Andrey Popov
Andrei Popov may refer to:
Paul Loicq
Paul Loicq( 11 August 1888 – 26 March 1953) was a Belgian lawyer, businessman and ice hockey player, coach, referee and administrator.
Loicq played ice hockey for Belgium men's national ice hockey team and won four bronze medals from in 1910 to 1914.
He was a leading supporter of the efforts to introduce ice hockey at the Olympic Games, and served on the organizing committee for ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
After playing in the 1920 Olympics he served as president of the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation from 1920 to 1935, and as president of the International Ice Hockey Federation( IIHF) from 1922 to 1947.
During his time as president the IIHF more than doubled its membership and welcomed the first national associations from Asia and Africa, and the IIHF began hosting its annual Ice Hockey World Championships in 1930.
He was also an international ice hockey referee from 1924 to 1937 at the Olympic Games, the Ice Hockey World Championships and the Ice Hockey European Championships.
He served in the Belgian Army during World War I and World War II, achieved the rank of Colonel, and represented Belgium as legal counsel at the Nuremberg trials.
Loicq was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder's category in 1961.
He was the first European to be inducted, and was credited as the main person who introduced hockey to the Olympics.
He inducted into the inaugural class of the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997, and was credited for growing the game of hockey in Europe and raising its worldwide profile.
The IIHF established the Paul Loicq Award in 1998, given to recognize an individual for outstanding contributions to the development of international ice hockey.
Andrei Popov (politician)
Andrei Popov( born January 24, 1973) is a Moldovan diplomat, journalist and civic activist.
Andrei Popov (politician)
Andrei Popov( born January 24, 1973) is a Moldovan diplomat, journalist and civic activist.
Alastair Brennan
Alastair Brennan( born 17 February 1945) is a retired ice hockey player who played in Scotland and for the Great Britain national ice hockey team.
He is a member of the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.
Andrei Popov (ice hockey)
Andrei Vladislavovich Popov( born 15 July 1988) is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League( KHL).
Ernest Aljančič
Ernest "Nestl" Aljančič (5 December 1916 – 19 November 2006) was a Slovenian ice hockey player and official.
Aljančič was one of ice-hockey pioneers in Yugoslavia.
As a member of SK Ilrija he participated in the first Yugoslavian ice-hockey game against Kamnik team.
He continued to play after the Second World War in the renamed HK Ljubljana team.
He also played for the Yugoslavia national ice hockey team in the first international match against Austria national ice hockey team, where Aljančič scored first Yugoslav international goal.
As a part of the Yugoslavia national team he participated in the 1951 and 1955 World Ice Hockey Championships, scoring two goals.
In 1957, after a 25-year ice-hockey career, Aljančič retired.
He later worked as an official trying to popularise the sport in Slovenia, helped to build Hala Tivoli ice-hockey rink and organize the 1966 World Ice Hockey Championships in it.
As the first Slovenian he was introduced to the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2002.
In 2007 he was introduced to the Slovenian Hockey Hall of Fame.
His two sons, Ernest Aljančič and Jani Aljančič, have also played ice-hockey for Olimpija and Yugoslavia national ice hockey team.
Ernest was also the president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Slovenia for 15 years.
Daniel Purvis
Daniel Scott Purvis( born 13 November 1990 in Crosby, England) is a Scottish international elite artistic gymnast, and three- time British all- around champion in men's artistic gymnastics.
He trains at Southport YMCA and is coached by Jeff Brookes and Andrei Popov.
He was part of the first British men's team to win a medal at a World Championships in 2015.
Vegard Sletten
Vegard Sletten( 8 May 1907 – 17 December 1984) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.
He worked in" Stavanger Aftenblad" from 1929 to 1945, except for the World War II years during parts of which he was imprisoned, and then in" Verdens Gang" from 1945.
He edited the latter newspaper from 1967 to 1977, and chaired both the Norwegian Union of Journalists and the Norwegian Press Association.
Like his father Klaus Sletten he was also a Nynorsk supporter.
Tsutomu Kawabuchi
Tsutomu Kawabuchi( 16 May 1925 – 19 January 2014) was a Japanese ice hockey player, coach and administrator.
He won Japanese hockey championships as a player and as a coach with Iwakura, and later coached the Japan men's national ice hockey team, and the Japan women's national ice hockey team.
He was president of the Hokkaido Ice Hockey Federation for twenty years, and later founded a women's ice hockey club.
He served with the Japan Ice Hockey Federation and was involved in organizing the first IIHF Asian Oceanic U18 Championships, and sat on the Japanese Olympic Committee where he played an integral role in introducing women's ice hockey at the Winter Olympic Games.
He was recognized for his contributions to international ice hockey with induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2004.

Question: Who was born earlier, Andrei Popov (Ice Hockey) or Vegard Sletten?
Answer: Vegard Sletten