Team selections for Derby Dead Pool 2006

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1st Time And Every One A Winner | 2 Days Older Than Grass | 4 Ever Delayed | 99 Ways To Die | A Grave Situation | A Kick In The Ghoulies | A Pint of Your Finest Formaldehyde | A Shot In The Dark | Above Average For Norfolk | AbraCadaver | Alison The Assassin | Already Dead | Amireallydead | Asking For It | Bazzilliant | Beerbutton | Beginnings of Rigor | Bend The Bucket Like Beckham | Best Left To Rest | Big-Iain | Bleedin' Heart | Bob Mugabe's Swingtime Band | Brown Bread | Bunch of Old Bags | Burke 'n' Hare | But I'm Not Dead Yet | Canadian Paul | Cap'n Ohtz | Cave's Corpses | Cefor's Cremains of the Day | Church(yard) On The Hill | Close The Casket | Coffin Fit | Coffin It Up | Colin's Corpses | Condi's Ill-Considered Probabilities | Crazycarl | Crem De La Crem | Dave's Dead, Aye Dead Drunk | Dead And Buried | Dead And Loving It | Dead As A Dodo | Dead Beat | Dead By Dawn | Dead Certs | Dead Ends | Dead Is As Dead Does | Dead Man Walking | Dead Ringers | Dead, Dead And Never Called Me Mother | Deadknobs And Doomed Picks | Deadpoolers | Death Becomes Us | Death From Above | Death On The Rocks | Death Stalks United | Deathlist.net | Deathpig | Die, Celebs, Die!!! | Died In A Nasty Accident | Diepod Shuffle | Digging The Grave | Ding Dong Dead Dudes | Don't Fear (The Reaper) | Down Under The Daisies | Dr Death's Diabolical Dice of Doom | Drunkasaskunk | Duke | Dysfunctional | Eat My Dust | Eejit | Erm...Excuse Me...Aren't You...Dead? | Eternity Tours | Facing The Final Curtain | Fallen Sparrow | Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Kill! | Finbarr Returns from the Dead (Again) | Five-Fingered Hand Of Death | Fox In A Box | Freddie Starr Ate My Rhino | gdh200 | George Lass and the Gravelings | Gerald Ford Must Die | Get Your Kicks in 2006 | Git-R-Dead | Globaltruth | Go Fish | Godot's Waiting List | God's Waiting Room | Going Green | Going Underground | Grizly | Grobler's Stiff Ones | Hardwood Surround | Heaven Can't Wait 'til Another Day | Henry's Half-Dead Heroes | Holicman | Hung Like Kong | I Smell Dead People | Ilikeekilly | Impaled on The Antlers of Doom | In Bed with Maradona | Inar's Golden Oldies | Indeed, That's Out Of The Air | International House of Death | Jaguar X-Types | Jesus Jones | Jim Devine | Jodie's Cuppas | JoeRam | John Stalkest | Johnny Foreskin And The Pullbacks | John's A Legendary Doughnut | Jossy's Giants | Judgment Day | Juicy Janny | Just Resting My Eyes | Kali Comes To Dinner | Killers of Hope | Kiss of Death | L C And The Sunshine Band | Levelled Crossing | Lived So Let's Die | Living In A Box | Lord Football's Snuffers | Loss of Life | Loulou's Lions | Madonna's Hand of Bod | Mean Machine | Meet Your Maker | Milksnatcher Bites The Dust | MizzJackTheCat | Morbid United FC | Mr & Mrs Drummerboy | Mr C | Mr Yuck | Murld Leaders | Musos | Naked Florida Gravediggers | Nice Little Urner | Noah Reason & the Clowns of Death | Norfolk & Chance | Noz4news | Octopus of Odstock | Oh, It's a Scythe! | One Foot in the Grave | Only Fools And Corpses | Over And Out | Palace98 | Pining For The Fjords | Pooil Vaaish | ProDeathCrew | Puppet Show And Siegfried Baboon's David Van Day Show | Pushing Up The Daisies | Puzlman's Passing Picks | R.I.P. It Up And Start Again | Ready, Steady, Deady | Reaper's Insightful Crew | Redmyst XX | Riding The Jesus Train | Rigor Mortis Makes Us Hard | RJC | Rude Kid | Sandals in the Bin: The Mother Teresa Tribute Band | See, I Told You I Was Sick! | SexyB | Simon Says 'Die, You Fools, Die' | Six Foot Under | Slave to the Grave | Snuff Daddies | Sporting Lesbian | Sporting Life...Courting Death | Stab In The Dark | Swami's House of Soon To Be Wax | T. Rex | Team Action Sex | Team AJS | Team DJB | Team Mogblog | Thanatopsis | That's All, Folks! | The 4 Hamsters of the Apocalypse | The Anfield Iron | The Bitter End | The Caulkhead Coffin-Kickers | The Coffin-Dodgers | The Conqueror Worm | The Dodgy One | The Doffin' Codgers | The Doom & Gloom Room | The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe | The Driller Killer | The Ex Factor | The Familiar Undead | The Great Beyond | The Grey Horde | The Happy Desk | The Last Gasp | The Letter S Means Death! | The Living Dead | The Living End | The Long-Awaited Return of the Dorset Jury | The Melonfarmers | The Merry Harvester | The Morbid Postman | The Newlydeads | The Newstreet Boys Death Squad | The Pale Horseman's Bucket-Kickers | The Raven | The Royton Rovers (Rita, Dave & Kevin Too...) | The Underdogs of Hull City | The Undertaker | The Voodoo Gurus | The Vyrdolak | The Winged Devil Monkeys | They Sure Look Like Plant Food To Me | They're Dead, Y'Know! | This Mortal Coil | Tick Tocks Stopped Ticking | TiM r | Time Is NOT On Our Side! | Time, Gentlemen, Please! | Toasted Brown Bread | Tomb It May Concern | Tramp The Dirt Down | Vassili Zaitsev | Victor Spencer's Delight | We Don't Talk Anymore | We Spin Terror | Weatherman90 And The Crew | Whitaker's Choice | Whoopass United | Windsor The Troll | Wish Upon A Star | Wishin' on a (Death) Star | Wishy-Washy | You Can Have Zsa Zsa Over My Dead Body! | Youth In Asia Helpline | Zaph's Snuffers

 

1st Time And Every One A Winner
First year in DDP.
  1. Joseph Barbera
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Osama bin Laden
  4. Ray Bradbury
  5. David Bronstein
  6. Brian Close Unique pick
  7. Alfredo Di Stefano
  8. Pete Doherty
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Alex Higgins
  12. Saddam Hussein
  13. Garry Kasparov Unique pick
  14. Kylie Minogue
  15. Lou Rawls Joker!
  16. Vasily Smyslov
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Frank Williams Unique pick
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

2 Days Older Than Grass
First year in DDP.
  1. Lauren Bacall
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Raymond Baxter
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Ernest Borgnine
  6. Joan Collins
  7. Jack Douglas
  8. Phil Drabble
  9. Charlie Drake
  10. Michael Foot Joker!
  11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  12. Ernest Gallo
  13. Stephen Hawking
  14. Lionel Jeffries
  15. Holly Johnson
  16. Bernard Manning
  17. Richard O'Sullivan
  18. Rev Ian Paisley
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Reg Varney

 

4 Ever Delayed
First year in DDP.
  1. Lauren Bacall
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Fidel Castro
  4. Ken Dodd
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Kirk Douglas Joker!
  7. Clive Dunn
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Alex Higgins
  12. Saddam Hussein
  13. Stephen Lewis Unique pick
  14. Nelson Mandela
  15. Prince Philip
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Harold Pinter
  18. Ariel Sharon
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

99 Ways To Die
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali Joker!
  2. Dick Clark
  3. Walter Cronkite
  4. David Crosby
  5. Peter Falk
  6. Geraldine Ferraro Unique pick
  7. Betty Ford
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Annette Funicello
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. B. B. King
  12. Henry Kissinger
  13. Don Knotts
  14. Dr C. Everett Koop Unique pick
  15. Tammy Faye Messner
  16. Nancy Reagan
  17. Maximilian Schell
  18. Pete Seeger
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Verne Troyer Unique pick

 

A Grave Situation
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Trevor Baylis Unique pick
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. P. W. Botha
  5. Olivia de Havilland
  6. Pete Doherty
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Nelson Mandela
  11. Harold Pinter
  12. Lou Rawls Joker!
  13. Dana Reeve
  14. Sir Jimmy Savile
  15. Ariel Sharon
  16. Elizabeth Taylor
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Jane Tomlinson
  19. Nicol Williamson
  20. Antony Worrall Thompson Unique pick

 

A Kick In The Ghoulies
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Ian Brady
  4. Alfredo Di Stefano
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  7. Gary Glitter
  8. Charles Haughey
  9. Paul Hunter
  10. Norman Kember
  11. Al Lewis
  12. Karl Malden
  13. Harry Patch
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Gail Porter
  16. Claire Rayner
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. John Spencer Joker!
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

A Pint of Your Finest Formaldehyde
First year in DDP.
  1. Rabbi Philip Berg
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. Bill Deedes
  4. Giuseppe di Stefano
  5. Ernest Gallo
  6. Rev Billy Graham
  7. King Harald V of Norway
  8. Albert Hofmann
  9. Frankie Laine
  10. Charles Lane
  11. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  12. Joe Longthorne
  13. Robert Mugabe
  14. Ruby Muhammad
  15. Maurice Papon
  16. Harry Patch
  17. Augusto Pinochet
  18. Carlo Ponti
  19. Billy Preston
  20. Desmond Tutu

 

A Shot In The Dark
First year in DDP.
  1. Osama bin Laden
  2. David Blaine Unique pick
  3. Brian Blessed
  4. Jimmy Carter
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Mikhail Gorbachev
  7. Stephen Hawking
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Norman Kember
  10. Nelson Mandela
  11. Augusto Pinochet
  12. Nancy Reagan
  13. Sir Jimmy Savile
  14. Bill Tarmey
  15. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  16. Alexander Thynne Unique pick
  17. Jane Tomlinson
  18. Desmond Tutu
  19. Reg Varney
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Above Average For Norfolk
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 77th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  4. Louis Gossett (jnr) Unique pick
  5. Charlton Heston
  6. Alex Higgins
  7. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  8. Tammy Faye Messner
  9. Edwin Morgan Unique pick
  10. Eric Newby
  11. Harry Newcombe Unique pick
  12. Harry Patch
  13. The Abbé Pierre Unique pick
  14. Georg Ratzinger Unique pick
  15. Lou Rawls Joker!
  16. William Roberts Unique pick
  17. Norman Robinson Unique pick
  18. William Stone
  19. Eric Sykes
  20. Nancy Wake

 

AbraCadaver
First year in DDP.
  1. Lionel Blair
  2. George Bush (snr)
  3. Kirk Douglas
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. Paul Gascoigne
  6. Bob Holness Unique pick
  7. Eddie Large Unique pick
  8. Dame Ellen MacArthur Unique pick
  9. Roger Moore
  10. Barry Norman Unique pick
  11. Yoko Ono
  12. Prince Philip
  13. Claire Rayner
  14. John Spencer Joker!
  15. Alvin Stardust Unique pick
  16. Tommy Steele Unique pick
  17. Marty Wilde Unique pick
  18. Jack Wild
  19. Jocky Wilson Unique pick
  20. Jimmy Young

 

Alison The Assassin
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 24th= (2004)
A refugee from a now-defunct rival deadpool. A younger-than-average selection of celebs, with the emphasis on politics, music and entertainment.
  1. Rabbi Philip Berg
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. Buster Bloodvessel
  4. Ian Brady
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  8. Prince Ernst August of Hanover
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Jerry Lee Lewis
  11. Shane MacGowan
  12. Diego Maradona
  13. Slobodan Milosevic
  14. Liza Minnelli
  15. Ariel Sharon
  16. Eric Sykes
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Earl Woods
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Already Dead
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 4th (2005)
  1. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Alan Bennett
  4. Ross Davidson
  5. Basil D'Oliveira
  6. Oriana Fallaci
  7. Lady Bird Johnson
  8. Charles Lane
  9. Joe Longthorne
  10. Tammy Faye Messner
  11. Mike Peters
  12. Harold Pinter
  13. Ferenc Puskas
  14. Lou Rawls Joker!
  15. Margaret Thatcher
  16. Jane Tomlinson
  17. King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
  18. Abigail Van Buren Unique pick
  19. Wendy Wasserstein
  20. Greta Weitz Unique pick

 

Amireallydead
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Woody Allen
  3. Shirley Bassey
  4. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  5. Tony Booth
  6. George Bush (snr)
  7. Fidel Castro
  8. Doris Day
  9. Charlie Drake
  10. Paul Gascoigne
  11. Hugh Hefner
  12. Alex Higgins
  13. Henry Kissinger
  14. Eartha Kitt
  15. Joe Longthorne
  16. Nelson Mandela
  17. Jackie Stallone
  18. Dick Van Dyke
  19. Adam West
  20. Barbara Windsor

 

Asking For It
First year in DDP.
  1. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  2. Shamil Basayev
  3. Pope Benedict XVI
  4. George Bush (snr)
  5. Jimmy Carter
  6. Dick Cheney
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Sir Bernard Ingham Unique pick
  11. Ratko Mladic Unique pick
  12. Robert Mugabe
  13. Rupert Murdoch
  14. Maurice Papon
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. Paul Schaefer Unique pick
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. King Sihanouk
  19. Lord Norman Tebbit
  20. Margaret Thatcher Joker!

 

Bazzilliant
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 79th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Sam Aston Unique pick
  3. Raymond Baxter
  4. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  5. Tom Billington Unique pick
  6. 'Digger' Claude Choules
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Gary Glitter
  12. Rev Billy Graham
  13. Saddam Hussein
  14. Charles Lane
  15. Rick Parfitt
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Jane Tomlinson
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Beerbutton
First year in DDP.
  1. Joseph Barbera
  2. Captain Beefheart
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Brian Blessed
  5. Ernest Borgnine
  6. Fidel Castro
  7. Tony Curtis
  8. Pete Doherty
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Charlie Drake
  11. Albert Finney
  12. Gary Glitter Joker!
  13. Saddam Hussein
  14. Peter O'Toole
  15. Bettie Page
  16. William Shatner
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. June Whitfield Unique pick
  20. Richard Widmark

 

Beginnings of Rigor
First year in DDP.
  1. Adam Ant
  2. Eddy Arnold Unique pick
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Frank Cady Unique pick
  6. Kitty Carlisle
  7. Dick Clark
  8. Gerald Ford Joker!
  9. Al Jaffee Unique pick
  10. Lady Bird Johnson
  11. Charles Lane
  12. Art Linkletter
  13. Herbert Lom
  14. Karl Malden
  15. Mitch Miller
  16. Harry Morgan
  17. Les Paul
  18. Augusto Pinochet
  19. David Rockefeller Unique pick
  20. John Wooden

 

Bend The Bucket Like Beckham
First year in DDP.
  1. Jean Alexander
  2. Lord Ashley of Stoke
  3. Brian Blessed
  4. Max Bygraves
  5. Gary Glitter
  6. Alex Higgins Joker!
  7. Saddam Hussein
  8. Nat Lofthouse
  9. Diego Maradona
  10. Sir Trevor McDonald Unique pick
  11. Cliff Michelmore
  12. Ozzy Osbourne
  13. Prince Philip
  14. Nancy Reagan
  15. Sir Jimmy Savile
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. Eduard Shevardnadze Unique pick
  18. Eric Sykes
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

Best Left To Rest
First year in DDP.
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Sir Jack Brabham
  3. Sid Caesar
  4. Lord Peter Carrington
  5. Paul Gascoigne
  6. Günter Grass Unique pick
  7. Ludovic Kennedy
  8. Joe Longthorne Joker!
  9. Bernard Manning
  10. Bill Maynard
  11. Bettie Page
  12. Augusto Pinochet
  13. Ravi Shankar
  14. Eric Sykes
  15. Margaret Thatcher
  16. Richard Todd
  17. Anna Wing
  18. Sir Norman Wisdom
  19. John Wooden
  20. Jane Wyman

 

Big-Iain
Years in DDP: 11
Best position: 3rd= (2000)
DDP organiser 1996-2002, now taking a back seat but still entering a strong (or weak, depending how you look at it) team.
  1. John Astin
  2. Raymond Baxter Joker!
  3. Captain Beefheart
  4. Ivor Cutler
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. Alex Higgins
  8. Delores Hope
  9. Humphrey Lyttleton
  10. Nelson Mandela
  11. Patrick Moore
  12. Bettie Page
  13. Rev Ian Paisley
  14. Arnold Palmer
  15. Leslie Phillips
  16. Nancy Reagan
  17. J. D. Salinger
  18. Ronald Searle Unique pick
  19. Liz Smith Unique pick
  20. Harry Dean Stanton Unique pick

 

