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Spokesperson

Popular local and national sports stars (such as Michael Jordan or Bob Uecker) are often chosen as spokesmen for commercial advertising.


AAIA – Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association

Lauren Fix is the spokesperson for the Be Car Care Aware Program

Ace Hardware

Home improvement expert Lou Manfredini serves as Ace's "Helpful Hardware Man" and media spokesperson.

Acme Brick

In 1993, Troy Aikman, Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys football team, became an Acme Brick spokesperson - initially in radio and print advertising, and later on television.

American Advisors Group

On October 7, 2009, American Advisors Group (AAG) selected film and television actor Peter Graves as its spokesperson.

Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

For the 2008 contest the spokesperson for the Belarus broadcast was Olga Barabanschikova.

Biff Mitchell

In 2005, Mitchell served as International Spokesperson for Read an eBook Week, during which time, he worked with Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, on a "Brief History of Project Gutenberg".

Chi-Ming Chow

He is currently a board member and media spokesperson for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.

Cottman Transmission

Terry Bradshaw was the spokesperson for the company from 2005 to 2008.

Criticism of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

De Volkskrant reported Mary Jean Burer, a spokesperson for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) as saying that the confusion can partly be blamed on several EU articles by the Transport Ministry in which numbers like 55 and 60 percent land area are mixed up.

Dr. Syed Gulam Farooq Mirranay

Dr. Mirranay is the official spokesperson for the Afghan Mellat Party and speaks both official Afghanistan languages, Pashto and Dari, as well as English.

Drink 1, Give 10

Volvic named actress Kim Raver as spokesperson for the "Drink 1, Give 10" campaign to benefit UNICEF in North America.

Ereka Vetrini

Ereka is the host of the HGTV program Kidspace, a spokesperson for the TRIA Laser Hair Removal system, and host of Yahoo's Easy Does It.

Fred Catona

Tapping William Shatner as a celebrity spokesperson, Catona developed a campaign for this new website, now called Priceline.com.

Grape-Nuts

A subsequent ad campaign generated another catchphrase, as Euell Gibbons became the spokesperson for the brand, promoting Grape-Nuts as the "Back to Nature Cereal".

Jan Rooney

In 2004 she began appearing in television commercials for Garden State Life Insurance Company with her husband, who has been a spokesperson for the company since 1999.

Janet Evans

After retiring from competitive swimming, Evans worked as a motivational speaker and corporate spokesperson for companies such as AT&T, Speedo, Campbell's, PowerBar, John Hancock, Cadillac, and Xerox.

Jennifer Cohen

Cohen was the spokesperson and active wear spokes model of La Senza (a Victoria's Secret brand) with her image used on billboards throughout Canada and the US.

Jenny Craig, Inc.

While Bertinelli remains a spokesperson, more recent clients have included Queen Latifah, actresses Sara Rue and Nicole Sullivan, as well as actor Jason Alexander and singer Mariah Carey.

John Christian Vaughan

Among his other credits, he is the national spokesperson for the Australian National Flag Association and was employed as an expert commentator by Channel 7 for the First Fleet re-enactment during the Australian Bicentenary in 1988.

Martinho da Vila

He is also politically active and a prominent figure and spokesperson for Afro-Brazilian issues as well as for the Brazilian Communist Party.

Mary Sanders

Sanders is also a creative collaborator and Spokesperson for the Reebok and Cirque du Soleil JUKARI program.

Matched betting

Matched betting is legal and a spokesperson for William Hill has indicated that the betting industry does not have a problem with this use of free bets.

Mel Kaufman

Kaufman was also a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States military, working with and speaking to children and adults.

Michael Maron

In addition to speaking at medical symposiums and his appearances on the lecture circuit, he has served as spokesperson and consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including Clairol, Matrix Essentials, Shaklee Corporation, Unilever, and the Miss Universe Organization.

Michael Schelp

In the 1990s, Schelp was Fujisankei Communications Group's spokesperson and manager of business development.

