- Ramon Tulfo
Ramon "Mon" Tulfo is a TV host, radio broadcaster and columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Tulfo is one of the hosts of "Isumbong Mo! (Tulfo Brothers)", a public service program on RPN. He shares hosting chores with siblings Raffy and Erwin. In the hour-long show, he and his brothers tackle complaints filed against government officials, policemen and community problems.
- Kevin Maguire
Kevin Maguire (born January 5, 1963, in Toronto, Ontario) is a former professional ice hockey forward and referee. He played in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres, and Philadelphia Flyers. In his NHL career, Maguire appeared in 260 games. He scored 29 goals and added 30 assists while accumulating 782 penalty minutes. After his playing career, he pursued a career in officiating. He first worked as an NHL referee in 1999-2000.
- Bill Stewart
William Joseph Stewart (September 26 1894 - February 14 1964) was an American coach and sports official who was an ice hockey referee and coach, and also an umpire in Major League Baseball. In his first season as head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks, he led the team to a Stanley Cup championship in 1938. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, he is the only American-trained head coach to win the Stanley Cup. He was also an umpire in the National League from 1933 to 1954, …
- Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi is currently the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She was the Official Spokesperson for the Palestinian movement during the Madrid peace negotiations (1991-1993), and continues to be active in the efforts towards peace in the region. She was also a member of the Task Force on Higher Education convened by UNESCO and the World Bank.
- Zhao Ziyang
Zhao Ziyang (October 17 1919-January 17 2005) was a politician in the People's Republic of China. He was Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1987 to 1989. As a high-ranking government official, he was a leading reformer who implemented market reforms that greatly increased production and sought measures to streamline the bloated bureaucracy and fight corruption.
- Scott Green
Scott Green is an American football official in the National Football League. Green started in the NFL as a field judge with the start of the 1991 NFL season before switching to back judge after the league swapped position titles at the start of the 1998 NFL season. He became a referee on a part-time basis during the 2004 NFL season when referee Johnny Grier was injured. Green became a full time referee at the start of the 2005 NFL season.
- Steve Freeman
Steven Jay Freeman (born May 8 1953 in Lamesa, Texas) is a former American football defensive back. After attending Mississippi State University, he was selected by the National Football League's New England Patriots in the 1975 NFL Draft. However, he was released by the Patriots before the start of the regular season, and eventually signed with the Buffalo Bills. Freeman spent 12 season with Buffalo, compiling 23 career interceptions and 3 touchdowns.
- J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton (b. September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including several encyclopedias, handbooks, …
- Al Leader
George Alfred "Al" Leader (born December 4 1903, Barnsley, Manitoba, died May 8, 1982) was a Canadian-American ice hockey player, referee, and administrator. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the "Builder" category. Leader settled in Seattle, Washington in the 1930's and became involved in hockey as the administrator of the Seattle City League.
- John Sharpe
John Sharpe (John William Sharpe; born December 9 1866, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England; died: June 19 1936, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England) was a bowler who was George Lohmann's partner in the formidable Surrey sides that dominated the first years of the "official" cricket County Championship. However, because softer and more primitive wickets meant backup bowlers were often unnecessary, …
- Everett Sloane
Everett Sloane was an American television and film actor, songwriter, and theatre director. Sloane is probably best known for his supporting role playing Mr. Bernstein in the cinema classic "Citizen Kane". Born to a Jewish family in Manhattan, Sloane attended the University of Pennsylvania before dropping out in order to join a theater company, but he stopped acting and became a runner on Wall Street after a number of negative stage reviews.
- Wang Zhen
Wáng Zhēn was an official of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) of China. He is credited with the invention of the first wooden movable type printing in the world, while his predecessor of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), Bi Sheng (990-1051 AD), invented the world's first earthenware movable type printing. His illustrated agricultural treatise was also one of the most advanced of its day, …
- Bill McCreary
William "Bill" McCreary (born November 17, 1955, in Guelph, Ontario) is a referee in the National Hockey League. McCreary first refereed an NHL game in 1984, and since has since refereed in over 1300 NHL games. McCreary wears sweater #7. For the 13th year in a row McCreary has been selected to officiate the Stanley Cup Finals. No other person in modern NHL history has refereed more Stanley Cup games.
- Bennett Salvatore
Bennett Salvatore is a NBA official who wears No. 15. He was sentenced in 2000 to a year of probation, 150 hours of community service and a fine of $500 for his role in airline ticket fraud. He plead guilty in a New Haven federal court on July 26, 2000 to filing a false tax return with the Internal Revenue Service for the tax year 1993.. He has been heavily criticized by Mark Cuban and Bill Simmons following his role in the 2006 NBA Finals and for other previous incidents.
