- Bbc World Service
The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of shortwave radio programming, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world, and available on the internet both live and as podcasts. The English language service broadcasts 24 hours a day. In May 2007 the BBC reported that the World Service's average weekly audience had reached 183 million people, beating the previous record of 163 million listeners set the previous year.
- Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Colin Powell, who served before her from 2001 - 2005), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright who served from 1997 to 2001, before Colin Powell) to serve as Secretary of State.
- John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, …
- Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
- Nick Robinson
Nicholas Anthony Robinson (born October 5 1963) is the Political Editor of the BBC. He was previously the Political Editor of ITV News from November 2002 until August 2005, and Chief Political Correspondent of BBC News 24 before that. He is noted for his trademark spectacles.
- Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945.
- Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard is a British author and journalist, currently President of a free-market Brussels-based think tank, the Centre for a New Europe. He writes columns for several publications including "The Times" and the "Daily Mail" and maintains a lively Spectatorblog. He is an alumnus of John Lyon School and Mansfield College, Oxford. Pollard is an advocate of market-based based public service reforms. He is a biographer of David Blunkett.
- Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for "The Sunday Times" and "The Sun", but is better known for his role on the BBC TV show "Top Gear". The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion", according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views.
- Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. The former comedy collaborator of Hugh Laurie, his renowned intellect has most recently led to the success of television panel game "QI", of which he is host.
- Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme "The Office" and the series Extras which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras.
- Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West.
- Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2006, and a former chief executive of Channel 4. Born in London and brought up in Hertfordshire, he went to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and Merton College, Oxford, where he took a first in English. He now lives in Oxford with his American wife Jane, and has three children.
- Jeff Randall
Jeff William Randall (born October 3 1954) is a business journalist, formerly the business editor of BBC News and from 2005 editor-at-large of the "Daily Telegraph". Randall was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Romford, London Borough of Havering and the University of Nottingham. He did a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Florida. Randall worked as Assistant Editor of "Financial Weekly", …
- Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips (born June 4 1951) is a British columnist and author. Her articles appear mainly in the "Daily Mail" newspaper and focus on political and social issues. She has previously written for "The Guardian" and other publications. Phillips is a regular panelist on the BBC Radio 4 programme, "The Moral Maze" and on BBC One's "Question Time".
- Steve Richards
Steve Richards (born 1960), is a British TV presenter and chief political columnist for "The Independent" newspaper. Richards was educated at Christ's College, formerly a state grammar school, in Finchley, North London, and studied History at York University before securing a place on a journalism course at the London College of Printing. He worked in local radio and regional TV in Newcastle before becoming a BBC political correspondent in 1990.
- David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS (born on 8 May 1926 in London, England) is one of the world's best known broadcasters and naturalists. Widely considered one of the pioneers of the nature documentary, his career as the respected face and voice of British natural history programmes has endured more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the eight "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, …
- Dominic Lawson
Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson (born December 17 1956) is a British journalist. He was born in an influential Jewish family, the son of a then future Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson and socialite Vanessa Salmon, heir to the Lyons Corner House empire; she died of liver cancer in 1985. Lawson had three sisters, TV chef and writer Nigella Lawson (wife of art collector Charles Saatchi), Horatia, and Thomasina, …
- John Cole
John Cole (born November 23 1927 in Belfast) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's Political Editor from 1981 to 1992. John Cole was educated at the Belfast Royal Academy, he then worked as a journalist on the Belfast Telegraph, The Guardian and The Observer, and in 1981 became political editor for the BBC. His strong Northern Irish accent and trademark overcoat and spectacles made him an instantly recognisable figure.
- Alan Johnston
Alan Graham Johnston (born May 17, 1962) is a British journalist working for the BBC. He has been the BBC's correspondent in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip. As the only Western journalist permanently based in Gaza, he was kidnapped by a group of Palestinian militants on March 12, 2007, and released nearly four months later on July 4.
- John Smith
John Smith (b. August 1957) is the BBC Worldwide's Chief Executive Officer since June 2004. He attended the Shelton Lock school (which became Merrill College) in Derby. He later went to the Harvard Business School. He worked for British Rail Engineering Limited, Sealink, Seaspeed Hovercraft, and other companies owned by the BR Group. He joined the BBC in 1989, becoming the BBC's Finance Director in 1996. In April 2000, he became Director of Finance, …
- Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights.
