Famous People Born in Fiji
Celebrities born in FijiWell-known people from Fiji
This is a shortlist of famous people from Fiji." Wondering if anyone from Fiji has made it our most famous people on the planet lists? Aged in Fiji, James William Reiher, better known under the ring name Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, is a half-retired pro Fiji wrestleer and performer. Snuka, from Fiji, struggled for several transports in the 1970' and 1980'.
Known above all for his tenure in the World Council of Wrestlers from the early to mid-1980s, he is rewarded with the introduction of the high-flyer type of WWF wrestle. A former Fiji-Australia pro and former NRL West Tigers resident and representing Australia in both Fiji and Fiji in the NRL, Lote Daulako Tuqiri is a former NRL former official of the Western United States.
Initially, he became known as a football star for the Brisbane Broncos and Queensland Maroons, as well as the Fiji and Australiaens. In 2002 he joined Portuguese football club Iceland and won 67 internationals for Australia and was part of the World Cup squad in 2003 and 2007.
Previously he was playing for the Waratahs in the Super 14 and Leicester Tigers in England in the 2009-10 series. Tuqiri's agreement with the Australian Football Association was ended on July 1, 2009. There was no immediate cause and Tuqiri came back to the 2010 rankings. And in September 2013, he concluded a short-term agreement with Ireland football giant Leinster to perform in the Pro12 for three months.
Jr. is an pro-ringer, James William Heron. His best-known career is with World Snuka and Deuce between 2007 and 2009. Heron, one of the sons of Jimmy Snuka, the pro wrestlers, began his career in end of the 90s, working for the UWA and the Xcitement Federation.
In 2005, after he signed a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment, Heron was transferred to the WWE development area of Ohio Valley Wrestling in Louisville, Kentucky, where he competed under the name Deuce Shade. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, CF, MSD, Fiji Marine, known as Frank Bainimarama and sometimes under the main name Ratu, is a Fiji navy official and political figure who has been Prime Minister of Fiji since 2007.
He' the commander of the Fijian forces. During this period, the dominating protagonist was Prime Minister Thomas Playford IV, who led the Liberals and Country League through a 27-year retention of control, supported by a system of election mismanagement called Playmander, which has given the LCL's peasant basis inappropriate clout since its launch by the LCL in 1936.
Tikoisolomoni Serevi is a former football player and trainer of Fijiugby. Though he has spent his entire gaming history in the sport of football, Serevi is best known for his performances in Sevenby. He' one of the greatest Rugby player of all time, especially in the match of seven. Between 1989 and 2003 he competed 39 Fiji matches in a 15-man match and achieved 376 points.
He was Fiji's agent at the 1991, 1999 and 2003 World Cups. In addition, he has performed for the professional football clubs of Mitsubishi, Leicester, Stade Montois, Stade Bordelais and Staines. He began his seventh carreer in 1989 when he was playing for Fiji at the Hong Kong event. Since then, with the exceptions of 2001, 2003 and 2004, he has been playing in Hong Kong every year.
He has also competed in Rugby World Cup Sevens in 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005 and won the World Championship with Fiji in 1997 and 2005. Since its foundation in 1999 Serevi plays in the International Rugby Board Sevens Series. Serevi was named Fiji Sevens trainer in 2005 after having won the 2005 Rugby World Cup.
Fiji trained to win the World Sevens 2005-06 Championship - the first ever win was not from New Zealand. He is a Fiji football player playing for Northland in the ITM Cup. Civoniceva Petero, is an Aussie pro who is currently playing for the Redcliffe Dolphins at the Queensland Cup.
Mr. Civoniceva used to play his team soccer for the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the NRL Premierships in 1998, 2000 and 2006, and for the Penrith Panthers, of which he was captain. Petero Civoniceva Medal is given to the Aussie Leaguesman of the Year. Fiji's proper pronounciation of his last name is "thee-vo-ni-there-va", since the Fiji an "c" is pronounced th.
Born in Fiji, he was raised in Peru and the UK and graduated in Political and Historical Sciences from Edinburgh University. Siv Sitiveni Waica is a New Zealand football player who plays on a grand piano. For the Chiefs, he was largely a success in the 2005 Super 12 campaign, earning a spot in the All Blacks.
