But the list also includes a taxi-driver in Chicago and a dentist in Finland.
From being the son of (ethnic-German) immigrants from Hungary, a high-school drop-out, a taxi-driver and self-styled street-fighter, to lauded statesman: it all sounded rather romantic.
The taxi-driver who took him to his house inquired where he was from, and when Pereda, lost in his own ruminations, failed to answer, he asked if he spoke Spanish.
In a similar vein, the director of Hanover's chamber of industry and commerce, Wilfried Prewo, points out how much harder it is to become a taxi-driver in Germany than, say, in the United States.
At the height of the Troubles she wrote the song It's A Hard Life about a conversation with a black-taxi driver on the Falls Road.
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For the past seven years, instructors have crossed the country offering driver-education seminars and recruiting conscientious drivers to compete in the Brandhouse Number-One Taxi Driver competition, sponsored by the South African distributor for liquor brands including Jose Cuervo tequila and Smirnoff vodka.
Zein El Abdeen, a 37-year-old Cairo taxi driver, lives with his wife and 9-month-old daughter, his parents, grandmother and his two sisters in a 900-square-foot home where his father has squatted for 40 years.
Zein El Abdeen, a 37-year-old Cairo taxi driver, lives with his wife, their 9-month-old daughter, his parents, grandmother and his two sisters in an 85-square-meter home where his father squatted for 40 years.
The 42-year-old taxi driver, who wasn't identified by police, received treatment for injuries at Bellevue Hospital Center.
"It's very devastating for us, for my family, " said Tehran Boldon, 50, younger brother of the 62-year-old taxi driver.
The BBC's Milton Nkosi in Johannesburg says a small group of protesters, mostly women, gathered on Friday morning outside the police station where the 27-year-old taxi driver died in the holding cells.
The 49-year-old former taxi driver was known for giving candies out to children at the gas station.
Our taxi driver last night - a frighteningly cool man called Frankie, who cites former Kent wicketkeeper Alan Knott as his hero - asked me about the whole Pietersen saga.
He describes them as a witty parody mix of Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver and early Jean-Luc Godard gangster movies.
Lugo was arrested within 24 hours after co-operation from the taxi driver and security camera footage from a nearby restaurant that captured Lugo walking away with the artwork.
If you take a taxi, tip the driver 15-20% of the bill, plus a few extra dollars for extra service such as helping you with a heavy bag.
It is thought the man may have spoken to a taxi driver in a white Skoda-style car shortly before the incident.
Father-of-two Mr Richards said the taxi driver said the area had been "blocked off, sealed off and there were armed police" present.
No one there had any inkling of the desperate scene unfolding just beyond Kiss' black, sound-proof double doors, said taxi driver Edson Schifelbain, who was in his car, waiting for passengers.
Before the collision, officers believe the pedestrian - who was leaning against a roadside cabinet - may have spoken to a taxi driver in a white vehicle who had stopped at traffic lights.
The first titles to be available include The Amazing Spider-ManTM, The Karate Kid and Taxi Driver.
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She found international fame in 1976 for her Oscar-nominated performance as teenage prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver, and roles as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone and the lead in Freaky Friday.
On the first day of the competition, Mr. Dyantyi, the Cape Town-based driver who cried out as a taxi flew past him, had just successfully navigated a series of tight weaves and 90-degree reverse-turns through a maze of orange cones.
Christian Dieckmann, a taxi driver from Freiburg, Germany, had taken a last-minute flight to Rome for Benedict XVI's farewell.
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The second time I stayed at the Palms, nine months later, I stood in the lobby for 15 minutes before anyone acknowledged my arrival, waited two hours to get into my room, discovered that no one could be bothered to look up the day's weather report and finished off the day at the wrong off-campus restaurant thanks to directions a concierge gave the taxi driver.
"Hafwen has a right to be educated in Welsh, and she should have the same rights as able-bodied children, " added Mr Clarke, who is a taxi driver.
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Taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, 47, from Swindon, has been charged with 22-year-old Miss O'Callaghan's murder.
Struck by gunfire, the Maserati's driver then sped through the intersection and hit the taxi, which burst into flames and caused the six-car crash.
She and her taxi driver husband had enrolled Yaseen in advanced classes at their local mosque as they wanted him to become Hafiz - an Islamic term for someone who memorises the Koran.
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