- Lew Grade
Lew Grade, Baron Grade (25 December 1906-13 December 1998), born Louis Winogradsky, was an influential showbusiness impresario and television company executive in the United Kingdom. His interests included Pye Records and ATV
- Dicky Cheung
Dicky Cheung Wai Kin is a Hong Kong television actor. He was born on February 8, 1965. He entered show business in the early 1980's, signing a contract with television station TVB. He was struggling for many years working as a low-paid actor, singer, and appearing occasionally in films. It was not until his brilliant portrayal of the Monkey King character in the 1996 TVB adaptation of the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West that his popularity began to skyrocket.
- Gallen Lo
Gallen Lo Ka Leung, sometimes credited as Gallen Law or Ka Leung Law (born December 16, 1962) is a Hong Kong actor who primarily acts in television series. Lo started acting in television series in 1983 at ATV. He received moderate fame but was not really successful, and later switched to working for TVB after joining the New Talent Singing Awards in 1984.
- Sunny Chan
Sunny Chan Kam-hung is a Hong Kong television star.In1990 to early1994,he is a ATV actor(only join in five dramas) ,but he exchange to TVB after。After working for TVB for some time, he came back to ATV circa 2000(only join in two drammas), but he left ATV again and came back to TVB in late 2003. Notable dramas he has starred in are: "The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain" (1998), …
- Simon Yam
Simon Yam Tat-Wah (born March 19, 1955) is a Hong Kong actor. The son of a former police officer in Hong Kong, Yam's career began as a male supermodel, before he turned to acting in the mid 1970s. He then signed with TVB, starring and co-starring in a number of TV series prior to "apply his trades" in the movies in 1987. In 1989, he starred in the Japanese-Hong Kong co-production of "Bloodfight".
- Magaly Medina
"Magaly Medina" is a Peruvian journalist born in Huacho (north of Lima) who hosts a daily TV show called "Magaly TeVe" which airs live on ATV. She is considered one of the three greatest media divas of the contemporary times, along with Gisela Valcarcel and Laura Bozzo. Her show, with more than nine years, is the most popular and longest-running tabloid program in Peru. "Magaly TeVe" mainly focuses on events and celebrities, but may also cover fashion, …
- Dick James
Dick James (born Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick, 12 December 1920, in East End, London - died 1 February 1986) was the singer of the "Robin Hood" and "The Buccaneers" theme songs, from British television in the 1950s, and was a friend and associate of renowned record producer George Martin.
- Sally James
Sally James (born 10 May 1950) was a presenter on the ITV Saturday morning children's show Tiswas from 1977 until it ended in 1982. Famous for her "almost legendary" interviews with rock stars on that show and the generous proportion of her cleavage that was usually on display. Before this success, she was an actress on such television shows as The Two Ronnies, Crown Court, Father Dear Father, Dixon of Dock Green, Curry & Chips and The Protectors.
- Doğa Bekleriz
Doğa Bekleriz is a Turkish model, actress and TV presenter. She recently also started a singing career with a group named Adrenalin formed with two other Turkish models, Gizem Özdilli and Nigar Talibova, with whom she also opened a cafe named "Models in the chic" which is located in the Ortaköy quarter of İstanbul. She made her first public appearances in 1996 and 1998 where she took part in two successive modelling competitions, …
- Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman (born January 18 1943) is a British film and television actor. Freeman was born in Hertfordshire, England. He began his career in advertising and teaching and like many British actors he landed small roles in the theater appearing in productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Hamlet". He then went on to play starring roles in the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company and later co-founded his own theater group, …
- Michael Tao
Michael Tao Dai Yu is a Hong Kong television actor. Tao first started his career with TVB and later moved over to rival ATV. He has since returned to TVB and stars in a number of series including "Fantasy Hotel".
- Kenneth Chan
Kenneth Chan, a.k.a. Chan Kai Tai (Traditional Chinese: 陳啟泰, Hanyu Pinyin: "Chén Qǐtài", Cantonese: "Chan4 Kai2taai3", born 16 July 1964), is a Hong Kong actor and television host for the Hong Kong-based ATV channel (previously working for TVB). Chan is best known as the host of the Hong Kong version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". The show boosted his career, and he went on to create an album, "Final Answer", …
- Rakel Liekki
Tiina-Rakel Liekki (born Tiina Koponen September 20 1979) is a Finnish artist, freelance editor and former pornographic actress, writer, director and producer. She got a Bachelor of arts degree from North Karelia Polytechnic, programme of fine art with painting as her major area of study in Christmas 2001.
