List of Famous Arians
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III, known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
David E. Kelley
David Edward Kelley is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney, known as the creator of Doogie Howser, M.D., Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Harry's Law, Big Little Lies, Mr. Mercedes and Big Sky, as well as several films. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows that have aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks.
Sorana Cîrstea
Sorana Mihaela Cîrstea is a Romanian tennis player. In singles, she achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 21 on 12 August 2013. In doubles, her career-high ranking is No. 35, which she reached on 9 March 2009. Her biggest achievements: reaching the quarterfinals at the 2009 French Open and reaching the final at the 2013 Rogers Cup. Over her career, Cîrstea has defeated top-ten players Anna Chakvetadze, Sara Errani, Jelena Janković, Angelique Kerber, Petra Kvitová, Li Na, Karolína Plíšková, Francesca Schiavone, Sam Stosur, Caroline Wozniacki, Vera Zvonareva, Johanna Konta.
Mounir Obbadi
Mounir Obbadi is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. Between 2001 and 2017 he made 21 appearances for the Morocco national team.
Haitham Ahmed Zaki
Haitham Ahmed Zaki, also known as Haitham Zaki, was an Egyptian male actor who predominantly worked in Egyptian cinema.
Edson Puch
Edson Raúl Puch Cortez is a Chilean footballer who plays as a forward for Primera Division club Universidad Católica and the Chile national team.
Zhanibek Alimkhanuly
Janibek Alimkhanuly is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. As an amateur he won gold medals at the 2013 World Championships, 2013 Asian Championships and 2014 Asian Games. He also represented Kazakhstan at the 2016 Olympics, losing in the quarter-finals.
Chris Collins
Christopher Ryan Collins is an American basketball coach who is currently the head men's coach at Northwestern University. Collins previously served as associate head coach of the Duke University men's basketball team and is the son of National Basketball Association (NBA) player, coach, and commentator Doug Collins.
James T. Goodrich
James Tait Goodrich was an American neurosurgeon. He was the director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Health System and Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and gained worldwide recognition for performing multiple successful separations of conjoined twins. He assisted in two craniopagus separations with Dr. Alferayan A in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the first one done May 5, 2014 and the second one done February 14, 2016. Both pairs were successfully separated and are doing well.
Bart Conner
Bart Wayne Conner is a retired American Olympic gymnast. As a member of the US men's gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, Conner won two gold medals. He currently owns and operates the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in Norman, Oklahoma, along with his wife, Romanian Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comăneci. In addition, both Comăneci and Conner are highly involved with the Special Olympics.