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This is a list of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors, who work on behalf of the United Nations Children's Fund.
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Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
 was the first to hold the position, with the title of Ambassador-at-Large granted in 1954. Other celebrities have followed, acting as international, regional or national ambassadors, depending on their profile, interests, and desired level of responsibility.






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This is a list of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors, who work on behalf of the United Nations Children's Fund.

History and purpose of the role

Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
 was the first to hold the position, with the title of Ambassador-at-Large granted in 1954. Other celebrities have followed, acting as international, regional or national ambassadors, depending on their profile, interests, and desired level of responsibility. The goal of the program is to allow celebrities with a demonstrated interest in UNICEF issues to use their fame to draw attention to important issues. This may take the form of public appearances and talks, visits to troubled regions, which draw attention from the media, and use of their political access to advocate UNICEF causes.

International ambassadors

In order of appointment: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

is an internationally famous Japanese actress, a talk show host, a best-selling author of children book,a World Wide Fund for Nature advisor, and a List of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors for UNICEF....
 (1984) Lord Attenborough
Richard Attenborough

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Order of the British Empire, is an English people actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur....
 (1987) Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
 (1987) Sir Roger Moore
Roger Moore

Sir Roger George Moore Order of the British Empire is an English actor. He is perhaps best known for portraying two British action heroes, Simon Templar in the television series The Saint from 1962 to 1969, and James Bond in James Bond ....
 (1991) Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer and percussionist. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the country's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the...
 (1991) Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri

Nana Mouskouri , born as Ioanna Mouskouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a singer who is confirmed to have sold over 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the world's best-selling female recording artists....
 (1993) Leon Lai
Leon Lai

Leon Lai is a Hong Kong-based actor and Cantopop singer. The media refer to Aaron Kwok, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings ....
 (1994) Johann Olav Koss
Johann Olav Koss

Johann Olav Koss is a former Speed skating, considered to be one of the best in history....
 (1994) Judy Collins
Judy Collins

Judith Marjorie Collins is an United States folk singer and pop standards singer and songwriter, known for the stunning purity of her soprano; for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism....
 (1995) Vanessa Redgrave CBE
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
 (1995) Vendela Thommessen
Vendela Kirsebom

Vendela Maria Kirsebom is a Swedish people model and actress of Norwegian people and Turkish people descent....
 (1996) Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Vengerov

Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a russian violin virtuoso who was born in the Soviet Union....
 (1997) Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
 (1999) Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
 (2000) Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado

Sebasti?o Salgado is a Brazilian Documentary photography Photography and Photojournalism.After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master?s degree in economics from the University of S?o Paulo in Brazil....
 (2001) Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo

Ang?lique Kidjo is a Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos....
 (2002) Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti

Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti , popularly known as Femi Kuti, is an award-winning Nigerian musician and the oldest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti....
 (2002) Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
 (2003) Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange

Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
 (2003) Shakira
Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a Prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the mid-1990s....
 (2003) Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan, Silver Bauhinia Star, Member of the Order of the British Empire is an actor, Stage combat, film director, film producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer from Hong Kong....
 (2004) Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin

Enrique Mart?n Morales , better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rico pop singer who rose to fame, first as a member of the Latin American music boy band Menudo , then as a solo artist since 1991....
 (2004) Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan , is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s and has since become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Cinema of India....
 (2005) David Beckham OBE
David Beckham

David Robert Joseph Beckham Order of the British Empire is an England association football who currently plays in midfielder for Italy Serie A club A.C....
 (2005) Roger Federer
Roger Federer

Roger Federer is a Switzerland professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 2. He was the List of ATP number 1 ranked players ranked player for a ATP Tour records#Ranking, from February 2, 2004 to August 17, 2008....
 (2006) Steve Barakatt
Steve Barakatt

Steve Barakatt is a composer/producer/pianist/singer....
 (2007) Elena Grosheva
Elena Grosheva

Yelena Nikolayevna Grosheva is a Russian gymnast.At the age of 5 she took up gymnastics and showed a natural talent for the sport. Then in 1992, she was sent to Round Lake to train as part of the National Team....
 (2007) Lang Lang
Lang Lang (pianist)

Lang Lang is a Chinese pianist from Shenyang in Liaoning, China....
 (2007) Berliner Philharmoniker (2007) Joel Madden
Joel Madden

Joel Ryan Reuben Madden is an American singer and the lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte....
 (2008)

Past ambassadors Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
 (appointed 1988, died 1993) Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
 (appointed 1954, died 1987) (pioneered role as Ambassador-at-Large) Sir Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
 (appointed 1969, died 2004)

Regional ambassadors

Mahmoud Kabil
Mahmoud Kabil

Mahmoud Kabil is an award-winning Egyptians actor and political activist. He is also the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the Middle East and North Africa....
 Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa

Mercedes Sosa is an Argentina singer immensely popular throughout Latin America. With her roots in Argentine folk music, she became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canci?n....
 Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess International Grandmaster and former World Chess Championship. He was undisputed World Champion from 1975 to 1985, repeatedly challenged to regain the title from 1986 to 1990, then was FIDE World Champion from 1993 to 1999....
 Milena Župancic

National ambassadors

Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....

