- Giorgetto Giugiaro
Giorgetto Giugiaro (August 7, 1938) is an Italian automobile designer. He was born in Garessio, province of Cuneo (Piedmont). He initiated the "folded paper" era of the 1970s where the cars were designed with straight lines and sharp edges. As well as a number of supercars, he is responsible for the design of some of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today. Giugiaro was the winner of the award of Car Designer of the Century in 1999.
- Derek Meddings
Derek Meddings (15 January 1931-10 September 1995) was a British television and cinema special effects expert, initially noted for his work on the "Supermarionation" television puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson. His first work with Anderson was as the uncredited art assistant on Anderson's first puppet series, "Torchy the Battery Boy", produced in 1957.
- Thomas Bscher
Dr. Thomas Bscher (pronounced "Bay-share") is an automobile race car driver, manager, and banker. From 1986 to 1995, Bscher was partner with the Sal. Oppenheim bank in Cologne, responsible for corporate finance and financial markets. As a racer of expensive and fast sports cars and supercars, Bscher won the 1995 BPR Global Endurance GT Series driving a McLaren F1 GTR. The pinnacle of his motorsports career came at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, …
- David Graham
David Graham is a British character actor and voice artist, whose work may be more familiar than his name. He trained as an actor in New York but has worked mainly on British television series. Graham played several characters on "Doctor Who", most notably the Daleks in the 1960s stories "The Chase" (where he also provided Mechanoid voices) and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". He also played the barman Charlie in "The Gunfighters", …
- John Coletti
John Coletti was an automobile engineer at the Ford Motor Company. He was responsible, as manager of that company's Special Vehicle Team (SVT) group, for a number of special performance cars in the 1990s and 2000s, including the Ford Focus "SVT", "SVT" Contour, Ford F-150 "Lightning", and the Ford Mustang "Cobra". He later spearheaded development and production planning of the Ford GT supercar.
- John Read
John Read is a British television producer, cinematographer and director. Born on June 7, 1923 in Purley, Surrey, England, Read initially worked at the BBC as a producer for the Talks Department and a screenwriter for the Film Department. He is widely associated with the productions of Gerry Anderson. After serving as director of photography on "Four Feather Falls", "Crossroads to Crime", "Supercar", "Stingray" and "Thunderbirds", …
- Robert Lutz
Robert "Bob" A. Lutz (born February 12, 1932, in Zurich, Switzerland) is the General Motors Vice Chairman of Product Development and Chairman of GM North America. He was previously an executive at Exide Technologies, and at Chrysler Corporation (now DaimlerChrysler), where he oversaw the development of the Dodge Viper, Plymouth Prowler and Chrysler LH platform automobiles. He was also an executive at Ford Motor Company, where he led the creation of the Ford Sierra, …
- Cyril Shaps
Cyril Shaps was an English actor born in London. He is best known for his television appearances, including "Quatermass II", "Danger Man", "Supercar", "The Mask of Janus", "The Spies", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Z Cars", "The Saint", "Out of the Unknown", "Alexander the Greatest", "The Rat Catchers", "Man in a Suitcase", "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)", "Department S", …
- Desmond Saunders
Desmond Saunders is a British television director and film editor. He has a long association with Gerry Anderson, having served as a director for the television series "Supercar", "Stingray", "Thunderbirds", "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons", "Joe 90" and "Terrahawks". Saunders was also the production controller for "Joe 90" and co-wrote one of the show's episodes, "Lone-Handed 90".
- Mike Sammes
Mike Sammes was a musician and vocal session arranger. From 1955 to the 1970s, he was responsible for much of the backing vocals on pop music recorded in Britain. He began his interest in music by learning the cello at school, then worked briefly for the music publisher, Chappell & Company. After national service in the RAF in the late 1940s, he worked a variety of jobs until a fellow musician, Bill Shepherd, convinced him to form a group called The Coronets.
- Emanuele Nicosia
Emanuele Nicosia is an automobile designer from Italy. He worked at Pininfarina for many years, designing the Jaguar XJS spyder in 1979 and working on the Ferrari GTO and Testarossa. Later, he worked on the interior design of the Lamborghini Diablo and Bugatti EB110. Today, he is at Project 1221 working on the MF1 supercar.
- Gen Sekiguchi
Gen Sekiguchi (b. 1968) is a Japanese film director. He directed Survive Style 5+, starring Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, and Vinnie Jones. He also directed a number of music videos for the band Supercar. He is known for his use of vibrant colours and surreal situations.
- Harold Tamblyn-Watts
Harold William Tamblyn Watts (1900-1999). British wildlife and comic strip artist who contributed to TV Comic, Jack and Jill, TV Playland and various annuals, including Eagle and Girl Annuals. Harold Tamblyn-Watts was the son of Thomas Tamblyn-Watts, an author and publisher. Educated at Southend School of Art, he worked as a manager for the Emmett Group in 1935-48. As a comics artist, he is best remembered for his brief time illustrating Supercar in TV Comic in 1961, …
- Al-Muhtadee Billah Billah
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah (Malay: Duli Yang Teramat Mulia Paduka Seri Pengiran Muda Mahkota Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah) (born February 17, 1974) is the first born son and heir to the Sultan of Brunei. He is the son of His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Her Majesty Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha. His Royal Highness studied at Emanuel School and Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1997.
- Gerry Anderson
Father of Jamie Anderson. He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 2001. Anderson's ancestral (from the Russian-Polish border) name was Bieloglovski. This was changed to "Abrahams" by a British immigration official in 1895. His mother, Deborah, changed it to "Anderson" because she liked the sound of it. His film career started as a teenager under George Pearson at the Colonial Film Unit.
- Sylvia Thamm
Sylvia Anderson is the co-creator of a string of hit TV shows through the late 1950s, 1960s and 70s. Her most memorable contribution as an actress is the voice of Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds - one of many series she co-created with former husband Gerry Anderson. Sylvia's talents are evident in the characterization throughout their various series. She was against Martin Landau and Barbara Bain being cast in "Space: 1999" (1975) but was overruled by ITC chief Lew Grade. The...
- David Graham
2001 - doing commercials for Zed Credit Cards in New Zealand as one of his characters 'Brains' from the cult TV series "Thunderbirds" as the company's tagline is "Zed - the card with Brains".
- Alan Pattillo
- George Murcell
- Desmond Saunders
- David Elliott
- Martin Woodhouse
- Jesus Chrysler Supercar
- Jesus Chrysler Supercar
- Peter Brock
Peter Geoffrey Brock <small>AM</small> (26 February, 1945 – 8 September, 2006) otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, …
- Greg Murphy
Greg Murphy (23 August, 1972) is a New Zealand racing driver. Born in Hastings he become involved in motor sports by the age of eight, progressing through karts to saloons and single-seaters before moving to Australia. Murphy first competed at the Bathurst circuit in 1994. The following two years he drove for the Holden Racing Team (HRT) in endurance events, winning the Bathurst 1000 with Craig Lowndes in 1996.
- Glenn Seton
Glenn Seton (born May 5, 1965) is an Australian racing driver. He currently competes in the V8 Supercar championship, and is only one of four drivers to have competed in over 200 rounds in the series. The other drivers are Dick Johnson(202), John Bowe (211) and the late Peter Brock(212) In the past he has run his own team for a number of years. He has usually raced Fords in the Australian Touring Car Championship since 1984.
- Brad Jones
Bradley Jones also known as Brad or Uncle Brad (born 2 April 1960) is an Australian racing driver formely competing in the V8 Supercars. Jones was born and grew up in the country town of Albury in New South Wales, where he still lives now. He has a range of experience in domestic and international racing that he puts to use in the V8 Supercar team he owns and runs with his brother Kim.
