- Nick Mason
Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. He has been the only consistent member of the band since its formation. He also competes in auto racing, e.g., the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was born in Birmingham but brought up in Hampstead, London (many online biographies mistakenly cite the street address, …
- Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born September 9, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. He is best known for his 1965-1985 career with the band Pink Floyd as their main songwriter (after the departure of Syd Barrett), bass player and one of their lead vocalists (along with David Gilmour and, to a lesser extent, Rick Wright). He was also the mastermind behind many of the band's concept albums, …
- Richard Wright
Richard William "Rick" Wright is a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. Though not as prolific a songwriter as his bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour, Wright’s richly textured keyboard layers have been a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd’s sound.
- Michael Jackson
Michael Richard Jackson (born February 11 1958) is a British television producer and executive. He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media. He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001.
- Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI, (born Vivienne Isabel Swire in the village of Tintwistle in Glossop, Derbyshire, on 8 April, 1941) is an English fashion designer largely responsible for modern punk and new wave fashions. She is linked with the Sex Pistols via Malcolm McLaren and their SEX/Seditionaries boutique on King's Road, in London during the 1970s.
- Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Caro, OM, CBE, (born 8 March 1924 in New Malden, Surrey) is an English, abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblies of metal using 'found' industrial objects. Caro was educated at Charterhouse public school and Christ's College, Cambridge, earning a degree in engineering. In 1946, after time in the British Navy, he started at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) to study sculpture for a year.
- Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a Cardiff-born journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter. His journalism and columns have appeared in British publications including "The Guardian" newspaper and "Time Out" magazine. He has made several documentary films for television and two documentary series for Channel 4. Ronson has also hosted the late-night television debating show "For The Love Of...".
- Anthony Seldon
Dr Anthony F. Seldon MA, PhD, FRSA, MBA, FRHisS is a political commentator best known as Tony Blair's biographer and the Master of Wellington College. He is the son of the economist Dr Arthur Seldon. Educated at Tonbridge School and a graduate of Worcester College, Oxford, Seldon later went on to study at the London School of Economics, King's College London and the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster).
- Christopher Bailey
Christopher Bailey is Design Director of the largest British luxury goods brand, Burberry. Born in 1971, Bailey graduated from the BA Fashion Design course at The University of Westminster in 1990, before going on to attend London's Royal College of Art, graduating with a Masters in Fashion in 1994. Moving to New York, he worked for Donna Karan before becoming Senior Designer for Gucci womenswear in 1996.
- Dominic Grieve
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born May 24, 1956) British politician and barrister. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield and is the shadow Attorney General and one of the shadow Home Affairs spokesmen. He also has responsibility for community cohesion on behalf of the Conservative Party. Grieve was born in London, the son of Percy Grieve QC, the (MP for Solihull 1964-1983). He was educated at the French Lycee, Colet Court, …
- Danny Wallace
Daniel Frederick Wallace (born 16 November, 1976, Dundee, Scotland; best known as Danny Wallace) is a British documentary comedian, writer and TV presenter, living in London. His notable works include the book "Join Me" and the TV series "How to Start Your Own Country" Wallace grew up in Loughborough and Bath, England. He began writing reviews for videogames magazines at the age of 13. At 18 he started his comedy writing, …
- Fiona Fox
Fiona Fox (born 1964) is the director of the Science Media Centre. Fiona was born in to an Irish Catholic family in North Wales, the younger sister of Claire and Gemma. She attended St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint and studied journalism at Polytechnic of Central London. Fiona started her career at Thames Polytechnic as an assistant PR officer. From there she worked for six years at the Equal Opportunities Commission where she became a senior press officer, …
- Mark Gertler
Mark Gertler (December 9 1891 - June 23 1939), was a British painter. His early life and his relationship with Dora Carrington were the inspiration for Gilbert Cannan's novel "Mendel". The character Loerke from D. H. Lawrence's "Women in Love" and Gombauld from Aldous Huxley's "Crome Yellow" were based on him.
- Luke Busby
Luke Busby (born 16 April 1981) is an English music producer-songwriter, best known for being part of UK electronic pop band Temposhark, a joint collaboration with singer Robert Diament.
- Arnis Balcus
Arnis Balcus (born 1978) is a photography and video artist. Born in Riga, Latvia, Balcus lived and worked in his home town before moving to London, United Kingdom in 2004. He took a MA course on photography at University of Westminster from 2004 to 2005. Balcus started his career with ambiguous black and white self-portraits that were published in his first book "Desire to be Adored" (1999), when he was just 21 years old.
- Caroline Cox Baroness Cox
Caroline Ann Cox, Baroness Cox (born 6 July 1937) is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords, and campaigner for many humanitarian causes and issues relating to disability.
- Ralph Erskine
Ralph Erskine Ralph Erskine, CBRE, RFS, ARIBA (February 24, 1914 – March 16, 2005) was an architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.
- Gigi D'Amico
Gigi D'Amico is a producer and sound engineer, born in Catania, Sicily. He started his music career working with various local radio stations, to move on to clubs (Genesi Portorosa-Me) where he could practice as innovative DJ. He progressed into the technical aspect, and he founded the 'Magna Studio Sound', an important rehearsal studio in Catania, where David Grabs prepared a performance for a show held at the Istituto d'Arte in Catania.
- John Lundberg
John Lundberg (born December 5, 1968) is an English artist and documentary filmmaker. In the early 1990s he founded circlemakers, a UK based arts collective famous for covertly creating hundreds of the world's largest and most elaborate crop circles. He was born in London and studied fine art and interactive design at Middlesex University (1988-1991), …
- Stephen Hesford
Stephen Hesford (born May 27, 1957) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Wirral West. Stephen Hesford was born in Lowton St Mary's, near Leigh, Lancashire and was educated at the Urmston Grammar School and the University of Bradford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in social sciences in 1978. He went on to study at the Polytechnic of Central London and earned his Master of Laws in 1980.
- Janet Anderson
Janet Anderson (born 6 December, 1949) is a British politician. She is the British Member of Parliament for Rossendale and Darwen. She is a member of the Labour Party. She lives in Darwen.
- Charlie Brooker
Charlton Brooker, commonly known as Charlie Brooker, (born 3 March 1971) is a British comedy writer, cartoonist, journalist and television presenter. His style of humour is savage and profane, with surreal elements and a consistent satirical pessimism. He is particularly known for his highly acclaimed TV review columns for "The Guardian" newspaper and is one of four creative directors of comedy production company Zeppotron.
- Natascha Engel
Natascha Engel (born April 9, 1967) is a British politician. She was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire in the 2005 general election. Her background has included extensive involvement in the trade union movement and connections with allies of Gordon Brown.
- Alfred Bossom Baron Bossom
Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom FRIBA (6 October 1881 - 4 September 1965) was an English architect active in the United States, and Conservative Party politician. Bossom was born in Islington, London, to Alfred Henry and Amelia Jane (Hammond) Bossom. He was educated at Charterhouse School, and studied architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the Royal Academy of Arts before leaving for the United States in 1903 to work for Carnegie Steel in Pittsburgh, …
- Owen Spencer-Thomas
Owen Spencer-Thomas was born on 3 March 1940 in Braughing, Hertfordshire, England. He is perhaps best known as a television and radio news journalist over three decades, but he combined this career with that of ordained Anglican clergyman and charity fundraiser. He is married to Maggie; they have three adult children, two sons and a daughter.
- Julian Morris
Julian Morris is director of think-tank International Policy Network, was formerly a Research Fellow and subsequently Director of the Environment and Technology Programme of the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is also a visiting professor of Economics at the University of Buckingham.
- Jake Nava
Jake Nava is a music video and commercial director.
- John Ryan
John Gerald Christopher Ryan (born 4 March 1921, Edinburgh) is a British animator and cartoonist, best known for his character "Captain Pugwash. Ryan expressed his love of writing and drawing early in life, creating his first book, "Adventures of Tommy Brown" at the age of 7. Ryan attended Ampleforth College, a Catholic boarding school. After completing his national service in Burma, Ryan studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic, …
- Samit Basu
Samit Basu is the author of "The Simoqin Prophecies" and "The Manticore's Secret", the first two parts of The GameWorld Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy published by Penguin Books, India. He currently lives and works in Delhi, India.
- Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp (–), born Denis Charles Pratt, was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, "The Naked Civil Servant", brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and longstanding refusal to conceal his homosexuality.
- Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation based in London and Visiting Professor at University College, London, London School of Economics and University of Melbourne. Previously he was: *Director of Policy at 10 Downing Street under British Prime Minister Tony Blair, *Director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (formerly known as the Performance and Innovation Unit), *Co-founder and Director of the London based think tank Demos (from 1993-98), …
- Rob Diament
Robert Diament (born 1980 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of UK electronic pop band Temposhark, a joint collaboration with producer Luke Busby. Diament also runs his own UK record label Paper and Glue.
- David Lepper
David Lepper (born 15 September 1945, Richmond) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Labour Co-operative member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion since 1997.
- Keith Darvill
Keith Ernest Darvill (born May 28, 1948) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. He is a councillor in the London Borough of Havering. Darvill was educated at Norlington Secondary Modern, Leyton; University of Westminster College of Law; Central London Polytechnic; East Ham Technical College; and Thurrock College of Education. He worked as a solicitor. Darvill was elected as Labour member of Parliament for Upminster at the 1997, taking it from the Conservatives, …
- Bryan Cartledge
Sir Bryan Cartledge is a former British diplomat and academic. After studying at Hurstpierpoint College and the University of Cambridge, he took research posts at St Antony's College, Oxford and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. He was inspired to become a diplomat after being invited to assist the former British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden with his memoirs. In the British Diplomatic Service, Cartledge served in Sweden, …
- Wilfred Cass
Wilfred Cass CBE (born 1924) co-founded the Cass Sculpture Foundation. Aged 82, Wilfred lives in the grounds of the Cass Sculpture Foundation's sculpture park in Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, with his wife Jeannette. Wilfred was born in Berlin and comes from the famous Cassirer family. His great uncle, Paul Cassirer, was the a very important dealer for the impressionists in Europe.
- Manish Sahi
Manish Sahi was born in London and educated in boarding schools in Nanital in the foothills of the Himalayas and Grammar Schools in England.He then spent a further few years living in Gorakhpur, India on the border of Nepal,where he spent a lot of time crossing the border to Lumbini the birth place of Buddha. On returning to England, he did his hotel management and a post grad in management from University of Westminster. He then moved back to Delhi to source antiques, …
- Jacobine Jones
Phyllis Jacobine Jones (born 1897) was a sculptor. She was born in England, but immigrated to Canada in 1933. She died in 1976. Jacobine traveled around Denmark and Italy with her mother for years until, at 28, she studied casting, carving, and modelling at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London. She joined the Sculptors' Society of Canada in 1939. Her close friend and protege was Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook whom before her passing she gifted several artistic tools.
- Trisha Goddard
Trisha Goddard (born 23 December, 1957) is an English television presenter well known for morning talk show "Trisha Goddard" which is aired on Five. In Australia she is known as a long time presenter of Play School.
- Mark Finch
Mark Finch (21 October 1961 -14 January 1995) was an English promoter of GLBT cinema. Having founded and expanded several international film festivals he created the first GLBT film market for distributors, sales agents, and independent film producers.