- Guardian
The Guardian is the final villain of the "Ultima" series of computer role playing games. He is also the series' most frequently recurring villain, being the only character to feature as the main villain in more than one game. In "Ultima VII", "VIII", "IX" and "Ultima Underworld II" he is voiced by the actor Bill Johnson.
- Gary Younge
Gary Younge (born 1969 in Hitchin, UK) is a journalist and author, born to immigrant parents from Barbados. Younge read French and Russian at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He went on to study at City University, London where he gained a Post-graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism in 1993. Younge is a columnist for "The Guardian" and is currently the newspaper's New York City correspondent.
- Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey William Hoon (born December 6 1953) is a British politician. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Ashfield, and Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.
- John Sutherland
John Sutherland (born 1938) is an English lecturer, emeritus professor, newspaper columnist and author. Now Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, John Sutherland began his academic career after graduating from the University of Leicester as an assistant lecturer in Edinburgh in 1964. He specialises in Victorian fiction, 20th century literature, and the history of publishing.
- Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre is a British doctor and journalist, and the author of the "Guardian" newspaper's weekly "Bad Science" column. He describes himself as "a junior doctor in London and a shameless geek".
- Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is a British best-selling author and politician. He was a member of Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and became a life peer in 1992. His political career, having suffered from several earlier controversies, finally ended after a conviction for perjury and his subsequent imprisonment. He is married to Mary Archer, a scientist specialising in solar power.
- Matthew Tempest
Matthew Tempest is the political correspondent and blogger for "Guardian Unlimited", the "Guardian" newspaper's London-based website. He has worked for the Guardian since 2001. He formerly contributed a column to "Red Pepper" magazine, a British left-wing political monthly. In 2004 he worked in Berlin for Der Spiegel online, couresy of a grant from the Internationale-Journalisten Programme.
- Alexis Petridis
Alexis Petridis is the chief music writer for UK newspaper "The Guardian", as well as a regular contributor to the magazine "GQ". He was the final editor of now defunct music magazine "Select". Petridis has attracted both praise and criticism. In November 2006 he won an award in the "Artist and Music Features: Writer Of The Year" category at the Record of the Day awards. In the past his writing has frequently been attacked by bloggers, …
- Russell T. Davies
Russell T Davies (real name: Russell Davies, born April 27, 1963) is a television producer and writer. He is best known for writing ground-breaking and sometimes controversial drama serials such as "Queer as Folk" and "The Second Coming", and for spearheading the revival of the popular science-fiction television series "Doctor Who.
- Marcel Berlins
Marcel Berlins is a legal commentator who is best known for his weekly column in "The Guardian" newspaper. He is also a lecturer in media law at City University, London. He was the presenter of BBC Radio 4's legal programme "Law in Action" and retired after 15 years in 2004. He was born in France and voted in the 2007 French presidential election. In his "Guardian" column on February 15th 2006 Marcel said of Wikipedia that it had, "an open door policy, …
- Patrick Barkham
Patrick Barkham is a journalist working for the "Guardian" newspaper in the United Kingdom. He writes articles on a variety of topics, including technology, film and television. Barkham became a temporary Wikipedian on 9 February 2006 when he made edits to both the "The Guardian" entry and to the article on Tony Blair, as part of research into an article published in the paper on 10 February.
- Belle de Jour
Belle de Jour is the "nom de plume" of a person who claims to have been a London call girl or high class prostitute. Under this banner she maintains a successful blog, "Belle de Jour: diary of a London call girl" which by 2003 had achieved selection by "The Guardian" as their blog of the year and has given rise to two books published in both the UK and US. A television series based on the first book was in development with Channel 4 in the UK, …
- Joan Smith
Joan Alison Smith (born August 27, 1953 in London) is an English novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN. Smith read Latin at the University of Reading in the early 1970s. After a spell as a journalist in local radio in Manchester, she joined the staff of the "Sunday Times" in 1979 and stayed at the newspaper until 1984, …
- Ian Mayes
Ian Mayes is a British journalist and editor. He was formerly the readers' editor for "The Guardian" newspaper, and president of the international Organization of News Ombudsmen. He has often written about his former role at the "Guardian" and summarized it in 2004 in the "British Journalism Review". He is credited with the discovery of the "apostrofly", "an insect which lands at random on the printed page depositing an apostrophe wherever it alights".
- Richard Gott
Richard Willoughby Gott (born 28 October 1938 Aston Tirrold, England) is a British journalist and historian, who has written extensively on Latin America. A former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the British newspaper "The Guardian", he is currently an honorary research fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London.
- Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson (b. 1951) is an American actor most well known for his role as "Leatherface" in the 1986 horror film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2". To fans of the Ultima series of role-playing games, he gained fame as the voice of the Guardian, the final antagonist of the Ultima series.
- Jamie Rowe
Jamie Rowe (born Earl Wilson Rowe, Jr.) is the lead vocalist of the Christian hard rock band, Guardian. He is also the lead vocalist for power pop band, London Calling, named after the Clash song and album of the same name. He has released a solo album: "The Beautiful EP" (1999, Massive Groove Records), which was to be followed by a full length project.
- Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1972) is an American novelist, journalist, and editor who lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer Dave Eggers. She graduated from San Francisco University High School in her hometown before attending Middlebury College as an undergraduate. She received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has written three books, "Girls on the Verge", "And Now You Can Go", …
- Terry Leahy
Sir Terry Leahy Chief Executive - Tesco Plc Terry Leahy , who is 50, was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco Plc in March 1997. He was educated at St Edward's College, Liverpool and then went on to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology where he gained his BSc (Hons) in management sciences. Mr Leahy joined Tesco in 1979 as a Marketing Executive and was promoted to Marketing Manager in 1981.
- Robert Walker
Robert J. Walker, known as Bob Walker, (born 2 February 1929), was the third Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy. He was born in Baldwin, New York and attended grammar and high school in Oxford, New York. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1948, Master Chief Walker received his recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, where he was cited as company honorman. He then attended Radarman "A" School in Boston, …
- Ben Schott
Ben Schott is a British writer and author of the "Schott's Miscellanies" and "Schott's Almanac" series. Ben Schott was born in North London, England on May 26 1974, the son of a neurologist and a nurse. He has one brother, also now a neurologist. He went to school at University College School, Hampstead – both the junior school in Holly Hill and the senior school in Frognal.
- Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay MBE (born 1961) is a Scottish poet and novelist. She was born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted by a white couple and brought up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. Initially harbouring ambitions to be an actress, she decided to concentrate on writing after Alasdair Gray read her poetry and told her that writing was what she should be doing.
- Alan Henry
Alan Henry is widely regarded as the "grand old man" of British motorsport journalism, having been a grand prix reporter since the early 1970s. He is the Formula One correspondent of the "Guardian" newspaper, and currently holds the title of Editor at Large of F1 Racing magazine. Henry is also the chief editor of the yearly "Autocourse" Formula One season review books, a position he has held since 1988. Autocourse is now entering its fifty-seventh year.
- C. P. Scott
Charles Prestwich Scott (26 October 1846 - 1 January 1932) was a British journalist, publisher and politician. Born in Bath, Somerset, England, he was the editor of the "Manchester Guardian" from 1872 until 1929 and its owner from 1907 until his death. He was also a Liberal Member of Parliament and pursued a progressive liberal agenda in the pages of the newspaper. Scott was connected to the "Manchester Guardian" from birth.
- Martin Linton
John Martin Linton known as Martin Linton (born 11 August 1944, Stockholm, Sweden) is a British politician, and has been Labour Member of Parliament for Battersea since 1997, having been reelected in 2001 and again (albeit narrowly) in 2005. He was schooled at Christ's Hospital School and Pembroke College, Oxford. Prior to becoming an MP he was a "Guardian" journalist, and served as a councillor in Wandsworth from 1971 to 1982.
- David Shrigley
David Shrigley is a Glasgow-based artist. Born in Macclesfield on September 17, 1968, he grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, England. He attended City of Leicester Polytechnic's Art and Design course in 1987-1988, and subsequently studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1988-1991. Although he has worked with various media, most of his work is in the form of mordantly humorous cartoons released in softcover books or postcard packs.
- Bernard Ingham
Sir Bernard Ingham (born June 21 1932) is a journalist best known as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary. Ingham was educated at Hebden Bridge Grammar School and joined the "Hebden Bridge Times" newspaper at the age of 16. He went on to work for the "Yorkshire Evening Post", "the Yorkshire Post", latterly as Northern Industrial Correspondent, and The Guardian.
