- Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the "Die Hard" series. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage.
- Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) was a Jordanian who ran a militant training camp in Afghanistan alongside Osama bin Laden. He became known after being blamed by United States (U.S.) and Jordanian officials for a series of bombings and attacks. He formed the organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad while he was in Europe, and then eventually went to Afghanistan. He was believed to have led al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, …
- Ben Foster
Ben Foster (born October 29, 1980) is a Daytime Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. He is known for his roles in the teen movies "Liberty Heights" and "Get Over It", as well as the action films "Hostage" (2005) and "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006).
- Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Moss Tucker (born May 31 1982) is an American film and television actor. He started acting in the mid 1990s. Tucker was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Paul Hayes Tucker, a curator, writer, and university professor who is an expert on Claude Monet and French Impressionism, and Maggie Moss, a public relations and marketing analyst and executive. Tucker's father is Irish American and Catholic and his mother is Jewish.
- Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born 6 December 1952) is the adopted name of Michael Peterson, a British criminal. Bronson was born in Aberystwyth, before moving to Merseyside, and later Luton, which is often referred to as his home town. Bronson states on his website that contrary to reports frequently made in the press, his name was changed by his fight promoter in 1987 and was not a choice he made in relation to the actor, Charles Bronson.
- Terry Waite
Terry Waite CBE (born May 31 1939 in Styal, Cheshire, England) is a British humanitarian and author. In the 1980s he was the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs under Robert Runcie. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages including journalist John McCarthy. He was himself held captive between 1987 and 1991. He is also Patron of the charity AbleChildAfrica.
- Nicola Calipari
Nicola Calipari was an Italian SISMI military intelligence officer with the rank of Major General. Calipari was killed by United States soldiers while escorting a recently released Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, to Baghdad International Airport.
- Kim Sun-Il
Kim Sun-il (September 13, 1970 - c. June 22, 2004) was a South Korean translator working in Iraq for Gana General Trading Company, a South Korean company under contract to the United States military. Kim was fluent in Arabic, holding a graduate degree in that language from Seoul's Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in February 2003. He also had degrees in English and theology, and had hoped to become a Christian missionary in the Middle East.
- Florent Emilio Siri
Florent Emilio Siri is a French movie director. He studied cinema at Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris. He began his feature film career with the 1998 social film "Une minute de silence" (One minute of silence), and continues in 2002 with the action film Nid de guêpes ("The Nest"), and then went on to serve as director of two critically-acclaimed and highly successful Splinter Cell games at French-based video game developer Ubisoft, …
- Jimmy Bennett
James Bennett (born February 9, 1996) is an American child actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films "Hostage", "Firewall", "Poseidon", and "Evan Almighty".
- Brian Keenan
Brian Keenan (b. 1951 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a writer whose work includes the book "An Evil Cradling", an account of the five years he spent as a hostage in Lebanon.
- Michelle Horn
Michelle Horn (born February 28, 1987) is an American actress known for her work in the TV shows "Strong Medicine" and "Family Law". Horn is also known for her voiceover work in Disney's "Lion King 2: Simba's Pride" as the lion cub Kiara. Her voice can be heard in "Lion King"-related merchandise such as software, plushes, toys and video games. Horn also costarred with Bruce Willis in the 2005 feature "Hostage".
- Marshall Allman
me wow. i am growing alot as a man. i sometimes feel like the growing pains are more intense for me because i am sensitive. but maybe its because men dont often talk about this sort of thing. haha. that was really personal. i love
- Doug Richardson
Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter known for his ability to write action movies. He first made an impression with his so-far unproduced spec script "Hell Bent... and Back" which sold for one million dollars. He wrote an adaptation of Walter Wager's novel "58 Minutes" which became the basis for the sequel "Die Hard 2: Die Harder". Other screenplays include "Bad Boys" and "Hostage".
- James Cross
James Richard Cross, CMG (born September 29 1921 in Ireland) was a British diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist group during the October Crisis of October 1970. Known by his friends as "Jasper,", during World War II, Cross served with the British military and fought for the liberation of France. After the war he would join the diplomatic service and eventually served as a Trade Commissioner in India, Halifax, …
- Benjamin Weir
Benjamin Weir was an American hostage in Lebanon during the Iran-Contra Affair (1985). Weir, who with his wife Carol served as missionaries in Lebanon with the Presbyterian Church (USA) for nearly 30 years, was kidnapped off the streets of Beirut on May 8, 1984. The kidnapping was done by an Islamic fundamentalist group, Islamic Jihad, that later evolved into Hezbollah. He was freed 16 months later in exchange for US anti-tank weapons, as part of the Iran-Contra Affair.
