Branson has also developed a Virgin Cola brand and even a Virgin Vodka brand, which has not been a very successful enterprise.

Branson also launched the Virgin Health Bank on 1 February 2007, offering parents-to-be the opportunity to store their baby's umbilical cord blood stem cells in private and public stem cell banks.

Branson also announced that he would be joined in the adjudication of the Prize by a panel of five judges, all world authorities in their respective fields: Al Gore, Sir Crispin Tickell, Tim Flannery, James E. Hansen, and James Lovelock.

The boat, also known as Speedboat, is owned by NYYC member Alex Jackson, who was a co-skipper on this passage, with Branson and Mike Sanderson.

Branson also appears in a cameo early in XTC's " Generals and Majors " video.

He is also caricatured in The Simpsons episode " Monty Can't Buy Me Love " as the tycoon Arthur Fortune, and as the ballooning megalomaniac Richard Chutney ( a pun on Branson, as in Branston Pickle ) in Believe Nothing.

Branson and his mother were also featured in the documentary film, Lemonade Stories.

Branson has been very supportive of Kenya during its troubles, and in May 2008 had gone to Masai Mara to open a new school ( Sekenani Primary School ) which has also been partly funded by Virgin Atlantic frequent flyers who volunteered their time to help with the construction.

Branson West Airport, also known as Branson West Municipal Airport, is a public-use general aviation airport in Stone County.

Branson West Airport, also known as Branson West Municipal Airport, is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles ( 3. 7 km ) west of the central business district of the Branson West.

Branson was also experiencing its highest commercial peak in the summer and fall of both 1992 and 1993.

He also invested in Branson Hills, a 1, 400-acre housing development.

By the end of April 2005, Sir Richard Branson had reportedly expressed an interest in buying the remaining assets of the company for the purpose of reviving the marque in order to enter the hybrid automobile market, and several other parties were also rumoured as wishing to buy the remnants.

Coincidentally, Jim Bakker had also moved to Missouri ( in 2003 ), 200 miles southeast of Loch Lloyd in Branson, Missouri.

Frost started the production company David Paradine Productions, and was also part of a consortium with Richard Branson that failed to acquire three ITV franchises under the CPV-TV name.

Dino also performs in his own show in Branson, Missouri.

As part of the rebrand, Flextech was also renamed as Richard Branson was keen to move into branded content and insisted that the Flextech business was retained as a condition of NTL buying Virgin Mobile and licensing the name.

The popular tourist destination of Branson also lies in the district.

Branson was also the 1959 and 1965 USAC Sprint Car Series Champion.

The surname may have also have contributed to Bramson, Branson, Branston.

The boys also go see an Andy Williams concert in Branson, Missouri, and the marquee advertising it outside says " Wow, he's still got it – Look magazine ".

They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

* 1977 – Jeff Branson, American actor

Craig Branson, online director of the American Society of News Editors ( ASNE ), has been quoted as saying, " Industry codes are very generic and totally voluntary.

In 2006, The 1954 – 55 Comets spent much of the year in residence at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri.

On 25 September 2004, Branson announced the signing of a deal under which a new space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One — funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and designed by legendary American aeronautical engineer and visionary Burt Rutan — to take paying passengers into suborbital space.

Theatres in the Branson area currently include the Shoji Tabuchi Theatre, New Shanghai Theatre, Jim Stafford Theatre, Hughes Brothers Theatre, Kirby VanBurch Theatre, Mickey Gilley Theatre, RFD-TV The Theatre ( Buck Trent continues to perform his morning show at this theater ), Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theatre ( home to Legends In Concert and The Bretts

* Brad Branson ( born 1958 ), retired American professional basketball player

* Don Branson ( 1920-1966 ), American racecar driver

* Jeff Branson ( born 1977 ), American actor

* Jeff Branson ( born 1967 ), former American Major League baseball player

* Jesse Branson ( born 1942 ), retired American basketball player

* Mike Branson, American pornographic actor

* William Henry Branson ( 1887-1961 ), American Seventh-day Adventist

In the spring of 2006 the onset of ill health forced Grande to temporarily take a hiatus from the Comets, who at the time were engaged in a long-term gig at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri.

Don Branson ( June 2, 1920 – November 12, 1966 ) was an American racecar driver.

He also performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri.

Jeffrey Dale " Jeff " Branson ( born March 10, 1977 ) is an American actor.

In 2006 the group took up a long-term residence at the Dick Clark American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri, performing more than 150 shows at the venue, with more in 2007.

Welk's band continues to appear in a dedicated theater in Branson, Missouri.

* Phillip ' Pip ' Branson-rhythm guitar and violin. Ex-member of Sydney band Sidewinder, and currently ( 2005 ) playing with band as " Pip Branson Corporation ".

They continue to perform throughout the world and have a regular big band show in Branson, Missouri.

Jarvis Branson Cocker ( born 19 September 1963 ) is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp.

Hicks took a job with Kerry Cole & the Lefty Brothers, Joe Terry joined a new band, The Morells, and Gary Smith relocated to Branson, MO in 1984.

At the end of 1989 Thompson quit to reform his old band, The Skeletons, and Davidson moved to Branson to take a job as sound mixer at Ray Stevens ' theater.