- Billy Mayfair
William Fred Mayfair (born August 6, 1966) is a PGA Tour golfer. Mayfair was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona where he plays out of Estrella Mountain Range Golf Club. He went to Arizona State University and won the 1986 U.S. Amateur Public Links and the 1987 U.S. Amateur Championship. On July 31st, 2006, Mayfair was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He had surgery on August 3rd and it has been reported that the cancer was contained. - Jana Cova
Jana Cova (born April 13, 1980) is a Czech pornographic actress and nude model mainly specializing in lesbian and fetish pornography. Cova grew up in the countryside in the Czech Republic where she "had a great childhood". She initially started working as a bikini model, then started doing nude then softcore modeling. She has stated that part of her slow transition into movies was because "I wasn't ready for movies for about a year. - Chez Bruce
Chez Bruce is a restaurant located at 2 Bellevue Road in the London borough of Wandsworth. The restaurant was opened in February, 1995 by Bruce Poole and his business partner Nigel Platts-Martin. Platts-Martin is proprietor of several other London restaurants including: La Trompette in Chiswick, The Glasshouse in Kew and The Square in Mayfair. Chez Bruce occupies the site of former Marco Pierre White restaurant, Harveys. - Paul Raymond
Paul Raymond was the alias of Geoffrey Anthony Quinn, (15 November 1925 - 2 March 2008). He was educated by the Christian Brothers. He regards himself as Irish. He adopted his current name in 1947. He was an English pornographer, property developer, and owner of the Raymond Revuebar strip club and several major English erotic magazines such as "Razzle" and "Mayfair". - Kelle Marie
Kelle Marie (born October 1 1980 in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom) is a British erotic actress and porn-star. She started modelling at 16 years (topless on page 3) in British newspapers. Since then she was published in many other top-shelf men's magazines such as "Playboy Lingerie", "Club", "Mayfair" and so on. She was the Penthouse Pet for May 2001 and "Pet of the Year Runner Up" for 2003. - Andrei Lugovoi
Andrei Lugovoi (Lugovoy) (Born 1966 in Azerbaijan) is a former KGB operative and millionaire who met with Alexander Litvinenko on the day Litvinenko fell ill (1 November, 2006). Litvinenko died later that month from radiation poisoning caused by polonium-210, and on 22 May 2007 British officials charged Lugovoi with Litvinenko's murder, announcing they would seek his extradition from Russia. - Robert Taylor
Sir Robert Taylor was a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century. Born at Woodford, Essex, Taylor followed in his father’s footsteps and started working as a stone-mason and sculptor. Despite some important commissions (including a bust of London merchant Christopher Emmott today held in the church of St Bartholomew, Colne, Lancashire), he enjoyed little success and turned instead to architecture, where, through hard work and not little talent, … - Atul Kochhar
Atul Kochhar is an Indian-born British chef. Born in Jamshedpur in northern India, Kochhar was trained and worked at the Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi. In 1994, he was appointed head chef at the Tamarind restaurant, in Mayfair, London. By the age of 31, he became the first Indian chef to be awarded the Michelin star. Atul Kochhar owns an elite restaurant, Benares. - Maria Whittaker
Maria Whittaker (born October 7 1969) in Hounslow, West London is a former glamour model and Page three girl. Making her debut as a Page three girl, in British newspaper "The Sun" in 1987, Maria soon became one of the most popular models to appear in the feature and was named "Page 3 Girl Of The Year" in 1989. Her younger sister, Lisa, also appeared on page three with her during the height of her career. - John Aspinall
John Victor Aspinall was born in Delhi, India but was a United Kingdom citizen. He was a zoo owner and a gambler. He was also a self-declared misanthrope and reputed co-plotter of an extreme right-wing conspiracy against Britain’s Labour government. In 1956, with proceeds from his gambling, Aspinall purchased a country house and estate called Howletts near Canterbury, Kent. He lived in the house and set up a private zoo, Howletts Zoo, in the grounds. - Kira Eggers
Kira Eggers (born November 29 1975) is a model from Copenhagen, Denmark. She was named #34 in "FHM" magazine's list of the Top 100 Sexiest Women of 2004 is currently guest-starring in several episodes of "Hotel Erotica Cabo". At age 14, she hosted a radio show on national Danish radio, whereafter she started a career as nude model and stripper. Eggers has appeared in many magazines and papers across the world, including "Men's World", "Genesis", … - Graham Masterton
Graham Masterton (b. January 16, 1946) is a best-selling British horror author. Originally editor of "Mayfair" and the British edition of "Penthouse", Graham Masterton's first novel, "The Manitou" was released in 1976. This was later adapted for film. - Rei Kawakubo
Rei Kawakubo is an avant-garde Japanese fashion designer whose work is distinguished by its warped asymmetry, distressed fabrics, and monochromatic palette. Since her rise to prominence in the early 1980s, she has become influential for her work under the label Comme des Garçons (trans. "like boys"), of which she is a part-time owner. The label has thirteen boutiques and approximately 200 vendors around the world. - Linda Lusardi
Linda Lusardi (born September 18, 1958 in Palmers Green, London) is a former nude model, who is now better known as an actress and television presenter. She is married to Samuel Kane and they have two children Lucy and Jack. - Joanne Guest
Joanne Guest (born February 22, 1972 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire) is a well known English glamour model who has become a minor celebrity in her own right. She has appeared in a wide range of British "top shelf" magazines, including "Mayfair" and "Men Only". Since 2000 she has been a television host for the Men and Motors cable/satellite channel in the United Kingdom, operated by Granada. Born and raised in Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire, England, … - John Thomson
John Thomson was a pioneering Scottish Victorian photographer, geographer and traveller. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artifacts of eastern cultures. On returning home, his work among the street people of London cemented his reputation, and is regarded as a classic work of social documentary which laid the foundations for photo journalism. - Claire Adams
Claire Adams (Mackinnon) (24 September 1896 - 25 September 1978) was a film actress and benefactor. - Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll (November 29, 1843-December 8, 1932), (pronounced JEE-kul, to rhyme with 'treacle') was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA and contributed over 1,000 articles to "Country Life", "The Garden" and other magazines. Gertrude Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward JH Jekyll, … - Kelly Bell
Kelly Bell (February 21, 1982 -) is a glamour model. Kelly appeared in many young teen girl magazines, as a young teen model & has had many TV appearances over the last 15 years. She then entered a competition to find Britains next top model in the "Daily Sport" at just 16, coming first out of thousands of entrants. Kelly had barely left school & had gone almost overnight from a child model to a Page 3 girl. - Veronika Zemanová
Veronika Zemanová is a Czech model. Moving to Prague at age 18, she worked as a photographer from 1993 to 1997. When all of her equipment was stolen from her car in 1997, she switched to the other side of the camera. Her original stage name was Eva, but due to a production error her real name was accidentally published, so at that point she dropped the pseudonym. - Lady Annabel Goldsmith
Lady Annabel Goldsmith (b.13 June 1934 -) is an English socialite and the widow of Sir James Goldsmith. Born Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, she is the daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry and Romaine Combe. When Lady Annabel was a teenager she lost her mother to cancer. Years later her father eventually succumbed to illness brought on by his alcoholism. On 10 March 1954 she married businessman Mark Birley at Caxton Hall in London. - Richard Westmacott
Sir Richard Westmacott, Jr., RA (1775-1856) was a British sculptor. He studied under his father, Richard Westmacott the Elder, before going to Rome in 1793 to study under Antonio Canova. Upon returning to England in 1797, he set up a prodigious studio (John Edward Carew and Musgrave Watson gained experience here) and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy, where his diploma work, "Jupiter and Ganymede", can still be seen. - Cassidy Cruise
Cassidy Cruise (born October 9, 1980 in Durban, South Africa) is an Australian-based nude model and erotic actress. She has appeared in such magazines as Oui, Mayfair, and Hustler Australia, as well as been featured on such websites as twistys.com and bluefantasies.com among many others. Cassidy is 'all natural' and bills herself as "The Web's Hottest Erotic Glamour Model". - Anthony Yadgaroff
Anthony H Yadgaroff (born 1949 in England) is the founder and Managing Director of Allenbridge Group PLC, and Director of Anglo-Pacific Group, both based in his offices in Mayfair, London. Mr Yadgaroff is heavily involved in the Jewish community in London, being the Vice-President of Western Marble Arch Synagogue where Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks presides. He is also the treasurer of the Western Charitable Foundation, … - Isaac Tigrett
Isaac Tigrett is a native of Jackson, Tennessee. He belonged to a well-to-do business family. He was raised in Tennessee until the age of fifteen. On June 14, 1971 he and Peter Morton started the first Hard Rock Café (HRC) restaurant in London's fashionable Mayfair district. The restaurant combined rock music, memorabilia related to rock 'n'; roll and American cuisine. - Morgan Fisher
Morgan Fisher (born Stephen Morgan Fisher, 1 January 1950, Mayfair, London) is a British keyboard player / composer, and is most known for being a member of Mott the Hoople in the early 1970s. However his career has covered a wide range of musical activities, and he is is still currently still active in the music industry. - Robin Montgomerie-Charrington
Robin "Monty" Montgomerie-Charrington (born Robert Victor Campbell Montgomerie on June 23, 1915 in Mayfair, London - died 3 April, 2007) was a British racing driver from England. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix on June 22, 1952. He retired his Aston-Butterworth with a misfire and scored no World Championship points. He later emigrated to the United States. - William Berkeley
Sir William Berkeley (Hanworth Manor, Middlesex 1605 - Berkeley House, Mayfair, London July 9, 1677) was a Governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favourite. He was born at Hanworth Manor, Middlesex in 1605 to Maurice Berkeley (1577-????) and his wife Elizabeth née Killigrew, of Bruton, Somerset. The name of his first wife is not known. He wed his second wife, Frances Stephens (née Culpeper), in 1670. - Nina Carter
Nina Carter (born Penny Mallett on 4 October 1952 in Solihull, Warwickshire, England) is a former Page Three girl in the 1970s. As Penny Mallett, she frequently appeared in "Mayfair" magazine, and during that period, she appeared in a softcore 8 mm film called "Miss Mayfair". In the 1980s, she was a member, with fellow former Page Three girl Jilly Johnson, of the girl group Blonde on Blonde. - Stephen Courtauld
Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld, MC, (1883–1967) was a member of the wealthy English Courtauld textile family (he was the youngest brother of Samuel Courtauld, founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art). He did not enter the family business but his wealthy background enabled him to travel extensively and to pursue cultural and philanthropic interests — most notably, the redevelopment during the 1930s of Eltham Palace in Eltham, south-east London. - Charles Robert Ashbee
Charles Robert Ashbee (London, May 17, 1863-Sevenoaks, Kent, May 23, 1942) was a designer and entrepreneur who was a prime mover of the English Arts and Crafts movement that took its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and its co-operative structure from the socialism of William Morris. He was the son of businessman and erotic bibliophile Henry Spencer Ashbee. He received his education at Wellington College. - Stephanie McLean
Stephanie McLean was "Penthouse" Pet of the Month for April 1970, and Penthouse Pet of the Year in 1971. A model for "Mayfair" magazine and a "Penthouse" cover girl, McLean met her future husband, Londoner Barry Sheene, in 1975 while he was on crutches following a racing accident. The couple emigrated to Australia in 1990. They had 2 children together. - Melanie Appleby
Melanie Susan Appleby (11 July 1966 - 18 January 1990) was one half of the 1980s English pop duo Mel and Kim. Born in Hackney, London, Appleby initially worked as a glamour model (In 1987 she did a photo shoot for Mayfair) and then joined her sister Kim Appleby to form Mel and Kim, enjoying considerable chart success during the late 1980s. She died of pneumonia following treatment for spinal cancer on 18 January 1990. - Charles Leslie
Charles Frederick Henry Leslie (born 8 December 1861 in Mayfair, Westminster, London, England; died 12 February 1921 in Mayfair, Westminster, London, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for eight years between 1881 and 1888. Leslie played his cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and England. Charles Leslie (1861-1921) was a hard-hitting batsman with a solid defence, a useful right-arm fast bowler and an athletic cover-point. - Richard Grosvenor 2nd Marquess of Westminster
Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, KG, PC (January 27 1795 – October 31 1869) was an English aristocrat who continued the development of his family's extensive property holdings in London. Mayfair was fully developed by the time he became head of the family, and he was responsible for the development of Belgravia, which he commissioned Thomas Cubitt to design. - Nicholas Boles
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (born 1965) is a British Conservative Party activist and Director of Policy Exchange, a policy think tank based in Westminster and a former Westminster City councillor. Boles was a scholar at Winchester College before studying PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford, then winning a Kennedy Scholarship to study for a Master's in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. - James Hamilton 1st Duke of Abercorn
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, KG, PC (January 21, 1811 - October 31, 1885) was a British Conservative nobleman and statesman who twice served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He had various styles during his lifetime, namely The Hon. James Hamilton (until 1814, by virtue of his father's courtesy viscountcy), Viscount Hamilton (1814-1818, while heir to the Marquessate of Abercorn), … - William Porden
William Porden (c. 1755-1822) was a versatile English architect. Born in Kingston upon Hull, he trained under James Wyatt and Samuel Pepys Cockerell. In 1784, the year of his marriage to Mary Plowman, Porden was appointed estate surveyor by the 1st Earl Grosvenor. This position involved assessing buildings on the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair and determining the "fine" which an occupier had to pay when his lease fell in, and the revised ground rent. - Hugh Grosvenor 1st Duke of Westminster
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster KG (13 October 1825 - 22 December 1899) was the son of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster and Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower. He married, firstly, Lady Constance Gertrude Leveson-Gower, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland and Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard, on 28 April 1852. He married, secondly, Hon. Katherine Caroline Cavendish, daughter of William George Cavendish, … - Francis Curzon 5th Earl Howe
Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, CBE, PC, VD (1 May 1884, Mayfair, London - 26 July 1964, Amersham, Buckinghamshire) was a British naval officer, Member of Parliament, motor racing driver and promotor. In the 1918 UK General Election he won the Battersea South seat, representing the Conservative Party, which he held until 1929. While in Parliament he took up motor racing, and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1931.
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