Some of the inexperienced pilots now refused to go any further, and on his aircraft Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Pearson, commander of the 1st Parachute Battalion, realising his plane was flying round in circles, had to threaten to shoot the crew to make them continue.

* David Alastair Pearson Anderson, 2nd Viscount Waverley ( 1911 – 1990 )

* Brigadier Alastair Pearson, Parachute Regiment, DSO, MC

* Alastair Pearson ( 20 June 1979 – 1990 )

Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.

* Alastair Mars ( 1915 – 1985 ), British World War II submarine commander and author

* In 2003, Alastair Campbell ( who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM ) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies. The alleged bug discovery was at a hotel during PM Tony Blair's official visit to New Delhi in 2001.

Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE ( 9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976 ) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films.

By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter Princess Mary, his unmarried sister Princess Victoria, his uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, his cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, his cousin once removed Prince Alastair of Connaught, and his unmarried cousin Princess Patricia of Connaught.

Alastair John Campbell ( born 25 May 1957 ) is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003.

* Alastair Niven, Principal, Cumberland Lodge ( nominated by the British Council )

The float glass process is also known as the Pilkington process, named after the British glass manufacturer Pilkington, which pioneered the technique ( invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington ) in the 1950s.

Alastair Arthur Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ( formerly Prince Alastair of Connaught and Strathearn ; 9 August 1914 – 26 April 1943 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of Queen Victoria through his father and great-great-grandson of Victoria through his mother.

Prince Alastair was denied the title of a British prince and the style His Highness in 1917.

Alastair Robertson Goodlad, Baron Goodlad, KCMG, PC, ( born 4 July 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as the British High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 until 2005.

At the end of the 1950 British comedy film The Happiest Days of Your Life, head teachers Muriel Whitchurch ( Margaret Rutherford ) and Wetherby Pond ( Alastair Sim ) discuss which corner of the British Empire they can escape to, and she mentions having a brother who, " grows groundnuts in Tanganyika ".

* Alastair Goodlad, Baron Goodlad ( born 1943 ), British Conservative politician

The British sent Commander Alastair Denniston, head of Britain's Government Code and Cypher School, Dilly Knox, chief British cryptanalyst and Commander Humphrey Sandwith, head of the Royal Navy's intercept and direction-finding stations.

Over the course of two weeks in April 2004, the British satirical magazine Private Eye published a journal, Teacher's Diary, written by an anonymous maths teacher at what he called ( quoting Tony Blair's spokesman, Alastair Campbell ) " a bog standard comprehensive ".

* The Anatomist ( 1961 ), a British film, starred Alastair Sim as Knox.

Alastair Leithead on BBC News 24 on 26 December 2007, presented a half-hour feature about Wakhan, focusing particularly on the work of expatriate British Doctor Alexander Duncan, which provided a significant piece of extended media reporting from this inaccessible area.

Herbert's " Misleading Cases ", a satire on the British legal system, also starring Alastair Sim as the Judge as well as playing Leopold Mozart in the 1984 film Amadeus.

* LIVINGSTONE, Alastair of Bachuil, Aikman, Christian W. H. and Hart, Betty Stuart, editors, Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ’ s Army 1745-46, Aberdeen University Press, 1985.

First officer Alastair Stuart Atchison and cabin crew member Susan Gibbins were awarded the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air.

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

Alastair Denniston, who had been a member of NID25, was appointed as its operational head.

* Alastair Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 game for Fitzroy, Brisbane Bears and the Brisbane Lions, including the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Grand Finals

Alastair Boyd, one of the researchers who uncovered the hoax, argues that the Loch Ness Monster is real, and that although the famous photo was hoaxed, that does not mean that all the photos, eyewitness reports, and footage of the monster were as well.

As Alastair Norcross has said, “ suppose that Homer is faced with the painful choice between saving Barney from a burning building or saving both Moe and Apu from the building … it is clearly better for Homer to save the larger number, precisely because it is a larger number … Can anyone who really considers the matter seriously honestly claim to believe that it is worse that one person die than that the entire sentient population of the universe be severely mutilated?

A similar approach was taken by Canadian astronomer Alastair G. W. Cameron and American astronomer William R. Ward, who suggested that the Moon was formed by the tangential impact upon Earth of a body the size of Mars.

There were several private owners after that, including Alastair de Watteville, a descendant of Colin MacDonald who wrote a book about the island, until finally it was gifted to the National Trust for Scotland by Jock Elliott Jr. of New York in 1986 as an imaginative way to honour the 60th birthday of his wife, Eleanor.

At 8pm EST on Friday 14 January 2011 the latest attempt at the longest hand-shake commenced in New York Times Square and the existing record was smashed by semi-professional world record-breaker Alastair Galpin and Don Purdon from New Zealand and Nepalese brothers Rohit and Santosh Timilsina who agreed to share the new record after 33 hours and 3 minutes.

A few managed to comply promptly but others did not, including Alastair Maclain, 12th Chief of Glencoe, who waited until the last day before setting out to take the oath.

She was baptised at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, by the Bishop of Norwich, on 23 December 1990, she was the first royal baby to have a public christening, and her godparents were James Ogilvy ( her father's second cousin ), Captain Alastair Ross ( who was unable to attend ), Mrs Ronald Ferguson ( her maternal grandfather's 2nd wife ), Mrs Patrick Dodd-Noble, and Miss Louise Blacker.

It was coordinated by Alastair Campbell, who centralised the party's communications and used his experience in journalism to achieve positive media relations.

Famous sports people include Alastair Kellock, Scotland cap, lock and captain of Rugby Union side Glasgow Warriors in the Magners League who attended Bishopbriggs High School.

This excluded Alastair, who was only a great-grandson of a sovereign ( and was not the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales ).

Alastair Graeme Lynch ( born 19 June 1968 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Lismore is the home of the highland Clan MacLea, whose chief, is now Niall Livingstone of Bachuil, Baron of the Bachuil, who succeeded his father Alastair Livingstone of Bachuil, who died on 29 February 2008.

Robert Alastair Addie ( 10 February 1960 – 20 November 2003 ) was an English actor who was best known for playing Sir Guy of Gisbourne in the television series Robin of Sherwood.

She is married to Alastair Osborne, who was Labour candidate in the same Ayr constituency in 1992 that Mrs Osborne won in 1997.

Following the February 2004 relaunch, presenters included ITN veteran Alastair Stewart who hosted the flagship Live with Alastair Stewart programme every weekday morning.