- Marie Jeanne Ion
Marie Jeanne Ion is a Romanian journalist for Prima TV, taken hostage in Iraq on March 28 2005, along with Sorin Mişcoci, Eduard Ohanesian and Mohammad Munaf. The hostage-takers were the Mouadh Ibn Jabal Brigade, who demanded the retreat of the 860 Romanian troops in Iraq in return for their release. They were freed on May 22, except for Mohammad Munaf, who was arrested and sentenced to death by an Iraqi court.
- Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi
Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi is an Iraqi interpreter and former colonel in the Iraqi air force, which he left in 1991. He is also qualified as a pilot on the Mirage F1. He was taken hostage on January 5, 2005, in Iraq along with Florence Aubenas, and was freed on June 11, 2005.
- Hank Earl Carr
Hank Earl Carr (died May 19, 1998) was a convicted criminal who on May 19, 1998 escaped from his handcuffs and killed two Tampa detectives and a Florida state police officer. Carr then barricaded himself in a convenience store with a hostage before committing suicide. The murders of the law-enforcement personnel prompted national controversy on the proper way to handcuff a suspected criminal, …
- Paul Marshall Johnson Jr.
Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr. (May 8, 1955 - c. June 18, 2004) was an American helicopter engineer who lived in Saudi Arabia. He was a native of Stafford Township and Eagleswood Township, both of New Jersey. In 2004, he was taken hostage by terrorists and executed on video tape. Johnson, who worked for Lockheed Martin on upgrading Saudi AH-64A Apache attack helicopters, was kidnapped and taken hostage by a terrorist group claiming to be part of Al-Qaida.
- Carrie Hamilton
Carrie Hamilton (December 5, 1963 in New York City - January 20, 2002, in Los Angeles) was an American actress, singer, and playwright. She was the daughter of comedienne/actress Carol Burnett and the late producer Joe Hamilton, and the god-daughter of British actress Julie Andrews. Hamilton worked in a number of productions for stage, film, video, and television.
- Charles Beckwith
Col. Charles Alvin Beckwith (January 22, 1929 - June 13, 1994), known as "Chargin' Charlie", was a career U.S. Army soldier and Vietnam veteran, credited with the creation of Delta Force, a branch of the U.S. Army. Although he is held in high regard by various members of the military Special Operations Forces, the general public know him best due to the ill-fated Operation Eagle Claw in Iran, 1980.
- Harry Tracy
Harry Tracy (1875http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/06/17/2007-06-17_the_last_american_desperado.html-1902 was a outlaw in the closing days of the Old West. His real name was Harry Sevrin (Severin?). He is said to have run with Butch Cassidy and Hole in the Wall gang, and by the time he'd reached adulthood he was actively taking part in acts of robbery and theft. In late 1901, Tracy was captured, convicted, and incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
- Fadi Ihsan Fadel
Fadi Ihsan Fadel (born 1971) is a Canadian humanitarian worker who was taken hostage in Iraq. He was taken hostage on April 7, 2004 and released April 16, 2004. He was working for New York-based International Rescue Committee, a non-government organization. The key issue to his release was the emphasis to his captors that he was Canadian, not Israeli. Fadel believes that his captors specifically targeted him as they called him by his name.
- Terry A. Anderson
Terry A. Anderson (b. October 27 1947, Lorain, Ohio) is the best known, and longest held, hostage of a group of American hostages believed to be captured by Shiite Hezbollah militants in an attempt to drive U.S. military forces from Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. Anderson was raised in Batavia, New York. A professional journalist, he was in the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War, where he was a combat correspondent (1969-70).
- Jenna Stannis
Jenna Stannis is a fictional character from the British science fiction television series "Blake's 7", played by Sally Knyvette. The role of Jenna Stannis has recently been revived in the Blake's 7 audio plays where she is played by Carrie Dobro. A member of the elite Alpha class, Jenna was a beautiful but cynical smuggler/self-styled "free trader". She clearly had some involvement with resistance groups as she had once met the resistance fighter Avalon.
- Ali Atwa
Ali Atwa is a Lebanese national and member of the Islamist organization Hezbollah. Atwa is also known as "Ammar Mansour Bouslim" and "Hassan Rostom Salim". He is currently wanted by the United States government for involvement in the June 14, 1985, skyjacking of TWA Flight 847. (He allegedly intended to help hijack the plane but was bumped from the flight.