Minister for Co-ordination of Defence

When the Second World War broke out, the new Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain formed a small War Cabinet, and it was expected that Chatfield would serve as a spokesperson for the three service ministers, the Secretary of State for War, the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for Air; however political considerations resulted in all three posts being included in the Cabinet, and Chatfield's role proved increasingly redundant.

Naomi Judd

In 1991, Naomi created the Naomi Judd Education and Research Fund to raise awareness of the deadly Hepatitis C virus, and uses the strength of her own experiences as spokesperson for the American Liver Foundation.

Nermin Purić

He was a journalist for JP RTV Velika Kladuša from 2001 to 2004 and a spokesperson for the Democratic People's Union from 2004 to 2006.

Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation

Karen-Christine Friele acted as the organization's leader and sole spokesperson during until the late 1970s.

Paige Brooks

Other honors that she received during the Miss USA 1998 pageant were being chosen as lead dancer during the opening number and also as a spokesperson for Shreveport, Louisiana during the city’s promo portion of the show.

Pavel Palazhchenko

After becoming a long-time associate and aide to Mikhail Gorbachev for several years, Palazhchenko eventually became the head of the International Department of the International Non-governmental Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (or The Gorbachev Foundation), where he also functioned as an analyst, spokesperson, interpreter and translator.

Pilot Flying J

In 2012, the company signed country music singer Trace Adkins to become its new spokesperson for its relaunched loyalty program.

Plan USA

Laurie Metcalf, actress known for playing “Jackie Harris” on ‘’Roseanne’’, is a spokesperson for Plan International USA and a child sponsor through the organization.

Progressive List for Peace

In April 1988, Adam Keller, the PLP Spokesperson, was arrested by military police while on a term of the reserve military duty obligatory to all Israeli Jewish males.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Chavira is San Antonio's honorary spokesman for the charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and last June served as the National Team Captain for the Race for the Cure in Washington, D.C. Chavira was the 2005 co-spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day breast cancer fundraiser.

Robert Kotler

As a spokesperson for cosmetic surgeons, he regularly appears on radio and television, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News; on such shows as Oprah, Deborah Norville Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Your World with Neil Cavuto, EXTRA, Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.

Robert Pollin

He was the economic spokesperson in Jerry Brown's 1992 campaign for President of the United States.

Rod Black

He has been a co-host of Canada AM, the host of CKY Sports Sunday, and is a spokesperson for Foster Parents Plan of Canada.

Rogers Telecom

Sprint Canada launched in the early 1990s with Candice Bergen as its spokesperson.

Sam Groom

During the '80's, Groom also was a spokesperson for American Motors, appearing in many commercials for the popular AMC Concord and AMC Eagle model lineups. He later played Joseph Orsini in the soap opera All My Children in 1993.

Swedish general election, 2006, computer infringement affair

The same day Lars Leijonborg and the Party social policy spokesperson Erik Ullenhag present their counter-report.

Ted Tinling

He continued to design daring and unusual dresses for stars such as Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong and Virginia Wade throughout this time but his role in the infrastructure of tennis became more important and he became an official media spokesperson for the game.

The Board Administration

The Board Administration artist Tiara Thomas was selected as a 2011-2012 Campaign Spokesperson for the American Eagle Outfitters Back to School We The People Campaign.

The Gender War

Gudrun Schyman, spokesperson for the Feminist Initiative, questioned Rubar's main argument in an article in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper on the 24th of May 2005.

Thomas G. Osenton

He later was employed at the ABC Television Network in New York, primarily as network spokesperson focusing on the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and Summer Olympics that year in Los Angeles.

Tommy the Clown

-- He is a former spokesperson for Gray Davis. needs sourcing--> He achieved international acclaim as focus of David LaChapelle's 2005 documentary RIZE.

Vanessa Jarman

In 2011, Vanessa was announced as the official Canadian Spokesperson for Rimmel London.

Veuve Clicquot

Mireille Guiliano, former spokesperson, co-founder and CEO of Clicquot, Inc. in the US.

WNEU

For a time, the station aired a primetime newscast at 10:00 p.m. that was anchored by current NHDOT spokesperson Bill Boynton.


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