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| '''Celebrity players''', or [[players]] in [[Hattrick]] with the name of a real-life celebrity, have long been a popular commodity in Hattrick. Teams are willing to spend $100k just to have a player with a celebrity name on their team, however obscure the reference.
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| ==International Celebrities==
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| These are the celebrities that are international icons, like Madonna for instance.
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| '''Sean Connery''' ''The original James Bond, and a very well-known actor'' (7660926)<br>
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| '''Michael Jordan''' ''One of the greatest basketball players ever'' (4055107)<br>
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| '''John Lennon''' ''From The Beatles'' (58963286)<br>
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| '''Paul Mccartney''' ''From The Beatles'' (42032093)<br>
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| '''George Harrison''' ''From The Beatles'' (13259877)<br>
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| '''Martin Gore''' ''From Depeche Mode'' (72080010)<br>
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| '''Diego Armando Maradona''' ''Argentinian Football Mogul'' (12468114)<br>
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| '''Federico Fellini''' ''Greatest Italian movie director'' (118058036)<br>
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| '''Michael Jackson''' ''King of Pop'' (127276936)<br />
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| '''Robert Plant''' ''From Led Zeppelin'' (123974053)<br />
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| '''Keith Richards''' ''From The Rolling Stones'' (116964335)<br />
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| ==Celebrities exclusive to a country or region==
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| These celebrities aren't internationally famous, but they are quite famous in certain areas of the world. Players are indexed by their country of origin, unless they hold an office in a different country and they are considerably more famous in that country.
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| === Argentina ===
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| '''Carlos Gardel''' ''Famous tango singer'' (55203369)</br>
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| '''Carlos Saúl Menem''' ''President of Argentina 1989-1999'' (115182880)</br>
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| '''Che Guevara''' ''Famous Guerillia Fighter'' (58847264)</br>
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| '''David Nalbandian''' ''Tennis Player'' (119861043)</br>
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| '''Diego Armando Maradona''' ''Greatest football player of all time'' (12468114)</br>
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| '''Gabriel Batistuta''' ''Batigol: Famous striker'' (115545117)</br>
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| '''Guillermo Vilas''' ''Tenis player'' (122538636)</br>
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| '''Jorge Luis Borges''' ''Famous writer'' (67798282)</br>
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| '''Juan Domingo Perón''' ''President of Argentina 1946-1955 and 1973-1974'' (50825886)</br>
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| '''Julio Bocca''' ''Famous dancer'' (50632472)</br>
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| === Australia ===
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| '''Mel Gibson''' ''Hollywood Actor/Director'' (24131390)<br />
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| ===Belgium===
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| '''Luc Nilis''' ''A Red Devil who broke his leg pretty bad and can't play anymore'' (68604797)<br />
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| '''Jean-Claude Van Damme''' ''Moviestar, The Muscles from Brussels'' (98012952)<br />
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| '''Jan Ceulemans''' ''Belgian player from the golden 80's'' (11370199)<br />
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| '''Guy Verhofstadt''' ''The Belgian prime minister'' (107966241)<br />
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| '''Yves Leterme''' ''The Flemmish minister-president'' (108915892)<br />
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| '''Filip Dewinter''' ''One of the leaders (not chairman) of "Vlaams Belang"'' (50213462)<br />
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| '''Chris Wauters''' ''Flemish singer/songwriter and manager of "Clouseau"'' (36326416)<br />
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| '''Jean-Marie Dedecker''' ''Former judo-coach and VLD-senator. Nowadays a member of the political party "NVA"'' (92644545)<br />
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| '''Vincent Kompany''' ''Belgian football talent, defender of Hamburger SV'' (107843123)<br />
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| '''Timmy Simons''' ''Captain of the "Red Devils (Belgium)"'' (96736580)<br />
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| '''Kim Clijsters''' ''Famous Belgian female tennis player'' (71521977)<br />
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| '''Bart Goor''' ''Winger, playing for RSCA'' (24286478)<br />
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| '''Geert De Vlieger''' ''Belgian keeper, player of SV Zulte-Waregem'' (87920468)<br />
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| '''Frank Vercauteren''' ''Trainer of RSCA'' (95017894)<br />
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| '''Emilio Ferrara''' ''Trainer of Club Bruges'' (41815763)<br />
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| '''Hugo Broos''' ''Trainer of KRC Genk'' (108480360)<br />
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| '''Koen Daerden''' ''Winger of Club Bruges'' (13004368)<br />
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| '''François Duval''' ''Famous Belgian rally pilot'' (138233446)<br />
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| '''Nils Albert''' ''Young Belgian cyclo-cross talent'' (72632374)<br />
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| '''Patrick Janssens''' ''Politician for SP.A, mayor of Antwerp'' (90371581) <br />
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| '''Walter Baele''' ''Comedian'' (10926016) <br />
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| '''Tom Lenaerts''' ''Makes Programs For Tv'' (141182542) <br />
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| '''Jan Wauters''' ''Sports Journalist'' (55882765) <br />
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| '''Ben Crabbé''' ''Presenter of the daily TV Quiz "Blokken"'' (128636446) <br />
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| '''Geert Hoste''' ''Stand up comedian'' (90992065) <br />
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| === Brazil ===
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| '''Mané dos Santos''' ''alias Garrincha, legendary footballer'' (79429216) <br />
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| === Bulgaria ===
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| '''Vasil Kolarov''' ''Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 1949 to 1950'' (98768276)<br />
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| '''Simeon Sakskoburggotski''' ''Also known as Simeon II of Bulgaria, last Tsar of Bulgaria (1943-1946); from 2001 until August 2005 was Bulgarian Prime Minister'' (27748093)
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| === Croatia ===
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| '''Marko Babić''' ''Croatian footballer, part of Croatian roster for FIFA World Cup in Germany'' (84015931)<br />
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| '''Ante Pavelić''' ''Croatian fascist leader'' (132136675) <br />
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| === Czech Republic ===
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| '''Vaclav Havel''' ''Czech president (1990 - 2002) (124248485) </br>
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| '''Vaclav Klaus''' ''Czech president (2002 - today) (124241672) and (124300328) </br>
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| '''Pavel Nedved''' ''captain of Czech Football Team (2002 - 2006), silver medal on Euro Cup 1996, bronze medal on Euro Cup 2004 (124215844) </br>
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| '''Josef "Pepi" Bican''' ''1913-2001; legendary czech-austrian striker who scored 643 league goals (78087313) </br>
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| === Denmark ===
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| ''' Brian Steen Nielsen''' ''former football player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Steen_Nielsen]'' (56708925) (70787589)</br>
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| '''Martin Jørgensen''' ''football player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J%C3%B8rgensen]'' (41022357)</br>
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| '''Stig Tøfting''' ''football player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig_T%C3%B8fting]'' (40476877)</br>
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| '''Brian Laudrup''' ''former football player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Laudrup]'' (73258547) (87392216)</br>
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| '''Michael Laudrup''' ''former football player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Laudrup]'' (46870076)</br>
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| '''Peter Schmeichel''' ''former goalkeeper [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schmeichel]'' (95269245) (35285034)</br>
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| '''Thomas Gravesen''' ''football player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gravesen]'' (112976329)</br>
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| '''Morten Andersen''' ''famous NFL player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Andersen]'' (80288481)</br>
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| '''Viggo Mortensen''' ''Actor - played Aragorn in LoTR [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Mortensen]'' (94608356)</br>
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| '''Lars Ulrich''' ''Drummer and co-founder of Metallica [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Ulrich]'' (135930315) (8397651) (122436320) (55325816)</br>
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| '''Mads Mikkelsen''' ''danish actor [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Mikkelsen]'' (113448865)</br>
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| '''Poul Schlüter''' ''former danish prime minister [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Schl%C3%BCter]'' (134284726)</br>
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| '''Hans Christian Hansen''' ''former danish prime minister [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.C._Hansen]'' (78549393)</br>
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| '''Hans Christian Andersen''' ''worldfamous danish author [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen]'' (92944120)</br>
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| '''Michael Silberbauer''' ''football player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Silberbauer]'' (88192726)</br>
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| '''Harald Nielsen''' ''former football player [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Nielsen]'' (35486253)</br>
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| '''Kim Larsen''' ''singer/song writer [http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Larsen]'' (50435452)</br>
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| '''Søren Kaster''' ''former host of the danish version of Jeopardy'' (45877238)</br>
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| '''Preben Elkjær-Larsen''' ''former football player [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preben_Elkj%C3%A6r]'' (90291619) (135340669) (78327416)</br>
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| '''Hans Engell''' ''former Justice Minister of Denmark (before DUI-scandal) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Engell]'' (96311300) (96025778) (110686304) (72942951)</br>
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| '''Gustav Hansen''' ''Gus "The Great Dane", 3 times WPT-champion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Hansen]'' (115687113) (136449779) (110139881) (131559960) (90518490) (129443381) (130273858)</br>
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| === England ===
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| ''' Stephen Gerrard''' ''Liverpool F.C. all-star footballer and English national team starter (real-life player's name is spelled "Steven")'' (24623752)</br>
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| '''John Terry''' ''Chelsea and English national team captain'' (122769106) </br>
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| '''Tony Blair''' ''Current prime minister'' (110215872)</br>
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| '''John Major''' ''Ex PM showed up for a new career in a team from the USA'' (74415682)</br>
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| '''David Cameron''' ''Conservative party leader (2005-)'' (122655532)</br>
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| '''Murray Walker''' ''Ex-Formula 1 commentator, switched nationality to American'' (118860267)</br>
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| '''Bill Bailey''' ''comedian'' (121648083) </br>
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| '''George Cohen''' ''right back in england 1966 world cup winning team'' (17480487)</br>
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| '''Jack Charlton''' ''centre back in england 1966 world cup winning team'' (99461849)</br>
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| '''Martin Peters''' ''midfield player in england 1966 world winning cup team''(111827998)</br>
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| '''Roger Hunt''' ''striker in england 1966 world cup winning team''(10319759)</br>
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| '''Ron Atkinson''' ''former manchester united manager''(60799172)</br>
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| '''Alan Shearer''' ''All-time top scorer in both Newcastle United F.C. and the Premiership'' (58377758)</br>
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| '''Andy Fordham''' ''darts player''(90379751)</br>
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| '''Sean Long''' ''English rugby player''(82014475)</br>
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| '''James May''' ''Top Gear presenter along with Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson'' (128335553)<br />
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| '''Cliff Richard''' ''Legendary English pop singer'' (128581963)<br />
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| '''Ronald Biggs''' ''Train robber and fugitive'' (112151871)<br />
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| '''Boris Johnson''' ''English politician and pundit'' (109457866)<br />
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| '''William Joyce''' ''alias Lord Haw-Haw, wartime traitor'' (98147699)<br />
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| '''Tony Hadley''' (58032359), '''Martin Kemp''' (131321311), '''Gary Kemp''' (123331574), '''Steve Norman''' (142441861) ''Four-fifths of the band Spandau Ballet''<br />
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| '''Robbie Williams''' (97549957), '''Gary Barlow''' (98280879), '''Mark Owen''' (133751991), '''Howard Donald '''(91575787) ''Four-fifths of the band Take That''<br />
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| '''Rowan Williams''' ''The Archbishop of Canterbury'' (140603708)<br />
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| ===Israel===
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| '''Shlomo Arazi''' (45688987) ''Israeli singer'' </br>
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| '''Ben Artzi''' (89177978) ''Shlomo Arazi sun and Israeli singer''</br>
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| '''Shuki Nagar''' (63948060) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Pini Balili''' (82173068) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Shimon Gershon''' (58951081) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Liran Shtrauber''' (91032364) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Avi Nimni''' (78072093) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Nir Davidovich''' (32058254) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Arik Benado''' (47535889) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Tamir Cohen''' (72790990) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Liran Cohen''' (12463071) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Avi Strul''' (77317003) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Omri Afek''' (101934792) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Yossi Abuksis''' (20035894) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Ori Malmilyan''' (66203213) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Guy Azuri''' (86393960) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Nir Klinger''' (97304620) ''Israeli soccer player or former player and coach''</br>
