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Hassiba Boulmerka is a former Algerian middle distance athlete.

Tsutomu Hanabusa is a Japanese film director.

Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda "Anky" van Grunsven is a Dutch dressage champion who is the only rider to record three successive Olympic wins in the same event. Along with her Olympic successes, she has won numerous medals at the World Equestrian Games (WEG), and is the only rider to have competed at every WEG since they began in 1990. Between 1990 and 2006, she competed at the Games in dressage, but in 2010 she was named as part of the Dutch reining team, marking a major change in discipline.

Svetlana Vasiliyevna Mironyuk is a Russian media executive, a graduate of Moscow State University. She was head and editor-in-chief of the RIA Novosti news agency, having been appointed chair of the board in 2003 and director general in 2004. She has overseen the organization's modernization. Before that, she was employed with the Media-Most holding owned by Vladimir Gusinsky.

Michael "Zico" Zeyer is a retired German football player. He is the twin brother of Andreas Zeyer.

Peter Wynhoff is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He later became a coach.

Marie-Josèphe Jude is a French pianist. Jude studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Hiromi Suzuki is a former female long-distance runner from Japan. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. Suzuki is best known for winning the world title in the women's marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece (1997).