- Marcos Ambrose
Marcos Ambrose (born September 1, 1976 in Launceston, Tasmania) is an Australian racing driver. Ambrose was the Australian V8 Supercar champion in 2003 and 2004, and is credited for virtually single-handedly reviving Ford Racing in Australia, after years of Holden domination. In 2006 he raced in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, piloting the #20 Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards Ford for Team Australia. He moved up to the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series, …
- Steven Richards
Steven Richards (born 11 July, 1972) is a New Zealand-born Australian racing driver, currently competing in the V8 Supercar series for Ford Performance Racing. He is the son of seven-time Bathurst 1000 winner Jim Richards and is a two-time Bathurst winner himself, having won the event in 1998 and 1999. He is one of only three drivers to win Bathurst in both a Ford and a Holden (the others are Craig Lowndes and Tony Longhurst).
- Max Wilson
Max Wilson, (born August 22, 1972 in Hamburg, Germany), is a racing driver of Brazilian parentage. He started his motor racing career in 1985 in go-karts. His tenacious racing style led him to move into single-seaters in 1993, when he was offered a ride in the Brazilian Formula Ford Championship. In 1994 he moved to the Brazilian Formula Chevrolet Championship and finished 2nd overall, behind Felipe Giaffone.
- James Courtney
James Courtney (born 29 June 1980) is an Australian racing driver who competes in the V8 Supercar series in Australia for Stone Brothers Racing, replacing Marcos Ambrose. Courtney has raced in several other categories. He was World Junior Karting Champion in 1995 and world formula A Champion in 1997. He was British Formula Ford champion in 2000. He drove for the Jaguar Junior Formula Three team in 2001, including testdriving for their Formula One team.
- Russell Ingall
Russell Ingall (born February 24, 1964, in the United Kingdom) is an Australian V8 Supercar driver. Ingall won the V8 Supercar Championship for the first time in 2005, he was also the Championship runner up in 1998, 1999 and 2001. Ingall has also won the iconic Bathurst 1000 motor race twice, in 1995 and 1997.
- Craig Baird
Craig Baird is a race car driver born in Hamilton, New Zealand on 22 July 1970. Baird is a very successul driver in his homeland, winning three consecutive New Zealand Formula Atlantic championship titles (1990-1992), and then four consecutive New Zealand Touring Car Championship titles (1993-1996). Since then Baird has raced in Australian Supertouring Cars (1997), as well as for the Ford team in the British Touring Car Championship (1998).
- Alan Gurr
Alan Gurr (b. February 3 1982) is the teammate of Jason Bright at Britek Motorsport.
- Will Davison
Will Davison (born August 30, 1982 in Melbourne) is an Australian racing driver. He won the 2001 Australian Formula Ford Championship where fellow competitors were Will Power (now in champ cars) and Leanne Tander (nee Ferrier). Taking a common route to Formula One, Davison picked up and moved to Buckinghamshire in England where he competed in the 2002 British Formula Three Championship for fellow Australians, Alan Docking Racing. He placed fourth.
- Todd Kelly
Todd Kelly (born on October 9, 1979 in Mildura, Victoria, Australia) is a V8 Supercar racing driver, currently living in Melbourne, Victoria. He has driven for the Holden Racing Team since 2003, including a win at the Bathurst 1000 with team mate Mark Skaife in 2005. Todd's 2006 season has been fairly average throughout the first 6 rounds, albeit through mechanical failures, …
- Wayne Gardner
Wayne Michael Gardner <small>OAM</small> born in Wollongong, New South Wales is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and touring car racer. His most notable achievement was becoming 1987 World 500CC Motorcycle Champion. His success on the world motorcycle racing circuit earned him the nickname "The Wollongong Whiz".
- Larry Perkins
Larry Perkins (born March 18, 1950) is a former racing driver and current V8 Supercar team owner from Australia. He was born in the small town of Cowangie in Victoria. At a young age Larry developed a love for cars, and has gone from strength to strength. From racing in Formula One in the 1970s, to driving in Australia in V8 Supercars. He retired from driving in 2003, aged 53, and now owns his own V8 Supercar team.
- Dean Canto
Dean Canto (born September 24, 1980, in the Sydney) is an Australian V8 Supercar driver. In just four years of top level competitive motor sport racing, Dean Canto has quickly established himself as one of the most promising young drivers on the Australian motor racing scene. After winning a national and two state titles in go-kart racing, Dean graduated to the GT Production Car Championship and finished the Championship in 2nd place.