Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

It features interviews with friends, peers, and admirers such as Dave Grohl, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica, David Ellefson of Megadeth, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Peter Hook of Joy Division / New Order, Dee Snider, Nikki Sixx, Mick Jones of The Clash, Kat Von D, Henry Rollins, Lars Frederiksen of Rancid, Jim Heath of Reverend Horton Heat, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, Mike Inez, Joan Jett, pro skateboarder Geoff Rowley, pro wrestler Triple H, Fast Eddie Clarke, Jarvis Cocker, Marky Ramone, former Hawkwind

Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy.

* Scott Ian – rhythm guitars, backing vocals ( 1981 – present )

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Scott Ian has a cameo in the film Run Ronnie Run ( also performing on the soundtrack as part of the band Titannica ) and the band appear in the 2003 comedy Calendar Girls.

In 2006, guitarist Scott Ian was a cast member of VH1's reality show SuperGroup and is also featured on many other VH1 shows such as I Love the 80s and I Love the 90s.

She is portrayed by Claire Bloom in Laurence Olivier's 1955 film adaptation of the play, Kristin Scott Thomas in Ian McKellen's 1995 adaptation of the play and by Winona Ryder in the 1996 movie Looking for Richard.

Danny Lilker and Scott Ian had been the original founders of the band, but Ian elected to fire Lilker shortly after the release of the album.

Both Scott Ian and Charlie Benante, who played guitar in addition to drums, felt they needed tighter control on the songwriting.

* Scott Ian – Rhythm guitar

The majority of the album's music was composed by drummer Charlie Benante while lyrics were composed by rhythm guitarist Scott Ian.

* Scott Ian – Rhythm guitar, Backing vocals

The band also covers two songs (" Milk ( Ode to Billy )" and " Chromatic Death ") originally recorded by Stormtroopers of Death, a mid-80s side project by Anthrax members Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, and then-bassist Dan Lilker.

* Scott Ian – Guitar

The company was started in 1978 by Robin Scott, Max Tregoning and Ian Tregoning.

Other notable attendees included consumer protection activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader ; Landscape Architect Ian McHarg ; Nobel prize-winning Harvard Biochemist, George Wald ; U. S. Senate Minority Leader, Hugh Scott ; and poet, Allen Ginsberg.

Among the Young Global Leaders are: Shai Agassi, Bandar bin Khalid al Faisal, Anousheh Ansari, Maria Consuelo Araujo, Lera Auerbach, Fatmir Besimi, Ian Bremmer, Sergey Brin, Tyler Brûlé, Patrick Chappatte, Olafur Eliasson, Roger Federer, Jens Martin Skibsted, Rahul Gandhi, Kenneth Griffin, Kelly Chen, Scott J. Freidheim, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Abdulsalam Haykal, Drue Kataoka, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Irshad Manji, Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Greg McKeown ( author ), Aditya Mittal, Euvin Naidoo, Gavin Newsom, Mohnish Pabrai, Larry Page, Lewis Gordon Pugh, Senator Mar Roxas of the Philippines, Christopher Schläffer, Anoushka Shankar, Aaron McCormack, Premal Shah, Peter Thiel, John Mihaljevic, Jimmy Wales, Adrian David Cheok, Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Stephan Morais, Kimmie Weeks and Niklas Zennström.

In 2005, Hamilton contributed to the Metallica tribute album Metallic Attack: The Ultimate Tribute, with the song ' Motorbreath ' with Scott Ian of Anthrax.

After William Hague ruled out Britain joining the euro under a Conservative government, former cabinet minister Ian Gilmour said he would vote for the PECP, and four former Conservative MPs-Julian Critchley, Nicholas Scott, David Knox, Robert Hicks-and four former MEPs-Margaret Daly, Adam Fergusson, Madron Seligman and Anthony Simpson-wrote in a letter to The Times that " We would have wished that William Hague's party had put forward a manifesto more like that of the Pro Euro Conservative Party.

He also appeared alongside former 90210 cast member Ian Ziering in the Tony Scott film, Domino as parodies of themselves.

The film was written by Raimi and Scott Spiegel, produced by Rob Tapert and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams.

Scott treats similar themes to some of his earlier novels, like Rob Roy and The Heart of Midlothian, examining the conflict between heroic ideals and modern society.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

* Rob Roy ( novel ), an 1817 novel by Walter Scott featuring Robert Roy MacGregor

Anaheim forward Rob Niedermayer was playing against his brother, defenseman for the New Jersey Devils, Scott Niedermayer and Giguere faced off against fellow French Canadian goalie Martin Brodeur.

On August 4, 2005, free agent defenseman Scott Niedermayer signed with the Mighty Ducks to play with his brother Rob.

For each Swirling Eddies release, band members adopted pseudonyms for the liner notes ; " Camarillo Eddy " ( Terry Scott Taylor ), " Berger Roy Al " ( Tim Chandler ), " Gene Pool " ( Greg Flesch ), " Arthur Fhardy " ( Rob Watson ), " Spot " ( Jerry Chamberlain ), and " Hort Elvison " ( David Raven ).

The series is also notable for helping launch the careers of several cartoonists, such as Craig McCracken, Seth MacFarlane, Butch Hartman, Bob Boyle, Scott Fellows, and Rob Renzetti.

60 Minutes correspondent and CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley also lives in town as does Rob Morrison, anchor of CBS 2 News This Morning and CBS 2 News At Noon.

** Charlie Colin, " Rob Hotchkiss ", " Pat Monahan ", " Jimmy Stafford " & " Scott Underwood " ( songwriters ) for " Drops of Jupiter " performed by " Train "

The current ward council members are: Rob Scott, Ward 1 ; Joe Wannamaker, Ward 2 ; Tony Klepacz, Ward 3 ; and Bruce Duke, Ward 4.

Among the notable national players included Scott McCready, an English wide receiver who played some preseason games for the New England Patriots, the Claymores ' wide receiver Scott Couper, who played a pre-season game for the Chicago Bears, Constantin Ritzmann, a German defensive end who had played for the University of Tennessee, and Rob Hart, an English rugby player who became a placekicker ; he kicked barefoot.

Marc Broussard, Omarion, Rob Bourdon of Linkin Park, Eric Benét, Jill Scott, Justin Timberlake, Sheila E., Marcus Miller, Erykah Badu, Jamie Foxx, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Meshell Ndegeocello, Wynton Marsalis, and Mario.

More claims to the hip-house crown were subsequently laid down in tracks by Fast Eddie, Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, and Toni Scott.

* Rob Scott

In 2011 Rick Manzarek gathered a new band for Rick & the Ravens, playing guitar with Rob Stanfield singing and playing rhythm guitar, Steve Cress on lead guitar, Pete Tebow on bass, Paul Estrip on drums, and Scott Ferris playing harmonica.

Playing with brother Rob ( an alternate captain to Scott, along with Pronger ), the two became the first brothers to win the Stanley Cup together since Duane and Brent Sutter won the Stanley Cup in 1982 and 1983 with the New York Islanders.

In a break with tradition, Scott let Rob take a lap around the Honda Center ice with the Cup after he took his lap.

On 23 March 2011, former Boston United managerial duo of Rob Scott and Paul Hurst were announced as the new joint managers.

2011 saw the departure of joint-managers Rob Scott and Paul Hurst with the pair resigning from the club before being appointed joint-managers of Conference National side Grimsby Town.

The front cover illustration was by Wayne Reynolds and the back cover illustration is by Brian Hagan, with interior illustrations by Rob Alexander, Steve Argyle, Wayne England, Jason Engle, David Griffith, Espen Grundetjern, Brian Hagan, Ralph Horsley, Howard Lyon, Lee Moyer, William O ' Connor, Wayne Reynolds, Dan Scott, Ron Spears, Chris Stevens, Anne Stokes, and Eva Widermann.

* Rob Niedermayer and Scott Niedermayer, NHL players