List of Famous Taureans
Andruw Jones
Andruw Rudolf Jones is a Curaçaoan former baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Atlanta Braves. Jones also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Jones was a noted defensive specialist for most of his career and won the Rawlings Gold Glove Award for outfielders every year from 1998 through 2007. He had a strong throwing arm in addition to his elite fielding. He was an MLB All-Star five times, and he won both the Hank Aaron Award and a Silver Slugger Award for outfielders in 2005.
Tim Martin
Timothy Randall Martin is a British businessman best known as the founder and chairman of Wetherspoons, a pub chain in the UK and Ireland. He is also a prominent critic of the European Union.
Ian "H" Watkins
Ian Watkins, known professionally as H, is a Welsh singer and actor. He is known as a member of the British pop group Steps. In 2020, he competed in the twelfth series of Dancing on Ice.
Claudie Haigneré
Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré is a French doctor, politician, and former astronaut with the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (1985–1999) and the European Space Agency (1999–2002).
Terumi Niki
Terumi Niki is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Since a child, she has been a member of the Japanese Theatrical Company Gekidan Wakakusa, of which she has joined in 1953. She played the young girl Otoyo in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965).
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season, when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, the quarter-finals of the 2004 British Open, and the semi-finals of the 2005 Welsh Open. He has now spent twelve successive seasons ranked inside the top 32. He reached his first ranking final and won his first ranking title at the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open.
Ekin Deligöz
Ekin Deligöz is a Turkish-German politician, member of Alliance '90/The Greens. She currently serves as a member of the German Bundestag.
Diletta Leotta
Giulia Diletta Leotta is an Italian television presenter from Catania, Sicily. Leotta currently presents the Serie A broadcasts for DAZN since the 2018–2019 season. Earlier, she had presented Serie B games on Sky Sport (Italy) with Gianluca Di Marzio and Luca Marchegiani. From April to August of 2018, Leotta worked alongside Aída Yéspica as the host of 105 Take Away, a program of Radio 105 Network. Leotta hosted with Francesco Facchinetti the 2018 edition of Miss Italia that was aired by La7 and won by Carlotta Maggiorana. In 2020, Leotta co-presented the 70th annual edition of the
Sanremo Music Festival.
Wolfgang Borchert
Wolfgang Borchert was a German author and playwright whose work was strongly influenced by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best-known examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany. His most famous work is the drama "Draußen vor der Tür ", which he wrote soon after the end of World War II. His works are known not to make compromises on the issues of humanity and humanism. He is one of the most popular authors of the German postwar period; his work continues to be studied regularly in German schools.
Ludmilla
Ludmila Oliveira da Silva, widely known by her stage name Ludmilla, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter who became known with song "Fala Mal de Mim". She is the biggest black female singer in South America. In September 2020, she became the first Black Latin-American female musician to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify.