Daniel Jones was a London-born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul-Édouard Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century. In 1900, Jones studied briefly at William Tilly's Marburg Language Institute in Germany where he was first introduced to phonetics. In 1903 he received his BA degree in mathematics at Cambridge, …

Clive Upton is professor of English language at the University of Leeds, England, specializing in dialectology and sociolinguistics. He has also acted as a consultant on British pronuciation for the English-language dictionaries published by Oxford University Press, including the "Oxford English Dictionary", the "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary", and the "Concise Oxford Dictionary".

Michelle Claire Ryan is an English actress, best known for playing the role of Zoe Slater on the popular BBC1 Soap Opera "EastEnders". She will be starring in the upcoming NBC television show "Bionic Woman". Ryan was born in Enfield, Greater London. A member of a local theatre group since she was 10, she was picked for her role in "EastEnders" when she was 15 and first appeared on the show in September 2000; for the part, …

Alfred Charles Gimson (7 June 1917 - 22 April 1985) was an English phonetician. His surname is pronounced (with a hard, or velar, "g", as in "Google"). He was known to generations of students and colleagues simply as 'Gim'. Gimson was educated at Emanuel School London, and University College London, where later in 1966 he became Professor of Phonetics, and in 1971 head of the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics.

John Noakes (born 6 March 1934, in Shelf, Halifax, Yorkshire, England) is a British actor, presenter and television personality, best known for co-presenting the BBC children's magazine programme "Blue Peter" in the 1960s and 1970s. He remains the show's longest-serving presenter, with a stint that lasted 12 years and 6 months. He studied at Rishworth School in Rishworth, Halifax.

Jacob Rees-Mogg (born May 24, 1969) is Head of Global Emerging Markets at Lloyd George Management in London and the Conservative candidate for the North East Somerset Parliamentary Constituency in England. Rees-Mogg is the son of William Rees-Mogg, a former editor of The Times, whilst his sister Annunziata contested Aberavon in the 2005 General Election and is on the Conservatives' 'A List' for future selections.

Douglas Smith began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service (now the World Service) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme. He is perhaps best known as the very formal announcer on "Beyond Our Ken" (1958–1963), its more famous successor "Round the Horne" (1964–1969) and the short-lived "Stop Messing About" (1969–1970), where his 'BBC accent' was used to comic effect.

Dick Valentine was a fictional radio call-in show host played by actor and comic Richard Belzer on segments of the "National Lampoon Radio Hour", aired on some 600 U.S. radio stations between 1973 and 1975. His callers, played by other Radio Hour regulars including Bill Murray, were subject to Valentine's tart-tongued responses to their predictably obtuse opinions, typically capped by his addressing them sarcastically as "Babe".

Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenite (20 July 1870 - 9 October 1946), pronounced in Dutch and perhaps in English RP, was a Dutch observer of English. He published under the pseudonym Charivarius and is best known in the English-speaking world for his poem 'The Chaos' which pokes fun at some of the idiosyncrasies of English spelling.

Richard Davies (born 25 January, 1926) is a British actor, from Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales whose film and TV work covers many years but is probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr Price in the LWT popular situation comedy "Please Sir!". Davies uses a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but also occasionally uses received pronunciation and other accents. This has lead to his playing a diversity of characters, …

John Crosse was an announcer for Yorkshire Television from 1972 until November 1998. He was noted for his authoritative Received Pronunciation accent, shared by a number of his colleagues at YTV, such as Redvers Kyle; the company's presentation was much more similar to BBC Television (out-of-vision announcers with RP accents) than that of other ITV companies at the same time, which tended to use friendlier in-vision announcers.

Peter Bolgar is a British television and radio announcer, married since 1962 to "Archers" actress Angela Piper. He announced for BBC Television from 1967 to 1995, and since then he has announced for the BBC World Service. He speaks with a clear, distinctive, slow-paced Received Pronunciation accent which is increasingly rare in modern broadcasting.

Jon Glover is a British actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including "Play School", "Survivors", the Management consultant in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "Casualty", "Bodger and Badger" and "Peak Practice". He is also known for voice acting including for "Noah's Island", …