Famous players who plyed their trade for the club included former Iranian Internationals, Hamid Estili ( 1996 ), Mohammad Khakpour ( 1996 ), Singapore Golden Boy Fandi Ahmad ( 1996 ), and many other former Singapore footballing legends.

* 1820 – Nadar, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist ( d. 1910 )

* 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, French Canadian journalist and novelist ( b. 1896 )

* 1945 – John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist

Other authors and media personalities include ABC Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, novelist / screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D ' Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero.

* 1980 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist ( b. 1900 )

Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

* 2005 – Scott Young, Canadian journalist and novelist ( b. 1918 )

* M. Karagatsis ( 1908 – 1960 ), novelist, journalist

* 1940 – Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist ( d. 1992 )

* 1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist ( d. 1980 )

* 1915 – Marghanita Laski, British journalist and novelist ( d. 1988 )

* 1946 – Joe Klein, American journalist and novelist

Tristan Bernard ( 7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947 ) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

However, more specific designations exist which are dictated by the particular nature of the text such as that of poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, journalist, and more.

* Daniel Defoe, English novelist and journalist

** Frank Delaney, Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster

* November 22 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist ( d. 1980 )

** Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist ( b. 1940 )

** Ennio Flaiano, Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic ( d. 1972 )

** Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist ( d. 1935 )

* September 17 – Vance Bourjaily, American writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist ( d. 2010 )

** Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist ( d. 2007 )

* August 30 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist ( b. 1873 )

* June 12 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat ( d. 1797 )

Wolstenholme started his career as a journalist with a newspaper in Manchester, before joining the RAF, and from 1941 onwards flew 100 missions over Germany and won the DFC and bar as a bomber pilot.

* Nick Cook ( Nicholas Julian Cook, b. September 2, 1959 ) is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.

In the 2009 presidential elections, FMLN candidate Mauricio Funes, a former journalist, won the presidency.

Pilger has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries, screened internationally, have gained awards in Britain and worldwide, and the journalist has received several honorary doctorates.

Indian journalist Sunanda K. Datta-Ray claimed that Merle worked as a telephone operator in Calcutta under the name Queenie Thomson, and won a contest at Firpo's Restaurant there, before her film career started.

Raymond Dennis Keene OBE ( born 29 January 1948 ) is an English chess Grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author .< sup > p196 </ sup > He won the British Chess Championship in 1971, and was the first player from England to earn a Grandmaster norm, in 1974.

Eric Philbrook Kelly ( 16 March 1884 – 3 January 1960 ) was an American journalist, academic and author of books for young readers, whose book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1929.

In the elections of March 15, 2009 the FMLN won the presidential elections with former journalist Mauricio Funes as its candidate.

One of Plummer's most critically acclaimed roles was that of television journalist Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated The Insider ( 1999 ), for which he won Boston, Los Angeles, and National Society of Film Critics Awards for ' Best Supporting Actor '; he was also nominated for Chicago and Las Vegas Film Critics Awards, as well as a Satellite Award.

According to later allegations made by the State Duma member and journalist Aleksandr Khinshtein, Kasyanov bought the company that owns one of the houses using a loan given to him by Friedman, and one of Friedman's companies won the government-conducted tender to manage the Sheremetyevo International Airport a week after the houses auction, allegedly with some Kasyanov's involvement.

During the spring 1920 suffrage, Iorga was invited by journalist Sever Dan to run for a deputy seat in Transylvania, but eventually participated in and won the election of his earlier constituency, Covurlui County.

Journalist Franklin Martins won a 30, 000 reais ( about 18, 000 dollars ) cause against him, this decision was subsequently thrown out on an appeal ; journalist Mino Carta won a 35, 000 reais ( about 20, 000 dollars ) cause.

Michael Gove, a journalist at The Times newspaper, was selected as the new Conservative candidate for Surrey Heath in his place, and won the seat.

Langford has won numerous other Hugo Awards largely for his activities as a fan journalist on his free newsletter Ansible, which he has described as " The SF Private Eye ".

The journalist who authored the story, Tony Koch, won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award for relevant reports in The Australian newspaper and in particular the resulting effective contribution he made to the public outcry.

Other tennis pundits, as Joe McCauley in World Tennis or Lance Tingay ( Daily Telegraph journalist ) in his annual rankings, ranked Newcombe first because he won the most prestigious tournament, Wimbledon with Rosewall second in both rankings, Laver respectively third and fourth and Roche respectively fourth and third.

The book Dish: The Inside Story of the World of Gossip, makes the dubious claim that some time after April 1957, journalist Drew Pearson appeared as a guest on the The Mike Wallace Interview and made the following claim live on air: " John F. Kennedy is the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that was ghostwritten for him.

Desmond John Humphrys ( born 17 August 1943 in Splott, Cardiff ) is a Welsh author, journalist and presenter of radio and television, who has won many national broadcasting awards.

The sketch involved Stephen Fry playing a journalist who interviews a racecar driver played by Hugh Laurie and becomes increasingly infuriated by the whiny, self-pitying attitude he displays even though he has just won a race.

Aged 18, in 1946, he won a prize in a poetry competition and went to Prague, where he studied medicine at the Charles University, worked as a freelance journalist and wrote short stories.

Nick Cook ( Nicholas Julian Cook, b. 2 September 1959 ) is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Ward won a CableACE Award for her portrayal of the late television journalist Jessica Savitch in the 1995 TV movie Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.

Mike McAlary, a New York Daily News journalist, won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary for his exposé of the brutalization of Louima by NYPD officers.