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page 1Shotokan practitioners
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Belgian actor and martial artist (born 1960)
Wesley Snipes
American actor (born 1962)
Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (born 7 April 1990) is an English singer and songwriter. She has achieved commercial success with songs "Alarm" (2016), "Ciao Adios" (2017), "Friends" (2018), "2002" (2018), "Rewrite The Stars" (2018), "Don't Play" (2021), "Kiss My (Uh-Oh)" (2021), "Psycho" (2022), "Baby Don't Hurt Me" (2023), and "Unhealthy" (2023). She was featured on Clean Bandit's "Rockabye" (2016), which peaked at number one in twenty-seven terrorities, including the United Kingdom. She has released 3 albums: Speak Your Mind (2018), which peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart, Therapy (20
Gichin Funakoshi
Japanese karateka (1868–1957)
Lorraine Bracco
American actress
Aleksander Čeferin
Slovenian football administrator
Mas Oyama
Korean-Japanese full-contact karate master, the founder of Kyokushin (1922-1994)
Michael Jai White
American actor
John Saxon
American actor (1936-2020)
Stephen R. Donaldson
novelist
Masatoshi Nakayama
martial artist (1913–1987)
Olivier Gruner
French actor and kickboxer
Benny Urquidez
American kickboxer, martial artist, martial arts choreographer, and actor
Michel Qissi
Moroccan-Belgian actor
Hirokazu Kanazawa
martial artist (1931–2019)
Cyril Raffaelli
French martial artist
Rafael Aghayev
Azerbaijani karate competitor (1985-)
Hidetaka Nishiyama
martial artist (1928–2008)
Dallas Liu
American actor
Darren Shahlavi
British actor (1972–2015)
Stuart Young
politician in Trinidad and Tobago
Taiji Kase
martial artist (1929–2004)
Teruyuki Okazaki
Okinawan martial artist
Steve Blackman
American professional wrestler
Pino Presti
Italian conductor, arranger, bassist, composer and record producer from Milan
Abdel Qissi
Moroccan actor
David Bradley
American actor
Tetsuhiko Asai
Japanese master of Shotokan karate (1935-2006)
Austin Peck
American actor
Shigeru Egami
martial artist (1912-1981)
Hideo Ochi
Japanese karateka
Keinosuke Enoeda
martial artist (1935–2003)
Tatsuya Naka
Japanese martial artist
Dominique Valera
French actor and karateka
Dana Hee
American actress
Tetsuji Murakami
Japanese karate master and teacher (1927–1987)
Keigo Abe
martial artist (1938-2019)
Billy Conigliaro
American baseball player
Luca Valdesi
Italian karateka
Hiroshi Shirai
martial artist
Nadine Joachim
German karateka
Masahiko Tanaka
Japanese martial artist
C. W. Nicol
Welsh-born Japanese writer (1940-2020)
John Fonseca
American karateka
Dave Hazard
British martial artist
Hwang Kee
South Korean martial artist (1914–2002)
Terry O'Neill
English martial artist
Takayuki Mikami
martial artist
T. J. Stiles
American biographer and historian
Geoff Thompson
British martial artist