Major General Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka, OBE, MSD, Osty, is best known as the initiator of two war putsches that rocked Fiji in 1987. Maherdra Pal Chaudhry is a political figure and Fiji Labour Party president. After a landmark vote to defeat former longtime head Sitiveni Rabuka, the former labor leaders became the first Indian-Fijian Prime Minister of Fiji on 19 May 1999, but exactly a year later, on 19 May 2000, he and most of his cabinet were taken captive by captain George Speight in 2000.
Chaudhry was freed after 56 captive years on July 13 and then went on a trip around the globe to help the team. After another putsch in January 2007, he was named Minister of Finance, Sugar Reform, Public Enterprise and National Planning in the Commodore Frank Bainimarama's temporary cabinet.
Mr Chaudhry is also co-chair of the National Council for Construction a Better Fiji Taskforce for Business Cultivation. A Fiji footballer, Roy Krishna is currently a New Zealand footballer playing for Auckland City FC at the New Zealand Soccer Championship. The Laisenia Qarase is a Filiian politician.
From 2000 to 2006 he was the 6th Prime Minister of Fiji. There is controversy about Qarase because its policy promotes Fijian tribes against other races in Fiji]. He comes from Vanuabalavu Island in the Lau Islands and is one of many Lauans who have occupied leading posts in Fiji.
The first resident author to be nominated by a domestic soccer squad. Uate Akuila is a Fiji pro for the Newcastle Knights of the NHL. Uate was Dally M Winger of the Year three times a year representing New South Wales in the country of origin and Fiji and Australia in the world.
Neapolioni Vonowale Nalaga is a Fetish football player. In the 1980s, his sire Kavekini Nalaga also stood for Fiji and was playing the piano like his sire. McFadien's art history has taken him around the globe, first as a residency at London's Fabric Nightclub and then on numerous European and Australian outings.
Brigadier General Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, CF, LVO, OBE, MSD, KStJ, is a Fiji leader and president of Fiji. He was spokesman of the House of Representatives - the lower and more powerfull House of the Fiji Parliament - from 2001 to 2006. He was inaugurated as the new President of Fiji on 5 November 2009.
A Akapusi Qera is a Fiji professional rugby team. Flanker or No. 8, Qera is from a sports background; his dad was an Fiji cricket star and his older son also plays Fiji hockey. He' s also the first of Viliame Veikoso's cousins from Fiji. One of Qera's most recent test players, he has also led the team.
He was named Fiji Rookie of the Year while he played for Pertemps Bees in the 2006-2007 series. He was later named Fiji Athlete of the Year later this year, second only to Vijay Singh. One of Fiji's top players during their 2007 World Cup football championship campaigns in France, he made three attempts and was later named third in the 2007/08 Guinness premiere.
Qera has been captained of the Fiji international team since his Gloucester début campaign and was named Gloucester Player of the Year in 2010. Rodan is a pensioned pro Aussie football player who used to play for the Richmond Tigers, Port Adelaide and Melbourne Football Clubs.
The first Fiji native, Rodan has reached 100 AFLs. Mr Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda, CF, MBE, MSD, KStJ was President of Fiji from 2000 to 2009, with the exception of a short term from 5 December 2006 to 4 January 2007. As many Fijians, he seldom used his last name and was known as Josefa Iloilo.
Commodore Frank Bainimarama, commander of the military forces of the Republic of Fiji, took office through a military coup d'état and took over as president on 5 December 2006. Bobo Isireli is a French football player who currently plays in the top 14 of the French football league for the Paris based Métro 92 team.
Mr. Singh is a pensioned pro soccer attendant from America and Canada. Most recently he was with the BC Lions of the CFC. He is the only one to have won an XFL Championship, a Super Bowl and a Grey Cup. He has also performed for the St. Louis Rams, Los Angeles Xtreme and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Baïkeinuku Seremaia is a Fiji footballer. Team Tevita Kuridrani is an Aussie club soccerer playing Super Rugs for the Brumbies. Coming to Brumbies before the 2012 Super League Series, he made his Brumbies début against the Reds in Brisbane. He is a former seven-man Australia national and also substituted Australia under the age of 20 at the 2011 IRB World Junior Championship.
The Sisa Waqa is a Fiji Pro Football Division for the Australian Melbourne Stone National Team. Previously, he was with the Sydney Roosters before coming to Melbourne in 2010 and winning the 2012 NRL premiere with them. Willam Ryder is a Fiji football player.
