List of Famous Taureans
Maynor Figueroa
Maynor Alexis Figueroa Róchez is a Honduran professional footballer who plays as a centre-back and captains the Honduras national team. He spent most of his career at Wigan Athletic, where he made 179 Premier League appearances and won the 2013 FA Cup. Figueroa has made over 160 international appearances since 2003, including appearances at three CONCACAF Gold Cups, two FIFA World Cups and the 2012 Olympics.
Kelly Gale
Kelly Olivia Gale is a Swedish-Australian model of Indian and Australian heritage. Gale is known globally for her work for Victoria's Secret, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and Playboy, as well as being featured in the music video of "Duele el Corazón" by Enrique Iglesias.
Anjum Chopra
Anjum Chopra is a cricket commentator, former cricketer and captain of India's national women's cricket team. The first time she stepped onto the cricket ground was at the age of 9. She played her first friendly match with the college girls' team at the inter-college level, scoring 20 runs and taking 2 wickets. Later the same year she was selected to play for New Delhi in the under −15 tournament.
Alex Bowman
Alex Michael Bowman is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE for Hendrick Motorsports. He owns a Dirt Midget team named Alex Bowman Racing.
Françoise Laborde
Françoise Laborde is a French journalist, writer and television presenter.
Rafa Silva
Rafael Alexandre "Rafa" Fernandes Ferreira da Silva ComM is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Benfica and the Portugal national team as an attacking midfielder.
Ashe
Ashlyn Rae Willson, better known as Ashe, is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 2019 single "Moral of the Story", which was featured in the Netflix film To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) and was produced by Noah Conrad with additional production from Finneas O'Connell. Ashe also co-wrote Demi Lovato's 2017 single "You Don't Do It for Me Anymore" and has toured with Louis the Child, Lauv and Whethan. She was nominated for a Juno Award for her gold-certified single "Let You Get Away" with Shaun Frank. Her debut studio album Ashlyn was released on May 7, 2021.
Saddiq Bey
Saddiq Bey is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Villanova Wildcats.
Ruben Kihuen
Rubén Jesús Kihuen Bernal is an American politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives for Nevada's 4th congressional district, serving from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was a member of the Nevada Senate from 2006 to 2016. He was Nevada's first Latino member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Kihuen described himself as the first "Dreamer" elected to Congress. In December 2017, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called on Kihuen to resign in response to sexual misconduct allegations against him by a female campaign staff member, as reported by BuzzFeed. He refused to resign but did not run for reelection in 2018.
Kaj Linna
Kaj Johannes Linna, né Kaj Juhani Kaukosalo, is a Finnish man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for a robbery-murder in Kalamark outside of Piteå, Sweden on 14 April 2004. He served the longest overturned sentence in Swedish history before a retrial was ordered, in which he was exonerated and freed. He was later awarded 18 million SEK as compensation for his time in prison, a record sum.