Prasad Bidapa (Kodava Takk:ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಬಿದ್ದಪ), a well-known fashion designer has specialised in training models for the Miss India beauty pageants. Many of the past beauty queens are his students. He hails from Kodagu.

India's fashion guru Prasad Bidapa is a man who wears many hats. He is a choreographer, stylist, fashion journalist and entrepreneur, a socialite, but above all he is considered to be the man with the magic touch when choosing the next Top Model who will rule the Indian and Global runways. He has carved a distinctive superficial niche for himself in the Indian fashion scenario, which makes him such a "sought-after" personality in the fashion industry.

His projects like the India Men’s Fashion Fair in Bangalore held up to 2008 and the Kingfisher Fashion awards up to 2002. He presents some of the largest fashion events in India, and his training programme for models is legendary for having created some of the biggest names in fashion and film, like Lara Dutta, Dino Morea, Anushka Sharma, to name a few.

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (born 18 October 1960), professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme, is a Belgian martial artist, actor, and director best known for his martial arts action films. The most successful of these films include Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer (1989), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), Timecop (1994), Sudden Death (1995) and JCVD (2008). He is known as "The Muscles from Brussels".

After studying martial arts intensively from the age of ten, Van Damme achieved national success in Belgium as a martial artist and bodybuilder, earning the "Mr. Belgium" bodybuilding title. He emigrated to the United States in 1982 to pursue a career in film, and achieved success with Bloodsport (1988), based on a story written by Frank Dux. He attained subsequent box office success with Timecop (1994), which was his highest grossing film with over $100 million, until 2011's Kung Fu Panda 2, which grossed over $665 million.

Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, the son of Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, who was an accountant. He began martial arts at the age of ten, enrolled by his father in a Shotokan karate school. His styles consist of kickboxing, Shotokan karate, Muay Thai and Taekwondo. He eventually earned his black belt in karate. He started lifting weights to improve his physique, which eventually led to a Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title.