- David Bach
David Bach is the bass guitarist and co-founder of the Christian hard rock band, Guardian.
- Tony Palacios
Tony Palacios is the lead guitarist of the Christian hard rock band, Guardian. Palacios joined the band in 1989 and has remained with them since, releasing nine studio albums, including three in Spanish. In 1998, Palacios released his first instrumental guitar solo album entitled "Epic Tales of Whoa!" on Cadence Records. The album was assembled over a ten-year period, and received critical acclaim from the metal community. Presently he is working as a sound mixer, …
- Edward Yang
Edward Yang (born November 6, 1947; died June 29, 2007), along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers and artists of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film "Yi Yi" ("A One and a Two"), and was honored with many other accolades from other prominent international film festivals.
- Brian Glanville
Brian Lester Glanville (born 24 September 1931) is a leading English football writer and novelist. Glanville has enjoyed a lengthy career, having ghost-written "Cliff Bastin Remembers", the autobiography of his hero at 19 and a noted critique of the British style of sportswriting in Encounter Magazine in the late fifties, lamenting the lack of depth compare to the American style of Red Smith, Damon Runyon or A. J. Liebling.
- James Heartfield
James Heartfield writes and lectures on economic regeneration. He is also a director of Audacity.org, campaigning for the building of new homes. Heartfield writes for "The Times Higher Education Supplement", Spiked Online, and "Blueprint." Heartfield has had articles published in the "Telegraph", "The Times", the "Architects' Journal", "Review of Radical Political Economy," and "Cultural Trends".
- Mary Kenny
Mary Kenny is an Anglo-Irish author, broadcaster, playwright and journalist. She was a founder member of the Irish feminist movement. She has written for a large number of UK and Irish broadsheet newspapers, including The Irish Independent, The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and the Spectator and has authored books on William Joyce and Catholicism in Ireland. She is known in the UK as a Catholic journalist.
- Liz Forgan
Dame Elizabeth "Liz" Anne Lucy Forgan, DBE (born 1944) is a British journalist and television executive who was educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Forgan was a founding commissioning editor and then Director of Programmes at the UK's Channel 4 from 1981 to 1990. She initially worked on newspapers starting with Teheran Journal's as Arts Editor 1967-68, at the Hampstead and Highgate Express 1969-74, …
- Michael Heath
Michael John Heath is a prolific British strip and political cartoonist, and illustrator. He was born in 1935; his father, George Heath, was also a cartoonist (of comic strips). His work has appeared in London publications including "Punch", "Lilliput", the "Evening Standard", the "Evening News", the "Guardian", the "Spectator", the "Independent", the "Sunday Times", the "Mail on Sunday", …
- John Elefante
John Elefante (born March 18, 1958 in Levittown, New York) is a Grammy Award-winning American rock and roll vocalist, who got his start in the music business with the rock band Kansas. Elefante was the replacement for the original Kansas vocalist, Steve Walsh, who left Kansas in 1981. He appeared on two Kansas albums, "Vinyl Confessions" (1981) and "Drastic Measures" (1983), …
- Casey McKinnon
Casey McKinnon is a new media producer and actress who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She has worked and appeared on three internet TV shows:.
- Sam Bourne
Sam Bourne is the nom de plume of the British journalist Jonathan Freedland intended to distinguish his work in fiction from his journalism. Freedland is credited on the copyright page as the author of the thriller "The Righteous Men", published in 2006; and of the recently released publication "The Last Testament".
- Marek Kohn
Marek Kohn is a British science writer on evolution, biology and society. His first two books were on drugs, their cultural history, and their politics. He is the author of five books and hundreds of articles. Kohn's recent book, "A Reason for Everything" (2004), has received widespread praise, including Steve Jones' stating in his "Nature" review "every evolutionist should read it," and Andrew Brown, author of "the Darwin Wars", …
- Keith Flett
Keith Flett (born 1956 in London) is a socialist historian and "self-appointed epistolary custodian of the Left" in London, United Kingdom. Letters from "Keith Flett, London N17" are frequently published in the press, literary and political journals, advancing his favoured causes of socialism and the Beard Liberation Front. Flett appears frequently in the letters pages of "Tribune", "New Statesman" and the "London Review of Books".