James Bond joins Barack Obama in Who`s Who
30-Nov-2008 • Actor News
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Craig, 40, is the fourth James Bond to join the gallery of men and women deemed to be sufficiently "noteworthy and influential" or to have made a "huge impact on today's culture".
The Guildford School of Music and Drama educated actor has joined Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan, who all played 007, in the red bible of the hoi polloi.
Only Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby, who were less successful as Ian Fleming's secret agent, have failed to make the grade.
Mr Obama, 47, who will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States next month, makes his debut appearance alongside Kevin Rudd the Australian Prime Minister who ended John Howard's 11-year premiership last November. Mr Obama has listed, among his occupations, Democratic Candidate for Presidency of USA, 2008.
David Gilmour, 62, has entered the first time some 40 years after he joined the rock bank Pink Floyd. Earlier this year Gilmour, who has had a successful career as a solo artiste, won the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Andrew Feldman, the chief executive of the Conservative Party and David Cameron's closest friend, is also included for the first time. Mr Feldman, a friend of Mr Cameron's from Oxford, hit the headlines for all the wrong this reasons this summer in Corfu.
He accompanied George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, on to the luxury yacht owned by the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Mr Feldman, who is Mr Cameron's personal fund-raiser, and Mr Osborne discussed a possible £50,000 donation from the billionaire Russian businessman.
There are 165 women among the 846 new names in the latest issue of Who's Who with the oldest female entry Ann Heseltine, 74, who is the wife of the former Tory Cabinet minister Lord Heseltine. Lady Heseltine sits on a clutch of public bodies and is a trustee of the National Gallery.
The oldest entry is Sir Cecil Graham, 80 Emeritus Consultant Paediatrician at the Children's Development Centre in St Michael, Barbados. The youngest is Viscount Severn, the son of the Earl and Countess of Wessex, who was born on December 17. The youngest non-hereditary entry is Christopher Gray, 20, the director of music at Truro Cathedral.
Other new entries include Rob Brydon, a star of Gavin and Stacey the television comedy Sophie Raworth, the BBC newsreader the fashion designer Anya Hindmarch, who is known as the handbag queen, Jiri Belohlavek, Chief Conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Mary Berry, the television cook and "queen of the aga". Fiona Millar, the chairman of the Family and Parenting Institute, joins her partner Alastair Campbell, who was Tony Blair's communications secretary, for the first time. Michael Ellam, who is Gordon Brown's communications chief, is included for the first time.
Mark Billingham, the author of the Tom Thorne series about a tormented Detective Inspector in the Metropolitan Police, has listed his interests as: "Supporting Wolverhampton Wanderers in spite of everything, trying to smuggle examples of Victorian taxidermy into the house."
The QC Graham Bright lists murdering Schubert as his favourite pastime.
Who's new:
Daniel Craig - actor
Rob Brydon - actor & writer
Sophie Raworth - BBC journalist
Kate Silverton - BBC journalist
Mary Berry - TV cook
David Gilmour - Pink Floyd singer / songwriter
President-Elect Barack Obama
Mark Billingham - crime writer and comedian
Jiri Belohlavek - Chief Conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra
Mark Lawrenson - football pundit
Andrew Feldman, chief executive Conservative Party
Michael Ellam, Downing Street communciations chief
Viscount Severn the only son of the Earl and Countess of Wessex
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