- John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Peel was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio.
- Chris Moyles
Christopher David Moyles (born February 22, 1974 in Leeds) is an English disc jockey. He currently hosts the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show, entitled "The Chris Moyles Show".
- Gilles Peterson
Gilles Peterson (born c. 1964) is an influential DJ and record-label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz and Talkin' Loud he has been associated with the careers of countless well-known artists of the 1990s such as Erykah Badu and Tony Rich. He is also well known as a radio DJ: he used to have a radio show on London's Kiss FM dance music station, but was recruited to the BBC's youth-oriented Radio 1 in 1998.
- Pete Tong
Pete Tong (born July 1960) is a British DJ who works for BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. He is known worldwide by fans of electronic music for hosting programs such as "Essential Mix" and "Essential Selection" on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records, and for his own performances at nightclubs across the globe. Tong has also worked as a record producer.
- Jo Whiley
Johanne Whiley (born July 4, 1965 in Northampton) is a English radio disc jockey on BBC Radio 1, and television presenter for the BBC.
- Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe (born Alexander Zane Reid Lowe on 7 August 1973) also known as 'Zipper' is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand, before moving to England. He currently presents BBC Radio 1's flagship evening show, where he plays a variety of alternative music, including rock, punk, drum and bass, and British hip hop. He is also the presenter of the MTV2 Europe show Gonzo, having been a former VJ on MTV since 1997, where he presented "Brand:New".
- Rob da Bank
Robert Gorham, known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is a British disc jockey. He presents a Sunday late-night show on BBC Radio 1 from midnight-2am, focused on promoting new leftfield music. Until September 2006, he and Chris Coco were the presenters of the Blue Room on Radio 1. The show had a dedicated following, and was one of the few show-cases for a unique blend of quirky chillout tunes. He also hosted Radio 1's One Music show on Thursday nights, …
- Judge Jules
Judge Jules is a British dance music DJ. Born on October 26 1966 as Julius O'Riordan, he was educated at University College School and the London School of Economics. He studied law at the LSE, giving rise to his stage name "Judge Jules", though he obtained a lower second class honours in his degree. Jules began his music career as a DJ on the then pirate radio station Kiss FM before he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1997, …
- Steve Lamacq
Steve Lamacq (born 16 October 1965), sometimes known by his nicknames Lammo (given to him by John Peel) or "The Cat" (due to his ability as a goalkeeper), is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio stations Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and now BBC Radio 2 on a Wednesday from 23:30-00:30 before Janice Long.
- Sara Cox
Sara Cox (born 13 December 1974), affectionately known as "Coxy", is an English television and radio personality and presenter. Her most prestigious role was that of presenting the breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 from 2000 to 2003.
- Scott Mills
Scott Robert Mills, born in Southampton, Hampshire in 1974, is an English radio DJ. The Scott Mills Show is aired in the drive time slot between 4pm and 7pm every weekday on BBC Radio 1. According to the "Independent on Sunday's" "Pink List" for 2007, Mills is the 41st most influential gay person in Britain. This ranking represents a rise of two places upon his position in the previous year's list.
- Mary Anne Hobbs
Mary Anne Hobbs (born May 15, 1966) is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. In the 1980s, at the age of 19, she worked as a journalist for Sounds Magazine. She later went to work for the NME, before going on to help found Loaded Magazine. She got her break in radio at BBC GLR, working alongside Mark Lamarr. She then worked at XFM before going to BBC Radio 1. She also presented the show Superbikes 2003 for ITV.
- Chris Evans
Chris Evans (born 1 April 1966 in Warrington) is an English radio and television presenter and producer.
- Reggie Yates
Reginald "Reggie" Yates (born 31 May 1983 in Archway, London, England) is an English actor, television presenter and radio DJ.
- Annie Mac
Annie MacManus (better known as Annie Mac) is a disc jockey who hosts an eponymous electronic dance music show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom which airs at 10pm (British time) on Friday evenings. Born on 18 July 1978 in Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland, Annie moved to Belfast at the age of seventeen to study at the Queen's University (QUB). While at QUB she regularly frequented Shine, a club within the university's student union.
- Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Bowman (born January 15, 1974) is a Scottish television presenter and a radio D.J. She currently presents a radio show on BBC Radio 1, from 1pm-4pm. She began hosting the show as a solo venture on the August 14, 2006.
- Tim Westwood
Tim Westwood (born 3 October in Lowestoft Suffolk), is a British rap DJ and presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Rap Show. He also presents the UK version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride. He is often referred to by other DJs and artists appearing on his shows simply as Westwood - he also uses the nickname the Big Dawg. He is a member of the Shadyville DJs, a worldwide DJ coalition started by G-Unit's DJ Whoo Kid.
- Colin Murray
Colin Murray (born March 10 1977) is a BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Five Live DJ and television presenter from the Dundonald area of east Belfast, Northern Ireland. He went to Methodist College Belfast. His career path includes digging graves at the age of 16, and print journalism for the "Belfast News Letter" and publications in Canada, as well as running the music magazine BLANK.
- Terry Wogan
Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3 1938, in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland), more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom (UK) for most of his career. He has been a leading media personality in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s, and is often referred to as a "national treasure".
- Trevor Nelson
Trevor Nelson MBE (born December 26, 1968) is a British presenter and DJ. Nelson is currently presenting shows on BBC Radio 1 and MTV. He presents "The Lick" on MTV Base. He also appeared as a judge on the 2006 show "Just the Two of Us", and again in 2007. Nelson is a fan of Chelsea Football Club.
- Andy Kershaw
Andy Kershaw (born November 9 1959 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester) is a British broadcaster, known predominantly as a champion of world music. His shows feature a mix of country, blues, reggae, sounds from around Africa, folk music, Asian music and spoken word performance from the likes of Ivor Cutler and John Cooper Clarke. He has a home in the Isle of Man. The brother of fellow presenter Liz Kershaw, he attended Hulme Grammar School, …
- Kevin Greening
Born in 1964, Kevin Greening is a British radio presenter, who has worked on several BBC Radio stations, and currently presents for 102.2 Smooth Radio.
- Dave Pearce
Dave Pearce is a British dance DJ and record producer, playing gigs across the UK and the world, although he is perhaps best known for his work in radio. He currently works for BBC Radio 1 presenting the long-running "Dance Anthems" show on Sunday nights. Pearce has brought several sayings into the world of dance including "putting on your trance trousers' when he plays a trance record and "roll another fat one" meaning to play another great record.
- Mike Read
Mike Read (born 1 March 1951 in Manchester, England) is a British disc jockey and former television presenter.
- Bob Harris
"Whispering" Bob Harris (born Robert Brinley Harris in Northampton, England on 11 April 1946) is a radio host who currently works for BBC Radio 2, presenting music two nights a week. His programmes feature a moderately eclectic blend of mostly American and British rock, country, and occasional folk music from the 1950s to the present. His on-air delivery suggests a deep enthusiasm and affection for the music and musicians featured on his shows.
- Huw Stephens
Huw Stephens (born 1981 in Cardiff) is a radio presenter currently broadcasting shows on BBC Radio 1. Stephens joined Radio 1 at the age of 17 in 1999 as part of the station's new regional output where he hosts the Wales opt-out with Bethan Elfyn, he became the youngest ever Radio 1 presenter at just 18 years of age. In 2005, Huw finally gained a national slot when he became one of the replacements for the late John Peel as part of the station's One Music strand, …
- Dj Nihal
Nihal Arthanyake (born June 1) also known as DJ Nihal is a British Radio Presenter and TV Personality, notably presenting on BBC Radio 1 jointly with Bobby Friction but also presents on the BBC Asian Network. </b> Nihal has lived for music since he started promoting rap shows in his native Essex while still doing his A-Levels.He studied for his GCSE's at Burnt Mill School in Harlow, Essex By the time he was about to graduate he was signed to a major label, …
- Dave Lee Travis
Dave Lee Travis (born in Buxton, Derbyshire on 25 May 1945) also known professionally as DLT, is a British radio presenter, best known for his career on BBC Radio 1.
