stardom in Thailand with her infectious hit "Hula Hoop" in the summer of 2003. Promptly translated into English, the song had moderate success elsewhere in Southeast Asia as well. - David K. Wyatt
David K. Wyatt (September 21 1937 - November 15 2006) was a highly acclaimed American historian, working on Southeast Asian topics, especially Thailand. His book "Thailand. A Short History" has become the authority on Thai history in the English language. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1937, he grew up in Iowa. Wyatt studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1959. - Charles Higham
Charles Higham is a British archaeologist most noted for his work in Southeast Asia. Among his noted contributions to archaeology are his work (including several documentaries) about the Angkor civilization in Cambodia, and his current work at Ban Non Wat. He is a professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Charles Higham was born into a family of an architect father. He got interested in archaeology at the age of 14. - Greg Sheridan
Greg Sheridan is the most influential foreign affairs commentator in Australia. He has spent 30 years in the field. He knows Asia - its leaders and societies - intimately. He has had unparalleled access to the decision-makers in Asia and America and around the world. - Lee Kong Chian
Lee Kong Chian (1893-1967;) is a famous Singaporean philanthropist who followed in the footsteps of his father-in-law, Tan Kah Kee. Lee has been one of Southeast Asia's richest men during his time and started the Lee Foundation. - William Shawcross
William Shawcross (born 28 May, 1946, Sussex) is a British writer, broadcaster and commentator. Shawcross was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford, and worked as a journalist for the "Sunday Times". He writes and lectures on issues of international policy, geopolitics, Southeast Asia and refugees for a number of publications, including "Time Magazine", "Newsweek", "International Herald Tribune", "The Spectator", … - Robert Kuok
Robert Kuok Hock Nien (born October 6, 1923, in Johor Bahru, Johore), is a Malaysian Chinese businessman. According to Forbes his net worth is estimated to be $7.0 billion on 2007, making him the richest person in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Kuok has married twice and has eight children. He was educated at Raffles College, Singapore. He is currently residing in Hong Kong. After graduation, he helped out at his father’s company, … - Boa
Boa Kwon (born November 5 1986 in Guri, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) is a South Korean singer, commonly known by her stage name BoA. She is currently active in both South Korea and Japan. She has released a total of ten full-length albums. Sold in many parts of Asia, she has sold over ten-million copies. - Chuck Yeager
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager gained fame as the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. This historic flight in the rocket powered Bell X-1 aircraft took place on October 14th 1947, at Muroc (now Edwards Air Force Base), California. Muroc field was named after the town of Muroc formed by the Corum (Muroc spelled backwords) brothers in the early 20th century. General Yeager was born Feb. 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. - Duncan McCargo
Duncan McCargo is a professor of Southeast Asian politics at the University of Leeds specializing in Thailand and Asia-related topics. He holds three degrees from the University of London: a First in English (Royal Holloway 1986); then an MA in Area Studies (Southeast Asia) (1990), and a PhD in Politics (1993) (the later two from the School of Oriental and African Studies). He has also taught at the Queen's University of Belfast, and at Kobe Gakuin University, Japan. - Ananda Krishnan
Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan is a Tamil Malaysian businessman and philanthropist. Nicknamed TAK, he is currently estimated to have a net worth of US$6.0 billion according to Forbes' latest annual list of billionaires, making him the third wealthiest man in Southeast Asia behind Robert Kuok and Ng Teng Fong .. Ananda Krishnan hates public exposure and is known to maintain a very low profile for a person of his stature. - Charles Sobhraj
Charles Sobhraj (born April 6, 1944 in Saigon, Vietnam) is a serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Nicknamed "the Serpent" and "the Bikini killer" for his skills at deception and evasion, he allegedly committed at least 12 murders and was jailed in India from 1976 to 1997, but managed to live a life of leisure in prison. - Xu Beihong
Xu Beihong (July 19, 1895 - September 26, 1953) (born in Yixing, Jiangsu) was a Chinese painter. Considered a modern master in China, his merging of Western techniques with classic Chinese approaches was unmatched. He is particularly known for his "shuimohua" depictions of horses and birds. Xu began studying classic Chinese works and calligraphy with his father Xu Dazhang when he was six, and Chinese painting when he was nine. - Eleanor Mannikka
Eleanor Mannikka, of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is a scholar of Southeast Asian Studies. In her best-known work, "Angkor Wat: Time, Space and Kingship", she argues that the dimensions, alignment and bas-reliefs of Angkor Wat encode a message that Suryavarman II was the divinely appointed king. - Jin Yong
Jin Yong, born February 6, 1924, pen name of Louis Cha, OBE, is one of the most influential modern Chinese-language novelists. Co-founder of the Hong Kong daily "Ming Pao", he was its first editor-in-chief and held this position until 1993. Cha's fiction has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. - John Gokongwei
