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Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba (植芝 盛平 Ueshiba Morihei, December 14, 1883–April 26, 1969) was a famous martial artist and founder of the Japanese martial art of aikido. He is often referred to as Kaiso (開祖), meaning "founder", or Ōsensei, "Great Teacher".
Morihei...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1883
Date of death:
- Apr 26, 1969 (age 85 years)
Steven Seagal
Steven F. Seagal (pronounced /sɨˈɡɑːl/; born April 10, 1952 to an Irish mother and Jewish father is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, martial artist, guitarist, energy drink entrepreneur, and deputy sheriff. He belongs to a...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1952 (age 57 years)
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme (born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, 18 October 1960 is a Belgian martial artist and actor who is best known for martial arts and action movies. His most successful films include Bloodsport (1988), Universal...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1960 (age 49 years)
Chuck Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, actor and media personality. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1940 (age 69 years)
Joshua Waitzkin
Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976, New York City) is a chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994.
He began playing the game at the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 4, 1976 (age 33 years)
Dan Inosanto
Daniel Arca Inosanto (born July 24, 1936) is an American Filipino martial arts (FMA) instructor from California who is best-known as a student of the late Bruce Lee and authority on Jeet Kune Do Concepts.
Dan the ino Inosanto teaches The Art and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1936 (age 73 years)
Moriteru Ueshiba
Moriteru Ueshiba (植芝 守央 Ueshiba Moriteru, born April 2, 1951) is the third and current dōshu of the Aikikai.
He was born in Tokyo, Japan, and assumed the title of dōshu on January 4, 1999 following the death of his father, Kisshomaru Ueshiba. He is...
Date of birth:
- Apr 2, 1951 (age 58 years)
Stephen K. Hayes
Stephen K. Hayes (born September 9, 1949 in Delaware) is an American martial arts teacher, Buddhist priest, and author of over fifteen books.
In June of 1975, while in Japan, he met and began training under Masaaki Hatsumi, the founder of the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1949 (age 60 years)
Doug Williams
Douglas Clayton Durdle (born September 1, 1972), better known by his ring name Doug Williams, is an English professional wrestler. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is one half of the TNA World Tag Team Champions...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1972 (age 37 years)
Mark Dacascos
Mark Alan Dacascos (born February 26, 1964) is an American actor and martial artist. He won numerous karate and various styles of kung fu championships between the ages of 7 and 18.
Beginning in January 2005, Dacascos has portrayed "the Chairman" on...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1964 (age 45 years)
Koichi Tohei
Koichi Tohei (藤平光一, Tōhei Kōichi) (born January 1920) is a 10th Dan aikidoka and founder of the Ki Society and its style of aikido, officially Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido (literally "aikido with mind and body unified"), but commonly known as Ki-Aikido....
Date of birth:
- Jan 1920 (age 90 years)
Gōzō Shioda
Gōzō Shioda (塩田 剛三, Gōzō Shioda, September 9, 1915–July 17, 1994), was a Japanese aikido teacher and the founder of the Yoshinkan style of aikido.
Gōzō was a student of judo while young, and after being easily thrown by Morihei Ueshiba after a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1915
Date of death:
- Jul 17, 1994 (age 78 years)
Chuck Zito
Italian-American Chuck Zito (born Charles Zito Jr. on March 1, 1953) is an actor, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman, former boxing trainer and former president of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels.
Zito was born in...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1953 (age 56 years)
Christopher Adams
Christopher Adams (February 10, 1955 – October 7, 2001), best known as "Gentleman" Chris Adams, was an English professional wrestler, wrestling promoter, trainer and judoka. By age 21, he was a three-time British National Judo Champion in his age...
Date of birth:
- Feb 10, 1955
Date of death:
- Oct 7, 2001 (age 46 years)
Brenda Song
Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress, singer, and model. Song started in show business as a child fashion model. After many commercials and television roles in the late 1990s, Song won a Young Artist Award for her work in The...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1988 (age 21 years)
Jeff Speakman
Jeff Speakman (born November 8, 1958) is an American actor and an accomplished martial artist in the art of kenpo.
Speakman was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a springboard diver in high school and achieved All-American status. He broke several...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1958 (age 51 years)
William Cheung
William Cheung or Cheung Cheuk Hing (張卓興, pinyin: Zhāng Zhuōxīng), born 1940, is a Wing Chun Kung Fu practitioner and currently the Grandmaster of his lineage of Wing Chun, entitled Traditional Wing Chun (TWC). He also heads the sanctioning body of...
