List of Famous Arians
Vladimir Leonchenko
Vladimir Valeryevich Leonchenko is a former Russian professional footballer.
Charles Plumier
Charles Plumier was a French botanist, after whom the Frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time. He made three botanizing expeditions to the West Indies, which resulted in a massive work Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera (1703–04) and was appointed botanist to king Louis XIV of France.
Lothaire Bluteau
Lothaire Bluteau is a Canadian actor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and performs in both French and English. Bluteau has worked in theatre, film and television throughout Canada and internationally. He abandoned medicine for the theatre and was first noticed for his performance as a mentally challenged youth in Yves Simoneau’s In the Shadow of the Wind . After receiving great acclaim for the lead in the stage version of Being at Home with Claude, he won a best actor Genie Award for his performance in Denys Arcand's Oscar-nominated Jésus de Montréal. He has since appeared in Black Robe and Robert Lepage's Le Confessionnal, and his international credits include Orlando (1992) and I Shot Andy Warhol (1996).
Carmelo Cassati
Carmelo Cassati was an Italian prelate of Roman Catholic Church.
Igor Sergeyev
Igor Dmitriyevich Sergeyev was a Soviet/Russian military officer who was Minister of Defense of Russia from 22 May 1997 to 28 March 2001. He was the first and the only Marshal of the Russian Federation.
Yefim Bronfman
Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.
Shun Kubo
Shun Kubo is a Japanese professional boxer who held the WBA (Regular) super-bantamweight title in 2017.
Victor Vito
Victor Vasefanua Junior Vito is a New Zealand rugby player and former All Black who currently plays blindside flanker for French-Based team La Rochelle. He was a star of New Zealand Sevens, and captained the 2006 New Zealand Under 19 Rugby team. Also in 2006 Vito was nominated for the IRB Under 19 Player of the Year Award. He is a key member of 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning teams, becoming one of only 21 players who have won the Rugby World Cup on multiple occasions.
Michel Ancel
Michel Ancel is a French video game designer. He is best known for creating the Rayman franchise and was the lead designer or director for several of the games, including Rayman Origins and its sequel Rayman Legends. He is also known for the cult hit video game Beyond Good & Evil and for King Kong, based on Peter Jackson's film King Kong, which was critically acclaimed. In 2017 he began work on Beyond Good and Evil 2.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.