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| '''Ttal Burstein''' (93492285) ''Israeli baketball player''</br>
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| '''Sharon Sason''' (109449962) ''Israeli baketball player'' </br>
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| '''Pini Gershon''' (48700377) ''Israeli baketball team coach'' </br>
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| '''David Amsalem''' (55168915) ''Israeli baketball team owner''</br>
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| '''Silvan Shalom''' (100127566) ''Israeli politic or former politic''</br>
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| '''Yitzhak Shamir''' (99992240) ''Israeli politic or former politic''</br>
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| '''David Ben-Gurion''' (99992338) ''Israeli politic or former politic''</br>
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| '''Ariel Sharon''' (47179495) ''Israeli politic or former politic''</br>
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| '''Shimon Peres''' (57496070) ''Israeli politic or former politic''</br>
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| '''Amir Pertz''' (69503165) ''Israeli politic or former politic''</br>
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| === México ===
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| '''Enrique Iglesias''' ''Latin Pop Star'' (75151573)<br />
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| === Misr ===
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| '''Hossam Hasan''' ''Hossam Hassan is a legendary footballer who has 170 caps and 80 goals for the Egyptian national team. He currently plays in the UAE for Mido FC.'' (95008071)<br />
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| === Netherlands ===
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| '''Rafael van der Vaart''' ''Dutch national team player'' (30629721)</br>
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| '''Johan Cruijff''' ''Most famous soccer player from the Netherlands'' (16252925)</br>
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| '''Herman Brood''' ''(1946-2001) Famous artist, painter, poet...''(31165182)<br>
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| '''Marco van Basten ''' ''Current coach of dutch soccer team...''(13259349)<br>
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| '''Gerrit Zalm''' '' Former Dutch minister of Finance'' (26354460)<br>
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| '''Abe Lenstra''' ''Famous Frisan player'' (28419888,22713458)<br>
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| '''Johan Neeskens''' ''Famous dutch player'' (44225916)<br>
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| '''Frank de Boer''' ''Most capped dutch defender'' (8315453)<br />
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| === Norway ===
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| '''Pål Strand''' ''Lillestrøm S.K. winger in the Norwegian top division'' (115409348)</br>
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| '''John Carew''' ''Norwegian striker that plays in Lyon'' (81449150)</br>
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| '''Arne Scheie''' ''Norwegian football and ski jump commentator'' (27843135)</br>
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| '''Henning Berg''' ''Former Norwegian footballer with 100 caps for Norway'' (15518604)</br>
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| '''Ronny Johnsen''' ''Norwegian footballer that won the Champions League with Manchester United'' (130698167)
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| === Poland ===
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| '''Władysław Gomułka''' ''Polish Communist leader from 1956 to 1970'' (54767414)<br />
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| '''Lech Kaczyński''' ''President of Poland'' (31727910)<br />
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| '''Andrzej Lepper''' ''Polish politician, one of the most controversial person in Poland'' (115605007)<br />
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| '''Adam Mickiewicz''' ''One of the best-known Polish poets and writers'' (104060231)
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| === Portugal ===
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| '''José Mourinho''' ''Ex-Porto and current Chelsea manager''(83969487)
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| '''Ricardo Carvalho''' '' Chelsea Player''(34436750)
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| '''Jorge Costa ''' ''Ex-Porto Player''(39730666)
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| '''Fernando Couto''' ''Parma Player''(38239739)
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| '''Paulo Ferreira''' ''Chelsea Player''(136608899)
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| ===Peru===
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| '''Abimael Guzmán''' ''Terrorist leader in Peru" (63924740)
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| === Russia ===
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| '''Vladimir Putin''' ''Russian President'' (57633405), (45983824)</br>
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| '''Eduard Limonov''' ''Russian writer'' (92273550)</br>
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| '''Egor Titov''' ''Spartak Moscow and Russian national team midfielder'' (137995525)
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| ===Scotland===