- Tommy Vance
Tommy Vance, born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston (July 11 1941 - March 6 2005) was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. Along with Neal Kay he was one of the few broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion the cause of hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans.
- Dj Spoony
DJ Spoony ("born Jonathan Joseph in 1970 in the London Borough of Hackney ") is a British DJ, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter. Spoony's broadcasting career started on London Underground (a leading pirate radio station in the mid-nineties). he then joined Kiss 100, where he became a member of the "Dreem Teem" with Mikee B and Timmi Magic. The Dreem Team then brought UK garage to Radio1. His weekend breakfast show allowed listeners to join the Early Doors Club, …
- Jimmy Savile
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE, KCSG (born 31 October 1926), commonly known as Jimmy 'Now Then, Now Then, Hows About That Then, Jingle Jangle Jewellery Jewellery' Savile, is an English DJ, actor and television personality. He is best known for his BBC television show "Jim'll Fix It", in which he made the wishes of members of the public (mainly children) come true, …
- Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn (born 29 January 1943 in Guildford, Surrey) is an award winning English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first presenter to appear on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!".
- Fearne Cotton
She got interested in dance and drama while she was in school. After she took part in a countrywide talent show, Fearne got several offers to work in TV shows. Thus, she debuted on TV in 1998 with the show "The Disney Spot", followed by another show "Diggit". So far, Fearne Cotton had already began what was about to be a successful TV career. Fearne Cotton worked in children TV shows like "Draw Your Own Toons" and "Mouse", a show based on computers.
- Richard Skinner
Richard Skinner (born December 26, 1951) is a British radio and television broadcaster. The only presenter to have fronted the three BBC 'flagship' programmes "Whistle Test", "Top Of The Pops" and Radio 1's Top 40.
- Annie Nightingale
Annie (formerly known as Anne) Nightingale MBE (born in London on April 1 1942) is a radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 and since the death of John Peel in October 2004 has been its longest-serving presenter. Her career at the station is more than twenty years longer than that of the second longest-serving presenter, the dance DJ Pete Tong.
- Eddie Halliwell
</gallery>;Eddie Halliwell is an English dance music DJ, from Wigan, England. Eddie has held residencies at Goodgreef and Gatecrasher, was named DJ of the year by mixmag in 2003 and reached number 17 in both the 2005 and 2006 DJ Mag Top 100 poll. As well as making a name for himself on the UK and international club circuit, Eddie is also a resident DJ for BBC Radio 1. Having been brought up in the north west of England, …
- Vernon Kay
Vernon Charles Kay (born 28 April 1974, in Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom) is an English TV presenter and DJ. His first TV presenting job was on the BBC children's show FBI, a spin-off of "Fully Booked". He hosted the television show "Hit Me Baby One More Time" which first aired on British television in 2005. The show was then picked up by NBC for the United States, which Kay also hosted. Vernon Kay is a former host of T4.
- Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948 in Ilford, Essex) is a British television presenter, DJ and executive who made his name on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He is more recently known as the presenter of the television gameshow "Deal or No Deal". Edmonds has also worked closely with Richard L. Lewis, who has written and produced various programmes that Edmonds has worked on.
- Steve Wright
Stephen Richard (Steve) Wright (born August 26 1954 in Greenwich, London) is a radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom. He currently presents the afternoon show on BBC Radio 2. He rose to prominence in the early-1980s while working with Peter Dickson on BBC Radio 1.
- Mark Radcliffe
Mark Radcliffe (born 29 June 1958) is an English broadcaster who has worked in various roles for the BBC since the 1980s. Radcliffe was born in Bolton, Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester), educated at the independent fee-paying Bolton School and took an interest in music from a young age; playing drums in several bands. In some respects he is a very traditional British DJ, with a wide knowledge of rock and pop.