- Israel Border Police
The Israel Border Police is the combat branch of the Israeli Police. It is also commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Magav (Hebrew: מג"ב), meaning border guard, whilst its members are known as "Magavnikim" (Hebrew: מגבניקים). Border Guard is often used as the official name of the Israel Border Police in English.
- Indo-Tibetan Border Police
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is a paramilitary force conceived on October 24, 1962 for security along the Indo-Tibetan Border covering 2115 km. The ITBP is trained in mountaineering, disaster management, and nuclear, biological and chemical disasters. ITBP personnel have been deployed abroad to UN peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and elsewhere.
- Omar Khadr
Omar Ahmed Khadr born September 19, 1986 in Ottawa, is a Canadian who was captured by American forces in Afghanistan when he was 15 years of age. His case has drawn considerable attention as a child soldier, and he is among the youngest prisoners held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
- Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom was elected the 42nd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on December 9, 2003. He was sworn into office on January 8, 2004 by his father, the Honorable William Newsom . Mayor Gavin Newsom has made bold ideas the driving force of his administration. As Mayor, Gavin Newsom uses ideas, innovation and practical solutions to improve the quality of life for all San Franciscans.
- Chandra Levy
Chandra Ann Levy (April 14, 1977 - May 2001) was an intern who worked at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in the spring of 2001 and was subsequently found murdered in Rock Creek Park. The investigation into her disappearance uncovered an affair with then-U.S. Representative Gary Condit, a Democrat representing California's 18th congressional district and a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
- Jean Charles de Menezes
Jean Charles de Menezes (7 January 1978-22 July 2005) was a Brazilian illegal immigrant living in the Tulse Hill area of south London. De Menezes was shot and killed at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by unnamed Metropolitan Police officers. Initially, police claimed incorrectly that he was wearing bulky clothing and that he had vaulted the ticket barriers running from police. The government also confirmed that he was staying in the UK illegally.
- Ned Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly (c. January 1855 - 11 November 1880) is Australia's most famous bushranger, and, to many, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Born near Melbourne to an Irish convict father, as a young man he clashed with the police. After an incident at his home, police parties went in search of him. After killing three policemen, he and his gang were proclaimed outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police at Glenrowan, …
- Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (born 27 December 1948,) is an Academy Award-nominated French actor. His most significant English-language productions include "Green Card" with Andie MacDowell and "1492: Conquest of Paradise". Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre to Anne Jeanne Joséphe "Eliette" (née Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, a metal worker. He first married Elisabeth (née Guignot), with whom he had two children.
- Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood (July 20, 1938 - November 29, 1981) was a three time Academy Award nominated American film actress.
- Brian Haw
Brian William Haw (born 1949) is a former British carpenter who is famous for living in Parliament Square since 2001 in an anti-war protest. Although he had begun before the terror attacks on the United States, Haw has become a symbol of the anti-war protest movement over the policies of both Britain and the United States in Afghanistan and later Iraq. He was voted most inspiring political figure at the 2006 Channel 4 Political Awards.
- Shirley Franklin
Shirley Clarke Franklin (born May 10 1945) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and, since January 7 2002, the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. The 58th mayor of Atlanta, she was the first female to hold the post and became the first black woman to be elected mayor of any major Southern city. Franklin is the fourth black mayor of Atlanta, the latest in a line of African American mayors that stretches back to 1974.
- Daniel Faulkner
Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955-December 9, 1981) was a police officer in the American city of Philadelphia who was shot and killed in the line of duty. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist, political activist, and member of the Black Panther Party and supporter of MOVE, was arrested and convicted of Faulkner's murder. Abu-Jamal's conviction has since led to a decades-long controversy.
- Peter Black
Peter Black (born 30 January 1960) is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales West Region. He is currently chairman of the Welsh Assembly Education Select Committee, and is the education spokesman for his party in Wales. He was educated at Wirral Grammer School for Boys and the University of Wales, Swansea, graduating in English and History. A Councillor for the Cwmbwrla ward on Swansea City Council, …
- Russell Means
Russell Means (born November 10, 1939) is one of contemporary America's best-known and prolific activists for the rights of American Indians. Means has also pursued careers in politics, acting, and music.
- Rahul Mahajan
Rahul Mahajan (born 1974) in a Maharashtrian Deshastha Brahmin family is an Indian politician. He is son of the late Indian politician, Pramod Mahajan. Rahul Mahajan came into the news when his father was shot by his own brother and struggled for his life for twelve days before succumbing. Television footage showed him comforting his sister and mother and maintaining a stoic demeanour.
- Francis Maude
Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude (born 4 July 1953) is a British politician, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Horsham, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and a member of the Privy Council.
- Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer (pronounced "Owen",)(born May 14, 1965) is an Irish author. He is most famous for having written the Artemis Fowl series.
- Larry Campbell
Larry W. Campbell, MBA (born February 28 1948, in Brantford, Ontario) is the former Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and a Member of the Canadian Senate.
- Van Jones
Van Jones (1968-) is a civil rights and human rights advocate in Oakland, CA working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental destruction. He is the co-founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which now employs 24 staff members. Jones founded the Ella Baker Center in 1996. Named for the civil rights and human rights heroine Ella Baker, …
- Bob Crane
Robert Edward Crane was an American disc jockey and Emmy award-nominated actor, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" from 1965 to 1971. Crane was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He graduated from high school in 1946 and became a drummer, performing with dance bands and a symphony orchestra. In 1949, he married high school sweetheart Anne Terzian; they eventually had three children, Deborah Ann, …
- Ahmed Zaoui
Ahmed Zaoui is an Algerian member of the Islamic Salvation Front who was convicted on terrorism-related charges in Belgium and France. He arrived in New Zealand on 4 December 2002 where he sought refugee status.
- Tim Moore
Tim Moore (December 9, 1887, Rock Island, Illinois-December 13, 1958, Los Angeles) was a celebrated African-American vaudevillian and comic actor of the 1910s-1950s period. He achieved his greatest popularity in the starring role of George "Kingfish" Stevens in the CBS television series, "Amos 'n' Andy". Tim Moore was born Harry Roscoe Moore, one of thirteen children of Harry and Cynthia Moore. The elder Moore was a night watchman at a brewery.
- Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla (Punjabi:ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. She was one of seven crewmembers lost aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-107 when the shuttle disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Kalpana Chawla is a posthumous recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
- Craig Russell
Craig Russell (born 1956), Fife, Scotland is a novelist and short story writer. His Hamburg-set thriller series featuring detective Jan Fabel has been translated into 20 languages. Craig Russell served as a police officer and worked in the advertising sector as a copywriter and creative director before becoming a full-time writer in 1990. Russell speaks fluent German and has a special interest in post-war German history.
- David Ruffley
David Laurie Ruffley (born 18 April 1962, Bolton) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds, which encompasses Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, and was first elected in 1997.
- Shayne Graham
Michael Shayne Graham (born December 9, 1977 in Radford, Virginia) is an American football placekicker who currently plays for the Cincinnati Bengals. He attended Virginia Tech and signed as a free agent with the New Orleans Saints in 2000, but was waived before the start of the regular season. He has previously played for the Carolina Panthers and Buffalo Bills. Graham attended Pulaski County High School and was an avid football (soccer) player as a kid.
- Jim Naugle
James T. Naugle (born 1954) is an American real estate broker, currently serving as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Although a lifelong Democrat, he has never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate and frequently votes for and supports Republican candidates. Elected for the first time in 1991, Naugle is the longest serving Mayor in the history of Fort Lauderdale, serving for six consecutive terms.
- David Hewson
David Hewson (born January 9, 1953) is a contemporary British author of crime and mystery novels. His series of modern crime stories featuring an ensemble of police officers in Rome, led by the young detective Nic Costa, began with "A Season for the Dead", and has now been contracted to run to at least nine instalments by British, American, European and Asian publishers. His first book, "Semana Santa", set in Spain during Holy Week, …
- Carlos Prats
General Carlos Prats González was a Chilean Army officer, a political figure, minister and Vice President of Chile during President Salvador Allende's government, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. He was murdered with a car bomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1974.
- Myrna Mack
Myrna Mack Chang was a Guatemalan anthropologist. She was born in Barrio San Nicolás, Retalhuleu department, to a mixed Maya/Chinese family. She studied antropology in the United Kingdom, at both the University of Manchester and Durham University. Upon returning to Guatemala, she conducted fieldwork among several of the many Maya "campesino" communities uprooted during the Civil War.
- Thomas H. Cook
Thomas H. Cook (born 1947) is an American crime-writer, author of the Edgar Award winning novel "The Chatham School Affair". He received six Edgar nominations to date, most recently in 2006 for the novel "Red Leaves", which was also shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger and the Anthony Award, and went on to win the Barry Award.
- Sulak Sivaraksa
Sulak Sivaraksa is founder and director of the Thai NGO "Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation“. Besides being the initator of a number of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in Thailand, like the College SEM (Spirit in Education Movement) Sulak Sivaraksa is known in the West as one of the fathers of INEB (International Network of Engaged Buddhists), which, in 1987 was established by leading Buddhists like the 14th Dalai Lama, …
- George L. Kelling
George L. Kelling is a Professor at Rutgers University, a Research Fellow at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He previously taught at Northeastern University. Dr. Kelling earned his Ph.D. in Social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973 under Dr. Alfred Kadushin. Kelling also received an M.S.W. degree from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B.A. degree in Philosophy from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
- John F. Clark
John F. Clark is the ninth Director of the United States Marshals Service. He was appointed to the position by president George W. Bush on March 17, 2006. Clark has more than 20 years experience in the Marshals Service, having served previously as the United States Marshal, Acting Marshal, and Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia.
- Stephen R. Reed
Stephen Russell Reed (born August 9, 1949, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania) is the current and longest-serving mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He moved to Harrisburg with his parents as a boy.
- Peter Neyroud
Peter Neyroud Q.P.M Peter Neyroud joined Hampshire Constabulary in 1980, serving as Constable at Romsey and Aldershot, Sergeant at Southampton and Basingstoke, Inspector at Bitterne and HQ, Chief Inspector in East Hampshire, Superintendent as Staff Officer to the President of ACPO and also as Detective Superintendent. His last post at Hampshire was as the Director of Intelligence.
- Eric Edgar Cooke
Eric Edgar Cooke was the last person to be hanged in Western Australia. In 1963 he indiscriminately attacked 20 people and killed eight. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death on 28 November 1963, by the Perth Supreme Court. He was executed at Fremantle Prison on 26 October 1964. Cooke had a cleft lip and was bullied as a child. As an adult, he married and had seven children, and was described as outwardly amenable.
- Teresa Cormack
Teresa Maida Cormack (June 18, 1981 - June 19, 1987) was a six-year-old murder victim from Napier, New Zealand.
- Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood (December 17, 1903 - September 13, 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel "Love on the Dole" (1933). Greenwood was born in Hankey Park, Salford in Lancashire, the son of radical working class parents. Like many children he left school at the age of 13. He took a succession of low paid jobs, and continued to educate himself in Salford Public Library.
- 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).