Date of birth:
- 1940 (age 70 years)
Lam Ching Ying
Lam Ching-ying (Traditional Chinese: 林正英; real name: Lam Gun-bo 林根寶; 27 December 1952 - 8 November 1997) was a Chinese actor, action director and director. A physically talented and graceful martial artist, Lam was best known for playing the stoic...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1952
Date of death:
- 1997 (age 44 years)
Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale (born October 28, 1951, Gladewater, Texas) is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has also written for...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1951 (age 58 years)
Remy Presas
Remy Amador Presas (December 19, 1936 – August 28, 2001) was the founder of Modern Arnis, a popular Filipino martial art. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States in the 1970s, where he taught his art via seminars and camps. He also...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1936
Date of death:
- Aug 28, 2001 (age 64 years)
Zuluzinho
Zuluzinho, real name Wagner da Conceição Martins, is a Brazilian vale tudo and mixed martial arts fighter. His father was vale tudo fighter Rei Zulu. Wagner was raised by his grandmother and works as a security guard in a number of reggae clubs in...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1978 (age 31 years)
Ashida Kim
Ashida Kim is the pseudonym of an individual who has authored a series of books on ninjitsu training. Kim operates the DOJO Academy, which he describes as “an internationally famous martial arts fraternity”. Kim's writings and statements have made...
Date of birth:
- 1948 (age 62 years)
Lee Murray
Lee Lamrani Ibrahim "Lightning" Murray (Arabic: لي العمراني إبراهيم موراي) (born November 12, 1977 in London, England) is a British-Moroccan mixed martial arts fighter. He is also a suspected bank robber linked to the £53 million Securitas raid.
Lee...
Date of birth:
- Nov 12, 1977 (age 32 years)
Ernest Emerson
Ernest R. Emerson (born March 7, 1955) is an American custom knifemaker, martial artist, and edged-weapons expert. Originally an engineer and machinist in the aerospace industry, Emerson became a knifemaker known for making decorative knives but...
Date of birth:
- Mar 7, 1955 (age 54 years)
Gilbert Yvel
Gilbert "The Hurricane" Yvel (June 30, 1976 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch mixed martial arts fighter. He is associated with the Vos Gym training camp in the Netherlands.
Gilbert Yvel was one of the first Dutch fighters who successfully...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1976 (age 33 years)
Weng Weng
Ernesto de la Cruz (September 7, 1957 — August 29, 1992), better known as Weng Weng, was a Filipino actor and wannabe martial artist. Only 83 cm (2 feet, 9 inches) tall, he is listed in the Guinness World Records as the shortest adult actor in a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1957
Date of death:
- Aug 29, 1992 (age 35 years)
Myuran Sukumaran
Myuran Sukumaran (born April 17, 1981), a London born Sri Lankan-Tamil-Australian from Auburn, New South Wales, Australia, is the convicted ring leader of a heroin smuggling operation from Indonesia to Australia known as the Bali Nine. Sukumaran was...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1981 (age 28 years)
Wong Jack Man
Wong Jack Man (Chinese:黃澤民, pinyin: Huáng Zémín, born c.1940 in Hong Kong) is a Chinese martial artist and martial arts teacher, best known for a martial arts duel with Bruce Lee in Oakland in 1964.
Wong taught classes in Tai Chi Chuan, Xingyiquan...
Date of birth:
- 1940 (age 70 years)
Masutatsu Oyama
Ōyama Masutatsu (Japanese: 大山倍達 Ōyama Masutatsu July 27, 1923 – April 26, 1994), also known as Mas Oyama, was a karate master who founded Kyokushinkai, arguably the first and most influential style of full contact karate. He was born Choi Yeong-eui ...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1923
Date of death:
- 1994 (age 70 years)
Tim Tackett
Tim Tackett is a martial arts instructor and author from Redlands, California who runs a non-profit group dedicated to preserving Bruce Lee's art of Jeet Kune Do.
Tackett began training in the martial arts when he was stationed in Taiwan in 1962...
Ron Balicki
Ron Balicki is an actor and stuntman for various films and television series. He is also a well known martial arts practitioner, teacher and author. He is a student and the son-in-law of Dan Inosanto.
Balicki grew up in Chicago, Illinois. In 1987 he...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1963 (age 46 years)
Scott Sonnon
Scott Sonnon is a tactical fitness coach, counter-terrorism and USA national martial art team coach, yoga guru, and wellness speaker known for training the Israeli counter-terrorism school LOTAR , movie stars such as Peta Wilson and Donna Karan as...
