- Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Geppert on May 3 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is an Oscar, Golden Globe and five-time Grammy winning, American singer-songwriter. - Paul Cayard
Paul Pierre Cayard (born May 19, 1959) is an American yachtsman who has participated in a broad range of world championship level sailing events including the America's Cup, the Volvo Ocean Race and the Olympic Games. In 1998 he was selected as the Rolex Yachtsmen of the Year. He was elected into the Sailing World Hall of Fame in 2002. In total, he has twice participated in the Olympic Games and five times in the America's Cup, … - Jack Holt
Jack Holt, OBE (1912-1995) was a prolific designer of sailing dinghies. His pioneering designs of dingies using plywood did much to popularise the sport of sailing in the period immediately following World War II. Born in Hammersmith, London near the River Thames Holt designed more than 40 boats, many of which are listed below. Jack Holt was awarded an OBE in 1979 for his services to sailing. - Ron Holland
Ron Holland is a yacht designer, who came to prominence in the 1970s with his successful racing designs, and is now best known for his superyachts such as Mirabella V. He is based in Kinsale, Ireland. Born in New Zealand, Holland was apprenticed as a boatbuilder in Auckland, where he built his first design, the 26' sloop "White Rabbit". While working in Florida, he designed the 24' "Eygthene", which won the 1973 Quarter Ton Cup. - Maurice Griffiths
Maurice Griffiths is a noted yachtsman, boat designer and writer on sailing subjects. His writing focuses on the creeks of the Thames Estuary and the English east coast. Books he has written include "The Magic of the Swatchways", "Swatchways and Little Ships","Sailing on a Small Income", and "60 Years a Yacht Designer". - Phil Bolger
Philip C. Bolger (1927-), prolific boat designer, was born and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began work full time as a draftsman for boat designers Lindsay Lord and then John Hacker in early 1950's. Bolger also cites being influenced by mentors L.F. Herreshoff, Nicholas Montgomery and his brother Bill Bolger. Bolger's first boat design was a 32' sportfisherman published in the January 1952 issue of the magazine "Yachting". - Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC, FRS, FZS, (September 14, 1909 – August 29, 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter and sportsman. Peter Scott was born in London, the only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who died when Peter was two years old. He famously left instructions to his wife, the sculptor Kathleen Bruce, regarding Peter, to "try and make the boy interested in natural history if you can". - Paul Foerster
Paul Foerster is an American Olympic medalist in Sailing who has won a total of 3 Olympic medals: 1992 Summer Olympic Silver Medal - Sailing - FD class. 2000 Summer Olympic Silver Medal - Sailing - 470 class. (with Bob Merrick) 2004 Summer Olympic Gold Medal - Sailing - 470 class. (with Kevin Burnham) - Philip Rhodes
Philip Leonard Rhodes (1895-1974) was a prolific boat and ship designer of extraordinary range, particularly known for his racing yacht and sloop designs. His other works included commercial and naval vessels such as minesweepers, police boats and garbage scows. - Oskar Johansson
Oskar Johansson (born 23 June 1977) is a Canadian athlete who competed in Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He finished 15th. - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Ian Proctor
Ian Proctor (1918-1992) was a prolific designer of both sailing dinghies and cruisers. His pioneering aluminium mast designs also revolutionised the sport of sailing. Proctor had more than 100 designs to his credit, from which 65,000 boats were built. Some of his designs are listed below. - Gerhard
Gerhard is the professional name of a Canadian comics artist known for the elaborately detailed background drawings in Dave Sim's series "Cerebus the Aardvark", on which he has worked since that comic's 65th issue. Occasionally joking that he "draws tables and chairs behind an aardvark" (since Sim pencils and inks the characters and Gerhard pencils and inks the backgrounds), many issues of the comic contain at least as much work from Gerhard as Sim. - Curtis Brown
Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown, Jr. (b. March 11, 1956) is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force Colonel. He was born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. He is unmarried with one son. He enjoys water and snow skiing, scuba diving, air racing, restoring old cars, sailing, and aerobatic flying. Colonel Brown graduated from East Bladen High School, Elizabethtown, North Carolina, … - David Miles
David Miles is a British continuity announcer and newsreader on BBC Radio 4. Born in 1954, he joined the BBC in 1975 as a studio manager. Initially working at Bush House, he soon transferred to Broadcasting House. Between 1981 and 1987 he worked as a BBC Television announcer, followed by a spell on Channel 4 before returning to BBC TV in 1988. He returned for a short spell on Channel 4 in 1995, … - Aloha Yachts
Aloha Yachts were a range of sailing keelboats manufactured in Whitby, Ontario, Canada by Ouyang Boat Works, founded by Ti Ouyang who had previously worked for Whitby Boat Works. After producing a range of 16, 20 and 23 foot trailerable sailboats under the Matilda name, Ouyang introduced the Ted Brewer & Robert Wallstrom designed Aloha 28 in 1973. This was followed by the 34 (also a Brewer & Wallstrom design, in 1975), 27 (by Robert Perry, in 1979), 32 (by Mark Ellis, … - Bill Tilman
Major Harold William "Bill" Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC and Bar (14 February 1898-1977) was an English mountaineer and explorer, famous for his Himalayan climbs and sailing voyages. - Roy McKie
Roy McKie was an illustrator of children's books, most notably under the Dr. Seuss imprint. He illustrated many books penned by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) himself under the pen name Theo LeSieg. - Alfred Wallis
Alfred Wallis (18 August 1855 - 29 August 1942) was a Cornish fisherman and artist. Wallis's parents, Charles and Jane Wallis were from Penzance in Cornwall and moved to Devonport, Devon to find work in 1850 where Alfred and his brother Charles were born. Shortly after this the children's mother died and this prompted the family to move back to Penzance. - Peter Chilvers
Peter Chilvers came into the public eye in the 1980s as the result of patent infringement lawsuit brought by Windsurfing International, Inc. against Tabur Marine, a competing manufacturer. Tabur disputed the validity of the patent, and presented to the courts evidence of a boyhood creation by Chilvers, who, in 1958, at the age of 12, on Hayling Island, assembled a rudder-steered board powered by a sail, … - Dries Buytaert
Dries Buytaert (19 November 1978 -) is an open-source software programmer and the founder of the Drupal CMS. He still heads the Drupal project. He resides in Belgium and as of 2003 he is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Ghent. From 1999-2000 he was the maintainer of the "GNU/Linux WLAN FAQ". - Peter Gibbs
Peter Gibbs is a BBC Weather forecaster, born in Sunderland, who appears regularly on BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World and BBC Radio, particularly BBC Radio Four. He is a main weather presenter on the BBC Six O'Clock News, and was previously a main weather presenter on the BBC One O'Clock News. Peter Gibbs graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979 with an Honours degree in Physics and Geography. - Barry Bucknell
Barry Bucknell (January 26, 1912-February 21, 2003) was a BBC TV presenter who popularised Do It Yourself (DIY) in the United Kingdom. Bucknell served an apprenticeship with Daimler, after which he joined his father's building and electrical firm in St Pancras, London. In the 1950s he presented the series "Barry Bucknell's Do It Yourself" which attracted seven million viewers. - Alec Campbell
Alec William Campbell (26 February, 1899 - 16 May, 2002) was the final surviving Australian participant in the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War. His death broke the last living link of Australians with the Gallipoli story. At the age of 16, Campbell left his job as an insurance clerk and lied about his age to enlist in the 15th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force in 1915. - Fuat Güner
Aziz Fuat Güner (1948), better known as Fuat Güner, is a Turkish pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and an actor. He was born April 1, 1948 in İstanbul, Turkey to a renowned photographer father, Sami Güner. During his school years at St. Joseph's High School in İstanbul, he was a very active sportsman, playing football, volleyball and sailing. He became a champion in the 400 m category of college athletics in Turkey. - Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz
Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz of Poland was the first woman to sail single-handed (ie. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. She sailed from the Canary Islands on February 28, 1976, and returned there on April 21, 1978, completing a circumnavigation of 31,166 nautical miles (57,719 km) in 401 days. - Colin Irwin
Colin Irwin is a British music journalist. Irwin was an assistant editor of "Melody Maker" in the 1970s and 1980s, before leaving in the summer of 1987 as the magazine moved in a different direction, and editor of "Number One" magazine in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His book "In Search of the Craic" details a comic journey around Ireland seeking out pub music sessions and became a best-seller in Ireland. - Gerry Hughes
Gerry Hughes is the first profoundly deaf man to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean. He crossed the finishing line off Castle Hill, Newport at 1130hrs (1630hrs GMT) local time on Saturday 03 July 2005 after 35 days of sailing. - Marten Toonder
Marten Toonder (May 2 1912 - July 27 2005) was a Dutch comic writer, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and has had a great influence by introducing new words and expressions into the Dutch language - William Frank Buckley Sr.
William Frank Buckley, Sr. (born: 11 July 1881 Washington on the Brazos, Texas & died 5 October 1958 in New York City) was a Texan lawyer who became influential in Mexican politics during the term of President Victoriano Huerta and was expelled from Mexico during the Presidency of Álvaro Obregón. Buckley is best known as the father of the publisher of "National Review" magazine, William Frank Buckley, Jr. and as the father of former U.S. Senator James L. Buckley, … - Princess Takamado
Princess Takamado (Hisako) of Japan, née Hisako Tottori, eldest daughter of Shigejiro Tottori, (born 10 July 1953). She studied and graduated in 1975 from Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK. She met and got engaged to the late Prince Takamado (Norihito) on 17 September 1984. The couple married on 6 December 1984, Ms. Tottori received the style Princess Takamado. The Prince and Princess had three daughters: * HIH Princess Tsuguko (b. - Roberta Kitto
Engineer and Specialist in Messaging and Collaborative Technologies. Expertise in Lotus Domino Architecture, Lotus Notes Administration and full-scale Collaborative and Workflow Solutions. - Dafydd Williams
Dr. Dafydd Rhys "Dave" Williams (b.May 16, 1954) is a Canadian astronaut. He has been on one space shuttle mission. - Eugene Platon
Eugene Platon is an international yachtsman, participant of a number of world class sailing events, including the most prestigious Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race). In 1989/90, he was a key member (watch leader) of team "Fazisi" the only Soviet Union entry to the Whitbread Round the World Race. - Joseph P. Allen
Joseph Percival Allen, Ph.D. (born June 27, 1937) is a NASA astronaut. He has logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft. Allen is married to the former Bonnie Jo Darling of Elkhart, Indiana. Her mother, Mrs. W. C. Darling, resides in Elkhart. Their children are David Christopher, born September 1968 and Elizabeth Darling, born May 1972. His hobbies include handball, squash, flying, sailing, skiing, music, and photography. - Alan Gorrie
Alan Gorrie (born 19 July 1946, Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish bassist and founding member of the Average White Band. Gorrie and others formed the Average White Band in Glasgow in 1971. They became a successful funk/R&B group, topping record charts internationally with the "AWB" album and "Pick Up the Pieces" single. In addition to his credits with AWB, he can also be credited with collaborating with, among others, … - Robert W. Miller
Robert W. Miller (23 May 1933, Quincy, Massachusetts) is a billionaire, entrepreneur, cofounder of Duty-Free Shops (DFS), and sailing champion. - Reese Prosser
Reese Trego Prosser (May 18 1927 in Minneapolis - 2002) was an american mathematician. He studied at Harvard University (A.B., 1949) and University of California at Berkeley under John L. Kelley (Ph.D. on the thesis "Structure of Operator algebras", 1955), while working as numerical analyst at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (1953-55). He then joined Duke University (instructor, 1955-56) and Massachussetts Institute of Technology (instructor, 1956). - Kostas Sommer
Kostas Sommer is a Greek actor who has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows. In 2005, he appeared in the Hollywood film "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" starring Rob Schneider as the "Greek" gigolo Assapopoulos Mariolis. This role is Sommer’s first Hollywood role, after nailing his only audition since arriving in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Greece, Sommer attended the German School of Athens. He was bit by the acting bug as a young boy, … - Sarah Mullally
Sarah Elisabeth Mullally, DBE (born 1962) began her career in nursing in 1984, at St Thomas' Hospital, having qualified from London South Bank University. She then held a number of nursing leadership roles including Director of Nursing at the Chelsea and Westminster and later Deputy Chief Executive Officer. In 1999 she was appointed as Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Patient Experience for England. She was the youngest person to hold these positions.
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