- Calgacus
Calgacus (sometimes Calgacos or Galgacus) was the leader of the Caledonian Confederacy who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84. His name can be as interpreted as Celtic "*calg-ac-os", "possessing a blade" or "possessing a penis".
- Ali Taziyev
An ex-police officer, Ali Taziyev (d. 10 July 2006) was one of 32 hostage-takers in the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis. He reportedly led the negotiations on behalf of the hostage-takers, and had joined the group after his wife and five children were killed by a Russian bomb. Although he was initially reported to have been among the identified dead after Beslan, …
- Stuart Lockwood
Stuart Lockwood (b. 1985, Worcester) is an English man who was seen around the world on television when he was a boy in the days before the Gulf War began in 1991. Stuart and his family, along with hundreds of other foreigners, were denied exit visas by the Iraqi regime and held in Iraq since its invasion of Kuwait as hostages "for peace". The infamous video involves Stuart being stroked by a seated President Saddam Hussein, and asked whether he "would like cornflakes", …
- Clark Olofsson
Clark Olofsson, new name Daniel Demuynck, (born 1947) is a Swede best known for his involvement in the Norrmalmstorg robbery, a hostage situation that was the basis of the term Stockholm syndrome.
- Ulrich Wegener
Ulrich K. "Ricky" Wegener was a renowned German police officer and a founding member of the counter-terrorist force GSG 9. The man tasked with creating the tactics and strategies that would be used by Germany's first exclusively counter-terrorist force, Colonel Wegener was the Bundesgrenzschutz (Federal Border Protection, now German Federal Police) liaison officer with the German Interior Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, at the time.
- Nancy Ammerman
Nancy Tatom Ammerman is a professor of sociology of religion, now at Boston University, who wrote a controversial report about the Branch Davidians and Waco. In 1984, Ammerman joined the faculty of Emory University. Her book, "Baptist Battles", won the 1992 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
- Raymond Nonnatus
Saint Raymond Nonnatus (Ramón Nonato; Raymond Nonnat) is a saint from Catalonia in Spain. His surname "Nonnatus" (Latin, "not born") is derived from the fact that he was born by Caesarean section (his mother died during childbirth). He is the patron saint of childbirth, midwives, children, and pregnant women. Born at Portella, diocese of Urgel, he became a member of the Mercedarian Order, founded to ransom Christian captives of the Moors of North Africa, …
- Yakov Springer
Yakov Springer (b. Poland ca. 1921; died Munich, Germany September 6, 1972) was a wrestler and a weightlifting coach and judge, but is best known as one of the victims of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was murdered with 10 other men who were representing Israel in the Olympics in Munich. They were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, from the PLO Black September group.
- Jemmy Button
Orundellico, known as "Jemmy Button", (c. 1815 - 1864) was a native Fuegian of the Yaghan (or Yamana) tribe from islands around Tierra del Fuego, in modern Chile and Argentina. He was brought to England by Captain FitzRoy on the HMS "Beagle" and became a celebrity for a period. In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy, at the command of the first expedition of the famous "Beagle", …
- Qin Kai
Qin Kai, was a general of the state of Yan during the Warring States Period of China. He was once sent by Yan to Donghu as Hostage. Later, He returned to Yan. In around 300 BC, He defeated the Donghu and conquered the Liaodong Peninsula.
- Yanis Kanidis
Yanis Kanidis (also Ivan Constantinovich Kanidis,) (January 1, 1930 - September 3, 2004) was a Greek-Russian physical education teacher. When armed Chechen extremists took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage on September 1 2004 in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia, in what has become known as the Beslan school hostage crisis, 74-year-old Kanidis insisted on staying with his students, helped them survive and ultimately died to save their lives.
- Buyeo Pung
Buyeo Pung, known as in Japan, was one of the sons of King Uija of Baekje. When Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, fell to the alliance of Silla and Tang Dynasty in 660, he was in the Wa state of Japan as a ward and hostage to ensure the alliance between Japan and Baekje. "Buyeo" was the family name of the Baekje rulers. He came back with Japanese army and Yamato general Abe no Hirafu to revive the country.
- Ivan Grose
Ivan Grose (born October 8, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian businessman and politician. From 1947 to 1951, Grose served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1957 Grose, then 29, held up a bank in Hamilton, Ontario. Grose reportedly took a 22-year-old man who had gone to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch hostage with a handgun to his back, and left the bank with $6 000 stuffed into a paper bag. Grose was tried, and eventually pled guilty.