  • Julián Weich (2000)
  • Martín Palermo
    Martín Palermo

    Mart?n Palermo is a professional Football currently playing for Club Atl?tico Boca Juniors of Primera Divisi?n Argentina. Nicknamed "El Loco", he has also played in Argentina for Estudiantes de La Plata as well as in Spain in La Liga for Villarreal CF, Real Betis, and Deportivo Alav?s....
     (2007)


Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....

  • Charles Aznavour
    Charles Aznavour

    Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world....
     (2003)


Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....

  • John Doyle
    John Doyle

    John Doyle may refer to:* John Doyle , announcer whose voice is used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology radio station WWV* John Doyle , Irish artist and grandfather of Arthur Conan Doyle...
  • Norman Swan (2003)
  • Greig Pickhaver
    Greig Pickhaver

    Actor and comedian Greig Pickhaver is one half on the Australian sports comedy duo Roy and HG. The duo originally teamed up in 1986 for the Triple J radio comedy program This Sporting Life , which is still on air after 20 years and has led to several successful TV spinoffs....
  • Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush

    Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. He moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria....
  • Ken Done AM
    Ken Done

    Ken Done, Order of Australia is an Australian artist best known for his design work. His simple, brightly coloured images of Australian landmarks have adorned a very popular range of clothing and homewares sold under the "Done Design" brand....
     (1988)
  • Erica Packer
    Erica Packer

    Erica Packer is an Australian singer and model. She is also the wife of Australia's third richest man, James Packer.She released her debut single, "I Spy " on 14 October 2006 through SonyBMG....
  • The Wiggles
    The Wiggles

    The Wiggles are a children's music formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher....


Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....

  • Thomas Brezina
    Thomas Brezina

    Thomas Brezina , is an Austrian writer of children's literature. He is especially known for his series The Knickerbocker Gang and his stories about the talking bike Tom Turbo....
     (1996)
  • Christiane Hörbiger
    Christiane Hörbiger

    Christiane H?rbiger is an Austrian television and film actor....
     (2003)


Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....

  • Salvatore Adamo
    Salvatore Adamo

    Salvatore, Ridder Adamo, simply known as Adamo is a Belgian composer and singer of ballads, mainly in French but also in other languages....
     (1997)
  • Dixie Dansercoer
    Dixie Dansercoer

    Dixie Dansercoer is a world-renowned explorer, endurance athlete and photographer.He has held records or won prizes for high altitude mountain biking, windsurfing, ultramarathon running and expedition film-making....
     (2002)
  • Frank De Winne
    Frank De Winne

    Frank, Viscount De Winne is a Belgian Air Component officer and an European Space Agency astronaut. He is Belgium's second man in space ....
     (2003)
  • Jean-Michel Folon
    Jean-Michel Folon

    Jean-Michel Folon was a Belgium artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. Folon was born in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium in 1934 where he studied architecture....
     (2003)
  • Alain Hubert (2002)
  • Helmut Lotti
    Helmut Lotti

    Helmut Lotti is a Belgium popular singer and songwriter. The son of Luc Lotigiers and Rita Lagrou, he began his singing career with a visual and singing style in an obvious imitation of Elvis Presley, and was described as "De Nieuwe Elvis" or "The New Elvis"....
     (1997)
  • Khadja Nin
    Khadja Nin

    Khadja Nin is a Burundi singer and musician. She was born in Burundi as the youngest of a family of eight. Her father was a diplomat. She studied music at an early age like most of her brothers and sisters....
     (1998)
  • Axelle Red
    Axelle Red

    Axelle Red is a Belgian singer-songwriter....
     (1998)


Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....

  • Renato Aragão
    Renato Aragão

    Ant?nio Renato Arag?o is a Brazilian comedian, best known for leading the television series Os Trapalh?es....
     (1991)
  • Daniela Mercury
    Daniela Mercury

    Daniela Mercuri de Almeida P?voas better known as Daniela Mercury is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian ax? music, samba-reggae and M?sica Popular Brasileira singer, songwriter and record producer....
     (1995)
  • Mônica
    Monica (Monica's Gang)

    Monica is the main character of Monica's Gang comic strips. She was created in 1963, and is a bright girl with powerful strength, which she uses to beat up boys who tease her....
     (2007)


Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

  • Steve Barakatt
    Steve Barakatt

    Steve Barakatt is a composer/producer/pianist/singer....
     (2007)
  • Ben Mulroney
    Ben Mulroney

    Benedict Martin Paul "Ben" Mulroney is a Canada television host. He grew up in Ottawa, Ontario.He is the second of four children born to former Canadian Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney and Mila Mulroney....
     (2006)
  • Elena Grosheva
    Elena Grosheva

    Yelena Nikolayevna Grosheva is a Russian gymnast.At the age of 5 she took up gymnastics and showed a natural talent for the sport. Then in 1992, she was sent to Round Lake to train as part of the National Team....
     (2007)
  • Beckie Scott
    Beckie Scott

    Rebecca "Beckie" Scott is a retired Canadian cross-country skiing athlete and as of February 23, 2006, an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu....
     (2002)
  • Veronica Tennant
    Veronica Tennant

    Veronica Tennant, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada was a Canada ballet dancer, and is presently a dance and performance film producer and director....
     (1992)
  • Kate Wheeler
    Kate Wheeler

    Kate Wheeler is a Canadian daytime news anchor for CTV Newsnet since February 2001. One of Canada's most respected television journalists, Wheeler began her career at CFTO in Toronto, as a reporter where she would become an anchor the following year and the weekend news anchor in 1990....


Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....

  • Iván Zamorano
    Iván Zamorano

    Iv?n Luis Zamorano Zamora in the Comuna De Maipu is a retired Chilean Association football striker. He, with El?as Figueroa and Marcelo Salas, have been some of Chile's most recognized football players....
     (1998)


Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....

  • Margarita Rosa de Francisco
    Margarita Rosa de Francisco

    Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero also known as La Mencha is a Colombian Telenovela, movie actress, singer and TV presenter....
     (2000)


Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire

, formerly Ivory Coast, officially the , is a country in West Africa. The government officially discourages the use of the name Ivory Coast in English, preferring the French name to be used in all languages ....

  • Basile Boli
    Basile Boli

    Basile Boli is a France former football and current television sports presenter.Although born in Abidjan, C?te d'Ivoire, Boli moved to France at an early age and began his career in local youth football in Paris before signing for AJ Auxerre in 1982....
     (2000)


Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....

  • Zlatan Stipišic Gibonni
    Zlatan Stipišic Gibonni

    Zlatan Stipi?ic Gibonni, born August 13, 1968, is a Croatian singer, musician and composer from Split .Born in a family with a strong musical tradition , Zlatan Stipi?ic, who later embraced the nickname Gibonni, began his career in 1980s with the heavy metal band Osmi putnik....
     (2003)
  • Bojana Gregoric (2004)
  • Maja Vucic (2006)
  • Slaven Bilic
    Slaven Bilic

    Slaven Bilic is a former Croatian football er and current head coach of the Croatia national football team. His playing tenure predominantly comprised extended vocations in his hometown with Hajduk Split and a combination of foreign spells in Germany and England....
     (2008)


Czech Republic
Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....

  • Jirina Jiraskova


Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....

  • Princess Alexandra
  • Kurt Flemming
  • Jesper Klein
  • Bubber


Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....

  • Eri Klas
    Eri Klas

    Eri Klas is an Estonian conductor of Jewish ancestry.Klas graduated as an opera and concert conductor in both Tallinn and Leningrad , beginning his conducting career at the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow....
     (1999)
  • Erki Nool
    Erki Nool

    Erki Nool is an Estonian decathlete and politician.Nool is a winner of the gold medal for Decathlon in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Although Nool did not place first in any individual event, his total score was the highest....
     (1999)
  • Maarja-Liis Ilus
    Maarja-Liis Ilus

    Maarja-Liis Ilus, sometimes better known by her performing name Maarja is a pop music musician who has achieved chart success in a number of countries across Europe and Asia....
     (1999)


Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....

  • Berhane Adere
    Berhane Adere

    Berhane Adere is an Athletics from Ethiopia.She held the African records in athletics for 10,000 m in a time of 30:04.18 set at the 2003 World Championships, where she won Gold....
     (2004)
  • Kenenisa Bekele
    Kenenisa Bekele

    Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian athletics long distances who holds the world records in the 5000 metres and long distance track event. He is the reigning two-time Olympic champion over 10,000 metres and the most accomplished runner in IAAF World Cross Country Championships history, with six long course and five short course titles....
     (2004)


Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....

  • Micke Rejstrom (1996)
  • Jorma Uotinen
    Jorma Uotinen

    Jorma Leo Kalevi Uotinen is a Finland dancer, singer and choreographer. He has worked as an artistic director in the Helsinki City Theatre dance group , at the Finnish National Ballet and the Kuopio Dance Festival ....
  • Juha Laukkanen
    Juha Laukkanen

    Juha Laukkanen is a retired Finland javelin thrower.His personal best throw is 88.22 metres, achieved in June 1992 in Kuortane. At one event he famously threw his javelin which lead to a judge being impaled by the javelin in his arm....
     (1994)
  • Anna Hanski (1993)
  • Eija Vilpas (1993)
  • Trio Töykeät
    Trio Töykeät

    Trio T?yke?t was a Finland jazz trio . Their music ranges from humorous ragtimes to sentimental waltzes. Their playing style is often rhythmic, energetic and virtuosic....
     (1993)
  • Rainer Kaunisto
  • Katri-Helena Kalaoja
    Katri Helena

    Katri Helena is a Finland singer who has been performing since the 1960s. She has been married three times and is now living as a single mom....
     (1990)
  • Pave Maijanen
    Pave Maijanen

    Pekka Juhani "Pave" Maijanen is a famous Finland musician, who has acted as a singer, songwriter, bass player, keyboard player, drummer, guitarist and producer during his long career....
     (1990)
  • Eppu Nuotio
    Eppu Nuotio

    Eppu Nuotio is a Finnish actress, author, screenwriter, playwright and columnist....
     (2002)
  • Eija Ahvo (1986)
  • Susanna Haavisto
    Susanna Haavisto

    Susanna Haavisto is a Finnish actress and singer.She has taken part in several movies and TV programs. She was UNICEF National Ambassador in 1980....
     (1980)
  • Arsi Harju
    Arsi Harju

    Arsi Ilari Harju is a Finland shot putter with the team Perhon kiri. He won the gold medal at the Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics with a distance of 21.29 metres....
     (2003)
  • Jyrki Linnankivi
    Jyrki 69

    Jyrki 69 , is the lead vocalist for Finnish people Rock music band The 69 Eyes. In the earlier years of the band, they used to represent themselves as a Glam Metal band....
     (Jyrki 69
    The 69 Eyes

    The 69 Eyes are a Finnish people gothic metal band. They are signed to EMI/Virgin Records Finland....
    )(2005)


France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....

  • Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
    Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

    Patrick Poivre d'Arvor is a French people TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed PPDA. With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of television news to his credit, he was one of the longest serving newsreaders in the world until he was fired in 2008....
     (2004)
  • Yves Duteil
    Yves Duteil

    Yves Duteil is a France singer-songwriter. He was born in Paris, in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family.Duteil is a noted proponent of the French language, the rights of children and the respect of environment....
  • Christophe Malavoy
    Christophe Malavoy

    Christophe Malavoy, born 21 March1952 in Reutlingen, , is a French actor.*Madame Bovary *La Balance*A Captain's Honor...


Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....

  • Sabine Christiansen (1997)
  • Oliver Bierhoff
    Oliver Bierhoff

    Oliver Bierhoff is a retired Germany former association football striker, who scored the first golden goal in the history of major international football, for Germany national football team in the UEFA Euro 1996 final....
     (1999)
  • Joachim Fuchsberger
    Joachim Fuchsberger

    ]]Joachim Fuchsberger is a Germany actor and television host best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies ....
     (1984)
  • Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff
    Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff

    Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff is a Germany equestrianism and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal in team dressage at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....
     (2002)
  • Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave

    Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
    (1995)


Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....

  • Helene Glykatzi-Ahrweiler
  • Antonis Samarakis (1989)


Haiti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....

  • Wyclef Jean
    Wyclef Jean

    Wyclef Jean born Wyclef Neluset Jean on October 17, 1972) is a multi-platinum Haitian-United States of America musician, actor, record producer and former-member of the hip hop music trio Fugees....


Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 (SAR)

  • Kelly Chen
    Kelly Chen

    Kelly Chen is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor. She is also credited as Chen Huilin, Wai-Lam Chan, Kelly Chan, Kelly Chen Wai Lam, and Wai Lun Chen....
  • Daniel Chan
    Daniel Chan

    Daniel Chan Hiu-Tung, born on 3 September 1975 in Hong Kong, is a popular Hong Kong singer, songwriter, and actor. He is most notable as one of the young talents in the 1990s music scene....
  • Charlie Yeung
    Charlie Yeung

    Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei, sometimes spelled Charlie Young, is a Chinese actor and singer. She was first noticed after appearing in a jewellery commercial with Aaron Kwok....
     (2004)
  • Miriam Yeung
    Miriam Yeung

    Miriam Yeung Chin-Wah, Registered Nurse, is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. Before entering the entertainment business, she was a registered nurse at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong....


Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....

  • Judit Halász (2003)
  • Gábor Presser (2003)


India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....

  • Ravi Shastri
    Ravi Shastri

    Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is a former Indian cricketer. He was an All-rounder who Batting right–handed and Bowling Left-arm orthodox spin....
     (1996)
  • Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan

    Amitabh Bachchan , is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s and has since become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Cinema of India....


Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....

  • Christine Hakim
    Christine Hakim

    Herlina Christine Natalia Hakim or known by the popular name Christine Hakim is one of the most well known actresses in Indonesia.She has received several awards for her films:...
     (2004)
  • Ferry Salim (2004)


Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....

  • Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan

    Pierce Brendan Brosnan, Order of the British Empire is an Republic of Ireland actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Ireland and United States citizenship....
     (2001)
  • Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel Byrne

    Gabriel James Byrne is a Golden Globe Awards-winning, Emmy Awards- and Tony Award-nominated Irish people actor, film director, Academy Award-nominated film producer, and writer, as well as a Grammy-nominated audiobook narrator....
     (2004)
  • Cathy Kelly (2005)
  • Maxi
    Maxi

    Maxi may refer to:*Austin Maxi, a 1970s medium sized 5-door hatchback car produced by British Leyland*Maxi L?pez, an Argentinian footballer who plays in Europe...
  • Mike McCarthy
    Mike McCarthy

    Michael John McCarthy is the head coach of the National Football League's Green Bay Packers, having been hired on January 12, 2006, to replace Mike Sherman....
  • Liam Neeson OBE
    Liam Neeson

    William John "Liam" Neeson Order of the British Empire is an Irish people actor. He is well known for his roles as Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and as Qui-Gon Jinn in George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and as the Voice acting of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series....
     (1996)
  • Samantha Mumba
    Samantha Mumba

    Samantha Tamania Anne Cecilia Mumba is a singer and actor of Zambian and Irish descent from Ireland. Mumba is a Contralto.Her first album was released in 2000....
     (2002)
  • Stephen Rea
    Stephen Rea

    Stephen Rea is an Irish People actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 in film film The Crying Game....
     (2005)


Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....

  • David Broza
    David Broza

    David Broza is a Multi-platinum Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist....
     (1996)


Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....

  • Piccolo Coro dell' Antoniano
    Piccolo Coro dell' Antoniano

    The Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano is an Italy children's choir of Bologna created by Mariele Ventre in 1963 in Institute of Antoniano to sing together with little kids at the Zecchino d'Oro festival, opened only five years earlier....
  • Francesco Totti
    Francesco Totti

    Francesco Totti, Italian orders of merit , is an Italians FIFA World Cup-winning Association football who plays for Italian Serie A club A.S. Roma....
     (2003)
  • Amii Stewart
    Amii Stewart

    Amy 'Amii' Paulette Stewart is an United Statesn contemporary R&B/disco/dance-pop singer, dancer and actress most famous for the disco tune "Knock on Wood "....
     (2001)
  • Daniela Poggi (2001)
  • Bianca Pitzorno (2001)
  • Lino Banfi
    Lino Banfi

    Lino Banfi is a Italy film actor. He has appeared in over 100 films since 1960 in film.He was born in Canosa di Puglia, Italy....
     (2000)
  • Leo Nucci
    Leo Nucci

    Leo Nucci is an Italian operatic baritone, one of the leading baritones of the 1980s and 1990s, particularly admired in Giuseppe Verdi roles....
     (2000)
  • Vincenzo La Scola (2000)
  • Paolo Maldini
    Paolo Maldini

    Paolo Cesare Maldini is an Italian Association football One club man for Serie A club A.C. Milan. The son of Cesare Maldini, he is the most-selected player in the history of the club, Serie A and the Italy national football team....
  • Roberto Bolle
    Roberto Bolle

    Roberto Bolle was born in Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont Region of Italy. He began ballet studies at age seven at a local school, and was accepted at the La Scala theatre ballet school in Milan at the age of eleven....
     (1999)
  • Milly Carlucci (1996)
  • Vigili del Fuoco (1989)
  • Simona Marchini (1987)


Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....

  • Agnes Chan
    Agnes Chan

    Agnes Chan or Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan is a pop singer, a television personality , a Doctor of Education, a professor at Japanese universities, an essayist, a novelist, and the ambassador of the Japan Committee for UNICEF....
     (1998)


Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....

  • Effie Owour (1997)


Kuwait
Kuwait

The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west....

  • Suad Abdullah (2002)


Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....

  • Toše Proeski
    Toše Proeski

    Todor "To?e" Proeski was a famous Ethnic Macedonians pop singer. He was popular across the entire Balkans and further north, and locally he was considered a top act of the Music of the Republic of Macedonia....
     (2004)
  • Rade Vrcakovski
    Rade Vrcakovski

    Rade Vrcakovski better known by his stage name Vrcak is a pop-rap performer and songwriter from the Republic of Macedonia.He represented F.Y.R....
     (2001)


Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....

  • Celina Khor (2005)
  • Rafidah Abdullah (2005)
  • Kartini Kamalul Ariffin (2005)


Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....

  • César Costa
    César Costa

    C?sar Costa is a Mexico actor and rock-and-roll singer.Costa was born in Condesa of the Mexican capital. He studied elementary and Junior Highschool at the Alexander von Humbolt schule Mexico and Law school at the Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico ....
     (2004)


Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....

  • Tumur Ariuna (2001)
  • Asashoryu Dagvador (2003)


Montenegro
Montenegro

Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....

  • Rambo Amadeus
    Rambo Amadeus

    Rambo Amadeus is the stage name of the Belgrade-based Montenegrins singer-songwriter Antonije Pu?ic, popular all over the former Yugoslavia....
     (2005)


Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....

  • Naïma Elmecherqui
  • Rajae Belemlih (2000)
  • Nawal El Moutawakel
    Nawal El Moutawakel

    Nawal El Moutawakel is a Morocco Hurdling, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first Islam and first African female Olympic champion....
     (2000)
  • Hicham El Guerrouj
    Hicham El Guerrouj

    Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist....
     (2000)


Namibia
Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south....

  • Frank Fredericks (2005)
  • Agnes Samaria
    Agnes Samaria

    Agnes Samaria is a Namibian middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres. She was born in Otjiwarongo.Samaria has been a List of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors since 2005....
     (2005)


Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....

  • Monique van de Ven
    Monique van de Ven

    Monica Maria Theresia "Monique" van de Ven is a The Netherlands actress and film director.From 1973 until 1988 she was married to Dutch cinematographer and director Jan de Bont, with whom she lived in Los Angeles for a number of years....
     (1996)
  • Paul van Vliet (1992)
  • Sipke Bousema
  • Rintje Ritsma
    Rintje Ritsma

    Robert Rintje Ritsma is a Netherlands long track speed skating Speed skating. His nickname is the Beer van Lemmer, which translates to the Bear from Lemmer....
  • Edwin Evers
  • Trijntje Oosterhuis
    Trijntje Oosterhuis

    Judith Katrijntje "Trijntje" Oosterhuis is a Dutch people pop music and jazz singer....
  • Jurgen Raymann


New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....

  • Hayley Westenra
    Hayley Westenra

    Hayley Dee Westenra is a New Zealand soprano. Her first internationally released album, Pure , reached No 1 on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide....
     (2003)


Nigeria
Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....

  • Nwankwo Kanu
    Nwankwo Kanu

    Nwankwo Kanu , usually known simply as Kanu and nicknamed Papilo, is a professional football who plays as a striker for the Nigeria national football team and for England club Portsmouth F.C.....
     (2005)


Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....