- Jack Parnell
John Russell 'Jack' Parnell (born 6 August 1923) is an English bandleader and musician. He was born into a theatrical family in London. His father Russ Carr was a music hall artist, before becoming a theatrical agent. His uncle Val Parnell was the General Manager of the London Palladium. Parnell was educated at the Brighton & Hove Grammar School and studied the piano from the age of five. He studied drums for a year with Max Abrams.
- Lau Dan
Lau Dan（Traditional Chinese: 劉丹, born 18 November 1944） is a TVB actor in Hong Kong. His son is Hawick Lau, also an actor formerly with TVB (and now with ATV).
- Frank Carson
Frank Carson (born November 6, 1926) is a comedian and actor.
- Charlie Williams
Charles Adolphus Williams MBE was a mixed-race English professional footballer (one of the first black players in British football after the Second World War), and later became Britain's first well-known black stand-up comedian. He became famous from his appearances on Granada Television's "The Comedians" and ATV's "The Golden Shot", delivering his catchphrase, "me old flower" in his broad Yorkshire accent.
- Teresa Mak
Teresa Mak Ka Kei or Mak Ka Ki is a Hong Kong actress signed to ATV. She has appeared in many drama serials and movies and is fairly popular in Hong Kong.
- Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall (born on 11 September 1938 in Derry) is an Irish broadcaster, educated at St. Columb's College in Derry. Having originally intended to train as a teacher, he started his working life as an actor, studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 1967 he became an announcer at Ulster Television and in 1970 he moved to Anglia Television.
- Geoff Regan
Geoffrey Paul Regan, B.A., LLB, PC, MP (born November 22, 1959 in Windsor, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian politician. He is the son of former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan. Two of his sisters are also well-known: Nancy Regan was a well-known local television personality with ATV, and Laura Regan is an actress. Regan is a current member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Halifax West since 2000, and from 1993 to 1997.
- Anthony Wong Chau Sang
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang (born September 2, 1961 under the name Anthony Perry) is a Hong Kong actor. Anthony Wong Chau-Sang was born to an English father and a Chinese mother. His father left his family when he was only four years old, prompting Wong to use his mother's surname. He began his acting career when he joined ATV's training programme and enrolled into the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Wong has been a veteran of Hong Kong films for nearly 20 years.
- Ned Sherrin
Ned Sherrin (born 18 February 1931 in Somerset, England) is a broadcaster, author and stage director. He attended Sexey's School, in Bruton, Somerset. Although he read law at Exeter College, Oxford and subsequently qualified as a barrister, he became involved in theatre at Oxford and joined British television at the founding of independent television in 1956, producing shows for ATV in Birmingham.
- Nick Owen
Nick Owen is an English television presenter. Born November 1, 1947 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, to father Bertie, a headmaster and Dunkirk veteran, and mother Esme, a music teacher. He attended Kingsland Grange prep school, an independent boarding school in Shrewsbury, from the ages of 7-13, then Shrewsbury School itself from the ages of 13-18. While at Kingsland Grange, Nick borrowed a Cliff Richard record from Bob Warman, …
- Dave Wright
Dave Wright is a retired Canadian broadcaster. Wright started his broadcasting career in 1950 at CHNO in Sudbury, Ontario but soon moved to CKBB in Barrie as sportscaster and play by play announcer for the Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A league. Wright moved to television in 1954 when he joined CHCH-TV in Hamilton. In 1956 Wright freelanced with CBC Television’s public affairs programs "Canadian Magazine" and "See it Now", …
- Nicolás Lúcar
Nicolás Lúcar de la Portilla has been a Peruvian journalist since the 1980s. In 1991 he started his first investigative news program in America Televisión called "La revista dominical" roughly translated in English as "The Sunday report", it featured almost the same format as used in the long time running CBS News Sunday newsmagazine 60 Minutes. The show at the time was considered one of the most outstanding newsprograms, …
- Reg Watson
Reg Watson is an Australian television producer, best known for creating soap operas like "Prisoner" and "Neighbours". Reg started his career as an actor at the age of sixteen on Australian radio, before moving to England in 1955. He soon was hired by ATV, and in 1956 joined Ned Sherrin and Noele Gordon in Birmingham to set up and launch ATV Midlands. Reg's job was as Head Of Light Entertainment.
- Wendy Padbury
Wendy Padbury (born 7 December, 1947) is a British actress from Warwickshire, England. She is most famous for her involvement in various "Doctor Who" projects. Padbury came to prominence as an actor in 1966, when she joined the cast of the long-running ATV soap opera "Crossroads". She played the role of Stephanie "Stevie" Harris, foster daughter to the show's main character, Meg Mortimer (Noele Gordon). She was cast as the Second Doctor's new companion, …
- Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks (born 10 May 1935 in East Ham, London) is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s. After leaving school, Dicks studied English at Downing College, Cambridge, and later did two years of National Service in the British Army. Following his discharge from the armed forces, he worked for five years as an advertising copywriter, …
- Dickie Valentine
Dickie Valentine (born Richard Bryce, 4 November 1929, in Marylebone, North London - died 6 May 1971) was a popular singer in the 1950s.
- John Saunders
John Saunders is a Canadian-American sports journalist from Toronto, Ontario. He is currently working for ESPN and ABC. According to his ABC biography, "Saunders, an all-star defenseman in the Montreal junior leagues, received a scholarship and played hockey at Western Michigan University from 1974-76." He was the news director for CKNS Radio (Espanola, Ontario, 1978), and sports anchor at CKNY-TV (Ontario, 1978-1979) and at ATV News (New Brunswick, 1979-1980).
- Bob Warman
Bob Warman is a British television presenter, born in Walsall, West Midlands. Between the ages of 11 and 18, Bob attended Wrekin College in Shropshire. When he left in the 1970s, he started working for Yorkshire Television. In 1989, he hosted the Sky TV version of The Price Is Right. Bob has spent his subsequent career at ATV and Central, mostly presenting regional news programmes. He continues to this day in his role as co-anchor on Central Tonight on ITV1 Central.
- Edna Tse
Edna Tse is a Hong Kong television newsreader and journalist working for ATV news. She presents the "Weather Report" at 19:55, the "Late News", the "Financial Update" afterwards and occasionally the "Main News" on ATV World at 19:30. Edna can also sometimes be seen in the noon weather report at around 1245 on the Chinese ATV Home channel.
- Arthur Haynes
Arthur Haynes (May 19, 1914 in West London, England-November 19,1966) was an English comedian and star of "The Arthur Haynes Show", a comedy sketch series produced by ATV from 1957 till his death in 1966. Haynes' most popular character was a working class tramp - created by scriptwriter Johnny Speight who went on to write the iconic BBC Television working class sitcom series "Till Death Us Do Part" in the same year Haynes died of a heart attack.
- Tom Edwards
Tom Edwards born in British radio presenter and television announcer, born in Norwich on March 20, 1945. He began his working life as a journalist, before becoming the announcer on a Border Television programme called "Beat the Border". He worked for Radio City and Radio Caroline in the 1960s, and later for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, presenting the Saturday morning early show on the latter station for some years in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- Brian Wilde
Brian Wilde (b. 1 June 1921, Lancashire, England) is a British actor, made famous by his comedic roles. Wilde's lugubrious world-weary face was a staple of British television for forty years, most notably in comedy shows. His early television roles included the series "The Love of Mike" (1960), and he supported Tony Hancock in episodes of his ATV series in 1963. He had minor roles in films such as "The Jokers" (1967) and "Carry On Doctor" (1968), …
- Monty Berman
Nestor Montague "Monty" Berman (1912-14 June 2006) was a British cinematographer and film producer. Berman began his film career as a camera assistant at Twickenham Film Studios when he was 17. He became a camera operator in 1934, working for the Associated British Picture Corporation at Teddington Studios, and later for the comedy producers Ealing Studios. During World War II Berman served in an army film unit and post-war, in 1948, he co-founded, with Robert S. Baker, …
- Ann George
Ann George (March 5 1903 - 1989) was an actress most famous for her role as Amy Turtle in "Crossroads". She was born in Smethwick, Birmingham and entered show business as a singer appearing in Musicals such as "The Belle of New York" and "The Desert Song". She also starred in the Gilbert and Sullivan show "D'Oyly Carte". She loved to sing and made a special appearance at Birmingham Town Hall singing Handel's "Messiah".
- Valerie Chow
Valerie Chow, aka Rachel Shane in the US, (born 16 December 1970 in Hong Kong) is a well-known Chinese model and actress. A former Miss Hong Kong runner-up, she is also the first Chinese model to be signed by US cosmetics company Revlon in 1998. She has starred in numerous films and a few television series, most memorably in Wong Kar-Wai's "Chungking Express", …
- Alan Coleman
Alan Coleman (born Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom) is a prolific TV series, writer, director and producer, primarily in the southern hemisphere (eg, The Young Doctors, The Restless Years, Neighbours, Shortland Street). He was originally the head of children's programming at ATV in the UK until emigrating to Australia in 1974. In 1997, he directed several episodes of the British soap opera, Family Affairs as a part of a working holiday to the UK.
- Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff CBE (born December 1, 1952 in Holland Park in West London, England) is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter. The British Film Institute's "Screenonline" website describes him as "one of the most inventive and intriguing of writer-directors in Britain today."