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Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius is a South African former professional sprinter who was convicted of murder in 2015. Both of his feet were amputated when he was 11 months old due to a congenital defect. He was born missing the outside of both feet and both fibulae. Pistorius ran in both non-disabled sprint events and in sprint events for below-knee amputees. He was the tenth athlete to compete at both the Paralympic Games and Olympic Games.
Loris Karius
Loris Sven Karius is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Union Berlin, on loan from Premier League club Liverpool.
Henriette Confurius
Henriette Confurius is a German actress. Her Dutch parents were an author father and theatrical actress mother. She didn't study acting and moved around at young age. She studied hand-skilled trades but says "I always went back to acting sooner or later."
Jacob Sartorius
Rolf Jacob Sartorius is an American singer and internet personality, who rose to fame via social media from posting comedic videos on Vine and lip-syncing videos on musical.ly and TikTok. In 2016, he released his debut single "Sweatshirt", which reached a peak of 90 on the Hot 100 chart in the United States. Jacob Sartorius was the 9th most searched musical artist of 2016.
Didi Gregorius
Mariekson Julius "Didi" Gregorius, OON, is a Dutch professional baseball shortstop who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds (2012), Arizona Diamondbacks (2013–14), New York Yankees (2015–2019) and Philadelphia Phillies (2020).
Tiberius
Tiberius Caesar Augustus was the second Roman emperor, reigning from AD 14 to 37. He succeeded his stepfather, Augustus.
Jaco Pastorius
John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III was an American jazz bassist who was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981. He worked with Pat Metheny and Joni Mitchell, and recorded albums as a solo artist and band leader. His bass playing employed funk, lyrical solos, bass chords, and innovative harmonics. As of 2017, he is the only electric bassist of seven bassists inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame, and has been lauded as one of the best electric bassists of all time.
Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was also noted for his important reforms of Roman armies. He was at the centre of a paradigmatic shift from the militia levies of the middle Republic to the professional soldiery of the late Republic; he also improved the pilum, a javelin, and made large-scale changes to the logistical structure of the Roman army.
Marius
Alain Alivon, known under the pseudonym Marius, is a French military and drill instructor member of the Commandos Marine unit and the French Navy. He is mostly known for featuring in the 2005 documentary L'École des bérets verts on France 2 in the program Envoyé spécial. He later appeared on film and television, and publishing his autobiography.
Januarius
Januarius, also known as Januarius I of Benevento, was Bishop of Benevento and is a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Great Persecution which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305.
Martin Pistorius
Martin Pistorius is a South African-British man who had locked-in syndrome and was unable to move or communicate for 12 years.
Liberius
Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius was a Late Roman aristocrat and official, whose career spanned seven decades in the highest offices of both the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy and the Eastern Roman Empire. He held the highest governmental offices of Italy, Gaul, and Egypt, "an accomplishment not often recorded – Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte are the only parallels that come to mind!" as James O'Donnell observes in his biographical study of the man.
Rius
Eduardo Humberto del Río García, better known by his pen name Rius, was a Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer born in Zamora, Michoacán.
Dolly Zegerius
Dolly Zegerius was a national Indonesian athlete who represented Indonesia at the 1980 Southeast Asian Games.
Anton Praetorius
Anton Praetorius was a German Calvinist pastor who spoke out against the persecution of witches and against torture.
Onuphrius
Metropolitan Onufriy is the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, holding the title of Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
Otto Carius
Otto Carius was a German tank commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.