Bristol newcomers show Who's Who in new edition

EIGHTEEN Bristolians, along with Olympic champions Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Andy Murray, are among the 1,000 new names in the 2013 edition of Who's Who.

The artistic director of the Bristol Old Vic theatre, and the Bedminster-down born producer of multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech are the two most well-known new entries.

Inclusion in the world-famous reference book – which contains potted biographies of 33,000 of some of the most renowned and most talented people in the world – is by invitation only, so this is an accolade for all the Bristol newcomers and they include:

● Tom Morris, 48, artistic director at the Bristol Old Vic in King Street,

● Professor Trevor Wooley, professor of pure mathematics at the University of Bristol

● Rear Admiral Mark Beverstock, 48,Chief Strategic Systems Executive,Defence Equipment Support at the Ministry of Defence in Stoke Gifford, Abbey Wood.

● Professor Simon Burgess, 52, professor of economics at the University of Bristol.

● Professor Richard Evershed, 56, professor of biogeochemistry at the University of Bristol.

● Dr Andrew Garrad, 59, president of GL Garrad Hassan, which describes itself as "the world's largest independen renewable energy consultantcy". Dr Garrad is a board member of the Global Wind Energy Council based at Silverthorne Lane, Bristol

● Bernard Gray, 52, Chief of Defence Materiel at the Ministry of Defence at the Abbey Wood South site, Bristol,

● Robert Longley-Cook,who will be 54 on Friday, chief executive of Hft (formerly House Farm Trust) based at Folly Brook Road,Emersons Green, Bristol.

● Professor Mervyn Miles, 64, professor of physics at the University ofBristol

● Claire Wills-Goldingham QC, 47, a barrister based at Albion Chambers, Broad Street, Bristol

The following were all born in Bristol but now live and work elsewhere:

● Iain Canning, at 33 the youngest of the Bristol new entries. He was born in Bristol on July 23,1979.

He produced the hit film The King's Speech and is co-founder, producer and managing director of See-Saw Films in London.

● Professor Robert Allison, 51, Bristol-born vice-chancellor and president of Lougborough University.

● Professor Nicholas Black, 61, professor of health services research at the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine, Bristol-born and a former Bristol grammar schoolboy

● Andrew Christie, 59, Bristol-born Tri-borough executive director of Children's Services, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington, Chelsea and City of Westminster

● James Collins, Bristol-born London-based barrister who became a Queen's Counsel earlier this year. He will be 43 on Saturday.

● Stephen Cox, 66, an award-winning artist-sculptor who was born in Bristol and who was educated at St Mary Redcliffe, but now lives and works in Shropshire

● Dr Andrew Miller, 52, a prize-winning Bristol born-author. He is also an aikido enthusiast and mandolin player in a folk band.

● Richard Murray, 47, Bristol-born director of finance and strategy and chief economist and director of strategy at the Department of Health. Educated at Wellsway school in Keynsham. He and boyfriend Tom Johnston Penman - whom he mentions in his Who's Who entry – became a civil partnership this year.

Everyone in Who's Who is invited to compile his or her own entry, so entries can be as long or as short as celebrities wish.

The late romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland hogged 222 lines to list her mostly literary achievements.

The entries of the Bristol contingent are comparatively brief and modest.

Bristol-born artist Stephen Cox needs 37 lines to tell his life story, while Bristol-born QC James Collins makes do with only five lines.The 21-line entry of Bristol Old Vic's

Thomas Morris is two lines longer than the 19-line entry of

Pope Benedict XV1 and seven lines longer than the 14-line entry of US President Barack Obama.

The Bristolians and all the others will now remain in Who's Who until they die, when they will be automatically transferred to Who's Who's sister publication,Who Was Who.

The 2013 edition of Who's Who is published by A &C Black at £235.