Daphne Fowler is a British retired bank secretary and game show champion who currently resides in Weston-super-Mare. Since taking early retirement, she has taken part in many televised game shows. She has won many titles, including winning "Fifteen to One" (twice), "Going for Gold" and "Brain of Britain". She is currently taking part in the game show "Eggheads", …

Charles Ingram (born August 6, 1963) is a former British Army Major who made headlines in the United Kingdom when he was accused of cheating on the television show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". Despite being convicted of deception, Ingram maintains that he did not cheat.

Judith Cynthia Aline Keppel (born 18 August, 1942) was the first one million-pound winner on the television game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in the United Kingdom.

Connagh-Joseph de Mooi is currently a professional quizzer and a team member on the BBC show "Eggheads". This has caused controversy amongst some people who see CJ as the weakest Egghead, and not being terribly intelligent. Despite this, CJ is often seen as being good-natured towards this (perhaps unfair) reputation, …

Simon Ambrose was the winner of the third series of the British version of "The Apprentice". Ambrose attended Westminster School ,and was a member of Rigaud's house, where he was widely known by the monker of 'Spambrose', before graduating from Magdalene College, Cambridge with a Double First in Economics.

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 has taken part. He is currently the question-setter and arbiter on the Radio 4 quiz show "Brain of Britain", working under the pen-name of 'Jorkins' (a name taken from "David Copperfield"). He was appointed to the position in 2002 on the death of Ian Gillies, who worked under the pen-name 'Mycroft'.

Timothy "Tim" Campbell is the winner of the first series of the British version of "The Apprentice". Tim, a Middlesex University graduate in Psychology, worked as a Senior Planner within the Marketing & Planning Department of London Underground before applying for the £100,000 a year job through the BBC show, "The Apprentice".

Stewart Holden (born 5 September 1979) is a competitive Scrabble player from Nottingham in the United Kingdom who represented England at the World Scrabble Championship 2003. He is consistently ranked inside the top 16 competitive Scrabble players in the UK. Holden is an active committee member of the Association of British Scrabble Players and runs his own business, Tilefish, selling Scrabble equipment and resources.

Paolo "Paul" Roberto Torrisi (born April 25, 1970) was one of the final four contestants on the first series of "The Apprentice" in the UK. Though ultimately fired, Sir Alan Sugar did offer Torrisi a job working with his son Daniel for his private jet company Amsair. Torrsi turned down the job on Sugar's advice and has since been focusing on a career in the media. After "The Apprentice", he has gone on to make appearances on "Grandstand (BBC)", …

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 Almost Everything" (ISBN 0-316-73137-4), he has since compiled "an A to Z of Sport" (ISBN 0-316-72645-1) and is currently preparing "an A to Z of the British Isles".

Christopher Hughes (born 1947) is one of Britain's leading quizzers. Hughes has been a winner of "Mastermind", 1983, "International Mastermind", and "Brain of Britain", 2005. He was a contestant on Weakest Link where he answered every question correctly. However he did not reach the final round as his fellow contestants voted him off in order to avoid facing him in the final.

Ian Lygo, from Hemel Hempstead, is the former sole holder of the record for the "most consecutive appearances" by a contestant on a television game show, having made 75 appearances on the UK game show "100%" in late 1998, with the 75th appearance occurring on 14 December of that year. On November 30, 2004, this record was tied by Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy!". However, because Jennings lost on his 75th appearance, …

Simon Curtis is a quiz contestant from the Castleford, UK famous for recording the lowest specialist subject score ever on Mastermind scoring one point on "The Films of Jim Carrey". In 2005, he won £250,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and 1,000 points on the opening night of the live version of the show. Simon is also the founder of the Five Towns Quiz League.

Ingram Wilcox (born 1944) is a British quiz enthusiast who is best known for becoming the fifth person to win one million pounds on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2006. In two previous appearances he reached the "fastest finger first" stage but didn't get through.

Mark Nyman (born 14 October 1967) is a Scrabble player from Leeds, England. As of July 2005, he is rated as the second-best player in the UK. He is most widely known as the first, and to date only, British player to win the World Scrabble Championship, which he accomplished in 1993. He married in 2004 and has two children, Max and Kizzy. Nyman played Canadian Joel Wapnick in the 1993 WSC final, in which he came back from 2-1 behind to win 3-2, …

Patrick Gibson was born and educated in Ireland but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years, and has represented England in international quiz contests. In recent years he has become one of the most recognisable faces from British quizzing: on 24 April 2004 he became the fourth player to win the £1m jackpot on the quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and in 2005 he was crowned champion of Mastermind: his specialist subjects included Father Ted, …

Ben Wilson (born 22 March 1983) is the 46th Champion of Countdown and an ABSP rated British Scrabble Player.

David Edwards (born in Barry, south Wales) is a former physics teacher at Denstone College in Staffordshire who became the first man to win the million pounds on the British "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" on 21 April 2001, and only the second person to answer all 15 questions correctly, and hence win the prize, after Judith Keppel. His million pound question was "If you planted the seeds of "Quercus robur", what would grow?" The options were Trees, Flowers, …

Darryl Francis is a well-known author of books on Scrabble. He was a co-compiler of Chambers' original Official Scrabble Words publication in 1988 and consultant on all future editions, along with ex ABSP chairman Allan Simmons. He is also co-compiler on the new Collins Official Scrabble Words publication in 2007, again along with ex ABSP chairman Allan Simmons.

Ian Bayley a UK quiz player, despite his comparative youth when compared to other leading players (he is in his early thirties). He was British Quiz Champion in 2001 and despite never having played on a series-winning team, is widely considered to be one of the best players to have appeared on University Challenge. He made a widely acclaimed appearance on Who Wants to be a Millionaire as a "phone a friend".

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 Britain. His character name was taken from Arthur Conan Doyle's Mycroft Holmes, the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes. He won "Brain of Britain" twice in 1964 and 1968 and "Brain of Brains" in 1970. Educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Jesus College, …

Sarah Lang was the first champion of the ITV1 game show "PokerFace", winning the jackpot of a million pounds. She was born in Newport. In the final, held on 16 July 2006, Sarah was playing against 33-year-old Julian Sperring-Toy. Sarah had four questions right, whilst Julian only had three questions right. They went forward to do a 10-second face-off (folding). Nobody folded. The fact that Sarah subsequently won £1 million meant that Julian had lost £75,500.

Ian Woodley (born 1960) is an English millionaire game show winner and professional poker player, based in Lee, South London.

Chris Wills (born on 17 February 1978) is a Champion of the British game show Countdown and a veteran of numerous other shows.

Clive Spate born 1952 Winner of Countdown series 8 and many other TV quizzes.

Mark Labbett is one of the main organisers in the UK quiz scene, as well as a leading player. As a player he has captained Wales in the 2005 European Quiz Championships, and he has the distinction of being the only person in the UK to play Who Wants to be a Millionaire? twice for money. In September 2005 he won the WWTBAM Live! final event in Torquay and won £16,000, and in March 2006 he won £32,000 in the TV studio.