- John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August, 1906 - 19 May, 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in "Who's Who" as a "poet and hack". He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead. Although he claimed he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture supported him throughout his life. - Quentin Letts
Quentin Richard Stephen Letts is a British journalist, writing for "The Daily Telegraph", "Mail on Sunday", and "New Statesman", and previously for "The Times". He is the son of Richard Letts and Jocelyn Elizabeth Letts (née Adami). His older sister, Melinda, is a successful accredited executive coach who was awarded an OBE in 2003. He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Bellarmine College, … - Christopher Logue
Christopher Logue, CBE (born 23 November 1926 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. He has also written for the theatre and cinema as well as acting in a number of films. His two screenplays are "Savage Messiah" and "The End of Arthur's Marriage". He was also a long-term contributor to "Private Eye" magazine, as well as writing for the "Merlin" literary journal of Alexander Trocchi. - Douglas Kirkland
Douglas Kirkland (born 1934 in Toronto, Ontario) is a prominent photographer based in the United States. At age twenty-four, Kirkland was hired as a staff photographer for "Look" magazine and became famous for his 1961 photos of Marilyn Monroe taken for Look's 25th anniversary issue. He later joined the staff of "Life" magazine. - William Kay
William Kay is a British financial and business journalist. Kay was on the staffs of the London Evening Standard and the now-defunct London Evening News in the early years of his career and has been freelancing, writing books and working for UK national newspapers since then. The British edition of Who's Who records that William Kay has been the City Editor, Financial Editor, Money Editor or Personal Finance Editor of five British newspapers: "The Times, … - Phil Harding
Phil Harding (born 1957) is an English audio engineer, producer and remixer, best known for his extended collaboration with keyboardist and programmer Ian Curnow. Harding had a robust career prior to joining forces with Curnow, and together they became a pop mix powerhouse for many British bands. At one point they were offered the task of the first House Music remix of the Chic hit "Le Freak". - Aaron Minsky
Aaron Minsky or Von Cello (stage name) is a rock cellist. He began his career as a rock guitarist and was influenced by guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Jerry Garcia. During high school he started to transfer his knowledge of rock guitar to the cello, creating a new style of cello playing. He went on to study the cello, obtaining Bachelors and Masters degrees in music performance from the Manhattan School of Music, … - Clive Jenkins
David Clive Jenkins (2 May 1926 - 22 September, 1999) was a British trade union leader. "Organising the middle classes", his stated recreation in "Who's Who", sums up both his sense of humour and his achievements in the British trade union movement. - Patrick Power
Dr Patrick John Power SC (* ca. 1953) is a disgraced Senior Counsel in New South Wales, Australia. He was Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor at the NSW Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP). In May 2007 he was convicted of possessing child pornography. According to "Who's Who" Power's education began at the upmarket, private Barker College in Hornsby, run by the Anglican Church. He obtained his law degree at the Australian National University, … - Hugh Cortazzi
Sir Hugh Cortazzi GCMG retired after four years' service as British ambassador to Japan in 1984, but has since been a leading scholar and promoter of better relations between Britain and Japan. He has written and edited many books on the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and Japanese history. He also writes a regular column in the Japan Times, and in 2006 his translation of the Japanese Crown Prince's account of his time at Oxford was published as "The Thames and I". - Lawrence B. Ebert
Lawrence B. Ebert is a registered patent attorney in Bridgewater, New Jersey. He was admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey. He had a J.D. from the University of Chicago, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Stanford University, and a B.S. from the University of Chicago. He was selected for inclusion in the Diamond Edition of Marquis Who's Who in America (2005). - Pentti Airikkala
Pentti Airikkala (born Helsinki, Finland, September 4 1945) was one of the 'Flying Finns' who have dominated world rallying for the past four decades. His career was more sporadic than many of his contemporaries, and he competed in only three World Rally Championship (WRC) events regularly; the two Scandinavian rallies (the 1000 Lakes and the Swedish Rally) and the RAC Rally in the United Kingdom. - Thomas Milton Tinney Sr.
