- Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh is a Fijian politician of Indian descent, who represented the Vuda Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) from 2001 to 2006, having retained the seat at the 2001 parliamentary election with more than 57 percent of the votes cast. In 2003, Singh was offered the portfolio of Minister for Fair Trading & Consumer Affairs, together with 13 other FLP parliamentarians who were offered cabinet positions by the Prime Minister, …
- Peter Dunne
Peter Dunne (born 17 March 1954), a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament, leads the United Future political party. He has served as a Cabinet minister in governments dominated by the centre-left Labour Party as well as by the centre-right National Party. He currently holds the posts of Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Health, outside of cabinet.
- Brian Stokes
Brian Alexander Stokes (born September 7, 1979 in Pomona, California) is a pitcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He was a graduate of Jurupa Valley High School and played college ball at Riverside Communtiy College in California. On October 2, 1998, Stokes was first signed as an amateur free agent. He spent his first professional season with the Princeton Devil Rays in 1999. While with Princeton, he led the Appalachain League in games finished with 35.
- Brett Dennen
Brett Dennen (born 1979) is a folk/pop singer-songwriter from Oakdale, California. He has been compared to Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, James Taylor, and Paul Simon. In 2004, Dennen released his first self-titled album, "Brett Dennen". His second album was "So Much More", which includes the singles "Ain't No Reason", "She's Mine", and "Darlin' Do Not Fear". A few songs charted as iTunes top downloads in the days following the album's release in November 2006.
- Brian Connell
Brian David Connell, a New Zealand politician, has represented the New Zealand National Party in the New Zealand Parliament since 2002. Born in the Manawatu region, Connell studied history and geography at Massey University. He also gained a diploma in teaching. He worked as a primary-school teacher for a time, then as a secondary-school teacher, before moving to Australia, where he became a manager at a banking company in Victoria.
- Sue Kedgley
Sue Kedgley (born 1948), BA (Victoria University), TTC (Auckland University), MA (Hons) (Otago University), a New Zealand politician, has represented the Green Party in the New Zealand Parliament since first becoming a Member of Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 elections. She won re-election in the 2002 and 2005 elections. She currently fills the 3rd slot on the Green Party list.
- Jason Hammel
Jason Aaron Hammel (born September 2, 1982 in Greenville, South Carolina) is a pitcher in the minor league system of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He is currently on the Rays' 40 man roster. Hammel made his Major League debut on April 11, 2006 against the Orioles.
- Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television host. She was the host of Radio National's "Life Matters" program for 11 years. She received a United Nations Media Peace Prize and two Penguin Awards for her role in ABC TV's coverage of the Gulf War. She is currently the host of "Compass" on ABC TV (1998-) and "Saturday Extra" on Radio National. She is married with two children and two step-children.
- Joe Inglett
Joseph Steven "Joe" Inglett (born June 29, 1978 in Sacramento, California) is second baseman in the Cleveland Indians organization of Major League Baseball. He made his major league debut with the Indians June 21, 2006. The Mesa Verde (Citrus Heights, California) High School graduate is currently the second baseman for the Indians' Triple-A, International League affiliate, Buffalo Bisons.
- Robert Bates
Robert H. Bates is a U.S. academic, currently the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. His area of focus is on political economy, specifically development. Most of his work focuses on Africa. He is the author of some 15 books.
- Joseph Wu
Joseph Wu (born 1954) is currently the chief representative of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the United States as the head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington, D.C.. He was appointed to that position in mid-April 2007 by President Chen Shui-bian to succeed his predecessor, David Lee.
- Jeff Niemann
Jeffrey Warren Niemann (born February 28, 1983 in Houston, Texas) is a starting pitcher who plays for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization. He is currently on the 40-man roster. Niemann was the Devil Rays' first-round draft pick out of Rice University in 2004 as the fourth overall pick. He signed a major-league contract in January 2005 worth $5.2 million.
- Larry Shaw
Larry Shaw is a USA Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-first Senate district, including constituents in Cumberland County. A corporate executive from Fayetteville, North Carolina, Shaw is currentlyserving in his sixth term in the state Senate. Previously, he served one term in the state House.
