- Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson (born February 9, 1979) is an English professional football (soccer) football midfielder, who currently plays for Doncaster Rovers in England. He has represented England at Under-21 level. Wilson was born in Scunthorpe and began his career as a trainee with Manchester United, turning professional in August 1997. He joined Wrexham on loan in February 1998 until the end of that season and made his league debut for Wrexham on February 24, … - Paul Smith
Paul Daniel Smith (born December 17, 1979 in Epsom, England) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Nottingham Forest Smith started his career at Charlton Athletic but was released in the summer of 1999 after one year as a professional. After a short period with Walton & Hersham, Paul moved to Carshalton Athletic in late 1999 but moved to Brentford in August 2000 after they spotted Smith guesting for Crawley Town in a pre-season friendly against The Bees. - John Frieda
John Frieda is a hugely successful British celebrity hairdresser of Polish-Jewish descent who built up a multi-million pound fortune from hair salons and hair products on the back of his reputation. Frieda currently lives in London. In 1995 he divorced his wife of 20 years, the acclaimed Scottish singer Lulu. They have an actor son, Jordan Frieda. He has now re-married and has a young daughter and son by his new wife. - James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March, 1912 – 26 March, 2005), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. Known as Jim for short (and nicknamed 'Sunny Jim' or 'Big Jim'), Callaghan is the only person to have served in the four Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. - Michael Collins
Michael Collins (born 30 April 1986) is a professional footballer currently playing for Huddersfield Town in Coca-Cola League One. Having come through Town's academy, Collins made his first team debut in 2004, but has found it hard to cement a place in the side, with a lot of competition from captain Jon Worthington, Mark Hudson and Adnan Ahmed amongst others, but he has already produced several superb displays in the early part of this season. - Thierry Henry
Thierry Daniel Henry (born 17 August 1977 in (Les Ulis, Essonne) Paris, France) is a French football player. Renowned for his pace, he plays as a striker for the France national team and FC Barcelona. Henry grew up in the tough neighbourhood of Les Ulis, Essonne, where as a youngster he played for an array of local sides and showed great promise as a goal scorer. AS Monaco spotted him in 1990, and signed him up instantly. - Matt Busby
Sir Alexander Matthew Busby, CBE (born 26 May 1909 in Orbiston, Scotland; died 20 January 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager, most noted for managing Manchester United between 1945-1969 and again for the 1970-1971 season. He is the longest serving manager in the history of Manchester United, ahead of Sir Alex Ferguson. - Patrick Minford
Professor Patrick Minford CBE (b. 1943) is currently Professor of Applied Economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University since 1997. He was previously Edward Gonner Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Liverpool from 1976 to 1997. Minford was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford and then at the London School of Economics. He then went on to become Economic Assistant to the Finance Director, Courtaulds Ltd. - Tyrone Power
William Grattan Tyrone Power known professionally as Tyrone Power was an Irish stage actor, comedian, author, and theatrical manager. Born in Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, Ireland to a landed family he took to the stage achieving prominence throughout the world as an actor and manager. He is said to have purchased the land that would later be occupied by Madison Square Garden, … - John Kendrick
John Kendrick was a prosperous English cloth merchant and patron of the towns of Reading and Newbury in Berkshire. Kendrick was born in Reading, Berkshire, possibly in Minster Street, in 1573 and educated at Reading School and St John's College, Oxford. After University, he moved to London where he amassed a fortune in trade with the Netherlands. - Nicholas Winterton
Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton, (born March 31, 1938, Rugeley, Staffordshire) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Macclesfield. Sir Nicholas undertook his National Service 1957-1959 and was commissioned into the 14/20 Kings Hussars serving in Germany. - William Knox D'Arcy
The entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy (October 11, 1849 - May 1, 1917) was one of the main founders of the oil and petrochemical industry in Persia (Iran). He was born in Newton Abbot, England, the son of a solicitor. He attended Westminster School until 1866 when the family emigrated to Australia, settling in Rockhampton, Queensland. D'Arcy continued his studies and chose to follow law, later joining his father's business. - Hans Rausing
Hans Rausing KBE (born in 1926), a British based Swedish born businessman, is among the world's wealthiest people with a reported net worth, in 2007, of 5.4 billion UK pounds (approx. 11 billion US dollars). He made his wealth from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak (later Tetra Laval), a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing that is currently the largest packing production company in the world. - Malachi Malagrowther
Malachi Malagrowther was a pseudonym used by Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) in a series of letters written to the "Edinburgh Weekly News" in 1826, successfully defending the right of the Scottish banks to issue banknotes with a face value of less than five pounds. - Gary Owen
Gary Owen (born 7 July 1958 in St Helens, Merseyside) is a retired English football midfielder. With 22 caps, he is one of the most capped players for England Under-21s, but never made it into the senior team. He was also capped seven times for England B. Owen started his career with Manchester City, with whom he turned professional in 1975 and made his debut aged 17, against Wolves in March 1976. After winning the League Cup earlier in the year, … - Nick Herbert
Nicholas Le Quesne Herbert, known as Nick Herbert, (born April 7, 1963) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs. He is currently Shadow Justice Secretary. Nick Herbert was educated at Haileybury and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read law and land economy. He was appointed as the director of public affairs at the British Field Sports Society in 1990 and remained in that position for six years. - Samuel Plimsoll
Samuel Plimsoll (10 February 1824 - 3 June 1898) was a British politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line. He was born in Bristol but soon moved to Sheffield, also spending part of his childhood in Penrith, Cumbria. Leaving school at an early age, he became a clerk at Rawson's Brewery, and rose to be manager. In 1853 he attempted to set up in business in London as a coal merchant. He failed, and was reduced to destitution. - Russell Anderson
Russell Anderson (born 25 October 1978 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish football defender who currently plays for Sunderland in the Premier League. Anderson began his career with local club Aberdeen and broke through the ranks to make his debut in the first team in 1997, and scored his first goal for the club in 2000, in the 4-0 win over Hibernian. He went on to establish himself as a rock at the heart of the defence. - Richard Gough
Charles Richard Gough (born April 5, 1962, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former Scottish football central defender who enjoyed great success as captain of Rangers before entering management. He also played for the Scottish national team. Born to a Scottish father and Swedish mother, Gough grew up in South Africa and began his career playing with the Wits University club. Looking to build a career in British football, Gough went on trial to Rangers, but was turned down. - Ronald Pickup
Sir Ronald Pickup is a well-established English actor. Born in Chester, England, Pickup was educated at The King's School, Chester, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, and became an Associate Member of RADA. His television work began with an episode during the first season of "Doctor Who" in 1964, for which he was paid £30. In 1973, he starred in the BBC drama series "The Dragon's Opponent", … - Sylvain Wiltord
Sylvain Wiltord (born May 10, 1974 in Neuilly-sur-Marne) is a French football forward whose parents come from Guadeloupe, France. With the French national team, Wiltord has won Euro 2000 and reached the finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Wiltord played for Stade Rennais (1992-97), Girondins de Bordeaux (1997-2000), Arsenal F.C. (2000-04), and since 2004 has been a member of Olympique Lyonnais. For France, Wiltord has been capped 90 times, scoring 26 goals. - Juan Román Riquelme
Juan Román Riquelme (born June 24, 1978 in San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine professional football attacking midfielder. Riquelme was part of the Argentina national football team that participated in the 2007 Copa América. - Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977, Cheshire, England) is an English professional snooker player, currently living in Widnes. He turned professional in 1995 and encountered limited success until early 2007, when he reached the last 16 at the 2007 Malta Cup where he beat Steve Davis 5:4 before losing 2:5 to Ken Doherty. At the 2007 Welsh Open, Higginson hit an extraordinary run of form, making his first professional 147 break on his way to beating Ali Carter 5:1. - William Dodd
William Dodd (29 May 1729 - 27 June 1777) was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly, and was nicknamed the "macaroni parson". He dabbled in forgery in an effort to clear his debts, was caught, convicted, and, despite a public campaign for a Royal pardon, became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery. Dodd was born in Bourne in Lincolnshire, the son of the local vicar. - Mohammad Sarwar
Mohammad Sarwar (born 18 August 1952, Pirmahal Pakistan) is a politician in the United Kingdom, the Labour member of Parliament for Glasgow Central, Scotland. He was the UK's first Muslim MP, and swore the Oath of Allegiance on the Qur'an which was placed "in an envelope, to avoid it being touched by one not of the faith". Sarwar was an opponent of the 2003 Iraq war. He was first elected as the MP for Glasgow Govan in the 1997 general election. - Willie Thorne
