- Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse (born 14 September, 1983) is an English soul, jazz and R&B singer and songwriter. Her debut album, "Frank" (released in 2003) was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Winehouse is a two-time Ivor Novello Award winner; once in 2004 for her debut single "Stronger than Me" and again in May 2007 for the first single "Rehab" from her 2006 internationally acclaimed second album "Back to Black".
- Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, …
- Same
Same (John) Shaw (VC, DCM) (?-27 December 1859) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is a British actress who is best known for portraying Kate Warren in "Backup", Elaine Davies-Johnson in "Brookside", Liz Walton in "Accused", Monika Gaye in "Peak Practice", Shirley Slipman in "The Bill", Viv Kelly in "Dalziel and Pascoe" and she has also appeared in "Casualty", "Holby City" and "Silent Witness". She is married to British actor Ray Ashcroft.
- Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is an English writer and the author of several books about beer and whisky. Michael Jackson is known in North America for his show entitled "The Beer Hunter". He has appeared on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "Late Show with David Letterman". In 1977, Jackson's book "The World Guide To Beer" was published.
- Michael Jackson
Michael Richard Jackson (born February 11 1958) is a British television producer and executive. He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media. He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001.
- David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE (pronounced) (born 2 May 1975) is an English professional football (soccer) midfielder who plays for Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy. He is also currently a member of the England national team. He was twice chosen runner-up for FIFA World Player of the Year, and as recently as 2004 was the world's highest-paid footballer. He was Google's most searched of all sports topics in both 2003 and 2004.
- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history.
- Winston Churchill
Winston Spencer-Churchill (born October 10, 1940), generally known as Winston Churchill, is a retired British Conservative Party politician and the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
- Will South
Will South(febrery 2 1983) is the lead singer, pianist, and guitarist of the British band Thirteen Senses. Will is also responsible for many of the songs written in Thirteen Senses.
- Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Carl Hamilton (born January 7, 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England) is a British Formula One (F1) driver. Hamilton started racing karts at the age of eight. When he was nine, he approached McLaren F1 team boss Ron Dennis at an awards ceremony and told him he would drive for McLaren one day; four years later, Hamilton was signed to the McLaren driver development support programme.
- 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, …
- David Bowie
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music, and frequently re-inventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Bowie has taken cues from a wide range of fine art, philosophy and literature. He is also a film and stage actor, …
- John Paul
John Paul (April 20 1921-February 1995) was a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr Spencer Quist in "Doomwatch" (1970-1972) and Marcus Agrippa in "I, Claudius" (1976), both for BBC Television. An early role was as the lead in the ITV series "Probation Officer" in the early 1960s. During his career he also appeared in films such as "The Yangtze Incident" (1957) and "Cry Freedom" (1987), …
- Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born January 16, 1974), known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel and fashion designer. She is known for her waifish figure and many advertising campaigns and is also recognised for her high-profile relationships and party lifestyle. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers.
- Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams is an English singer, songwriter and fashion designer. Beckham is part of the successful pop group Spice Girls, and was dubbed 'Posh Spice' as part of the pop group. Since the Spice Girls followed separate careers, Beckham has released four UK Top 10 singles.
- Late
Late is an underground rapper from Wolverhampton. He is a co-founder of Wolftown Recordings and a member of the rap groups Villains and Wolftown Committee. He has collaborated with numerous acts worldwide, including Chamillionaire
- Will Smith
Will Smith (born 1971 Jersey) is a British comedian and comedy writer. He grew up in Jersey and is well-known for his love and encyclopaedic knowledge of Bergerac, as well as his posh boy persona. He now lives in London.
- Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics.
- Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born May 2, 1985) is an English singer-songwriter known for songs such as "Smile" and "LDN". She is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her single "Smile" reached #1 on the UK singles charts in July 2006.
- Margaret Thatcher
She was born Margaret Hilda Roberts on October 13 , 1925 , in the town of Grantham , the daughter of a grocer. Educated at Somerville College, Oxford , she studied chemistry and worked as a research chemist. After marrying Denis Thatcher in 1951 , she returned to study law and later briefly worked as a tax lawyer . Her twin children, Carol and Mark were born in 1953 .
- Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords.
