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(b. June 1973, Essex)
Ayan is a British Asian media doctor, medical expert and writer.
He is currently the senior partner of a busy NHS GP surgery in Haringey, North London and has been a consumer health adviser to "NHS Choices" which hosts the most popular health website in Europe.
He was an expert on Knowitalls, a novel quiz show, shown recently on BBC Two. Previously a presenter on Street Doctor on BBC One, and an occasional radio contributor for various radio stations, mainly for the BBC. His special interests include illness prevention and mind-body medicine, as well as mens health.
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Tamzin played Georgiana Darcy in Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and Katherine Howard in Showtime's The Tudors.
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 Chris Terrill is a documentary maker with more than 100 films to his name. Terrill photographs, records and directs all his own films which range from the purely observational to the investigative.
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 Oscar winning actor renowned for playing mostly villains and charming heels.
Born: July 3, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia Died: 1972
The Sanders family returned to England from Russia during the Russian Revolution with the infant George, who, after studies at Brighton College and Manchester Technical College, went into the textile, then the tobacco business.
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 British actor, scriptwriter and playwright. Malleson is probably most familiar as the genteel hangman of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) or as Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).
Born: 25 May 1888
Croydon, Surrey.
Died: 15 March 1969
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 Film & Television Actor
nominated by Chris Mitchell (H. 1957-61)
Born: 1940, Croydon.
A supporting actor, Castle began appearing on screen in 1966. He went on to take supporting and starring roles in a wide variety of movies - most recently Ronald F. Maxwell's 2003 film "God and Generals".
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 Formerly Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd - the charismatic BBC Radio 1 DJ and television chat show host.
Born: 28th July 1935
Died: 30the August 2009, aged 74
Ottawa, Canada.
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 A talented interior designer who joined BBC One's Changing Rooms team in 2000.
Oliver Heath is a young and talented designer who joined BBC One's Changing Rooms team in 2000.
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 Distinguished, long-faced character actor, often of rumpled establishment figures.
Born: October 3, 1911, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
Died: May 2, 1995, Oxford
After leaving Brighton College Michael Hordern entered the real world as a schoolteacher...
Engaging in amateur theatricals in off-hours, Hordern turned pro in 1937, making his film debut two years later.
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 Highly successful films include 1971's "Friends" and "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"
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(A. 1966-71)
Born: 15 August 1954, Brighton, UK.
An initially successful career (featuring 1968’s "IF", lead in Lewis Gilbert’s highly acclaimed "Friends" and a starring role in "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" - both 1971) that appeared to last no further than 1977 - unless any OBs know better!
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Sussex's Joe Gatting set out to follow in his father's footsteps in football but instead ended up following his illustrious uncle Mike Gatting's cricketing ways.
The 21-year-old nephew of the former England skipper is in India to represent the Sussex Sharks in the Champions League Twenty20 starting Thursday.
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 3 times World Speedway Longtrack Champion.
Born: February 8, 1964, Epsom, Surrey
Kelvin was awarded an MBE in the 2003 New Years Honours List. Tatum's wife Debbie, their daughter Emma and his sister Jenny accompanied the thirty nine year old former British Speedway captain for this special occasion.
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 Former England Students and Durham University player also earned England Sevens honours in the 2004/5 campaign, plays for Newcastle Falcons...
Born: 8th Sep 1982
Flying winger Phillips made his Falcons first team debut against Saracens in the 2004/5 season, scoring a try at Vicarage Road after coming on from the bench.
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 Wasps & England Rugby Player - one of the brightest talents in the English game.
Born: 17th January 1975
One of the brightest talents in the English game Alex joined Wasps at the start of the '96/97 season and played a major part in bringing to league championship to the club.
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 John Hart is one of the most respected members of the London Wasps squad and so it comes as no surprise that he was named as Wasps' captain for the start of the 2007/08 season throughout the World Cup period.
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 Born: 16th February 1919, Liverpool, England Died: 2000
Energetic artist who drew a debonair police hero for the Eagle comic, and created Albert RN, the dummy hero of a famed wartime escape.
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 Nick's highly original picture books have won him several awards including the Sheffield Children's Book Award for "The Queen's Knickers" and the Federation of Children's Books Best Picture Book Award for "Demon Teddy".
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Born: 1939.
Nigel Kemble-Clarkson (A. 1953-57) is a cheerful raconteur with a great sense of the ridiculous, and a practised eye for the ladies.
His comic teenage experiences in pantomime and early introduction to the allure of the female sex set the stage for the years to come. A spell in the Army, living the colonial life in Nigeria, provided an exotic backdrop to his early enjoyment of wine, women and song. His subsequent career at Lloyds brought opportunities for fast living and luxury travel, including residential interludes in the United States.
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 Novelist and poet, born in Plymouth, Devon, SW England, UK.
He studied at Oxford, and took up school teaching until he established a reputation as a lyric poet with Dublin Days (1921), The Lowery Road (1923), and other volumes. He also wrote novels, including Dewer Rides (1929), a macabre novel set in Dartmoor, and Deliverance (1955). His collection of short stories, Travellers (1945), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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 Peter Gareth Mayle - author of many bestsellers including "A Year in Provence" and "Wicked Willie".
Born: 1939.
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 Segun Afolabi
Author and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2005.
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Dave Clarke (formerly David Carter H. 1982-85) is one of the most respected (and idiosyncratic) techno DJs and producers in the ninties/noughties, Dave Clarke began his music career as a hip-hop DJ in the mid-'80s, shifting to and staying with Techno & Electro.
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 The baritone Richard Salter, who has died aged 65, only appeared once on the British operatic stage - in 1986, as Chorebus in The Trojans at Opera North. Yet he was famous in Germany, made Bayerischer Kammersänger in 1994, and was the baritone of choice throughout the German-speaking world for contemporary opera. He was the first Lenz in Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz at Hamburg State Opera and starred in Rihm's Die Eroberung von Mexiko, Manfred Trojahn's Enrico, Aribert Reimann's Das Schloss (he was K) and Jörg Widmann's Das Gesicht im Spiegel - the latter two at the Munich Opera Festival. Salter died in Karlsruhe, the day before starting rehearsals for Britten's Death in Venice. He had been cast as Kepler in Philip Glass's new opera about the astronomer, opening next autumn in Linz and at the Brooklyn Academy.
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Pioneer of business systems - "The Father of the Office Computer".
 Born: 1902
Died: 1985
Simmons, John Richardson Mainwaring (1902-1985), office systems pioneer and company director, was born on 18 March 1902 at 52 Ward Place, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Ceylon, the third child of Sydney Mainwaring Simmons (1870-1955), clerk in holy orders, and his first wife, Beatrice Margaret Reynolds (1869-1907).
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Chairman and chief executive of London restaurant company Groupe Chez Gerard.
 Born: 1937, Calcutta
Neville says he was something of a nomad before he founded one of the UK's top quality restaurant chains. Abraham, who has an honours degree in economics, spent 10 years as a management consultant and eight years as a civil servant, during which time his passion for wine prompted him to establish a mail-order wine business.
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 Rear Admiral Peter George Valentine Dingemans, CB, DSO, FIMgt was awarded the DSO during the Falklands campaign.
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 Keith Best (OB)
A loyal MP in the Thatcher years, now a tireless champion of good causes, most notably in the area of asylum and immigration...
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 Prof. Lord Robert Skidelsky (C. 1953-58)
Appointed to the House of Lords in 1991; Chief Opposition Spokesman on Treasury Affairs (1998-1999)
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A veritable force in motion picture advertising, video games, television and film, Kaveh has taken the industry by storm. With his intense and cutting edge sound, Kaveh's compositions have thrilled audiences on both the large and small screen in literally hundreds of campaigns for Hollywood's biggest blockbuster films including: Iron Man 2, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia, Alice In Wonderland, The Wolfman, Twilight Eclipse, Robin Hood, Avatar, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, Watchmen, The Dark Knight and countless others. Not stopping at movie trailers, Kaveh has scored numerous commercials for clients including AT&T, Sony, SEGA, NBC, Mattel and Six Flags.
