List of Famous Arians
Ricardo Ahued Bardahuil
Ricardo Ahued Bardahuil is a Mexican politician affiliated with National Regeneration Movement. He currently serves as a senator representing Veracruz in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. From 2009 to 2012, he was a deputy in the LXI Legislature as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. In October 2018, the director of the Morena party in Veracruz, Manuel Huerta Ladrón de Guevara, criticized Ahued for making remarks about the water supply in Xalapa, noting that Ahued was not a member of the party despite being in its Senate caucus.
Reiko Shimizu
Reiko Shimizu is a Japanese shōjo manga writer and illustrator. She made her professional debut in 1983 with Sansaro Monogatari in LaLa, and has written primarily for the publisher Hakusensha. She is noted for her works of science fiction and her art style, and is also known for her illustrations of tarot cards called the Miracle Tarot deck.
Émile Derlin Zinsou
Émile Derlin Zinsou was a Beninese politician and physician who was the President of Dahomey from 17 July 1968 until 10 December 1969, supported by the military regime that took power in 1967. Zinsou was present at the signing of the treaty that formed the African Union on 12 July 2000 in Togo.
Louis Pouzin
Louis Pouzin is a French computer scientist. He designed an early packet communications network, CYCLADES.
Bérenger Saunière
François-Bérenger Saunière was a Roman Catholic priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 until he was transferred to another village in 1909 by his bishop. He declined this nomination and subsequently resigned. From 1909 until his death in 1917 he was a non-stipendiary Free Priest, and who from 1910 celebrated Mass at an altar constructed in a special conservatory by his Villa Bethania. Saunière's refusal to leave Rennes-le-Château to continue his priesthood in another parish incurred permanent suspension. The epitaph on Saunière's original 1917 gravestone read "priest of Rennes-le-Château 1885-1917".
Takahiro Ao
Takahiro Ao is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2018. He was a two-division world champion, having held the WBC featherweight title in 2009 and the WBC super featherweight title from 2010 to 2012. He also challenged for the vacant WBO lightweight title in 2015.
Mauro Goicoechea
Mauro Daniel Goicoechea Furia is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for French Ligue 2 club Toulouse.
Marley Shelton
Marley Eve Shelton is an American actress. She starred as Wendy Peffercorn in the coming-of-age comedy The Sandlot (1993), the Customer in the neo-noir Sin City (2005) and Dr. Dakota Block in the double-feature thriller Grindhouse (2007). Her other notable films include Pleasantville (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), Sugar & Spice (2001), Valentine (2001), Scream 4 (2011) and Rampage (2018).
Pierre Pinoncelli
Pierre Pinoncelli is a performance artist most noted for damaging two of the eight copies of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The most recent attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou in Paris and the first at an exhibition in Nîmes on 25 August 1993, where he also urinated into it before using the hammer. He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time; robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun; and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.
Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.