- Jean Tirole
Jean Tirole is a French professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. Jean Tirole is director of the Foundation Jean-Jacques Laffont - Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Institut d'économie industrielle in Toulouse. After receiving his PhD from MIT in 1981, he worked as a researcher at l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées until 1984.
- John D'Amico
John David D'Amico (September 21, 1937-May 29, 2005) was a National Hockey League (NHL) linesman and later supervisor of officials. A native of Toronto, Ontario, D'Amico's NHL career started as a referee on October 12, 1964, when he was 28-years-old. He would only referee 19 games before becoming a linesman. He retired in 1987 as the last Original Six official. D'Amico's career included 1,689 regular season games and 247 Stanley Cup playoff games.
- Jerry Markbreit
Jerry Markbreit (born March 23, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American football referee in the National Football League (NFL) for 23 seasons and became one of the most recognizable referees in the game. Markbreit officiated football games for 43 seasons. From 1966 to 1975, Markbreit officiated college football games in the Big Ten Conference. He then joined the NFL in 1976 as a Line Judge before being promoted to the head referee position in just his second year.
- Henry Collins
Henry J. Collins was an American citizen employed as a government official in the New Deal National Recovery Administration in the 1930s and later the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. He was a member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and allegedly part of the Washington D.C.-based Ware group of spies, along with Alger Hiss, Lee Pressman, Harry Dexter White and others.
- Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, PC, CC, AOE, LL.D (September 20, 1908 - February 19, 1996), a Canadian politician, was Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history (only after George H. Murray of Nova Scotia).
- Phil McKinnely
Philip Byron "Phil" McKinnely (born July 8 1954 in Oakland, California) is a former American football offensive tackle who played seven seasons in the NFL, mainly for the Atlanta Falcons, and then in the USFL for the Memphis Showboats. After retiring as a player, McKinnely became an American football official, working in college football's Southeastern Conference and NFL Europe before joining the NFL in 2002 as a head linesman.
- Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski (born in Guelph, Ontario on August 18, 1958) is an National Hockey League referee. He is one of the selected referees who is officiating the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals with Dan O'Halloran.
- Stephen Walkom
Stephen Walkom (b. August 8, 1963 in North Bay, Ontario), currently serves as vice president and director of officiating for the National Hockey League (NHL). He is married to Annie and together they have three children. They reside in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. Walkom is a former NHL referee, until retiring August 3, 2005 when he elevated to the management position. Walkom succeeded Andy Van Hellemond as director of officiating, …
- Ray Scapinello
Ray "Scampy" Scapinello (born November 5, 1946 in Guelph, Ontario) is a former National Hockey League linesman. Scapinello's career included the 1998 Winter Olympics, 20 Stanley Cup Finals, 2,500 regular season games, and 426 playoff games. He retired in June 2004 after 33 seasons. Over the course of his career, Scapinello never missed a single game due to injury or illness.
- Jake O'Donnell
James Michael "Jake" O'Donnell (born January 25 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former sports official who worked as a National Basketball Association (NBA) referee for 28 seasons from 1967 to 1995, and also as an umpire in Major League Baseball for four seasons from 1968 to 1971. He is the only person to officiate All-Star games in both Major League Baseball and the NBA.
- Andy van Hellemond
Andy Van Hellemond (born February 16, 1948, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a former National Hockey League referee and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1999. His officiating career included 19 Stanley Cup Finals. After retiring, Van Hellemond went to the East Coast Hockey League, where he held a management position there until being hired by the NHL in 2000 to replace Bryan Lewis as Director of Officiating.
- Red Cashion
Mason L. "Red" Cashion is a former American football official. He started officiating in 1952 while attending Texas A&M University, and then worked for various high school and college football conferences, most notably the Southwest Conference. From 1972 to 1997, he officiated in the National Football League (NFL), and was the referee in Super Bowl XX and Super Bowl XXX.
- Yuan Cai
Yuan Cai was a Song dynasty scholar and official, best known for penning the "Yuan shi shi fan", a manual of advice addressed to family heads on the subject of how to handle their responsibilities. Yuan was born in Xin'an, the capital of Quzhou prefecture, to an established gentry family. In the 1150s he was a student at the National University (大学) at the Southern Song capital of Hangzhou.