Bleedin' Heart
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 68th= (2005)
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Mel Brooks
  6. Sid Caesar
  7. Fidel Castro
  8. Queen Elizabeth II
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Hugh Hefner
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Henry Kissinger
  14. Jack Klugman
  15. Michael Moriarty Unique pick
  16. Peter O'Toole
  17. Harold Pinter Joker!
  18. J. D. Salinger
  19. Ariel Sharon
  20. Shirley Temple

 

Bob Mugabe's Swingtime Band
Years in DDP: 4
Best position: 14th= (2004)
Once again, a warm welcome back to the elderly Zimbabwean tyrant and his easy-listening backing group.
  1. Pope Benedict XVI
  2. Michael Foot Joker!
  3. Gerald Ford
  4. John Hume Unique pick
  5. Saddam Hussein
  6. General Wojciech Jaruzelski
  7. Sgt Charles Jenkins Unique pick
  8. Lady Bird Johnson
  9. Henry Kissinger
  10. Aung San Suu Kyi Unique pick
  11. Jean-Marie Le Pen
  12. Pedro Antonio Marin Unique pick
  13. Robert Mugabe
  14. Rev Ian Paisley
  15. Ian Smith
  16. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  17. Suharto
  18. King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
  19. Boris Yeltsin
  20. Viktor Yushchenko Unique pick

 

Brown Bread
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 44th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Jeremy Beadle
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Ross Davidson
  5. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. Rev Billy Graham
  8. Charles Haughey
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Paul Hunter
  12. Joe Longthorne
  13. Harold Pinter Joker!
  14. Ferenc Puskas
  15. Lou Rawls
  16. J. D. Salinger
  17. Carroll Shelby Unique pick
  18. John Spencer
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Jeremy Thorpe

 

Bunch of Old Bags
First year in DDP.
A less-than-complimentary all-female team.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Sarah Brady
  3. Barbara Bush
  4. Kitty Carlisle
  5. Yvonne de Carlo
  6. Olivia de Havilland
  7. Queen Elizabeth II
  8. Joan Fontaine
  9. Betty Ford Joker!
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. Dame Vera Lynn
  13. Anita Page
  14. Nancy Reagan
  15. Gloria Stuart
  16. Mollie Sugden
  17. Shirley Temple
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Mary Travers
  20. Phyllis A. Whitney

 

Burke 'n' Hare
First year in DDP.
  1. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
  2. Patrick Allen
  3. P. W. Botha
  4. Walter Cronkite Joker!
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Saddam Hussein
  7. Slobodan Milosevic
  8. Patrick Moore
  9. Mullah Omar Unique pick
  10. David Prowse
  11. Mickey Rooney
  12. Maximilian Schell
  13. Mollie Sugden
  14. Margaret Thatcher
  15. Dick Van Dyke
  16. Claus von Bülow
  17. Kurt Waldheim
  18. Richard Widmark
  19. Jimmy Young
  20. Efrem Zimbalist (jnr)

 

But I'm Not Dead Yet
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 79th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham Joker!
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Sarah Brady
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. John Kenneth Galbraith
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Delores Hope
  12. Charles Lane
  13. Art Linkletter
  14. Karl Malden
  15. Coretta Scott King
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. Sidney Sheldon
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Jane Tomlinson
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Canadian Paul
First year in DDP.
  1. Patty Andrews
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Joey Bishop
  5. Kitty Carlisle
  6. Arthur C Clarke
  7. Ronnie Corbett
  8. Glenn Ford
  9. Estelle Getty
  10. Steven Hill Unique pick
  11. Willis Lamb Unique pick
  12. Charles Lane
  13. Harold Pinter Joker!
  14. Lou Rawls
  15. Max Roach
  16. Fred Saberhagen Unique pick
  17. Ron Santo
  18. Charles Townes Unique pick
  19. James Van Allen
  20. John Archibald Wheeler Unique pick

 

Cap'n Ohtz
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Alan Bennett
  3. Ross Davidson
  4. Kirk Douglas
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Charles Forte Unique pick
  7. John Kenneth Galbraith
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Jack Jones
  11. Stanley Kunitz
  12. Joe Longthorne
  13. Sir Bernard Lovell Unique pick
  14. Maurice Papon
  15. Harold Pinter
  16. John Profumo
  17. Lou Rawls Joker!
  18. Mickey Rooney
  19. King Sihanouk
  20. Elizabeth Taylor

 

Cave's Corpses
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Sir Richard Attenborough
  4. Joseph Barbera
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Jimmy Carter
  7. Tam Dalyell Unique pick
  8. Mohammed Deif
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Clive Dunn
  11. Tom Finney
  12. Hugh Hefner
  13. Albert Hofmann
  14. Kim Jong-Il
  15. Hamid Karzai Joker!
  16. Diego Maradona
  17. Patrick Moore
  18. Robert Mugabe
  19. Augusto Pinochet
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Cefor's Cremains of the Day
Years in DDP: 7
Best position: 17th (2003)
One of two teams captained by a cat, but Cefor, with just 7 hits in the last 5 years, has been unable to match the success of his feline rival, Whitaker.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Chuck Berry
  4. Ian Brady
  5. Sid Caesar Joker!
  6. Kitty Carlisle
  7. Joan Collins
  8. Ronnie Corbett
  9. Estelle Getty
  10. Hulk Hogan
  11. Michael Jackson
  12. Ludovic Kennedy
  13. Lex Luger Unique pick
  14. Bernard Manning
  15. Marcel Marceau
  16. Maureen O'Hara
  17. Jackie Stallone
  18. Eric Sykes
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Jeremy Thorpe

 

Church(yard) On The Hill
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 61st= (2005)
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Pope Benedict XVI
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Ian Brady
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Charlie Drake
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Larry Hagman
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Kirsty Howard
  13. Evel Knievel
  14. Shane MacGowan
  15. Patrick Moore
  16. Rev Ian Paisley
  17. Harold Pinter Joker!
  18. Suharto
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Close The Casket
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 96th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Big Ron Atkinson
  3. Ian Brady Joker!
  4. Richard Briers
  5. The Duchess of Devonshire
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Betty Driver Unique pick
  8. Clive Dunn
  9. Michael J Fox
  10. Christopher Lee
  11. Jerry Lewis
  12. Joe Longthorne
  13. Hosni Mubarak
  14. Denis Norden
  15. Jane Russell
  16. Peter Sallis
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Eli Wallach
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Coffin Fit
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Julie Andrews Unique pick
  3. Chuck Berry
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Fidel Castro
  6. George Cole
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Clive Dunn
  9. Eminem
  10. Colin Farrell Unique pick
  11. Rev Billy Graham
  12. Saddam Hussein
  13. Henry Kissinger
  14. Angela Lansbury
  15. Christopher Lee
  16. Joe Longthorne
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Bernard Manning Joker!
  19. Paul Newman
  20. Elizabeth Taylor

 

Coffin It Up
First year in DDP.
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Max Bygraves
  3. Bill Deedes
  4. Basil D'Oliveira Joker!
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Ralph Fiennes Unique pick
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Rev Billy Graham
  10. Denis Healey
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Robert Mugabe
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Corin Redgrave
  16. Edmundo Ros
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Jimmy Young

 

Colin's Corpses
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. Ali Bongo
  4. George Cole
  5. Walter Cronkite
  6. Jack Douglas
  7. Michael Foot
  8. 'Mad' Frankie Fraser
  9. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  10. Alex Higgins
  11. Jerry Lee Lewis
  12. Dame Vera Lynn
  13. Patrick Moore
  14. Prince Philip
  15. John Profumo
  16. Mickey Rooney
  17. Peter Sallis
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Jeremy Thorpe
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Condi's Ill-Considered Probabilities
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 34th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Abdelaziz Bouteflika Unique pick
  3. Rudi Carrell
  4. Ross Davidson Joker!
  5. W. Mark Felt
  6. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  7. Estelle Getty
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Jörg Immendorff Unique pick
  10. Jack Jones
  11. Deborah Kerr
  12. Jochen Kowalski Unique pick
  13. Sir Freddie Laker Unique pick
  14. Sir Robert Mark Unique pick
  15. John Profumo
  16. Oral Roberts
  17. Edmundo Ros
  18. Malietoa Tanumafila II
  19. Jeremy Thorpe
  20. Peter Tuddenham Unique pick

 

Crazycarl
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 94th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Red Auerbach Joker!
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Alfredo Di Stefano
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Annette Funicello
  10. Estelle Getty
  11. Rev Billy Graham
  12. Larry Hagman
  13. Bobby Heenan
  14. Junior Johnson Unique pick
  15. Tom Laughlin Unique pick
  16. Ricardo Montalban
  17. Harry Morgan
  18. Lou Rawls
  19. Eddie Robinson
  20. Louis Rukeyser

 

Crem De La Crem
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 53rd= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham Joker!
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Max Bygraves
  4. Arthur C Clarke
  5. Ivor Cutler
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Clive Dunn
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  10. Karl Malden
  11. Nelson Mandela
  12. Patrick Moore
  13. Rev Ian Paisley
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Nancy Reagan
  16. Margaret Thatcher
  17. Jeremy Thorpe
  18. Reg Varney
  19. Anna Wing
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Dave's Dead, Aye Dead Drunk
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 27th= (2004)
Dave obviously sobered up long enough to pick a solid team with a couple of interesting choices in there.
  1. Robert Altman
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Ernest Borgnine
  4. Robert Earl Jones
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Tom Fox Unique pick
  7. Estelle Getty
  8. King Harald V of Norway
  9. Saddam Hussein
  10. Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone
  11. Norman Kember Joker!
  12. James Loney Unique pick
  13. Shirley MacLaine
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Paul Newman
  16. Jack Palance
  17. Keith Richards
  18. Harmeet Singh Sooden Unique pick
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Richard Todd

 

Dead And Buried
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 79th= (2005)
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan
  2. Tony Booth
  3. Sid Caesar
  4. Ken Dodd
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Julie Goodyear
  7. Herbert Lom
  8. Bill Maynard
  9. Mitch Miller
  10. Warren Mitchell
  11. Ricardo Montalban
  12. Ron Moody
  13. Richard O'Brien Unique pick
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Sidney Poitier
  16. Mickey Rooney
  17. Sir Jimmy Savile Joker!
  18. Mollie Sugden
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Jimmy Young

 

Dead And Loving It
First year in DDP.
  1. Mother Angelica
  2. Princess Anne
  3. Bea Arthur
  4. John Astin
  5. Captain Beefheart
  6. Ernest Borgnine
  7. Mel Brooks Joker!
  8. George Bush (snr)
  9. Red Buttons
  10. Sid Caesar
  11. Dick Clark
  12. Burt Reynolds
  13. Mickey Rooney
  14. Maximilian Schell
  15. Elizabeth Taylor
  16. Mary Tyler Moore Unique pick
  17. Dick Van Dyke
  18. Abe Vigoda
  19. Slim Whitman
  20. Gene Wilder

 

Dead As A Dodo
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 20th= (2004)
A solid performance in 2004, but were unable to match it in 2005, finishing well down the table in 79th place. Better luck this year.
  1. Mohammed Al-Fayed
  2. Jane Andrews
  3. Richard Briers
  4. Petula Clark Unique pick
  5. Hugues Cuenod
  6. Tony Curtis
  7. Neil Diamond Unique pick
  8. Bulent Ecevit
  9. Clare Hollingworth
  10. Stan Lee Joker!
  11. Nat Lofthouse
  12. Shirley MacLaine
  13. Liza Minnelli
  14. Olivia Newton-John Unique pick
  15. Kazuo Ohno
  16. Sidney Poitier
  17. Kenny Rogers
  18. Mickey Rooney
  19. Jackie Stallone
  20. Ray Stevens

 

Dead Beat
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 118th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Ingmar Bergman
  3. P. W. Botha
  4. Frank Bough
  5. Frank Bruno
  6. Roger Cook
  7. Michael Crawford Unique pick
  8. Ken Dodd
  9. Clint Eastwood
  10. Agnetha Faltskog Unique pick
  11. Gordon Honeycombe Unique pick
  12. Herbert Lom
  13. Lee Majors
  14. Karl Malden
  15. Cliff Michelmore
  16. Slobodan Milosevic
  17. Paul O'Grady
  18. Augusto Pinochet Joker!
  19. Salman Rushdie
  20. Sir Jimmy Savile

 

Dead By Dawn
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Andy Bell
  4. Chuck Berry
  5. James Brown
  6. Alex Ferguson Unique pick
  7. Bruce Forsyth
  8. Gary Glitter Joker!
  9. Saddam Hussein
  10. Angela Lansbury
  11. Christopher Lee
  12. Patrick Moore
  13. Peter O'Toole
  14. Peter Sallis
  15. Eric Sykes
  16. Margaret Thatcher
  17. Desmond Tutu
  18. Reg Varney
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Ronnie Wood

 

Dead Certs
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali Joker!
  2. Kenny Baker
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Frank Carson
  5. George Cole
  6. Roger Cook
  7. Pete Doherty
  8. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  9. Paul Gascoigne
  10. Mikhail Gorbachev
  11. Hugh Hefner
  12. Shane MacGowan
  13. Denis Norden
  14. Leslie Phillips
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. William Shatner
  17. Ringo Starr
  18. Jane Tomlinson
  19. Gene Wilder
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Dead Ends
First year in DDP.
  1. Patrick Allen
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Tom Baker Joker!
  4. Joseph Barbera
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Robert Earl Jones
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Estelle Getty
  9. Michael Gough
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Saddam Hussein
  12. Al Lewis
  13. Patrick Moore
  14. Denis Norden
  15. Les Paul
  16. Prince Philip
  17. John Profumo
  18. Eric Sykes
  19. Reg Varney
  20. Anna Wing

 

Dead Is As Dead Does
First year in DDP.
  1. Kate Adie Unique pick
  2. Sir Richard Attenborough
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Ian Brady
  5. George Bush (snr)
  6. Max Bygraves
  7. Pete Doherty
  8. Boy George
  9. Richard Griffiths
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. John Hurt Unique pick
  12. Shane MacGowan
  13. Bill Maynard
  14. Shaun Ryder Unique pick Joker!
  15. Eric Sykes
  16. Elizabeth Taylor
  17. Jayceon 'The Game' Taylor Unique pick
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Reg Varney
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Dead Man Walking
First year in DDP.
  1. Adam Ant
  2. Michael Barrymore
  3. Ian Brady
  4. Joan Collins
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Michael J Fox
  7. Paul Gascoigne
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. Rolf Harris
  10. Christopher Lee Joker!
  11. Dame Vera Lynn
  12. Roger Moore
  13. Paul O'Grady
  14. Yoko Ono
  15. John Profumo
  16. Debbie Reynolds Unique pick
  17. Diana Ross
  18. Anna Nicole Smith
  19. Peter Stringfellow
  20. Lord Norman Tebbit

 

Dead Ringers
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 61st= (2005)
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Mohammed Al-Fayed
  3. Iyad Allawi
  4. Woody Allen
  5. Princess Anne
  6. Neil Armstrong
  7. Sir Richard Attenborough
  8. Ronnie Biggs
  9. Jim Bowen
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. Patrick Moore
  12. Roger Moore
  13. Sidney Poitier
  14. Robert Redford Unique pick
  15. Sir Bobby Robson
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. Jackie Stallone
  18. Eric Sykes
  19. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  20. Laurence Tureaud

 

Dead, Dead And Never Called Me Mother
First year in DDP.
  1. Kenny Baker
  2. Ingmar Bergman
  3. Bernie Ecclestone Unique pick
  4. Richard Griffiths
  5. Ray Harryhausen Joker!
  6. Kim Jong-Il
  7. Deborah Kerr
  8. Stan Lee
  9. Nelson Mandela
  10. Eric Newby
  11. Augusto Pinochet
  12. Harold Pinter
  13. Mickey Rooney
  14. Ariel Sharon
  15. Richard M. Sherman Unique pick
  16. Jean Simmons Unique pick
  17. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Jane Tomlinson
  20. Jane Wyman

 

Deadknobs And Doomed Picks
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 61st= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Rabbi Philip Berg
  4. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  5. George Bush (snr)
  6. Noam Chomsky
  7. Alfredo Di Stefano
  8. Michael Foot
  9. John Glenn
  10. Gary Glitter
  11. Senator Edward Kennedy
  12. Ludovic Kennedy
  13. Henry Kissinger
  14. Dame Vera Lynn
  15. Rick Parfitt
  16. Billy Preston
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Desmond Tutu
  19. Jack Wild
  20. Brian Wilson

 

Deadpoolers
First year in DDP.
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan
  2. Mohammed Al-Fayed
  3. Patrick Allen
  4. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Joker!
  5. Jane Andrews
  6. Adam Ant
  7. Neil Armstrong
  8. Bea Arthur
  9. Sir Richard Attenborough
  10. Michael Barrymore
  11. Raymond Baxter
  12. Tony Booth
  13. George Bush (snr)
  14. George Cole
  15. Doris Day
  16. Pete Doherty
  17. Jack Douglas
  18. Michael Foot
  19. Dick Francis
  20. Gary Glitter

 

