Kevin Ashman

Kevin Ashman

male
quiz show, World Quizzing Championships, Jorkins, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Alumni of the University of Southampton, Fifteen to One…BrainofBritain
Kevin Ashman is considered by many to be Britain's finest quiz player, and has emerged victorious in most of the top-level tournaments in which he...
Bob Crampsey

Bob Crampsey

male
stv, BBC Radio Scotland, BrainofBritain, Now You Know, Scotsport, Sportsound
Robert (Bob) Crampsey is a Scottish football historian, author and retired broadcaster. Crampsey spent many years as a pundit on BBC Radio...

Robert Robinson

male, 81 years old
BBC3 programme, BBC3, Call My Bluff, The Conspiracy, Points of View, Bad Dreams…Prescriptions of a Pox Doctor's Clerk, The Everyman Book of Light Verse, BrainofBritain, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, University of Oxford
Robert Robinson (born 17 December 1927) is a British radio presenter and television presenter. He was born in Liverpool and educated at Exeter...
Daphne Fowler

Daphne Fowler

female, 70 years old
Winner Takes it All up the arse, BrainofBritain, Contestant in British game shows, Sale of the Century, Winner Takes All, Fifteen to One…has dominated several series of the show
Daphne Fowler is a British retired bank secretary and game show champion who currently resides in Weston-super-Mare. Since taking early retirement,...
Christopher Hughes

Christopher Hughes

male, 62 years old
CJ De Mooi, from Ponders End, International Mastermind, Eggheads, BrainofBritain, Contestant in British game shows
Christopher Hughes (born 1947) is one of Britain's leading quizzers. Hughes has been a winner of "Mastermind", 1983, "International Mastermind",...
Pat Gibson

Pat Gibson

male
World Quizzing Championship, Patrick Gibson, Iain M. Banks, won $1,000,000 or more on a game show, BrainofBritain, Contestant in British game shows
Patrick Gibson was born and educated in Ireland but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years, and has represented England in international...
Ian Gillies

Ian Gillies

male, deceased (2002)
Old Elizabethan, Jesus College, Oxford, royal air force, mycroft, Royal Grammar School Worcester, BBC Radio 4…Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford, BrainofBritain, Brain of Brains
Ian Gillies, known to many simply as Mycroft from BBC Radio 4's "Brain of Britain", was one of the greatest quiz players and question setters in...

Franklin Engelmann

male, deceased (1972)
BrainofBritain, Pick of the Pops, Gardeners' Question Time, Down Your Way
Franklin Engelmann (1908-1972) was a radio personality popular in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, nicknamed "Jingle". He was best known for hosting...
Trevor Montague

Trevor Montague

male, 55 years old
writer, Masterteam, Game For A Laugh, Crosswits, an A to Z of Almost Everything, an A to Z of the British Isles…an A to Z of Sport, BrainofBritain
Trevor Montague (born May 20, 1954) is a British author and sports and fitness enthusiast who compiles books of facts. Best known for "an A to Z of...