- Optical
Optical is the pseudonym of Matt Quinn, a renowned drum and bass producer and DJ from England. He is best known for his work with Ed Rush, fellow head of the Virus Recordings label, and as a pioneer of the techstep and neurofunk sound. His first single for Metalheadz, 'To Shape the Future'/'Raging Calm' (1997) and his collaborative material with Ed Rush, such as the "Wormhole," album (1998) were archetypal developments in the style.
- Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk (born July 12 1946 in Maidstone, Kent) is a British journalist and is currently a Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper "The Independent". He was married to the American journalist Lara Marlowe. He lives in Beirut, Lebanon, where he has resided for over 25 years.
- James Brown
James Brown (1800 - 1855) was an American publisher and co-founder of Little, Brown and Company. Brown was born in Acton, Massachusetts. He and Charles Coffin Little, both former clerks, became partners in a Boston bookstore. Founded in 1837 as Charles C. Little and James Brown, Augustus Flagg joined them in 1838 and would become managing partner after the deaths of the two founders. The firm's name was changed to Little, Brown and Company in 1847.
- Jack Straw
John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a senior British Labour Party politician. On 28 June 2007 he was appointed to the offices of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice. Previously he was Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 5 May 2006 and Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons from 2006 to 2007. He has been the Member of Parliament for Blackburn since 1979.
- Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, MP (born 19 June 1964, New York), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. Known for his eccentric public persona, he is Member of Parliament for Henley and was for a time front-bench spokesman as Shadow Minister for Higher Education.
- Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell (born May 22 1970) is an English supermodel, actress, singer, businesswoman, and author.
- Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international prominence in 2003, after co-starring in the films "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl". Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, …
- Alex Ferguson
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson CBE (born 31 December 1941 in Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United F.C. He has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of English football and has been in charge of Manchester United for more than 1,000 matches. With 20 years under his belt, he is the second-longest serving manager in the history of Manchester United after Sir Matt Busby.
- J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling BA (Exon.) OBE is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. Rowling is the author of the "Harry Potter" fantasy series, which has gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 325 million copies worldwide. In 2007, "The Sunday Times Rich List" estimated her fortune at £545 million (about US$1 billion), …
- John Smith
John Smith QC (13 September 1938 - 12 May 1994) was a Scottish politician who served as leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack on 12 May 1994.
- Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. Sullivan is known for his unusual personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, and practising Roman Catholic).
- Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan (born February 12, 1980 in London, England) is a British professional basketball player, and currently plays for the DKV Joventut in the Spanish ACB.
- John Adams
Professor John Adams of University College London, is a professor of geography and leading theorist on risk compensation and an environmentalist. His book "Risk" is an analysis of how humans assess and respond to perceived risks. Adams spoke at the "Shared Space" conference held in Ipswich, UK in June, 2005, …
- John Adams
John Adams (1768?-5 March 1829) was the last survivor of the "Bounty" mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was Alexander Smith; John Adams was an alias used by him after the British found the island. His children continued to use the surname "Adams". The mutineers of HMS "Bounty" and their Tahitian companions settled on the island and set fire to the "Bounty".
- John Adams
Sir John Bertram Adams KBE FRS (24 May 1920-3 March 1984) was a British nuclear physicist and administrator. During World War II, Adams worked in the Radar laboratories of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. After the war he moved to Harwell, and the Atomic Energy Research establishment, designing a 180 MeV synchro-cyclotron. In 1953 he joined CERN as director of the Proton Synchotron division.
- Simon Fraser
Simon Fraser (1776-18 August 1862) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fraser was employed by the Montreal-based North West Company and by 1805 had been put in charge of all the company's operations west of the Rocky Mountains. He was responsible for building that area's first trading posts, and in 1808 he explored what is now known as the Fraser River, which bears his name.
- John Smith
Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith, CH, CBE (3 April 1923 - 28 February 2007) was a British banker, Conservative Member of Parliament, and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. He was involved with many architectural, industrial and maritime conservation charities. He founded the Landmark Trust in 1965.
- John Smith
John Smith is a British comics writer best known for his work on "2000 AD" and "Crisis". His work is characterised by intricate, sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult. This is told in an elliptic, fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs. Other notable influences include Michael Moorcock, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alan Moore and Noel Coward.