The Roll Call

A ranked assembly of individuals of note along with details of their achievements and quirks.

BUSINESS

Douglas Durst – New Yorker real estate royalty and brother of suspected killer Robert Durst

DYNASTIES AND GRANDEES

Mashable founder Pete Cashmore (AKA ‘The Sage of Media’)

INNOVATORS

Bidzina Ivanishvili (ბიძინა ივანიშვილი, AKA “Boris Ivanishvili”)

OLIGARCHS

Douglas Durst – New Yorker real estate royalty and brother of suspected killer Robert Durst

RISING STARS: BUSINESS

Penny Streeter OBE (née Penny Stiff) – From homeless to multi-millionairess – A classic ‘rags to riches’ tale is that of Penny Streeter. After being made homeless, she founded a recruitment firm and is now worth some £208 million through her A24 Group.

THE BOLD AND THE DARING

Eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922) – Widow of Winchester firearm magnate Sarah Winchester is best known for her eccentric mansion, The Winchester Mystery House, in San Jose, California.

TYCOONS

CREATIVES

ARTISTS

Socialite and fashion PR Luigi Tadini

FASHION

Rising star actor Pico Alexander (born Alexander Jogalla) – New York born actor Pico Alexander is of Polish heritage and the son of a cinematographer and also appeared in War Machine with Brad Pitt.

RISING STARS: THE ARTS

Wacky, gay actor and Catweazle star Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017) – Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of same name. He turned down playing Dr Who twice

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Evelyn McHale (1923 – 1947) – Little is known about what drove Evelyn McHale to jump from the Empire State Building and be captured in the “most beautiful suicide [photograph] ever” on 1st May 1947.

WILDCARDS

Susie Steiner – Journalist turned best-selling crime author; she loves Tony Blair – Registered blind former ‘Guardian’ commissioning editor Susie Steiner helped ‘Keep Calm’ go viral in 2005 and became a novelist in 2013. This Londoner’s best-selling works include ‘Missing, Presumed.’

WRITERS

OBSERVERS

Emily Bolton – Solicitor, campaigner and founder of Centre for Criminal Appeals – Shackleton Award winning solicitor has campaigned for wrongly convicted individuals in America and Britain. She founded the Centre for Criminal Appeals in 2011 and is married to the Reprieve founder and one of “Britain’s most powerful civil rights lawyers,” Clive Stafford Smith.

CAMPAIGNERS

Robert Oxley (AKA Rob Oxley) – Press secretary to Boris Johnson – Deliveroo boy and former assistant to alleged groper Michael Fallon became Boris Johnson’s press secretary in June 2019. He is best known for swearing.

MEDIA MOUTHPIECES

Gareth E. Rees (AKA ‘Car Park Man’) – Car park expert, author ‘Car Park Life’ – Garage punk band singer and author of the 224-page Car Park Life Gareth E. Rees can officially be classified “the expert on Britain’s car parks.”

OBSERVERS

Jolly giant Labour politician and all round brainbox Sharon Hodgson MP

PRESENTERS AND POLITICOS

Benjamin Lipari – East London based menswear and travel blogger Benjamin Lipari was born in Italy, grew up in Australia and is described as a “digital comms guru.” He has 16,500 followers on Instagram.

PRESS AND BLOGGERS

Jack Schlossberg (AKA John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg) – New York born, Yale educated Jack Schlossberg is the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy. He aspires to a career in politics.

RISING STARS: MEDIA

PERSONALITIES

Luke Durbin – Went missing in Ipswich, Suffolk in May 2006 aged 19 – Grocery store worker Luke Durbin went missing aged 19 in Ipswich, Suffolk in 2006. He has never been seen again and no trace of him found.

CHARACTERS

Annie Börjesson (1975 – 2005, AKA ‘The Girl on the Beach’) – Mystery surrounds both the life and death of Annie Börjesson. Her body was found washed up on Prestwick Beach on 4th December 2005.

PERSONALITIES

Mike Posner – Singer-songwriter best known for I Took A Pill In Ibiza – Detroit born Mike Posner became best known after the remixed version of I Took A Pill In Ibiza went viral. He’s also walked across America.

RISING STARS: PERSONALITIES

Socialite who got away with murder Elvira Mullens Barney (1904 – 1936) – Elvira Mullens Barney’s lover Michael Stephen was shot dead in her Knightsbridge house in 1932. She was cleared but died of a drug overdose.

SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES

Arjun Waney

TRENDSETTERS

Paedophile Shawn Sullivan (AKA Shawn O'Suilleabhain and ‘The Putney Paedo’) – Convicted sex offender in Ireland, accused sex offender in America, protected in Britain

Z-LISTERS