James Cracknell, OBE (born 5 May 1972) is an English rowing champion and double Olympic gold medallist. He began rowing whilst attending Kingston Grammar School and rowed at the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990 — winning a gold medal in the latter. Moving into the senior squad, Cracknell had numerous World Championship appearances — but no medal wins. He qualified in the double scull for the 1996 Summer Olympics, but fell ill and was unable to race.

John Leech (born 11 April 1971) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington. He is a member of the Transport Select Committee and was appointed a Shadow Transport Spokesperson in 2006.

John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951 in Liverpool, England) is a British politician and Labour Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington. He is Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, the Labour Representation Committee, and Public Services Not Private Profit. McDonnell unsuccessfully ran for the post of Labour Party leader following Tony Blair's resignation.

Richard Hill MBE (born in Surrey 23 May 1973) is a rugby union footballer who plays flanker for Saracens and England. Often portrayed as the 'silent assassin' at both club and international level, his effective and abrasive style of forward play has made him legendary in rugby union circles. Big hits, shrewd driving and energy-sapping support play, are all features of his exceptionally well-rounded game which makes him one of the most highly rated flankers of his era.

Joanne Brand, known as Jo Brand, (born 3 May 1957, Hastings, East Sussex) is a British comedienne.

William, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg ("Guillaume Jean Joseph Marie") born November 11, 1981, is the eldest child of Grand Duke Henri and his wife Maria Teresa Mestre. A descendant of the House of Nassau, founded in 1093, which has ruled Luxembourg since 1890, Guillaume has been Heir Apparent to the throne of Luxembourg since his father's accession in 2000. He is styled "HRH The Hereditary Grand Duke", …

Hajaz Akram is a British Asian actor, trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. He has appeared in numerous television dramas, including "Doctor Who", "Murder in Mind" and "Casualty", and is also the voice of DJ Panjit Gavaskar ("Radio Del Mundo") in "Grand Theft Auto". He has had film roles in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" and "Batman Begins".

Shailesh Lakhman Vara (born September 4, 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire in the 2005 general election, succeeding Brian Mawhinney as the Conservative MP for the seat. Shailesh Vara has previously been a Vice-Chairman of the Conservative party. In 2006 he was appointed to the Front bench as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House.

Archie Panjabi (', born 1973) is a British actress.

Audley Harrison, (born on October 26, 1971 in London), is a British Heavyweight boxer. In 2000 in Sydney he became the first Briton to win an Olympic gold medal in the Superheavyweight division since the competition's inception in 1984. He was also the first Briton to take Olympic gold in boxing in 32 years, and the first at the highest weight class since 1920. After his Olympic success he turned professional, fighting in Great Britain and America, …

Lee Mack (born Lee McKillop in Southport, Lancashire) is an English stand-up comedian and television performer.

Ralph Miliband (January 7, 1924 - May 21, 1994), was a notable left wing political theorist. He was the father of two British MPs, David and Ed Miliband.

Pekka Markus Sauri is a Finnish psychologist and a Green League politician. He is currently the deputy mayor of Finland's capital city, Helsinki. Sauri became well-known in Finland during the late 1990s for hosting a popular radio show "Yölinja" ("Nightline") in which he tried to help callers with their various personal problems. Sauri attended the Helsinki University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1977 and licenciate degree in 1980.

Roger Hammond (January 30 1974 in Harlington) is an English bicycle racer, specialising in cyclo-cross and road cycling. Hammond grew up in Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School as a teenager. He was the British Road champion in 2003 and 2004. He rode for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team in 2005 and 2006. He currently rides in the T-Mobile Cycling Team. For the 2005 and 2006 Tour of Britain, …

Nick Abbot is a British radio presenter, born 22 August, 1960.

Oreke Mosheshe is a British actress, TV presenter and model, who can currently be found presenting Roulette on Live Roulette TV each week on Sky Digital (UK) channel 847.

Mark Bagley (born August 7, 1957) is an American comic book artist for Marvel Comics. He has worked on titles such as "The Amazing Spider-Man", "Thunderbolts", "New Warriors", and "Ultimate Spider-Man".

Allyn Condon (born August 24, 1974) is an English sprinter, the 1998 European champion in 4 x 100 metres relay.

Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE (born January 5, 1974 in Farnborough (London Borough of Bromley) is an Olympic Athlete, who represented the Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion.

Bindya Solanki (born 24 May) is a British Asian actress. Solanki comes from Southend on Sea, the seaside town in Essex. Her parents are of Gujarati descent and emigrated to England in the 60s. She attended Brunel University and graduated in 1995 with a BA (hons) degree in drama. She made her television debut in the ITV children's programme "My Parents Are Aliens" in 1999, playing a teacher.

David Crutcher born in Burley, England in 1940 is a politician and small business man from Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Brunel University in England in 1962 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 1994 David Crutcher founded Ramatek Inc. a company that specializes in detecting engine wear in heavy machinery by analyzing the composition of motor oils.

Abiodun Oyepitan (born December 30, 1979) is a British sprint athlete. Abi was born in Westminster, London and represents Shaftsbury Barnet Harriers athletics club. Her first outing to a major athletics came at the 1998 World Junior Athletics Championships where she finished fourth as part of the British 4 x 100 m relay team. She continued to perform well at the junior level, but her progress was interrupted in 2000 by an injury.

