List of Famous Taureans
Joseph Valtellini
Joseph John Valtellini is a Canadian retired Muay Thai kickboxer who competed in the super middleweight division. Nicknamed "Bazooka Joe", Valtellini is a strong and explosive fighter possessing considerable punching power and powerful low kicks. After winning provincial and national honours as an amateur, he turned professional in 2010 and went undefeated while finishing all of his opponents on the New York Muay Thai scene over the next two years before losing to Grégory Choplin in Lion Fight. He debuted with the Glory promotion in April 2013. He now works as a commentator for the promotion.
Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates. He is the son of the founder of UAE, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Artūras Karnišovas
Artūras Karnišovas is a Lithuanian professional basketball executive and former player. He is the current executive vice president of basketball operations of the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Alexander Ursenbacher
Alexander Ursenbacher is a Swiss professional snooker player from Rheinfelden. He is Switzerland's first professional snooker player. He is often called by the nickname 'The Swiss Fish'.
Katja Seizinger
Katja Seizinger is a former World Cup alpine ski racing champion, Germany's most successful alpine skier.
Erik Durm
Erik Durm is a German professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Eintracht Frankfurt. He made his senior debut for the Germany national team in 2014, and later that year was part of their squad which won the World Cup.
Hayata Ito
Hayata Ito is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.
Martina Topley-Bird
Martina Gillian Topley-Bird is an English vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained fame as the featured female vocalist on trip hop pioneer Tricky's debut album, Maxinquaye (1995). She also worked with him on his subsequent albums Nearly God and Pre-Millennium Tension. In 2003, Topley-Bird released her debut solo album, Quixotic, which was critically praised and earned her a Mercury Prize nomination.
Casey Stoney
Casey Jean Stoney is an English professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of WSL club Manchester United. A versatile defender, she was capped more than 100 times for the England women's national football team since making her debut in 2000. After being a non-playing squad member at UEFA Women's Euro 2005, she was an integral part of the England teams which reached the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 final and the quarter finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2007 and 2011. In 2012, Stoney succeeded Faye White as the England captain and also became captain of the newly formed Team GB squad for the 2012 London Olympics. She ended her playing career at Liverpool Ladies. She was appointed as the first head coach of the newly-formed Manchester United Women on 8 June 2018.
Daisuke Enomoto
Daisuke Enomoto is a Japanese businessman and former livedoor executive who hoped to become the fourth space tourist. He had trained at Star City, Moscow in Russia to fly with two members of Expedition 14 on board Soyuz TMA-9, which was launched on September 18, 2006.