1947–, Austrian-American actor and bodybuilder, b. Thal, Austria. He began competing in bodybuilding contests in his teens, and won his first of five Mr. Universe titles in 1967. He won public recognition for bodybuilding as a sport, and his quest in 1975 for his sixth of seven Mr. Olympia titles was chronicled in the documentary Pumping Iron (1977). He went on to become a Hollywood action star in such films as Conan the Barbarian (1982), The Terminator (1984) and its sequels, and True Lies (1994). He married Maria Shriver (daughter of Sargent Shriver) in 1987, and was appointed chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush. An increasingly politically active Republican during the 1990s, Schwarzenegger ran for the California governorship and won when Gray Davis was recalled in 2003.

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