Death Becomes Us
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham Joker!
  2. Patty Andrews
  3. Mother Angelica
  4. A. I. Bezzerides
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Ernest Borgnine
  7. Red Buttons
  8. Kitty Carlisle
  9. Fidel Castro
  10. Dick Clark
  11. Walter Cronkite
  12. Phyllis Diller
  13. Gerald Ford
  14. Annette Funicello
  15. Bobby Heenan
  16. Don Knotts
  17. Jack La Lanne Unique pick
  18. Sherwood Schwartz
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Death From Above
First year in DDP.
  1. Elizabeth Bolden
  2. Alois Brunner Unique pick
  3. Edna Campbell Unique pick
  4. Jimmy Carter
  5. Dick Cheney
  6. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  7. Alfredo Di Stefano
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Steve Fossett Unique pick Joker!
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Delta Goodrem
  12. Tom Green Unique pick
  13. King Harald V of Norway
  14. Jesse Helms
  15. Edith 'Judy' Ingamells
  16. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  17. Slobodan Milosevic
  18. Augusto Pinochet
  19. Theodor Dumitru Stolojan Unique pick
  20. Elizabeth Taylor

 

Death On The Rocks
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Patty Andrews
  3. Fidel Castro
  4. Walter Cronkite
  5. Eliza Gladys Milvina Dean
  6. Olivia de Havilland
  7. Pete Doherty Joker!
  8. Joan Fontaine
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Albert Hofmann
  11. Marion 'Suge' Knight Unique pick
  12. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  13. Al Lewis
  14. Courtney Love
  15. Shane MacGowan
  16. Sun Myung Moon
  17. Les Paul
  18. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Death Stalks United
First year in DDP.
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Ian Brady
  3. Pete Doherty
  4. Kirk Douglas
  5. Clive Dunn
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Holly Johnson
  8. Henry Kissinger
  9. Dame Vera Lynn
  10. Patrick Moore
  11. Peter O'Toole
  12. Leslie Phillips
  13. Brad Pitt Unique pick Joker!
  14. Mickey Rooney
  15. Peter Sallis
  16. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Deathlist.net
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 1st (2004)
An entry from the organisers of another celeb death-related website - check out their site at (you guessed it) www.deathlist.net. Won the DDP at their first attempt in 2004, after an epic battle with the reigning champion.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Alfredo Di Stefano
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Milton Friedman
  8. Ernest Gallo
  9. Albert Hofmann
  10. Lady Bird Johnson
  11. Stanley Kunitz
  12. Charles Lane
  13. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  14. Al Lewis
  15. Patrick Moore
  16. Byron Nelson
  17. Oscar Niemeyer
  18. Harold Pinter
  19. Lou Rawls Joker!
  20. Suharto

 

Deathpig
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Marc Almond
  3. Adam Ant
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Betty Ford
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Michael J Fox
  9. Oscar Niemeyer
  10. Ozzy Osbourne
  11. Les Paul
  12. Augusto Pinochet
  13. J. D. Salinger Joker!
  14. Paul Scholes Unique pick
  15. Anna Nicole Smith
  16. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Kurt Waldheim
  20. Phyllis A. Whitney

 

Die, Celebs, Die!!!
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Neil Armstrong Joker!
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Ian Brady
  5. Maxine Carr Unique pick
  6. Fidel Castro
  7. Ronnie Corbett
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. King Harald V of Norway
  10. Sir Edmund Hillary
  11. Ian Huntley
  12. Saddam Hussein
  13. Stan Lee
  14. Jerry Lewis
  15. Nat Lofthouse
  16. Imelda Marcos
  17. Lester Piggott
  18. Norman Schwarzkopf Unique pick
  19. Gene Wilder
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Died In A Nasty Accident
First year in DDP.
  1. Pope Benedict XVI
  2. June Brown
  3. Ross Davidson
  4. Bill Deedes
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Charlton Heston
  8. Alex Higgins
  9. Saddam Hussein
  10. Michael Jackson
  11. Duchess of Kent
  12. Augusto Pinochet
  13. Harold Pinter
  14. Ariel Sharon
  15. Graeme Souness Unique pick
  16. Peter Sutcliffe
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Jane Tomlinson Joker!
  19. Richard Widmark
  20. Jack Wild

 

Diepod Shuffle
First year in DDP.
  1. Rizgar Mohammed Amin
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Jimmy Carter
  4. Fidel Castro
  5. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  6. Alfredo Di Stefano Joker!
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Ron Greenwood
  10. Richard Griffiths
  11. Saddam Hussein
  12. Dame Vera Lynn
  13. Walter Mondale Unique pick
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Muriel Spark
  16. Malietoa Tanumafila II
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
  19. George Wendt
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Digging The Grave
First year in DDP.
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan
  2. Mohammed Al-Fayed
  3. Iyad Allawi
  4. Woody Allen
  5. Adam Ant
  6. Big Ron Atkinson
  7. Michael Barrymore
  8. Andy Bell
  9. Ronnie Biggs
  10. Buster Bloodvessel
  11. June Brown
  12. James Brown
  13. Jacques Chirac
  14. Bill Cosby
  15. Pete Doherty Joker!
  16. Mick Marrs Unique pick
  17. Peter Sutcliffe
  18. Donald Trump Unique pick
  19. Ronnie Wood
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Ding Dong Dead Dudes
First year in DDP.
  1. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
  2. Buzz Aldrin
  3. Moqtada al-Sadr
  4. Mahmoud al-Zahar
  5. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  6. Clive Dunn
  7. Bruce Forsyth
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Sir Edmund Hillary
  11. David Hockney Unique pick
  12. Evel Knievel
  13. Jerry Lee Lewis
  14. Dame Vera Lynn
  15. Shane MacGowan
  16. Ozzy Osbourne
  17. Ralf Schumacher
  18. Lord Snowdon
  19. Muriel Spark
  20. Gene Wilder

 

Don't Fear (The Reaper)
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Patty Andrews
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Phil Collins Unique pick
  6. Jack Douglas
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Noel Edmonds Unique pick
  9. Michael Foot
  10. Gary Glitter
  11. Alex Higgins
  12. Michael Jackson
  13. Liza Minnelli
  14. Augusto Pinochet Joker!
  15. Claire Rayner
  16. Nancy Reagan
  17. Jimmy Tarbuck
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Down Under The Daisies
First year in DDP.
  1. Mohammed Al-Fayed
  2. Raymond Baxter
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Kirk Douglas
  5. Charlie Drake
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Gary Glitter
  8. Denis Healey
  9. Barry Humphries
  10. Holly Johnson
  11. Kylie Minogue
  12. Peter O'Toole
  13. Augusto Pinochet
  14. Harold Pinter
  15. Ariel Sharon Joker!
  16. Peter Sutcliffe
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Dr Death's Diabolical Dice of Doom
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 79th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Dr Huda Salih Ammash Unique pick
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Elizabeth Bolden
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Milton Friedman
  9. Stephen Hawking Joker!
  10. Paul Hunter
  11. Saddam Hussein
  12. Joe Longthorne
  13. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. Ibrahim Rugova
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. Mickey Spillane
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. U Win Tin Unique pick

 

Drunkasaskunk
Years in DDP: 8
Best position: 1st (1998 & 1999)
The boozy Glaswegian and twice DDP champion is always one to watch.
  1. Raymond Baxter
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Olivia de Havilland
  4. Tom Finney
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Rev Billy Graham
  8. Denis Healey
  9. Alex Higgins
  10. Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. Al Lewis
  13. Maurice Papon
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Harold Pinter
  16. Lou Rawls Joker!
  17. King Sihanouk
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Jeremy Thorpe
  20. Abe Vigoda

 

Duke
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor Joker!
  2. Rosalynn Carter Unique pick
  3. Michael Foot
  4. Betty Ford
  5. Gerald Ford
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. Ernest Gallo
  8. Dame Helen Gardiner
  9. Estelle Getty
  10. Jenna Hawkins Unique pick
  11. Albert Hofmann
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Frankie Laine
  14. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  15. Al Lewis
  16. Princess Lilian of Sweden Unique pick
  17. Oscar Niemeyer
  18. Augusto Pinochet
  19. Robert Sargent Shriver
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Dysfunctional
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 20th= (2005)
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Ross Davidson
  5. Clive Dunn
  6. Robert Earl Jones
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Paul Gascoigne
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Larry Hagman
  11. Stephen Hawking
  12. Charlton Heston
  13. Saddam Hussein
  14. Lady Bird Johnson Joker!
  15. Joe Longthorne
  16. Dame Vera Lynn
  17. Richard O'Sullivan
  18. Augusto Pinochet
  19. Ron Santo
  20. Elizabeth Taylor

 

Eat My Dust
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 10th= (2004)
A gauntlet-throwing team name, but one which they have yet to live up to, having finished 10th and 34th in their 2 outings to date.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Elizabeth Bolden Joker!
  5. Arthur C Clarke
  6. Hugues Cuenod
  7. Robert Earl Jones
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  13. Dame Vera Lynn
  14. Karl Malden
  15. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  16. Byron Nelson
  17. Oscar Niemeyer
  18. Jane Tomlinson
  19. Richard Widmark
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Eejit
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 68th= (2005)
  1. Elizabeth Bolden
  2. Ray Bradbury
  3. Arthur C Clarke
  4. Ross Davidson Joker!
  5. Jerry Falwell
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  8. Estelle Getty
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Lady Bird Johnson
  11. Frankie Laine
  12. Jerry Lewis
  13. Joe Longthorne
  14. Dame Vera Lynn
  15. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  16. Richard O'Sullivan
  17. Peter O'Toole
  18. Augusto Pinochet
  19. Harold Pinter
  20. Kurt Waldheim

 

Erm...Excuse Me...Aren't You...Dead?
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Patty Andrews
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Joseph Barbera
  5. Elizabeth Bolden Joker!
  6. Olivia de Havilland
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Phil Drabble
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Stephen Hawking
  12. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  13. Patrick Moore
  14. John Profumo
  15. Meinhardt Raabe Unique pick
  16. King Sihanouk
  17. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
  20. Kurt Waldheim

 

Eternity Tours
First year in DDP.
  1. Ingmar Bergman
  2. Dick Clark
  3. Walter Cronkite
  4. Blake Edwards Unique pick
  5. Dan Fogelberg
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. Lionel Jeffries
  8. Van Johnson Unique pick
  9. Don Knotts
  10. Frankie Laine
  11. Herbert Lom
  12. Nelson Mandela
  13. Harry Morgan
  14. Les Paul
  15. Luise Rainer
  16. Lou Rawls Joker!
  17. Mickey Rooney
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Richard Widmark
  20. Jane Wyman

 

Facing The Final Curtain
First year in DDP.
  1. Joseph Barbera
  2. Kirk Douglas Joker!
  3. Michael Foot
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  6. Germaine Greer Unique pick
  7. Denis Healey
  8. Sir Edmund Hillary
  9. Deborah Kerr
  10. Liza Minnelli
  11. Patrick Moore
  12. Rev Ian Paisley
  13. Augusto Pinochet
  14. Harold Pinter
  15. Mickey Rooney
  16. Arthur Scargill
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Lord Norman Tebbit
  19. Shirley Temple
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Fallen Sparrow
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 1st (2005)
The 2005 winner returns to defend his title, with a slightly less off-the-wall selection of celebs this time. However, one of them, novelist Anne Green, turned out to be already dead, so he is running with only 19 team members. Still 4 unique picks though.
  1. John Ashbery Unique pick
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ruth Bernhard Unique pick
  4. Hugues Cuenod
  5. Idriss Déby Unique pick
  6. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  7. Bulent Ecevit
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Charles Haughey
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. Ratu Iloilo
  12. Stanley Kunitz
  13. Diego Maradona
  14. Emiliano Mercado del Toro Joker!
  15. Kazuo Ohno
  16. Dr Richard Olney Unique pick
  17. Harold Pinter
  18. Ibrahim Rugova
  19. Suharto

 

Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Kill!
First year in DDP.
  1. Norah Baring
  2. Elliot Carter Unique pick
  3. Hugues Cuenod
  4. Eve Curie Labouisse
  5. Jean Delannoy
  6. Estelle Getty
  7. Marie Glory Unique pick
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Johannes Heesters Unique pick
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. Charles Lane
  12. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  13. Maurice Papon
  14. Ferenc Puskas
  15. Lou Rawls Joker!
  16. Ibrahim Rugova
  17. Peter Sallis
  18. Mohammed Zahir Shah
  19. Phyllis A. Whitney
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Finbarr Returns from the Dead (Again)
Years in DDP: 6
Best position: 2nd (2000)
Has been around most years since the early days of DDP, though has never really come close to repeating his 2nd place of 2000.
  1. Marc Almond
  2. Raymond Baxter
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Ian Brady
  5. George Bush (snr)
  6. P Diddy
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor Joker!
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Alex Higgins
  12. Bernard Manning
  13. Diego Maradona
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Nana Mouskouri
  16. Prince Philip
  17. Iggy Pop
  18. Peter Sutcliffe
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Janette Tough Unique pick

 

Five-Fingered Hand Of Death
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 29th= (2005)
  1. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Fidel Castro
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. W. Mark Felt
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. King Harald V of Norway
  10. Alison Hartley Unique pick Joker!
  11. Saddam Hussein
  12. Don Knotts
  13. Nelson Mandela
  14. Mohammed Zahir Shah
  15. King Sihanouk
  16. Ayatollah Sistani
  17. Suharto
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Abdurrahman Wahid Unique pick
  20. Earl Woods

 

Fox In A Box
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 44th= (2005)
  1. Joseph Barbera
  2. Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen Unique pick
  3. Ernest Borgnine
  4. Arthur C Clarke
  5. George Cole
  6. Jean Delannoy
  7. Phyllis Diller
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Annette Funicello Joker!
  11. Rev Billy Graham
  12. Hazel Hawke Unique pick
  13. Charlton Heston
  14. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  15. Al Lewis
  16. Patrick Macnee
  17. Peter O'Toole
  18. Frank Scarrabelotti Unique pick
  19. George Sewell Unique pick
  20. Ariel Sharon

 

Freddie Starr Ate My Rhino
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Lord Ashley of Stoke
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. George Bush (snr)
  5. Arthur C Clarke
  6. Doug Ellis
  7. 'Mad' Frankie Fraser
  8. Larry Hagman
  9. Al Lewis
  10. Karl Malden
  11. Marcel Marceau
  12. Patrick Moore
  13. Byron Nelson
  14. Harry Patch
  15. Floyd Patterson
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Mickey Rooney
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom Joker!
  20. Jane Wyman

 

gdh200
First year in DDP.
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. P. W. Botha
  4. Sir Jack Brabham
  5. Ian Brady Joker!
  6. 'Mad' Frankie Fraser
  7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Unique pick
  8. Ian Huntley
  9. Holly Johnson
  10. Imelda Marcos
  11. Bill Maynard
  12. Ron Moody
  13. Robert Mugabe
  14. Denis Norden
  15. Peter O'Toole
  16. Nancy Reagan
  17. Sir Jimmy Savile
  18. Peter Sutcliffe
  19. Lord Norman Tebbit
  20. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

George Lass and the Gravelings
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 79th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Pete Doherty
  4. Andy 'The Viking' Fordham Unique pick Joker!
  5. Paul Gascoigne
  6. Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone
  7. Joe Longthorne
  8. Rev Ian Paisley
  9. Rick Parfitt
  10. Harold Pinter
  11. John Profumo
  12. Nancy Reagan
  13. Mickey Rooney
  14. Mollie Sugden
  15. Margaret Thatcher
  16. Dick Van Dyke
  17. Claus von Bülow
  18. Slim Whitman
  19. Anna Wing
  20. Jimmy Young

 

Gerald Ford Must Die
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  3. Osama bin Laden
  4. Joey Bishop
  5. Ernest Borgnine
  6. James Brown
  7. Fidel Castro
  8. Dick Clark
  9. Gerald Ford Joker!
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Andy Griffith
  12. Delores Hope
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Al Lewis
  15. Jerry Lewis
  16. Nelson Mandela
  17. Ed McMahon
  18. Tammy Faye Messner
  19. Mickey Rooney
  20. Phyllis A. Whitney

 

Get Your Kicks in 2006
First year in DDP.
  1. Lauren Bacall
  2. Ingmar Bergman
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Osama bin Laden Joker!
  5. Mel Brooks
  6. James Brown
  7. George Bush (snr)
  8. Frank Carson
  9. Giuseppe di Stefano
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Denis Healey
  12. Saddam Hussein
  13. Henry Kissinger
  14. Angela Lansbury
  15. Nat Lofthouse
  16. Cliff Michelmore
  17. Bill Pertwee
  18. Nancy Reagan
  19. Slim Whitman
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Git-R-Dead
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 94th= (2005)
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  3. Pete Best Unique pick
  4. Robert Byrd Unique pick
  5. Jacques Chirac
  6. Bill Clinton
  7. Walter Cronkite
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Michael J Fox
  10. Estelle Getty
  11. Michael Jackson
  12. Magic Johnson Unique pick
  13. Kim Jong-Il Joker!
  14. Senator Edward Kennedy
  15. Courtney Love
  16. Harry Morgan
  17. Keith Richards
  18. Grace Slick
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Gore Vidal

