Presenters currently working on the station: Gregg Upwards, Mark Darwin, Pat Sharp, Ben Atkinson, Joe Lemer, Tony James ( AJ ), Damian Pickett plus former BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Presenter Mike Read.

* Mike Duxbury, footballer, was born in the town

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

* Mike Commodore ( born 1979 ), a Canadian ice hockey defenseman who plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the United States.

Michael Kenneth Moore, ONZ ( known as Mike Moore, born 28 January 1949 ) is a politician from New Zealand who has served both as Prime Minister of New Zealand and Director-General of the World Trade Organization.

* Mike Seal ( born 1970 ), the Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Wonder Mike ( born Michael Anthony Wright on April 30, 1957 ) is an old school rapper, famous for being a member of The Sugarhill Gang, the first hip hop act to produce a record, " Rapper's Delight ".

* Mike Reid ( actor / comedian, born in Hackney )

Burton also adopted Taylor's daughter by the late producer Mike Todd, Elizabeth Frances " Liza " Todd Burton ( born 6 August 1957 ).

* Mike Quick ( born 1959 ), American Football player

* Mike Howard ( born 1958 ), baseball player

Washington Nationals pitcher Scott Olsen and Chicago White Sox first baseman and gold glove winner Mike Squires was born in Kalamazoo.

* Mike Meade, NFL player born in Dover

* Mike Elgin ( born 1983 ), offensive guard for the New England Patriots

* Mike Lowell ( born 1974 ), baseball player for the Boston Red Sox

* Mike Sherman ( born 1954 ), American football coach

* Mike Sheridan ( born 1991 ), Danish producer of electronic music

* Mike Salisbury ( born 1942 ), a British television producer of nature documentaries

* Mike Salisbury ( born 1966 ), a leading advocate of the natural burial movement in Canada

* Mike Singleton ( born 1951 ), British programmer

Former head coach Mike Brown ( basketball, born 1970 ) | Mike Brown, who was NBA Coach of the Year for 2008 – 09, and was the head coach of the Eastern Conference for the 2009 NBA All Star Game | 2009 All Star Game.

On November 8, 2007, Mike Modano became the top American born point scorer of all time finishing off a shorthanded breakaway opportunity on San Jose Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov.

Billie Joe Armstrong ( born February 17, 1972 ) is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter, and guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt.

* Mike Mentzer, former IFBB bodybuilder, born in Germantown, but raised in Ephrata

A prime example is Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ); based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, the best-selling of all the hardboiled authors, here the protagonist is a private eye, Mike Hammer.

* 1955 – Mike Heath, American baseball player

In the spring of 1955, after a long party in Las Vegas with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, her husband Sid Luft, Mike Romanoff and wife Gloria, David Niven, Angie Dickinson and others, Lauren Bacall surveyed the wreckage of the party and declared, " You look like a goddamn rat pack.

* 1955 – Mike Reno, Canadian musician ( Loverboy and Moxy )

* 1955 – Mike Mendoza, British radio personality

* Mike Kelley ( 1875 – 1955 ), baseball player

* Mike Rossman ( born 1955 ), boxer, WBA light-heavyweight champion.

The songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller had started Spark Records, and in 1955 produced " Smokey Joe's Cafe " for the Robins ( their 5th single with Leiber-Stoller ).

However, the first Soviet test to use a radiation-imploded secondary, the essential feature of a true H-bomb, was on November 23, 1955, three years after Ivy Mike.

In 1955, Mike Fink ( as portrayed by character actor Jeff York ) appeared in two episodes of the Davy Crockett miniseries of ABC's Disneyland opposite the popular Davy Crockett ( portrayed by Fess Parker ).

Non-Hitchcock thriller of the 50's include, the film-noirish Niagara ( 1953 ) by Henry Hathaway, with Marilyn Monroe as the trashy femme fatale who schemes to kill her unstable husband ( Joseph Cotten ), director Robert Aldrich's violent and fast-paced film Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ) featured Ralph Meeker as fictional detective Mike Hammer encountering nuclear apocalypse, The Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ), director Charles Laughton's only film, with Robert Mitchum playing a Bible-thumping, homicidal preacher victimizing two young children with a secret about the location of stolen money.

Mike Rossman ( born July 1, 1955 ) is an American former world champion boxer.

Michael Dale " Mike " Huckabee ( born August 24, 1955 ) is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas ( 1996-2007 ).

Michael Herman ( Mike ) Michaud ( born January 18, 1955 ) is the U. S. Representative for, serving since 2003.

* Mike Stroud ( 1955 -), English physician and eminent explorer

Mickey Spillane's equally rugged Mike Hammer character was adapted to film with I, the Jury ( 1953 ), My Gun is Quick ( 1957 ), and the influential Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ).

Wallace also hosted two late-night interview programs, Night Beat ( broadcast in New York during 1955 – 7, only on DuMont's WABD ) and The Mike Wallace Interview on ABC in 1957 – 8.

The first show aired on ABC and ATV ( the weekend franchise holders on ITV ) on 9 November 1955, featuring Francis St Clair Gregory ( father of Tony St Clair ) versus Mike Marino and Cliff Beaumont versus Bert Royal live from West Ham baths.

It was later published in one of its several modern versions in Western Folklore, by the California Folklore Society ( 1948 ), Mike and Peggy, Seeger's, American Folk Songs for Children ( 1948 ), and The Growing Family: A Guide for Parents by Maxwell Slutz Stewart ( 1955 ).

* Mike Smith ( television presenter ) ( born 1955 ), British television and radio presenter

* Mike Kelley ( baseball ) ( 1875 – 1955 ), American baseball player and manager in the minor leagues

Mike and Marian Ilitch have seven children: son Christopher Ilitch ( born June 1965 ) is CEO and President of Ilitch Holdings, Inc .; daughter Denise Ilitch ( born November 1955 ) is an attorney.

* Mike Sullivan ( golfer ) ( born 1955 ), winner of the 1994 B. C.