Known to the Fiji football scene, Ryder has performed some of the best for the Fiji Republic. Known for his try-scoring skills, he was one of the best try-scorers in the World Sevens Series. A member of the winning Bronce at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, for the 2006 Commonwealth Games Rubby World Series.
Fidschi was playing Japanese Rugby with Toyota Verblitz, but he quit the Fiji 7ens side for the 2009-10 IRB World Series. And Anand Babla was a political figure of Fiji origin. A member of the National Farmers Union and the Fiji Labour Party, where he held the Tavua India Communal Constituency from 1992 to 2006 in the House of Representatives.
He was one of the 43 members of the People's Coalition government on 19 May 2000, headed by Mahendra Chaudhry, held to ransom by George Speight and his group of Fiji Republic of Fiji military forces from the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit. Formerly Ratu Nasiganiyavi, Nemani Nadolo is a trade-union rugby fidji national.
Dautu Koyamaibole Sisaro is a home-grown Fiji Rugby teamster. He has also performed for Fiji, at the 2003 World Cup, the 2007 World Cup and the 2011 World Cup, and has competed in Fiji seven matches in the Seven series. Hali Tadulala is a Fiji pro footballer in the Australian Queensland Cup soccer world.
Previously he was in the National Portuguese Leagues for Australia's Melbourne Store, the Super Leagues for England's Bradford Bulls and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and the Co-operative Championships for Keighley Cougars. He' also starred for Gloucester and Leeds Carnegie at United.
Born in Suva, Fiji, she grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. Sir Ratu Penaia Kanatabatu Ganilau, GCMG, KCVO, KBE, DSO was the first President of Fiji and ministered from 8 December 1987 until his demise in 1993. Previously, he was Governor General of Fiji from 12 February 1983 to 15 October 1987, as representative of Queen Elizabeth II.
Vula Vuluma Samuela is a defending member of the national team. Since February 2010 he has been playing for Rewa in the National Football League and has won seven internationals for his team. Rachu Seru Raveive Rabeni was a homonymous Fiji rugbyer. He' s playing as a center or a grand piano.
Joel Vidiri is a pensioned Fiji hockey soccer star who also used to play for the All Blacks. Playing the piano. The Vilimoni Waqatabu Delasau is a Fetish fidjan soccer team. Koroibete is a Fiji pro football division for the West Tigers of the National Series. A New Zealand pro baseballer, Mika John Vukona currently works for the New Zealand Breakers and Nelson Giants.
Member of the U/16, U/18 and U/20 team. atu Banuve Lalabalavu Tabakaucoro is a feverish jumper specialized in the 100 and 200m. He' now holding the men' s 200m race track in Fiji. Charlie " Moore was an Aussie regular football player who worked for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League and also as a soldier in the Boer War.
Born in Fiji, he was the first Fiji-born VFL/AFLerliner. The first VFL soldier to have died in full-scale warfare. Debbie Edward Talei is a fiji hockey star. Currently he is playing for Newport Gwent Dragons in the Pro 12 series. He was a chieftain of Fiji.
The Guinness world record for "the most productive cannibal". Udre Udre is said to have eaten more than 999 people in the nineteenth c.. Nicola Matawalu is a Fetish football player. He was chosen to perform for Fiji on their 2010 Australian concert tours in May 2010. Masibalavu Naqelevuki is a props player in Seven football, but in the 15' he is a piano or a center.
In 2002 he made his début in Dubai 7. On behalf of the FRU, he performed in seven of the eight IRB-7s when Fiji won the 2005-06 series. Samu Naqelevuki, his dad's test representative, was a powerful utilities company that passed away in November 2002, just a few day after Sireli was chosen for the Fiji 7s group.
Malli Kunavore was a Fetish basketballer. is a Fiji hockey fielder. He' s playing his football for the Montpellier football league. Before he started his football carrier, he worked as a policeman in Fiji. Cama Tomasi is a New Zealand trade union rugby teamster. For Manawatu Turbos he is playing in the Air New Zealand Cup and was also accepted into the New Zealand Sevens family.
He' the Tomasi Cama' s boy. Orisake Naholo is a New Zealand rugby star. Mr. Bligh will play for Auckland-based super-rivals The Blues and the New Zealand All Blacks 7ens national team. As a former New Zealand U-20 representative, Naholo has participated in 5 competitions in the World Series and was in the Gordon Tietjens line-up to take part in the 2013 World Cup.