William Joseph Thorne (born 4 March 1954 in Leicester, England), best known as Willie Thorne, is a former English professional snooker player and now a commentator. A strong junior player, Thorne became national under-16 champion at both snooker and English billiards in 1970. He never really converted this early promise into professional success, however, only ever winning one ranking snooker tournament (the Classic in 1985). - Marlon Harewood
Marlon Harewood (born August 25, 1979) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Aston Villa. He started his career at Nottingham Forest, had a successful spell on loan to FC Haka before joining West Ham United in 2003 and then Aston Villa in 2007. - John Fredriksen
John Fredriksen, (born 1944) is an oil tanker and shipping tycoon, owner of the world's largest oil tanker fleet, and was Norway's richest man until he chose to abandon his Norwegian citizenship and take up a Cypriot passport. Norwegian magazine "Kapital" lists Fredriksen with a net worth of NOK 33.3 billion (USD 5.4 billion, GBP 2.89 billion in 2005). Through his investment companies Hemen Holdings and Meisha, … - Elyesa Bazna
Elyesa Bazna, Bazna was a valet first to the Yugoslav ambassador to Turkey and then to a German counsellor who fired him for reading his mail. From 1942 Bazna was the valet of the British ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen in Ankara. Bazna began photographing secret British documents on October 21 1943. He approached Ludwig Moyzisch, an attaché at the German Embassy in Ankara, indicating that he wanted £20,000 for fifty-six documents he had photographed initially. - Papa Bouba Diop
Papa Bouba Diop (born January 28, 1978 in Dakar) is a Senegalese footballer, who currently plays for the Senegal national football team, where he is currently the captain, and Fulham. - Graham Alexander
Graham Alexander (born 10 October 1971 in Coventry, England) is a professional footballer and the captain of Championship team Preston North End. - Bernhard Krüger
Bernhard Krüger (born 26 November 1904; died 1989) was during World War II as an SS Sturmbannführer, the leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the "Reichssicherheitshauptamt". This SD unit was responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents. Within the setting of Operation Bernhard, the SD forged pound notes and dollar bills in great numbers. This counterfeiting operation was named for Krüger. Krüger was a member of the NSDAP. - Tiago Mendes
Tiago Cardoso Mendes (born May 2, 1981 in Viana do Castelo, Norte) is a Portuguese professional football player. Tiago plays as a defensive midfielder in the Italian Serie A for Juventus and the Portugal national football team. A skilful Portuguese midfield player who is effective in protecting the defence and supporting strikers, Tiago is also a splendid passer with a keen eye for goal. - Simon Francis
Simon Charles Francis is a football player currently playing for Southend United. An England U21 international, he is a powerful player who can fill numerous defensive and midfield slots. Released as a youngster by Notts County, Francis joined Bradford City as a trainee in November 2002 and made over 50 starts for the Bantams before being sold to Sheffield United in 2004 for £200,000 by the administrators. - Colin Kazim-Richards
Colin Kazim-Richards is a professional footballer for who plays for Turkish Fenerbahçe SK in the Turkcell Super League. His father is of Antiguan descent, and his mother is Turkish Cypriot. The Turkish forename "Kâzım" was intended to be a middle name, which would have rendered his full name 'Colin Kazim Richards', but due to an error, he was registered as 'Colin Kazim-Richards'. - Craig Phillips
Craig Phillips was the winner of the first series of the British reality tv show "Big Brother". After leaving the house, Craig announced he was giving his £70,000 prize fund to his friend Joanne to pay for her heart and lung transplant. He went on to feature in comedy series "Bo' Selecta!" He also appeared in the reality TV series, "Back To Reality". A builder before entering the "Big Brother" house, … - Tommy Taylor
Thomas Taylor (January 29, 1932 - February 6, 1958), better known as Tommy Taylor, was an English footballer, who was known for his aerial ability. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster. Taylor began his career playing for a local coal mining team at the colliery where he worked. At the age of just 16, local scouts offered him the chance to play for Barnsley. - Judith Keppel
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. - Peter Wheeler
Peter Wheeler is a chemical engineer from Yorkshire, UK, who owned the Blackpool-based TVR sports car company for 23 years. Wheeler made his fortune supplying specialist equipment to the North Sea oil industry. After owning a TVR, he ended up buying the company in 1981. Wheeler sold TVR to Nikolai Smolenski in 2004 for around £15 million. Under Wheeler's ownership TVR moved from cars with turbocharged V6 engines to using convential V8 engines, … - Trevor Steven
Trevor McGregor Steven (born Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, September 21 1963) was a highly-regarded England footballer who shot to fame with the successful Everton side of the 1980s. A right-sided midfielder with great vision and pinpoint crossing ability, Steven grew through the ranks at Burnley, making his debut in 1981. Over the next two seasons he became a regular supplier of goals and Everton boss Howard Kendall, who was building a new team based on youth, …
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