 

Globaltruth
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 68th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Ernest Borgnine
  4. Barry Cryer Unique pick
  5. Doug Ellis
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Bruce Forsyth
  8. Dick Francis
  9. Lord Glenamara Joker!
  10. Ray Kennedy Unique pick
  11. Nat Lofthouse
  12. Dame Vera Lynn
  13. Dom Mintoff Unique pick
  14. John Mortimer
  15. Maximilian Schell
  16. Jeremy Thorpe
  17. Kurt Vonnegut
  18. Caspar Weinberger
  19. Anna Wing
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Go Fish
First year in DDP.
  1. Tony Benn
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Ian Brady
  4. Alfredo Di Stefano
  5. Ghazi Hammud al-Obeidi
  6. Charles Haughey
  7. Laurel Hester Unique pick Joker!
  8. George Martin Unique pick
  9. Brad McGann Unique pick
  10. Mike Peters
  11. Harold Pinter
  12. Patsy Ramsey Unique pick
  13. Lou Rawls
  14. Ibrahim Rugova
  15. Wilfred Sheed Unique pick
  16. Sir William Skate
  17. William Styron Unique pick
  18. Jeremy Thorpe
  19. Jane Tomlinson
  20. Wendy Wasserstein

 

Godot's Waiting List
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Alan Bennett
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Ray Bradbury
  5. Ross Davidson Joker!
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Lucian Freud Unique pick
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Rev Billy Graham
  10. Charles Haughey
  11. Eric Hobsbawm Unique pick
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Sun Myung Moon
  14. Rev Ian Paisley
  15. Harold Pinter
  16. Wendy Richard Unique pick
  17. King Sihanouk
  18. John Spencer
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Jeremy Thorpe

 

God's Waiting Room
First year in DDP.
  1. Michelangelo Antonioni
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Sir Alec Bedser
  4. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  5. Robert Carr
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. Estelle Getty
  8. Michael Gough
  9. Ron Greenwood
  10. Gordon B. Hinckley Unique pick
  11. Albert Hofmann
  12. Betty Hutton Unique pick
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Charles Lane
  15. Karl Malden
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. Run Run Shaw
  18. Jane Tomlinson
  19. Chad Varah
  20. Nancy Wake

 

Going Green
First year in DDP.
  1. Leo Abse Unique pick
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Robert Carr
  4. Hugues Cuenod
  5. Betty Ford
  6. Gerald Ford Joker!
  7. John Kenneth Galbraith
  8. Denis Healey
  9. Edna Healey Unique pick
  10. Joe Longthorne
  11. Eric Longworth Unique pick
  12. Patrick Francis Maitland Unique pick
  13. Lord Merlyn-Rees Unique pick
  14. Ruby Muhammad
  15. Lord David Renton
  16. Walter Scheel Unique pick
  17. King Sihanouk
  18. Charles John Tottenham Unique pick
  19. Jorn Utzon Unique pick
  20. Johnnie Walker

 

Going Underground
First year in DDP.
  1. Roman Abramovich
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Johnny Ball Unique pick
  4. Lionel Blair
  5. June Brown
  6. Bobby Charlton Unique pick
  7. Ronnie Corbett
  8. Snoop Dogg Unique pick
  9. Pete Doherty
  10. Gerald Ford Joker!
  11. Sir David Frost
  12. Paul Gascoigne
  13. Jimmy Greaves
  14. David Jason
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Ronnie O'Sullivan Unique pick
  17. Rick Parfitt
  18. Keith Richards
  19. Michael Schumacher
  20. Desmond Tutu

 

Grizly
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 23rd= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Lillo Brancato Jr Unique pick
  4. Dick Clark
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. W. Mark Felt
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Dr Jack Kevorkian
  12. Al Lewis
  13. Jerry Lewis
  14. Richard O'Sullivan
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. Sir William Skate
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Wendy Wasserstein Joker!

 

Grobler's Stiff Ones
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 23rd= (2005)
  1. Richard Adams Unique pick
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Peter Coe Unique pick
  4. Bill Deedes
  5. Basil D'Oliveira
  6. Charlie Drake
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone
  11. Harper Lee Unique pick
  12. Henry Lincoln Unique pick
  13. Joe Longthorne
  14. Brian Mawhinney Unique pick
  15. Patrick Moore
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. Lou Rawls
  18. Corin Redgrave
  19. John Spencer Joker!
  20. Rachel Squire

 

Hardwood Surround
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  4. Max Bygraves
  5. Bill Deedes
  6. Charlie Drake
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  9. Dame Helen Gardiner
  10. King Harald V of Norway
  11. Kirsty Howard
  12. Ratu Iloilo
  13. Jerry Lewis
  14. Joe Longthorne
  15. Bernard Manning
  16. Harry Patch
  17. Harold Pinter
  18. Robert Robinson Unique pick
  19. Maximilian Schell
  20. Suharto

 

Heaven Can't Wait 'til Another Day
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 77th= (2005)
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ingmar Bergman
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  5. W. Mark Felt
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Estelle Getty
  8. Charles Haughey Joker!
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Lady Bird Johnson
  11. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  12. Augusto Pinochet
  13. Ibrahim Rugova
  14. Debra Shipley Unique pick
  15. King Sihanouk
  16. Cardinal Adolfo Antonio Suarez Rivera Unique pick
  17. Suharto
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Mary Travers
  20. Jane Wyman

 

Henry's Half-Dead Heroes
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 27th= (2004)
A mediocre hit rate so far of 6 in 2 years, but HHDH did claim the last hit of 2005 - a unique pick on New Year's Eve.
  1. Joseph Barbera
  2. Boutros Boutros-Ghali Unique pick
  3. Lord Peter Carrington
  4. Walter Cronkite
  5. Bill Deedes
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Ernest Gallo
  8. Rudolph Giuliani Unique pick
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Albert Hofmann
  11. Imelda Marcos
  12. Hosni Mubarak
  13. Harold Pinter Joker!
  14. Peter Sallis
  15. Major Bruce Shand
  16. Ravi Shankar
  17. Omar Sharif
  18. Murray Walker
  19. Alan Whicker Unique pick
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Holicman
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 68th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Jack Bruce
  5. Red Buttons
  6. Dick Clark
  7. Yvonne de Carlo
  8. Phyllis Diller
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Bob Dylan Joker!
  11. Tom Finney
  12. Gerald Ford
  13. Larry Hagman
  14. Sir Edmund Hillary
  15. Don Knotts
  16. Frankie Laine
  17. Al Lewis
  18. Harry Morgan
  19. Jack Palance
  20. Jane Wyman

 

Hung Like Kong
First year in DDP.
  1. Mohammed Al-Fayed
  2. Woody Allen
  3. Michael Aspel
  4. Sir Richard Attenborough
  5. Chuck Berry
  6. Sir Sean Connery
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. Rolf Harris
  10. Hulk Hogan Joker!
  11. Ian Huntley
  12. Jonathan King
  13. Patrick Moore
  14. Willie Nelson
  15. Jack Palance
  16. Prince Philip
  17. Sidney Poitier
  18. Kenny Rogers
  19. Roy Scheider
  20. Brian Wilson

 

I Smell Dead People
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 2nd (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Pat Arcese Unique pick
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Elizabeth Bolden Joker!
  5. Maxine Edgington
  6. Bishop Michael Evans Unique pick
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Don Ho
  9. Paul Hunter
  10. Norman Kember
  11. Lily Lacoste Unique pick
  12. Charles Lane
  13. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  14. Geraldine O'Neill
  15. Harry Patch
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. Lord David Renton
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Phyllis A. Whitney

 

Ilikeekilly
First year in DDP.
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Muhammad Ali Joker!
  3. Neil Armstrong
  4. Osama bin Laden
  5. David Bowie
  6. William F. Buckley Unique pick
  7. George Bush (snr)
  8. Jimmy Carter
  9. Fidel Castro
  10. Dick Clark
  11. Bill Cosby
  12. Walter Cronkite
  13. Saddam Hussein
  14. Andrew Lloyd Webber Unique pick
  15. Sir Arthur Marshall
  16. Bill Murray Unique pick
  17. Ozzy Osbourne
  18. Mickey Rooney
  19. Diana Ross
  20. Dick Van Dyke

 

Impaled on The Antlers of Doom
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 17th= (2005)
  1. Ernest Borgnine
  2. Kirk Douglas
  3. W. Mark Felt
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. Estelle Getty
  6. Rev Billy Graham
  7. Charlton Heston
  8. Lady Bird Johnson
  9. Ghulam Ishaq Khan Unique pick
  10. Phil Lesh Unique pick
  11. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  12. Naguib Mahfouz Unique pick
  13. Tony Martin Unique pick
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Harold Pinter Joker!
  16. Carlo Ponti
  17. Vidal Sassoon Unique pick
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Earl Woods
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

In Bed with Maradona
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 88th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Michael Barrymore
  4. Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto Unique pick
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Tom Finney
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Boy George
  9. Alex Higgins
  10. Ian Huntley
  11. Diego Maradona Joker!
  12. Bill Oddie Unique pick
  13. Augusto Pinochet
  14. John Profumo
  15. Arthur Scargill
  16. Aurelian Smith Jr Unique pick
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Laurence Tureaud
  19. Mike Tyson Unique pick
  20. Jan-Michael Vincent Unique pick

 

Inar's Golden Oldies
First year in DDP.
  1. June Allyson Unique pick
  2. Michelangelo Antonioni
  3. Ingmar Bergman
  4. Joey Bishop
  5. Arthur C Clarke
  6. Jules Dassin Joker!
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Glenn Ford
  9. Lady Bird Johnson
  10. Karl Malden
  11. Ronald Neame Unique pick
  12. Alain Resnais Unique pick
  13. Mickey Rooney
  14. Ann Rutherford Unique pick
  15. J. D. Salinger
  16. Sherwood Schwartz
  17. Aaron Spelling
  18. Gloria Stuart
  19. Roy Ward Baker Unique pick
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Indeed, That's Out Of The Air
First year in DDP.
  1. Rudolf Arnheim Unique pick
  2. Elizabeth Bolden Joker!
  3. Louise Bourgeois Unique pick
  4. Earl Butz Unique pick
  5. Eve Curie Labouisse
  6. Jules Dassin
  7. Michael E. Debakey Unique pick
  8. Leila Denmark
  9. Anatoly Dobrynin Unique pick
  10. Miep Gies
  11. Ray Harryhausen
  12. Lena Horne
  13. Mykola Kolessa Unique pick
  14. Stanley Kunitz
  15. Sir Dennis Mahon Unique pick
  16. Tullio Pinelli Unique pick
  17. Frederica Sagor Maas
  18. Run Run Shaw
  19. Paul Tibbetts
  20. Edward Upward

 

International House of Death
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Arthur C Clarke
  5. Gerald Ford
  6. John Kenneth Galbraith
  7. Ernest Gallo
  8. Estelle Getty
  9. Rev Billy Graham
  10. Charles Haughey
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. Eunice Kennedy Shriver Joker!
  13. Evel Knievel
  14. Charles Lane
  15. Lou Rawls
  16. King Sihanouk
  17. Alfredo Stroessner
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Phyllis A. Whitney
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Jaguar X-Types
Years in DDP: 4
Best position: 12th= (2002)
Reliable performers - always in the top half of the table.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. Clarissa Churchill
  4. Arthur C Clarke
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Clive Dunn
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Henry Kissinger
  10. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  11. Fred Lloyd Unique pick
  12. Marcel Marceau
  13. John Oborne Unique pick
  14. Rev Ian Paisley
  15. Harry Patch
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. John Profumo
  18. Mickey Rooney
  19. William Stone
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Jesus Jones
Years in DDP: 11
Best position: 2nd (1996)
Other than Big Iain himself, the only competitor to have taken part in DDP every year since the start. Has finished 2nd, 3rd (twice) & 4th - could this be the year for JJ to take top spot?
  1. Bea Arthur
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. Mel Brooks
  4. Max Bygraves
  5. Jimmy Carter
  6. Graham Crowden
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Clive Dunn
  9. Tom Finney
  10. Michael Foot
  11. Estelle Getty
  12. Rev Billy Graham
  13. Jerry Lewis
  14. Nat Lofthouse
  15. Humphrey Lyttleton
  16. Peter Sallis
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Reg Varney
  19. Betty White
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Jim Devine
First year in DDP.
  1. Patrick Allen
  2. Raymond Baxter
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Richard Briers
  5. Charlie Drake
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Gary Glitter
  8. Denis Healey
  9. Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone
  10. Jonathan King
  11. Dame Vera Lynn
  12. Magnus Magnusson
  13. Nelson Mandela
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Rev Ian Paisley
  16. Prince Philip
  17. Phil Spector
  18. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  19. Kurt Waldheim
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Jodie's Cuppas
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Ingmar Bergman
  5. Ian Brady
  6. James Brown
  7. 'Digger' Claude Choules
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Betty Ford
  10. Gerald Ford
  11. Michael J Fox
  12. King Harald V of Norway
  13. Charlton Heston Joker!
  14. Al Lewis
  15. Joe Longthorne
  16. Shane MacGowan
  17. Ruby Muhammad
  18. Denis Norden
  19. Harold Pinter
  20. Charlie Watts

 

JoeRam
Years in DDP: 6
Best position: 1st (2002)
Runner-up in 2001, winner in 2002, and 4th in 2004, Joe is rarely out of the top 10.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Lloyd Bentsen
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Hugues Cuenod
  7. Eliza Gladys Milvina Dean
  8. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. Dr Jack Kevorkian
  13. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  14. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  15. Tammy Faye Messner
  16. Patrick Moore
  17. Harold Pinter
  18. Lou Rawls Joker!
  19. Lord David Renton
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

John Stalkest
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 105th (2005)
Mr Stalkest’s picks consist entirely of celebrities he has met or seen in person. As far as we know, he does not have any contagious diseases and is relying on pure coincidence.
  1. Princess Anne
  2. Sir Richard Branson
  3. June Brown
  4. James Brown Joker!
  5. Noam Chomsky
  6. Pete Doherty
  7. 'Mad' Frankie Fraser
  8. Stephen Fry Unique pick
  9. Paul Gambaccini Unique pick
  10. Antony Gormley Unique pick
  11. Paddy Joe Hill Unique pick
  12. Noddy Holder Unique pick
  13. Lord Imbert Unique pick
  14. Mike Leigh Unique pick
  15. Jean-Marie Le Pen
  16. Charlie Magri Unique pick
  17. Lee 'Scratch' Perry Unique pick
  18. Lou Reed Unique pick
  19. Charles Saatchi Unique pick
  20. Rod Stewart Unique pick

 

Johnny Foreskin And The Pullbacks
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  4. Joey Bishop
  5. P. W. Botha
  6. Alistair Burnett
  7. Max Bygraves
  8. Bill Deedes
  9. Michael Foot
  10. Gerald Ford
  11. John Kenneth Galbraith
  12. Stephen Hawking
  13. Denis Healey
  14. Nelson Mandela
  15. Patrick Moore
  16. Claire Rayner
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Jeremy Thorpe

 

John's A Legendary Doughnut
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Lillian Asplund Unique pick
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Philip D'Arcy Hart Unique pick
  5. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  6. Leila Denmark
  7. Boris Efimov Unique pick
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Saddam Hussein
  10. Edith 'Judy' Ingamells
  11. Charles Lane
  12. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  13. Ruby Muhammad
  14. Harry Patch
  15. Harold Pinter
  16. Lou Rawls Joker!
  17. Frederica Sagor Maas
  18. John Spencer
  19. Edward Upward
  20. Wendy Wasserstein

 

Jossy's Giants
First year in DDP.
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Joker!
  3. Kurt Angle Unique pick
  4. Fidel Castro
  5. Clive Dunn
  6. Albert Finney
  7. Paul Gascoigne
  8. Hulk Hogan
  9. Dame Vera Lynn
  10. Nelson Mandela
  11. Liza Minnelli
  12. Patrick Moore
  13. Peter O'Toole
  14. Rev Ian Paisley
  15. Jack Palance
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Murray Walker
  19. Brian Wilson
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Judgment Day
First year in DDP.
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. W. Mark Felt
  3. Shane MacGowan
  4. Princess Masako Unique pick
  5. Jim McCann Unique pick Joker!
  6. Ryan O'Neal
  7. Rev Ian Paisley
  8. Luciano Pavarotti
  9. John Profumo
  10. William Schallert Unique pick
  11. Ariel Sharon
  12. Alexander Shulgin Unique pick
  13. Anna Nicole Smith
  14. Margaret Thatcher
  15. Mikis Theodorakis Unique pick
  16. James Van Allen
  17. Nancy Wake
  18. Charlie Watts
  19. Shelley Winters
  20. Jane Wyman

 

Juicy Janny
Years in DDP: 9
Best position: 7th= (1998)
A DDP regular since 1998, but has usually languished in mid-table obscurity. It remains to be seen how this year's mixed team of entertainers and political figures will fare.
  1. Tony Benn
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. George Bush (snr)
  4. Doris Day
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Val Doonican
  7. Bruce Forsyth
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Michael Jackson
  13. Nelson Mandela
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Rev Ian Paisley
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Sir Jimmy Savile
  18. Ariel Sharon
  19. Jimmy Tarbuck
  20. Margaret Thatcher Joker!

 

Just Resting My Eyes
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 26th= (2005)
  1. Abdel Haq Alani Unique pick
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Rizgar Mohammed Amin
  4. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  5. Max Bygraves
  6. Fidel Castro
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Larry Hagman
  10. King Harald V of Norway
  11. Albert Hofmann
  12. Norman Kember
  13. Courtney Love
  14. Shane MacGowan
  15. Diego Maradona
  16. Patrick Moore
  17. Pervez Musharraf
  18. Augusto Pinochet
  19. Ariel Sharon
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Kali Comes To Dinner
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Norah Baring
  3. Joey Bishop
  4. P. W. Botha
  5. Dorothy Boyd Unique pick
  6. Jackie Cooper Unique pick
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Michael Gough
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Albert Hofmann
  12. Don Knotts
  13. Frankie Laine
  14. Charles Lane
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. King Sihanouk
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Abe Vigoda
  19. Phyllis A. Whitney
  20. Jock Wilson Unique pick Joker!

 

Killers of Hope
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 61st= (2005)
  1. Anastacia
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Pope Benedict XVI
  4. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  5. Susan Butcher Unique pick
  6. Dick Clark
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. John Kenneth Galbraith
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Larry Hagman
  12. King Harald V of Norway
  13. Jack Klugman
  14. Jerry Lewis
  15. Darren McGavin
  16. Kylie Minogue
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Charlie Watts
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Kiss of Death
First year in DDP.
  1. Harry Belafonte
  2. Jack Bruce
  3. Red Buttons Joker!
  4. Kitty Carlisle
  5. Dick Clark
  6. Walter Cronkite
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Rev Billy Graham
  10. Larry Hagman
  11. George Kennedy
  12. Nancy Reagan
  13. Lynn Redgrave
  14. Ravi Shankar
  15. Elizabeth Taylor
  16. Abe Vigoda
  17. Kurt Vonnegut
  18. Richard Widmark
  19. John Wooden
  20. Efrem Zimbalist (jnr)

 

L C And The Sunshine Band
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Harry Belafonte
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Osama bin Laden
  7. Arthur C Clarke
  8. John Forsythe
  9. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  10. Gary Glitter Joker!
  11. Larry Hagman
  12. Ian Huntley
  13. Al Lewis
  14. Elaine Lordan
  15. Shane MacGowan
  16. Byron Nelson
  17. Kathy Staff Unique pick
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Jane Wyman

 

Levelled Crossing
First year in DDP.
  1. Sir Richard Attenborough
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. Ian Brady
  4. James Brown
  5. Fidel Castro
  6. Ronnie Corbett
  7. Rhonda Flemming Unique pick
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Barry Humphries
  11. Richard Kiel Unique pick
  12. Martin Landau Unique pick
  13. Jerry Lee Lewis
  14. Courtney Love
  15. Liza Minnelli
  16. Warren Mitchell
  17. Arnold Palmer
  18. Prince Philip
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Lived So Let's Die
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 118th= (2005)
  1. Tom Baker
  2. Cilla Black
  3. Tony Blair
  4. Frank Bough
  5. George Bush (snr) Joker!
  6. Ken Dodd
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Queen Elizabeth II
  9. Peter Falk
  10. Gerald Ford
  11. Rolf Harris
  12. Whitney Houston
  13. Jack Klugman
  14. Paul McCartney Unique pick
  15. Patrick Moore
  16. Rev Ian Paisley
  17. Prince Philip
  18. William Roache
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Thom Yorke Unique pick

 

Living In A Box
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 108th= (2005)
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Max Bygraves
  3. Arthur C Clarke
  4. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  5. Ken Dodd
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Charlie Drake
  8. Clive Dunn
  9. Michael Foot
  10. David Kelly Unique pick
  11. Jerry Lewis
  12. Dame Vera Lynn
  13. Patrick Moore
  14. Prince Philip
  15. Leslie Phillips
  16. Peter Sallis
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Jane Tomlinson Joker!
  19. Reg Varney
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Lord Football's Snuffers
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. P. W. Botha
  4. Ian Brady
  5. Walter Cronkite
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. John Forsythe
  10. John Kenneth Galbraith
  11. Larry Hagman
  12. Albert Hofmann
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Evel Knievel
  15. Karl Malden
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Ferenc Puskas Joker!
  18. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  19. Peter Sutcliffe
  20. Jane Tomlinson

 

Loss of Life
First year in DDP.
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan Joker!
  2. Buzz Aldrin
  3. Lauren Bacall
  4. Harry Belafonte
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Ernest Borgnine
  7. Alice Cooper Unique pick
  8. Ken Dodd
  9. Larry Hagman
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. P. D. James Unique pick
  12. Henry Kissinger
  13. Jack Klugman
  14. Herbert Lom
  15. Sophia Loren Unique pick
  16. Omar Sharif
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Jeremy Thorpe
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Efrem Zimbalist (jnr)

 

Loulou's Lions
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Ernest Borgnine
  3. George Bush (snr)
  4. Jack Charlton
  5. Doris Day
  6. Ken Dodd Joker!
  7. Pete Doherty
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Glenn Ford
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Jack Klugman
  13. Christopher Lee
  14. Dame Vera Lynn
  15. Leonard Nimoy
  16. Ozzy Osbourne
  17. Jack Palance
  18. Vladimir Putin
  19. Eric Sykes
  20. Elizabeth Taylor

 

Madonna's Hand of Bod
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Ernest Borgnine
  4. Ross Davidson
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  8. Estelle Getty Joker!
  9. Albert Hofmann
  10. Lena Horne
  11. Frankie Laine
  12. Marcel Marceau
  13. Sheila Mercier Unique pick
  14. Kylie Minogue
  15. Harold Pinter
  16. Luise Rainer
  17. Lou Rawls
  18. King Sihanouk
  19. Jack Wild
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Mean Machine
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 8th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham Joker!
  2. Patty Andrews
  3. Mother Angelica
  4. Brooke Astor
  5. A. I. Bezzerides
  6. Ronnie Biggs
  7. Ernest Borgnine
  8. Red Buttons
  9. Kitty Carlisle
  10. Kirk Douglas
  11. Charles Durning
  12. Gerald Ford
  13. Estelle Getty
  14. Rev Billy Graham
  15. Lady Bird Johnson
  16. Don Knotts
  17. Al Lewis
  18. Bettie Page
  19. Shirley Temple
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Meet Your Maker
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 20th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Hugo Bleicher
  4. Rudi Carrell
  5. Ross Davidson Joker!
  6. W. Mark Felt
  7. John Kenneth Galbraith
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Charles Haughey
  10. Paul Hunter
  11. Stanley Kunitz
  12. Ruby Muhammad
  13. Harold Pinter
  14. Lou Rawls
  15. Oral Roberts
  16. Ibrahim Rugova
  17. Yitzhak Shamir
  18. King Sihanouk
  19. John Spencer
  20. Wendy Wasserstein

 

Milksnatcher Bites The Dust
First year in DDP.
  1. Jean Alexander
  2. Ernest Borgnine
  3. Ian Brady
  4. Val Doonican
  5. 'Mad' Frankie Fraser
  6. Ron Greenwood
  7. Larry Hagman
  8. Jack Klugman
  9. Frankie Laine
  10. Warren Mitchell
  11. Jim Molyneaux
  12. Rev Ian Paisley
  13. William Roache
  14. Sir Bobby Robson
  15. John Spencer
  16. Mollie Sugden
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  19. Charlie Watts
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

MizzJackTheCat
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Alan Bennett
  3. Fidel Castro
  4. George Cole
  5. Ross Davidson
  6. Olivia de Havilland
  7. Estelle Getty Joker!
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Brian Harvey
  10. Hugh Hefner
  11. Alex Higgins
  12. Courtney Love
  13. Liza Minnelli
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Robert Mugabe
  16. Richard O'Sullivan
  17. Ray Reardon Unique pick
  18. Shirley Temple
  19. Anna Wing
  20. Jimmy Young

 

Morbid United FC
First year in DDP.
  1. Mahmoud Abbas Unique pick
  2. Buzz Aldrin
  3. Mohammed Al-Fayed
  4. Marc Almond
  5. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  6. Princess Anne
  7. Syd Barrett
  8. Shirley Bassey
  9. Ingmar Bergman
  10. Ronnie Biggs
  11. Osama bin Laden
  12. Ian Brady
  13. Dick Cheney
  14. Walter Cronkite
  15. Charles Haughey Joker!
  16. Slobodan Milosevic
  17. Nancy Reagan
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Kurt Waldheim
  20. Earl Woods

 

Mr & Mrs Drummerboy
Years in DDP: 5
Best position: 14th= (2003)
The percussionist duo from Down Under make a welcome return for another year.
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan
  2. Ghazi al-Yawar Unique pick
  3. Princess Anne
  4. Neil Armstrong
  5. Bea Arthur
  6. Lord Ashley of Stoke
  7. Sir Richard Attenborough
  8. Alec Baldwin
  9. Michael Barrymore
  10. Chuck Berry
  11. Max Bygraves
  12. Tony Curtis
  13. Phyllis Diller Joker!
  14. Gary Glitter
  15. Sir Edmund Hillary
  16. Rod Laver Unique pick
  17. Leonard Nimoy
  18. Arnold Palmer
  19. Mickey Rooney
  20. Lord Snowdon

 

Mr C
Years in DDP: 8
Best position: 2nd (1999)
One of the most experienced DDP competitors. Two top 10 finishes in the last 3 years against stiff competition bode well for this year.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Elizabeth Bolden
  5. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  6. Alfredo Di Stefano
  7. Dan Fogelberg
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  10. Mikhail Kalashnikov Unique pick
  11. Don Knotts Joker!
  12. Charles Lane
  13. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  14. Maurice Papon
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. Lou Rawls
  17. Ron Santo
  18. George Beverly Shea
  19. Paul Tibbetts
  20. Phyllis A. Whitney

 

Mr Yuck
First year in DDP.
  1. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  2. Ernest Borgnine Joker!
  3. Sid Caesar
  4. Dick Clark
  5. Gary Coleman
  6. P Diddy
  7. Bobby Fischer
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Saddam Hussein
  12. Elton John
  13. Magnus Magnusson
  14. Tammy Faye Messner
  15. Michael Moore
  16. Bill O'Reilly Unique pick
  17. Iggy Pop
  18. Phil Spector
  19. Shelley Winters
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Murld Leaders
First year in DDP.
  1. Pope Benedict XVI
  2. Tony Blair Joker!
  3. George W. Bush (jnr)
  4. Fidel Castro
  5. Jacques Chirac
  6. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Unique pick
  7. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Unique pick
  8. Queen Elizabeth II
  9. King Harald V of Norway
  10. John Howard Unique pick
  11. Saddam Hussein
  12. Hu Jintao Unique pick
  13. Kóstas Karamanlís Unique pick
  14. Néstor Kirchner Unique pick
  15. Junichiro Koizumi Unique pick
  16. Paul Martin Unique pick
  17. Robert Mugabe
  18. Vladimir Putin
  19. Rowan Williams Unique pick
  20. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Unique pick

 

Musos
First year in DDP.
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan Joker!
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Bea Arthur
  4. Big Ron Atkinson
  5. Shamil Basayev
  6. Andy Bell
  7. Judy Bell
  8. Osama bin Laden
  9. Frank Bruno
  10. James 'Whitey' Bulger
  11. Sid Caesar
  12. Jimmy Carter
  13. Evel Knievel
  14. Joan Rivers Unique pick
  15. Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Unique pick
  16. Robert Sargent Shriver
  17. Yves St Laurent
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Dick Van Dyke
  20. Adam West

 

Naked Florida Gravediggers
Years in DDP: 4
Best position: 10th= (2005)
A good result for the birthday-suited Floridians in 2005, claiming their first top 10 finish, despite a large field of over 120 teams.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Orson Bean Unique pick
  3. Albert Francis 'Sonny' Capone Unique pick
  4. Kitty Carlisle
  5. Gerald Ford
  6. Sir Edmund Hillary
  7. Deborah Kerr
  8. Don Knotts
  9. Art Linkletter
  10. Courtney Love
  11. Mitch Miller
  12. Lynn Redgrave
  13. J. D. Salinger Joker!
  14. Edith Shain Unique pick
  15. Arnold Stang Unique pick
  16. George Steinbrenner Unique pick
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Eli Wallach
  19. Jane Wyman
  20. Efrem Zimbalist (jnr)

 

Nice Little Urner
First year in DDP.
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Henry Allingham
  4. Kirk Douglas
  5. Queen Elizabeth II
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Gary Glitter
  8. Ron Greenwood
  9. Tony Hart
  10. Alex Higgins
  11. Saddam Hussein Joker!
  12. Nelson Mandela
  13. Bernard Manning
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Rick Parfitt
  16. Prince Philip
  17. John Profumo
  18. Mollie Sugden
  19. Bill Tarmey
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Noah Reason & the Clowns of Death
First year in DDP.
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Woody Allen
  3. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  4. Joey Bishop
  5. Red Buttons
  6. Doris Day
  7. Phyllis Diller
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Robert Downey Jr
  10. Gary Glitter
  11. Sir Edmund Hillary
  12. Whitney Houston
  13. Eartha Kitt
  14. Harvey Korman
  15. Al Lewis Joker!
  16. Maurice Papon
  17. Nancy Reagan
  18. Ray Stevens
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Gene Wilder

 

Norfolk & Chance
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Chuck Berry Joker!
  3. Red Buttons
  4. Dick Clark
  5. Graham Crowden
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Clive Dunn
  8. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  9. John Kenneth Galbraith
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. John Inman
  12. Meat Loaf Unique pick
  13. Karl Malden
  14. Arnold Palmer
  15. Sir Jimmy Savile
  16. Brian Wilson
  17. Shelley Winters
  18. Sir Norman Wisdom
  19. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  20. Jimmy Young

 

Noz4news
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Chuck Berry
  3. Joey Bishop
  4. Manute Bol Unique pick
  5. Lara Flynn Boyle Unique pick
  6. John Forsythe
  7. Annette Funicello
  8. Lady Bird Johnson
  9. Carl Karcher Unique pick
  10. Norman Mailer
  11. Rose Marie Unique pick
  12. Tammy Faye Messner
  13. Harry Morgan
  14. Ryan O'Neal
  15. Lou Rawls Joker!
  16. Louis Rukeyser
  17. Soupy Sales
  18. Roy Scheider
  19. Darryl Strawberry Unique pick
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Octopus of Odstock
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 17th= (2005)
The eight-legged one has again largely shunned convention and come up with a team of interesting choices.
  1. Clarence Ray Allen Joker!
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Ross Davidson
  5. W. Mark Felt
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Charles Haughey
  9. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  10. Maurice Papon
  11. Ferenc Puskas
  12. Francis Pym Unique pick
  13. Tony Rolt Unique pick
  14. Mohammed Zahir Shah
  15. Yitzhak Shamir
  16. Robert Sargent Shriver
  17. John Spencer
  18. Alfredo Stroessner
  19. Gloria Stuart
  20. Phil Taylor Unique pick

 

Oh, It's a Scythe!
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Patty Andrews
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Joseph Barbera
  5. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  6. Richard Briers
  7. James Brown
  8. Kitty Carlisle
  9. 'Digger' Claude Choules
  10. Walter Cronkite
  11. Bill Deedes
  12. Olivia de Havilland
  13. Phil Drabble
  14. Maurice Papon
  15. Oral Roberts
  16. Peter Sallis
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. Jane Tomlinson
  19. Johnnie Walker
  20. Phyllis A. Whitney

 

One Foot in the Grave
Years in DDP: 6
Best position: 2nd (2003)
Despite being named after a British sitcom, this team is in fact US-based. Has turned in solid performances in the past, including two top 3 finishes.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. James Brown
  4. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Robert Earl Jones
  7. Joe Eszterhas
  8. Oriana Fallaci
  9. Dan Fogelberg
  10. Gerald Ford
  11. Vaclav Havel
  12. Don Ho
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Jack Klugman
  15. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  16. Ruby Muhammad
  17. Billy Preston
  18. Lou Rawls Joker!
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Mary Travers

 

Only Fools And Corpses
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Arthur C Clarke
  5. Liz Dawn Joker!
  6. Eliza Gladys Milvina Dean
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Sir Edmund Hillary
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Henry Kissinger
  14. Al Lewis
  15. Joe Longthorne
  16. Dame Vera Lynn
  17. Karl Malden
  18. Ariel Sharon
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Over And Out
First year in DDP.
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Stephen Hawking
  3. Charlton Heston
  4. Alex Higgins
  5. Ian Huntley
  6. Elton John
  7. Hamid Karzai
  8. Joe Longthorne
  9. Nelson Mandela
  10. Bernard Manning
  11. Kylie Minogue
  12. Patrick Moore
  13. Pervez Musharraf
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. John Profumo
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  19. Jane Tomlinson
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Palace98
First year in DDP.
  1. Lauren Bacall Joker!
  2. Henry Blofeld Unique pick
  3. Pete Burns Unique pick
  4. Barbara Bush
  5. Fidel Castro
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. John Inman
  11. Eartha Kitt
  12. Frankie Laine
  13. Nat Lofthouse
  14. Johnny Mathis Unique pick
  15. Rev Ian Paisley
  16. John Profumo
  17. Mickey Rooney
  18. J. D. Salinger
  19. Ariel Sharon
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Pining For The Fjords
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 61st= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Anastacia
  3. Neil Armstrong
  4. Sir Richard Attenborough
  5. Harry Belafonte
  6. Ernest Borgnine
  7. Arthur C Clarke
  8. Paul Daniels Unique pick
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Tenzin Gyatso Unique pick
  11. Kannoth Karunakaran Unique pick
  12. Bernard Manning
  13. Patrick Moore Joker!
  14. Peter O'Toole
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. Claire Rayner
  17. Peter Sallis
  18. Eric Sykes
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Eli Wallach

 

Pooil Vaaish
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 42nd= (2005)
  1. Herb Alpert Unique pick
  2. April Ashley Unique pick
  3. Arthur C Clarke
  4. John Cole Unique pick
  5. Gary Coleman
  6. Leonard Fenton Unique pick
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Albert Hofmann
  9. Art Linkletter Joker!
  10. Hugh Lloyd Unique pick
  11. Ricardo Montalban
  12. Patrick Moore
  13. John Mortimer
  14. Maila 'Vampira' Nurmi Unique pick
  15. Svetlana Stalin Unique pick
  16. Dave Swarbrick
  17. Desmond Tutu
  18. Chad Varah
  19. Nicol Williamson
  20. Mike Yarwood Unique pick

 

ProDeathCrew
First year in DDP.
  1. Neil Armstrong
  2. Frank Bruno
  3. Ronnie Corbett
  4. Ken Dodd
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Bob Dylan
  7. Clint Eastwood
  8. Michael J Fox
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Brian Harvey
  11. David Jason
  12. Elaine Lordan
  13. Kylie Minogue
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Peter O'Toole
  16. Jackie Stallone
  17. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  18. Dick Van Dyke
  19. Murray Walker
  20. Barbara Windsor

 

Puppet Show And Siegfried Baboon's David Van Day Show
Years in DDP: 6
Best position: 10th= (2002)
Simian co-organiser of the Derby Dead Pool who had to alter his team name in 2005, and again in 2006, for legal reasons.
  1. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  2. Joey Bishop
  3. James Brown
  4. Jack Bruce
  5. Sid Caesar
  6. Sir Sean Connery
  7. Tony Curtis
  8. Bill Deedes
  9. Monty Hall
  10. Vaclav Havel
  11. Alan Igglesden Unique pick
  12. Michael Jackson
  13. Patrick Moore
  14. Rupert Murdoch
  15. Rev Ian Paisley
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. Ayatollah Sistani
  18. Suharto
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Pushing Up The Daisies
First year in DDP.
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan
  2. Muhammad Ali Joker!
  3. Neil Armstrong
  4. Sir Richard Attenborough
  5. Raymond Baxter
  6. Chuck Berry
  7. Richard Briers
  8. Red Buttons
  9. Max Bygraves
  10. Jack Charlton
  11. Michael Foot
  12. Michael J Fox
  13. Shirley MacLaine
  14. Patrick McGoohan
  15. Ennio Morricone
  16. Denis Norden
  17. Jack Palance
  18. Betty White
  19. Shelley Winters
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Puzlman's Passing Picks
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 68th= (2005)
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Henry Allingham
  4. Bea Arthur
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Mel Brooks
  7. Dino De Laurentiis Unique pick
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Estelle Getty
  11. Gary Glitter
  12. Andy Griffith
  13. Don Knotts
  14. Al Lewis
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. Lou Rawls Joker!
  17. Nancy Reagan
  18. Desmond Tutu
  19. Abe Vigoda
  20. John Wooden

 

R.I.P. It Up And Start Again
First year in DDP.
  1. Clarissa Churchill
  2. Ivor Cutler
  3. Ross Davidson
  4. Clive Dunn
  5. Maxine Edgington
  6. Coleridge Goode Unique pick
  7. Larry Hagman
  8. Norman Mailer
  9. Bettie Page
  10. Earl Palmer Unique pick
  11. Harold Pinter
  12. Lloyd Price Unique pick
  13. John Profumo
  14. Lou Rawls Joker!
  15. Max Roach
  16. Oral Roberts
  17. Edmundo Ros
  18. Jane Russell
  19. Yves St Laurent
  20. Eric Sykes

 

Ready, Steady, Deady
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 34th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham Joker!
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Rabbi Philip Berg
  4. A. I. Bezzerides
  5. Hugues Cuenod
  6. Bulent Ecevit
  7. Sir Edward Ford
  8. Charles Haughey
  9. Clare Hollingworth
  10. Ratu Iloilo
  11. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  12. Al Lewis
  13. Joseph Lynch GC Unique pick
  14. Kazuo Ohno
  15. Max Roach
  16. Mohammed Zahir Shah
  17. King Sihanouk
  18. Alfredo Stroessner
  19. Suharto
  20. Phyllis A. Whitney

 

Reaper's Insightful Crew
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali Joker!
  2. Chuck Berry
  3. Ernest Borgnine
  4. Mel Brooks
  5. Fats Domino
  6. Annette Funicello
  7. Andy Griffith
  8. Larry Hagman
  9. Debbie Harry Unique pick
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Don Johnson Unique pick
  12. Christopher Lee
  13. Jerry Lee Lewis
  14. Loretta Lynn Unique pick
  15. Charles Manson
  16. Yoko Ono
  17. Oral Roberts
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Porter Wagoner Unique pick
  20. Andy Williams

 

Redmyst XX
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 88th= (2005)
  1. Ernest Borgnine
  2. George Bush (snr)
  3. Sid Caesar
  4. Pierre Cardin
  5. Michael Collins Unique pick
  6. Walter Cronkite
  7. Pete Doherty
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Bobby Fischer
  10. 'Mad' Frankie Fraser
  11. Joe Frazier Unique pick
  12. John Glenn
  13. Rev Billy Graham
  14. Ian Kilminster Unique pick
  15. Ennio Morricone
  16. Ozzy Osbourne
  17. Rev Ian Paisley
  18. Grace Slick
  19. Phil Spector Joker!
  20. Chuck Yeager

 

Riding The Jesus Train
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Sir Richard Branson
  3. Red Buttons
  4. Dick Clark
  5. Bill Clinton
  6. David Crosby
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Robert Downey Jr Joker!
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Rev Billy Graham
  12. Charlton Heston
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Gordon Lightfoot Unique pick
  15. Ed McMahon
  16. Leslie Nielsen
  17. Lou Rawls
  18. Nicole Richie Unique pick
  19. Oral Roberts
  20. Ashlee Simpson Unique pick

 

Rigor Mortis Makes Us Hard
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Aaron Beck Unique pick
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Walter Cronkite
  5. Albert Ellis Unique pick
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Milton Friedman
  8. John Goodman
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Michael Jackson
  11. Courtney Love
  12. Pervez Musharraf
  13. Augusto Pinochet
  14. Harold Pinter Joker!
  15. John Profumo
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Gough Whitlam Unique pick
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

RJC
First year in DDP.
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Ian Brady
  3. Alex Higgins
  4. Henry Kissinger
  5. Nelson Mandela
  6. Luciano Pavarotti
  7. Prince Philip
  8. Leslie Phillips
  9. Augusto Pinochet
  10. Harold Pinter
  11. Claire Rayner
  12. Nancy Reagan
  13. J. K. Rowling Unique pick
  14. Salman Rushdie
  15. Michael Schumacher
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. John Simpson Unique pick
  18. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  19. Jeremy Thorpe
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Rude Kid
Years in DDP: 7
Best position: 7th= (2003)
Co-organiser of the DDP for the last 4 years, and getting steadily better at picking stiffs, although 6 hits in 2005 was only good enough for 17th place in a highly competitive year.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Jeremy Beadle
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Michael Carroll Unique pick
  6. Ross Davidson
  7. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Rev Billy Graham
  10. Brian Harvey
  11. Stephen Hawking
  12. Norman Kember
  13. Joe Longthorne
  14. George Melly
  15. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  16. Tammy Faye Messner
  17. Ruby Muhammad
  18. Harold Pinter
  19. Lou Rawls Joker!
  20. Sir Cyril Smith Unique pick

 

Sandals in the Bin: The Mother Teresa Tribute Band
First year in DDP.
  1. Lauren Bacall
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Arthur C Clarke
  5. Walter Cronkite
  6. Alfredo Di Stefano Joker!
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Queen Elizabeth II
  9. Michael Foot
  10. Gerald Ford
  11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  12. Stan Lee
  13. Charles Manson
  14. Marcel Marceau
  15. Imelda Marcos
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Nancy Reagan
  18. Ravi Shankar
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

See, I Told You I Was Sick!
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 6th (2005)
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Michael Brecker
  3. John Campbell Ross Unique pick
  4. Don Chipp Unique pick
  5. Smokey Dawson Unique pick
  6. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. W. Mark Felt
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  12. Tammy Faye Messner
  13. Augusto Pinochet
  14. Harold Pinter
  15. Dana Reeve Joker!
  16. Ibrahim Rugova
  17. King Sihanouk
  18. Suharto
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Nancy Wake

 

SexyB
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 118th= (2005)
  1. 50 Cent
  2. Woody Allen
  3. Osama bin Laden
  4. Jim Bowen
  5. George W. Bush (jnr)
  6. Pete Doherty
  7. Queen Elizabeth II
  8. Paul Gascoigne
  9. Bob Geldof Unique pick
  10. Gary Glitter Joker!
  11. Delta Goodrem
  12. Jimmy Greaves
  13. Stephen Hawking
  14. Hugh Hefner
  15. Michael Jackson
  16. Christopher Lee
  17. Courtney Love
  18. Kylie Minogue
  19. Ozzy Osbourne
  20. Ringo Starr

 

Simon Says 'Die, You Fools, Die'
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 29th= (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Iyad Allawi
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Ian Brady
  6. Alfredo Di Stefano
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Saddam Hussein
  12. Rev Ian Paisley
  13. Rick Parfitt
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Roy Scheider
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  18. Jane Tomlinson
  19. Terry Waite Unique pick
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Six Foot Under
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 106th= (2005)
  1. Joseph Barbera
  2. James Brown Joker!
  3. Glen Campbell
  4. Sir Sean Connery
  5. Bill Cosby
  6. Doris Day
  7. David Dickinson Unique pick
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Clint Eastwood
  10. Bruce Forsyth
  11. Dennis Hopper Unique pick
  12. John Inman
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Harvey Keitel Unique pick
  15. Martin Kemp Unique pick
  16. Elaine Lordan
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Prince Philip
  19. Lester Piggott
  20. Barbara Windsor

 

Slave to the Grave
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 44th= (2005)
  1. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  2. Eve Arnold
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Charles Aznavour Unique pick
  5. P. W. Botha
  6. Ross Davidson Joker!
  7. Phil Drabble
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Glenn Ford
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Larry Hagman
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Courtney Love
  14. Bernard Manning
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. John Profumo
  18. Lou Rawls
  19. Henri Salvador
  20. Kurt Waldheim

 

Snuff Daddies
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 57th (2005)
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Judy Bell
  3. Ingmar Bergman Joker!
  4. Joe Eszterhas
  5. Dan Fogelberg
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Martin Gardner Unique pick
  8. Estelle Getty
  9. Paul Harvey Unique pick
  10. Lou Henson Unique pick
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Don Ho
  13. Dr Jack Kevorkian
  14. Tammy Faye Messner
  15. John Nash Unique pick
  16. Byron Nelson
  17. Harold Pinter
  18. Lou Rawls
  19. Eddie Robinson
  20. Jane Tomlinson

 

Sporting Lesbian
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Fidel Castro
  4. Dick Cheney
  5. David Coleman
  6. Clive Dunn
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Betty Ford
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Barry Fry Unique pick
  11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  12. Gary Glitter
  13. Tony Hart Joker!
  14. Holly Johnson
  15. Christopher Lee
  16. Patrick Moore
  17. Claire Rayner
  18. Mollie Sugden
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Sporting Life...Courting Death
First year in DDP.
A team consisting entirely of former sports stars.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Sir Alec Bedser
  3. Bill Brown Joker!
  4. David Coleman
  5. Tom Finney
  6. Tom Graveney Unique pick
  7. Ron Greenwood
  8. Alex Higgins
  9. Ingemar Johansson Unique pick
  10. Jake La Motta Unique pick
  11. Ted Lowe Unique pick
  12. Diego Maradona
  13. Arthur Morris Unique pick
  14. Byron Nelson
  15. Peter O'Sullevan Unique pick
  16. Arnold Palmer
  17. Floyd Patterson
  18. Ferenc Puskas
  19. John Spencer
  20. Jane Tomlinson

 

Stab In The Dark
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 26th= (2005)
  1. Steven Adler Unique pick
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Ross Davidson
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. John Kenneth Galbraith
  6. Charles Haughey
  7. Charlton Heston
  8. Saddam Hussein
  9. Lady Bird Johnson
  10. Dr Jack Kevorkian
  11. Tammy Faye Messner
  12. Augusto Pinochet
  13. Lou Rawls
  14. Ibrahim Rugova
  15. Ron Santo
  16. King Sihanouk
  17. Aaron Spelling
  18. John Spencer Joker!
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Swami's House of Soon To Be Wax
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Brooke Astor Joker!
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  5. Phyllis Diller
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Jesse Helms
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Sir Edmund Hillary
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Evel Knievel
  14. Al Lewis
  15. Art Linkletter
  16. Byron Nelson
  17. Augusto Pinochet
  18. Billy Preston
  19. Eddie Robinson
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

T. Rex
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 29th= (2005)
  1. Patty Andrews
  2. Lauren Bacall
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Eliza Gladys Milvina Dean
  6. Bill Deedes
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Phil Drabble
  9. Michael Foot
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Rev Billy Graham
  12. Dame Vera Lynn
  13. Bernard Matthews Unique pick
  14. John Mortimer Joker!
  15. Marguerite Patten Unique pick
  16. Claire Rayner
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. Eric Sykes
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

Team Action Sex
First year in DDP.
  1. Emperor Akihito of Japan
  2. Woody Allen
  3. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Joker!
  4. Neil Armstrong
  5. Bea Arthur
  6. Big Ron Atkinson
  7. Sir Richard Attenborough
  8. Chuck Berry
  9. Osama bin Laden
  10. Joey Bishop
  11. Fidel Castro
  12. Charlton Heston
  13. Saddam Hussein
  14. Christopher Lee
  15. Ed McMahon
  16. Michael Moore
  17. Kenny Rogers
  18. Dick Van Dyke
  19. Gore Vidal
  20. Kurt Vonnegut

 

Team AJS
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ernest Borgnine
  3. Red Buttons
  4. Liz Dawn
  5. Eliza Gladys Milvina Dean
  6. Olivia de Havilland
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Deborah Kerr
  12. Angela Lansbury
  13. Dame Vera Lynn
  14. Karl Malden
  15. Maureen O'Hara
  16. Luise Rainer
  17. Eric Sykes Joker!
  18. Frank Thornton
  19. Anna Wing
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Team DJB
First year in DDP.
  1. Woody Allen
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Sir Richard Attenborough
  4. Rabbi Philip Berg
  5. Ronnie Biggs
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. Gary Glitter
  8. Larry Hagman
  9. Gérard Houllier Unique pick
  10. Dame Vera Lynn
  11. Diego Maradona
  12. Robert Mugabe
  13. Augusto Pinochet Joker!
  14. David Prowse
  15. Vladimir Putin
  16. Omar Sharif
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Murray Walker
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Team Mogblog
First year in DDP.
  1. Sir Richard Attenborough
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Osama bin Laden
  4. Frank Bruno
  5. Pete Doherty
  6. Bruce Forsyth
  7. Paul Gascoigne
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. Alex Higgins
  10. Patrick Moore
  11. Geraldine O'Neill Joker!
  12. Augusto Pinochet
  13. Harold Pinter
  14. Cliff Richard Unique pick
  15. Sir Jimmy Savile
  16. Ariel Sharon
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Rose West

 

Thanatopsis
First year in DDP.
  1. 50 Cent Joker!
  2. Robert Altman
  3. Osama bin Laden
  4. James Brown
  5. Tony Curtis
  6. Fats Domino
  7. Dan Fogelberg
  8. Andy Griffith
  9. Monty Hall
  10. Hugh Hefner
  11. Saddam Hussein
  12. B. B. King
  13. Don Knotts
  14. Nelson Mandela
  15. Ricardo Montalban
  16. Mickey Rooney
  17. Arthur Schlesinger Jr
  18. Shelley Winters
  19. Boris Yeltsin
  20. Efrem Zimbalist (jnr)

 

That's All, Folks!
First year in DDP.
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Mohammed Al-Fayed
  3. Muhammad Ali
  4. Woody Allen
  5. Big Ron Atkinson
  6. Alec Baldwin
  7. Raymond Baxter
  8. Lloyd Bentsen
  9. Chuck Berry
  10. Osama bin Laden
  11. Honor Blackman
  12. Frank Bough
  13. Mel Brooks
  14. George Bush (snr)
  15. Arthur C Clarke
  16. Clint Eastwood
  17. Stephen Hawking
  18. Ludovic Kennedy
  19. Eartha Kitt Joker!
  20. Denis Norden

 

The 4 Hamsters of the Apocalypse
First year in DDP.
  1. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
  6. Lord Peter Carrington
  7. Hugues Cuenod
  8. Charles Haughey
  9. Hamid Karzai
  10. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  11. Diego Maradona
  12. Tammy Faye Messner
  13. Oscar Niemeyer
  14. Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw
  15. Max Roach
  16. Arthur Schlesinger Jr
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Jane Tomlinson Joker!
  19. The Earl of Wemyss & March Unique pick
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

The Anfield Iron
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Robert Altman
  3. Eve Arnold
  4. Brooke Astor
  5. Joseph Barbera
  6. Andy Bell
  7. Rabbi Philip Berg
  8. Chuck Berry
  9. Sarah Brady
  10. James Brown
  11. Jack Bruce
  12. Giuseppe di Stefano
  13. Freddy Fender Unique pick
  14. King Harald V of Norway
  15. Joe Longthorne Joker!
  16. Harry Morgan
  17. Ryan O'Neal
  18. Rick Parfitt
  19. Augusto Pinochet
  20. King Sihanouk

 

The Bitter End
First year in DDP.
  1. Michael Aspel
  2. Ian Brady
  3. George Bush (snr)
  4. Charlie Drake
  5. Queen Elizabeth II
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Paul Gascoigne
  8. Boy George
  9. Ian Huntley
  10. Holly Johnson
  11. Luciano Pavarotti
  12. Prince Philip
  13. Peter Sallis
  14. Prunella Scales Unique pick
  15. Mollie Sugden
  16. Peter Sutcliffe
  17. Lord Norman Tebbit
  18. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  19. Frank Thornton
  20. Rose West

 

The Caulkhead Coffin-Kickers
First year in DDP.
  1. Chuck Berry
  2. Hilda Braid Unique pick
  3. Fidel Castro
  4. Liz Dawn
  5. Fats Domino
  6. Denis Donaldson Unique pick
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Bruce Forsyth
  9. John Forsythe
  10. Gary Glitter
  11. B. B. King
  12. Magnus Magnusson
  13. Nelson Mandela Joker!
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Dana Reeve
  16. Sir Bobby Robson
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Adam West
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

The Coffin-Dodgers
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 36th= (2004)
18 of their 20 celebs did in fact manage to dodge the coffin last year. They'll no doubt be hoping to trouble the undertakers more often this time round.
  1. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
  2. Alu Alkhanov
  3. Mother Angelica
  4. Warren Beatty Unique pick
  5. Ali Bongo
  6. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
  7. Ron Greenwood
  8. Saddam Hussein Joker!
  9. Lady Bird Johnson
  10. K. C. Jones Unique pick
  11. Mills Lane
  12. Dame Vera Lynn
  13. Tammy Faye Messner
  14. Art Modell Unique pick
  15. General Vo Nguyen Giap
  16. Jack Palance
  17. King Sihanouk
  18. Dame Maggie Smith Unique pick
  19. Jane Tomlinson
  20. Eli Wallach

 

The Conqueror Worm
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 53rd= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ernest Borgnine
  4. James 'Whitey' Bulger
  5. Gerald Ford Joker!
  6. Annette Funicello
  7. Estelle Getty
  8. General Wojciech Jaruzelski
  9. Lady Bird Johnson
  10. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
  11. Henry Kissinger
  12. Al Lewis
  13. Jerry Lewis
  14. Liza Minnelli
  15. Sir Stirling Moss Unique pick
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. J. D. Salinger
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

The Dodgy One
First year in DDP.
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Bea Arthur
  3. Michael Aspel
  4. Sir Richard Attenborough
  5. Buster Bloodvessel
  6. Jim Bowen
  7. Max Bygraves
  8. Arthur C Clarke
  9. Graham Crowden
  10. Estelle Getty
  11. Gary Glitter
  12. Bobby Heenan Joker!
  13. Hugh Hefner
  14. Saddam Hussein
  15. Peter O'Toole
  16. Mollie Sugden
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Desmond Tutu
  19. Dick Van Dyke
  20. Barbara Windsor

 

The Doffin' Codgers
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 12th= (2005)
  1. Clarence Ray Allen
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Hugo Bleicher
  4. Ross Davidson
  5. Dan Fogelberg
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. Albert Hofmann
  8. Delores Hope
  9. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  10. Harry Patch
  11. Harold Pinter
  12. Lou Rawls Joker!
  13. Dana Reeve
  14. Helmut Schmidt
  15. John Spencer
  16. Tanya Streeter Unique pick
  17. Suharto
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Jeremy Thorpe
  20. Jane Tomlinson

 

The Doom & Gloom Room
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 53rd= (2005)
  1. Joseph Barbera
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. James Brown
  4. Max Bygraves
  5. Val Doonican
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  8. Alex Higgins
  9. Barry Humphries
  10. Lionel Jeffries
  11. Dame Vera Lynn
  12. Patrick Macnee
  13. Patrick Moore
  14. Van Morrison Unique pick
  15. Bill Pertwee
  16. Sir Jimmy Savile
  17. Mollie Sugden
  18. Eric Sykes
  19. Reg Varney Joker!
  20. Slim Whitman

 

The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Sammy Baugh Unique pick
  3. Ross Davidson
  4. Bill Deedes
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Stephen Hawking
  8. Hugh Hefner
  9. Lady Bird Johnson
  10. Henry McGee
  11. Rick Parfitt
  12. Prince Philip
  13. Dave Swarbrick
  14. Eric Sykes
  15. Elizabeth Taylor
  16. Margaret Thatcher
  17. Eric Tindill Unique pick Joker!
  18. Jane Tomlinson
  19. Gene Wilder
  20. Anna Wing

 

The Driller Killer
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 36th= (2004)
The power-tool obsessive has some improbable selections, but with a team largely unchanged since 2004, they are all a year older…
  1. Alec Baldwin
  2. Michael Barrymore
  3. David Bowie
  4. James Brown
  5. George Bush (snr)
  6. Robert De Niro Unique pick
  7. Kirk Douglas Joker!
  8. Saddam Hussein
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Doris Lessing Unique pick
  11. Shane MacGowan
  12. Liza Minnelli
  13. Kylie Minogue
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Roger Moore
  16. Colin Powell Unique pick
  17. Nancy Reagan
  18. Sandie Shaw Unique pick
  19. Elizabeth Taylor
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

The Ex Factor
First year in DDP.
  1. Roman Abramovich
  2. Henry Allingham
  3. Richie Benaud Unique pick
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Bono
  6. Ian Brady
  7. George W. Bush (jnr)
  8. Alfredo Di Stefano
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Michael J Fox
  11. Gary Glitter
  12. Alex Higgins
  13. Nelson Mandela
  14. Liza Minnelli
  15. Arnold Palmer
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Ferenc Puskas
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher Joker!
  20. Brian Wilson

 

The Familiar Undead
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Ibrahim al-Jaafari Unique pick
  3. Fidel Castro
  4. Bill Clinton
  5. Queen Elizabeth II
  6. Sir David Frost
  7. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. Mikhail Gorbachev
  10. Rolf Harris
  11. David Jason
  12. Michael Parkinson
  13. Burt Reynolds
  14. Sir Bobby Robson
  15. Peter Sallis Joker!
  16. Sir Jimmy Savile
  17. Omar Sharif
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Fred Trueman Unique pick
  20. Murray Walker

 

The Great Beyond
First year in DDP.
  1. Iyad Allawi
  2. Woody Allen
  3. Gavin Arvizo Unique pick
  4. Kenny Baker
  5. Joseph Barbera
  6. Ken Dodd
  7. Pete Doherty
  8. Michael J Fox
  9. Gary Glitter
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Russell Grant Unique pick
  12. Brian Harvey
  13. Denis Healey
  14. Saddam Hussein
  15. Angela Lansbury
  16. Shane MacGowan
  17. Bernard Manning
  18. Leonard Nimoy
  19. Dick Van Dyke
  20. Gene Wilder Joker!

 

The Grey Horde
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 14th= (2005)
  1. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Unique pick
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. David Bronstein
  4. Arthur C Clarke
  5. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  6. W. Mark Felt
  7. Rev Billy Graham
  8. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  9. Patrick Moore
  10. General Vo Nguyen Giap
  11. Augusto Pinochet
  12. Harold Pinter Joker!
  13. John Profumo
  14. Ferenc Puskas
  15. Lou Rawls
  16. Chris Rea
  17. King Sihanouk
  18. Vasily Smyslov
  19. John Spencer
  20. Suharto

 

The Happy Desk
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 5th= (2004)
The indecisive team formerly known as The Happy Desk, and then The Coffin Boffins, and now The Happy Desk again, made an impressive debut, finishing joint 5th in 2004, and will no doubt be hoping to do even better this time round.
  1. Barzan Ibrahim El-Hasan al-Tikriti Unique pick
  2. Jacques Chirac
  3. Arthur C Clarke
  4. Nick Clarke
  5. Tony Curtis
  6. Basil D'Oliveira
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Ian Holm Unique pick
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. Bernard Manning
  12. Patrick McGoohan
  13. Kylie Minogue
  14. Harold Pinter
  15. Ibrahim Rugova
  16. Peter Sallis
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Jane Tomlinson Joker!
  20. Desmond Tutu

 

The Last Gasp
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 68th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham Joker!
  2. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Alfredo Di Stefano
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Ernest Gallo
  8. Estelle Getty
  9. Larry Hagman
  10. Prince Ernst August of Hanover
  11. Jesse Helms
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  14. Al Lewis
  15. Pervez Musharraf
  16. Maurice Papon
  17. Augusto Pinochet
  18. Ibrahim Rugova
  19. King Sihanouk
  20. Wendy Wasserstein

 

The Letter S Means Death!
First year in DDP.
Interesting concept...a team whose members all have surnames starting with S!
  1. J. D. Salinger
  2. Peter Sallis
  3. Henri Salvador
  4. Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez Unique pick Joker!
  5. Sir Jimmy Savile
  6. Maximilian Schell
  7. Arthur Schlesinger Jr
  8. Helmut Schmidt
  9. Sherwood Schwartz
  10. Earl Scruggs Unique pick
  11. Mohammed Zahir Shah
  12. Yitzhak Shamir
  13. Ravi Shankar
  14. Sidney Sheldon
  15. Robert Sargent Shriver
  16. Ian Smith
  17. Mickey Spillane
  18. Yves St Laurent
  19. Alfredo Stroessner
  20. Suharto

 

The Living Dead
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Kitty Carlisle
  4. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  5. Robert Earl Jones
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. John Kenneth Galbraith
  8. Ernest Gallo
  9. Albert Hofmann
  10. Delores Hope
  11. Charles Lane
  12. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  13. Karl Malden
  14. Oscar Niemeyer
  15. Anita Page
  16. Maurice Papon
  17. Harry Patch Joker!
  18. Gloria Stuart
  19. Phyllis A. Whitney
  20. John Wooden

 

The Living End
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Ross Davidson
  5. Nick Du Toit Unique pick Joker!
  6. Michael Foot
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. Jean-Marie Le Pen
  13. Jerry Lee Lewis
  14. Jim Molyneaux
  15. Prince Philip
  16. Ferenc Puskas
  17. Yves St Laurent
  18. Jeremy Thorpe
  19. King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
  20. Chad Varah

 

The Long-Awaited Return of the Dorset Jury
Years in DDP: 4
Best position: 3rd (1999)
A team which usually turns in a respectable mid-table performance, but enjoyed more success in its previous incarnation as 'Dave J'.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. Ian Brady
  4. Richard Briers
  5. Arthur C Clarke
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Rev Billy Graham
  10. Vaclav Havel
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Brian Murphy Unique pick
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Nancy Reagan
  16. Eric Sykes
  17. Elizabeth Taylor
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Boris Yeltsin
  20. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

The Melonfarmers
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 118th= (2005)
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Ned Beatty Unique pick
  3. Honor Blackman
  4. Richard Briers
  5. Antonio Carluccio Unique pick
  6. Arthur C Clarke
  7. Pete Doherty
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. John Goodman
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Michael Heseltine Unique pick
  12. Charlton Heston
  13. Roy Horn Unique pick
  14. Saddam Hussein
  15. Leslie Nielsen
  16. Peter O'Toole Joker!
  17. Mickey Rooney
  18. Spanky Spangler Unique pick
  19. Phil Spector
  20. George Wendt

 

The Merry Harvester
First year in DDP.
  1. Princess Anne
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Richard Briers
  4. Bill Cosby
  5. Bruce Forsyth Joker!
  6. Stephen Hawking
  7. Steve Irwin Unique pick
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Courtney Love
  10. Dame Vera Lynn
  11. Nelson Mandela
  12. Roger Moore
  13. Kate Moss Unique pick
  14. Ozzy Osbourne
  15. Rev Ian Paisley
  16. Prince Philip
  17. Salman Rushdie
  18. Peter Stringfellow
  19. Ice T Unique pick
  20. Barbara Windsor

 

The Morbid Postman
First year in DDP.
  1. Joseph Barbera
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Arthur C Clarke
  4. Kirk Douglas
  5. Gerald Ford
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. Gary Glitter Joker!
  8. Bobby Heenan
  9. George Kennedy
  10. Mills Lane
  11. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  12. Herbert Lom
  13. Karl Malden
  14. Slobodan Milosevic
  15. Byron Nelson
  16. Willie Nelson
  17. Eric Sykes
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Eli Wallach
  20. Richard Widmark

 

The Newlydeads
First year in DDP.
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Arthur C Clarke
  3. Dick Clark
  4. Oriana Fallaci
  5. Michael Foot
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. John Kenneth Galbraith
  8. Lord Glenamara
  9. Albert Hofmann
  10. Jerry Lewis
  11. Art Linkletter
  12. Patrick Moore
  13. Kazuo Ohno
  14. Don Perlin Unique pick
  15. Claire Rayner
  16. George Beverly Shea
  17. Suharto
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Lord Norman Tebbit
  20. Margaret Thatcher Joker!

 

The Newstreet Boys Death Squad
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 96th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham Joker!
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Lansana Conté Unique pick
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. John Kenneth Galbraith
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. Dame Vera Lynn
  13. Robert Mugabe
  14. Maurice Papon
  15. Augusto Pinochet
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. Mohammed Zahir Shah
  18. Yitzhak Shamir
  19. Alfredo Stroessner
  20. Hwang Woo-Suk Unique pick

 

The Pale Horseman's Bucket-Kickers
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor Joker!
  2. Joseph Barbera
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Kirk Douglas
  5. Oriana Fallaci
  6. W. Mark Felt
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. John Kenneth Galbraith
  9. Ernest Gallo
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Charles Haughey
  12. Albert Hofmann
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  15. Al Lewis
  16. Oscar Niemeyer
  17. Augusto Pinochet
  18. Ferenc Puskas
  19. Ibrahim Rugova
  20. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

The Raven
Years in DDP: 5
Best position: 7th= (2003 & 2004)
A competitor who puts some impressive research into his team selection, not least because he runs his own dead pool.
  1. Mahmoud al-Zahar
  2. Michael Brecker
  3. Mohammed Deif
  4. Oriana Fallaci Joker!
  5. Gerald Ford
  6. Ghazi Hammud al-Obeidi
  7. Dr Jack Kevorkian
  8. Don Knotts
  9. Khaled Mashaal Unique pick
  10. Eleanor Mondale Unique pick
  11. Harold Pinter
  12. Lou Rawls
  13. Dana Reeve
  14. Anne Rice Unique pick
  15. Ibrahim Rugova
  16. Louis Rukeyser
  17. Ariel Sharon
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Jane Tomlinson

 

The Royton Rovers (Rita, Dave & Kevin Too...)
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 34th= (2005)
  1. Jean Alexander
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Patrick Allen Joker!
  4. Moqtada al-Sadr
  5. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  6. Michael Aspel
  7. Syd Barrett
  8. Ronnie Biggs
  9. Brian Blessed
  10. Ernest Borgnine
  11. Sir Jack Brabham
  12. Max Bygraves
  13. Macaulay Culkin Unique pick
  14. Jerry Lewis
  15. Dame Vera Lynn
  16. Roger Moore
  17. Jack Palance
  18. Mickey Rooney
  19. Brian Wilson
  20. Sir Norman Wisdom

 

The Underdogs of Hull City
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Hugo Bleicher
  5. Bill Brown
  6. Hugues Cuenod
  7. Ross Davidson Joker!
  8. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Unique pick
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Miep Gies
  11. Charles Lane
  12. Ruby Muhammad
  13. Vincent O'Brien Unique pick
  14. Harry Patch
  15. Harold Pinter
  16. Lord David Renton
  17. Peter Rogers Unique pick
  18. Ariel Sharon
  19. Vasily Smyslov
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