- Paul Smith
Paul Christopher Richard Smith (born 14 February 1959 in Woking, England) is a television executive. Paul (not to be confused with the Paul Smith who owns Celador) is a BBC executive who has worked for the corporation for 27 years. In that time, he has worked mainly on programming and services aimed at young people and children. He is also responsible for finding and/or developing many of the names presenting on mainstream television in the UK, …
- Michael White
Michael White (born 1945) is an associate editor and former political editor of "The Guardian". After studying for a BA (Hons) History at University College London, he began his career at the "Reading Evening Post" (1966-71) and after a spell at the "London Evening Standard" (1970-71) he moved to "The Guardian" where he has worked ever since variously as a sub/feature writer (1971-74), diary writer (1974-76), …
- Charles Wheeler
Sir Charles Cornelius Wheeler CMG (born Selwyn Charles Cornelius-Wheeler on March 26 1923) is a veteran British journalist and broadcaster. Having joined the BBC in 1947, he is currently their longest serving foreign correspondent. Wheeler's long career has involved postings to Berlin, Delhi and Washington. In the later years of his career he was the American correspondent of "Newsnight".
- Alan Sugar
Sir Alan Michael Sugar is an English businessman. After leaving school at 16, Sugar started selling car aerials and electrical goods out of a van he had bought with his savings of £100. He now has an estimated fortune of £830m. and was ranked 84th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007. Despite being best known as a technology businessman, most of Sugar's wealth now derives from his property portfolio in Mayfair, rather than business ventures.
- Graham Norton
Graham Norton, (born Graham Walker on 4 April 1963 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actor, comedian and television presenter. He achieved fame as a broadcaster on Britain's Channel 4 and also through his role as Father Noel Furlong in the critically acclaimed television series "Father Ted". Though he only appeared in three episodes, Norton's performance as Father Noel proved extremely popular with viewers.
- Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion and winner of an Olympic gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by "Sports Illustrated" and the BBC. Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay.
- Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr (born 31 July 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British journalist and political commentator. He edited "The Independent" for two years, until May 1998, and was the political editor for the BBC from 2000 until 2005. He then began hosting a political programme called "Sunday AM" on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005 onwards. In May 2007 he began a new political history series on BBC Two, "Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain".
- Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series "The X-Files" and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series "Bleak House".
- Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor.
- Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who", a role he played from 1974 to 1981, and for being the narrator of the comedy series "Little Britain".
- Diana Ross
Diana Patience Beverly Ross (July 8, 1910 - May 4, 2000), relative of Robert Ross, was an English children's author and occasional and longtime resident of Shaw, near Melksham, in Wiltshire. A graduate of the Central School of Art in London, she also worked on sculpture and graphic arts and illustrated several of her own books under the name of her cat, Gri. In her early twenties, Ross worked at the Grenfell Mission orphanage in St.
- John Simpson
John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born August 9, 1944), commonly known as John Simpson, is a British journalist who currently holds the most senior role of World Affairs Editor for BBC News. He also presents the current affairs programme "Simpson's World".
- Simon Mann
Simon Mann is a BBC radio sports commentator, most notable for being a member of the 'Test Match Special' team, which he joined in 1996
- Terry Wogan
Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3 1938, in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland), more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom (UK) for most of his career. He has been a leading media personality in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s, and is often referred to as a "national treasure".
- Justin Webb
Justin Oliver Webb (born 3 January 1961) is a British journalist and has been the BBC's chief Washington correspondent since 2001. Prior to this, he was a BBC News presenter based in London and the main presenter on BBC One's "Breakfast News" programme from 1992 to 1997. He also presented the BBC's "One" and "Six O'Clock News" bulletins. He attended the London School of Economics and was an editor of the student newspaper, The Beaver
- John Roberts
John Morris Roberts (April 14 1928 - 30 May 2003) was a British historian, with significant published works, well known also as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series "The Triumph of the West" (1985). Roberts was born at Bath, and educated at Taunton School. He won a scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, and took a First in Modern History in 1948. After National Service, he was elected a Prize Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, …
- Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee is a British writer and historian, best-known for writing the radio series "This Sceptred Isle" for the BBC. Lee was the first Quatercentenary Fellow in Contemporary History at Emmanuel College Cambridge and Gomes Lecturer. He is now researching the history of ideas at the University of London. Lee is the originator and writer of the BBC Radio 4 trilogy "This Sceptred Isle", from the Romans to the death of Queen Victoria, …
- Greg Dyke
Greg Dyke, BBC Director General forced out in the 2004 terror. Dyke publicly identified Lady Hogg and her little gang in the Blair coup at BBC.
- Pete Tong
Pete Tong (born July 1960) is a British DJ who works for BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. He is known worldwide by fans of electronic music for hosting programs such as "Essential Mix" and "Essential Selection" on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records, and for his own performances at nightclubs across the globe. Tong has also worked as a record producer.