  • Ole Gunnar Solskjær
    Ole Gunnar Solskjær

    Ole Gunnar Solskj?r, Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav is a Norway football manager and former association footballer who spent the majority of his career playing for Manchester United F.C., often dubbed the "Baby-faced assassin"....
     (2001)
  • Gustav Lorentzen
    Gustav Lorentzen

    Gustav Lorentzen , Norwegian people singer-songwriter. From being half of the successful duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen, he went solo in 1986, winning 4 Norwegian Grammys and one nomination for his 5 albums....
     (1993)
  • Sissel Kyrkjebø
    Sissel Kyrkjebø

    Sissel Kyrkjeb? , also known as just Sissel, is a Norway soprano. She is best known for singing the Olympic Hymn at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, for duets with Pl?cido Domingo, Charles Aznavour, Jos? Carreras, Neil Sedaka, Warren G, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Josh Groban, Diana K...
     (2006)


Oman
Oman

Oman , officially the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab country in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates on the northwest, Saudi Arabia on the west and Yemen on the southwest....

  • Hamed Al-Wahaibi (2005)


Panama
Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....

  • Danilo Pérez
    Danilo Pérez

    Danilo P?rez is a Panamanian pianist and composer....
     (2005)


Paraguay
Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....

  • Gloria Criscioni (2005)


Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

  • Gian Marco


Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....

  • Gary Valenciano
    Gary Valenciano

    Edgardo Jose Martin Santiago Valenciano, better known as simply Gary Valenciano , is a Filipino musician, composer, actor, Record producer, and gospel music who is best known for many songs, especially those that became theme songs for movies....
     (1997)


Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....

  • Andrzej Szczypiorski
    Andrzej Szczypiorski

    Andrzej Szczpiorski [ ? Poles novelist and politician.During World War II he was a partisan of Polish Armia Ludowa. He was a participant of the Warsaw Uprising....
  • Katarzyna Frank-Niemczycka
  • Piotr Fronczewski
    Piotr Fronczewski

    Piotr Fronczewski , is a Poland actor and singer.As a fictional character Franek Kimono he issued a disco LP in 1983 which was meant to be a musical joke but turned out to be a great success....
  • Wieslaw Ochman
    Wieslaw Ochman

    Wieslaw Ochman is a Poland tenor.Discography...
  • Majka Jezowska
    Majka Jezowska

    Majka Jezowska, , Poles singer mainly performing music for children, also a part-time actress.She was awarded Order of Smile and she has been a Polish List of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors of UNICEF....
  • Malgorzata Foremniak
    Malgorzata Foremniak

    Malgorzata Foremniak is a Poland actress. She is starring in the Polish TV series Na dobre i na zle and has played the role of Ash in Avalon ....
  • Artur Zmijewski
    Artur Zmijewski

    Artur Zmijewski may refer to:* Artur Zmijewski , Polish actor* Artur Zmijewski , Polish movie maker, visual artist, photographer...
  • Natalia Kukulska
    Natalia Kukulska

    Natalia Kukulska is a singer, former child singer and former child actress in her native Poland. Natalia is the daughter of Polish composer Jaroslaw Kukulski and the late Polish vocalist, Anna Jantar....
     (2007)


Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....

  • Pedro Couceiro
  • Luís Figo
    Luís Figo

    Lu?s Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo, is a professional Portuguese football . He plays as a midfielder and winger , currently for F.C. Internazionale Milano....
  • Mariza
    Mariza

    Mariza is the stage name of a popular fado singer. She was born Marisa dos Reis Nunes on 16 December 1973 in Maputo, Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique....


Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....

  • Alla Pugachova
  • Oxana Fedorova
    Oxana Fedorova

    Oxana Fedorova is a Russian Miss Universe winner , police officer, television hostess, actress, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.Fedorova is a Russian woman who became the first Miss Russia to win the Miss Universe contest....


Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....

  • Emir Kusturica
    Emir Kusturica

    Emir Kusturica, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is a filmmaker, actor and musician of Bosnian ancestry living in Serbia. He has converted to the Serbian Orthodox Church faith and considers himself to be Serb....
  • Aleksandar Ðordevic
    Aleksandar Ðordevic

    Aleksandar "Sa?a" ?ordevic is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and a present basketball coach.He was a 1.88 m point guard and played 108 games for the Yugoslavia national basketball team....
  • Jelena Jankovic
    Jelena Jankovic

    Jelena Jankovic is a Serbian professional tennis player. She was ranked List of WTA number 1 ranked players for seventeen consecutive weeks until she was overtaken by Serena Williams on February 2, 2009....
  • Ana Ivanovic
    Ana Ivanovic

    Ana Ivanovic is a former World No. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of February 23, 2009, she is ranked World No. 7 by the Women's Tennis Association and is the reigning French Open singles champion....


Slovakia
Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....

  • Kamila Magalova
  • Peter Dvorsky
    Peter Dvorský

    Peter Dvorsk? is a Slovak tenor opera singer.He studied at the Comenius University, Bratislava. There he also enjoyed his first successes at the Slovak National Theatre....
  • Vaso Patejdl


Slovenia
Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....