Thomas Milton Tinney, Sr. is a specialist in genealogical research. Listed in Who's Who in America, (Millennium Edition - 2004) and Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, (both editions). Tinney and his wife, V. Chris Tinney, have established the Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory, a portal designated as a launching point for worldwide professional and academic genealogical research. - Peter Wray
Peter Wray (born February 21st, 1964 in Peterborough, Ontario) is a former writer, film maker and performer. He has transformed his production and promotion background in the entertainment business into a successful and at times notorious career as an avid promoter of new technologies, copywriter and business marketing strategist. - Nicholas Lander
Nicholas Lander (born in Manchester in 1952) is a consultant to and writer on the restaurant industry. He studied at Cambridge University and Manchester Business School before establishing himself as one of Britain's foremost restaurateurs in the 1980s with L'Escargot restaurant in Soho, London. Since the early 1990s he has been the restaurant correspondent for the Financial Times, where his weekly columns, under the byline of 'The Restaurant Insider', … - Philip Aziz
Philip J.A.F. Aziz (b. April 15, 1923) is an internationally acclaimed Canadian master artist (painter, sculptor, designer of buildings, jewelled metal works, chapels, altarpieces, chalices and crosses) who has been featured in the world's and Canada's book of "Who's Who". Aziz lives in London, Ontario, Canada and is of Lebanese, Greek Orthodox descent. - John Meurig Thomas
Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS (born December 15, 1932), is a leading British chemist and educator primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science. He has authored over one thousand scientific articles and several books, including "Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis" (with W. John Thomas) and "Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place". - William Howarth
William Howarth is an American writer and professor of environmental literature and history at Princeton University. He has published thirteen books and also written for such national periodicals as National Geographic, Smithsonian, and The American Scholar. He has served on the editorial board of "Environmental History," as chairman of the board for The Center for American Places, and as editor in chief of "The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau". - Beth Hedva
Beth Hedva (born Beth Hedva Milinsky August 28, 1955 in Detroit, Michigan) is an internationally recognized psychologist and authority in the still-emerging fields of transpersonal psychology and cross-cultural spiritual traditions. A member of the Board of Directors of the International Council of Psychologists, she had been honored as an International Woman of the Year in Cambridge, England by age 35, … - Philip Johnson-Laird
Philip Johnson-Laird is a psychologist and author of several notable books on human cognition and reasoning. He was educated at Culford School and University College London where he won the Rosa Morison Medal in 1964, a James Sully Scholarship between 1964–66 and achieved BA in 1964 and PhD in 1967. He was elected to a Fellowship in 1994. He is currently the Stuart Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. - Frank Messervy
General Sir Frank Walter Messervy, KCSI, KBE, CB, DSO, (1893 - 1974) was a British officer in both the First and Second World Wars and was the first Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Royal Army (15 August 1947 - 10 February 1948 or Aug 1948?). He became a lieutenant-general in 1945; General 1947; General Officer Commanding in Chief or (GOC-in-C) "Northern Command", India 1946 - 1947. A letter catalogued by MJF, dated 23 March, 1948, … - Edmund Rolls
Professor Edmund Rolls is a psychologist and neuroscientist based at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is principally a computational neuroscientist. His interests are varied and he has shown that some human brain cells respond to umami, the 'fifth taste'. Much of his early work was conducted with Barbara Rolls, a nutrition researcher now at Pennsylvania State University. - Robert W. Reuschlein
Robert W. Reuschlein is one of the first "peace economists," individuals who analyze the economic, political, social, and historical effects of the drain of societal resources by military spending and project alternative futures based on high or low military spending. He has had numerous speaking engagements in North America and Europe. Reuschlein was a professor on Radio For Peace International and taught peace economics at the University of Oregon. - John Sophocleus
John Peter Sophocleus is an economist and libertarian political activist in Alabama. - John Ockendon
Dr John Richard Ockendon FRS (born c. 1940) is an applied mathematician noted especially for his contribution to fluid dynamics and novel applications of mathematics to real world problems. He is University Lecturer in Applicable Mathematics at Oxford University and Fellow of St Catherine's College and Research Director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial Applied Mathematics (OCIAM). His initial fluid mechanics interests included hypersonic aerodynamics, creeping flow, … - Arthur Winnington-Ingram
