Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM ( born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago ) is a former West Indian international cricket player.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

Brian Lara is popularly nicknamed as " The Prince of Port of Spain " or simply " The Prince ".

Before the end of this World Cup Glenn McGrath stated that Lara is the greatest batsman that he has ever bowled to.

Brian Lara has established the Pearl and Bunty Lara Foundation, which is a charitable organisation in memory of his parents that aims to address health and social care issues.

Brian Lara is also a golf player.

Some nationwide celebrities might command some attention outside their own nation ; for example, the singer Lara Fabian is widely known in the French-speaking world, but only had a couple of Billboard hits in the U. S., whereas the francophone Canadian singer Celine Dion is well known in both the French-speaking world and in the U. S.

The current Minister of Foreign Relations as of 2011 is Jorge Lara Castro

The current Premier is Lara Giddings of the Australian Labor Party, who was sworn in on 24 January 2011.

Tomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of video games, comic books, novels, theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the fictional English archaeologist Lara Croft.

Two movies — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life — have been produced starring American actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the first of which is still the highest-grossing film adaptation of a video game ever released in US, and third worldwide.

The central character in Tomb Raider is the English archaeologist Lara Croft, a female adventurer in search of ancient relics.

For example, in the first Tomb Raider game manual, Lara Croft is said to have survived a plane crash in the Himalayas at the age of twenty one, and was later disowned by her parents, who are still living.

Nearly fifteen years after the release of the original game, Lara is still one of the most famous and recognizable video game characters in the history of the medium.

* November – In the Kingdom of Castile, former regent Álvaro Núñez de Lara is captured and forced to relinquish all his castles.

A romantic style is also popular in the Dominican Republic from vocalists such as Angela Carrasco, Anthony Rios, Dhario Primero, Maridalia Hernandez and Olga Lara.

The current mayor is Angelica Araujo Lara, from the PRI and she took office on July 1, 2010.

Wayne is called small-time by Benjamin just before he leaves with Cassandra, and Wayne's crazy ex-girlfriend Stacy ( Lara Flynn Boyle ) comes in to announce to Wayne that she is pregnant.

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His first selection for the full West Indies team followed in due course, but unfortunately coincided with the death of his father and Lara withdrew from the team.

Also that year, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

She was then left to her father, who did not take part in the crash, and he was later killed by Jaqueline Natla, a recurring character in the series, leaving Lara an orphan.

However, in the Lara Croft movie, Lara's father gets killed by the Illuminati ( see Tomb Raider ).

He married, first, Mafalda de Lara, heiress of Molina and Mesa, second, Teresa Núñez, and third, Mayor Téllez de Meneses, Lady of Montealegre and Tiedra, by whom he was the father of María of Molina, wife of King Sancho IV of León and Castile.

Another instance in which Berengaria's mediation stood out developed in 1218 when the scheming Lara family, still headed by former regent Álvaro Núñez de Lara, conspired to have Alfonso IX, King of León and King Ferdinand's father, invade Castile to seize his son's throne.

However, the death of Count Lara facilitated the intervention of Berengaria, who got father and son to sign the Pact of Toro on 26 August 1218, putting an end to confrontations between Castile and León.

In the films, Lara Croft's mother died in a plane crash and her father disappeared in Cambodia ; in the games, both parents are alive.

Alex, Ariane, Lara and Denis scatter her ashes in the wind ( despite this being illegal in both East and West Germany ) using an old toy rocket Alex had made with his father during his childhood.

Her father divorced her mother, Sara, née Lara, under Jewish law in 1784 before setting up home with the dowager countess of Lanesborough.

Julian Sands reprised the role of Jor-El in the tenth season episode " Abandoned ", appearing in the form of a holographic message that Jor-El and Lara had recorded for Kal-El shortly before his ship was launched, after Lois travels to the Fortress to confront Jor-El about his failures as a father, the message featuring Jor-El and Lara assuring their son that they have faith in him, also explaining that Jor-El's cold attitude at times stems from the fact that the original Jor-El only gave the Fortress his knowledge, holding back his emotions because he worried that he might be guided to be too easy on his son when the time came for him to face his challenges.

He was soon replaced in both roles by another count, Pedro González de Lara, who took up the fight and would father of two of Urraca's children.

While his father taught French and Spanish and coached basketball at a high school in nearby Arva, his mother is a music teacher and his younger sister Lara is a violinist.

After graduating at the Französisches Gymnasium Berlin in 1997, Lara went on studying acting under the management of her father, co-founder of the Theaterwerkstatt Charlottenburg, until 2000.

His father Francisco Serrano y Cuenca, Bueno Soto y Lara, born in Lopera, parish of Purísima Concepción, was a general officer and a Liberal.

In 2000 the siblings scored a top 10 Canadian hit with " Olè Olè ", written and produced by their father, Dorian Sherwood, known for his vocal work on stage and on recordings for artists such as Celine Dion, Lara Fabien, Robert Palmer, Corey Hart and many more.

Fernán González grew up in the castle of Lara, where his father had begun the process of reuniting the fractured counties of Old Castile.

While visiting his mother at the hospital, Alex again meets the girl from the demonstration, who is revealed to be Lara ( Chulpan Khamatova ), a young nurse from the Soviet Union taking care of his mother.

Named the pin-up girl of the " cyber generation " by The New York Times, Tifa has been compared to Lara Croft as an example of a strong, independent and attractive female character in video games.

Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother ; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins ; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl.

In the UK she appeared in the Daily Star as a Page Three girl but it was her role as the Lara Croft model for the video game Tomb Raider between 1998 and 1999 that brought her to the public's attention.

* Lara Lewington, television presenter and weather girl

His vision for Lara was " a female character who was a heroine, you know, cool, collected, in control, that sort of thing " and that " it was never the intention to create some kind of ' page 3 ' girl to star in Tomb Raider ".