  • Tone Pavcek
  • Lado Leskovar
  • Milena Župancic
  • Boris Cavazza
  • Zlatko Zahovic
    Zlatko Zahovic

    Zlatko Zahovic is a retired Slovenian football player and director of NK Maribor.Arguably the most illustrious Slovenian football player ever, Zahovic was born in Maribor, Socialist Republic of Slovenia of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
  • Vita Mavric
  • Marko Simeunovic
    Marko Simeunovic

    Marko "Simke" Simeunovic is a Slovenian football who has represented his country at the two major tournaments for which they have qualified . He has played for Crvena Zvezda, NK Olimpija, Etimesgut Sekerspor, NK Maribor, Olympiakos Nicosia, AEL Limassol and NK Factor Ljubljana....


South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....

  • Quinton Fortune
    Quinton Fortune

    Quinton Fortune is a South African football who has represented a number of European clubs including Manchester United, Atletico Madrid and Bolton Wanderers....


South Korea
South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....

  • Pum-Soo Sohn (1999)
  • Si Won Ryu (1999)
  • Mee-Hwa Kim (1999)
  • Myung-Hwa Chung (1999)
  • Dooly
    Dooly

    History Dooly was first created when its creator Soo Jung Kim issued the manhwa under takubon named Bo-Mool Sum . It was first shown in the first week of April, 1983, finished about ten years later....
     (1997)
  • Byung-Ki Hwang (1996)
  • Sung Ki Ahn (1993)
  • Wan Suh Park (1993)


Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....

  • Joan Manuel Serrat
    Joan Manuel Serrat

    Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa is a Spain Catalonia singer-songwriter.Serrat is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages....
    (1998)
  • Emilio Aragón
    Los Payasos de la Tele

    Los Payasos de la Tele is the name by which a trio of popular Spain clowns are known, initially formed by Gaby , Fof? and Miliki , and succeeded by Fofito , Milikito and Rody ....
     (2000)
  • Imanol Arias
    Imanol Arias

    Imanol Arias born Manuel Mar?a Arias Dom?nguez , is a Spain actor and one off film director.Imanol Arias began his career with a travelling theatre group in Spain performing in Euskadi ....
     (2000)
  • Pedro Delgado
    Pedro Delgado

    Pedro Delgado Robledo , also known as Perico, is a Spain former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1988 Tour de France, and the Vuelta a Espa?a in 1985 and 1989....
     (2000)
  • Joaquín Cortes
    Joaquín Cortés

    Joaqu?n Cort?s is a classically trained ballet and flamenco dancer from Spain of Romani people origin....
     (1999)
  • Ana Duato (2000)
  • Teresa Viejo (2000)
  • Eusebio Sacristán
    Eusebio Sacristán

    Eusebio Sacrist?n Mena , often called Eusebio, is a former Spain football , and also a former 2nd assistant Coach of FC Barcelona.During his club career he played for Real Valladolid , Atl?tico Madrid , FC Barcelona , and Celta de Vigo ....
     (2002)
  • Pau Gasol
    Pau Gasol

    Pau Gasol i S?ez is a 2.13 m Spain professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association . He was born to Marisa S?ez and Agust? Gasol, and he spent his childhood growing up in Spain....
     (2003)
  • Silvia Abascal
    Silvia Abascal

    Silvia Abascal Estrada, is a Spain actress.Her first chance came in 1992 in Chicho Ib??ez Serrador's TV program Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez....
     (2003)
  • María Bayo (2004)
  • Fernando Alonso
    Fernando Alonso

    Fernando Alonso D?az is a Spain Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion.On September 25, 2005 he won the List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions title at the age of 24 years and 58 days, thus breaking Emerson Fittipaldi's record of being the youngest World Drivers' Champion ....
     (2005)
  • Rafael Guijosa
    Rafael Guijosa

    Rafael Guijosa Castillo is a former Spain team handball player, and current club manger for BM Alcobendas. When playing for the Spain national handball team he received bronze medals both in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...
     (2005)
  • Samuel Etoo (2005)
  • "Los Lunnis" (2005)


Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....

  • Lars Berghagen
  • Robyn
    Robyn

    Robin Miriam Carlsson, better known by her stage name Robyn is a Grammy-nominated Swedish pop music singer-songwriter and is widely known in her homeland....
  • Lill Lindfors
    Lill Lindfors

    Lillemor "Lill" Lindfors is a Finnish-Swedish jazz singer. She has been performing in Scandinavia with minor and major success since the 1960s....


Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....

  • James Galway
    James Galway

    Sir James Galway Order of the British Empire is a Northern Ireland–born virtuoso flautist from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man With the Golden Flute"....
  • Natascha Badmann
    Natascha Badmann

    Natascha Badmann is a professional triathlon from Switzerland and was the first European woman to win the Ironman Triathlon World Championships....


Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....

  • Kathleeya McIntosh
  • Anand Panyarachun
    Anand Panyarachun

    Anand Panyarachun was Thailand's Prime Minister twice, between 1991-1992 and once again in 1992. He was effective in initiating economic and political reforms, one of which was the drafting of Thailand's "Peoples' Constitution", which was promulgated in 1997 and abrogated in 2006....


Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....

  • Nilüfer Yumlu
    Nilüfer Yumlu

    Nil?fer Yumlu is a Turkey pop singer who performs as simply Nil?fer.Together with the band Nazar , she represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, where she shared 18th place with Seija Simola from Finland....


Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....

  • Ruslana
    Ruslana

    Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko is a World Music Awards winning and MTV Europe Music Award nominated artist, and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004....
     (2005)


United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....

  • Lord Bill Deedes
    Bill Deedes

    William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, Order of the British Empire, Military Cross, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Deputy Lieutenant was a United Kingdom journalist and politician....
     (1998)
  • Manchester United F.C.
    Manchester United F.C.

    Manchester United Football Club is an English association football club, based at Old Trafford in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with over 330 million supporters worldwide ? almost 5% of the world's population....
     (1999)
  • Robbie Williams
    Robbie Williams

    Robbie Williams is a Grammy Award-nominated and ten time BRIT Awards-winning England singer-songwriter. His career started as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career....
     (2000)
  • Andrew O'Hagan
    Andrew O'Hagan

    Andrew O'Hagan is a Scottish people writer and novelist. He was selected by the literary magazine Granta for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists....
     (2001)
  • Martin Bell OBE
    Martin Bell

    Martin Bell, Order of the British Empire, is a United Kingdom UNICEF Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and former independent politician....
     (2001)
  • Jemima Khan
    Jemima Khan

    Jemima Marcelle Khan is a former girlfriend of Hugh Grant and ex-wife of Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, with whom she had two sons in the 1990s....
     (2001)
  • Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Fiennes

    Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an England actor. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List, Quiz Show , The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda, Red Dragon , The Constant Gardener , Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the Harry Potter , and In Bruges....
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  • Sir Alex Ferguson (2002)
  • Ewan McGregor
    Ewan McGregor

    Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish people actor, singer, and adventurer who has had success in mainstream, independent film and Art film films....
     (2004)
  • Trudie Styler
    Trudie Styler

    Trudie Styler is an actress and producer. She is married to the musician Sting ....
     (2004)
  • Paul Clark
    Paul Clark (presenter)

    Paul Thompson Clark is a Northern Irish people television presenter and journalist. He is currently a presenter and reporter for UTV Live....
     (2004)
  • Kaye Adams
    Kaye Adams (presenter)

    Kaye Adams is a Scottish people television presenter, best known for presenting Loose Women....
     (2005)
  • Elle Macpherson
    Elle Macpherson

    Elle Macpherson is an Australian model , actress, philanthropist and businesswoman. She is renowned for her beauty, ideal measurements, and entrepreneurial skills....
     (2005)
  • James Nesbitt
    James Nesbitt

    James Nesbitt is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in Broughshane and Coleraine, County Londonderry. Although he made acting appearances with the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine in his teenage years, he wanted to become a teacher, like his father....
     (2006)
  • Ryan Giggs OBE
    Ryan Giggs

    Ryan Joseph Giggs Order of the British Empire is a Welsh association football who has played for Manchester United F.C. for the entirety of his club career to-date....
     (2006)
  • Claudia Schiffer
    Claudia Schiffer

    Claudia Schiffer is a Germany Model and actress, who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s, initially due to her striking resemblance to Brigitte Bardot....
     (2006)


United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...

  • Clay Aiken
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  • India.Arie
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  • Angela Bassett
    Angela Bassett

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  • Katie Couric
    Katie Couric

    Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric is an United States journalist who became well-known as co-host of NBC's Today . In 2006, she made a highly publicized move from NBC to CBS, and on September 5, 2006 she became the first solo female anchor of the weekday evening news on one of the three traditional United States broadcast networks....
  • Jane Curtin
    Jane Curtin

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  • Laurence Fishburne
    Laurence Fishburne

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  • Sarah Hughes
    Sarah Hughes

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  • James Kiberd
    James Kiberd

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  • Annette Roque Lauer
  • Téa Leoni
    Téa Leoni

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  • Lucy Liu
    Lucy Liu

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     (2004)
  • Alyssa Milano
    Alyssa Milano

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     (2003)
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
    Sarah Jessica Parker

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  • Isabella Rossellini
    Isabella Rossellini

    Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian Actor, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model . Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lanc?me model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her....
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    Marcus Samuelsson

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    Summer Sanders

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  • Claudia Schiffer
    Claudia Schiffer

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  • Liv Tyler
    Liv Tyler

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     (2003)
  • Courtney B. Vance
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  • Joel Madden
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Uruguay
Uruguay

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  • Diego Forlán
    Diego Forlán

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  • Enzo Francescoli
    Enzo Francescoli

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Vietnam
Vietnam

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See also

  • UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
    UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

    UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of UNESCO who utilize their talent or fame to spread the UNESCO ideals, especially attracting media attention....
  • UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
    UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador

    UNFPA Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of the United Nations Population Fund and utilize their talent and fame to advocate for the human right of reproductive health....
  • UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
    UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

    UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees who use their talent and fame to advocate for refugees....
  • UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador
    UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador

    UNIDO Goodwill Ambassadors are expert advocates of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and utilize their talent and experience to advocate for sustainable industrial development in developing countries....
  • WHO Goodwill Ambassador
    WHO Goodwill Ambassador

    WHO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of the WHO and utilize their talent and fame to advocate for health and well-being.WHO Goodwill Ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:...


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