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 Bijani is the Artistic Director of ATC Theatre (Actors Touring Company).
His production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size was greeted with universal acclaim and was variously described by UK critics as “Psychologically subtle and emotionally powerful“ (The Times), “faultless” (The Guardian) and “outstanding” (The Evening Standard).His Olivier-award winning production of Gone Too Far! returned to the Royal Court Theatre in 2008 and ATC co-produced the pan London tour to The Albany and the Hackney Empire.
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 Sometimes credited as Thomas Charles Sanders II - he is the brother of actor George Sanders.
Born: September 15th, 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 22nd, 1967 in Culver City, California
He was the Falcon in ten of that series' entries. He starred in three Val Lewton horror classics. He appeared in comedies, musicals, two Tarzan films, and even science fiction films. He was early television's Detective Mark Saber - Tom Conway will probably be remembered as George Sander's (D. 1922) brother.
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 Television Producer & Director
Nic was a dayboy at Brighton College Junior School between 1955 and 1960, and at Brighton College, Hamden House, from 1960 until 1966. A student at Brighton College of Art, he then studied Television Production at Ravensbourne College of Art before starting work in 1968 as an assistant director in commercials, then feature films, including The National Health, Billy Two Hats and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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 Internationally known culinary and television personality & award-winning author.
Born: 22nd January, 1934, London
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 Actor best known for his many TV appearances, most infamously in the abortive BBC soap Eldorado!
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Roland Kingsford Bernard Curram has appeared in countless movies, the most important of which was probably John Schlesinger's quintessential Sixties film Darling, playing opposite Julie Christie.
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 Comedian, author, escort to fridges in Ireland...
doesn't ride skateboards, apparently. Tony Hawks is a TV and radio comedian and bestselling author.
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 Dennys Valentine Jack McDonald Hobley - a leading BBC Radio personality from the 1930's - 1960's.
Born: 9th June 1917, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Died: 30th July 1987
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 Aclaimed television and film director.
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Marsh started playing cricket at school aged 11 and then progressed to Brighton and Hove CC at the age of 13.
Initially a seam bowler, she made her international debut for England during India's summer tour in 2006.
She took 3-44 in her first Test, opening the bowling alongside Jenny Gunn in the second innings.
Drafted in for the injured Nicola Shaw, the Sussex seam-bowler impressed the selectors with her performances throughout Super 4s and the Liverpool Victoria County Championship.
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Sarah Jane Taylor (born 20 May 1989 in Whitechapel) is an English cricketer.
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 English ODI and Test cricketer - wicket-keeper, but has also played as a specialist opening batsman. His English county team is Sussex...
Born: February 26, 1982, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
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 Formula One racing driver, winner of the 1988 Jim Clark Trophy... now owner of Brands Hatch race track.
Born: 7th November, 1956, London
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 Sussex & England Cricketer
England women’s captain, Clare Connor (W. 1989-94) has announced her retirement from international cricket after six years of leading her country.
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 James Duncan Hamilton - Formula One racing driver, winner of the tragic 1953 Le Mans race.
Born: 30th April, 1920, Cork
Died: 13th May 1994, Sherbourne
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 Internationaly renowned environmental sculptor with a career spanning 30 years.
Born: 14 November 1945, Esher, Surrey, UK
David Nash studied at Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and at Chelsea School of Art (Postgraduate) from 1969 to 1970.
