List of Famous Arians
Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian author and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). On 8 July 1972, he was assassinated by Mossad as a response to the Lod airport massacre.
Barry Fry
Barry Francis Fry is an English former football player and manager. A winger, Fry was an apprentice at Manchester United in his youth, and had brief spells with Bolton Wanderers, Luton Town and Leyton Orient, before he retired prematurely due to injury.
Matthew Walls
Matthew Thomas Walls is a British road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe.
Yairo Moreno
Yairo Yesid Moreno Berrío is a Colombian footballer who plays as a winger and left-back for Liga MX club León.
Ian Madigan
Ian Madigan is an Irish professional rugby union player for Ulster. His primary position is at fly-half, although he can also play at centre and full-back.
Tokiko Iwatani
Tokiko Iwatani was a Japanese lyricist, poet, and translator.
Roberto Fonseca
Roberto Fonseca is a Cuban jazz pianist. From an early age, Fonseca was surrounded by music: his father was drum player Roberto Fonseca, Sr, his mother, Mercedes Cortes Alfaro, a professional singer, and his two older half-brothers from his mother's previous marriage to the pianist and musician Jesús "Chucho" Valdés are Emilio Valdés (drums) and Jesús "Chuchito" Valdés Jr. (piano).
Glenn Howerton
Glenn Franklin Howerton III is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. He is known for his roles as Dennis Reynolds in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for which he is also a writer and executive producer, and Jack Griffin in A.P. Bio, as well as the lead role in the short-lived sitcom That '80s Show.
Juan Mónaco
Juan Monaco, nicknamed "Pico", is a former tennis player from Argentina. He won nine singles titles, reached the semifinals of the 2010 Shanghai Masters and the 2012 Miami Masters, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world no. 10 in July 2012. He announced his retirement from professional tennis on 15 May 2017.
Bekir Bozdağ
Bekir Bozdağ is a Turkish lawyer and politician of Kurdish origin. On 6 July 2011 he was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. On 26 December 2013, he was appointed as the Minister of Justice after the cabinet revision amidst the 2013 corruption scandal. On 19 July, he became Deputy Prime Minister again in the Cabinet of Yıldırım II.