- Walter Benn Michaels
Walter Benn Michaels is a literary theorist, known as the author of "Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism" (1995) and "The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History" (2004). Michaels’s work has generated a powerful set of arguments and questions around a host of issues that are central to literary studies: problems of culture and race, identities national and personal, the difference between memory and history, disagreement and difference, …
- Anthony Holden
Anthony Holden (born 22 May 1947) is a British journalist, broadcaster and writer, particularly known as a biographer of the British Royal family and of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier. He was born in Lancashire, and educated at Oundle School and the University of Oxford, where he edited the student paper "Isis". He has written for a wide range of publications, and is currently music critic of "The Observer".
- Martin Richards
Martin Richards is a British computer scientist, best known for his development of the BCPL programming language, which is both the earliest major development in portable software and the ancestor of the widely used C programming language. He studied mathematics as an undergraduate student at Cambridge University; his PhD was on programming language design and implementation. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
- Carson Charles
Carson Charles is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and former Minister of Works and Transportation. He is currently the political leader of the National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR). After the resignation of A.N.R. Robinson as NAR leader in 1991 following defeat in the 1991 General Elections, Charles stepped in as party leader in 1992, but was replaced by Selby Wilson in 1993. He then went on to form the short-lived National Development Party, before contesting the St.
- 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.
- Linda Colley
Linda Colley (born 1949) is a British historian, widely known for her 1992 study "Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837", which explored the development of a British national identity following the 1707 Acts of Union. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. She became a well-known figure with a lecture "Britishness in the 21st Century" in December 1999, …
- Cyril Dessel
Cyril Dessel is a French professional cyclist. He made his professional debut in 2000 with the Jelly Belly Cycling Team and later raced for the Jean Delatour and Phonak teams.<sup></sup> He is currently a member of the AG2R Prévoyance team.<sup>;</sup> In 2006, he won the Tour Méditerranéen on the UCI Europe Tour.<sup>;</sup> Then in the 2006 Tour de France, he finished second in the tenth stage of the race, …
- Chris Seddon
Christopher Jon Seddon (born October 13, 1983 in Northridge, California) is a pitcher in the minor league system of the Florida Marlins. He is currently on the Marlins 40 man roster, and is playing for the Carolina Mudcats.
- Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez is a Spanish politician and currently mayor of Madrid. A stalwart of the Partido Popular (People's Party, Spain's national center-right party), he has previously been a leading figure in various local and national legislative bodies.
- Brandon Call
Brandon Spencer Lee Call (born November 17 1976) is an American actor. He portrayed J.T. Lambert on the ABC sitcom "Step by Step" and Hobie Buchannon during the first season of "Baywatch". Call also briefly endorsed the popular early 90's beverage, Boku. Call was born in Torrance, California to Richard Call and Elyse Pollack. He has two sisters, Dee Anne and Tandi, and a brother, Dustin.
- Court Sullivan
Court Sullivan (born June 5, 1981) is the founder and editor of the college humor website Points in Case. He is a 2003 graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics and History. He currently resides in Atlanta, GA, United States. His career as a writer began in 1999 when he began posting issues of the ezine Points in Case on the bathroom walls in his dorm. Later, the issues were distributed to a mailing list, and eventually posted online to his website.
- John Tamihere
John Tamihere was a New Zealand politician until the 2005 election. Until 3 November 2004 he served as a Cabinet minister, in the governing Labour Party,. Tamihere has become one of the more high-profile Māori politicians currently active in New Zealand politics.
- Sudha Shenoy
Sudha Shenoy is an economist and economic historian of Indian origin. She is one of the most notable Indian proponents of the Austrian School of economics. Shenoy's father was B. R. Shenoy, an economist who studied at the London School of Economics under Friedrich Hayek. Sudha Shenoy is a Honorary Associate in Economic History at the School of Policy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has also been a visiting faculty member at California State University, …
- Josh Parry
Josh Parry is an American football player. He played linebacker at San José State University before being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2004. The Eagles converted Parry to play fullback. He was traded to the Seattle Seahawks prior to the 2006 season for an undisclosed 2008 draft pick. Josh's brother Neil Parry played with his brother at SJSU, and currently provides color commentary for SJSU "Spartans" football radio broadcasts.
- Lars Knudsen
Lars Ramkilde Knudsen (born February 21, 1962) is a Danish researcher in cryptography, particularly interested in the design and analysis of block ciphers, hash functions and message authentication codes (MACs). After some early work in banking, Knudsen enrolled at Aarhus University in 1984 studying mathematics and computer science, gaining a MSc in 1992 and a PhD in 1994. From 1997-2001, he worked at the University of Bergen, Norway.
- Patrick Cammaert
Major General Patrick Cammaert is a Dutch military commander who is currently serving as the United Nations Force Commander for the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was previously the Military Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations. Prior to that position, he was the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), as the Military Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, …
- John Baden
John A. Baden is founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), and Gallatin Writers, Inc. FREE's focus is environmental economics and policy analysis. Gallatin works with writers of the West. Both are 501 (c)(3) organizations with a shared office in Bozeman, MT. Dr. Baden received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969 and then was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in environmental policy.
- Dave Eshelman
Dave Eshelman (born 1948), a jazz trombonist, composer, arranger, band-leader and music-educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, works as a Professor of Music and as Director of Jazz Studies at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB). He currently resides in Fremont, California with his wife of over 35 years, Robbie. Eshelman has performed extensively with many jazz groups in the Bay Area and has worked as a featured soloist in the big bands of Ray Brown, …
- Dror Feiler
Dror Feiler is a musician and artist. Though born in Tel Aviv, Israel, he has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is married to the artist Gunilla Sköld-Feiler. Feiler studied new music and its interpretation at the Fylkingen Institut for New Music 1975-1977, musicology at the University of Stockholm 1977-1978 and composition at the Music Academy of Stockholm with G. Buckt, S.D. Sandström and B. Ferneyhough 1978-1983.
- Trygve Reenskaug
Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug (born 1930) is a Norwegian computer scientist. He formulated the model-view-controller pattern for GUI software design in 1979, while visiting Xerox Parc. By his own admission "The hardest part was to hit upon good names for the different architectural components. Model-View-Editor was the first set". He has been extensively involved in research in object oriented methods, and developed the OOram role modeling method and tool in 1983.
- Neumi Leweni
Neumi Leweni is a Fijian Army officer, who currently holds the rank of Major. He is one of two official spokesmen for the Military, the other being Lieutenant Colonel Orisi Rabukawaqa. He hails from the Lau Islands. Like other senior Military officers, Leweni was particularly outspoken in his opposition to certain policies and decisions of the Qarase government, including the early release from prison of persons convicted of offences relating to the Fiji coup of 2000.
- Oswaldo de Rivero
Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero is a Peruvian career diplomat, currently serving as permanent representative to the United Nations in New York City. He studied law at the Universidad Católica in Lima and later earned a master's degree in international relations from Peru's Academia Diplomática.
- Xia Yi
Xia Yi (born 1970) is a Chinese singer and actress currently working in Taiwan. She allegedly had an affair with Ni Min-jan, which is said to have led to the latter's suicide.
- Carlos Hines
Carlos Hines (born September 26, 1980 in Smithfield, North Carolina) is a pitcher in the minor league system of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He is currently on the Rays' 40 man roster.
- Richard Colvin Reid
Richard Colvin Reid (aka Abdul Raheem) (born August 12, 1973), also known as the shoe bomber, is an individual convicted on charges of terrorism and currently serving a life sentence in the United States for attempting to detonate a commercial aircraft in-flight using plastic explosives contained in his shoes. According to al-Qaeda operative Mohammed Mansour Jabarah (who was captured and interrogated in Oman in 2003), …
- Alexander Polyakov
Alexander M. Polyakov (born 27 September 1945) is a theoretical physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in Moscow, currently at Princeton University. He is known for a number of basic contributions to quantum field theory, including work on what is now called the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole in non-abelian gauge theory, independent from Gerard 't Hooft. His paper "Infinite conformal symmetry in two-dimensional quantum field theory", with A. A. Belavin, …
- Esala Teleni
Captain Esala Teleni is a Fijian naval officer, who currently serves as Deputy Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. He was appointed to this post on 3 January 2007, formalizing a role he had been playing for quite some time, having often acted in the stead of the Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama in his absence. As Deputy Commander, he succeeded Colonel Ioane Naivalurua, who left to take up a new post as Commissioner of Prisons.