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Markus Merk is a former top-level German football referee. He is a six-time winner of the German Referee of the Year Award and the record holder in games refereed in the Bundesliga. In 2005, Merk was awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz in recognition of his service to football and his charity work in India. He ended his career by refereeing the match between Bayern Munich and Hertha BSC Berlin on the last day of the 2007–08 Bundesliga season on 17 May 2008.

Georges Serge Grün is a former Belgian football defender, who currently works as a television presenter for the UEFA Champions League matches at RTL TVI.

Solange Lackington Gangas is a Chilean actress, director and playwright of film, theater and television. She studied theater at the School of Theater of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. At just 20 years old, she made her debut on television, acting in telenovelas such as La torre 10 (1984) and Bellas y audaces (1988), alongside figures such as Sonia Viveros, Lucy Salgado and Luis Alarcón. During this period, she collaborated with the producer Sonia Fuchs in the Dramatic Area of Televisión Nacional de Chile. She achieved great popularity by playing Estrellita on the daily series Los Venegas. However, her consecration was due to her joining the Dramatic Area of Channel 13, acting in telenovelas such as Sabor a ti, Piel canela, Machos and Brujas. In this period, she achieved a season of great awards for her work, including Apes Awards and Altazor Awards. In 2017, she assumed the title role in Edward Franklin Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?. Her performance in this play earned her positive reviews. A year later, she played Gabriela Mistral in Andrés Kalawski's Mistral, Gabriela, 1945.

Askar Myrzakhmetov is a Kazakh politician who held the positions of Counsellor of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and First Vice Minister of Agriculture between 1997 and 2006. He was ambassador to Uzbekistan in 2006 and 2007.

Adil Serdar Saçan is a famous Turkish police chief who has overseen numerous high-profile investigations. He supervises the Istanbul police force's Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Department, which he established in 1998.

Masumi Oshima is a Japanese writer. She has won the Bungakukai Prize and the Naoki Prize, and her works have been adapted for television and film.

Rachmad Gobel is an Indonesian businessman and politician from Gorontalo. His family controls the company, Gobel Group which is now called PT. Panasonic Gobel Indonesia, an Indonesian division of Panasonic. He is also the former Minister of Trade and the Indonesian President's Special Envoy to Japan. Currently, he is the Deputy Speaker of the People's Representative Council

Pratikno is an Indonesian politician and academician. He is currently the Minister of State Secretariat of Indonesia in the Onward Indonesia Cabinet, the cabinet appointed by President Joko Widodo for his second term in office 2019-2024.

Hamdan Zoelva is an Indonesian politician and lawyer. He was the chief justice of the Indonesian Constitutional Court from 2013 to 2015, replacing Akil Mochtar whose appointment was terminated on bribery case during election dispute in Lebak Regency, Banten. He also has served as former leaders of the Crescent Star Party.

Madawi al-Rasheed, is a Saudi Arabian professor of social anthropology. Al-Rasheed has held a position at the department of Theology and Religious Studies in King's College London and as a Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She gives occasional lectures in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. She is the granddaughter of Mohammed bin Talal al-Rasheed, the last prince of the Emirate of Ha'il. She has written several books and articles in academic journals on the Arabian Peninsula, Arab migration, globalisation, gender, and religious transnationalism. As of 2016, she is a Visiting Research Professor at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore.