- David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving is a British writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 30 books, including "The Destruction of Dresden" (1963), "Hitler's War" (1977), "Uprising!" (1981), "Churchill's War" (1987), and "Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich" (1996). - John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger was a German-born U.S. printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City. His indictment, trial and acquittal on sedition and libel charges against the Governor William Cosby of the New York Colony in 1735 were important contributing factors to the development of freedom of the press in America. - David Cook
David Cook is a former politician in Northern Ireland. Cook works as a solicitor, eventually becoming a senior partner at Sheldon and Stewart Solicitors. In 1970, Cook was a founder member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), while he was elected to the party's Central Executive in 1971. He was elected to Belfast City Council in 1973, a position he held until 1985. In 1978, he became the first non-unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast. - Andrew Hamilton
Andrew Hamilton was a Scottish-American lawyer in the Colonial American era. Andrew is the uncle of Alexander Hamilton and is best known for his legal victory on behalf of printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. This 1735 decision helped to establish that truth is a defense to an accusation of libel. - Richard Rampton
Richard Rampton QC (born 12 April 1936) is a leading British libel lawyer. He has been involved in several high profile cases, with his defence of Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books against David Irving among the most famous. In this case, he represented them against accusations of libel after Lipstadt accused Irving of being a Holocaust-denier. He also represented McDonald's in the McLibel case, where the company controversially sued two anarchist protesters. - Laurence Godfrey
Dr. Laurence Godfrey (born 21 November 1952, London, England) established a legal precedent for libel on Usenet, in the landmark Godfrey v. Demon case. In 1993 he and CERN colleague Phillip Hallam-Baker became immersed in a very public dispute on Usenet, which culminated in a libel action (settled out of court). Godfrey was a regular and controversial contributor to the Usenet newsgroups, 'soc.culture.british' and 'soc.culture.canada'. - George Carman
George Alfred Carman, a leading barrister of the 1980s and 1990s, first came to the attention of the general public in 1979 when he successfully defended the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe when he was charged with conspiracy to murder, despite having been appointed as a QC (Queen's Counsel) eight years previously. Born in Blackpool, Lancashire on 6 October 1929, Carman attended a Roman Catholic boarding school and Balliol College, Oxford. - Monica Coghlan
Monica Coghlan (3 May 1951 - 27 April 2001) was the prostitute at the centre of a scandal that involved English Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer in 1987. Although he won a libel case against the "Daily Star" newspaper, which had alleged that he slept with her, it was later revealed in a separate legal proceeding in 2001 that he had perjured himself in the trial. Archer was jailed himself for this in July 2001. - Kitty Kelley
Kitty Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling biographies of celebrities and politicians, most of them unauthorized. Some journalists state that her ability to get sources to reveal information is notable, and her profiles are frequently spiced with unflattering personal anecdotes and details. - Peter Carter-Ruck
Peter Frederick Carter-Ruck (February 26, 1914-December 19, 2003) was an English lawyer, specialising in libel cases. Carter-Ruck was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. He spent three months in Germany during the 1930s, observing the rising popularity of Hitler, an experience that greatly affected him. Upon his return, he qualified as a solicitor. He served as an artilleryman during World War II, joining as a gunner and obtaining his commission in 1940, … - Anita Ramasastry
Anita Ramasastry is the Associate Director of the Center for Law, Commerce & Technology and an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. She joined the faculty in 1996. Her research and teaching interests include law and technology, international commercial law and banking and payment systems. - John Walter
John Walter (1738/9 - November 17, 1812), founder of "The Times" newspaper, London, was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors' School. From the death of his father Richard Walter (about 1755/6), until 1781 he was engaged in a prosperous business as a coal merchant. He played a leading part in establishing a Coal Exchange in London; but shortly after 1781, when he began to occupy himself solely as an underwriter and became a member of Lloyds, … - Michael Walsh
Michael Walsh (May 4, 1810 - March 17, 1859) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Youghal, Cork, Ireland, he completed preparatory studies, was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and emigrated to the United States, settling in Baltimore, Maryland. He learned the lithographic printing trade, and moved to New York City. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1839. - William Lyon MacKenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12, 1795 - August 28, 1861) was a Scottish-Canadian journalist, politician, and leader of an unsuccessful rebellion. Mackenzie was born in Dundee, Scotland and immigrated to Upper Canada in 1820. From 1824 to 1834 he published the newspaper the "Colonial Advocate" in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario), … - Michael Keith Smith
Michael Keith Smith (born 1953), commonly known as Mike Smith, is Chair of the Conservative Democratic Alliance, a British right-wing pressure group. He was the successful claimant in Keith-Smith v Williams, a 2006 English libel case that confirmed that existing libel laws applied to internet discussion. Michael Smith was active in the Conservative Monday Club and for several years sat on its Executive Council. - John Haynes
John Haynes was a parliamentarian in New South Wales, Australia for five months short of thirty years, and co-founder (1880), with J. F. Archibald, of The Bulletin. Haynes was born in Singleton, New South Wales, son of John Haynes, schoolteacher, and his wife Margaret, née Daly. He was apprenticed as a compositor with the Morpeth Leader and worked for several country newspapers. In 1871 he married Sarah Belford and they had five sons and one daughter. - Elmer Gertz
Elmer Gertz (September 14, 1906 - April 27, 2000) was an American lawyer, writer and civil rights activist. During his lengthy legal career he won some high-profile cases, most notably parole for notorious killer Nathan Leopold and the obscenity trial of Henry Miller's novel "Tropic of Cancer (novel)". In addition to accounts of his cases and career, he also reviewed books and edited a collection of works by Frank Harris, … - Wally Butts
James Wallace "Wally" Butts, Jr. (February 7, 1905 - December 17, 1973) was the head football coach (seasons 1939 through 1960) and athletic director (1939 to 1963) at the University of Georgia. Butts was a 1929 graduate of Mercer University where he played college football under coach Bernie Moore. Butts was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1966 and in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. - Quentin Reynolds
Quentin James Reynolds was a journalist and World War II war correspondent. As associate editor at Collier's Weekly from 1933 to 1945, Reynolds averaged twenty articles a year. He also published twenty-five books, including "The Wounded Don’t Cry", "London Diary", "Dress Rehearsal", and "Courtroom", a biography of lawyer Samuel Leibowitz. - John McVicar
John McVicar (born 1940) is a British journalist. In the 1960s, he was an armed robber who was tagged 'Public Enemy No. 1' by Scotland Yard with a 'dead or alive' reward on his head. He was apprehended and given a 26 year jail sentence, escaping from prison on several occasions. He was released in 1978. He obtained a degree from the University of London and wrote "McVicar by Himself" while still in prison and scripted the 1980 biographical film "McVicar", … - Thomas Spence
Thomas Spence (June 21, 1750 - September 8, 1814) was a Radical democrat and advocate of the common ownership of land. He was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, the son of a Scottish netmaker and shoemaker. A dispute in connection with common land rights at Newcastle impelled him to the study of the land question. His scheme was not for land nationalization but for the establishment of self-contained parochial communities, … - Anatoly Lebedko
Anatoly Lebedko (Anatol Labiedźka Belarusian: Анато́ль Уладзі́міравіч Лябе́дзька; Russian: Анато́лий Влади́мирович Лебе́дько; born June 27, 1961) is a Belarusian politician and the head of the United Civil Party of Belarus. Born in the village of Triles, then part of the Stolbcy district in the USSR's Minsk voblast (and now in Belarus), … - Karl Tunberg
Karl Tunberg (11 March 1909-3 April 1992) was an American screenwriter and occasional film producer. Born in Spokane, Washington, Tunberg began writing for films, usually in association with other writers, in the late 1930s. His first feature film was "You Can't Have Everything" (1937), after which he provided scripts for several comedies and musicals featuring such stars as Betty Grable, Sonja Henie, Deanna Durbin, Dorothy Lamour and Shirley Temple. - Joseph Finder
Joseph Finder (born 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of several thrillers set in a business environment. His books include "Paranoia", "Company Man", and "Killer Instinct". His novel "High Crimes" became a hit movie starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Finder's work is informed by his background as a world traveler, Soviet scholar and relentless researcher. - Wilhelm Gustloff
Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895 - February 4, 1936) was the German leader of the Swiss NSDAP (Nazi) party; he founded the Swiss branch of the party at Davos in 1932. Gustloff, who worked as a Swiss government meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1929 and put much effort in the distribution of the anti-Semitic book Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss Nazi Party, for libel. - Mel Mermelstein
Mel Mermelstein is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp who defeated the Institute for Historical Review in an American court and had the occurrence of gassings in Auschwitz during the Holocaust declared a legally incontestable fact. Before World War II broke out, Mermelstein lived in Munkacs, in Ukraine. On May 19, 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz along with the rest of the Jewish community. - Danny Hellman
Danny Hellman is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist nicknamed Dirty Danny. Since 1989, his illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including "Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, New York Press, The Wall Street Journal, FHM, Mad Magazine" and "Screw magazine". Hellman’s comics work can be seen in DC Comics' "Bizarro World", Paradox Press' "Big Books" series, "Last Gasp Comics & Stories", … - Jay Lee
Jay Lee is a British National Party (BNP) member, who fought a legal battle after being expelled from a trade union. Lee, a driver for Virgin Trains, stood as a BNP candidate in the 2002 local elections in Bexley and was subsequently expelled from the train drivers' union ASLEF for BNP membership. In May 2003 an Employment Tribunal ruled that Lee was wrongly expelled from the union, … - William Bayliss
Sir William Maddock Bayliss (May 2 1860 - August 27 1924) was an English physiologist. He graduated in physiology from Wadham College, Oxford. He and Ernest Henry Starling discovered the hormone secretin and the Peristalsis of the intestines. The Bayliss effect is named after him. He also led to the Brown Dog affair by suing Hon. Stephen Coleridge for libel concerning what he said about vivisection. - Thomas Dangerfield
Thomas Dangerfield (c. 1650 - 1685), English conspirator, was born about 1650 at Waltham, Essex, the son of a farmer. He began his career by robbing his father, and, after a rambling life, took to coining false money, for which offence and others he was many times imprisoned. False to everyone, he first tried to involve the Duke of Monmouth and others by concocting information about a Presbyterian plot against the throne, and this having been proved a lie, … - Johannes Pfefferkorn
Johannes (Josef) Pfefferkorn (1469-1523) was a German Christian theologian and writer who converted from Judaism. Pfefferkorn actively preached against the Jews and attempted to destroy copies of the "Talmud", and engaged in a long running pamphleteering campaign against and with Johann Reuchlin. Born a Jew, possibly in Nuremberg, Pfefferkorn moved to Cologne after many years of wandering. After committing a burglary, he was imprisoned and released in 1504. - Mikhail Leontyev
Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontyev (born October 12, 1958, in Moscow) is a Russian journalist currently working on national TV Channel One. He is known for his program "Odnako", irregularly appearing on air with commentaries on certain political occasions since March 1999. - Lisa Potts
Lisa Potts, GM (married name Webb) is a former nursery teacher. She was injured in 1996 while protecting children in her St Luke's Primary School class in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England from a machete attack by a man with severe paranoid schizophrenia. Her arm was almost severed in the attack and four children were injured. Potts, who was 21 years old at the time, also suffered severe cuts to her head, back, and both arms. - Stephen Coleridge
Stephen Coleridge was a UK author, barrister, opponent of vivisection and co-founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Stephen Coleridge was the second son of John Duke Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, and Jane Fortescue Seymour, an accomplished artist. His grandfather was nephew to the famous poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was educated at Bradfield College. - Bessie Braddock
Elizabeth Margaret Braddock JP (24 September 1899, Zante Street, Liverpool - 13 November 1970), better known as Bessie Braddock, was a British Labour politician. Born Elizabeth Bamber, Braddock's mother was Mary 'Ma' Bamber, also an active woman in Liverpool politics. The younger Bamber first joined the Communist Party of Great Britain but left, reportedly due to their lack of commitment to democracy. - Evelyn Lau
Evelyn Lau (born 2 July 1971) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Chinese-Canadian parents, who intended for her to eventually become a doctor. Her parents' ambitions for her were wholly irreconcilable with her own and her family and school lives were generally unhappy. In 1985, at age 14, Lau left home and spent the next several years living itinerantly in Vancouver as a homeless person, mainly sleeping in shelters, … - Giovannino Guareschi
Giovannino Guareschi (May 1, 1908 - July 22, 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose most famous creation is the priest Don Camillo. Giovannino Guareschi was born in Fontanelle di Roccabianca, near Parma, Italy, into a middle-class family. In 1926 his family went bankrupt and he could not continue his studies. After unsuccessful studies in the University of Parma and various minor jobs, he started to write for a local newspaper. - George Henry Lewis
Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Baronet (21 April 1833 - 7 December 1911) was an English lawyer of Jewish extraction. Lewis was born in London and educated at University College, London. In 1850 he was articled to his father, James Graham Lewis (1804-1869), founder of Lewis & Lewis, one of the best-known firms of solicitors in the city of London. George was admitted in Hilary term in 1856, and was subsequently taken into partnership by his father and uncle. - Dorothy Squires
Dorothy Squires (March 25, 1915 - April 14, 1998) was a Welsh vocalist. She was born Edna May Squires in Pontyberem, (about 12 miles from Llanelli), Carmarthenshire, in South Wales. Her parents were Archibald James Squires, a steelworker, and his wife Emily. She began to perform professionally as a singer at the age of 16. She did most of her work with the orchestra of Billy Reid who was her partner for many years. - Henry Hamilton Beamish
Henry Hamilton Beamish (June 2, 1873 - March 27, 1948) was a leading British antisemite and the founder of The Britons. The son of an admiral who had served as an A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, Beamish served in the Second Boer War and settled in South Africa afterwards. It was here, he claimed in a 1919 interview with "The Times", that he became convinced of antisemitism as he felt that all of the country's industries were Jewish-owned.
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