With Cardiff ready embrace the Premier League for a second time, we look at some of the names that have embraced the Cardiff City Stadium and Ninian Park.
You've been warned, there are a few surprises!
6. Wilfred Zaha
Zaha joined the Bluebirds for the second half of the ill-fated 2013/14 season under the guidance of Ole Gunnar Solskjær. Zaha didn't enjoy the best of times down in South Wales, producing no goals in 13 appearances.
Zaha promptly arrived back in Manchester still out of favour with David Moyes, with some unverified rumours even claiming Zaha slept with Moyes' daughter, claims which were described as ridiculous by the current Crystal Palace winger.
After the loan spell, Zaha admitted to being depressed during his time at the Cardiff City stadium.
5. Kasper Schmeichel
Having signed a new four-year contract at Manchester City in 2007, Schmeichel immediately agreed a one month loan at Ninian Park. A popular figure at Cardiff, Kasper requested to be able to stay to keep playing first team football.
Then City manager Sven-Goren Eriksson stated that provided there were no injury scares with Joe Hart or second choice Andreas Isaksson, Kasper could remain until the end of the season.
However, Isaksson was less than impressed with his second choice status under Eriksson and duly handed in a transfer request. Eriksson therefore would not allow Cardiff to keep Schmeichel after his initial loan period ended on 2 January.
Eriksson then delighted City fans when he opened talks with Cardiff about the possibility of Kasper staying should Isaksson move towards the end of the January transfer window. Schmeichel would stay for another two games and returned to Eastlands as back up for Joe Hart.
4. Federico Macheda
Macheda burst onto the scene at Old Trafford with a memorable winner against Aston Villa in 2009. After a successful run in the Manchester United reserves, scoring eight goals in eight games, Macheda was rewarded by Sir Alex with a place amongst the substitutes for the Villa game.
Following this electric cameo performance, in his following games he failed to impress and was sent on loan to various clubs with little success at them all. Cardiff signed Macheda on a free transfer where he linked up with his former manager of Manchester United reserves Ole Gunnar Solskjær.
After two disappointing seasons, playing 27 times and finding the net just six times, his contract was terminated under then manager Russell Slade.
3. Martyn Margetson
Martyn Margetson has been a familiar face on out TV screens for the past month, alongside England manager Gareth Southgate in the dugout.
Martyn took the role as goalkeeper coach under Sam Allardyce and has now gone on to join him at Goodison Park.
Margetson was familiar with the Cardiff City dugout too predominantly as back up to Scotland number one Neil Alexander. In five years at Ninian Park, Margetson amassed 32 appearances.
2. Danny Drinkwater
England international Drinkwater, who was an integral part of the Premier League triumph of Leicester City, spent the first half of the 2011/12 season at the Cardiff City Stadium.
Having initially agreed to spend a year down in South Wales, Drinkwater was recalled in January by parent club Manchester United. At Cardiff he arrived as a 20-year-old playing alongside Chris Burke, Peter Whittingham and Gavin Rae.
He made 12 appearances in all competitions and failed to make an impression and was regarded as an unspectacular player.
1. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink & Robbie Fowler
Manager Dave Jones brought in Hasselbaink to play alongside his other marquee signing, Robbie Fowler. Robbie and Jimmy, at 32 and 35 respectively, managed to return just ten league goals for the Bluebirds but proved popular figures nevertheless.
For Cardiff, this was a major coup with Hasselbaink and Fowler leading the line. Inevitably, shirts with both players names on the back were popular items in the capital. In what would have been a sensational partnership ten years earlier, the pair didn't live up to the hype.
Fowler tackled persistent injury problems and Cardiff were left to rue picking up the costs of medical bills in Germany and the United States for specialist treatment.
He was offered a new pay-as-you-play contract for the following season and was widely expected to sign. However, he then pulled out of the deal to team up with former teammate Paul Ince who took charge at Blackburn. Hasselbaink left at the end of the season over a dispute over pay.