List of Famous Arians
Jim Acosta
Abilio James Acosta is an American journalist and the chief domestic affairs correspondent for CNN. Previously, Acosta served as the national political correspondent for CNN, as well as the network's chief White House correspondent during the Trump administration.
Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova is a model, actress and author. Born in Czechoslovakia, she now holds dual U.S. and Swedish citizenship.
Erich Gimpel
Erich Gimpel was a German spy during World War II. Together with William Colepaugh, he took part in Operation Elster ("Magpie") an espionage mission to the United States in 1944, but was subsequently captured by the FBI in New York City.
Ted Yoho
Theodore Scott Yoho is an American politician, veterinarian, and businessman who served as the U.S. Representative from Florida's 3rd congressional district from 2013 until 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Hasnat Khan
Hasnat Ahmad Khan, FRCS is a British-Pakistani heart and lung surgeon. He is widely known for his romantic relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales from 1995 to 1997.
Herbert Grönemeyer
Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer is a German singer, musician, producer, composer and actor, popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Justin Prentice
Justin Wright Prentice is an American actor. He is best known for playing Bryce Walker, the main antagonist in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
Leon Russell
Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records during his 60-year career. His genres included pop, country, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk rock, blues rock, surf, standards, and Tulsa Sound.
El Risitas
Juan Joya Borja was a Spanish comedian and actor known by the stage name El Risitas. He gained widespread popularity in 2015 thanks to a series of memes from a television interview from June 2007 on Jesús Quintero's show Ratones Coloraos.
Yılmaz Güney
Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or with the film Yol he co-produced with Şerif Gören at Cannes Film Festival in 1982. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government because of his portrayals of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movies. After killing a judge, something Yılmaz claimed to be innocent of, and being convicted in a trial in 1974, he fled the country and later lost his citizenship.