- Ben Dreith
Ben Dreith was an American football official. He was hired by the American Football League when the AFL started in 1960 and joined the National Football League (NFL) after the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger. Drieth was the referee during Super Bowl VIII and Super Bowl XV and was assigned eight conference championship games. He also was an alternate official in Super Bowl II. Over his career, Dreith officiated in the postseason 28 consecutive years. He wore uniform number 12.
- Charlie Berry
Charles Francis Berry (October 18 1902 - September 6 1972) was an American athlete and sports official who enjoyed careers as a catcher and umpire in Major League Baseball and as an offensive end and official in the National Football League. His father, Charlie Sr., was a second baseman who played in the Union Association in 1884.
- Charlie Berry
Charles Joseph Berry (September 6 1860 - January 22 1940) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball whose career consisted of one season in the Union Association. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In his one season, Berry batted .224 (38-for-170) with one home run and 21 runs in 43 games played. After the conclusion of his professional sports career, he worked for the Ingersoll Rand Company. Berry died in Phillipsburg, New Jersey at the age of 79.
- Dr Louay
Dr Louay is an Iraqi insurgent medical doctor who murdered 43 wounded policemen, soldiers and officials in Kirkuk while pretending to treat them. According to police, Louay carried out his murder spree over an eight- to nine-month period. He appeared to be an assistant doctor who made himself available for work in any part of the hospital, which is the largest in Kirkuk.
- Jacques Duchesneau
Jacques Duchesneau is a French Canadian civil servant and former Chief of Police. From 1994 to 1998, he was Chief of Police and Chief of Staff of the Montreal Urban Community Police Service. He served as Treasurer of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (1994-1998); Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (1993-1997); and President of the Quebec Association of Police Directors (1993-1997).
- Paul Rostock
Paul Rostock (January 18, 1892 - June 17, 1956) was a German official, surgeon, and university professor. He was Chief of the Office for Medical Science and Research ("Amtschef der Dienststelle Medizinische Wissenschaft und Forschung") under Third Reich Commissioner Karl Brandt and a Full Professor, Medical Doctorate, Medical Superintendent of the University of Berlin Surgical Clinic. Rostock was born in Kranz/Meseritz, Greater Poland.
- Melitón Manzanas
Melitón Manzanas was a Spanish government official and the first high-profile member of the Spanish government killed by ETA. Manzanas was the commander of the secret police in San Sebastian. He was well known for the zeal against the Basque separatism, which had been revived in the 1960s, and especially the terrorist organisation ETA. Manzanas has been accused of violating human rights in his suppression of the separatists. In 1968, he was assassinated by ETA.
- Stanisław Koniecpolski
Stanisław Koniecpolski (1590/1594 - 11 March, 1646) was a Polish nobleman (szlachta), magnate, official (starost and castellan), voivode of Sandomierz from 1625, and Field and later Grand Crown hetman (second highest military commander, after the king) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Stanisław Koniecpolski lived a life that involved almost constant warfare, and during his military career he won many victories.
- Matt Pavelich
Matt Pavelich (b. March 12, 1934 in Park Hill Gold Mines, Ontario) is a Canadian hockey linesman.
- Manuel de Mendiburu
Manuel de Mendiburu (1805-85) was a Peruvian statesman and historian, born in Lima. He was educated at the University of San Marcos. When the movement for independence reached Peru, he joined the patriot army as a color sergeant in 1821. As lieutenant he distinguished himself in various battles, and after the end of the war was made captain (1830) and by 1851 had reached the rank of general. He filled various roles during his long and active political career.
- Hank Thompson
Hank Thompson (born September 3, 1925 in Waco, Texas) is a country music entertainer whose career has spanned seven decades and who has sold over 60 million records worldwide. Thompson's musical style, characterized as Honky Tonk Swing, is a mixture of big-band instrumentation, fiddle and steel guitar that supports his distinctive, gravelly baritone vocals on songs he often writes himself.
- Tianqi Emperor
The Tianqi Emperor (December 23, 1605 - September 30, 1627) was the 15th emperor of the Ming dynasty from 1620 to 1627. Born Zhu Youjiao, he was the Taichang Emperor's eldest son. Zhu Youxiao became emperor at the age of 15, on the death of his father who ruled less than a month. He did not pay much attention to affairs of state, and was accused of failing in his filial duties to his dead father by not continuing his father's wishes.
- Kondō Isami
was a Japanese official of the late Edo Period, famed for his role as commander of the Shinsengumi.