The Undertaker
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 10th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Patty Andrews
  3. A. I. Bezzerides
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Ernest Borgnine
  6. Red Buttons
  7. Kirk Douglas
  8. Charles Durning
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Annette Funicello
  11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  12. Rev Billy Graham
  13. Monty Hall
  14. Bobby Heenan
  15. Albert Hofmann Joker!
  16. Don Knotts
  17. Nelson Mandela
  18. Harry Morgan
  19. Nancy Reagan
  20. Shelley Winters

 

The Voodoo Gurus
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Patrick Allen
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Tony Booth
  5. Ivor Cutler
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. John Kenneth Galbraith
  8. Rev Billy Graham
  9. Hugh Hefner
  10. Alex Higgins
  11. Lionel Jeffries
  12. Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone
  13. Shane MacGowan
  14. Bernard Manning
  15. John Mortimer
  16. General Vo Nguyen Giap
  17. Augusto Pinochet
  18. Corin Redgrave Joker!
  19. Peter Sallis
  20. Phil Spector

 

The Vyrdolak
Years in DDP: 7
Best position: 5th= (2004)
The oddly-named Vyrdolak struggled a bit in 2005, but his past success suggests he can't be written off.
  1. Ray Bradbury Joker!
  2. Carol Channing Unique pick
  3. Gerald Ford
  4. Glenn Ford
  5. John Forsythe
  6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  7. John Kenneth Galbraith
  8. Lena Horne
  9. Lady Bird Johnson
  10. Harvey Korman
  11. Al Lewis
  12. Herbert Lom
  13. Darren McGavin
  14. Robert Strange McNamara Unique pick
  15. Don Rickles Unique pick
  16. Soupy Sales
  17. Robert Sargent Shriver
  18. Jean Stapleton Unique pick
  19. Richard Widmark
  20. Shelley Winters

 

The Winged Devil Monkeys
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 96th= (2005)
  1. Jean Alexander
  2. Bea Arthur
  3. Mel Brooks
  4. Anita Bryant Unique pick
  5. Arthur C Clarke
  6. Ronnie Corbett
  7. Phyllis Diller
  8. Alfredo Di Stefano
  9. Jack Douglas
  10. Jerry Falwell
  11. Estelle Getty
  12. Valéry Giscard D'Estaing Unique pick
  13. Rev Billy Graham
  14. Paul Hunter Joker!
  15. Rev Ian Paisley
  16. Estelle Parsons Unique pick
  17. Ruth Rendell Unique pick
  18. Rachel Squire
  19. Jack Tramiel Unique pick
  20. Shelley Winters

 

They Sure Look Like Plant Food To Me
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Adam Ant
  3. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  4. Windsor Davies Unique pick
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Doug Ellis
  7. Bobby George Unique pick
  8. Gary Glitter
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Vanilla Ice Unique pick
  11. Courtney Love
  12. Shane MacGowan
  13. Timmy Mallett Unique pick
  14. Bernard Manning
  15. George Melly
  16. Ozzy Osbourne
  17. Luciano Pavarotti
  18. Demis Roussos Unique pick
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

They're Dead, Y'Know!
First year in DDP.
  1. Michelangelo Antonioni
  2. W. Mark Felt
  3. Gerald Ford
  4. John Freeman Unique pick
  5. John Kenneth Galbraith
  6. Kenneth Griffith Unique pick
  7. Larry Hagman
  8. Charles Haughey
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Saddam Hussein
  11. Al Lewis
  12. Joe Longthorne
  13. Ricardo Montalban
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. Harold Pinter Joker!
  16. Lou Rawls
  17. Chris Rea
  18. John Spencer
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Shelley Winters

 

This Mortal Coil
First year in DDP.
  1. Acker Bilk Unique pick
  2. Dora Bryan Unique pick
  3. Fats Domino
  4. Tom Finney
  5. Gary Gilmour Unique pick
  6. Tony Hart
  7. Denis Healey
  8. Kenneth Kendall Unique pick
  9. John McCallum Unique pick
  10. Henry McGee
  11. Harold Pinter
  12. Ferenc Puskas
  13. Keith Richards
  14. Ariel Sharon Joker!
  15. Johnny Vegas Unique pick
  16. Brian Wilde Unique pick
  17. Jack Wild
  18. Andy Williams
  19. Charlie Williams Unique pick
  20. Googie Withers Unique pick

 

Tick Tocks Stopped Ticking
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ingmar Bergman
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Buster Bloodvessel
  5. Tony Booth
  6. Pierre Cardin
  7. Charlie Drake Joker!
  8. Clive Dunn
  9. Larry Hagman
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone
  13. Nat Lofthouse
  14. Karl Malden
  15. Nelson Mandela
  16. Patrick Moore
  17. Nana Mouskouri
  18. Rupert Murdoch
  19. Michael Parkinson
  20. Charlie Watts

 

TiM r
Years in DDP: 7
Best position: 4th= (2002)
A fairly consistent performer; definitely one to watch.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Clarence Ray Allen
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Elizabeth Bolden
  5. Fidel Castro
  6. Jacques Chirac
  7. Arthur C Clarke
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Vaclav Havel
  12. Saddam Hussein
  13. Ludovic Kennedy
  14. Jerry Lewis
  15. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  16. Michael Morales Unique pick Joker!
  17. John Mortimer
  18. Prince Philip
  19. Harold Pinter
  20. Margaret Thatcher

 

Time Is NOT On Our Side!
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 10th= (2004)
A top 10 finish at their first attempt in 2004 was always going to be hard to follow, and mid-table obscurity beckoned in '05.
  1. Michael Aspel
  2. Shamil Basayev Joker!
  3. Ingmar Bergman
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Ernest Borgnine
  6. Sid Caesar
  7. Yvonne de Carlo
  8. Bulent Ecevit
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Rev Billy Graham
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. Jack Klugman
  13. Ruby Muhammad
  14. Byron Nelson
  15. Les Paul
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. J. D. Salinger
  18. King Sihanouk
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Jane Tomlinson

 

Time, Gentlemen, Please!
First year in DDP.
  1. Eliza Gladys Milvina Dean Joker!
  2. Jack Douglas
  3. 'Mad' Frankie Fraser
  4. Larry Hagman
  5. Stephen Hawking
  6. Delores Hope
  7. Lady Bird Johnson
  8. Ludovic Kennedy
  9. Deborah Kerr
  10. Stan Lee
  11. Art Linkletter
  12. Magnus Magnusson
  13. Sir Arthur Marshall
  14. Cliff Michelmore
  15. Robert Mugabe
  16. Byron Nelson
  17. Mickey Rooney
  18. Ariel Sharon
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Caspar Weinberger

 

Toasted Brown Bread
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 28th (2005)
  1. Muhammad Ali Joker!
  2. Walter Cronkite
  3. Olivia de Havilland
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
  6. Dame Helen Gardiner
  7. Gary Glitter
  8. Albert Hofmann
  9. Saddam Hussein
  10. Sun Myung Moon
  11. Maureen O'Hara
  12. Rev Ian Paisley
  13. Prince Philip
  14. J. D. Salinger
  15. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  16. Elizabeth Taylor
  17. Mary Travers
  18. Reg Varney
  19. Sir Norman Wisdom
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Tomb It May Concern
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Bill Deedes
  4. Pete Doherty
  5. Charlie Drake
  6. Rev Billy Graham Joker!
  7. Denis Healey
  8. Charlton Heston
  9. Ann Leslie Unique pick
  10. Rupert Murdoch
  11. Rev Ian Paisley
  12. Harry Patch
  13. Les Paul
  14. Augusto Pinochet
  15. John Profumo
  16. Pete Seeger
  17. Margaret Thatcher
  18. Jeremy Thorpe
  19. Jane Tomlinson
  20. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

Tramp The Dirt Down
First year in DDP.
  1. Alu Alkhanov
  2. P. W. Botha
  3. George Bush (snr)
  4. Bulent Ecevit
  5. Jerry Falwell
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Jesse Helms
  8. Charlton Heston
  9. E. Howard Hunt Unique pick
  10. General Wojciech Jaruzelski
  11. Henry Kissinger
  12. Jean-Marie Le Pen
  13. Hosni Mubarak
  14. Yasuhiro Nakasone Unique pick
  15. Maurice Papon
  16. Augusto Pinochet
  17. Ian Smith
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Kurt Waldheim
  20. Caspar Weinberger Joker!

 

Vassili Zaitsev
Years in DDP: 3
Best position: 27th= (2004)
Brian Blessed retains his controversial place in this team, and is joined by young Kirsty Howard, who was born with a serious heart defect but continues to defy the doctors by battling on.
  1. Lauren Bacall
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. Brian Blessed
  4. James Brown
  5. Alistair Burnett
  6. Robbie Coltrane Unique pick
  7. Diana Coupland Unique pick
  8. Eliza Gladys Milvina Dean
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Alex Higgins
  12. Kirsty Howard
  13. Eugene F. Kranz Unique pick
  14. Shane MacGowan
  15. George Melly
  16. Liza Minnelli
  17. Leslie Phillips
  18. Shirley Temple
  19. Jane Tomlinson Joker!
  20. Eli Wallach

 

Victor Spencer's Delight
First year in DDP.
  1. Michael Barrymore
  2. Osama bin Laden
  3. Honor Blackman
  4. Ian Brady
  5. June Brown
  6. James Brown
  7. Fidel Castro
  8. Ronnie Corbett
  9. Pete Doherty
  10. Michael J Fox
  11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  12. Paul Gascoigne
  13. Boy George
  14. Gary Glitter Joker!
  15. Bonnie Langford Unique pick
  16. Lee Majors
  17. Leonard Nimoy
  18. Leslie Phillips
  19. Diana Ross
  20. Sir Jimmy Savile

 

We Don't Talk Anymore
First year in DDP.
An appropriately-named entry from a self-confessed Cliff Richard fan.
  1. Robert Altman
  2. Mother Angelica
  3. R. G. Armstrong Unique pick
  4. Rabbi Philip Berg
  5. Joey Bishop
  6. Ernest Borgnine
  7. Max Bygraves
  8. Glen Campbell
  9. Kitty Carlisle
  10. Jimmy Carter
  11. Val Doonican
  12. Kirk Douglas
  13. Clive Dunn
  14. Albert Finney
  15. Michael Gough
  16. Larry Hagman
  17. Ludovic Kennedy
  18. Christopher Lee
  19. Joe Longthorne
  20. Dolly Parton Unique pick Joker!

 

We Spin Terror
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 23rd= (2005)
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Red Auerbach
  3. Nick Clarke
  4. Oriana Fallaci Joker!
  5. Gerald Ford
  6. Vaclav Havel
  7. Saddam Hussein
  8. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  9. Natasha Lyonne Unique pick
  10. Tammy Faye Messner
  11. Keizo Miura Unique pick
  12. Bettie Page
  13. Harold Pinter
  14. Dana Reeve
  15. Ibrahim Rugova
  16. Coretta Scott King
  17. Run Run Shaw
  18. Suharto
  19. Kurt Vonnegut
  20. Earl Woods

 

Weatherman90 And The Crew
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 88th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Patty Andrews
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Ronnie Biggs
  5. Walter Cronkite
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Gerald Ford
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  9. Estelle Getty
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Delores Hope
  12. Lady Bird Johnson
  13. Frankie Laine
  14. Nelson Mandela
  15. Tammy Faye Messner Joker!
  16. Patrick Moore
  17. Lou Rawls
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Jane Tomlinson

 

Whitaker's Choice
Years in DDP: 6
Best position: 1st (2001)
Whitaker the cat's strategy of picking predominantly elderly royal and ex-military types has ensured him no fewer than 4 top 10 finishes in the DDP.
  1. Lord Peter Carrington
  2. Arthur C Clarke
  3. Bill Deedes
  4. The Duchess of Devonshire
  5. Sir Edward Ford
  6. Dame Helen Gardiner
  7. Lord Glenamara
  8. King Harald V of Norway
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Duchess of Kent
  11. Sir Arthur Marshall
  12. John Mortimer
  13. Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw
  14. Harold Pinter Joker!
  15. John Profumo
  16. Margaret Thatcher
  17. Jeremy Thorpe
  18. Chad Varah
  19. Sir Tasker Watkins Unique pick
  20. Colonel E. C. T. Wilson Unique pick

 

Whoopass United
First year in DDP.
  1. Mother Angelica
  2. Michelangelo Antonioni
  3. Brooke Astor
  4. Joseph Barbera
  5. Lloyd Bentsen
  6. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  7. Dick Clark
  8. Ross Davidson
  9. Alfredo Di Stefano
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. Albert Hofmann
  12. Paul Hunter
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Charles Lane
  15. Oscar Niemeyer
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. John Spencer
  18. Mollie Sugden
  19. Charlie Watts
  20. Shelley Winters

 

Windsor The Troll
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ronnie Biggs
  3. W. Mark Felt
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  6. Estelle Getty
  7. Rev Billy Graham
  8. Charles Haughey
  9. Saddam Hussein
  10. Charles Lane
  11. Augusto Pinochet
  12. Harold Pinter
  13. Ibrahim Rugova
  14. Coretta Scott King
  15. Mohammed Zahir Shah
  16. Major Bruce Shand
  17. King Sihanouk Joker!
  18. Malietoa Tanumafila II
  19. King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
  20. Anna Wing

 

Wish Upon A Star
First year in DDP.
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Michael Barrymore
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Cilla Black
  5. Frank Bough
  6. James Brown
  7. Frank Carson
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  10. Hugh Hefner
  11. Alex Higgins
  12. Kerry Katona Unique pick
  13. Liza Minnelli
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Ozzy Osbourne
  16. Sir Bobby Robson
  17. Anna Nicole Smith
  18. Elizabeth Taylor Joker!
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Jeremy Vine Unique pick

 

Wishin' on a (Death) Star
First year in DDP.
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Brooke Astor
  3. Joseph Barbera
  4. Seth Cook Unique pick
  5. Hugues Cuenod
  6. Bulent Ecevit
  7. Dan Fogelberg
  8. Michael Foot
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. Charles Haughey
  11. Alex Higgins
  12. Ratu Iloilo
  13. Al Lewis
  14. Patrick Moore
  15. Rev Ian Paisley
  16. Maurice Papon
  17. Augusto Pinochet
  18. King Sihanouk
  19. Jeremy Thorpe
  20. Jane Tomlinson Joker!

 

Wishy-Washy
First year in DDP.
  1. 50 Cent
  2. Raymond Baxter
  3. Ronnie Biggs
  4. Buster Bloodvessel
  5. Bill Deedes
  6. Paul Gascoigne
  7. Julie Goodyear
  8. Charles Haughey
  9. Alex Higgins
  10. John Inman
  11. Joe Longthorne
  12. Karl Malden Joker!
  13. Richard O'Sullivan
  14. Ralf Schumacher
  15. Ariel Sharon
  16. Anna Nicole Smith
  17. Peter Sutcliffe
  18. Frank Thornton
  19. Chad Varah
  20. Rose West

 

You Can Have Zsa Zsa Over My Dead Body!
First year in DDP.
  1. Brooke Astor
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. David Crosby
  4. Ross Davidson
  5. Olivia de Havilland
  6. Alfredo Di Stefano
  7. Tom Finney
  8. Joan Fontaine
  9. Gerald Ford
  10. John Kenneth Galbraith
  11. Paul Gascoigne
  12. Larry Hagman
  13. Lady Bird Johnson
  14. Joe Longthorne
  15. Bernard Manning
  16. Peter O'Toole
  17. Gail Porter
  18. Elizabeth Taylor
  19. Margaret Thatcher
  20. Boris Yeltsin

 

Youth In Asia Helpline
Years in DDP: 2
Best position: 14th= (2005)
  1. Henry Allingham
  2. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  3. Maria Esther de Capovilla
  4. Yvonne de Carlo
  5. Alfredo Di Stefano
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Michael Foot
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Delores Hope
  10. Lady Bird Johnson
  11. Frankie Laine
  12. Al Lewis
  13. Karl Malden
  14. Sir Arthur Marshall
  15. Emiliano Mercado del Toro
  16. Ruby Muhammad
  17. Gloria Stuart
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Jane Tomlinson
  20. Richard Widmark

 

Zaph's Snuffers
First year in DDP.
  1. Neil Armstrong
  2. Captain Beefheart
  3. Ronnie Biggs Joker!
  4. Mel Brooks
  5. Fidel Castro
  6. Henry Cooper Unique pick
  7. Doris Day
  8. Hulk Hogan
  9. General Wojciech Jaruzelski
  10. Jerry Lee Lewis
  11. Bill Maynard
  12. Patrick Moore
  13. Nancy Reagan
  14. Michael Schumacher
  15. Ravi Shankar
  16. Eric Sykes
  17. Shirley Temple
  18. Margaret Thatcher
  19. Brian Wilson
  20. Chuck Yeager

 

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