- Dana International
Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל; stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1969) is an Israeli transsexual pop singer of Yemenite origin, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for her song "Diva". Next to original songs, Dana International is known for her cover versions of old hits.
- Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, …
- Sergio Ramos
Sergio Ramos García more commonly known as Sergio Ramos, is a Spanish international footballer, who usually plays as a defender. A native of Camas, Seville, Ramos is a graduate of the Sevilla FC youth system. Ramos began his career as a well-regarded right-side defender, a position he was able to keep for the majority of his early career. After two years of experience in La Liga, with Sevilla, …
- Jason Biggs
Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor who obtained wide fame in 1999 for his role as Jim Levenstein in the "American Pie" series of teen films.
- Randy Carlyle
Randy Carlyle (born April 19, 1956 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a former hockey defenceman and currently the head coach of the Anaheim Ducks. He was raised in a town called Azilda, just northwest of Sudbury.
- Mike Riley
Michael Anthony Riley (born December 17, 1964) is an English football referee from West Yorkshire who oversees matches in both the Football League and the FA Premier League. Riley became a national Football League referee in 1994, having previously served five years on their assistant referees' list. He was later granted FIFA status in 1999 allowing him to officiate international fixtures.
- The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000
- Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom (born 1943) is the author of three books, "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History"; "Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century"; and "How I Accidentally Started the Sixties". He was a publicist in the music and film industries from 1974 to 1988, working with figures like Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, and John Cougar Mellencamp.
- George Young
George Redburn Young (born 6 November 1947 in Glasgow, Scotland) is an Australian rock musician, songwriter and record producer, best-known as the co-writer of the international hits, "Friday On My Mind" and "Love Is In The Air"; and for his production of the hard rock band, AC/DC, which features his younger brothers, Malcolm Young and Angus Young.
- Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson (born May 1857, Demerara, British Guiana; died in Sydney, Australia, date unknown) was the world's first black international football player, capped three times for Scotland between 1881 and 1882 and considered one of the top ten most important players of the 19th century. He played in the side back position, on either the right or the left flank. He was the son of a wealthy Scottish sugar planter Peter Miller and a local girl Rose Watson.
- Nathan Astle
Nathan John Astle (born 15 September, 1971 in Christchurch) is a former member of the New Zealand cricket team. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced (total innings: 222 vs England in Jade Stadium, Christchurch 2002. In a remarkable innings of just 168 balls, Astle reached the double-century after only 153 balls).
- Antonio Puerta
Roberto Antonio Puerta Pérez is a Spanish international midfielder. He plays for Sevilla FC in La Liga. Left footed Puerta plays on the left side of midfield, although he has occasionally filled in at left back. His recent impressive performances have earned him international recognition and reported interest from Arsenal, Manchester United and Real Madrid. Puerta has been capped once by the Spain national football team. He was also capped for Spain U-21.
- Junior Murvin
Junior Murvin (born Murvin Junior Smith, circa 1949, Port Antonio, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae artist. He is best known for the classic single "Police and Thieves", produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1976. Murvin's soaring voice and the infectious rhythm made "Police and Thieves" into an international hit during the summer of that year. The song was so influential, that it was recorded by the punk rock pioneers The Clash, on their debut album the following year.
- Ann Peebles
Ann Peebles (born April 27 1947, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an internationally acclaimed singer and songwriter best known for her popular Memphis soul albums of the 1970s on the Hi Records label. Two of her better known songs are "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" and "I Can't Stand the Rain", popularised by cover versions by Paul Young and Eruption respectively.
- Steve McCurry
Photographer Steve McCurry is renowned for his evocative and moving photographs of Asia and its people. His career reached a turning point in the 1980s when, disguised in native garb, he crossed into Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion. And in 1984, while visiting an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan, he took his famous "Afghan girl" photograph, which became a National Geographic icon after it was published on the cover of the June 1985 issue.
