★ M.A.R.A.★

famousfilipinos:

Gorgeous Malia Jones, yo…she part Filipino…model and pro-surfer from Cali…born March 27, 1977.  Hawaiian, Spanish-Filipino, and German descent.

Jones began to surf competitively in her early teens, and at age 15 won the girls division of the United States Amateur Surfing Championship. While competing, Surfing Magazine spotted her and asked her to model for their swimsuit issue, and thus a second career was born.

Since then, she has appeared on the cover of over a dozen magazines, and has been named one of the “50 Most Beautiful People” by People magazine, and one of America’s “10 Sexiest Athletes” by Esquire. She has also been a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. Jones has done TV commercials for American Express, Capri Sun, Coca-Cola, Corona Beer, and VO5 shampoo.  Jones was a consultant for the Disney movie Lilo & Stitch.

She is married to the Aussie WCT Pro Surfer Luke Stedman.^[1] Currently she divides her time between Hawaii, France, and Sydney, Australia, and designs a line of swimwear for Mambo Graphics sportswear.

famousfilipinos:

Roman Gabriel

born Roman Ildonzo Gabriel, Jr. is the son of a Filipino father and an Irish-American mother.

He was the first Asian-American to start as an NFL quarterback and is considered by many to have been one of the best players at that position during the late 1960s and early 70s.

Born August 5, 1940 in Wilmington, North Carolina, Gabriel QB’d with the Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams, and the Philly Eagles, to name a few.  At 6’4” and 235 pounds, he is considered the first truly big quarterback of the modern era.

• 1973 -NFL Comeback Player of the Year
• 1969- NFL Most Valuable Player Award, AP, UPI, NEA, and the Bert Bell MVP Trophy (Maxwell Club)
• 1968 - Pro Bowl MVP

He was also a two-time All-American, and a two-time Two-time ACC Player of the Year (1960-61) he starred at quarterback for North Carolina State University in the early 1960s and finished his career holding virtually every Wolfpack passing record. An academic All-American, Gabriel saw his jersey retired and presented to him by North Carolina governor Terry Sanford on Jan. 20, 1962, at half-time of an NC State-Maryland basketball game in Reynolds Coliseum.

Gabriel later had acting roles in movies and television and became a tv and radio sports commentator.

famousfilipinos:

Benny Agbayani

Benny Peter Agbayani, Jr. (born December 28, 1971 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a professional baseball player on the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan. Born in Hawaii to Filipino and Samoan parents,^[1] he attended Saint Louis School and Hawaii Pacific University. He also attended the Oregon Institute of Technology. He formerly played with the New York Mets, Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox.

famousfilipinos:

Dev Patel

(born 23 April 1990) is a British film and television actor as well as a martial artist.

Dev played the role of Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle’s critically acclaimed and multiple Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel won a number of awards, including a Critics’ Choice Award^[2] and Screen Actors Guild Award,^[3] and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.^[4]

He is also known for his performance as Anwar Kharral in the teen drama series Skins and as main protagonist

As a martial artist, he is a black belt in Taekwondo and was a bronze medallist at the 2004 AIMAA World Championships in Dublin.^[5][6][7]

famousfilipinos:

Hines E. Ward, Jr.

is currently a wide receiver for the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers.  He was voted MVP of Super Bowl XL. 

Hines Ward Jr. (Korean: 하인스 워드/Kim Hyun-ae) was born March 8, 1976 in Seoul, South Korea to a Korean mother and an African American father and has become an advocate for ethnic minorities in South Korea.

famousfilipinos:

William Henry Demps, Jr.

- ahem - Is it gettin hot’n hurrr? (born November 7, 1979 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football of San Diego State.

Demps has also played for the New York Giants and Houston Texans. He is the older brother of former NFL safety Marcus Demps.

Demps’ father is African-American and his mother is Korean.

famousfilipinos:

Tiger Woods

Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods^[1][2][3] (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, he was the highest-paid professional athlete in 2008, having earned an estimated $110 million from winnings and endorsements.^[4]

Woods has won fourteen professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player, and 66 PGA Tour events, third all time. He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour.

Woods has held the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record nine times, the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has tied Jack Nicklaus’ record of leading the money list in eight different seasons. He has been named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year a record-tying four times, and is the only person to be named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year more than once.

Since his record-breaking win at the 1997 Masters Tournament, golf’s increased popularity is attributed to Woods’ presence. He is credited for dramatically increasing prize money in golf, generating interest in new audiences as the first black person to win the Masters, and for drawing the largest TV audiences in golf history.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Woods was born in Cypress, California to Earl (1932-2006) and Kultida (Tida) Woods (1944).  He is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch.^[11] He refers to his ethnic make-up as “Cablinasian” (a portmanteau he coined from Caucasian, Black, (American) Indian, and Asian).^[12]

Tiger Woods Voicemail Slow Jam Remix - Hilarious

Y.E. Yang beats Tiger in 91st PGA August 2009

famousfilipinos:

Johnny David Damon

(born November 5, 1973 in Fort Riley, Kansas) is a Thai American Major League Baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees. Since the 2000 season, he is 3rd among active major leaguers in runs (589), and 7th in hits (912) and stolen bases (153).

Damon was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His mother, Yome, is from Thailand and his father, Jimmy, is American of Croatian and Irish descent. They met while his father, a staff sergeant in the United States Army, was stationed in Thailand.

Previous organizations in which he’s played ball: Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox