Massimo Cellino (born 1956 in Cagliari) is an Italian entrepreneur and football club owner.

He is the current chairman of Cagliari Calcio after the 1992 takeover from the Orrù brothers, who were the previous club owners. He has served as vice-president for Serie A in the Lega Calcio and is currently a member of the council for Serie A in the Lega Calcio.

During his years as Cagliari owner, Cellino was instrumental in the building of Cagliari Calcio's sports centre in Assemini, near Cagliari, named after his father Ercole.

He currently lives in Miami, Florida.

The Pigeon Detectives are an English indie rock band from Rothwell, West Yorkshire, who formed in 2004. They have been championed by such well-known DJs as Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, and performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2006, where they were tagged "the band most likely to leap to the main stage in 2007" in an NME review. However, the band returned to the festivals in 2007 and again performed on the NME stage.

They supported Dirty Pretty Things while they toured in spring 2006. In early November 2006 they supported fellow Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs, who are known to be fans of the band. On 8 July 2007, they played on the Radio 1 NME Stage in front of thousands at T in the Park. The performance was televised and shown later that day on BBC3. They went on to perform their biggest show ever at Oxegen 2008 which was beamed around Europe on MTV. The band also successfully completed UK, Ireland, European, Japanese and US tours as well as dozens of festivals, taking the band into the elite category as a "Platinum"-selling recording artist.

Terry George (born December 20, 1952) is an Northern Irish screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, much of his film work (e.g. The Boxer, Some Mother's Son, and In the Name of the Father) involves "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland.

He was nominated for two Oscars: Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (1993; In the Name of the Father), and Best Writing, Original Screenplay (2004; Hotel Rwanda). On 26 February 2012, he received an Oscar in the live action short film category for The Shore.

George was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1981, he moved to New York City. He faced deportation proceedings but was allowed to remain in the United States following a lobbying campaign by Irish-American supporters and was granted an "O" visa.

In 1985, he made his debut as playwright of The Tunnel, a stage drama based on a prison escape from Long Kesh prison camp.In 1986 he researched the non-fiction book The Pizza Connection with American journalist Shana Alexander. In 1993, he made his debut as screenwriter and assistant director with In the Name of the Father, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, and directed and co-written by Jim Sheridan. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including best adapted screenplay for George and Sheridan. He directed and scripted the film Some Mother's Son, starring Helen Mirren and Fionnula Flanagan, for which he was named Young European Director of the Year, in 1996.

Guy Peter Bromley Branston (born 9 January 1979) is an English football defender who plays for Bradford City. Branston has enjoyed spells at Kettering Town, Notts County, Peterborough United and Burton Albion amongst many others.

Branston established his career at Rotherham United after being bought for £50,000 from Leicester City, and enjoyed two successive promotions with the Millers in his first two years with the club, and kept his place in the team during the Championship years.

Branston joined Peterborough on 24 July 2006, from Oldham Athletic, after wanting to move closers to home. He had impressed for Peterborough in two previous loan spells where he proved to be a leader and as a result was given the captain's armband.

After just one season though, he fell out of favour, and was loaned to both Rochdale and Northampton Town, before being released from his contract on 13 December 2007. He signed for Notts County on 1 January 2008, for one month - playing only half a game by virtue of being a carthorse journeyman.

David "Dave" Hockaday (born 9 November 1957) is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He is currently first team manager at Conference National club Forest Green Rovers.

Born in Sedgefield, County Durham, he started his career as a youth player with Billingham Synthonia.

In June 1975, aged 17, he joined Blackpool, then playing in the Second Division. He made his first start for the Tangerines on 25 September 1976, in a 1-0 home loss to Chelsea. Aside from a League Cup second-round tie against Sheffield Wednesday, he sat out the entire 1977-78 campaign, but the following season he became a more regular first-team player as Blackpool slid down the leagues. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3-1 loss at Colchester United on 30 September 1978, and, later that season, scored both goals in Blackpool's 2-1 victory at Lincoln City.

Also on 30 September, this time in 1981, Hockaday was amongst the scorers in Blackpool's 7-1 rout of Halifax Town at Bloomfield Road.