- Ronald MacDonald
Professor Ronald MacDonald is an economist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy) with a research specialism in exchange rate analysis using advanced econometric techniques. Until 2004 he held the same post at the University of Strathclyde (professor of international finance - formerly professor of international macroeconomics).
- Pavel Pogrebnyak
Pavel Pogrebnyak (born November 8, 1983 in Moscow) is a Russian international footballer. The striker earned his place in the national team while playing for FC Tom Tomsk. On November 28, 2006, FC Zenit Saint Petersburg announced a three-year contract with Pogrebnyak.
- Andrew Caddick
Andrew ("Andy") Richard Caddick (born 21 November 1968) is a domestic and former international fast-medium bowler. At 6"6, Caddick was a successful bowler in England for over a decade, taking thirteen 5-wicket hauls in test matches, and has played for Somerset Country Cricket Club for seventeen years.
- Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes (born September 27, 1972 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. She is very involved with Right To Play, an athlete-driven international humanitarian organization that uses sports to encourage the development of children and youth in the most disadvantaged areas of the world.
- Nathan Robertson
Nathan James Robertson (born May 30 1977, Nottingham) is an English badminton player who has achieved international success in both the men's events and the mixed doubles event.
- Kiki Musampa
Kiki Kizito Musampa (born July 20 1977 in Kinshasa, DR Congo) is a Dutch international footballer who currently plays for Trabzonspor. Musampa first started off in the famous Ajax Amsterdam youth academy where he played a total of 31 games in two seasons and scored six goals.
- Glen Chapple
Glen Chapple (born January 23, 1974 in Skipton, North Yorkshire) is an English cricketer. He is an all-rounder, and has represented the national team on a youth level, as well as performing well for Lancashire. He bowls right-arm fast-medium, and is a right-handed batsman. Glen's most notable achievements include winning the Gold Award for his six for 18 in the 1996 Natwest Trophy Final against Essex at Lord's.
- Tarik Sektioui
Tarik Sektioui, commonly known as Tarik, is an international football player from Fès, Morocco. He currently plays for RKC Waalwijk. He has played for the Morocco national football team. He plays as a winger forward and is best known for his good control of the ball, good technique and speed. He crosses the ball with great accuracy.
- Carl Hoefkens
Carl Hoefkens (born October 6, 1978 in Lier) is a Belgian international footballer. He is currently playing as a defender for Stoke City and has played for his country fifteen times. He represented Belgium in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. He started his career at K. Lierse S.K. and played there for six years before taking a move to Lommel but his move turned into a nightmare, when Lommel went broke in 2003. In the summer of 2003, he came to Germinal Beerschot, …
- Loren Cunningham
Loren Duane Cunningham (born 1936, Taft, California), a co-founder of the international Christian missionary organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the University of the Nations. Cunningham founded YWAM in the United States of America in 1960 with his wife Darlene Cunningham at the age of 24. They currently reside in Kona, Hawaii.
- Andrey Arshavin
Andrey Arshavin (first name also transliterated as Andrei) (born May 29, 1981 in Saint Petersburg, then Leningrad) is a Russian international footballer. He is the top player of the Russian Premier League team Zenit St. Petersburg. He can play both as a midfielder and as a striker. Andrey Arshavin graduated from Smena football school. In 1999 and early 2000 he played for Zenit's farm club, Zenit-2, in the Second Division.
- Andrew Crofts
Andrew Crofts based in England, is a known name in the world of ghostwriting. Many of his subjects have been international and have topped the bestseller charts of UK and other countries. Because of the secrecy surrounding the business of ghostwriting it is never known exactly how many books that have been credited to other people were actually written by him, …
- Elton Flatley
Elton Flatley (born 7 May 1977 in Tamworth, New South Wales) is a former Australian international rugby union footballer. At his best position of fly-half, Flatley was often able to dictate the game by kicking tactically or throwing simple passes in order to retain possession. Flatley tended to play internationally at inside centre. This is mainly due to Stephen Larkham holding the position of fly half.
