Laura Hillenbrand (born 1967) is the author of the acclaimed "Seabiscuit: An American Legend", a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001. The book later became the basis of the 2003 movie "Seabiscuit". Her essays have appeared in "The New Yorker", "Equus" magazine, "American Heritage", "The Blood-Horse", "Thoroughbred Times", …

Byron Hyde is the chairman of the Nightingale Research Foundation in Canada, an organisation that champions research and diagnosis of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome. Their symbol is the tiger as one of the first findings in ME was a lack of killer cells in patients.

Sophia Mirza (1974-2006) was a person in the United Kingdom whose died of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). On Tuesday, June 13th 2006 a coroner "...of Brighton and Hove Coroners Court, UK, recorded the cause of death of a 32-year-old woman as acute anuric renal failure (failure to produce urine) due to dehydration as a result of CFS." Erroneously claimed by some to be the first recorded death attributed to ME/CFS, …

Trevor G. Marshall, PhD (b. 1948, Adelaide, South Australia), is a biomedical researcher. Over the last few decades, he has developed a medical treatment, called the 'Marshall Protocol', which uses antibiotics, Angiotensin II receptor antagonist, avoidance of bright sunlight exposure and diet to treat a class of chronic diseases, which he argues are caused by L-form or cell wall deficient bacteria.

Peter Marshall (born 12 May 1971) is a former professional squash player from England. Marshall finished runner-up to the great Pakistani player Jansher Khan at the World Open in 1994 and the British Open in 1995. He reached the World No. 2 ranking behind Jansher in November 1994, and many observers at the time felt that he seemed a good candidate to displace the ageing Pakistani champion as World No. 1 in the near future.

Erica White (born in 1935) is a British nutritionist specializing in candidiasis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, author of three books on nutrition and health, and founder and director of Nutritionhelp. Erica suffered from extremely poor health as a child. She left school at seventeen, and took a one-year secretarial course at the City of London College. She married Robin White in 1959 and had three children over the next ten years, …

Richard Bentall (1956 -) holds a Chair in Experimental Clinical psychology at the University of Manchester, UK. Born in Sheffield, he attended the University College of North Wales, Bangor as an undergraduate before taking a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the same institution.

Susan Harris (born Susan Spivak on October 28, 1940 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a television comedy writer and producer. She created the series "Soap", "Benson", "The Golden Girls", "Empty Nest", "Nurses", and "The Golden Palace". She also wrote or co-wrote all of the episodes of the first 4 seasons of "Soap" and appeared on two episodes as the hooker Babette.

Neil Codling (born Neil John Codling, on December 5, 1973, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England) is a singer-songwriter and former keyboardist for the popular English band Suede. He is the cousin of their drummer Simon Gilbert. He joined the band in early 1996 to record their 3rd album, "Coming Up" and co-wrote the album's epic centrepiece, 'The Chemistry Between Us'. For 1999's electronic 'Head Music' album his role become considerably larger within the band, …

Andy (Andrew) Hunt (born 9 June, 1970 in Thurrock) was a professional football player for 10 years in England, playing for Newcastle United, West Bromwich Albion and finally for Charlton Athletic, scoring 135 goals in 361 appearances for his respective teams. He scored at Wembley Stadium in West Bromwich Albion's promotion season (1992-1993), and finished league top scorer in Charlton's Division 1 Championship season (1999-2000).

Stuart Murdoch, born August_25, 1968, in Ayr, Scotland, is the lead singer and songwriter for Scottish indie pop septet Belle & Sebastian. Murdoch's parents made him take piano lessons during his childhood, and even though he claims not to have enjoyed them at the time, he says he now 'appreciates this decision vastly'. Apart from early musical activities at secondary school (at the age of 12 he formed a band with fellow pupils, in which he played the piano), …

Ali Smith is a writer, born in 1962 in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine "Mslexia", …

Olaf Bodden is a former German football striker. He had to terminate his active career in 1997 after he got Infectious mononucleosis and then the Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). With the TSV 1860 Munich he scored 25 goals in 67 matches and is presently the record goal scorer of Hansa Rostock in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. "Der müde Stürmer" ist the title of a German documentary on Boddens fight against the Chronic fatigue syndrome.

Matthew James Nicholson (born October 2, 1974, St Leonards, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1998. He was educated at Knox Grammar School. His career has been ravaged by injuries as well as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, following a dose of Glandular Fever but a strict diet has enabled him to manage the problem, and he is now a vital cog in New South Wales' star-studded bowling line-up. At grade cricket level, he captains the Gordon club.

Shelley Taylor-Smith (born 3 August 1961) is a former Australian long-distance swimmer. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Taylor-Smith suffered from scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, throughout her school years. The condition required her to wear a back brace, although she was successful in national age group swimming competitions. While on a swimming scholarship to the University of Arkansas in the United States, …

James I. McDonald (born October 5, 1976) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Nicknamed "Junior", James is the brother of former AFL players Anthony McDonald and Alex McDonald. He is noted as a hard-working in and under midfielder. In addition to this, he is also used as a tagger. In 1995 McDonald suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome with his VAFA side Old Xaverians.

Rachel Jordan (born May 8, 1968) is a British artist and a member of the Stuckist art group. She creates satirical figurative as well as abstract paintings, alluding to cellular forms.

The Very Rev Michael Clement Otway Mayne KCVO (10 September 1929 - 22 October 2006) was an English clergyman who served as Dean of Westminster. Mayne was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and later at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxford. In 1972 Mayne was made the head of religious programmes for BBC Radio, and in 1979 he became the vicar of Great St. Mary's, the university church of Cambridge.

Johanna Griggs (born October 1973) is a former swimmer and current television presenter from Australia. Griggs represented Australia at the Auckland Commonwealth Games winning a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke but her career was cut short after a lengthy battle with chronic fatigue syndrome. Griggs, who was previously married to actor Gary Sweet, has two sons. Griggs who has built a solid career in media was a regular panelist on Network Ten program, …

Maren Kawehilani Jensen (September 23, 1956, Arcadia, California) is an American actress best known for portraying Athena in the 1970s television series "Battlestar Galactica". She was raised in Glendale where she attended Herbert Hoover High School from 1971 to 1974. Jensen was a longtime companion of singer/songwriter Don Henley. According to the Internet Movie Database, Jensen was one of the first Hollywood Actors to get sick with EBV, …

Bobby Lounge (born Dub Brock in 1950) is an American singer-songwriter from McComb, Mississippi. Lounge began playing for house parties while attending Louisiana Tech University in northern Louisiana in the mid 1970's. In the 1980's, Lounge played a handful of shows at Ruby's Roadhouse in Mandeville, Louisiana. He stopped playing professionally for many years while he battled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Brooks John Joseph Mileson (born Pennywell, Sunderland) is a British businessmen and the financial backer of Scottish football club Gretna as well as being a philanthropist to 70 non-league clubs. Mileson has invested heavily in Gretna. As of April 2006, he has also taken them to the final of the Scottish Cup, the second oldest football trophy in the world. He is also said to be a Carlisle United fan.

Martin John "Buster" Phillips) is an English former professional footballer. Phillips was born in Exeter and began his football career as a trainee with his local side Exeter City, turning professional in July 1994. He soon attracted the attention of higher division clubs and moved to Manchester City in November 1995 for a fee of £500,000.

Rhyce (Foot-steps) Shaw (born October 16, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Shaw, son of Ray was drafted to Collingwood in the 1999 AFL Draft under the father-son rule pretty early, at no.18. He made his debut late in 2000 because of a broken collarbone, he was impressive with 16 kicks, but his form disappeared and was dropped weeks later. Shaw had suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome as a junior and carried it into his AFL career.

Amy Phillips (born Amy Simcock, 20 August 1978) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Jessica Arnold in the BBC school drama, Grange Hill, which she acted between 1994 and 1998. In Grange Hill, Amy's character was from a middle-class family and was sent to Grange Hill from an exclusive girls' school when her father's business fell on hard times. She quickly adapted to life at Grange Hill and won a firm following among male fans.

Christine Beauchamp (1875 - ?) was the pseudonym given to Clara Norton Fowler, a subject of one of the first scientifically conducted case studies of dissociative identity disorder. She was studied by the American neurologist Morton Prince, and his 1906 monograph, "Dissociation of a Personality", describing her case, was a landmark in the study of what he described as multiple personality disorders. Beauchamp had suffered a number of traumas as a child, …

Nicolai Misje is a young talent, and a product of Brann's own junior team. He has been troubled by injuries. Debuted against Fredrikstad F.K. August 29 2005 In November 2006, it was revealed that Misje sufferes from ME witch he developed after strugeling with glandular fever. It's unknown when or if he'll ever return to the pitch.

Sandy Robinson is the owner of the popular Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and Interstitial Cystitis website, Fighting Fatigue (http://www.fightingfatigue.org). Sandy has been ill with CFS for the past 17 years and started blogging about her experiences with the illness, raising awareness and supporting others almost 2 years ago.

Simon Molesworth is one of Australia's leading environmental lawyers. He is chairman of the International National Trust Organisation and non-executive chairman of Greenearth Energy Limited, a geothermal energy company. From 1980 to 2005, Mr Molesworth was a councillor of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), having been its honorary chairman and then president for almost 20 years.

Exploring all that is about and around; trying to see beyond. Systems Engineer specializing in TDL and Distributed Simulations Protocols.Primary author of the SISO Link-16 DIS/HLA simulation protocol.