Date of birth:
- 1969 (age 41 years)
Chris Crudelli
Chris Crudelli (born August 1972) is a martial artist, television presenter and author. He is best known as the host of BBC television programmes about the martial arts of far eastern countries, Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves, Kick Ass Miracles, and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1972 (age 37 years)
Jasmine Simhalan
Jasmine Simhalan (born November 13, 1970 in Chennai, India) is a practitioner of the Indian martial arts and classical Indian dance. Her father, Simhalan Madhava Panicker, was a well known Martial Artist. Simhalan is an instructor in Silambam and a...
Date of birth:
- Nov 13, 1970 (age 39 years)
Shinya Aoki
Shinya "Tobikan Judan" Aoki (Japanese: 青木真也) (born May 9, 1983) is a Japanese mixed martial artist, grappler, and former police officer. Aoki is the current World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts (WAMMA) Lightweight Champion, DREAM Lightweight...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1983 (age 26 years)
Sokaku Takeda
Takeda Sokaku (武田 惣角 Takeda Sōkaku, October 10, 1859–April 25, 1943) was known as the founder of a school of jujutsu known as Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu.
Born in the Aizu domain (modern-day Fukushima Prefecture), Sokaku grew up in a time of war (Boshin)...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1859
Date of death:
- Apr 25, 1943 (age 83 years)
Jigoro Kano
Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎, 28 October 1860 – 4 May 1938) was the founder of judo. Judo was the first Japanese martial art to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport. Pedagogical innovations attributed...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1860
Date of death:
- May 4, 1938 (age 77 years)
Matt Mullins
Matt Mullins is a 5-time martial arts world champion. Born 10 November 1980, Euclid, Ohio, USA. At the age of 16 in 1997 he had won his first WKA title in Dublin, Ireland, this would be his first of 5 championships in the next 3 years in his career....
Date of birth:
- 1972 (age 38 years)
Simhalan madhava panicker
Simhalan Madhava Panicker was a well known South Asian martial artist and actor of film and theater. Born into a family of plantation farmers in Kerala in 1930, he left home at the young age of 8 and traveled to all corners of India. He found his...
Date of birth:
- 1930 (age 80 years)
Antonio Silva
Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva (born September 14, 1979) is a Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter. He initially fought in the super heavyweight division, but currently competes in the heavyweight weight class. He is the first and last EliteXC heavyweight...
Date of birth:
- Sep 14, 1979 (age 30 years)
John Foo
Jon Foo (born Jonathan Patrick Foo, October 30, 1982) is a British actor, model and Wushu master of Chinese descent. Jon is Irish-Chinese and grew up in London, England. However, he is currently based in Los Angeles, California. He has starred in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 30, 1982 (age 27 years)
Anthony Johnson
Anthony Kewoa Johnson (born March 6, 1984 in Dublin, Georgia) is an American mixed martial artist who currently fights in the UFC. He made his UFC debut at UFC Fight Night 10, knocking out Chad Reiner just thirteen seconds into the first round. He...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1984 (age 25 years)
Michelle Gordon
Tyna Michelle Gordon (pronounced Tina) (born April 3, 1960) is a national and international award-winning American martial artist. She is known for her work with children and as a martial arts instructor.
Gordon was born in Chicago, Illinois, the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 3, 1960 (age 49 years)
Robert Drysdale
Robert Drysdale (born in Provo, Utah) is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt. Born in the United States to a Brazilian mother and American father, he moved to Brazil with his family in 1987 at the age of six. Several years later, as a young man he...
Michael Steger
Michael Mateus Steger (born May 27, 1980) is an American film and television actor.
Steger is the third out of four sons. Michael is the son of an accountant mother and an operations manager family. He is of Ecuadorian, Austrian and Norwegian...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1980 (age 29 years)
Chris Haseman
Chris Haseman (born 2 June 1969) born in Australia is a mixed martial arts fighter. He competed in the Light Heavyweight division. He lost his last fight at SRF 9 - Spartan Reality Fight 9 against Bill Mahood on 3 April 2004. He will return to the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 2, 1969 (age 40 years)
Charles Lewis, Jr
Charles 'Mask' Lewis was the creator and founder of the clothing brand, TapouT.
Date of death:
- Mar 11, 2009
Junelehua Kalaeloa Strode
Junelehua Kalaeloa Strode - is an actress, dancer, and is the daughter of actor Woody Strode and Princess Luukialuana "Luana" Kalaeloa Strode, a descendant of the last great queen of Hawaii; Liliuokalani. June was best know for her regular...
Frank Argelander
Frank Argelander - Is an American martial arts practitioner, instructor, promoter, and founder of the Seishindo Karate style. Argelander an accomplished weapons expert, is noted for his spectacular weapons exhibition, with a Samurai Sword....