Osborne is a Fetish football player. He' s a competitor for the Chiefs in Super and Canterbury in the ITM Cup, where he made his 2010 début against Hawke's Bay. A Crusaders Quad member for the 2012 Super League football team, he did not perform for the frenk.
Vulivuli Albert is a home-grown Fiji player. Fiji's older sibling Thomas is a soccer fan for Fiji, while his younger sibling Finau is one of Fiji's arbitrators. In the 2009 Australian championship he began to play for the Queensland Reds rougby team. He' d been doing 16 matches for them, all on the piano.
At the end of the 2009/10 campaign, he came to Racing Métro 92, the same side he made his début against, and made his first match against Brive in August 2010 in the 2010/11 downtown city. Kameli Ratuvou withdrew from the Fiji Islands side for the 2010 year-end rougbyests.
Waqaseduadua Viliame is a New Zealand trade Union rugby star, usually as a grands. First, he rugbyed for the Poverty Bay teammates in the third league, where he won the third league on his own. To date, he has made 28 caps, 7 for Poverty Bay and the remainder for North Harbour.
In 2006 he made his Super 14 début for the Blue against the Highlanders and during the entire 2006 Super 14 he performed eight attempts for the Blue, making one attempt. He' also starred in the Pacific Nations Cup for the Junior All Blacks Group. Tikoirotuma is a Fetish fidjan soccer player.
For the Chiefs in Super Rugby and Manawatu Turbos in the ITM Cup. He won the 2012 Super Rugby title with the Chiefs in his first Super Rugby campaign on August 4 at the 2012 Super Rugby Final at home in Waikato Stadium, Hamilton. By the end of the 2012 Super Rugby campaign, he had 7 attempts, which means he was at the top of the scoring charts with 4 other team-mates.
He was appointed to the Fiji Committee in October 2013 for its end-of-year 2013 trip. Sevia Tabua Tamanivalu Ilivasi is a former fiji football player who has been playing for both Fiji and Australia on an global scale. In 2007 he also trained the Fiji side at the 2007 FIFA Cups.
Naive Taulawakeiaho, born December 18, 1982 in Suva, Fiji, is a Fiji-based veteran US coach currently working as a Free Agent in the National Soccer League. Playing prison field game for the San Diego State University Aztecs and was drawn by Indianapolis Colts in the third round of the 2006 NFL scheme.
He' the first Fijian to be in the NFL. Matadigo Sakiusa Masinivanua is a third rank football player for Montpellier Hérault RC. It was cut for the entire Fijian team and Fiji at Sevens. Prior to his Guinness debut in 2007, he performed prestigious rugby for the Fiji Barbarians in the Pacific and Suva Highlanders in the Colonial Cup.
He began his older rougby careers for the Suva Nabua suburbs and the entire Suva F.C. team. Fiji at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He was an Aussie internationally renowned freestyle racer who came third in the 1950 World Championship finals. For Ivor Evans is a retirement middlefielder from Fiji.
oe Tuineau is a soccer rougby star and former US soccerer. For Southland he is in the ITM Cup and for the Highlanders in Super Southland. Born in Fiji and brought up in New Zealand, he is Tonga's international representative. One of Fiji's strikers, Osea Vakatalesau matches for the Fiji international soccer squad, and Ba F.C. Bernard Gabriel'Bernie' Fraser is best known as a former New Zealand All Black Leagueer.
Born in Fiji, he studied in Australia. Mr War Gründungspräsident der Pacific Islands Branch der International Law Association, Mitglied des ILA Committee on Compensation for Victims of War und Gastprofessor am Centre for Law and Governance der Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Indien, sowie Gastprofessor an der Gujarat National Law University in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Indien.
Fiji-based Malakai Tiwa is a midfielder. He' already been playing for Hekari United. Currently he is playing for Ba in the German Soccer League and the Fiji international game. Macelesi Bulikiobo Batimala is a Fiji Islands jumper. MANOAOA Vosawai is an ltalian rugby star.
Currently, he is playing for Benetton Treviso in Italy and was a member of the Italy team, making his début on 18 August 2007 in a game against Japan. In the Azzurri's opening game against the All Blacks, Vosawai replaced Alessandro Zanni.