- Aleksandr Anyukov
Aleksandr Anyukov (born 28 September 1982 in Samara) is a Russian international football defender. He plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. Aleksandr Anyukov attended football school in Samara since the age of six. In 2000 he started playing for the reserve team of Krylya Sovetov Samara in the Second Division. He was noticed by Aleksandr Tarkhanov and invited to the first team.
- Ron Mitchell
Ron Mitchell is an African American Soulful house music singer/songwriter from the Detroit area who is a popular international nightclub performer that has been featured on Gerald Mitchell's "Set Me Free" on Soul City and Underground Resistance's infamous "Hardlife" on Underground Resistance.
- Engelen
Engelen is the alias of Mexican artist Julieta Colás. She is an eclectic artist, liking to experiment with different kinds of media and art styles; drifting from cartoon to realistic to stylized. Julieta Colás (born Julieta Colás Márquez on September 1, 1987) was born in Monterrey, Mexico to Rafael Colás and Laura Márquez, and grand daughter to plastic artist Laura Elenes. She has a younger brother, Rafael.
- Jp Dellacamera
John Paul Dellacamera (born in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States), known as JP (no periods), is the voice of Major League Soccer for ABC. He is also ABC's play-by-play man for their coverage of international soccer, a sport he's been calling for nearly 30 years. His most famous assignment was calling the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final between the United States, and China, which ended in a 0-0 tie after regulation, …
- Anthony Annan
Anthony Annan (born July 21, 1986 in Accra) is a Ghanaian international footballer who plays for Norwegian club I.K. Start. He is an all-action box-to-box central midfielder who is very comfortable playing offensively or defensively. Nicknamed Pablo Aimar in comparison to the Argentine national midfield superstar, Annan combines immense skill with a physical presence that complements his average height.
- Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter (b. 30 June, 1946 in Northern Ireland) is a former international footballer. As a central defender, Hunter spent the majority of his professional career at Ipswich Town, making over 350 appearances in his eleven years at the club. He also played for Oldham Athletic, Blackburn Rovers and Colchester United. His nephew was manager of Rushden & Diamonds and is now coach at Norwich City. He made nearly 50 appearances for his country.
- Richard Morales
Richard Javier Morales Aguirre (born February 21, 1975 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan international footballer. He transferred to Málaga CF in the summer after spending three seasons at Osasuna. He has caped numerous times for the Uruguay national side, his two late goals against Australia in 2001 ensuring his country a place at the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan
- Ben Warren
Benjamin Warren was an England international footballer who played as a half-back for Derby County and Chelsea. Born in Newhall, Warren began his playing career with Derby County, whose secretary-manager had spotted him playing in a junior match. Playing at half-back, though he could also fill in at inside forward, Warren was known for his hard but fair tackling, and for his consistent performances.
- George Ignatieff
George Ignatieff, CC, MA, DCL (December 16 1913 - August 10 1989) was a Canadian diplomat and was the recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in international service. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the youngest of five sons, to a distinguished Russian family. His mother was Princess Natasha Mestchersky and his father was Count Paul Ignatieff, a close advisor to Tsar Nicholas II serving as his last Minister of Education.
- Mark Whitacre
Mark E Whitacre (born May 1, 1957) is an American businessman who was the former President of the BioProducts Division of the Fortune 500 company, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). Whitacre became a corporate whistleblower and went undercover for the FBI in the mid-1990s to expose a massive international price-fixing cartel. With Whitacre, the FBI had the highest-level executive ever in U.S. history to turn undercover cooperating witness.
- Aleksandr Kerzhakov
Aleksandr Kerzhakov (born November 27, 1982 in Kingisepp) is a Russian international footballer. The striker plays for the Spanish La Liga team Sevilla FC.
- Niko Nikoladze
Niko Nikoladze (27 September, 1843, – 5 June, 1928) was a notable Georgian publicist, pro-Western enlightener, and public figure primarily known for his contributions to the development of Georgian liberal journalism and his involvement in various economic and social projects of that time. He was born in the village of Didi Jikhaishi, Imereti, western Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia).