Famous Alumni By Country

The International List of Famous Waldorf Alumni by theWaldorfs (Famous Alumni Sorted by Country)

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Country of Origin	First Name	Last Name	AKA	Gender	Continent	Occupational Group	Profession or Role	Wikipedia Article or Other Information	Profile
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Australia	Tarik	Ejjamai	DJ Izm	Male	Oceania	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (hip hop)	WWW	Member of Bliss n Eso, a Multi Platinum ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney.Further members are Waldorf alumni Jonathan Notley and Max MacKinnon.
Australia	Jessica	Hart		Female	Oceania	Arts (performing - acting)	Model	WWW	Appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Her Advertisements include H&M, Seafolly, Victoria's Secret, Gap etc.
Australia	Max	McKinnon	MC Eso	Male	Oceania	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (hip hop)	WWW	Member of Bliss n Eso, a Multi Platinum ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney. Further members are Waldorf alumni Jonathan Notley and Tarik Ejjama.
Australia	Aaron	McMillan		Male	Oceania	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (classical pianist)	WWW	At age 16 he was the youngest Australian pianist to gain a Licentiate Diploma of Music with distinction. He took part in the 1996 Sydney International Piano Competition. He died on 14 May 2007.
Australia	Danie	Mellor		Male	Oceania	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Artist	WWW	He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Considered a key figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art, the dominant theme in his art is the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures. He was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
Australia	Kathleen	O'Kelly-Kennedy		Female	Oceania	Sports	Wheelchair basketball player	WWW	She was part of the bronze medal-winning Australia womens national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
Australia	Bonnie	Piesse		Female	Oceania	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, singer-songwriter	WWW	She got her break playing a trapeze artist in the Australian children's television series High Flyers at the age of 15. Later she played the role of Beru Lars in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. She also had recurring roles on Blue Heelers, Horace and Tina, Stingers and Last Man Standing.
Australia	John	Polson		Male	Oceania	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director (film), actor	WWW	In 2005 he directed the film Hide and Seek, starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning, which achieved number one box-office status in America. He also directed the feature film Tenderness starring Russell Crowe and Laura Dern, which was released in 2009.
Australia	Toby	Thatcher		Male	Oceania	Arts (performing - music)	Conductor	WWW	Toby C Thatcher (born 28 January 1989) is an Australian-British conductor, oboist and cor anglais player. As from April 2015 he is Assistant Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Winner of several prizes.
Austria	Robi	Faustmann		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician	WWW	Popular musician in Austria and beyond. He represents one half of the singer-songwriter duo "Keiner mag Faustmann" which was nominated for best song at the "Amadeus-Awards" 2013.
Austria	Till	Fellner		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (pianist)	WWW	He won first prize in the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey in 1993. He was awarded the Mozartinterpretationspreis of the Mozartgemeinde Wien in 1998.
Austria	Andreas	Guenther		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen)	WWW	He has acted in numerous television films and movies, e.g. Gott ist tot (2003) opposite Götz George and the international co-production Baltic Storm (2003) directed by Reuben Leder, starring Greta Scacchi, Jürgen Prochnow and Donald Sutherland.
Austria	Anja	Stadlober		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	She is the sister of Robert Stadlober, actor
Austria	Robert	Stadlober		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	His largest success is playing the main role as Benjamin Lebert, a partially disabled teenager at a boarding school, in the film Crazy (2000). Later, he starred in Summer Storm (2004), a gay coming-of-age story set at a rowing summer-camp. He was awarded the "best young actor" award at the Montreal International Film Festival in 2004 for his portrayal in Summer Storm. He is the brother of Anja Stadlober, actress.
Austria	Gregor	Stein		Male	Europe	Sports	Icehockey player	WWW	Played for the following clubs: Wiener EV, EHC Freiburg, Eisbären Juniors Berlin, Blue Lions Leipzig, Saale Bulls Halle, Atse Graz, Dresdner Eislöwen, Kassel Huskies
Austria	Maria	Stern	Maria Krisan	Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter, political activist, eurythmy teacher	WWW	In Austria Maria Stern is known as a political singer-songwriter and activist who fights against the poverty of children from single parents and for women right in Austria.
Austria	Knud	Tiroch		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Airbrush artist	WWW	Belongs to Europe's finest Airbrush artists. He designed for David Coulthard, ZZ Top, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others.
Austria	Katja	Weitzenböck		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW
Austria	Kathi	Wenusch		Female	Europe	Media	Radio entertainer	WWW
Austria / Germany	Andreas	Kaufmann		Male	Europe	Management	Speaker of the Supervisory Board	WWW	Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, who is both Waldorf alumnus and a former Waldorf teacher, invested in Leica Camera AG eight years ago. As Chairman of its supervisory board, he has helped to cement the company’s reputation as one of the most exclusive camera brands in the world.
Belgium	Tine	Embrechts		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	Tine Embrechts is an actress, known for Tegen de sterren op (2010), Anneliezen (2010) and Labyrinthus (2014).
Belgium	Niek	Meul		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (bass player)	WWW	Bass player of band "Das Pop". In 1998, they won influential HUMOs Rock Rally contest (Belgium).
Belgium	Gust	Van Den Berghe		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Film director	WWW	He made a trilogy of films that were internationally rewarded with prices (Lucifer [2014], Blue Bird [2011] and En waar de sterre bleef stille staan [2010])
Belgium	Bent	Van Looy		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (vocalist)	WWW	Lead singer of band "Das Pop". In 1998, they won influential HUMOs Rock Rally contest (Belgium).
Belgium	Reinhard	Vanbergen		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (guitarist)	WWW	Guitarist of band "Das Pop". In 1998, they won influential HUMOs Rock Rally contest (Belgium).
Belgium / Switzerland	Chiara	Skerath		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Opera singer	WWW	Swiss belgian international Opera singer. Sings at Paris Opera, Salzburg Festival, Bern Opera, Frankfurt Opera. She has been awarded numerous prizes including the Audience Prize and 6th Prize at the 2014 Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Grand Prix de Duo Chant-Piano at the 2013 International Nadia Lili Boulanger Competition, and more.
Brazil	Sergio	Arno		Male	Americas	Food preparation and serving related	Chef	WWW	Renowned chef de cuisine in São Paulo. Published various recipe books and owns some famous restaurants.
Brazil	Mariana	Aydar		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	Singer of MPB (Brazilian popular music). She was born in São Paulo in 1980.
Brazil	Gastão Fráguas	Filho		Male	Americas	Sports	Racing driver (cart racing)	WWW	1995 worldchampion in cart-racing, 1998 go for Formula Renault
Brazil	Térsio	Greguol	T. Greguol	Male	Americas	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Ilustrator, meditation instructor, musician, poet, fine and visual artist and writer.	WWW	T. Greguol has been a big fan of monsters since his childhood. Influenced by ideas averse to the media and great attention to the arts, of the Waldorf education. But also exposed to the 80s pop culture. He is a visual and fine artist, writer, musician and teaches meditation.
Brazil	Matheus	Nachtergaele		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor, director	WWW	He has starred in numerous Brazilian films, being well known for his appearance in 1997 film Four Days in September and the 2002 film City of God. He has twice won the Best Actor award in the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro, for his roles in Midnight (1998) in 2000 and O Auto da Compadecida (2000) in 2001.
Brazil / Germany	Bê	Ignacio		Female	Americas / Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer	WWW	Her style relates to pop, world music, bossa nova, lounge and jazz.
Brazil / USA	Anselmo	Ramos		Male	Americas	Management	Executive Creative Director	WWW	Executive Creative Director with Ogilvy & Mather Brazil. Anselmo is a member of the O&M Worldwide Creative Council, and one of the founders of DAVID, a new kind of global agency with a Latin heart, with offices in Buenos Aires and São Paulo.
Canada	Nathaniel	Anderson-Frank		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Violinist	WWW	In February 2011 Nathaniel was appointed to the No. 4 chair of the Philharmonia Orchestra first violin section. He has lead the Orchestra on occasion, and is a regular leader of the Orion Symphony and Paradisal Players. He had a full scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he obtained his Master of Music degree. He was a winner of the Concerto Prize at RAM.
Canada	Jesse	Cook		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (guitarist), composer, producer	WWW	Widely considered one of the most influential figures in "nouveau flamenco" (new flamenco) music. Winner of Juno Award 2001 in the Best Instrumental Album category for "Free Fall." Received two Juno nominations in 2008.
Canada	Laurent	Duvernay-Tardif		Male	Americas	Sports	Professional NFL football player	WWW	Professional NFL football player (Offensive lineman) for the Kansas City Chiefs and Medical student at McGill University. In May 2014, at the age of only 26, the Mont-Saint-Hilaire native became the 10th Canadian—and first Quebecker—to be drafted by an NFL team. Laurent is playing football in the NFL in Kansas City while pursuing his studies in Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. Philanthropist at his young age, he just launched his foundation and a biographical book (in French).
Canada	Roger	Goldammer		Male	Americas	Arts (visual - design related)	Motorcycle craftsman and parts engineer	WWW	Custom-designs and builds Harley Davidson motorcycles, winner of the first annual "Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building" (California, USA) in October 2004, 1st place winner at 2004 AMD pro-show and at 2004 Las Vegas bike fest "Artistry in Iron" master builders bike show, 2003 VQ award for most innovative bike builder (by Easyriders and V-Twin magazines)
Canada	Nancy	Huston		Female	Americas	Arts (literary)	Novelist, essayist	WWW	Novel: "Instruments des ténèbres", shortlisted for the Prix Fémina, and the Governor General's Award, awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.
Canada	Georgia	Simmerling		Female	Americas	Sports	Olympic Skier and Cyclist	WWW	The first Canadian ever to compete in three different sports (Alpine Skiing, Skicross and Track Cycling) at three different Olympic Games, she won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics for Team Pursuit Cycling.
Canada	Layah Jane	Singer-Wilson	Layah Jane	Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter (soul-folk)	WWW	Jane has appeared at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, Ottawa Folk Festival, Toronto Winterfolk Festival, Toronto City Roots Festival, North by Northeast Music Festival, Blue Skies Music Fest. She was nominated for the 2008 Toronto Independent Music Award for Best Folk Artist.
Canada	Martina	Sorbara		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	Martina is a singer-songwriter and the lead singer of the electro-pop band Dragonette. The band won the Canadian Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year in 2012 and was nominated for a Juno Award for the Best New Group in 2008.
Canada	Charlie	Storwick		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter and actress	WWW	She is most notable for being the winner of The Next Star season 4. Storwick is also the first ever contestant on The Next Star to get one million views on YouTube.
Canada	Aspen	Switzer		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	Aspen’s second CD, “humble but bearing no apology” (released Nov. 2008) was chosen as a finalist for 3 awards at the 2009 British Columbia Interior Music Awards and she won for best Folk/Traditional Recording of the Year and best Roots/World Recording of the Year.
Canada / Afghanistan	Ariel	Nasr		Male	Americas / Asia	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Film director, producer	WWW	His film, The Boxing Girls of Kabul, won the Canadian Screen Award in March 2013 in the Best Short Documentary category. Ariel wrote and directed the film. Ariel was nominated for an Oscar in the Live Action Short Film category for Buzkashi Boy. He was the producer of this film.
Denmark	Esben Holmboe	Bang		Male	Europe	Food preparation and serving related	Chef	WWW	Head chef of Oslo based Restaurant "Maaemo", one of the top 50 restaurants in the world.
Denmark	Anine	Bing		Female	Europe	Design	Fashion Designer, blogger	WWW	Anine Bing has been in the fashion industry since the age of 15. Besides music and modeling, Bing has done several design collaborations with different brands. Eventually Anine began dreaming about making her own clothing line, a dream which finally became true. In the summer of 2012 her self-titled clothing line was launched and it became an instant success.
Denmark	Jascha	Richter		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	Singer, songwriter and keyboarder of Danish soft rock band "Michael Learns to Rock" (formed in 1988, more than 9 million albums sold)
Denmark	Morten	Schmidt		Male	Europe	Architecture and engineering	Architect	WWW	ARoS - the artmuseum in Aarhus, The Black Diamond - The Royal Danish Library.
Denmark	Cecilie	Thomsen		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, model	WWW	She is internationally best known for playing professor Inga Bergstrom opposite Pierce Brosnan in the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.
Estonia	Michael	Pärt		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Music producer	WWW	He is an award-nominated music producer and music editor, who has gained renown in the music and film communities by working closely with Oscar- and Grammy-winning artists, and with Icelandic megastar Björk, film director Francis Ford Coppola, composer Howard Shore, and film director and Prince of Thailand Chatrichalerm Yukol among others. He has contributed to award-winning projects such as the BAFTA-winning LazyTown and the Grammy-nominated albums Volta by Björk and Neon Bible by Arcade Fire. He is the son of classical composer Arvo Pärt.
Finland	Raisa	Cacciatore		Female	Europe	Life, physical and social science	Child and youth psychiatrist, paediatrician	WWW	Cacciatore is an award winning psychiatrist who has published several books. She is vocal and active for the issues in children and youth well-being.
Finland	Pekka	Haavisto		Male	Europe	Politics	Minister	WWW	Politician (Green League), Member of Finish Parliament, Member of Helsinki City Council, Minister of Environment (1995-1999, first European cabinet minister representing a Green party), has worked in various tasks in the United Nations
Finland	Heidi	Herala		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	Starred in "The Swan and the Wanderer"
Finland	Mika	Pohjola		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (jazz piano), composer	WWW	He is one of the most prolific Scandinavian jazz musicians in his generation.
Finland	Ville	Ranta		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Cartoonist	WWW	Ranta has achieved fame through his original, often very personal and sometimes controversial cartoons.
Finland	Kaija	Saariaho		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Composer	WWW	She was awarded the title Musician of the Year 2008 (announced by Musical America, the US publishing company for performing arts), for being "among the few contemporary composers to achieve public acclaim as well as universal critical respect".
Finland	Oras	Tynkkynen		Male	Europe	Politics	Member of Parliament	WWW	Member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Green League, formerly Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's Advisor on Climate Policy, Member of the City Council of Tampere and environmental activist.
France	Alexia	Barlier		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen, TV)	WWW	On film, Alexia has teamed up with actors such as Daniel Auteuil (Conversations with my Gardner), Michel Serrault (24H in a Woman”s Life), Jacques Villeret (Viper in the Fist) and Pierre Arditi (on stage in The Albatros” Dance). She also played the female lead opposite famous French actor Philip Torreton in Tempêtes (Storm), a film where she plays a lifeguard, a strong character.
France	Bastien	Bouillon		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	He got noticed thanks to his roles in the movies "The War is declared" and "Hand in hand".He made his first screen acting steps in the movie "The Guards of the order". In 2011 he became famous through interpreting a mental defective in fictions "Simple".
France	Gaël	Colin		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor, director	WWW	Gaël Colin received actors training and specialized in musical in London. He directed a French version of Elegies For Angels, Punks And Raging Queens, at the Theater of Ranelagh in March 2012.
France	Pascal	Lamorisse		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	As a child, he starred in "The Red Balloon" ("Le ballon rouge"), the Oscar-winning short-film directed by his father, Albert Lamorisse, in 1956.
France	Karen	Leibovici		Female	Europe	Sports	Sailor	WWW	2005: 4th woman to buckle le Vendée Globe. 2004: 9th of the English Transatlantic race. 2002 - Record of the Crossing of Channel, aboard Adrien with Jean-Luc Van den Heede. 2001 - Deckchair (Transatlantic race) 6.50 (La Rochelle-Salvador of Bahia): 9th; Mini Fastnet: 2000 - Mini Barcelona: 1st; Triangle of the Sun: 2nd; Cross-Channel 1998 - Summer Mini: 1st
France	Jean-Philippe	Marazzani		Male	Europe	Management	Managing Director	WWW	He is marketing and digital Director General of electrical retailer "Darty" (darty.com). Awarded a diploma by the IEP (INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL STUDIES) of Paris, he began his career in 1991 at L'Oréal, being responsible for management control. He integrated the group Kesa Electricals in 2001 and became a sales manager of Dacem, later manager of secondary purchases and portable technology. In 2008 he was named managing director of Darty.com, in 2013 he was appointed as managing director of Darty in charge of marketing, communication and digital.
France	Claire	Oppert		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (Cellist)	WWW	Claire Oppert studied to the Academy Tchaikovsk of Moscow, where she obtained her diploma in 1993. She is a prize-winner of several international competitions. She has been playing as soloist with numerous orchestras, to include the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 1993.
France	Rosalie & Rachel	Pignot	Les Frangines	Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actresses and singers	WWW	Rosalie Symon and Rachel Pignot form the duo "Les Frangines" ("The Sisters"), regularly performing in the theater "l'Essaïon" (Paris).
France	Prunella	Rivière		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Comedien, singer	WWW	Member of "Sea Girls", a group of four actresses / singers accompanied with a double bassist-singer-composer and with a guitarist. They interpret new songs of Jean-Max Rivière, Jean-Louis Guitard, Stéphanie Tesson etc.
France	Georges	Salmon		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Starred in "La Délation Sous L'Occupation" by André Halimi and "L'Eleve" by "Olivier Schatzky", as well as in multiple theater plays.
France	Marc	Thiercelin	Captain Marck	Male	Europe	Sports	Sailor and professional skipper	WWW	1994: 1st French championship with a crew in Figaro 1996-1997: 2nd of Vendée Globe 1997: 2nd of the Transatlantic race Jacques-Vabre 1997: 2nd of the World Classification of the skipper FICO 1998-1999: 2nd of the World tour Around Alone 1999: 5th of the Transatlantic race Jacques-Vabre 2009: record of Transméditerranéenne, solo between Marseille and Carthage (Tunisia) in 1 day, 9hours
France	Christian	Volckman		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Painter, graphic designer, photographer, author and director	WWW	He is mostly known for his motion capture animation effort Renaissance, for which he was granted the Award for Best Feature Film at the 5th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials. The film was internationally released in 2006 and received mixed reviews from movie critics. It was awarded the Feature Film Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
Germany	Wolfram	Achtnich		Male	Europe	Life, physical, and social science	Plant cultivation scientist	WWW	Co-initiator and former managing director of "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bewässerungswirtschaft", also worked as advisor and evaluator for FAO and other international organizations
Germany	Adriana	Altaras		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, theater director and writer	WWW	She worked as a theater director at the Berliner Ensemble and Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. In 1998 she received the Deutscher Filmpreis Award. In addition to the theater and film work, she worked with Steven Spielbergs Shoah Foundation as an interviewer and lecturer.
Germany	Michael	Andritzky		Male	Europe	Management	Managing Director	WWW	Managing Director (Hauptgeschäftsführer) of Arbeitgebervereinigung Nahrung und Genuß e.V., socio-political employers federation of German food industry
Germany	Marcus-Milan	Arandelovic		Male	Europe	Management	General Manager	WWW	Hilton Worldwide, Area General Manager Benelux
Germany	Caspar	Arnhold		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director, actor (tv), photographer	WWW	Winner of German Short Film Award in Gold for Short Film "Full Stop" in 2004.
Germany	Jens	Atzorn		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Parts played include "Männlich, ledig, jung sucht..." Awarded with the Lore-Bronner-Price in 2001. Son of Robert Atzorn, actor.
Germany	Amadeus	August		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV)	WWW	He became famous throughout Europe as protagonist of the successful European TV series Quentin Durward which was broadcast for the first time in 1971 and had later on some re-runs. Died in 1992.
Germany	Jens Georg	Bachmann		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Conductor	WWW	Conducted internationally at Deutsche Staatsoper and Komische Oper (both Berlin), The Metropolitan Opera (NY), Royal Swedish Opera (Stockholm), and others.
Germany	Christoph	Bantzer		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV)	WWW
Germany	Claus	Bantzer		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Composer, musician (church), director	WWW	As a composer of music for more than 20 films, he has worked closely the film directors Peter Lilienthal, Doris Dörrie, Jan Schütte and Tevfik Ba?er.
Germany	Jan	Baruschke		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Violinist (classical and popular music)	WWW	He gave concerts in Spain and Germany quite early and participated as a soloist on tours of the "Chamber Orchestra Orpheus" (Bulgaria) and the "New Chamber Orchestra Luebeck" throughout the United States, France, and the Czech Republic. First violinis of the Johann-Strauss-Ensemble founded by him and pianist Prof. Barthel.
Germany	Henning	Baum		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV)	WWW
Germany	Idil	Baydar	Jilet Ayse, Gerda Grischke	Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Comedienne, actress	WWW	Her clichéd fictional character, the Berlin women Gerda Grischke and Jilet Ayse, an 18-year-old girl with a Turkish migrant background, became well known on YouTube. Her channel reached up to 80,000 clicks per video. On television, she was featured in cabaret and comedy shows such as StandUpMigranten (EinsPlus), NightWash (Einsfestival), Pufpaff's Happy Hour (3sat) or Ladies Night (WDR). On September 29, 2014, her cabaret solo program "Deutschland, wir müssen reden!" ("Germany, we need to talk"!) premiered in Berlin.
Germany	Thommie	Bayer		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Novelist, singer-songwriter, painter	WWW	Studied painting at Kunstakademie Stuttgart - toured and recorded as singer-songwriter, has been writing novels, stories, screenplays, teleplays etc. since 1984
Germany	Barbara	Becker		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (TV), designer, model	WWW	Actress, ex-wife of German tennis player Boris Becker (married 1993 - 2001)
Germany	Lina	Beckmann		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (stage, screen, tv)	WWW	Stage, screen and tv actress, cast member of Cologne Theater. "Actress of the year" 2011 (by German professional journal on theater "Theater heute"). Lina Beckmann is the sister of Maja Beckmann.
Germany	Maja	Beckmann		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (stage, screen, tv)	WWW	Stage and film actor. Known for her part as "Sabine Buhrer" in renowned German sitcom "Stromberg". Maja Beckmann is sister of Lina Beckmann.
Germany	Matthias Michael	Beckmann		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (cello player)	WWW	Matthias Michael Beckmann ranks as a pioneer of the cello. playing a unique 5-stringed cello with a descant E string and a range of five octaves, he is the first musician to perform the entire cello repertoire from Bach to Gulda on a 5-stringed instrument. As a soloist, Matthias Michael Beckmann is best known for his rendering of works by Haydn, Boccherini, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Dvo?ák and Gulda, and since 2007 also for premièring works for 5-stringed cello.
Germany	Stefan	Behnisch		Male	Europe	Architecture and engineering	Architect	WWW	Winner of the "Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2007". Described as the "the most promising European architect currently introducing state of the art techniques of sustainable architecture to the USA, that have already being realized in Europe."
Germany	Leonie	Benesch		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen, TV)	WWW	Played a leading part in the movie "The White Ribbon" ("Das weiße Band"), which was nominated for 2 Oscars in 2010 and awarded, amongst others, with the Golden Globe 2010 for Best Foreign Language Film and the European Film Award 2009.
Germany	Annika	Blendl		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, director	WWW	She is an actress and director, known for Zweiohrküken (2009), Transit - Am Ende der Straße (2010) and Maria am Wasser (2006). Thomas Wendrich chose her to play Alena (Maria am Wasser (2006) out of nearly 400 hopefulls.
Germany	Bernhard Albrecht Matthias Lasse	Blümel	Ben	Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer (pop), TV host	WWW	His greatest success was 2002 with the hit single "Engel", a collaboration with singer Gim. He was also successful as TV presenter of the music show The Dome (RTL II), Toggo Music (Super RTL) and Bravo TV (Pro 7)
Germany	Thilo	Bode		Male	Europe	Management	Managing Director	WWW	Founder and Managing Director of consumer rights organisation Foodwatch e.V., former executive director of Greenpeace Germany and International.
Germany	Hanna	Bohnekamp		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Model	WWW	Ranked second in 5th season of German TV casting series "Germany's Next Topmodel"
Germany	Ise	Bosch		Female	Europe	Community and social services	Philantropist, musician (jazz), author	WWW	Widely-known philanthropic figure in Germany, co-founder of Pecunia e.V., the German network of women with inherited wealth and filia.die Frauenstiftung (German Women's Fund). She is also a jazz musician and author. Ise Bosch is granddaughter of Robert Bosch, German industrialist, engineer and inventor engineering, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.
Germany	Oliver	Boysen		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV, stage)	WWW
Germany	Volker	Brandt		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV)	WWW	Ensemble member at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under Gustaf Gründgens for six years. German dubbing voice of Michael Douglas.
Germany	Marie	Bäumer		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen, TV)	WWW	Screen actress ("Der Schuh des Manitu", "Männerpension")
Germany	Lisei	Caspers		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Documentarian	WWW	Winner of "Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2007" (German Young Talents Movie Award) for "Grenzgebiet - Spiritual Healing"
Germany	Floriane	Daniel		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (TV, screen)	WWW	Played leading part in "Winterschläfer" ("Winter Sleepers"), directed by Tom Tykwer in 1996
Germany	August	Diehl		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen)	WWW	Primarily known to international audiences for playing SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds and Michael "Mike" Krause, husband of Evelyn Salt, in the movie Salt, as well as for his leading role in the Academy Award-winning Austrian film The Counterfeiters (2007).
Germany	Siegfried	Dietrich		Male	Europe	Sports	Manager	WWW	Manager and investor of German football club and seven-time German national champion 1. FFC Frankfurt. He is considered as visionary and "Spiritus Rector" of German and European women's football.
Germany	Herbert	Dreiseitl		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Sculptor, artist, landscape architect and interdisciplinary urban planner	WWW	His particular expertise is in combining artistic aspects with environmental planning and implementation with regard to water in an urban setting. His work is considered to be at the leading edge in urban hydrology and the treatment of waste and stormwater, realizing sustainable infrastructure which combines city resource needs with space for nature and people.
Germany	Wolf-Christian	Dullo		Male	Europe	Life, physical, and social science	Oceanographer	WWW	Holder of Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Prize 2002
Germany	Freimut	Duve		Male	Europe	Politics	Member of Parliament	WWW	Former member of German Federal Parliament and a deputy for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)(1980 - 1998), former Representative on Freedom of the Media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (1998 - 2004)
Germany	Karoline	Eichhorn		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (TV, screen)	WWW	Born 9 November 1965 in Stuttgart, Germany, she attended well-renowned Folkwang theater school in Essen from 1986 to 1989. She made her début at famous Schaubühne theater, Berlin in 1989, then moved to Schauspielhaus Bochum until 1992, then came back to the Schaubühne until 1995. Since then, she acted in a significant number of German TV productions and had remarkable (and award-winning) appearances in cinema films.
Germany	Josefina	Elsler		Female	Europe	Sports	Sprinter	WWW	Several achievements in international athletics competitions, such as bronze medal at the 2015 Relay World Championships. Retired from competitive sports in Q4/2017.
Germany	Michael	Ende		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	He is best known for his epic fantasy work The Neverending Story, other famous works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies, and have been adapted into motion pictures, stage plays, operas and audio books.
Germany	Henrik	Enderlein		Male	Europe	Education	Professor of Political Economy	WWW	Henrik Enderlein is Professor of Political Economy at the Hertie School of Governance. He holds degrees from Sciences Po, Paris, and Columbia University, New York. Henrik Enderlein's awards includes the Max Planck Society's Otto-Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements by young scientists. He has published widely in both Economics and Political Science. In 2011-2012 he was an expert member of the German parliamentary study commission on “Growth, Wealth, and the Quality of Life”.
Germany	Bernwart	Engelen		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Author of "Höhenflug ins Nichts"
Germany	Jürgen	Erdmenger		Male	Europe	Politics	Diplomat	WWW	Former Director General of General Directorate Transport at the European Commission
Germany	Rainer Werner	Fassbinder		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director (film, stage), screenwriter, actor	WWW	He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema.
Germany	Burkhard	Feige		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director, Scriptwriter	WWW	He received several awards, to include the Grimme-Prize for "Schnitzeljagd im Heiligen Land" (2011)
Germany	Olaf	Feldmann		Male	Europe	Politics	Member of Parliament	WWW	Former member of German Federal Parliament (1981 - 1998)
Germany	Raphael	Fellmer		Male	Europe	Other	Activist	WWW	He lived from 2010 until 2015 in a money strike, which started with a moneyless journey from The Netherlands to Mexico.[1] He is an activist, who lived without money to raise awareness [2] and makes use of surplus of the consumer society. To fight food waste, he created a foodsaving movement, a network which collected and shared more than 3 million kilogram of food. He is co-founder of foodsharing.de, where people can share their leftover food instead of throwing them away. In 2015 together with friends he founded yunity, a multi-sharing and saving platform.
Germany	Tim	Fischer		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Chansonier	WWW
Germany	Julia	Franck		Female	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Wrote "Der neue Koch", "Bauchlandung", "Lagerfeuer", considered one of the most talented young authors in Germany. Winner of the German Book Prize 2007 (best German language novel) for her novel "Die Mittagsfrau" (Lady Midday).
Germany	Peter	Fricke		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV)	WWW
Germany	Moritz	Friess		Male	Europe	Sports	Skydiver	WWW	Speed Skydiving World Champion 2018
Germany	Jerome	Froese		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician	WWW	Officially joined his father, Edgar Froese in the band Tangerine Dream. He remained a member until 2006, currently he is working on several other projects. Prior to his direct involvement, Froese often appeared on the covers of the band's albums as a child, beginning with the 1973 release of Atem, when he was two years four months old at the time the album was released.
Germany	Christoph Maria	Fröhder		Male	Europe	Media	Journalist, foreign correspondent, crisis reporter (TV)	WWW	Only western TV journalist remaining in Cambodia following the invasion of the Khmer Rouge in 1975. Provided TV reports from Baghdad in the Gulf Wars of 1991 and 2003.
Germany	Ken	Führer		Male	Europe	Sports	Surfer	WWW	German national youth champion freestyle surfing 2002
Germany	Felix J.	Gauder		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Producer	WWW	Produced acts include "Das Modul", "The Free", "e-rotic"
Germany	Alexander	Gerber		Male	Europe	Management	Chief Executive Officer	WWW	CEO Demeter Germany and Vice-President Demeter International. Basic transdisciplinary research methodology development, initiated and designed the first German organic food chain master study programme in English language, CEO of the German organic umbrella organisation (BÖLW), CEO Demeter and Vice-president Demeter International
Germany	René	Giessen		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (harmonica player), composer and conductor	WWW	One of the world's most famous harmonica players, widely known for playing the harmonica on the title melody of famous German "Winnetou" movies. Famous as well for playing harp in Enio Morricone's "Once upon a time in the west".
Germany	Eva	Gronbach		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - design related)	Fashion designer	WWW	Winner of "T-Com inspire!award" 2004, according to German magazine "NEON" she is "amongst the 100 most influential young Germans"
Germany	Sebastian	Gronbach		Male	Europe	Healthcare	Spriritual and meditation teacher, author and tutor	WWW	Known as the modernist of Anthroposophy in Germany
Germany	Thomas	Gruber		Male	Europe	Media	Director General	WWW	Former director general of Bavarian Broadcasting (Bayerischer Rundfunk) (2002 - 2011), former director general of the Consortium of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany (ARD) (2005 - 2006)
Germany	Rolf	Gutbrod		Male	Europe	Architecture and engineering	Architect	WWW	Architect of e.g. "Liederhalle" in Stuttgart
Germany	Normen	Günzlein		Male	Europe	Sports	Surfer	WWW	2005 German Champion - Freestyle/Wave, 2005 Productionboard World Champion
Germany	Cosma Shiva	Hagen		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (TV, screen)	WWW	Her acting roles have been largely confined to German language films and television productions. She also starred in an Irish film called Short Order (2005) that was written and directed by Anthony Byrne.She is the daughter of Nina Hagen, singer
Germany	Cornelia	Hanisch		Female	Europe	Sports	Fencer	WWW	She won a gold medal in the women's team foil and a silver in the individual foil at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Germany	Sebastian	Happ		Male	Europe	Sports	Fencer	WWW	Winner of silver medal in épée fencing, youth world championship 2002
Germany	Florian	Harms		Male	Europe	Media	Chief editor	WWW	Former chief editor (2015-2016) and deputy chief editor (2011-2015) of German online news magazine "SPIEGEL online"
Germany	Raimund	Harmstorf		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	He became famous as the protagonist of a German TV mini series after Jack London's the Sea-Wolf (which was sold into many countries) and starred later on successfully in another German TV series after Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff.
Germany	Boris	Hars-Tschachotin		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director, script writer	WWW	"Sergej in der Urne" / "Sergej in the Urn", winner of multiple awards
Germany	Matthias	Hartmann		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Stage director, artistic director	WWW	Director of Vienna's Burgtheater since 2009
Germany	Max	Hattler		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Video artist and experimental film maker	WWW	Best known for his kaleidoscopic political short films “Collision” (2005) and "Spin" (2010), abstract stop motion works "Shift" (2012) and "AANAATT" (2008), and psychedelic animation loops "Sync", "1923 aka Heaven" and "1925 aka Hell" (2010).
Germany	Hellmut	Hattler		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (bass player), composer, producer	WWW	His projects included "Kraan", "Tab Two" and "Hattler". Hattler has toured and recorded with many international musicians of the genre including Michael Brecker, Kai Eckhardt, Billy Cobham, Joachim Kühn, Ernie Watts, Alphonse Mouzon, and Nippy Noya.
Germany	Ruth	Hausmeister		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	Her film credits included The Longest Day and Die Brücke. Her television credits included Der Kommissar and Stahlnetz, a detective series. Her last television role was in the 1990s ZDF television series, Zwei Brüder, in which she played the mother of actors Fritz Wepper and Elmar Wepper.
Germany	Judith	Hellebronth		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (TV)	WWW	Starred in TV-series "Fabrixx"
Germany	Karoline	Herfurth		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen)	WWW	For her part as Lilli Richter in Caroline Links film Im Winter ein Jahr, she received the Bavarian Film Award for best young actress in 2009. Herfurth gave her international debut in 2006 in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. In this adaptation of Patrick Suskind's best-selling novel Das Parfum, directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Dustin Hoffman, Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Jessica Schwarz, she played the "Plum Girl", the first victim of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. In 2008, she co-starred with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes in the Academy Award Best Picture-nominee The Reader.
Germany	Oliver	Hirschbiegel		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Film director	WWW	Directed "Der Untergang" ("Downfall", Academy Award nominee for best foreign film in 2005), "Das Experiment"
Germany	Ralf	Hütter		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (singer, kearbordist)	WWW	Lead singer, keyboardist, founding member and leader of the electronic-music band Kraftwerk. Since the departure of Florian Schneider in 2008, he is the group's sole remaining founding member.
Germany	Tobias	Jaecker		Male	Europe	Media	Journalist, author, radio editor	WWW	Journalist, author, editor of radio programmes "Der Schöne Morgen" and "Der Tag" of "Radio EINS" (Radio Berlin-Brandenburg, RBB)
Germany	Thomas	Jorberg		Male	Europe	Management	CEO	WWW	Speaker of the board of Germany's first ethical and ecological bank, GLS Bank, which is a member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values
Germany	Joerg	Jungermann		Male	Europe	Management	CEO	WWW	CEO, over 20 years of leading the first anthroposophical hospital in Germany, Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke (GKH) into healthcare landscape of Germany. University Witten/Herdecke was founded by the GKH main founding players. Born 1936, Waldorf graduate of several German schools (incl. Stuttgart, Nurnberg, Berlin), studied medicine in Berlin, lived with Quaker family in Pennsylvania, USA, on post-war Fulbright Scholarship.
Germany	Thomas	Kagermann		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (violinist, newage-jazz)	WWW
Germany	Paula	Kalenberg		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	She is probably the best known to international audiences for her roles in films Krabat, Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen and Jew Suss: Rise and Fall.
Germany	Tamina	Kallert		Female	Europe	Media	Journalist, TV presenter	WWW	Well known for her travel feature entitled "Wunderschön!"
Germany	John	Kay	Joachim Krauledat	Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer (rock), songwriter, and guitarist	WWW	Known as the frontman of Steppenwolf.
Germany	Philippe	Kayser	Don Philippe	Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (drums, guitar, piano), composer, producer	WWW	Founding member of former hip hop band "Freundeskreis" (two golden records: LP "Esperanto" and hit single "Anna")
Germany	Alexander S.	Kekulé		Male	Europe	Healthcare	Doctor, biochemist, author	WWW	Head of the Chair for Medical Microbiology and Virology of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) and director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology of the University Hospital Halle (Saale), Germany. Recipient of several awards, such as the Hans Popper Award for Basic Research der International Association for the Study of the Liver (1992)
Germany	Torsten	Kerl		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Opera Singer (Tenor)	WWW	Famous Wagner singer (Tannhäuser 2013 at Bayreuther Restspiele), MET Opera NYC, Milan Scala, Salzburger Festspiele, Semper Opera Dresden and many more. Winner of the Grammy Award 2000 and of numerous competitions.
Germany	Torsten	Kerl		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer opera Tenor Wagner	WWW	See Internet http://www.torstenkerl.com
Germany	Celia	Kim		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	TV series "Marienhof"
Germany	Werner	Kirschner		Male	Europe	Politics	Politician	WWW	Member of the Parliament of the German State of Lower Saxony between 1972 and 1994, representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Deputy Head of the SPD State Parliament Fraction between 1978 and 1983.
Germany	Maximilian	Knabe	HandOfBlood	Male	Europe	Media	YouTuber	WWW	Winner of the Web Video Award 2016, Comedian, video artist, with over 1 million subscribers on YouTube.
Germany	Imogen	Kogge		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	Known for her part as "Hauptkommissarin Johanna Herz" in German tv series "Polizeiruf 110"
Germany	Ekkehard	Kohlhaas		Male	Europe	Legal	Federal Public Prosecutor General	WWW	Former Federal Public Prosecutor General at the German Federal Surpreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) (retired)
Germany	Thomas	Koschwitz		Male	Europe	Media	Radio and TV entertainer	WWW
Germany	Lenard Fritz	Krawinkel		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Film director	WWW	Directed and produced first German animated movie "Back to Gaya"
Germany	Stefan	Krohmer		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Film director	WWW	Awards include Adolf Grimme Award in Gold 2002 and 2004.
Germany	Carl Georg	Kuechler		Male	Europe	Sports	Ice hockey player	WWW	German national ice hockey team player 1988, 1989 (for 2 world championships), Australian inline hockey national team coach 1997 & 1998 (for 1 world championship), Singapore inline hockey national team coach men & women 2002, 2003, 2004 (for 2 world championships)
Germany	Kevin	Kuhn		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Novelist	WWW	Kevin Kuhn (born in Göttingen, 1981) lives in Berlin. He studied Philosophy, Art History and Religious Studies (University of Tübingen) and since 2010 has been lecturing creative writing at the Literaturinstitut (University of Hildesheim. Recent awards include the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg Scholarship (2018) and the Niedersachsen Scholarship (2015). He was also voted on the List "20 unter 40" (FAS).
Germany	Peter	Kulitz		Male	Europe	Management	President	WWW	President of the Chamber of Commerce Ulm, president of the Association of Chamber of Commerce of the German State of Baden-Württemberg.
Germany	Alexander	Kulitz		Male	Europe	Politics	Politician	WWW	Politician, lawyer, Member of German Parliament (since 2007)
Germany	Juliane	Köhler		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (Theatre, TV, screen)	WWW	She has starred in the 1999 film Aimée & Jaguar (as Lilly Wust, or Aimée), the 2001 film Nowhere in Africa (as Jettel Redlich), the 2004 film Downfall (as Eva Braun) and played the role of Christina in Eden Is West (2009).
Germany	Elmar	Lampson		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Composer	WWW	He wrote two symphonies, solo- and chamber music, music for choir and an opera. His music is published by Peermusic Hamburg, New York and is available on various CDs, published by col legno, Vienna. President of the University of Music and Drama Hamburg. Head of the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken-Chair for Phenomenology of Music at the University Witten/Herdecke. Worked as Dean of the Faculty of General Studies of the Witten/Herdecke University.
Germany	Heiner	Lauterbach		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen, TV)	WWW	Starred in "Das Experiment" ("The Experiment") and "Männer". Heiner Lauterbach is the dubbed German voice for several American actors. Among others he has dubbed Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson and Christopher Reeve.
Germany	Hans-Peter	Lehmann		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director (theater)	WWW	Former director of State Opera at Hannover (Staatsoper Hannover, 1981 - 2001), also stageing at the Operas of Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Basel, Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, Chicago, Venice and Zurich. Son of Kurt Lehmann, sculptor.
Germany	Johanna	Liebeneiner		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (stage, TV)	WWW	She is daughter of director Wolfgang Liebeneiner and actress Hilde Krahl
Germany	Knut	Loewe		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Production designer	WWW	Production designer for "The Wave" / "Die Welle", "Cold is the Evening Breeze" / "Kalt ist der Abendhauch"
Germany	Stephan	Luca		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen, TV)	WWW
Germany	Vinzenz	Lüps		Male	Europe	Sports	Snowboarder	WWW	Ranked 2nd at Nippon Open 2004, Winner European Open HP 2003, Winner Kaunertaler Opening Slopestyle 2002, Winner FIS Weltcup Stoneham/Canada HP 2002.
Germany	Martin	Lüttge		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor, director	WWW	First husband of Gila von Weitershausen.
Germany	Tomas	Maier		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - design related)	Fashion designer	WWW	Creative Director at the Italian luxury lifestyle brand Bottega Veneta, which is part of the Luxury Division of PPR. Tomas Maier joined Bottega Veneta as Creative Director in June 2001. In the years since, he has established Bottega Veneta as one of the world’s top luxury goods houses.
Germany	Michael	Marks	Micha Marx	Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Comedian, cartoonist	WWW	Winner of several awards as solo touring comedian. In his capacity of cartoonist he invented the #Quarantierchen during the global pandemic.
Germany	Rebecca	Martin		Female	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Novels: "Frühling und so", "Und alle so yeah!"
Germany	Felix	Martin Poenichen		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor, singer, musical performer	WWW	Felix Martin could be seen as a soloist at various musical and gala concerts, including Musical on Ice , Summer Night of the Musical , Elisabeth - The 10th Anniversary Concert in the Wiener Konzerthaus and Best of Musical 2004 in the Kölnarena .
Germany	Thomas	Mauch		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Cinematographer, screenplay writer, film director and producer	WWW	Has had numerous collaborations with director Werner Herzog. His career spans fifty years working in both film and TV, predominantly in Germany. Awarded with the German Film Award in 1973, 1979 and 1989.
Germany	Annette	Mayer		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, singer	WWW
Germany	Marian	Meder		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV, film, stage)	WWW	Studied at Freiburger Schauspielschule im E-Werk, 2005/2006 Theater 58 in Zurich, many main and supporting roles in TV films (Der Bibelcode, die Päpstin, Groupies bleiben nicht zum Frühstück, Tatort) and TV series (Auf Herz und Nieren).
Germany	Gabriel	Merz		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Starred in "SOKO Leipzig".
Germany	Janosch	Moldau		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (electronic pop)	WWW
Germany	Antoine	Monot, Jr.		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor, producer	WWW	In addition to his activities as an actor in German films (Jazz (1994), Gigantics (1999), Lammbock (2001), The Experiment (2001), The Family Jewels (2003), Monot, Jr founded, together with Karl Spoerri in 1999, the Creative Arts Management Talent Agency based in Zurich, later in Munich and then Cologne.
Germany	Ricarda	Multerer		Female	Europe	Sports	Epee fencer	WWW	Four time German champion in epee fencing. Winner of silver medal at the 2010 world championships in Paris as a member of the German equipe.
Germany	Wotan Wilke	Möhring		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen, TV)	WWW	Starred in "Das Experiment" ("The Experiment"), and "Lammbock". Winner of several awards, such as Grimme Award in 2013.
Germany	Nils	Mönkemeyer		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (violist)	WWW	Widely-known violist. Winner of several awards. Appointed Professor for viola at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden in 2009.
Germany	Julia	Nachtmann		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	Julia Nachtmann was born in 1981 in Filderstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die Kirche bleibt im Dorf (2012), Täterätää - Die Kirche bleibt im Dorf 2 (2015) and Remarque - Sein Weg zum Ruhm (2008).
Germany	Frieder	Nögge		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Clown, humorist	WWW
Germany	Jimi Blue	Ochsenknecht		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen), singer	WWW	Screen actor ("Die Wilden Kerle" 1-4), winner of "Undine Award" (2004) for "best film debutant" (together with his brother), son of Uwe Ochsenknecht, screen actor and singer.
Germany	Wilson Gonzalez	Ochsenknecht		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen), singer	WWW	Screen actor ("Die Wilden Kerle" 1-4), winner of "Undine Award" (2004) for "best film debutant" (together with his brother), son of Uwe Ochsenknecht, screen actor and singer.
Germany	Nikolaus	Okonkwo		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Appearances on German TV productions, such as "Großstadtrevier", SOKO Rhein-Main. After finishing school he first studied Waldorf education and eurythmy.
Germany	Svenja	Parotat		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Model	WWW	Photo spreads in us edition of "Cosmopolitan" magazine and German edition of "GQ" magazine.
Germany	Hannes	Peckolt		Male	Europe	Sports	Sailor	WWW	He won a bronze medal in 49er class at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Germany	Ferdinand Alexander	Porsche		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - design related)	Designer	WWW	Designer of Porsche 911 and Porsche 904
Germany	Wolfgang	Porsche		Male	Europe	Management	Speaker of Supervisory Board	WWW	Speaker of the Supervisory Board of German sports vehicles manufacturer Porsche AG and of Porsche Automobil Holding SE.
Germany	Viola	Priesemann		Female	Europe	Life, physical, and social sciences	Physicist	WWW	In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Priesemann researched the spread and containment strategies of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and also increasingly appeared in public.
Germany	Tim	Pritlove		Male	Europe	Media	Event manager, media artist and podcaster	WWW	At the beginning of the 1990s Pritlove belonged to the developers of the first interactive, telephone based communication platform Die Villa. He is coordinator and co-developer of the Project Blinkenlights. In the last years he was a scientific assistant in the Institut für zeitbasierte Medien at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1996 he founded the first T-shirt label of the hacker culture named interhemd modebewusstseinserweiterung.
Germany	Peter Lutz	Prokosch		Male	Europe	Life, physical, and social sciences	Marine Biologist	WWW	Marine Biologist, former Chief Executive Officer, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Germany (2002 - 2006); Managing Director of GRID-Arendal, a centre collaborating with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Germany	Stephan	Puchner		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author, script-writer, film director	WWW
Germany	Ole	Puppe		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW
Germany	Karl Otto	Pöhl		Male	Europe	Management	President	WWW	Former President of German Federal Bank (1980 to 1991).
Germany	Christian	Quadflieg		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV), director	WWW	He had roles in a great number of TV series and movies, among them e.g. in Der Alte, Derrick, Das Traumschiff, Siska and Tatort. In the 40 episodes of Der Landarzt, he portrayed the title role of Dr. Karsten Matthiesen and in 16 of these episodes he also worked as director. His father was the German actor Will Quadflieg.
Germany	Sigurd Manfred	Raschèr	Pioneer of the classical saxophone	Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Saxophonist (classical)	WWW	Worldwide concertizing classical saxophonist - wrote the most famous method book "Top Tones" and many others - Prof. of saxophone: Copenhagen, Malmö, Julliard, Manhatten and Eastman School of Music. Played with most of the major orchestras of Europe, USA, Australia etc.as soloist with famous conductors: Boston Philharmonic - with Serge Koueivitzki; New York Philharmonic with John Barbirolli, Leonard Bernstein; Berlin Philharmonic with Hermann Scherchen, Furthwängler etc. Over 200 works were written for him, for example by Glazounov, Ibert, Hindemith, Martin, Haba, Larsson etc.
Germany	Christian	Redl		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor and musician	WWW	As an actor, Christian Redl has been seen in movies such as "Schattenboxer", released in 1992 as Rasselin, "Gangster"(2002) playing Duvall, "Bunte Hunde"(1995), "Sierra Leone"(1987), "Krabat"(2008), and "Irrlichter"(1998).
Germany	Götz E.	Rehn		Male	Europe	Management	Managing Director	WWW	Founder and managing director of "Alnatura Gmbh": organic food supermarket chain (77 branches), organic food items distributed under the "Alnatura" brand, natural textiles distributed under the "Cotton People Organic" brand. Götz E. Rehn is holder of the German "Entrepreneur of the Year 2005"-Award, category "Trade", awarded by "Ernst & Young" and "Manager Magazin".
Germany	Prof. Dr. Ulrich	Reinhardt		Male	Europe	Life, physical, and social science	Futurologist	WWW	One of the most famous German Futurologists. Adviser to several politicians, author of books, professor. He is a scientist who has always been putting the people in the focus of his research. Instead of doing research on "how are we GOING TO live in the future?", he focuses on the question: "how do we WANT to live in the future?".
Germany	Jan-Michael	Richter	Jamiri	Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Comic painter	WWW	He is one of the most recognized comics artists in Germany. Jamiri has published nine comic collections since 1990. He has published one- and two-page comics in German magazines since 1992. Today, he has more than one million readers monthly.
Germany	Moritz	Rinke		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Moritz Rinke (born in 1967 in Worpswede) studied at Gießen University’s drama department and worked as a journalist in the following years. In 1995 and 1997 he was given the prestigious Axel Springer Award for his reportages. Several of his plays have been nominated for the Mülheim Dramatists’ Award, including Der Mann, der noch keiner Frau Blöße entdeckte (The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman’s Nakedness 1997), which also won the Liechtenstein PEN Club Literature Award, Republik Vineta (The Vineta Republic) (2001), Die Optimisten (2004), Café Umberto (2006) and Wir lieben und wissen nichts (2013), which became to one of the most performed plays of the last years. In the critics’ poll of the journal Theater heute,Republik Vineta was also voted the best German-language play in the season 2000/2001. Rinke co-wrote the film script for September which premiered in Cannes in 2003 (directed by Max Färberböck) which tied in with his acting debut. His new play Westend is currently on stage of Deutsches Theater Berlin. His books include Der Blauwal im Kirschgarten (Rowohlt Berlin, 2001), Die Nibelungen (Rowohlt 2002), Trilogie der Verlorenen (Rowohlt 2002), Das große Stolpern (Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2005), Café Umberto (Rowohlt 2005), Die Nibelungen - Siegfrieds Frauen / Die letzten Tage von Burgund (Rowohlt 2007), and his best-selling novel Der Mann der durch das Jahrhundert fiel (Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2010)
Germany	Michael	Rogowski		Male	Europe	Management	President	WWW	Former President of the Federal Association of the German Industry "BDI" (2001 - 2004)
Germany	Ulrich	Rotermund		Male	Europe	Management	Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board	WWW	Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Beate Uhse AG, Europe's largest company group specialized in erotic business, son of Beate Uhse, founder
Germany	David	Rott		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Winner of Max-Ophüls-Award 2003 as "Best Young Actor" for his part in "Ganz und gar"
Germany	Esther	Saoub		Female	Europe	Media	Journalist	WWW	Esther has extensive working experience gathered as a journalist in several countries of the Middle East, including Syria, Egypt, Libya, the Palestinian Territories, Saudi-Arabia, Yemen and Sudan. In particular, she has covered the "Arab Spring" and the ousting of Mubarak in Cairo for the German SWR tv station (member of the ARD consortium of public broadcasters in Germany) and also reported from other places in the Middle East, including Gaza.In 2012, she was nominated for the Reemtsma Liberty Award.
Germany	Otto	Scharmer		Male	Europe	Education	Management Professor	WWW	Senior Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),a Thousand Talents Program Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing,and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. Scharmer is author of the change management method and book "Theory U".
Germany	Konrad	Schily		Male	Europe	Politics	Member of Parliament	WWW	Member of German Federal Parliament, founder and former President of University Witten-Herdecke (brother of former German Minister of the Interior [1998 - 2005] and President by Seniority of German Federal Parliament, Otto Schily). He is a neurologist and co-founder of the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany's first private university that opened in 1982. He was the university's president from 1982 to 1999 and from 2002 to 2004.
Germany	Andreas	Schleicher		Male	Europe	Education	Statistician, Researcher	WWW	Statistician and researcher in the field of education. He is the Division Head and coordinator of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the OECD Indicators of Education Systems programme (INES).
Germany	Karl Matthäus	Schmidt		Male	Europe	Management	CEO	WWW	CEO of Quirin Bank since 2006. Founder of CONSORS discount brokerage bank. Was awarded the "National Leadership Award" by Economic Forum Deutschland in 2006
Germany	Jörg	Schmidt-Reitwein		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Cinematographer, screenplay writer, film director and producer	WWW	He has collaborated with director Werner Herzog on a number of projects. Among his many collaborations with other directors, Schmidt-Reitwein is notable for his cinematographic achievement in shooting Alan Greenberg's acclaimed 1982 documentary about Jamaica and death of Bob Marley, Land of Look Behind.
Germany	Katharina Marie	Schubert		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Stage and screen actress, director.	WWW	She is considered as one of the most asked for German theater actresses.
Germany	Jochen	Schweizer		Male	Europe	Sports	Stuntman, entrepreneur	WWW	He has set world records for bungee jumping and falling stunts. On September 19, 1997 Schweizer set a new world record for the longest bungee jump by jumping from 2500m with a 285m long rope. He founded a company selling adventure events, such as parachuting, bungee jumping.
Germany	Helmut	Sembdner		Male	Europe	Life, physical, and social science	Editor, literary scholar, teacher	WWW	He is considered as an important researcher of the life and work of the German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer Heinrich von Kleist
Germany	Martin	Semmelrogge		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Best known for his role as the comical 2WO (1st Lieutenant/Second Watch Officer) in the film Das Boot. Like many of his Das Boot co-stars, Semmelrogge went on to have a successful career in the German cinema.
Germany	Pablo	Sprungala		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	TV series "SOKO Leipzig"
Germany	Lilith	Stangenberg		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	While she did not enjoy a professional actor's training, she was chosen as "Young Actress of the Year 2010" by "Theater Heute", biggest and most influential German-language theatre magazine.
Germany	Katharina	Staudacher		Female	Europe	Management	Entrepreneur and Managing Director	WWW	Founder and managing director of foodloose GmbH & Co. KG, German manucfacturer of organic cereal bars. Founded in 2010, the start-up company was approaching revenues of € 1 mn end of 2014. Produced cereal bars are vegan and free of aditives, lactose and gluten.
Germany	Dietz-Werner	Steck		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	"Tatort", part of Komissar Bienzle.
Germany	Jette	Steckel		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director (stage)	WWW	Winner of several awards, such as "talented young director of the year"2007 awarded by the leading german theater magazine "Theater heute" and Rolf-Mares-Prize 2011 for staging "Don Carlos" at Thalia Theater Hamburg.
Germany	Joern G.	Stegen		Male	Europe	Politics	Diplomat	WWW	Diplomat (retired), working with the Council of Europe for 38 years, covering various functions, including Director of the Private Office of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, and Head of the Table Office and of the Interparliamentary Relations Directorate of the Parliamentary Assembly with emphasis in the democratisation process of Central and Eastern European parliaments.
Germany	Erasmus	Stein		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Magician, comedian	WWW	Member and multiple prize winner of the "Magical Circle of Germany". Appears in TV shows, such as the "Comedy-Lab" produced for ZDFneo TV station. He is chief editor of the magazine "Magie" ("Magic").
Germany	Peter	Striebeck		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW
Germany	Tankred	Stöbe		Male	Europe	Management	President of the Board of Directors of German branch of "Médecins Sans Frontières" ("Doctors without borders")	WWW	Dr Tankred Stöbe is a specialist in internal medicine and currently works in an intensive care unit and in emergency medicine in a Berlin hospital. His first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières took him to Thailand/Myanmar in 2002, followed by missions to Liberia, Indonesia, Palestine, South Sudan and Somalia, amongst others. In 2004, he joined the Médecins Sans Frontières Germany Board of Directors and was elected president in 2007.
Germany	Sonja	Sutter		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (film)	WWW	She was one of the few actors that was allowed to appear in productions in both East and West Germany. She is remembered for her role as Fraulein Rottenmeier in the German TV series Heidi from 1978. This series aired in many countries in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s, and was dubbed into several languages. She is also remembered for having several roles in the TV series Derrick from 1983 to 1998.
Germany	Nina	Tenge	Nina MC	Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Rap artist, actress	WWW	Mostly known for her participation in the "Deichkind" hit single "Bon Voyage" in 2000
Germany	Gotthardin	Thylmann	Goan Thylmann	Male	Europe	Arts (visual - design related)	Designer	WWW	Chief Designer BOGNER Sport
Germany	Axel	Toby		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Magician, comedian	WWW	2005 German National Champion in the "General Magic" category, 2004 South German Champion in Magic.
Germany	Meriem Sahra	Userli	Meryem Sarah Uzerli	Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	Her best known part is as Hürrem Sultan in the historical Television drama series Muhte?em Yüzy?l. She won the "Best Actress" Golden Butterfly award for this part in 2012.
Germany	Barbara	Valentin		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	She worked in film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Germany	Tita	von Hardenberg		Female	Europe	Media	TV presenter	WWW	ARD TV station: "Polylux", "Das Letzte im Ersten"
Germany	Veruschka	von Lehndorff	Veruschka	Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, artist, model	WWW	She was popular during the 1960s. Known professionally as Veruschka, she is a daughter of Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, a member of the German resistance. For some time she was with the Stewart Modeling Agency at 405 Park Avenue in New York City where she reigned as the girl with the most covers on the wall when you walked in. She had also garnered attention when she made a brief five minute appearance in the 1966 cult film Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni.
Germany	Wolfgang Reichsgraf Alexander Berghe	von Trips	Taffy	Male	Europe	Sports	Racing driver	WWW	Germany's first Grand Prix winner (1961) since Hermann Lang.
Germany	Gila	von Weitershausen		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	Gila von Weitershausen became popular in the late 1960s when she appeared in German comedy films, for example alongside Uschi Glas. By common consent one of her best performances so far has been in Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceit) (1981), a film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, where she played opposite Hanna Schygulla and Bruno Ganz.
Germany	Hans-Jochen	Wagner		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV, stage)	WWW	Ensemble member at the famous Vienna Burgtheater from 1997-1999.
Germany	Theresia	Walser		Female	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author, actress	WWW	Daughter of Martin Walser ("Runaway Horse"), writer.
Germany	Elmar	Weingarten		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Sociologist, music manager	WWW	Artistic Director of the RSO Berlin, Berlin philharmonics, Ensemble Modern and Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, now artistic Director of the Festspiele Zürich.
Germany	Samuel	Weiss		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (stage)	WWW
Germany	Ina	Weisse		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, film director	WWW	Directed "Der Architekt"
Germany	Donata	Wenders		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Photographer	WWW
Germany	Inigo	Westmeier		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Cinematographer	WWW	Specialized on documentaries (e.g. "Alone in four walls", winner of Max Ophüls Prize 2008 as "Best Documentary").
Germany	Sarah	Wiener		Female	Europe	Food preparation and serving related	TV chef, author	WWW
Germany	Kai	Wiesinger		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	He received a Bavarian Film Award for his role in Sönke Wortmann's Kleine Haie in 1992.
Germany	Wolfgang	Windgassen		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer (Wagner tenor)	WWW	Windgassen sang at all the important opera houses all over the world. He was invited to perform at the reopening of the Bayreuth Festival in 1951 and continued to appear there till 1970, singing all the great Wagner tenor roles.
Germany	Jutta	Winkelmann		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director, author	WWW
Germany	Klaus	Wunder		Male	Europe	Sports	Footballer	WWW	He played for FC Bayern Munich and was part of their European Cup victory in 1975. He earned one cap for the Germany national football team and also represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Germany	Peter	Würtenberger		Male	Europe	Management	CEO	WWW	Former CEO of Yahoo! Germany and Bild / T-Online AG
Germany	Katrin	Zagrosek		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musicologist, cultural scientist, dramatic advisor	WWW	She has been appointed the artistic director of the "Niedersächsische Musiktage" as of 2012. Since 2008, she has been working as executive producer of "Wien Modern", Austria's biggest festival for contemporary music. Daughter of Lothar Zagrosek, conductor.
Germany	Florian	Zech		Male	Europe	Sports	Managing Director, Entrepreneur	WWW	Joint-Managing Director of AMANDLA EduFootball. Florian Zech co-founded AMANDLA when he was 20 years old. Since then he is the driving force behind the development and implementation of the organisation and programmes. The aim of all of AMANDLA's activities is to tackle social inequality through the innovative fusion of education and football. Using the power of football AMANDLA creates safe-hubs of development and learning for disadvantaged young people in South Africa. The organisation’s holistic football-based programme model stimulates and encourages young people to strive for a better future. The strong moral concept underpinning all AMANDLA programmes reinforces universal values and norms, often lacking in destabilised and non-existent family structures. In 2012, AMANDLA EduFootball was awarded the "Beyond Sport Award" for the best project worldwide in the category "Sport for Conflict Resolution".
Germany	Nadja	Zwanziger		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (tv)	WWW	She has been having appearances on German TV. For example in "Tatort".
Germany / USA	Thomas C.	Südhof		Male	Europe	Healthcare	Biochemist	WWW	Thomas C.Südhof is the co-awardee of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with James Rothman and Randy Schekman) for work on vesicle trafficking. He is well known for his study of synaptic transmission. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Medicine and of Neurology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Iran	Bahman	Nirumand		Male	Asia	Media	Journalist, author	WWW	His book Persien, Modell eines Entwicklungslandes oder Die Diktatur der Freien Welt ("Persia, a model of a developing nation or the dictatorship of the Free World") was published in January 1967 (translated as Iran, The New Imperialism in Action) had a large influence upon the internationalism of the May 1986 student uprising.
Italy	Olaf Roberto	Bossi		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer, songwriter, stand-up-comedian, producer	WWW	Founded his first band in Waldorf school. Stage and tv appearances as singer-songwriter/comedian. Winner of several awards, incl. 2 golden records as producer, nominated for an Echo award.
Italy / Germany	Lorenzo	Patanè		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV)	WWW	"Robert Saalfeld" in TV series "Sturm der Liebe"
Japan	Fumi	Koyasu	Foomy	Female	Asia	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (bass player), writer	WWW
Japan	Takumi	Saitoh		Male	Asia	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	In 2016 he has appeared in several movies, including the box-office hit “Shin Godzilla,” which is set for an overseas release on Oct. 11. He also plays older brother to two members of Exile in that group’s acting vehicle “High & Low: The Red Rain,” which will allow him to make use of that smoldering gaze he has perfected over the years.
Laos / USA	Bryan	Thao Worra		Male	Asia	Arts (literary)	Poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist.	WWW	Bryan Thao Worra holds over 20 awards for his writing and community service. The author of 6 books, he is a professional member of the Horror Writer Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He holds a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. He represented Laos as a Cultural Olympian during the London Summer Games. His work appears in over 100 international publications around the world including Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, France, Singapore, China, Korea, Chile, Pakistan, as well as across the United States.
Netherlands	Jerome	Bech		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Painter, object artist	WWW	Known for colourful paintings and objects, sometimes signed with humorous textual remarks.
Netherlands	Tijl	Beckand		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - other)	Comedian	WWW	Well known Dutch comedian from the television programme the Lama's, a group of 4 improvising comedians.
Netherlands	Annelotte	de Graaf	Amber Arcades	Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	Her output attracted the attention of Heavenly Recordings, which released her debut full-length album, Fading Lines, in June 2016.
Netherlands	Karel	de Rooy		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Kabaret artist	WWW	"Mini" of the Dutch music-comedy-duo "Mini & Maxi"
Netherlands	Theodora	Geraets		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (violinist), professor	WWW	Violinist and Professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. First Price Winner De Nederlandse Muziekprijs voor viool (1989)
Netherlands	Rutger	Hauer		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen)	WWW	Performed in "Batman Begins", "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"
Netherlands	Nadja	Hüpscher		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen)	WWW	1999: Gouden Kalf award for best Actress
Netherlands	Jesse	Klaver		Male	Europe	Politics	Politician	WWW	GreenLeft politician. Since 2010 he is a member of the House of Representatives. Before that he was chair of the youth union of the Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond. Klaver got international attention for opposing tax evasion.
Netherlands	Rein	Putkamer		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - other)	Ballet dancer at the Scapino Ballet Company, Rotterdam	WWW	Ballet dancer at the Scapino Ballet Company, Rotterdam. Professional Training: HAVO voor Muziek and Dans, Rotterdamse Dansacademie. Danced with: Galili Dance. Now with the famous Scapino Ballet.
Netherlands	Nicolien	Sauerbreij		Female	Europe	Sports	Snowboarder	WWW	She won seven World Cup races and ranked first in the parallel giant slalom standings of the 2007–2008 and the 2009–2010 World Cup. She competed in the Winter Olympic Games of 2002, 2006 and won the gold medal in the women's parallel giant slalom in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Netherlands	Carry	Tefsen			Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW
Netherlands	Thomas	van Linge		Male	Europe	Politics	Cartographer	WWW	One of the foremost cartographers of the Islamic State conflict
Netherlands	Robin	van Persie		Male	Europe	Sports	Footballer	WWW	Plays as a striker for Manchester United and the Dutch national team.
Netherlands	Joris	Voorn		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	DJ and producer	WWW	DJ and producer who resides in Amsterdam. Voorn is the co-owner of the Amsterdam-based labels Rejected (with Edwin Oosterwal) and Green.
Netherlands	Filemon	Wesselink		Male	Europe	Media	TV presenter	WWW	Known for his open-minded handling of controverse topics, such as drugs and sex. Deemed to be one of the most popular and credible presenters of the Netherlands.
Netherlands	Tommy	Wieringa		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Writer	WWW	He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboot (2005), and the Libris Prize in 2013 for the novel Dit zijn de namen (2012). In 2018 he won the Bookspot Literatuurprijs for his novel De heilige Rita (The Blessed Rita).[2] His novel The Death of Murat Idrissi, translated by Sam Garrett from Dutch, was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2019.
Netherlands / Germany	Sven	Ratzke		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Entertainer and chansonier	WWW	Sven Ratzke mixes Berlin cabaret of the 20s with bizarre improvisation talent and pop style.
New Zealand	Mahé	Drysdale		Male	Oceania	Sports	Rower	WWW	Olympic gold medals, Single Sculls, London, Rio de Janeiro. Olympic bronze medal, Single sculls, Beijing. World Champion, Single Sculls, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011
New Zealand	Georgina	Earl	formerly Georgina Evers-Swindell	Female	Oceania	Sports	Rower	WWW	In 2001 she won silver at the World Championships in both the double and quadruple sculls. Together with her identical twin sister, Caroline Evers-Swindell, she won gold at both the 2002 and 2003 Rowing World Championships in the double sculls. She also won, again with her sister, the 2004 Olympic gold medal. In 2002, she broke the indoor 2000 m rowing world record, recording a time of 6m 28.5s beating the previous record by 2.1s. In November 2005 she and her sister were named Rowing Female Crew of the Year by the International Rowing Federation (FISA).
New Zealand	Caroline	Meyer	formerly Caroline Evers-Swindell	Female	Oceania	Sports	Rower	WWW	In 2001 she won silver at the World Championships in both the double and quadruple sculls. Together with her identical twin sister, Georgina Evers-Swindell, she won gold at both the 2002 and 2003 Rowing World Championships in the double sculls. She also won, again with her sister, the 2004 Olympic gold medal. In November 2005 she and her sister were named Rowing Female Crew of the Year by the International Rowing Federation (FISA).
New Zealand	Anna	Paquin		Female	Oceania	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen, TV)	WWW	Academy Award for Best Supporting actress in "The Piano" (1994). She later appeared in a number of successful films, including Fly Away Home, She's All That, Almost Famous and the X-Men franchise. Paquin is well known for her role as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 2008.
Norway	Jon	Almaas		Male	Europe	Media	TV host, author	WWW	Best known from the weekly humour program Nytt på nytt, where he has been since the start in 1999
Norway	Peder	Anker		Male	Europe	Life, physical, and social science	Historian of environmental sciences	WWW	He is specializing in the history of ecology and ecological architecture and design. Anker has received research fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Dibner Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and been a visiting scholar at both Columbia University and University of Oslo.
Norway	Ari	Behn		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	He has written three novels, two collections of short stories and a book about his wedding. Husband of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.
Norway	Julian	Berntzen		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	Won the Norwegian music award "Spellemannprisen" in 2003 as the best new artist/upcoming artist that year.
Norway	Ketil	Bjørnstad		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (pianist), composer, author	WWW	Initially trained as a classical pianist, he discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz". He is an artist on the ECM record label, but has also published some 20 books (predominantly novels) and a number of poetry and essay collections.
Norway	Nicolai Cleve	Broch		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (TV, stage)	WWW	As the lead in the TV series Lekestue shown on NRK2, Nicolai was nominated for the Best Male Actor award. He was also named This Year's Theatre Talent in 2001 by the national Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.
Norway	Eindride	Eidsvold		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (TV, screen)	WWW
Norway	Gard B.	Eidsvold		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Eindride Eidsvold's films include Vegas, Sophie's World, Hamsun, and Twice Upon a Time.
Norway	Erik	Fosnes Hansen		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	International best sellers: "Psalm at Journey's End", "Tales of Protection". Fosnes Hansen was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1990
Norway	Morten Hagland	Hansen		Male	Europe	Management	Vice President	WWW	Vice President responsible for Business Services at RigNet, provider of managed communications and other network-based services for the upstream oil and gas industry. Mr. Hansen is responsible for the sales, engineering, operations, products/solutions and marketing functions. He is seen as a leader within the remote communications industry for the energy sector.
Norway	Kjersti	Holmen			Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	Won Norwegian Amanda - the main Norwegian film award - for Best Actress in "S.O.S." in 2000
Norway	Kristoffer	Joner		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen)	WWW	Won Norwegian Amanda - the main Norwegian film award - for Best Actor in 2005, and Golden Swan at Copenhagen International Film Festival for Best Actor in 2002
Norway	Angelina	Jordan		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer	WWW	Norwegian child singer whose audition for the 2014 season of Norway's Got Talent at the age of seven, singing "Gloomy Sunday" in the style of Billie Holiday, became a viral video online, and led to worldwide press coverage. She went on to win the competition (at eight) with her performance of George Gershwin's "Summertime". Since then she has worked to raise millions of dollars on behalf of environmental causes and children's charities around the world.
Norway	Henning	Kraggerud		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (violinist)	WWW	He has established himself as one of Scandinavia's most outstanding international soloists. A recipient of Norway's prestigious Grieg Prize, Bergen International Festival has appointed him its Artist-Residence 2004.
Norway	Lars	Lillo-Stenberg		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (rock)	WWW	He is the man behind the Norwegian band deLillos, but he also played in The Last James and still plays in the band Young Neils.
Norway	Odd	Nerdrum		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Painter	WWW	Internationally acclaimed painter and anti-modernist cult figure
Norway	Kaja	Norum		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Painter (figurativist), model	WWW	A former student and protégé of painter Odd Nerdrum, Norum is devoted to Nerdrums philosophy of Kitsch painting, and is a part of The Kitsch Movement spawned by Nerdrum. After the latter relocated to France in 2011, Norum is the primary caretaker of his gallery and his estate.
Norway	Kristen	Nygaard		Male	Europe	Computer and mathematics	Computer scientist, programming language pioneer, politician	WWW	Internationally he is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s.
Norway	Janove	Ottesen		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (guitarist, barrels player), singer	WWW	He specializes in vocals, guitar and barrels, and is a leading member of the Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra.
Norway	Marcus	Paus		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Composer	WWW	One of the most performed Norwegian composers of his generation. He is noted as a representative of a reorientation toward tradition, tonality and melody, and his works have been lauded by critics in Norway and abroad. Son of Ole Paus, Norwegian singer, author and poet.
Norway	Vebjørn	Sand		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Painter, artist	WWW	He is known for his paintings as well as his public arts projects, such as the Da Vinci Project, and the Kepler star monument (Norwegian Peace Star) at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen.
Norway	Jørgen	Sandvik		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (guitarist, sitar player, banjo player)	WWW	Member of Norwegian pop/rock band "Real Ones". Their band received the 2008 Spellemannprisen for Best Pop Album for "All for the Neighbourhood".
Norway	Njål	Sparbo		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer (bass-baritone)	WWW	One of Norway's most active and versatile classical singers. In 2009, Sparbo received the Grieg Award, which is awarded annually by the Edvard Grieg museum Troldhaugen.
Norway	Jens	Stoltenberg		Male	Europe	Politics	Secretary General of NATO	WWW	13th Secretary General of NATO (since 2014). Former Prime Minister of Norway (2000 - 2001, and 2005-2013), leader of the Norwegian Labour Party since 2002
Norway	Pia	Tjelta		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	In February 2007 she received much media coverage for her lead role in the Norwegian romantic comedy Mars og Venus. The film was described as the year's big feelgood film.
Norway	Linn	Ullmann		Female	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author, journalist	WWW	A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published four novels. Daughter of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman.
Norway	David	Vogt		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (violinist, keyboarder), singer (pop/rock)	WWW	Singer of Norwegian pop/rock band "Real Ones". Their band received the 2008 Spellemannprisen for Best Pop Album for "All for the Neighbourhood".
Norway	Ivar	Vogt		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (guitarist, keyboarder)	WWW	Member of Norwegian pop/rock band "Real Ones". Their band received the 2008 Spellemannprisen for Best Pop Album for "All for the Neighbourhood".
Norway	Anneke	von der Lippe		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	She has won the Amanda – the main Norwegian film award – for best actress twice: for Krigerens hjerte in 1992, and for Over stork og stein and Pan in 1995. She was named one of European films "Shooting Stars" by European Film Promotion in 1998. In 2005, she was, as the first Norwegian actor ever, nominated for an International Emmy Award for her role in the TV-drama Ved kongens bord.
Norway	Nicolaus	Widerberg		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Sculptor and painter	WWW
Norway / Finland	Akseli	Kokkonen		Male	Europe	Sports	Ski-jumper	WWW	Member of Norwegian national team.
Poland	Marek	Janowski		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Conductor	WWW	Chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR).
Romania	Ioana	Ciolacu		Female	Europe	Design	Fashion designer	WWW	She is known for receiving the Designer for Tomorrow Awards from Stella McCartney and for founding her own Ioana Ciolacu label.
South Africa	Shelley	Davidow		Female	Africa	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Author of numerous books for children and young adults. Her young adult book "In the Shadow of Inyangani" was nominated for the first African Writer's Prize by Macmillan/Picador and BBC World.She now lives in Florida, USA.
South Africa	Josie	Field		Female	Africa	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	Young upcoming singer songwriter, released her first CD "Mercury" in 2007 which brought her two no.1 radio hitsingles in South Africa.
South Africa	Greg	Hamerton		Male	Africa	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Fantasy novelist and extreme sports writer
South Africa	Nik	Rabinowitz		Male	Africa	Arts (performing - acting)	Comedian, actor, author	WWW	Over the past ten years Nik has established himself as one of the premier comics of South Africa, well known for his multilingual satire and passion for goats. He has produced and performed seven one man shows, presents "The Week that Wasnt" on Talk Radio 702 / Cape Talk, and plays a legion of characters for ZA News.
South Africa / Australia	Mark	Vos	pokerbok	Male	Africa	Sports	Poker player	WWW	Claimed to be one of the world's top online poker players. As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,200,000. His 9 cashes at the WSOP account for $977,728 of those winnings.
Sweden	Andreas	Carlgren		Male	Europe	Politics	Minister	WWW	Swedish Centre Party politician, former Minister for the Environment, Ministry of the Environment
Sweden	Mika	Eichenholz		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Music director	WWW
Sweden	Emma	Härdelin		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (violinist), singer	WWW	Violinist and lead singer in folk-rock band Garmarna and also lead singer for the folk band Triakel
Sweden	Anna-Karin	Palm		Female	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW
Sweden	Noomi	Rapace		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	She is best known for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish/Danish film adaptations of the Millennium series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. won Best Actress awards for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the "Millennium Trilogy" of films, and was nominated in the same category at the European Film Awards.
Sweden	Johan	Schildt		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor, TV entertainer	WWW
Sweden	Sebastian	Schildt		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - design related)	Designer, silver smith	WWW
Sweden	Pontus	Winnberg		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Producer and songwriter	WWW	Member of music production and songwriting team Bloodshy & Avant, (co-)writer and (co-)producer of songs by Britney Spears, Madonna and others. Pontus Winnberg is also a member of Swedish indie pop band Miike Snow.
Sweden / Norway	Vendela	Kirsebom		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Model, actress	WWW	She has appeared on the magazine covers of Bride's (US), Flare (Canada), Shape (US), FHM (UK), and Zest (US) and has been featured multiple times in the pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She appeared in Batman and Robin in 1997 as Nora Fries and The Parent Trap, alongside Lindsay Lohan and Dennis Quaid, in 1998.
Switzerland	Johannes	Anders		Male	Europe	Media	Journalist (music)	WWW	Music journalist (modern jazz, contemporary music, classical music), also known in the Swiss movie scene as former film technician and designer of colored light (color grading).
Switzerland	Marcel	Fischer		Male	Europe	Sports	Fencer	WWW	Fencer, competed in the Men's Épée Individual at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. Finished 4th at the 2000 Olympics.
Switzerland	Simon	Gaudenz		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Conductor	WWW	He has been Music Director and Chief Conductor at the Collegium Musicum in Basel since 2004, before which he spent four years as Music Director at Basel's Camerata Variabile. He has also been named Principal Guest Conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra for a three-year tenure starting as of the 2010/2011 season. In February 2009, Simon Gaudenz won the "Deutscher Dirigentenpreis", which carries in it the highest award of any conductor competition in Europe.
Switzerland	Heidi	Lüdi		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Production designer	WWW	Worked with Wim Wenders, has been responsible for selecting style and visual design for movies such as "Der Zauberberg" (1982), for which she, together with her husband, received the German Film Award in Gold for "Outstanding Individual Achievement: Production Design".
Switzerland	Nicolas	Michel	K	Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	His albums include "Arbre rouge", "Amour dans la rue" etc.
Switzerland	Dimitri Jakob	Müller	Dimitri	Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Clown	WWW	In 1973, he was awarded the Grock prize, and appeared with Big Apple Circus (New York). He has also performed in many other countries across the globe. He was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1995.
Switzerland	Germinal	Roaux		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	movie director, photographer	WWW	For his film "Left Foot Right Foot" (2013) he received the "Bayard d'Or pour la Meilleure Première Oeuvre au FIFF de Namur 2013". The film was also within the official selection for "Special Screening" at theFestival du Film de Zurich 2013.
Switzerland	Martin	Schenkel		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (rock), actor	WWW	Starred in sitcom "Fascht e Familie"
Switzerland	Oliver	Tobias	Oliver Tobias Freitag	Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Peter Weir then directed him in the TV series Luke's Kingdom. Tobias also starred in Smuggler (1981) a children's drama series, set in Cornwall in 1801. Many other successful films followed including The Stud in 1978 in which he co-starred with Joan Collins, helping her to restart her career. Oliver also appeared in the pop promo video for pop group Ultravox's 1982 hit "Hymn".
Switzerland	Valentin	Villard		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Composer, organist, tenor	WWW	He has composed the "Messe à six voix op. 44" and many other works
Switzerland	Roeland	Wiesnekker		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Winner of Swiss Film Prize 2005 (best male leading actor).
Switzerland	Luke J.	Wilkins		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Starred in "Stromberg" and "Verbotene Liebe"
Switzerland / Germany	Meret	Oppenheim		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Surrealist artist, photographer	WWW	Oppenheim was a member of the Surrealist movement of the 1920s along with André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and other writers and visual artists. Besides creating art objects, Oppenheim also famously appeared as a model for photographs by Man Ray, most notably a series of nude shots of her interacting with a printing press.
Switzerland / Germany	Stanislas	Wawrinka		Male	Europe	Sports	Tennis player	WWW	Winner of gold medal in men's doubles at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Switzerland / UK	Susannah	Haberfeld		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer (opera / mezzo soprano), director	WWW
UK	Tim	Arnold		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter, composer, producer, musician	WWW	Currently a solo artist performing under the name "The Soho Hobo", but first achieved success as the singer and songwriter of Britpop band Jocasta in the mid-1990s
UK	Caroline	Bird		Female	Europe	Arts (literary)	Poet, playwright and author	WWW	She studied English Literature at Oxford University and was president of the Oxford Poetry Society. She was a winner of the Poetry London Competition in 2007, the Peterloo Poetry Competition for three years running (2004, 2003 and 2002), a major Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and the Foyles Young Poet of the Year Award in 1999 and 2000. Caroline is one of the 5 official poets for the London Olympics 2012.
UK	James	Cameron-Wilson		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Film critic, author	WWW	Film critic and author of several books
UK	Oliver	Chris		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	He has appeared in several comedy series, including The Office, Green Wing, According to Bex, Nathan Barley, The IT Crowd and Rescue Me. He appeared as the character Boyce in both the first and second series of Green Wing.
UK	Frank	Dillane		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Played young Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), graduating in 2013.
UK	Luke	Donald		Male	Europe	Sports	Golfer	WWW	In May 2011, Donald became the number one golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking after winning the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club.
UK	Bella	Freud		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - design related)	Fashion designer	WWW	She worked for Vievienne Westwood before starting her own design company. Daughter of artist Lucian Freud and great granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud.
UK	Esther	Freud		Female	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	She was named as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists' (Granta magazine, 1993). Her works include novel "Hideous Kinky". She is the daughter of artist Lucian Freud and great granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud.
UK	Layla	Griffin		Female	Europe	Design	Costume Designer	WWW	Costumed a Bafta-winning film (Until The River Runs Red)
UK	Kirsty	Hawkshaw		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (dance/electronica/house/trance), songwriter	WWW	She is known for her participation as lead vocalist for the group Opus III, and her collaborative work with other musicians and producers.
UK	Thomas	Heatherwick		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - design related)	Designer, architect	WWW	Founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. Since the late 1990s Heatherwick has emerged as one of Britainâ€™s most gifted and imaginative designers. His innovative approach to design has earned him a reputation as an "ideas engine"
UK	Sam	Heughan		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	Known for his role as Jamie Fraser in the Starz series Outlander, for which he received two nominations for the Saturn Awards. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer in 2003, for his performance in the play Outlying Islands, performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
UK	George	Hume		Male	Europe	Media	Journalist, newspaper columnist	WWW	BBC journalist and newspaper columnist for Herald Tribune and other British papers
UK	Sadie	Jemmett		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	In 2012 Sadie was featured on the compilation album Music is Love - A Singer-Songwriters Tribute to the Music of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Her cover of Teach Your Children has gained excellent reviews and radio play in Europe and the United States.
UK	Hamish	Jenkinson		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Film, theatre and arts director / producer, charity fundraiser and campaigner	WWW	Directed the short film "The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa", starring Kevin Spacey. Director of the ceremony for UEFA Champions League Final at Wembley Stadium, 2011.
UK	David	Johnson		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Composer	WWW	David Charles Johnson was a Scottish composer and a scholar of 18th century Scottish music. Dr David Johnson was ‘an internationally recognised scholar’. whose work did much to rediscover and reinvent 18th century Scottish music, and set it in its historical context.
UK	Daniel T.	Jones		Male	Europe	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Co-author of the bestselling management books "The machine that changed the world" and "Lean thinking"
UK	Graham	Kerr	The Galloping Gourmet	Male	Europe	Food preparation and serving related	Chef	WWW	English cooking personality who is best known for his 1969–1971 television cooking show The Galloping Gourmet.
UK	Kwam	Korsa-Acquah	Dum-Doodles	Male	Europe	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Cartoonist	WWW	Renowned celebrity Urban cartoonist working with Warner Bros. Records. He draws urban cartoons and has been commissioned by Bashy and Chris Brown.
UK	Colin	McPherson		Male	Europe	Media	Photojournalist, freelance photographer	WWW	He is the brother of Katrina McPherson, director and dance-film maker
UK	Katrina	McPherson		Female	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director and dance-film-maker	WWW	She is one of the first generation of truly hybrid video-dance artists. She is the sister of Colin McPherson, photojournalist and freelance photographer
UK	Tobias	Menzies		Male	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	He is probably best known for his dual role as Frank Randall and Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander (2014–2017), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
UK	Carey	Mulligan		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen)	WWW	In 2009, she gained widespread recognition for her performance as Jenny in An Education, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, and for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
UK	Albert	Watson		Male	Europe	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Photographer	WWW	He has shot over 200 covers of Vogue around the world and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s. Photo District News named Watson one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time.
UK	Sean	Yates		Male	Europe	Sports	Cyclist	WWW	Former professional cyclist and a sporting director of the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. Prior to his professional career, Yates competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, finishing 6th in the 4,000m individual pursuit (he also later competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics), in 1980 he also won the British 25-mile individual time trial championship.
UK / Germany	Rachel	Podger		Female	Europe	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (violinist)	WWW	Specialising in the performance of baroque music. She is a professor of baroque violin at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
USA	Benjamin	Agosto		Male	Americas	Sports	Ice dancer	WWW	With partner Tanith Belbin, Agosto is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, 2004-2006 Four Continents Champion, and 2004-2007 US National Champion
USA	William	Alexander		Male	Americas	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Winner of the National Book Award 2012
USA	Sean Michael Leonard	Anderson	Big Sean	Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Hip hop artist	WWW	Sean signed with GOOD Music (Kanye West) in 2007, and then in 2008 signed with Island Def Jam. After releasing a number of mixtapes Sean released his debut album Finally Famous in 2011.
USA	Jennifer	Aniston		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen)	WWW	Screen actress ("Friends", "Along came Polly")
USA	Hailey	Baldwin		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Model	WWW	Model. She is the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin and niece of actor Alec Baldwin. Sister of Alaia Baldwin, who works as a model as well.
USA	Alaia	Baldwin		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Model	WWW	Model. She is the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin and niece of actor Alec Baldwin. Sister of Hailey Baldwin, who works as a model as well.
USA	David E.	Blackmer		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Audio electronics engineer	WWW	Most famous as the inventor of the DBX noise reduction system and founder of dbx, Inc. (died on 21 March 2002)
USA	Scott	Boman		Male	Americas	Politics	Politician	WWW	Libertarian politician from Michigan. In the 2012 election cycle he received interviews and mention by regional, national and international media in the course of running for United States Senate.
USA	Stephanie Ann	Boyd		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Composer	WWW	An advocate of the innate creativity in young people, she has brought composition programs to music festivals in three countries. She frequently collaborates with Australian conductor Nathan Aspinall and has commissions this season from The Meadowlark Trio, Violin Monster, the Jennifer Fischer trio, Collage New Music, and others. Her string orchestra works are published by TRN Music.
USA	Sandra	Bullock		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen)	WWW	Winner of an Academy Award 2010 (best performance by an actress in a leading role) for her part as "Leigh Anne Tuohy" in "The Blind Side". She is listed in the 2012 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records as the highest-paid actress, with $56 million.
USA	Ever Dawn	Carradine		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen)	WWW	Best known for her roles as Tiffany Porter on Once and Again and as Kelly Ludlow on Commander in Chief. She is the daughter of Robert Carradine.
USA	Aleah	Chapin		Female	Americas	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Painter	WWW	Winner of the BP portrait Award 2012 - first female American Artist to win the award.
USA	Kenneth	Chenault		Male	Americas	Management	CEO	WWW	Former President (1997 - 2001) and Chief Executive Officer of American Express. He is the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
USA	Austin	Chick		Male	Americas	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Director, screenwriter, producer	WWW	Made the films XX/XY, released in 2002, and August, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
USA	Kate	Christensen		Female	Americas	Arts (literary)	Novelist	WWW	She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life. Her previous novels are In the Drink (1999), Jeremy Thrane (2001), and The Epicures Lament (2004). Her essays, articles, reviews, and stories have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals, most recently The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Elle, The Wall Street Journa
USA	Chris	Codish		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Composer, musician	WWW	Keyboarder and vocalist of the band "The Brothers Groove". Won several awards, such as 1997 Detroit Music Award for "Blues Performer or Group Deserving Wider Recognition"
USA	Cybelle	Codish		Female	Americas	Media	Photojournalist	WWW	She has her photo essays highlighted in national publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin and NME. Has shot hundreds of nationally and internationally known artists like Ricki Lee Jones, Nina Simone, Kanye West and Nickleback.
USA	Lisa	Coleman	Lisa	Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Musician, composer	WWW	Coleman plays piano and keyboards. She was a member of Princes backing band The Revolution from 1980 to 1986. She is currently one half of the musical duo Wendy & Lisa, formed with Wendy Melvoin in 1986.
USA	Timothy	Daly		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen, stage)	WWW	Best known for his television role as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings and for his voice role as Superman/Clark Kent in Superman: The Animated Series, as well as his recurring role of the drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.
USA	Josh	Dibb	Deakin	Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Musician	WWW	One of the founding members of the experimental music group Animal Collective.
USA	Winslow	Eliot		Female	Americas	Arts (literary)	Author	WWW	Author of several novels (Heaven Falls, A Perfect Gem, Bright Face of Danger, others)
USA	Chris	Elliott		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen), comedian, writer	WWW	He is best known for his comedic sketches on Late Night with David Letterman, starring in the cult comedy series Get a Life and for his recurring role as Peter MacDougall on Everybody Loves Raymond. Since 2009, Elliott has had a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother as Mickey Aldrin, father to main character Lily. He is also known for appearing in movies such as Cabin Boy, There's Something About Mary, Scary Movie 2 and Groundhog Day. Since 2011, Elliott has starred in the Adult Swim series Eagleheart.
USA	Stephanie	Farrow		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress	WWW	She is known for her work on The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Zelig (1983) and Gefährliches Dreieck (1983). Sister of Mia Farrow, actress.
USA	Miguel R.	Forbes		Male	Americas	Management	Publisher, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and senior executive	WWW	Senior executive at Forbes Media, LLC. He is the son of Robert Forbes and grandson of Malcolm Forbes.
USA	Zaria	Forman		Female	Americas	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Painter, activist.	WWW	aria Forman documents climate change with pastel drawings. She travels to remote regions of the world to collect images and inspiration for her work, which is exhibited worldwide. She has flown with NASA on several Operation IceBridge missions over Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic Canada. She was featured on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, PBS, and BBC. She delivered a TEDTalk, and spoke at Amazon, Google, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, exhibited in Banksy’s Dismaland, and was the artist-in-residence aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica. Her works have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, and the Smithsonian Magazine. Her drawings have been used in the set design for the popular Netflix series, House of Cards.
USA	Taimane	Gardner		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (Ukulele)	WWW	Considered one of the best Ukulele players worldwide. Taimane has performed in Las Vegas, California, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Samoa. She has played privately for John Travolta, Steven Seagal, George Clooney, Toyota, Pepsi, IBM and at international film festivals, and she has opened for Chicago, Jimmy Buffett, Konishiki, Cecilio and Kapono, Na Leo and Chris Isaak.
USA	Quinten	Giglio		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Musical performer/drummer	WWW	Quinten Giglio, artist and musician, has been performing in San Diego for 8 years with CREW Motivational Performance. He has performed in New York City with the off Broadway show STOMP. While performing takes up the majority of his time, he also pursues interests in 35mm film photography and 3-D printing. Quinten has actually built a 3-D printer at home for experiments.
USA	Adrian	Grenier		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen), musician, director	WWW	He is best known for his lead role on the HBO original series, Entourage, as Vincent Chase. In 2006, he won a role in The Devil Wears Prada, as Anne Hathaway's boyfriend, Nate. In 2007, People magazine ranked him #7 in its annual list of Sexiest Men Alive.
USA	Tina	Haller	Tina Basich	Female	Americas	Sports	Snowboarder	WWW	One of the first women snowboarders in the world. Pioneer in sport. Basich began snowboarding in 1986, when the sport was still new. She is noted for winning a variety of competitions from the 1980s onward, and for helping in the design of outerwear and snowboards for women, including one of the first women's pro-models for SIMS Snowboards.
USA	Giuliano	Hazan		Male	Americas	Arts (literary)	Food preparation and serving related occupations	WWW	Specialized on Italian cuisine. Winner of several awards, such as the Gourmand World Cookbook Award. Cooking with Giuliano Hazan, has been profiled in many US publications.
USA	Dan	Hoyle		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (theater)	WWW	Well-respected live theater actor in both San Francisco and New York. Son of Geoff Hoyle, performer.
USA	Tamara	Jenkins		Female	Americas	Sports	Sprint canoer	WWW	Olympic Athlete in Sprint canoeing. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event.
USA	Peter Stephan	Jungk		Male	Americas	Arts (literary)	Author, script-writer, film director	WWW	US-american German-speaking author of novels, essays and screenplays, as well as film director. Holder of Stefan-Andres-Preis (literary award) 2001. Son of Robert Jungk, writer and journalist
USA	Snatam	Kaur	Snatam Kaur Khalsa	Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter (sacred music)	WWW	Snatam is an internationally-acclaimed singer-songwriter of Sikh devotional music, kirtan, and is one of the top-selling musicians in the New Age music genre. She has toured the world, promoting peace and bringing her music to the masses. She received numerous positive reviews of her concerts and albums, especially in alternative and yogic media. Her career received a boost when it became known that her music was a favorite of Oprah Winfrey, and she even played for Oprah at her private birthday party on Maui.
USA	Caitlin	Keogh		Female	Americas	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Fine Art painter	WWW	She is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art & many other collections. Represented by the Bortolami Gallery in NewYorkCity.
USA	Julian	Klincewicz		Male	Americas	Arts (visual - design related)	Artist / author / musician / skateboarder / celebrity photographer / filmmaker / fashion designer / model	WWW	He has shot video for Gosha Rubchinskiy, Eckhaus Latta, New York band Haerts, and he hosted his second exhibition in Tokyo. He was personally invited by Kanye West to film the YEEZY Season 3 presentation in Madison Square Gardens.
USA	Tony	Krantz		Male	Americas	Management	Television executive, producer, writer, and director	WWW	Krantz’s shows have won numerous Emmys and Golden Globes. In 2002, Krantz received the Producer’s Guild Award for best dramatic series for his work on 24 as its executive producer.
USA	Zoë Isabella	Kravitz		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, singer, model	WWW	She has appeared in the films No Reservations (2007), The Brave One (2007), and as Angel Salvadore in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011). Kravitz has modeled in fashion magazines such as French Jalouse, Venus Zine and Elle. She is the only child of musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet.
USA	Noah	Lennox	Panda Bear	Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (experimental)	WWW	Founding member of the band Animal Collective
USA	Jennifer	Leonhardt		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	Her music blends many genres of American music, including folk, soul, gospel, country, rock, blues, and R&B, and is known for her harmonies and a wide vocal range, and an ability to improvise in live performance.
USA	Kristanna	Loken		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen)	WWW	She is best known for her roles in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, BloodRayne, and Painkiller Jane.
USA	Sanjaya	Malakar		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer (pop)	WWW	Finalist on the sixth season of American Idol
USA	Jordan	Malloch		Male	Americas	Sports	Sprint canoer	WWW	Olympic Athlete in Canoeing, 2000 and 2004 Olympics.
USA	Julianna	Margulies		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, producer	WWW	Margulies achieved both critical and commercial success in her role as Nurse Carol Hathaway on NBC's long-running medical drama ER, for which she won an Emmy Award.
USA	John	McCrea		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer	WWW	Lead singer and founding member of alternative rock band Cake.
USA	Brendan	McDaniel	Candis Cayne	Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress (screen, TV), performance artist	WWW	Known in the New York City nightclub scene since the 1990s. Cayne came to national attention in 2007 for portraying transgender mistress Carmelita on ABCs prime time drama Dirty Sexy Money.
USA	Wendy	Melvoin	Wendy	Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Guitarist, song-writer	WWW	Best known for her work with Prince as part of his backing band The Revolution, and for her collaboration with Lisa Coleman as one half of the duo Wendy & Lisa
USA	Judson	Mills		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen)	WWW	He is known for his performances as Texas Ranger Francis Gage in the american action drama television series Walker, Texas Ranger (1999 - 2001).
USA	Ruby	Modine		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, musician	WWW	Interested in acting at a young age, Ruby Modine began taking drama and music classes before appearing as a child in the short film "Smoking," written by David Seders. She has also appeared in Rabbit Bandinis "A Visit from the Goonsquad," directed by Shandor Garison and produced by James Franco. She is the daughter of actor Matthew Modine.
USA	John Fitzallen	Moore		Male	Americas	Life, physical, and social science	Physicist	WWW	His work in military electronics, communications, and spectroscopy culminated in medical electronics and x-ray products with the founding of the company Bio-Imaging Research. Holder of several patents. He is the son of authors Virginia Moore and Louis Untermeyer.
USA	Victor Saul	Navasky		Male	Americas	Media	Journalist, editor, publisher, author and professor	WWW	Professor of journalism, director of the George Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism at Columbia University, former publisher and editorial director (1995 - 2005) as well as former editor (1978 - 1995) and now publisher emeritus of "The Nation"
USA	Joanna	Newsom		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Harpist, pianist, vocalist, and songwriter	WWW	The media have sometimes labeled her as one of the most prominent members of the modern psych folk movement.
USA	Jonathan	Notley	MC Bliss	Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Musician (hip hop)	WWW	Member of Bliss n Eso, a Multi Platinum ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney. Further members are Waldorf alumni Max McKinnon and Tarik Ejjamai.
USA	Adriane	Ohanesian		Female	Americas	Media	Photographer	WWW	Adriane is an award-winning photographer based out of Nairobi, Kenya. She attended the Eddie Adams workshop in 2014, where she received an award from National Geographic. She has also been recognized as one of Magnum Photo’s top ‘30 under 30’ and received LensCulture’s Emerging Talent award her photographs of women soldiers in rebel-controlled Kachin, Myanmar.
USA	Mackenzie	Phillips		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actress, singer	WWW	Best known for her roles in American Graffiti and as rebellious teenager Julie Cooper Horvath on the sitcom One Day at a Time. She is more recently known for her role in the Disney Channel science fiction show So Weird.
USA	Elisa	Randazzo		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Musician, songwriter and fashion designer	WWW	Although her contributions as a songwriter, singer and violinist have spanned many musical projects, Bruises and Butterflies is her first solo release. Randazzo is known for layered harmonies and string arrangements.
USA	Hugo Jr.	Rodriguez		Male	Americas	Politics	Consul General	WWW	Before becoming the US Consul General of Mexico City, Hugo has worked extensively overseas with the US State Department in many different countries including Mexico, Peru, Italy, Iraq and India.
USA	Charles	Rose		Male	Americas	Architecture and engineering	Architect	WWW	His work is situated throughout the United States, in every condition from rugged coastal to dense urban. His work focuses on a sensitivity to landscape and site. As design principal of Boston-based Charles Rose Architects, Inc., Rose is the winner of awards from the American Institute of Architects and national competitions,
USA	Aram	Roston		Male	Americas	Media	TV and newspaper reporter	WWW	Investigative journalist, a correspondent at Newsweek Magazine and The Daily Beast, and author of The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi. In 2010, Roston was awarded the Daniel Pearl Award for a story called "How the US Funds the Taliban."
USA	Amanda	Sage		Female	Americas	Arts (visual - painting, drawing etc.)	Painter	WWW	She trained and worked with the Fuchs dynasty of artists, being one of the more notable students.
USA	Stefan C.	Schaefer		Male	Americas	Arts (literary)	Writer, director and producer of independent films and television	WWW	"Confess", his debut feature film, premiered at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival, where he won the Best Screenwriter award. In 2007 he wrote, co-directed and produced "Arranged" which won top prizes at The Berkshire International Film Festival and The Brooklyn International Film Festival.
USA	William Lee	Scott		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor (screen)	WWW	He is best known for his portrayal of dim-witted high school student Stanley "Bullethead" Kuznocki on the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show. Additionally, he appeared in the films Gone in 60 Seconds, Pearl Harbor, October Sky and The Butterfly Effect.
USA	Jeremy	Skaller	Jremy	Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Record Producer, Songwriter, Entertainment manager	WWW	Jeremy Skaller has produced and written songs that have sold over 20 Million copies. He is a Grammy nominated producer, most known for his work with Jay Sean and Cash Money. He wrote and produced the Billboard #1 single "Down" and has since gone on to manage acts signed to various record labels.
USA	Marzuki	Stevens		Male	Americas	Sports	Long distance and marathon runner	WWW	Brother of singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.
USA	Sufjan	Stevens		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer-songwriter	WWW	He is best known for his 2005 album, Illinois, which hit number one in the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and for the song "Chicago". Brother of long distance and marathon runner Marzuki Stevens.
USA	Tom	Stone		Male	Americas	Arts (visual - film, photography etc.)	Photographer	WWW	Most widely known for his documentary photography of outsider, displaced and homeless populations in California.
USA	Justin	Theroux		Male	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Actor	WWW	He is best known for his work with film director David Lynch, appearing in two of his films, Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006). He is also known for his behind the scenes work as a screenwriter, penning such films as Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2, and Rock of Ages. Theroux has been announced as the director of Zoolander 2.
USA	Angeli	Vanlaanen		Female	Americas	Sports	Freestyle skier	WWW	Competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
USA	Veronica	Webb		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - acting)	Model, actress, writer, journalist and television personality	WWW	Webb was the first African-American to have a major cosmetics contract. Webb appeared on covers of Vogue, Essence and Elle magazines and on the runway for Victoria's Secret and Chanel.
USA / Finland	Sara	La Fountain		Female	Americas / Europe	Food preparation and serving related	Chef, cookbook author, designer, and television personality	WWW	She has starred in several Food related shows in Finland
USA / Japan	Ashima	Shiraishi		Female	Americas	Sports	Professional rock climber	WWW	Professional rock climber, youngest person and first female to climb the grade of 9a+, came first in her category for the youth world climbing competition
USA / Germany	Jennifer	Rush		Female	Americas	Arts (performing - music)	Singer (pop / rock)	WWW	Best known for the million-selling single "The Power of Love" of 1985 (listed in the Guinness Book Of Records as "the best selling single by a female solo artist in the history of the British music industry" until 1992)