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram (January 26, 1858 - 1946) was Bishop of London from 1901 to 1939. He was born in Worcestershire, the fourth son of Rev. E. Winnington Ingram and of Louisa (daughter of Henry Pepys, Bishop of Worcester). Ingram was educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford. He was a private tutor, 1881-84; curate at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, 1884-85; private chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield, 1885-89; head of Oxford House, Bethnal Green, … - Pierre Yergeau
Pierre Yergeau is a Canadian novelist. Born in Abitibi, Quebec, Yergeau was educated at Concordia University and the Université de Montréal. He has twice been a finalist for the Governor General's Award in French language fiction. He is considered one of the most important Canadian novelists, with a dry sense of humor, tendency towards ironic reflections on the American dream, and a brilliant use of rhetoric. - Kenneth Durham
Kenneth Durham is a prominent British educator. Kenneth was educated at St John's School, and studied at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. He taught economics at St. Albans School, before becoming Director of Studies and Head of Economics at King's College School. In 1996 he was appointed Headmaster of University College School, which is part of the Eton Group of Independent Schools. - Dragan Todorović
Dragan Todorović is a writer and multimedia artist. Until 1995 he lived in Yugoslavia, where he worked as a journalist, editor, and TV personality. Between 1977 and 1995 Todorovic published over 2,000 articles (commentaries, interviews, essays and reports) in leading magazines of Yugoslavia. On radio, he worked as a host, writer and producer, among other things writing and directing 24 radio-plays for Radio Politika. - Robin Mathy
Robin Michelle Mathy (b. July 21, 1957) is an award-winning writer and scholar (listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, at Arizona State University and the University of Minnesota.) She has graduate degrees in Sociology, Social Work, International Relations, Family Education, and Evidence-Based Health Care, and has begun doctoral work in both Anthropology and Education. - Keith Rous 6th Earl of Stradbroke
Robert Keith Rous, 6th Earl of Stradbroke (b. 25 March 1937), best known as Keith Rous, is a Mount Fyans, Victoria, Australia-based British nobleman. He became Earl of Stradbroke after the successive deaths of both his uncle and then his father in 1983. The Earl has seven children by Dawn Antoinette Beverley (married 1960 - divorced 1976): * Robert Keith Rous, Viscount Dunwich (b. 1961), heir apparent to the Earldom * Lady Ingrid Arnel Rous (b. - Leonard Greenham Star Molloy
Major Leonard Greenham Star Molloy D.S.O., M.P. (1861-1937) was born in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, the son of Richard Molloy of Rathgar, Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he obtained his M.A., M.D. and D.Ph. He served with the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry from 1901 to 1917; during World War I he served in France and Headquarters (dispatches twice) and was 2nd in command of the 23rd Division. - Timothy Marschall Jones
Timothy Aidan Marschall Jones (born September 5, 1962 as Timothy Aidan Jones) is a United Kingdom diplomat. Marschall Jones entered the diplomatic service on graduating from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1984. He was Deputy Head of Mission in Tehran from 1996 to 1999, and ambassador to Armenia from 1999 to 2002. In Who's Who, he lists his interests as "swimming, cycling and idle curiosity". - John Hays Hammond Jr.
John Hays Hammond, Jr. (April 13, 1888 - February 12, 1965) was an American inventor known as "The Father of Radio Control" and son of mining engineer John Hays Hammond, Sr.. - S.H. Hashmi
"S.H. Hashmi" was born in Gaya, India, in 1935, and the son of renowned scholar Allama Syed Abdul Qudoos Hashmi. He was the founding member and the former Managing Director of Orient McCann-Erickson Pakistan, belonged to a well-known literary family of Bihar. He received President’s Pride of Performance Award, the FIRST Award in Advertising, from Sardar Farooq Ahmed Leghari, President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, on 1997-03-25. - Carl William Hansen
Carl William Hansen was a Danish author, Luciferian, Wandering Bishop and Occultist. Hansen was born in Copenhagen and first initiated into Martinism in 1898 by Alphonse Wallen. Hansen published "Den Ny Morgens Gry, Lucifer-Hiram, Verdensbygmesterens Genkomst" (The Dawn of a New Morning, Lucifer-Hiram, The Return of the World's Master Builder), in 1906 under the pseudonym Ben Kadosh. Inspired by the French Gnostic movement, and such writers as Carl Kohl, … - Greg Lyne
Dr. Greg Lyne is a noted choral director, arranger, composer and vocal educator. Currently the full-time Director of Voices In Harmony, he has also directed the Masters of Harmony to three International Chorus Championships of the Barbershop Harmony Society (1990, 1993, & 1996), and the West Towns Chorus to one (1987). He previously served as Director of Music Education and Services for the Society. - Alison Greenwald
I just moved back to the US and am trying to fight off jet lag, while cramming into my schedule visits with my family and friends. - Tarun
OK lemme tell you all the juicy details about me... beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*censored*eeepppppppppp Hope you enjoyed that. Also I am older than 85 years old, but damn Friendster does not allow me to reveal my true age. Do they think us old people don't know how to socialize? I say Eff you Friendster! - Janelle
Semi-fiesty, intelligent, witty brown-eyed girl; thrives on good conversation, random acts of kindness, and the little things in life.
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