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| '''Lee McCulloch''' ''Wigan and Scotland midfielder''(123682134)</br>
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| '''Darren Fletcher''' ''Manchester United and Scotland midfielder'' (117494620)</br>
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| '''Alex Ferguson''' ''Manchester united manager who masterminded their 1999 treble''(112799095)
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| === Serbia and Montenegro ===
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| '''Slobodan Milošević''' ''President of Serbia (1989-1997) and of Yugoslavia (1997-2000)'' (86619870)
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| === Spain ===
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| '''Fernando Torres''' ''Spanish international football player'' (97716716)
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| '''Alfredo Di Stefano''' ''Legendary football player'' (137165526)<br />
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| === Sweden ===
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| '''Henrik Larsson''' ''Ex-Celtic, Barcelona, Feyenoord,Helsingborg, Sweden and current Manchester Utd striker'' (134747303)
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| === Wales===
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| '''Gareth Bale''' ''Welsh international but english on hattrick'' (8916974)</br>
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| '''Craig Bellamy''' ''Controversial Welsh International''(44211516), (74675793)</br>
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| === USA ===
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| '''Mike Tyson''' ''Boxer from the USA'' (38589956)<br />
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| '''George Washington''' ''Founding father of the USA'' (Extinct)<br />
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| '''Brad Pitt''' ''Hollywood Actor'' (48665275)<br />
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| '''Bruce Lee''' ''Kung Fu Icon'' (44619255)<br />
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| '''Jon Stewart''' ''Host of The Daily Show'' (47508820)<br />
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| '''Tom Cruise''' ''Hollywood Actor'' (55573963)<br />
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| '''Jack White''' ''Singer and Guitarist of The White Stripes'' (79383552)<br />
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| '''Jerry Cantrell''' ''Guitarist and Singer of Alice in Chains'' (48347237)<br />
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| '''Will Ferrell ''' ''Hollywood Actor'' (112906408)<br />
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| '''Tony Parker''' ''Famous french basketball's player'' (21953197)<br />
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| '''Curtis Jackson''' ''aka 50-cent''(10301550)<br />
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| '''Terrell Owens''' ''NFL-player Cowboys''(39219734)<br />
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| '''Michael Jordan''' ''NBA Star'' (123678177)<br />
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| '''Terry Gilliam''' ''Monty Python animator and film director (70267353)<br />
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| === Vietnam ===
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| '''Norman Morrison''' ''On November 2, 1965 he committed suicide by self-immolation to protest the United States involvement in the Vietnam War'' (58745545)
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| ==Fictional Characters==
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| These aren't really celebrities, but fictional characters, though many of them are just as famous as the other celebrities.
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| '''[[Homer Simpson]]''' ''from The Simpsons — had a U.S. national team cap and a special memorable moments entry'' (Extinct)<br>
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| '''Dorian Gray''' ''from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (52766376)<br>
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| '''Bart Simpson''' ''from The Simpsons'' (75793518) and (34882792)<br>
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| '''Al Bundy''' ''Love Polke High and played football'' (41964160)<br>
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| '''Harry Potter''' ''from the series of books by J.K. Rowling'' (10315054)<br>
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| '''Freddy Krueger''' ''fictional character from the Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films'' (10352435)<br />
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| '''Peter Parker''' ''The civilian name of Spider-Man'' (96615443)<br>
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| '''Will Parry''' ''Character of the trilogy "His Dark Materials"'' (79251090)<br>
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| '''John Connor''' ''Last hope of the humans in "terminator"'' (109417103)<br>
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| '''Kyle Rees''' ''Father of John Connor and only human to have travelled the time in "terminator"'' (95636722)<br>
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| '''Fernando Sucre''' ''From "Prison Break"'' (83971021)<br>
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| '''Eric Cartman''' ''from the animated show "South Park"'' (30463567)<br>
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| ==See Also==
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| [[Funny names]]
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| {{stub}}
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| [[category:Players]]
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