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 Polar Explorer, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Born: 11th February, 1908
Died: 11th November, 1999
Standing at more than 6ft, strong, austere and possessing thunderous eyebrows, Vivian Fuchs was a natural leader who had no need to coerce people to get his way. An explorer with instinctively big ideas, he was also a patient and painstaking master of detail, which ensured that the first surface crossing of the Antarctic, in 1957-58, was successfully concluded, despite something of a contretemps between Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary along the way.
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 As we make the transition from one millennium to another, it's difficult not to look back at the last hundred years or so, and wonder on the changes that have taken place. Someone who definitely deserves to be remembered, and indeed celebrated, is Brighton's very own Edward Carpenter. One of 10 children, Edward was born in 1844, the family home being 45 Brunswick Square (okay it's Hove really). In 1854 he began attending Brighton College. Domestic pursuits included learning the piano and taking long horse-rides out over the Downs. Around this time he "felt a friendly attraction towards my own sex, and this developed after the age of puberty into a passionate sense of love".
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 Daniel Peltz, former British Land director and founder of retail property investor London Freeholds, has won rave reviews for his second novel.
It is unusual for a property stalwart to write one, let alone two, novels. The Sunday Express, awarding a four-star rating, describes Daniel Peltz’s second novel Out of the Blue, published in October, as ‘one of the best war stories you’ll read this year’. Another review refers to it as ‘a highly emotional and beautifully constructed novel’.
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 William Leith (C. 1974-78)
William Leith is a journalist who has written about subjects as diverse as cosmetic surgery, Palestine, Hollywood directors, and drugs. His first book, The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict, was published by Bloomsbury in August 2005...
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Rose Elinor Dougall (born 13 March 1986, W. 1999-04) is an English singer, songwriter and musician best known for being a member of "The Pipettes".
Rose is the sister of Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong guitarist Thomas Dougall, and released her debut solo single in December 2008. Her second single was released in June 2009. Her debut album, "Without Why" was released in early 2010
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 Gavin Henderson (L.1960-65), Principal of Trinity College of Music and also Chairman of Youth Music, was made a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours, for services to music and to the arts.
Gavin was appointed Principal at Trinity in 1994, and was responsible for the College’s relocation to the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 2001. He will shortly become the Principal and Chief Executive of the Trinity Laban, the new HEI that will be formed by the merger of Trinity College of Music and Laban during the 2004/2005 academic year. Trinity Laban will be the UK’s first conservatoire for music and dance.
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Emma is an Entrepreneur, a Motivational Speaker, a Business Mentor, Author and Business Turnaround Expert. Emma won her right to be in the "entrepreneurial hall of fame" with the success of her own multi-million pound cosmetic company, Diva Cosmetics, which she grew from a start-up to a several million pound turnover in year 4.
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 Born Jesse John Gold in 1932 in Stamford Hill, north London, the son of a milliner he moved to Brighton in 1939 with his family.
Educated at Brighton College, he described his time there in his autobiography: “I decided to become a boarder at the school, although it was nearby, because I wanted to feel more part of it. I loved the place, not because of the lessons – academically I was a disaster – but because of the sport. I was, and remain to this day, a sports freak.”
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 Nicholas J. Strausfeld (L. 1956-61)
An expert on the brains of flies, cockroaches, and crayfish, elected in 2002 to the Fellowship of the Royal Society...
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Lieutenant-Colonel Freddie Allen, who has died aged 92, won two DSOs in 1945 in the battles of the Ardennes and the Reichswald.
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STOP PRESS: Rt Hon Sir John Chilcot GCB is announced as the new OBA President... more to follow...
Born on 22 April 1939, he was educated at Brighton College and Pembroke College, Cambridge (Open Scholar; MA, English and Languages; Hon. Fellow 1999).
Rt Hon Sir John Chilcot GCB (H/S. 1952-57) is the chair of an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, and its aftermath was announced in June 2009.
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 Lord Alexander of Weedon QC (C.1950-55)
Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company and barrister specialising in commercial, business and financial law... Skilful advocate who led the takeovers and mergers panel and then served for ten challenging years as chairman of NatWest
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