- Paddy Driver
Paddy Driver (born in Johannesburg, May 13, 1934) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and a racing driver from South Africa. He competed on the Grand Prix motorcycle racing circuit from 1959 to 1965. His best result was in 1965 when he rode a Matchless to a third place finish in the 500cc world championship behind Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini. He participated in 2 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, scoring no championship points.
- Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver (born Amelia Fiona J. Driver on January 31 1970) is an English actress and singer-songwriter, born in London to Ronnie Driver and his wife Gaynor. She first came to broad public attention when she played the lead role in "Circle of Friends". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film "Good Will Hunting".
- Donald Driver
Donald Jerome Driver (born February 2, 1975 in Houston, Texas) is an American football wide receiver who currently plays for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL. The Packers chose him in the 1999 NFL Draft with a seventh round selection (213th pick overall) out of Alcorn State University. Donald Driver is the Green Bay Packers' most versatile and agile pass catcher. "Donald is able to play all our positions. He is very explosive, and he's shown plenty of big-play ability", …
- Sara Driver
Sara Driver is an independent filmmaker. She was born in Westfield, New Jersey on the 15th December 1955. She is the wife of film director Jim Jarmusch.
- William Driver
William Driver (1803 - 1886) was a U.S. ship captain. He coined the phrase "Old Glory" for the U.S. flag. As a birthday present, young Capt. William Driver of Salem, Massachusetts was presented a beautiful flag by his family and a group of friends. Driver was delighted with the gift. He exclaimed, "I name her 'Old Glory,'" and Old Glory subsequently accompanied the captain on his voyages. (Although Driver later stated that the received the flag on his birthday, …
- Bruce Driver
Bruce Driver (born April 29, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1983-84 until 1997-98. Driver possessed a strong point shot, heady offensive instincts, smart positional defensive play, and a good stick with which he was adept at poke checking. A natural leader, Driver served as Devils' Captain and also became a power play quarterback as his career blossomed, …
- Andrew Driver
Andrew Driver (born 12 November 1987, in Oldham) is an English professional footballer who currently plays for Scottish Premier League team Heart of Midlothian. Driver grew up in Oldham, where he was a pupil at Hulme Grammar School, and was originally with Oldham Athletic's youth initiative. However, he left when his father's work caused the family to relocate to near Edinburgh and he began attending North Berwick High School, from where he joined Hearts.
- Ryan Driver
Ryan Craig Driver (born 30 April, 1979) is an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire and Lancashire around the turn of the 21st century. Driver was born in Truro, Cornwall, and made his first List A appearance for his home-county club against Warwickshire in the 1996 NatWest Trophy. It proved a dismal opening to his career in major cricket, as he was run out for nought. He also played a few minor games for Cornwall that season, …
- Samuel Rolles Driver
Samuel Rolles Driver (October 2, 1846 - 1914) was an English divine and Hebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. He was the father of Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a distinguished Bible scholar. He was born at Southampton. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, taking a first class in Literae Humaniores in 1869.
- Betty Driver
Betty Mary Driver, MBE (born May 20, 1920 in Leicester) is an English singer, actress and author, most famous for her role as Betty Williams on the British soap "Coronation Street".
- Faredoon Driver
Faredoon Nawrosjee Driver, better known as Padri, (November 27, 1903 - March 13, 1982) was born in Pune, India and was one of Meher Baba's close mandali (devoted disciples). He lived with and served Meher Baba from 1922 until Meher Baba's death in 1969, beginning his stay with Baba in Baba's first ashram, Manzil-e-Meem. Later, after moving his ashram to Ahmednagar district, Meher Baba called Padri one of the four "pillars" of Meherabad.
- Richard Driver
Richard Driver (born September 16 1829 in Cabramatta, New South Wales, died July 8 1880 in Randwick, New South Wales) was a Sydney solicitor, politician and cricket administrator. A road built in the 1890s outside the Sydney Cricket Ground called "Driver Avenue" is named in his honour. Driver had helped to secure the cricket grounds in 1879 when he was both Minister for Lands and the President of the NSWCA.
- 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.
- Chris Driver
Christopher Driver is a town councillor and member of the Rock 'n' Roll Loony Party. He held the position of Mayor of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent during the municipal year 2002/03. When not campaigning, he is a musician, entertainer and vocalist with the rock/blues band called Drrink.
- Jon Driver
Jon Driver is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and a leading psychologist / neuroscientist in the UK. He is Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and also a Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL. The UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) is a leading interdisciplinary research centre that studies the brain basis of mental processes in health and disease, for adults and children.
- Charles Henry Driver
Charles Henry Driver (1832-1900) was one of the most significant and important architects of the Victorian era. His major contribution to the design and architecture of latter part of the 19th century was his pioneering work in the use of ornamental iron work for which he was seen as a leading authority. He was also an expert in its casting and manufacture.
- W. L. Driver
William L. Billy Driver was a college football coach at Mississippi, TCU, and UC Davis. From 1913 to 1914, he coached at Mississippi, where he compiled an 11-7-2 record. From 1920 to 1921, he coached at TCU, where he compiled a 15-4-1 season. That total included a 9-1 season in 1920.From 1923 to 1927, he coached at UC Davis and compiled an 18-23-3 record.
- Godfrey Rolles Driver
Professor Godfrey Rolles Driver (August 20, 1892 - April 22, 1975) was an English Orientalist noted for his studies of Semitic languages and Assyriology. Driver was born in Oxford, England, son of the noted English scholar Samuel Rolles Driver, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford (1911-1915) where he won the Pusey and Ellerton and Senior Kennicott Hebrew Scholarships. After serving in World War I, with tasks as varied as hospital work, …
- Moses Driver
Moses Driver is a Fijian police officer, who is the immediate past Deputy Commissioner of Police. In this capacity, he assisted Commissioner of Police Andrew Hughes. A major part of Driver's work was pursuing investigations into the Fiji coup of 2000. Driver became Acting Police Commissioner on 29 November 2006, when Andrew Hughes took a leave of absence during the crisis which culminated in a military coup on 5 December.
- Jeremiah Driver
Jeremiah Driver was a first class cricketer who played 2 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1889 against Gloucestershire CCC and Lancashire CCC. A wicket keeper, he took 2 catches and scored 24 runs at an average of 8. He was born on May 16, 1861 in Keighley, Yorkshire, where he died on December 10, 1946.
- Michael B. Driver
Michael Branner Driver (1868-1942) was Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1927 to 1930, and Sheriff of Alameda County from 1930 to 1939. He resigned as Mayor of Berkeley when he became Sheriff. Branner was born August 4, 1868 in Virginia. He came to Berkeley in 1905 from Colorado. He married Melissa Newkirk. They had a daughter Dixie and a son Quigley. Michael Driver died July 17, 1942 in Berkeley.
- William J. Driver
William Joshua Driver (March 2, 1873 - October 1, 1948) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. Born near Osceola, Mississippi County, Arkansas, Driver attended the public schools. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Osceola, Arkansas. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1897-1899. He served as judge of the second judicial circuit of Arkansas 1911-1918.
- Andrew Driver
Andrew Driver is an author and translator. He has published: *A translation of short stories by the Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui under the title Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (Alma Books, 2006). * The novel Shame in the Blood by Tetsuo Miura (due in December 2007). * Commentaries on the Hotsuma Legends of Japan.
- Ronnie Driver
Ronnie Driver was a company director of London United Investments plc in the 1980s. In 1990 the company crashed with debts of around £4.5 billion. In the aftermath of the crash the Serious Fraud Office began an investigation, and it was revealed that millions of pounds of company funds had been diverted to bank accounts in Lichtenstein and Switzerland. Driver maintains that he was innocent of wrongdoing. He is the father of British actress Minnie Driver.
- Oliver Driver
Oliver Driver is a New Zealand actor, director, broadcaster and television presenter. He is best known for playing Mike Galloway, a pot smoking nurse on the long-running New Zealand drama Shortland Street. He has voiced Jenji in Power Rangers: Mystic Force. He is an evening broadcaster for the Newstalk ZB radio station. He has also hosts the "Frontseat" arts programme as well as a dance show for TVNZ.
- Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Kovalainen is a racing driver, born October 19, 1981 in Suomussalmi, Finland. He is the second race driver for Formula 1 world champions Renault having occupied the role of third driver since 2005.
- Nico Rosberg
Nico Rosberg (born June 27, 1985 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a German-Finnish Formula One race car driver for the Williams team. He won the 2005 GP2 Series for the ART team, having raced in Formula Three Euroseries previously for his father's team.
- Kenny Wallace
Kenny Wallace (born August 23, 1963) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and Busch Series driver who currently drives the #78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet in Nextel Cup. He also works as an on-air personality for SPEED Channel, on shows such as NASCAR RaceDay and NASCAR Victory Lane. He was also featured on the show NASCAR Drivers: 360 on FX. He has two brothers who are also NASCAR drivers: Rusty Wallace and Mike Wallace, and a nephew Steve Wallace.
- Scott Speed
Scott Andrew Speed is a race car driver born on 24 January 1983 in Manteca, California, USA. A driver for the Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 team, he made his Formula One race debut at the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix.
- Tony Kanaan
But it was Kanaan's accomplishments in 2004 that were quite spectacular. He became the first driver in major auto racing history to complete every lap of every race for an entire season on his way to winning the 2004 IndyCar Series title. "I never thought about it, but at the end of the year everyone was talking about it," Kanaan said. "It was pretty amazing. It was something unexpected. We did it, it's in the books, and I'm happy to have a record like that."
- A. J. Foyt
Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr. (born January 16, 1935 in Houston, Texas), is considered by many as the greatest American automobile racing driver of all time. He holds the all-time USAC career wins record with 159 victories.
- George Mason
George Mason (6 May 1890 Des Moines, Iowa - 13 September 1918 Bordeaux, France) was an American racecar driver. A Red Cross ambulance driver in World War I, Mason was killed in action.
- Greg Anderson
Greg Anderson (born March 14, 1961 in Duluth, Minnesota) is a current NHRA POWERADE Pro Stock driver for Summit Racing. He began his Pro Stock career in 1998 Anderson is married to wife Kimberly and the couple has two children, Brittany and Cody. He resides in Concord, North Carolina.
- Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell (born December 21, 1984 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American racing driver. He won the 2004 Star Mazda championship, leading to a potential open-wheel career. He made two Champ Car starts for Rocketsports Racing at the end of 2005 but was not retained for the following season. He competed in Grand-Am Rolex Series for two seasons, co-piloting the No. 19 Daytona Prototype with Memo Gidley, …
- Jerry Nadeau
Jerry Nadeau (born September 9, 1970) is a race car driver from Danbury, Connecticut. Nadeau competed in the 1994 Barber Dodge Pro Series and the 1996 Formula Opel Euroseries. He then returned to the United States to race in NASCAR's Winston Cup series in 1997. He initially struggled to qualify for races. By 1999 he had a solid ride with Hendrick Motorsports in a competitive car. He won the Fall Atlanta Motor Speedway race in 2000.
- John Martin
John Martin (born March 30, 1939, Long Beach, California), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1970-1977 and 1979-1980 seasons, with 52 career starts, including the 1972-1976 Indianapolis 500. He finished in the top ten 17 times, with his best finish in 5th position at Ontario in both 1973 and 1975.
- Dan Gurney
Daniel Sexton Gurney (born April 13, 1931) is one of the most important figures in the history of American auto racing. The son of a Metropolitan Opera star, he was born in Port Jefferson, New York, but moved to California as a teenager. He has been a driver, a car manufacturer, and a team owner at racing's highest levels since 1958. He is one of only four US-born drivers (Richie Ginther, Phil Hill, Peter Revson, …
- Harry Gant
Harry Phil Gant (born January 10, 1940 in Taylorsville, North Carolina) is a motorsport driver best known for driving the number 33 Skoal Bandits car on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit. He appeared in the 1983 Burt Reynolds movie Stroker Ace. He was mentioned in the film Days of Thunder for spinning out in the Daytona 500 at the end of the movie
- John Jones
John Jones (born October 19, 1965, Thunder Bay, Ontario), is a former driver in the CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1988, 1989, 1991, and 1992 seasons with 41 career starts, including the 1989 Indianapolis 500. He finished in the top ten 11 times, including 4 in 7th position in 1988, when he finished the season in 11th position and was named Rookie of the Year. John's brother Hunter Jones was also an active driver in the CART Indy Lights championship.
- Neel Jani
Neel Jani (born December 8, 1983) is a Swiss race car driver.