Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and formerly Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire.

Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December, 1951) is a British publisher, current owner of Express Newspapers and founder of Northern and Shell plc. Express Newspapers publishes the "Daily Express", "Sunday Express", "Daily Star Sunday" and "Daily Star". Northern and Shell was notorious for publishing dozens of pornographic titles, such as "Big Ones", "Skinny and Wriggly", "Forum", …

John Walter, eldest son of John Walter, editor of "The Times", was born at Printing-house Square. He was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford, being called to the bar in 1847. On leaving Oxford he took part in the business management of "The Times", and on his father's death became sole manager, though he devolved part of the work on Mowbray Morris. He was a man of scholarly tastes and serious religious views, …

John Walter (February 23, 1776 - July 28, 1847), son of John Walter, the founder of "The Times", really established the great newspaper of which his father had sown the seed. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Oxford. About 1798 he was associated with his elder brother in the management of his father's business, and in 1803 became not only sole manager, but also editor of "The Times".

John Walter (1738/9 - November 17, 1812), founder of "The Times" newspaper, London, was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors' School. From the death of his father Richard Walter (about 1755/6), until 1781 he was engaged in a prosperous business as a coal merchant. He played a leading part in establishing a Coal Exchange in London; but shortly after 1781, when he began to occupy himself solely as an underwriter and became a member of Lloyds, …

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July1865 - 14 August1922) rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful newspaper and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming (some say demeaning) them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market. During his lifetime, he exercised vast influence over British popular opinion.

David Sullivan is a Welsh-born pornography magnate, newspaper proprietor and horseracer. He owns the "Daily Sport" and "Sunday Sport" newspapers. He owns a horse, David Junior (named after Sullivan's namesake son), trained Brian Meehan; the horse has participated in many Group 1 races around the world. David Junior, the horse, is now a top Sire in Japan. Sullivan, Sr. also has a horse in training that might feature in the 2007 flat racing season.

John Edward Taylor was the founder of the "Manchester Guardian" newspaper, later to become "The Guardian". He was born at Ilminster, Somerset, England, to Mary Scott, the poet, and John Taylor, a Unitarian minister. He was apprenticed to a cotton manufacturer in Manchester, and later became a successful merchant. A moderate supporter of reform, he witnessed the Peterloo massacre in 1819.

Abel Heywood (February 25, 1810 - August 19, 1893) was an English publisher, radical and sometime mayor of Manchester. Starting work at nine-years old, Heywood was an energetic autodidact who, following a summary dismissal by his manufacturing employer, set up a penny reading room in Manchester. He soon developed the enterprise into publishing a newspaper but refused to pay the stamp duty intended to suppress mass publishing.

Sir William Ewart Berry (23 June 1879 - 15 June 1954), the second of three brothers born in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, started his working life as a journalist, became editor-in-chief of "The Daily Telegraph" in 1928, and as a newspaper publisher founded a long-running press dynasty. William Berry made his fortune with the publication of the World War I magazine "The War Illustrated", which at its peak had a circulation of 750,000.

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere was a highly successful British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers. He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Lord Northcliffe, for the development of the London "Daily Mail" and "Daily Mirror". He was a pioneer of popular journalism.

James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley GBE (May 7, 1883 - February 6, 1968) was a Welsh newspaper publisher. Sir Gomer Berry was the third of three brothers from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. He originally co-owned "The Daily Telegraph" with his second brother William and Baron Burnham. He founded "Kemsley Newspapers", which owned "The Sunday Times", "The Daily Sketch" and "The Sunday Graphic" amongst its titles.

Sir John Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose, 2nd Baronet Berry of Hackwood Park (12 July 1909-15 February 1995) was a British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor. John Berry was born on 12 July 1909, the eldest son of William Berry, later first Viscount Camrose and first Baronet Berry of Hackwood Park, and Mary Agnes Berry, "née" Corns. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was tutored by Sir Roy Harrod.

Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham (August 15, 1931 - January 1, 2005) was a successful executive with "The Daily Telegraph", prior to its takeover by Conrad Black in 1986, and later led a successful career in the House of Lords.

Eddy Shah (also Eddie Shah) is a Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced UK newspaper "Today" and of the extremely short-lived tabloid "The Post", and current owner of the Messenger Group. He is also the author of several novels: "The Lucy Ghosts" (1991), "Ring of Red Roses" (1992), "Manchester Blue" (1993), and "Fallen Angels" (1994).

Sir John William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 2nd Baronet, DSO, DFC (February 15 1910 - April 30 1985), formerly 2nd Baron Beaverbrook, was a British Conservative politician and press baron, the son of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Born in Montreal, Aitken was educated at Westminster School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever DL (May 20, 1886-July 19, 1971), was a military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family. Note: Standard genealogies of the Astor family consider this man to also be known as John Jacob Astor V. Lord Astor of Hever was born in New York City in 1886, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848-1919) and Mary Dahlgren Paul (1858-1894).

William Michael Berry, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell MBE (28 May 1911-3 April 2001) was a newspaper proprietor and journalist. Michael Berry was the second son of the 1st Viscount Camrose. He succeeded his brother Seymour, the 2nd Viscount, as Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the "Daily" and "Sunday Telegraph" newspapers. He remained in this role until the takeover by Conrad Black in 1986. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, …

Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, GBE (24 February 1866 - 9 December 1921) was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, most noted for founding the "Daily Express".

Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (born December 3, 1967) succeeded as his father as the 4th Viscount Rothermere in 1998. He had previously been known as "The Honourable Jonathan Harmsworth". He held various positions in Associated Newspapers and was Managing Director of the "Evening Standard" when the sudden death of his father Vere Harmsworth, …

Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (29 May 1898 - 12 July 1978) was a British Conservative politician and press magnate. Harmsworth's father, Harold Sydney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, had been the financial wizard behind the creation of the "Daily Mail" in partnership with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. Esmond was educated at Eton College and commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery.

George Allardice Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell was a British newspaper proprietor. Riddell was born in Brixton Heath, London, the son of a photographer. He became a clerk in a solicitor's office, and qualified as a solicitor himself in 1888, being placed first in all of England in his final exams. He later abandoned the law, however, and went into the newspaper business. By 1903 he was managing director of the "News of the World" and also owned other newspapers.

George Murray Smith - April 6,1901 was the son of George Smith (1789-1846) who with Alexander Elder (1789–1846) started the Victorian publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co.. The firm was extremely successful. G.M. Smith succeeded his father and expanded the product and sales areas to cover most Victorian topics and the British Empire. The firm also supplied a catalogue full of other products desirable to British expatriates.

Sir Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk (27 December 1830 - 24 November 1908) was a conservative British journalist, and later the owner of the "Morning Post" (which merged with "The Daily Telegraph" in 1937). The son of Peter Borthwick, editor of the "Post", Algernon was sent to King's College School and later started his career in 1852 as the newspaper's Paris correspondent. He took over as editor when his father died, and in 1876 became proprietor.

Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer, known to friends as Dick (2 June, 1901 - 15 April, 1963) was a British farmer, newspaper executive and politician. He was in charge of the Overseas Food Corporation during the disastrous Tanganyika groundnut scheme in the late 1940s; later he became a Labour Party Member of Parliament where he pioneered attempts to outlaw racial discrimination.

Vere Harold Esmond Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere became the 3rd Viscount Rothermere in 1978, having been widely known as Vere Harmsworth. He controlled large media interests in the United Kingdom and United States. He may be considered the founder of the "Mail on Sunday".

David Coupar Thomson (born May 23 1861; died December 12 1954) was the proprietor of the newspaper and publishing company D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.