Richard Keith Stott (17 August 1943 – 30 July 2007) was a British journalist and editor.

Born in Oxford, he attended Clifton College in Bristol. He started his journalistic career in 1963. Stott is the only man to have edited two UK national newspapers twice: The Daily Mirror from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1991 to 1992, and The People from 1984 to 1985 and again from 1990 to 1991. He also edited the now defunct Today newspaper from 1993 to 1995.

His memoir, Dogs and Lampposts, was published in 2002. Stott spent much of his last year editing Alastair Campbell's book The Blair Years before his death in London, aged 63, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was survived by his widow, three children and one grandchild.

John Robert Walmsley Stott CBE (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was an English Christian leader and Anglican cleric who was noted as a leader of the worldwide Evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world.

Stott was born in London to Sir Arnold and Emily Stott. Sir Arnold Stott was a leading physician at Harley Street and an agnostic, while his wife was a Lutheran churchgoer who attended the nearby Church of England church, All Souls, Langham Place. Stott was sent to boarding school at eight years old—initially prep school at Oakley Hall. In 1935, he went on to Rugby School.

While at Rugby School in 1938, Stott heard the Reverend Eric Nash (nicknamed "Bash") deliver a sermon entitled "What Then Shall I Do with Jesus, Who Is Called the Christ?" After this talk, Nash pointed Stott to Revelation 3:20, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Stott later described the impact this verse had upon him as follows:

Philip Stott is a professor emeritus of biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a former editor (1987–2004) of the Journal of Biogeography.

In the early 1970s, Stott and his wife, a historian and biographer, lived in Thailand and he was carrying out field research at Kalasin. He has two daughters.

He has written academic papers and books on chalk grassland, on the vegetation and archaeology of Thailand (and on the rest of southeast Asia), on ecology and biogeography (e.g. his textbook 'Historical Plant Geography'), on fire ecology e.g. on lichens and mosses, on tropical rain forest e.g. and and on the construction of environmental knowledge.

He is currently Chair of The Anglo-Thai Society, UK. He is no longer a member of the Scientific Alliance because he deems it important to be academically independent of all organisations, industry, and green groups.

In the UK, he is a life-long Labour supporter and he is mildly left wing politically. He is fiercely anti-tobacco.^{[citation needed]}

Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), better known by his stage name Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age. He performed in various musical venues in his hometown throughout his childhood. He graduated from high school and then moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue a musical career. Mars produced songs for other artists, joining production team The Smeezingtons.

Mars had an unsuccessful stint with Motown Records, but then signed with Atlantic Records in 2009. He became recognized as a solo artist after lending his vocals and co-writing the hooks for the songs "Nothin' on You" by B.o.B, and "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy. He also co-wrote the hits "Right Round" by Flo Rida featuring Ke$ha, and "Wavin' Flag" by K'naan. In October 2010, he released his debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. Anchored by the worldwide number-one singles "Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade", the album peaked at number three on the Billboard 200. Mars was nominated for seven Grammys at the 53rd Grammy Awards, winning Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Just the Way You Are".

Harold "Lally" Stott (died 1977) was a British songwriter from Prescot, Lancashire, who scored a hit with his song Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. He wrote the song, which became a #1 hit for the Scottish band Middle of the Road in the UK in 1971 and a #20 hit in the US for Mac & Katie Kissoon the same year. Stott's own version was a hit in Italy, went to #1 in Australia for one week, and charted at #92 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song has been covered in many languages, including Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish and German. A dance song in German to the same tune, Reiss die Hütte ab (Tear The Hut Down), was recorded by Mickie Krause (Apres Ski Hits 2003).

Lally Stott circa 1962

He also released other minor hits, Jacaranda and Love Is Free, Love Is Blind, Love Is Good.

Lally Stott wrote My Summer Song, which was recorded by Englebert Humperdinck, and Semolita, which was recorded by Jerry Reed. Stott also wrote the Lyrics to Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum, which was also recorded by Middle of the Road and was in the charts at the same year as his number one hit Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. Stott also co-wrote Sacramento, which reached number 23 in the UK charts, also recorded by Middle of the Road.