List of Famous Arians

Joe Cephis Fortenberry was an American basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a captain of the American basketball team, which won the gold medal in the first Olympics to include basketball.

Michael Otto, is the head of Germany's Otto Group, the world's largest mail order company, with US$24 billion in sales in fiscal year 2003.

Marius Bülter is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger for Schalke 04.

José Luis Pérez de Arteaga was a Spanish announcer, critic, journalist, and musicologist.

Mariana Mesa Pineda is a Colombian former professional tennis player.

Count Ladislas de Hoyos born into the Austro-Hungarian Counts de Hoyos family was a French TV journalist and politician. He was news broadcaster for TF1's and is known to have been the first journalist to interview in 1972 the former Gestapo member Klaus Barbie who lived in Bolivia. Barbie lived under the alias of Klaus Altmann and De Hoyos managed with Beate Klarsfeld to discover where the war criminal was hidden. De Hoyos covered in 1987 the trial of Barbie in Lyon and wrote a book about him.

Maizie Ursula Williams is a British-Montserratian model and singer who became one of the original members of the successful 1970s disco music group Boney M. Though she did not sing on the studio recordings of their songs, she did perform live and subsequently established an independent career as a singer.

Charles I, commonly called Charles of Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246–85) and Forcalquier in the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Anjou and Maine (1246–85) in France; he was also King of Sicily (1266–85) and Prince of Achaea (1278–85). In 1272, he was proclaimed King of Albania; and in 1277 he purchased a claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Georges Maurice Edmond Dorléac was a French actor of the stage and screen. He was the father of actresses Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac and Sylvie Dorléac. He was the husband of actress Renée Simonot, who was the dubbing voice for Olivia de Havilland

Abdelmajid Dolmy was a Moroccan football Midfielder. He is nicknamed Maestro.