List of Famous Taureans
Susanne Augustesen
Susanne "Susy" Augustesen is a Danish former international footballer who played club football for many years in Italy.
The Tallest Man on Earth
Kristian Matsson is a Swedish singer-songwriter who performs under the stage name The Tallest Man on Earth. Matsson grew up in Leksand, and began his solo career in 2006, having previously been the lead singer of the indie band Montezumas. His music has often drawn comparisons to the music of Bob Dylan.
Nick Martin
Nicholas Jacob Martin is an American football center for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame and was drafted 50th overall by the Texans in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
Alexandre de Lesseps
Count Alexandre de Lesseps is a French entrepreneur and pioneer of micro financing in developing countries. He serves as President of Pandaw Investment Holdings of Hong Kong, which invests in Myanmar. Until 2013, he was Chairman of Coral Capital Group and was one of the founder investors in the rebuilt Saratoga Hotel in Havana, Cuba. In 2012, he became a director at Leopard Capital, a private equity firm investing in Cambodia, Haiti, and various other frontier markets. He was a co-founder and Director of Blue Orchard Finance S.A. of Geneva, a leading microfinance management company.
Trayon White
Trayon White is a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, representing Ward 8 of the District of Columbia. From January 2012 to March 2014, he was a member of the District of Columbia State Board of Education. He ran for the Ward 8 seat on the Council of the District of Columbia in a special election in April 2015 and narrowly lost the Democratic primary to eventual Councilmember LaRuby May. He ran for the same seat again in June 2016, defeating May for the Democratic nomination by 688 votes. He won election to the Council in November 2016.
Sol Wachtler
Solomon "Sol" Wachtler is an American lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1992. Wachtler's most famous quote, made shortly after his appointment as Chief Judge, was that district attorneys could get grand juries to "indict a ham sandwich."
Abdul Latief
Abdul Latief is the founder Indonesian retailers Pasaraya department store and of television channel Lativi. He is the former Indonesian minister of labor in the Soeharto era.
Miguel Ángel Villarroya Vilalta
Miguel Ángel Villarroya Vilalta is a Spanish Air Force general who served as the 11th Chief of the Defence Staff of Spain from 2020 to 2021. Before this, from 2017 to 2020 he was the Chief of the Technical Cabinet of the Defence Ministers María Dolores de Cospedal (2017–2018) and Margarita Robles (2018–2020).
Nikita Shu
Nikita Shu, real name Chen Yingying, is a Taiwanese singer, actress and television presenter. She appeared in a fixed team in the variety show University. She participated in the TV draft show Chaoji Mo Wang Dadao 2, in which she finished sixth place, with dancing, pole dancing, and cooperation. In 2016, she formed the group Fangui Xiaojie with Lu Yu-ling and Kang Yin-yin; and later made a solo single in 2015: Princess of Iron. She released a personal photo album from the beginning of 2017, by Sharp Point Publishing. In mid-2017, she is the innovative programme assistant of presenter Lin Yu-Chih in Tongxue! Gao Shenme Gui?; and at the end of 2017, she co-presented Ruby Hsu and Blackie Chen in Shangban Zhe Dang Shì.
Yukiko Kada
Yukiko Kada is a Japanese politician and member of the National Diet of Japan, serving as member of the House of Councillors from Shiga Prefecture since 2019. She was the prefectural governor of Shiga for two terms from 2006 to 2014. She is from Honjō, Saitama and her father was a member of the city council. She went to Kyoto University and studied environmental sociology. She moved to Ōtsu, Shiga in 1979. She graduated from the Graduate School of Agriculture of Kyoto University in 1981. She also studied in the United States at the University of Wisconsin as a graduate student in 1973. She became a professor at Kyoto Seika University in 2000.