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Rajisha Vijayan
Rajisha Vijayan is an Indian film actress who appears in Malayalam films. She made her acting debut in the 2016 film Anuraga Karikkin Vellam. She has hosted several shows in Malayalam television before foraying into films. She won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in her debut film Anuraga Karikkin Vellam.
Siddharth Narayan
Siddharth Suryanarayan is an Indian film actor who is known for his roles in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi language films. Apart from acting, he has also been involved in films as a screenwriter, producer and playback singer. He has been featured in many advertisements.
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel. In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the pre-state Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate during the Arab revolt in Palestine and later lost an eye in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon during World War II. Dayan was close to David Ben-Gurion and joined him in leaving the Mapai party and setting up the Rafi party in 1965 with Shimon Peres. Dayan became Defence Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, during which Dayan served as Defense Minister, he was blamed for the lack of preparedness; after some time he resigned. In 1977, following the election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister, Dayan was expelled from the Labor Party because he joined the Likud-led government as Foreign Minister, playing an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
Pinarayi Vijayan
Pinarayi Vijayan is an Indian politician who is the current Chief Minister of Kerala, serving since 25 May 2016. A member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he was the longest-serving secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M) from 1998 to 2015. He also served in the government of Kerala as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operatives from 1996 to 1998. Vijayan won a seat in the May 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election as the CPI(M) candidate for Dharmadom constituency and was selected as the leader of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and became the 12th Chief Minister of Kerala.
Lucas Zelarayán
Lucas Manuel Zelarayán is an Argentine professional footballer, who plays for Columbus Crew as an attacking midfielder.
Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Bollywood movies of Hindi language. He has also sung in various other languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Bengali. He has won 4 National Film Awards and 5 Filmfare Awards with 20 nominations among many others. He had to struggle a lot even after his debut in 1980 in Bollywood playback. He got to sing with legends Mohammed Rafi in his Bollywood Playback debut in movie Unees-Bees in 1980 and also with Kishore Kumar in the 1980s. He finally made his mark in 1988 movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla, his song "Papa Kehte Hain" was his notable performance which earned him his first Filmfare Award in the 1980s and he established himself in Bollywood Playback Singing. He is the only male singer in the history of the Filmfare Awards to have won in over three decades.
Aditya Narayan
Aditya Narayan is an Indian playback singer, television host and Bollywood actor. He is the son of singer Udit Narayan.
Tigran Keosayan
Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan is a Russian film director, actor and writer of Armenian origin. He is a winner of International Film Festival's Prize's including TEFI, Kinotavr and Window to Europe 2001.
Jayaprakash Narayan
Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak, was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader. He is also known as the "Hero of Quit India Movement" and he is remembered for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whose overthrow he had called for a "total revolution". His biography, Jayaprakash, was written by his nationalist friend and an eminent writer of Hindi literature, Rambriksh Benipuri. In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social work. Other awards include the Magsaysay award for Public Service in 1965.
Mahir Çayan
Mahir Çayan was a Turkish communist revolutionary and the leader of People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey. He was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary leader. On 30 March 1972, he was killed in an ambush by Turkish Military Forces with nine of the other members of THKP-C and THKO in Kızıldere village.
Mahesh Narayan
Mahesh Narayanan is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and editor who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema.
Seda Sayan
Seda Sayan is a Turkish pop folk singer, actress, and TV variety-show hostess.
Benoît Payan
Benoît Payan is a French politician who has served as Mayor of Marseille since 2020. He is a member of the Socialist Party (PS).
Edmond Keosayan
Edmond Gareginovich Keosayan was an Armenian Soviet film director and musician.
- 1952-54 - worked in Yerevan watch factory. 1954-56 - studied in Plekhanov Moscow Institute of Economy.
- 1956-58 - studied in Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography, worked as a compere.
- 1964 - graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK.
- Since 1964 - director at Mosfilm Studio. Occasionally worked at Armenfilm Studio.
Josée Dayan
Josée Dayan is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
Iffat Al-Thunayan
Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan was a Turkish-born education activist and Saudi princess who was the most prominent wife of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. She is sometimes called Queen Iffat or Princess Iffat. She is known for her efforts in the improvement of Saudi education. She was the founder of Taif model school and the first girl's college in Saudi Arabia.
Nimisha Sajayan
Nimisha Sajayan is an Indian actress in the Malayalam film industry. Nimisha made her acting debut with the film Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum directed by Dileesh Pothan. She won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress in 2018.
Lubna Olayan
Lubna Suliman Olayan is a Saudi business woman. Born to Sulaiman Olayan and Maryam bint Jassim Al Abdulwahab, Olayan was listed as one of the top 100 most influential people of 2005 by Time magazine, and continued to be on the Forbes list of most powerful women until 2011 and returned to the list in 2014. In 2004, Olayan was the first woman in Saudi history to deliver an opening keynote address at a major conference in Saudi Arabia; at the Jeddah Economic Forum in January 2004.
Markar Esayan
Markar Esayan was an Armenian author, journalist, and politician of Turkey. He was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Justice and Development Party representing Istanbul since 2015 and a member of his party's Central Decision-Making and Executive Board. He was one of the first Armenian members of Turkey's parliament in decades alongside Garo Paylan (HDP) and Selina Özuzun Doğan (CHP).
R. K. Narayan
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, commonly known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
M. N. Vijayan
Moolayil Narayana Menon Vijayan, popularly known as Vijayan Mash was an Indian academic, orator, columnist and writer of Malayalam literature. Known for his leftist ideals and oratorical skills, Vijayan was the president of the Purogamana Kala Sahitya Sangham and served as the editor of Deshabhimani. He published a number of books of which Chithayile Velicham received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism in 1982.
Ram Narayan
Ram Narayan, often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful sarangi player.
Ray Aghayan
Gorgen Ray Aghayan was an American fashion designer and costume designer for the United States film industry. He won an Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his costume design. His partner was fashion designer Bob Mackie, from the early 1960s until his death in 2011.
John Dolmayan
John Dolmayan is an Armenian-Lebanese-American drummer and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer of System of a Down. Dolmayan is also the drummer for the band Indicator and former drummer for Scars on Broadway. Dolmayan ranked number 33 on Loudwire list of Top 200 Hard Rock + Metal Drummers of All Time.
Dapo Afolayan
Oladapo Joshua Afolayan is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or centre-forward for League One club Bolton Wanderers.
Armağan Çağlayan
Armağan Çağlayan is a Turkish television producer and lawyer.
V. T. Vijayan
V. T. Vijayan is an Indian film editor who works in Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil films. He has collaborated in the past with editors including B. Lenin and T. S. Jay.
Sendrayan
Sendrayan is an Indian film actor who has predominantly worked in Tamil language films. After making his acting debut in Vetrimaaran's Polladhavan (2007), he appeared in other small roles before winning acclaim for his portrayal of a petty criminal in Moodar Koodam (2013). He has since appeared in antagonistic and comedic roles in films, including Puthiya Niyamam (2016) and Metro (2016).
Sulaiman S. Olayan
Suliman Saleh Olayan was among Saudi Arabia's wealthiest businessmen.
Chloe Maayan
Chloe Maayan, also known as Zeng Meihuizi, is a Chinese actress and director. She was nominated at 55th Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress, won 38th Hong Kong Film Awards and 25th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actress for her role in Three Husbands.