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Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya, is an American former professional boxer who, in 2002, also became a boxing promoter and, in 2018, a mixed martial arts (MMA) promoter. As a boxer, he competed from 1992 to 2008, winning 11 world titles in six weight classes, including the lineal championship in three weight classes. He is ranked as the 16th best boxer of all time, pound for pound, by BoxRec. Nine of his victorious fights received a 5-Star rating from BoxRec. De La Hoya was nicknamed "The Golden Boy of boxing" by the media when he represented the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics where, shortly after having graduated from James A. Garfield High School, he won a gold medal in the lightweight division, and reportedly "set a sport back on its feet."
Michele Tafoya
Michele Joan Tafoya Beaurain, known professionally as Michele Tafoya, is an American sportscaster. Since 2011, she has been a reporter for NBC Sports, primarily as a sideline reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football.
Yumi Matsutoya
Yumi Matsutoya , nicknamed Yuming , is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and pianist. Generally the writer of both the lyrics and the music in her songs, she is renowned for her idiosyncratic voice and live performances, and is one of the most prominent figures in the history of Japanese popular music.
Chantal Goya
Chantal de Guerre, known as Chantal Goya, is a French singer and actress.
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Yoshimasa Hosoya is a Japanese voice actor and narrator. He was represented by Mausu Promotion and is now a freelancer. Hosoya won the awards at the 8th Seiyu Awards and 10th Seiyu Awards for best supporting actor.
Francisco de Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was also one of the great portraitists of his time.
Umin Boya
Umin Boya, also known as Ma Chih-hsiang, is a Taiwanese aborigine writer, director and actor, and director of the historical baseball film Kano (2014). He also starred in Wei Te-sheng's Seediq Bale (2011).
Steven Moya
Steven Moya is a Puerto Rico born-Dominican Republic professional baseball player for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers and the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Carlos Moyá
Carlos Moyá Llompart is a retired world no. 1 tennis player from Spain. He was the French Open singles champion in 1998 and was the singles runner-up at the 1997 Australian Open. In 2004, he helped his country to win the Davis Cup. He is one of Rafael Nadal's coaches. He currently resides in Madrid, Spain.
Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya
Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya was a Cameroonian politician and royal.
Miao Poya
Miao Poya (Chinese: 苗博雅; pinyin: Miáo Bóyǎ; Wade–Giles: Miao2 Po2-ya3; born 2 October 1987) is a Taiwanese politician and activist for humanitarianism, anti-death penalty, social feminism, LGBT rights and Taiwanese independence, also known for being one of Taiwan's first-ever openly lesbian council members. She was elected as councillor representing Taipei City District 6 during the 2018 local elections.
Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena Montoya
Saint Laura Montoya – known in religion as Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena – was a Colombian Roman Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena (1914). She was well known for her work with Indigenous peoples and for acting as a strong role model for South American girls.
Esmeralda Moya
Esmeralda Moya Cañas is a Spanish actress and model. She is known especially for her characters in the television series Los protegidos, 90-60-90, diario secreto de una adolescente and Tierra de lobos.
Stoya
Stoya is an American pornographic actress, actress, model, and writer.
Diego De La Hoya
Diego de la Hoya Villegas is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBC-NABF and WBO-NABO super bantamweight titles between 2017 and 2019. As an amateur he represented Mexico, winning the 2011 Mexican National Championships and competing at the 2012 Youth World Championships. He is the cousin of former boxer Oscar De La Hoya.
Shizuka Ōya
Shizuka Ōya is a Japanese idol who is a member of AKB48's Team B.
Sergio Álvarez Moya
Sergio Álvarez Moya is a Spanish equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
Alejandro Bedoya
Alejandro Bedoya is an American soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger and captains Major League Soccer club Philadelphia Union.
Yoshihide Muroya
Yoshihide "Yoshi" Muroya is a Japanese aerobatics pilot and race pilot of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. He started glider flight training in 1991 because it was an inexpensive way to fly. Muroya went to the United States privately to earn his airplane license at the age of twenty.
Juan Pablo Montoya
Juan Pablo Montoya Roldán, is a Colombian racing driver. He currently competes in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, driving for Acura Team Penske, having won the championship in 2019.
Masato Furuoya
Masato Furuoya was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival and at the 5th Hochi Film Award for Disciples of Hippocrates and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Uchū no hōsoku. He committed suicide on March 25, 2003 by hanging himself.
Shōdai Naoya
Shōdai Naoya is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Uto, Kumamoto. He is in the Tokitsukaze stable. He is a right hand inside-type wrestler. His highest rank is ōzeki. He has one gold star for defeating a yokozuna and seven special prizes, six for Fighting Spirit and one for Outstanding Performance. He was runner-up in two tournaments before winning his first top-division championship in September 2020.
Masataka Matsutoya
Masataka Matsutoya is a Japanese arranger, composer, music producer, and motor journalist. He currently resides in Setagaya, Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio Senior High School and Keio University. His wife is singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist Yumi Matsutoya. His mother, Kazuko, is the auditor of Kirarasha, the firm Masataka established after his marriage to Arai.
Yukiko Motoya
Yukiko Motoya is a Japanese novelist, playwright, theatre director, and former voice actress. She has won numerous Japanese literary and dramatic awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, the Kishida Kunio Drama Award, and the Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award. Her work has been adapted multiple times for film.
Izumi Motoya
Motoya Yamawaki , known professionally as Izumi Motoya , is a Japanese kyōgen actor, known for his appearances on television in NHK Taiga dramas, and for the scandal surrounding his assumption of the position of 20th sōke (head) of the Izumi school of kyōgen.
Matilde Montoya
Matilde Petra Montoya Lafragua was the first female physician in Mexico. Initially working as a midwife, she became one of the first women to attend and graduate Medical School, eventually earning her doctorate in 1887. Later she was a surgeon and obstetrician. Montoya played an important role in the social establishment of women's rights and the movements toward unbiased opportunities for education and occupations for women. There is, however, some evidence that a woman named Zenaida Ucounkoff studied medicine in 1877.
Tae Satoya
Tae Satoya is a Japanese freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and she finished third at the 2002 games.
Walter Ivan alexis Montoya
Walter Iván Alexis Montoya is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Cruz Azul as a central midfielder.
Javier Gómez Noya
Francisco Javier Gómez Noya is a Spanish triathlete. He is the winner of five ITU Triathlon World Championships, he holds three ITU Triathlon World Cup titles, and won the Silver medal for Spain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in men's triathlon. He has also won world titles for Ironman 70.3 and XTERRA Triathlon.
Brijgopal Harkishan Loya
Brijgopal Harkishan Loya (1966-2014) was an Indian judge who served in a special court which deals with matters relating to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He was presiding over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, and died on 1 December 2014 in Nagpur. A bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, on April 19, 2018, dismissed the public interest petition (PIL), and stated the death to be natural and such petitions to be an attack on the Judiciary. Al.