Bruce Simpson is a New Zealand based inventor, technologist and technology media commentator. He achieved significant media profile when publicising his intention to build a DIY cruise missile for NZ$5000 using only "off-the-shelf" technology. The project was put on hold when Simpson was adjudged bankrupt after a prosecution by the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department. Simpson has been heavily involved in the development of pulsejet technology.

Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for CNN from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating.

Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist and former member of Direct Action, a guerrilla organization famous for the 1982 bombing of a Litton Industries plant, which made components for American cruise missiles. She was sentenced to life in prison, but was released after eight years. Hansen wrote of her experiences in her 2002 book, "Direct Action: Memoirs Of An Urban Guerrilla". She now works as a freelance writer in Ontario.

Rainer Rupp (born 1945 in Saarlouis, Germany) was a top spy who worked under the pseudonyms Mosel and later Topas for the GDR in the NATO headquarters in Brussels from 1977 until 1989, releasing documents of the highest importance to the Eastern Bloc. Rupp grew up in West Germany with strong leftist political leanings. In 1968, as a student in Mainz, work as a spy for the GDR was suggested to him, and he agreed out of conviction.

Ivan Alexander Getting (January 18, 1912-October 11, 2003) was an American Physicist and Electrical Engineer, credited (along with Bradford Parkinson) with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Inventor of the SCR-584 automatic microwave tracking fire-control system that is credited with enabling anti-aircraft guns to destroy 95% of the V-1 German cruise bombs that attacked London late in the Second World War.

Lindis Percy (born 1944, Leeds) is a British peace campaigner, Quaker and founding member and joint coordinator of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases. She is a trained nurse, midwife and health visitor and has worked for the National Health Service her entire working life. As an activist, she uses non violent direct action and civil disobedience and has been active protesting since 1979 when cruise missiles was to be deployed at Greenham Common.

Joseph Antoine Marie Hubert Luns was a Dutch politician. He was the 5th Secretary General of the NATO. Joseph Luns was foreign minister of the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s. He refused to surrender western New Guinea to the Indonesian authorities until forced to do so by the Kennedy administration of the United States. He was one of the co-founders and signatories of the EU's Treaty of Rome.

Giz Watson (born 18 January 1957) is an English-Australian politician. Watson was born in 1957 in Eastleigh, a town in Hampshire, England. She emigrated to Western Australia in September 1967. She studied environmental science at Murdoch University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1981. Watson was involved in protests in Western Australia against the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. She returned to the United Kingdom in the 1980s, …

Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield (Pinconning, Michigan, 17 March 1899 - 26 April 1972 in West Palm Beach, Florida) was a U.S. political figure. He ran (unsuccessfully) for the governorship of his home state of Michigan in 1946 and served as the chairman of the Republican National Committee between 1952 and 1953. He also served as the federal Postmaster General between 1953 and 1961.

Giuseppe Fava also known as Pippo was a Sicilian writer, investigative journalist, playwright and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia. He was the founder of the I Siciliani monthly magazine. His motto in life was: "is there any use in living if you don't have the courage to fight?" Fava studied law but became a professional journalist in 1952.

T.V. Smith (born Tim Smith, 5 April 1956, in Bideford, Devon, England) is a British punk rock singer songwriter, who was part of the band The Adverts in the late 1970s. Since then, he has played with other bands, as well as pursuing solo work. He rose to prominence as the singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk band The Adverts, who are best known for their classic 1977 single "Gary Gilmore's Eyes". When The Adverts split up in November 1979, Smith formed a new band, …