- Dee Hock
Dee Hock is a man with a rich history. He relates a large part of that personal history in Birth of the Chaordic Age even though, he claims, this is not a story about him, nor about VISA International, although both figure prominently in the tale. The book is not so much a story at all, but a passionate manifesto for the future of business and society as a whole. - Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. Indeed, his dedication brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments. His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the "Baconian method" or simply, the scientific method. - Fred Åkerström
Fred Åkerström was a Swedish singer particularly noted for his interpretations of Bellman's music, and his own work of the typically Swedish song segment named "visa". These songs, "visor", are traditionally very narrative and the performance is "acted" to some degree. The singer is in context a "vissångare", a troubadour's character. On surface level, Åkerström came to be noted for his actor's interpreations of Bellman's 18th century material, … - Emmitt Smith
Emmitt James Smith III (born May 15 1969 in Pensacola, Florida) is a former American football player, who played for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals. Smith is a three time Super Bowl champion and the NFL's all time rushing leader, a record formerly held by his childhood hero Walter Payton. Smith surpassed Payton on October 27, 2002 against the Seattle Seahawks at Texas Stadium. He is the only running back to ever have won a Super Bowl championship, … - Jere Karalahti
Jere Karalahti (born March 25, 1975, in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings as their sixth-round pick in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. Karalahti has played his entire Finnish hockey career in HIFK. He transferred to North America in 1999 after difficulties with his visa, playing the rest of the season for the LA Kings. - Abdul Kadir
Abdul Kadir (born circa 1952) is a former member of Guyana's parliament, the National Assembly, and was the mayor of Guyana's second-largest city, Linden, from 1994 to 1996. A chemical engineer by trade, he served in the National Assembly from 2001 to 2006 as a member of the main opposition party, the People's National Congress Reform. Born Michael Seaforth in Buxton, Guyana, the son of Victor Seaforth, Kadir converted to Islam in 1974 and changed his name. - Ernst Zündel
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa, and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred." He lived in Canada from 1958 to 2000. - Mahmud Abouhalima
Mahmud Abouhalima is a convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. His red hair earned him the nickname Mahmud the Red. Born to a mill foreman in Kafr Dawar, Egypt, Abouhalima spent his adolescence with the Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, an outlawed Islamic group that heralded Omar Abdel Rahman as their spiritual leader. He briefly attended Alexandria University, but dropped out and left Egypt altogether in 1981. - Michael Aris
Michael Vaillancourt Aris (March 27, 1946, Havana, Cuba - March 27, 1999, Oxford) was an academic and lecturer in Asian history at St John's College and later at St Antony's College, Oxford. He was a leading Western authority on Bhutanese, Tibetan, and Himalayan culture, and wrote numerous books on Buddhism in those regions. In the last years before his death, he helped to establish a specialist Tibetan and Himalayan studies center at Oxford. - Harry Samit
Harry Samit is a Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent based out of the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a former United States Navy naval aviator, Naval Intelligence Officer, and a certified private pilot. He is most noted for arresting Zacarias Moussaoui on August 16, 2001. Samit became aware of Moussaoui because of Clancy Prevost, a certified flight instructor at the Pan-Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota. - Thales Leites
Thales Leites Lourenco, or simply Thales Leites (born September 6, 1981 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil), is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, currently fighting at middleweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Leites made his debut with the organization on November 11, 2006, after a bout originally planned for October fell through due to visa-processing issues. - Jane Darling
Jane Darling (born September 261980) is a Czech-born pornographic actress. She began in pornographic films in 2001 and has performed in over 150 films since then. She is famous for her large natural breasts and performance in anal sex scenes with well-endowed male performers. On July 302004, Darling was among five pornographic actors who were arrested in Mexico and subsequently expelled for doing business on tourist visas. - Peter Qasim
Peter Qasim was the longest-serving detainee within the Australian immigration detention system, having resided there for over seven years as of 2005. He had not been deported because he was stateless. He had applied to over 80 countries for asylum, but had not been accepted. His case has been publicised by the well known Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith. Australian authorities have maintained that he has not proven his nationality. - Negar Khan
Born in Iran, Negar Khan (sometimes credited as Nigar Khan) grew up in Norway, studied in Australia and was pursuing a career in Bollywood until she was deported in February 2005 by Mumbai authorities for working illegally. She shot to fame with her scantily clad appearance in the 'Chadti Jawani' remix video and numbers in the movies "Rudraksh" and "Shaadi Ka Laddoo". Negar took part in the film "Double Cross", … - Fu Ying
Fu Ying (born 1953) has been Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom since March 2007. From 2004 to 2007 she was Chinese ambassador to Australia. She gained some notoriety in 2005 by claiming that dissident diplomat Chen Yonglin would not be persecuted or prosecuted if he returned to China, and for suggesting that he was only putting forth such a case to gain sympathy for his bid for a visa. Fu was born in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. - Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (sometimes known as Omar Sheikh, "Sheikh Omar", "Sheik Syed", or by the alias "Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad") (b. December 23 1973) is a British-born militant of Pakistani descent with alleged links to various Islamic-based organisations, including Jaish-e-Mohammed, Al-Qaeda, and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. He was arrested and served time in prison for the 1994 abduction of several British nationals in India, … - Min Chen
Min Chen (born January 30, 1983) is a Chinese visa student charged with first-degree murder in the case of the death of Cecilia Zhang. Chen, a Shanghai native who has lived in Canada on a visa since 2001, allegedly entered Zhang's home through a kitchen window and removed her from her home between 3:00 AM and 4:00 AM, leaving by a side door. According to Police, Min Chen knew a female boarder who lived at the Zhang home between September 2002, … - Hassan Almrei
A Syrian, Hassan Almrei arrived in Canada in 1999 claiming refugee-status. He used a false United Arab Emirates passport which hid his time spent in Afghanistan, and a Canadian visa which he bought on the black market for $5,000. He was arrested on a security certificate in October 2001, following a Royal Canadian Mounted Police search of his Toronto house in the wake of 9/11. - MacKenzie Crook
Paul Mackenzie Crook (born September 29, 1971) is an English actor known for playing Gareth Keenan in "The Office" and Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. - Michael Ray Aquino
Michael Ray Aquino is a former intelligence officer in the police force of the Philippines. He is accused of involvement in a 2000 political murder, and more recently, has been accused of helping to transmit classified information from the United States to opposition leaders in the Philippines. - Elena Lappin
Elena Lappin is a British author and journalist, born in Moscow in 1954, who grew up in Prague and Hamburg, and has lived in Israel, Canada and the United States. Her husband is a US citizen. She lives, since 1993, in London where she edited the Jewish Quarterly from 1994 to 1997. In 2004, Elena Lappin became known as one of the journalists deported from the United States due to a lesser known requirement for journalists to apply for a peculiar kind of visa. - Joy Lee Sadler
Joy Lee Sadler was imprisoned from September 11, 2002 to January 10, 2003, by the Indonesian government. Sadler, a nurse, was imprisoned for visa violations as she had contacted guerrillas in Aceh. Sadler, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, in the United States, protested her detention by staging a 39-day hunger strike. Sadler states that she was arrested for providing medical aid to refugees. Also arrested was the Scottish-Australian Lesley Jane McCulloch. - Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner is a New Jersey real estate magnate and a major donor to Democratic politicians, most notably to Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevey. On August 19, 2004, he pleaded guilty to tax violations and charges related to witness tampering. The witness tampering charges dealt with an incident in which Kushner tried to use a prostitute in a blackmail scheme. The plea deal does not require Kushner to cooperate with investigators, however. - Abbe Ibrahim
Abdoulaye (Abbe) Ibrahim is a football (soccer) striker, the first Togolese player in Major League Soccer. Ibrahim, a Togolese youth international, has been watched by a number of top European clubs, including Manchester United. Unable to sign in Europe because of visa problems, he signed with the MetroStars in early 2005, after impressing in the pre-season. While showing flashes of top speed, Abbe scored two goals and added three assists in his rookie year. - Uwe Schmidt
Uwe Schmidt is a German DJ and producer of electronic music. Schmidt, also known as "Atom Heart", as well as a number of other aliases, produced dance music during the first half of the 90s. In 1994, Schmidt started his own label, "Rather Interesting" with the aim of developing music that doesn't follow the "traditional paths of electronic music". By 1996 he was thoroughly bored by European dance music and moved to Santiago, Chile to explore Latin music. - Han Dongfang
Han Dongfang is the son of a peasant and, before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, worked as a railroad electrician. Han Dongfang is known primarily for his activities during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 after which he became a human rights activist. In 1989 Han Dongfang was the convener of the Beijing Autonomous Workers Federation, the first independent labor organization in mainland China in 50 years. - Jan Zwartendijk
Jan Zwartendijk was a Dutch businessman and diplomat who helped Jews escape Lithuania during World War II. Zwartendijk directed the Philips plants in Lithuania. On June 19 1940 he also took a part-time duty as an acting consul of the Netherlands - or, to be exact, of the Dutch government-in-exile. His superior was a Dutch ambassador to Latvia, de Decker. When the Soviet Union took over Lithuania in 1940, … - Anabolic Frolic
