List of Famous people
Demba Ba
Demba Ba is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Turkish club İstanbul Başakşehir and the Senegal national team.
Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Charles Chukwuma Soludo, CFR is a Nigerian economics professor and a former governor and chairman of the board of directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Soludo was named governor on 29 May 2004. He is also a member of the British Department for International Development's International Advisory Group.On 9 November 2021, Soludo, representing the All Progressives Grand Alliance, was declared winner of the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election, defeating his closest rivals from the PDP and APC, Valentine Ozigbo and Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba, respectively.
Ram Vilas Paswan
Ram Vilas Paswan was an Indian politician from Bihar and the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the first and second Modi ministries. Paswan was also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party, nine-time Lok Sabha member and Rajya Sabha MP. He started his political career as member of Samyukta Socialist Party and was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1969. Later, Paswan joined Lok Dal upon its formation in 1974, and became its general secretary. He opposed the emergency, and was arrested during this period. He first entered the Lok Sabha in 1977, as a Janata Party member from Hajipur constituency, and was elected again in 1980, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014.
Davante Adams
Davante Lavell Adams is an American football wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Fresno State, and was selected by the Packers in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
Shepard Smith
David Shepard Smith Jr. is an American broadcast journalist for NBC News and CNBC, where he serves as chief general news anchor and hosts The News with Shepard Smith, a daily evening newscast launched in fall 2020. Smith is best known for his 23-year career at Fox News Channel, which he joined at its 1996 inception and where he served as chief anchor and managing editor of the breaking news division. Smith hosted several programs in his tenure at Fox News, including Fox Report, Studio B and Shepard Smith Reporting. In 2017, Smith came out as gay, prompting homophobic backlash from the conservative Fox viewers, some of whom demanded his show be cancelled. He left the station in 2019. In a 2021 interview with Christiane Amanpour, Smith stated that his presence on Fox had become "untenable" due to the "falsehoods" and "lies" intentionally spread on the network's opinion shows.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Natarajan Chandrasekaran is an Indian businessman and chairman of Tata Sons. He was Chief operating officer (COO) and executive director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where in 2009, he became Chief executive officer (CEO). He was also the chairman of Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (TGB). He became the first non-Parsi and professional executive to head the Tata Group. On 18 December 2019, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) held the appointment of Chandrasekaran as illegal and restored Cyrus Mistry as executive chairman. In January 2020 the Supreme Court of India overruled NCLAT.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Ayumi Hamasaki is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, spokesperson and entrepreneur. Through her entire career, she has written all her lyrical content, and has sometimes composed her music.
Jim E. Mora
James Ernest Mora is a former American football coach who was the head coach for the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). His tenure with the Saints spanned 11 seasons from 1986 to 1996 and he coached the Colts for four seasons from 1998 to 2001. Mora also coached the Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars of the United States Football League (USFL) during its three years of existence and led the team to all three championship games, winning two.
Wanya Morris
Wanyá Jermaine Morris is an American singer, best known as a member of the R&B group Boyz II Men.
Renhō
Renhō Saitō , commonly called just Renhō (蓮舫), is a Japanese politician and former journalist who is a current member of House of Councillors. She was the leader of the major Japanese opposition party, the Democratic Party.