List of Famous Taureans
Sebastien Bellin
Sebastien Bellin is a Brazilian-Belgian former professional basketball player. He has also been a part of the Belgian national basketball team in his career, he made his last appearance in 2010.
Ed Murray
Edward Bernard Patrick Murray is an American politician from the state of Washington who most recently served as the 53rd mayor of Seattle from 2014 to 2017. A Democrat, he was previously a state legislator, first with the Washington State House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, then the Washington State Senate from 2007 to 2013.
Peter J. Ratcliffe
Sir Peter John Ratcliffe, FRS, FMedSci is a British Nobel Laureate physician-scientist who is trained as a nephrologist. He was a practising clinician at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine and head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2016. He has been a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2004. In 2016 he became Clinical Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute, retaining a position at Oxford as member of the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research and Director of the Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford.
Armel Le Cléac'h
Armel Le Cléac’h is a French professional navigator and sea captain. He was the IMOCA world champion in 2008 and French champion in single-handed yacht race in 2003, he notably won the Solitaire du Figaro twice, the Transat AG2R in 2004 and 2010 and the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race in 2016. He finished second in both the 2008–09 and 2012–13 editions of the Vendée Globe. In the Vendée Globe 2016–17, he finished first with a new record time of 74d 3h 35' 46". His performance earned him the 2018 Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year.
Alexander Beglov
Alexander Dmitryevich Beglov ; born 19 May 1956 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR ) is a Russian politician. He was appointed acting Governor of Saint Petersburg on 3 October 2018. In the 2019 Saint Petersburg gubernatorial election Beglov won with 64.43% of the votes.
Tatsumi Kimishima
Tatsumi Kimishima is a Japanese businessman who served as the 5th president of Nintendo from September 16, 2015 to June 28, 2018. He was formerly the president of Nintendo of America from January 2002, succeeding Minoru Arakawa, until Reggie Fils-Aimé took his place in May 2006. He was promoted to managing director in June 2013 and was named the fifth president of the company in September 2015, succeeding Satoru Iwata, who died in July 2015. In June 2018, Kimishima stepped down as president and was succeeded by Shuntaro Furukawa.
Juan Sebastián Cabal
Juan Sebastián Cabal Valdés is a Colombian professional tennis player specialising in doubles. His current ranking in men's doubles is No. 2, and he has also reached world No. 184 in singles. He has won three Grand Slam doubles titles in his career, in 2017 he won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open, partnering Abigail Spears of the US, and two years later he won his first men's doubles Grand Slam title, winning the 2019 Wimbledon title and 2019 US Open title alongside countryman and regular doubles partner, Robert Farah.
Catherine Herridge
Catherine Herridge is a CBS News senior investigative correspondent currently based in Washington D.C. She began her role at CBS in November 2019 after leaving her role as Chief Intelligence correspondent for Fox News Channel. She had hosted the Saturday edition of Weekend Live.
Oleksandr Skichko
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Skichko is a Ukrainian politician, comedian, actor, and television presenter. On 29 January 2021 Skichko was appointed as the Governor of Cherkasy Oblast.
Barbara Rittner
Barbara Rittner is a former professional tennis player who comes from Germany. She currently is the captain of the German Fed Cup team. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 24 in the world, achieved on 1 February 1993.