Edward Colin Hendry (born 7 December 1965) is a retired Scottish footballer and manager, who played as a defender. Hendry started his career with Dundee in 1983 and spent spells at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Rangers, Coventry City, Bolton Wanderers and Blackpool. He was part of the Blackburn squad that won the Premiership in 1995 and the Rangers squad that won the domestic treble in 1999. His most recent stint in football was as manager of Scottish First Division side Clyde, from June 2007 until January 2008, when he chose to resign for family reasons.

Hendry first played for local clubs Keith and Islavale, mainly as a striker. He began his professional career in 1983 with Dundee, and in 1987 was picked up by Blackburn Rovers, where he was converted into a defender. One of his first appearances came in the Full Members Cup final, where he scored the only goal in the 1-0 Wembley win over Charlton Athletic.

He played over 100 games for Blackburn before joining Manchester City in 1989, where he was named Player of the Year in the 1989–90 season. His days at City were numbered, however, after he fell out of manager Peter Reid's plans when Reid took over in November 1990 on the departure of Howard Kendall to Everton.

Paul John Gascoigne (born 27 May 1967), nicknamed Gazza, is an English retired professional footballer.

Playing in the position of midfield, Gascoigne's career included spells at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers, Middlesbrough, Everton and Gansu Tianma, at all of which he scored at least one goal. He was capped 57 times for the England national football team.

Gascoigne was born in the Dunston area of Gateshead, England.

Gascoigne started playing football at the age of four, playing in the street and nearby park. He played for his school Brighton Avenue Primary School, Gateshead team from the age of eight, and later played for the local Redheugh Boys' Club although being underage. He later attended Breckenbeds Junior High School (which closed in September 1996) then the Heathfield Senior High School (also closed in September 1996), both in the Low Fell area of Gateshead.

He was noticed by football scouts while playing for Gateshead Boys, and given a trial at Ipswich Town although he failed to impress. Further trials at Middlesbrough and Southampton proved unsuccessful, before Newcastle United signed him as a schoolboy in 1980. At school he was once caught practising his autograph during a geography lesson, his reason being that he was "going to be a famous footballer". His teacher was unimpressed, telling him that "only one in a million becomes a professional footballer." Nevertheless, he was signed on as an apprentice at Newcastle in 1983, initially playing for the youth team under Colin Suggett.

Ian Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film and television actor. He is best known for his work on several British TV series of the early 1960s such as The Avengers, and for his roles in 1970s films such as Get Carter (1971).

Hendry was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Culford School. His acting career began in 1959 and within a year he had landed the lead role of Dr. Geoffrey Brent in the crime series Police Surgeon. The series only ran for twelve episodes but Hendry was next cast in the very similar role of Dr. David Keel in a new action-adventure series entitled The Avengers. Initially, Hendry was the star of this series, which co-starred Patrick Macnee as John Steed. However, production of the first season was curtailed by a strike and Hendry used the opportunity to depart the series and begin a film career. (The Avengers continued for the rest of the decade with Macnee as its star.)^{[citation needed]}

Hendry had a lead role in films such as The October Wedding (1959), Live Now - Pay Later (1962), Girl In The Headlines (1963), The Hill (1965) opposite Sean Connery and in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (also 1965). He appeared in TV series such as Armchair Theatre, Danger Man, The Saint, The Gold Robbers, The Persuaders, Dial M For Murder, Churchill's People, Thriller (UK TV series), The New Avengers, Van Der Valk, Supernatural, Crown Court, For Maddie With Love, The Enigma Files, Bergerac, The Chinese Detective, Jemima Shore Investigates and Brookside. Earlier he had taken the lead role as struck-off solicitor Alex Lambert in the TV series The Informer (1966–67).

Colin Alexander Cunningham (born 20 August 1966 in Los Angeles) is an American television and film actor, now living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Cunningham is best known for his role as John Pope in the hit TNT series Falling Skies.

He is known for his recurring role on Stargate SG-1 as USAF Major Paul Davis (15 episodes). Another major role was his portrayal of Brian Curtis, a crooked cop, in the popular, award-winning Canadian series Da Vinci's Inquest. He reprised the Brian Curtis role in the 2006 sequel series, Da Vinci's City Hall. He appeared as Steven Lefkowitz in the short-lived jPod. Also appeared in The L Word. Recent appearances include the Canadian series Flashpoint, and as John Pope on Falling Skies, and in Sanctuary, where he plays the husband of an biologist, friend of Henry Foss.

He starred as an anti-clone activist named Tripp in the 2000 thriller The 6th Day, and as the character McCabe in the 2005 film Elektra.

He recently wrote, directed, and starred in a short film titled Centigrade, a contemporary thriller. It was the winner of the 2007 KICK START AWARD.