List of Famous Arians
Tito Puente
Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente, Jr. was an American musician, songwriter, record producer and bandleader. The son of Ernest and Felicia Puente, native Puerto Ricans living in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Puente is often credited as "The Musical Pope", "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music". He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that endured over a 50-year career. He and his music appear in many films such as The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba's Calle 54. He guest-starred on several television shows, including Sesame Street and The Simpsons two-part episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?". His most famous song is "Oye Como Va".
Kyle Kingsbury
Kyle Loren Kingsbury is a retired American professional mixed martial artist. A professional competitor from 2006-2014, Kingsbury also formerly competed for King of the Cage and was a cast member of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir.
Bryant Chang
Ray Chang, formerly known as Bryant Chang, is a Taiwanese actor. He is known for his role in Eternal Summer, for which he won the Best New Performer award at the 2006 Golden Horse Awards.
Zhong Huijuan
Zhong Huijuan is a Chinese pharmaceutical executive, billionaire, and the world's richest self-made woman. She is the founder, CEO, and chair of Hansoh Pharmaceutical, which is headquartered in Lianyungang and is traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. She is the company's majority shareholder, with a 66% stake. In 2020, she was the world's 70th richest person and 9th richest woman according to Forbes, as well as the 20th richest person in China according to Hurun, with a net worth of US$14.6 billion.
Pedro Obiang
Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo is a Spanish-born Equatoguinean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club Sassuolo and the Equatorial Guinea national team. He had previously played for Sampdoria, before moving to London, and the Premier League, in 2015. Obiang has represented Spain at under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels before switching to represent the Equatorial Guinea national football team.
Parley P. Pratt
Parley Parker Pratt Sr. was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early nineteenth-century exposition of the Latter Day Saint faith. Named in 1835 as one of the first members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Pratt was part of the Quorum's successful mission to Great Britain from 1839 to 1841. Pratt has been called "the Apostle Paul of Mormonism" for his promotion of distinctive Mormon doctrines.
Alessandra Perilli
Alessandra Perilli is a Sammarinese professional target shooter. Her hometown is Borgo Maggiore. She finished 4th after a draw for 2nd place with a French and a Slovakian shooter in the Women's trap at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won San Marino's first ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in Women's Trap at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
George P. Lee
George Patrick Lee was the first Native American to become a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a member of the church's First Quorum of Seventy from 1975 to 1989, when he was excommunicated from the church.
Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo is an American actor, director, model, musician, painter and former motorcycle racer. Though he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Arizona Dream, The Funeral and Palookaville, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo '66 (1998), which he wrote, directed, scored and starred in, and The Brown Bunny (2003), which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed. In the early 2000s, he released several solo recordings on Warp Records.
Sophie Barjac
Sophie Barjac is a French actress of stage, screen and television. Although most of her work is in the French language, Barjac has occasionally acted in the English language: the Canadian television series Bordertown (1988-1990) and the Belgian-Polish coproduction Alice (1981).