John Gokongwei, Jr. is a Filipino businessman with holdings in telecom, financial services, petrochemicals, power, aviation and hog farming. In 2005, he was listed by Forbes as the 34th richest person in Southeast Asia, with a fortune of US$425 million. Some say that the Forbes estimate of Mr. Gokongwei's fortune is very low, considering his large business portfolio. He is the chairman of JG Summit Holdings, one of largest conglomerates in the Philippines. - David Lim
David Lim is a Singaporean mountaineer and motivational speaker who led the first Singapore Mount Everest Expedition in 1998. Between 1994 and 1998, he led and organised a team from the flat tropical island nation to the top of Everest. Sustaining an injury on the summit push, he did not make the summit himself though two other team members succeeded in making the top on May 25, 1998. A week after his return, and not related to the climb, … - O.W. Wolters
Oliver William Wolters (8 June 1915 - 5 December 2000) was a British historian mainly working on the history of Southeast Asia. - Pascal Khoo Thwe
Pascal Khoo Thwe was born into a small tribe in Southeast Asia known as the Padaung in 1967. He was a leading voice in the fight for Burmese nationalism and is most commonly known for his autobiography, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, for which he received the Kiriyama Prize and which follows his struggles during that time, as well as his life before and after. By a chance encounter with Dr. John Casey, a Cambridge Don, … - William Adams
William Adams, was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Briton ever to reach that country. He was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's bestselling novel "Shogun". Soon after Adams' arrival in Japan, he became a key advisor to the "shogun" Tokugawa Ieyasu and built for him Japan's first Western-style ships. - Jeff Cooper
John Dean "Jeff" Cooper (10 May 1920 - 25 September 2006) was recognized as the father of what is commonly known as "the Modern Technique" of handgun shooting, and was considered by many to be one of the 20th century's foremost international experts on the use and history of small arms. Born John Dean Cooper, but known to his friends as "Jeff", Cooper was a Marine Lt. Colonel who served in both World War II and the Korean War. - William Lederer
William Julius Lederer (born March 31, 1912) was an American author, US Naval Academy graduate in 1936, and Cold warrior. His first appointment was as the junior officer of a river gunboat on the Yangtze River. His best selling work, 1958's "The Ugly American", was one of several novels co-written with Eugene Burdick. Disillusioned with the style and substance of America's diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia, … - Daniel Ford
Daniel Ford (1931 -) is an American author and journalist. The son of Patrick and Anne Ford, he was educated at public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Manchester in England. He served in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg and in Orleans, France. Following an apprenticeship at "The Overseas Weekly" in Frankfurt, Germany, he became a free-lance writer in Durham, New Hampshire. - Michael D. Coe
Michael D. Coe (b. 1929) is an American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher and author. Primarily known for his research in the field of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican studies (and in particular, for his work on the Maya civilization, where he is regarded as one of the foremost Mayanist scholars of the latter 20th century), Coe has also made extensive investigations across a variety of other archaeological sites in North and South America. - Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram (born 11 December 1952), better known as Jomo KS, is a prominent Malaysian economist, who is currently serving as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). He was also the founder chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), and sat on the Board of the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development (UNRISD), … - Russell Peters
Russell Dominic Peters (born 1970) is an Indian-Canadian stand-up comic from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. His parents are originally from Bombay and Kolkata in India. Russell Peters focuses primarily on various cultural backgrounds, including his own Indian background, as well as Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Arab, African, Hispanic, Italian, British, and other South and Southeast Asian communities. - Francis Garnier
Marie Joseph François (Francis) Garnier was a French officer and explorer known for his exploration of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia. He was born at St. Etienne. He entered the French Navy, and after voyaging in Brazilian waters and the Pacific he obtained a post on the staff of Admiral Charner, who from 1860 to 1862 was campaigning in Cochin China. After some time spent in France he returned to the East, … - Paul Mus
Paul Mus (1902 - 1969) was a French author and scholar. His studies focused on Vietnam and other Southeast Asian cultures. He was born in Bourges to an academic family, and grew up in Northern Vietnam (Tonkin), volunteered for the FFF (Free French Forces) during WWII in Africa and then trained with the British Commandos in Ceylon in 44-45. - Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld (b. 1967 in New York City) is an alternative cartoonist and commercial illustrator known for his fact-based comics on subjects like international travel and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and David Greenberger. Neufeld was awarded a 2004 grant from the Xeric Foundation for his graphic novel, "A Few Perfect Hours (and Other Stories From Southeast Asia & Central Europe)", …
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