Two-times Olympic hockey champion Teun de Nooijer (Netherlands) has made 431 appearances for the Netherlands between 1994 and 25 January 2011.
Shabana Azmi has acted in nine international films — more than any other Indian actress. These include Madame Souzatska (USA, 1988), City Of Joy (UK/Fra, 1992) and Fire (Canada, 1995). She has won four National Awards and three Filmfare awards.
Saeed Jaffrey has appeared in 18 international films, including Gandhi (UK, 1982), A Passage To India (UK, 1984) , Masala (Canada, 1991) and My Beautiful Launderette (UK, 1985). He made his film debut in the 1977 Indian film The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khiladi) and has appeared in almost 100 Hindi films and one Punjabi film. In 1998 Jaffrey opted out of Indian commercial cinema in favour of acting in international films and on British television. He recently became part of the first Asian family
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Steve Bucknor (b. 31 May 1946, Jamaica) has officiated at a total of 128 Test matches, between 28 April 1989 – 22 March 2009.
The Annie Awards have been presented by the International Animated Film Association in Los Angeles, California, USA, since 1972 and celebrate the best in animation. Three movies have had a record 16 nominations, each winning 10 awards: The Incredibles (USA, 2004), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (UK, 2005), and Kung Fu Panda (USA, 2008).
Dennis Walter Conner (USA) (b. 16 Sep 1942) has been in more cup races as a member of the afterguard than any other sailor, six times since 1974, when he was starting helmsman with Ted Hood as skipper. He was winning skipper/helmsman in 1980, 1987 and 1989. he was losing skipper in 1983 and 1995. Bradley William Butterworth (NZL), OBE (b. 9th April 1959) won the Cup four times in succession as tactician, on the way setting a record of sixteen for the most consecutive
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Raymond Longden has officiated more USA football games than any other referee, with well over 2000. He has officiated on more than 50 games a season since 1947. He has officiated High School, College and Varsity games.
The most American Football field goals successfully kicked in 24 hours is 1,000 and was achieved by Craig Pinto (USA) at Theodore Roosevelt Park, Oyster Bay, New York, USA, on 09 October 2011.
The record for the most aluminium cans opened in one minute is 50 achieved by Andy Collins (UK) on the set of The New Paul O´Grady Show, London, UK, on 18 March 2008.
The most appearances as a captain in World Cup finals is 16 by Diego Maradona, who led Argentina in finals games from 1982 to 1994.