Joseph Paul Richard Worsley MBE (born 14 June 1977 in London) is a rugby union player who plays flanker for Wasps and England. He was educated at Hitchin Boys' School and Brunel University and joined London Wasps at the age of 16 from Welwyn rfc. He became the youngest player to represent England U21s, after being a member of the England Schools 18 Group Grand Slam team in 1994-95.

Ben Gollings (born 13 May 1980 in Launceston, Cornwall) is a rugby union footballer who plays fly-half for Tasman and England Sevens. Gollings was educated at Canford School and in 1997 led the school to success at The National Schools 7's. In 2000, he was selected for England in the Students' World Cup, whilst at Brunel University. Gollings has previously played for Bournemouth, Gloucester, Bath Development U19 side, Harlequins, Newcastle Falcons, Worcester and Sunnybank.

Anastasios Papaligouras (born April 14, 1948) is a Greek lawyer and New Democracy politician and the current Minister of Justice. Born in Athens, Papaligouras studied law at the University of Athens and took a Masters in Comparative European Law at Brunel University, London. He was leader of ONNED (the New Democracy youth organisation) from 1976 to 1977. From 1976 to 1978, he was a member of the New Democracy Executive Committee.

Mike Coughlan is Chief Designer for the McLaren Formula One team, and has been in the position since 2002. Coughlan was born in the United Kingdom, and studied Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University, graduating in 1981. He first designed cars for Tiga Cars, which competed in junior formulae, until 1984, when he joined the Lotus Formula One team. As the team's fortunes waned, it was reorganised at the end of 1990, …

Carl Ashley Raphael Barât is an English musician. He is currently the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things and was previously the co-frontman with Pete Doherty of punk and indie rock revivalists The Libertines.

On the first webpages created by Tim Bernes Lee, Carl Barker was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Asperen was "at CERN for a six month period during his degree course at Brunel University, UK. Carl [worked] on the server side, possibly on client authentication."

Ranulph Glanville (born London, 13 June, 1946) is a researcher and theoretician in both architecture and cybernetics. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association (1964-71). He completed a PhD in cybernetics at Brunel University in 1975, and a second PhD in Human Learning from Brunel in 1988. He has worked briefly as an architect in UK and Finland. He taught at the Architectural Association 1972-78, and Portsmouth Polytechnic 1978-97.

C. Kyle Ranson is currently the President and CEO of InFocus headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. Kyle has been with InFocus since April 2003 originally hired as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, the same title he held at Compaq/Hewlett Packard just months before. Ranson also held executive and other positions at Newberry Data, and Vickers Defense.

Lucy Verasamy (born 2 August 1980) is a weather forecaster for Sky News, and terrestrial channel Five in the United Kingdom. Verasamy attended Silfield Primary School and Framlingham College Junior School Suffolk and King Edward VII High School in Norfolk; where she studied A-Level Geography. After graduating with a degree in Geography and Earth Sciences from Brunel University in 2001, she worked at the Press Association’s weather centre for four years as a forecaster, …

Professor Heinz Wolff (born 29 April 1928) is a German-British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He is best known for his television and radio work, including the TV series "The Great Egg Race". He was born in Berlin, and moved to Britain with his family at the age of ten, arriving on the day World War II broke out. After school, he worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit near Cardiff, …

Thomas Fiddian (born April 14, 1980) is a British product designer. Thomas was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire but was raised in Holt, Norfolk were he was educated at Gresham's School. After graduating he attended Brunel University, based on their Runnymede campus where he read Industrial Design. <br />Although studied product design,Thomas' work has been constantly eclectic and has spun into many other mediums of design.

John Edward Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson (b. 1 August 1939), is a British Labour Co-operative politician. He is currently a life peer in the House of Lords, and was previously a Member of Parliament from 1974-79, and an Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1999. Born in London, Tomlinson was educated at Westminster City School and the Co-operative College in Loughborough. He later studied health services management at Brunel University, …

Sunny Hundal is a British Asian journalist. He was born in London in 1977 to Sikh parents of Indian origin. He has a degree in Economics from Brunel University and has written for leading British newspapers including The Financial Times, and The Independent. He has been interviewed by ITV News, Sky News, and Channel 4 News. Sunny Hundal is the founder and editor of "Asians in Media" magazine. He also runs the progressive "Pickled Politics" weblog, …

Cleopatra Mukula is a Kenyan student and founder of Peggoty Foundation UK. Cleopatra was born in Mombasa, Kenya, to a Kenyan (Luo) mother and a Ugandan (Teso) father. She has a BSc in Health Care Law and Ethics, and is studying for a Masters in Documentary Film at Brunel University. She is the founder of Peggoty Foundation UK, a charity which educates,empowers and caters for orphaned and impoverished children in Africa.

Anita Asante (born April 27, 1985), is an English football player. She plays for the English side Arsenal, and for the England national team. She plays as a defender, and wears the number 18 for Arsenal.

Martin P. Mobberley (born 1958) is an amateur British astronomer, author, and former electronics engineer. He images a wide variety of objects, including comets, planets, novae, supernovae and asteroids from his observatory in Suffolk, England.