Anabolic Frolic is a happy hardcore DJ from Canada who is known for the Happy2bHardcore CD series and the Hullabaloo promotion he throws in Toronto, Ontario. His real name is Chris Samojlenko. He was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1974 and was raised by his grandmother. Chris Samojlenko first started being interested in Happy Hardcore upon listening to a randomly chosen UK import mixed tape at the now defunct rave shop X-static in 1995. - Wayne Cilento
Wayne Cilento (born August 28, 1949) is an award-winning American dancer and choreographer. Born in New York City, Cilento made his Broadway musical debut in the chorus of "Seesaw". He has been featured in more than 100 national commercials, including spots for VISA, Dr Pepper, Burger King, McDonalds, Kmart, and Dairy Queen. On the concert stage, in music videos, and for television appearances, he has staged Alicia Keys, Liza Minelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, … - Lewis Alsamari
Lewis Alsamari is an Iraqi-born actor now based in England. He was granted asylum in the United Kingdom in the 1990s. He has appeared in episodes of television series such as "Spooks" and "Crossroads". He recently starred in the Universal Pictures film "United 93" as the terrorist Saeed Al Ghamdi. - Michael Lapsley
Father Michael Allan Lapsley SSM (born 2 June 1949) is an South African Anglican priest and social activist. He was born in New Zealand and in the early 1970s trained as an Anglican priest in Australia before coming to South Africa in 1973. Lapsley's visa was not renewed in 1976 due to his affiations with the banned African National Congress and arrived in Lesotho on the 30 September 1976. He later moved to Harare in Zimbabwe. - Stefan Nystrom
Stefan Nystrom was born in 1974 in Sweden. His mother was an Australian resident but was visiting her parents in Sweden in the late stages of her pregnancy. She arrived back in Australia with Stefan when he was just 27 days old. Since then he has lived all his life in Australia, has never left the country, and he only speaks English. By the age of 30 in 2004, he had committed a large number of offences (many when a minor under 18) and spent time in juvenile detention/jail, … - Norm Zada
Norm Zada (born Norman Zadeh) is the founder of "Perfect 10", an adult magazine focusing on women without cosmetic surgery. Zada launched the magazine after a friend was rejected from "Playboy" magazine because her proportions did not fit the magazine's tastes. He estimates losing approximately $46 million on "Perfect 10" since 1996, when the magazine was published. Recently, his magazine is the plaintiff in "Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc.", … - Steve Killelea
Steve founded Integrated Research in August 1988 and held the position of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer until retiring from his executive position in November 2004. He was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in December 2004 and elected Chairman in July 2005. Steve is a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and Chairman of the Strategy Committee. His current term will expire no later than the close of the 2010 Annual General Meeting. - Porfirio Rubirosa
Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza, (January 22, 1909 in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic - July 5, 1965 in Bois de Boulogne, France) was a Dominican diplomat, polo player and Formula One race car driver, but was best known as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and legendary prowess with women. Born to a middle-class family, he was the son of an army general. - James Siegel
James Siegel is a thriller novelist and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of BBDO New York. He holds a B.A. from the York College 1977, City University of New York, and lives in Long Island. He is an advertising executive in New York City, with writing credits from the "Yo, Yao" ad that aired during Super Bowl XXXVII. He is also responsible for advertisements for Eliot Spitzer's gubernatorial campaign in New York. - Milton Rodriguez
Milton Rodriguez is a football (soccer) player from Colombia. He currently plays as a striker for the Colombian club, America de Cali. He will make his debut in the derby match against Deportivo Cali. Previously, he played for the Newcastle Jets, who signed him a few days before the start of the 2006-07 season from K-League outfit Jeonbuk FC. He is a left-footer, an excitement machine and has two full international caps for Colombia. - Ann Granger
Patricia Ann Granger (born 1939 Portsmouth, England) is a British crime writer. Granger took a Modern Languages degree at the University of London, taught English for a year in France, but eventually went to work in the visa sections of British consulates and embassies in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Austria. She married a work colleague in the foreign service and went with him to Zambia and Germany before returning to live in England with their two children. - Khalid al Zahrani
A Saudi candidate to become one of the September 11th hijackers, Khalid Saeed Ahmad al Zahrani was an al-Qaeda member, and has been imprisoned in the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp since at least April 20, 2002 when his first interrogation is recorded. According to the 9/11 Commission, he attended "terrorist training camps", including Al Farouq in Afghanistan for eleven years. The 9/11 Commission reports: :"Khalid Saeed Ahmad al Zahrani. - Eric Moussambani
Eric Moussambani (born May 31, 1978) is a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea. Moussambani, nicknamed "Eric The Eel" by the media after the name first appeared in an article by Craig Lord in "The Times" newspaper in London, won brief international fame at the 2000 Summer Olympics when he swam the 100m freestyle in 1:52.72-so slow it was more than twice the time of his faster competitors, and outside of even the 200m world record.
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