Mr. Treviso came to Benetton in June 2010. and Maritino Nemani is a basketball player from Fiji. For the Chiefs in Super Soccer and the Bay of Plenty in the ITM Cup. He is an actress and former pro-witler. He' s also known for his role in the James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough, in which he acts the sidekick Gabor.
Voduadua Lovobalavu Gabiriele is a Fetish footballer. Lovobalavu followed the sport of basketball as a profession before graduating from Corpus Christi College. Fatafehi Alipate is a Tongan trade unionist playing for the Lyon OU in the top 14 and the Tonga squad. FATAFHI was Otago's first ever New Zealand fixture in 2006-2008, but was unable to establish a permanent place in the squad and dropped back to North Otago for two matches in 2008 before securing a place in the Otago 2008 play-off.
Although he was in the full back for Otago and has recently been in line with current international tendencies, his main piano stance was used as a center due to his sizing. A Fiji forward, Esala Masi currently plays for Mitchelton in the Brisbane Second Division in Australia.
The best Fiji footballer of all times, Masi has been playing for the Blackburn Rovers team in Australia and the English Premier Leagues for over 10 years. In 2005 Masi also spent a brief smint at Malaysia-based Johor FC, the first Malay sian to join the team.
In the sixties, his uncles, the deceased Esala Masi Sr. was also an Fijian footballer; he passed away in 2010 at Lautoka Hospital. He has also been playing in Australia and the Australian squad. A Fiji debuted against New Zealand in 1997, Masi has since scored more than 30 internationals, almost one per match on average.
CEE is a Filipino of China and Fiji ancestry. Honorary Consul of the Republic of Georgia in Fiji and member of the boards of 46 enterprises. Jone-Tawake is a Fiji-born Fiji-based footballer of the same name. Previously, he competed in the Super 14 for the ACT Brumbies and the New South Wales Waratahs.
Camaneisenirosi Tomasi is a former basketball-fighter. In Fiji, he performed for the Nabua Club and won 14 internationals for Fiji, where he made his test début against Australia in Ballymore on 10 August 1985, with Brisbane making a try. At the 1987 World Cup, he competed in four rounds of the game. Better known as the Seven Man, who represented Fiji for over ten years and was one of the teams that remained undefeated at the Hong Kong 7 in 1990-1992.
The sire of the New Zealand seven-man Junior Tomasi Cama. Orisea Sedre Luveniyali is a Fetish fidjan soccer team. Mr Nazhat Shameem is a former Filipino magistrate of Pakistan and India ancestry. Born in Suva, Fiji on 23 June 1987, Aaron Groom is a footballer whose youngest team was the Sheffield Eagles in the Co-Operative Championship.
Born in Ba, Fiji, May studied at Seaforth TAFE College in Sydney. Fiji hockey star Jone Qovu Nailiko is a Fiji hockey star. The Ratu Naiqama Tawake Lalabalavu is a Fiji Paramount Chief and political figure. After the general elections from 6 to 13 May 2006, he became Minister for Fiji Affairs and Minister for Land and Provincial Development.
Fiji' Alvin Singh is a centre-back soccer player. He' already been playing for Hekari United. Currently he is playing for Ba in the German Soccer League and the Fiji international game. Presenting a week-long Aussie TV show, The Great Divide on the Southern Cross Austereo TV Network, he advises Washington-based Qorvis, a worldwide communication firm, on its pro-Frank Bainimarama Fiji bankroll.
alesh Kumar is a Fiji centrefielder currently in the Northern League for Three United. TANIELLA EVO WAQA is a Fiji defense lawyer who works for the Fiji international FA and Labasa FC in the Fiji International League. Achie Watkins is a footballer from Fiji who works for Suva FC.
Raikabula Lote is a New Zealand rugby star who has performed both Union and Seven series. Currently he is a member of the All Blacks sevenens squad in the IRB seven world series. Since making his début in 2006, he has contested more than 60 events and contested in 20 different sides. He is probably New Zealand's most victorious footballer with five IRB 7's World Series awards, one Seven's World Cup rankings and two Commonwealth Games golden awards.
He has been playing for Hawkes Bay and Manawatu in the Air New Zealand Cup. He is a hotshot Fiji Rugby star. Avinesh is a footballer from Fiji who is playing for Labasa FC.