List of People's Century interviewees
The 1995 BBC/PBS documentary People's Century interviewed over one hundred persons who witnessed key events during the 20th century, including several centenarians who could recall the First World War and even earlier. Most interviewees were not well known, but may be physically recognisable from a famous photograph or image. Below are listed by nationality those persons who were interviewed, along with their occupation they were noted for, and the episode in which they were featured.
Afghans
- Gul Haydar: guerrilla
- Ahmed Shah Masoud: guerrilla leader
- Madar Shawal: guerrilla courier
Americans
- Arthur Abeles: film distributor
- Harold Agnew: Los Alamos scientist
- Martine Algier: Michigan teenager
- John Anderson: cinema usher
- Richard Ayers: law student, then environmental lawyer
- Alexander Azar: Fort Wayne hamburger advertiser
- Bill Bailey: Telegraph boy, later unemployed, later US Navy worker
- Carl Bagge: railway company lawyer, later coal company lobbyist
- Kathy Bergstrom: Los Angeles teacher
- Benjamin Berger: father of murdered Israeli weightlifter, David Mark Berger
- Dorothy Berger: mother of murdered Israeli weightlifter, David Mark Berger
- Paul Boatin: Ford production worker
- Bill Braga: New Jersey resident
- Georgette Braga: New Jersey resident
- Evelyn Brauckmiller: shipyard worker
- Shorty Brauckmiller: shipyard worker
- Beryl Bristow:
- Berlyn Brixner: US Army cameraman
- Art Buckner: Kaiser Steel steelworker, later unemployed
- Marjorie Brandt: Fort Wayne television viewer
- Tela Burt: World War I African-American soldier
- Dennis Byas: Kaiser Steel steelworker, later financial controller
- Jacqui Ceballos: National Organization for Women organiser
- Amy Coen: University of Michigan student, later family planning adviser
- Red Cole: Ford production worker
- Margaret Colombo: Philco production worker
- Erv Dasher: Ford production worker
- John Deangelo: Ford production worker
- Elizabeth Dobynes: Fort Wayne television viewer
- Betty DuBrul: Levittown resident
- Anilu Elias: mother
- Mike Eruzione: Captain, United States ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics
- Anna Freund: New York Yankees supporter
- Manny Fried: trade union organiser
- Eddie Futch: boxing coach
- Lois Gibbs: Love Canal activist
- Nellie Gillenson: emigrant
- Tina Grate: Los Angeles mother
- Ernest Green: Little Rock schoolboy
- David Hackworth: US army colonel
- Gail Halverson: US Air Force lieutenant and "Candy Bomber"
- Lement Harris: journalist
- Denis Hayes: Earth Day organiser
- Frankie Henry: Tennessee State University student
- Don Hewitt: CBS director
- James Hill: Oak Ridge scientist
- Tom Jelley: Ford production worker
- Jeff Jones: Weatherman activist
- Sheldon Johnson: US Army soldier and Saint George, Utah resident
- Lloyd Kiff: ornithologist
- Bernadette Lafayette: civil rights activist
- Thomas Larkin: Stockbroker
- Abe Lass: Nickelodeon attendee
- James Lewis: army doctor
- Joe Liguori: spectator of Dempsey match
- Cy Locke: US armed forces projectionist
- James Lovell: Apollo 8 astronaut
- Floyd Mann: Alabama policeman
- David Moore: Ford foundery worker and trade unionist
- Mancel Milligan: forester, later Tennessee Valley Authority worker
- John Morton-Finney: civil rights activist
- Robert Nathan: economics student
- Edwin Nerger: Fort Wayne priest
- Wally Neilsen: Marshall Aid organiser
- Charlie Nusser: Communist supporter
- Chuck O'Donahue: smelter worker
- Caryn Pace: Long Island resident
- Colleen Parro: Texas housewife
- Albert Powis: World War I marine
- Barbara "Dusty" Roads: flight attendant
- William Robertson: US Army lieutenant
- Terry Ross: Coto de Caza resident
- Vivian Rothstein: University of California student, later civil rights campaigner
- F. Sherwood Rowland: Stanford University academic
- Deborah Runkle: polio sufferer
- Rusty Sachs: US Marine pilot
- Tom Saffer: US marine
- Yetta Sperling: emigrant
- Peter Staley: AIDS activist
- Helen Stephens: sprinter at Olympics
- Sharon Stern: polio sufferer
- George Stith: cotton sharecropper
- Loye Stoops: farmer, Dustbowl evacuee
- Jim Sullivan: Ford production worker and trade unionist
- Bill Sweinler: Mosinee schoolboy
- John Tekkaman: Swedish immigrant
- Ron Thelin: Californian boy scout, later hippy
- C T Vivien: Baptist minister
- Lorena Weeks: Atlanta telephone operator
- Bill Werber: New York Yankees player
- Zekozy Williams: Montgomery housemaid
- Earl Young: diplomat
- Jim Zwerg: Fisk University student and freedom rider
Australians
- Edward Smout: World War I medic
- Cec Starr: cricket supporter
Austrians
- Norbert Lopper: Viennese Jew, later worker at Auschwitz
Belgians
- Yvonne Mouffe: child during Great Depression
- Pierre Rondas: Louvain refugee
Belarusians
- Sergei Butsko: villager
- Serafima Schibko: villager
Bosnians
- Fikret Alic: Bosnian Muslim detained at Trnopolje camp
- Tomka Miric: Bosnian Serb
British
- Sid Bailey: British Union of Fascists member
- Majorie Cave: TB sufferer
- John Cracknell: Surrey County Cricket Club supporter
- Burt Calver: Surrey County Cricket Club supporter
- Jenny Cole: London teenager
- Iris Davis: biscuit maker
- Les Ellis: TB sufferer
- Sally Doganis:Aldermaston Marches participant
- Hayden Evans: pressed steel worker, trip hammer operator
- Elizabeth Finn: film viewer
- Conrad Frost: television viewer
- Sidney Garner: West Ham United Football Club football supporter
- Lillian Gillen: crane driver
- Kathleen Green: Welsh film viewer
- Edmund Frow: Ford UK production worker
- Elizabeth Finn: mother
- Walter Hare: soldier
- Karen Harrison: first female British Rail train driver
- Eva Hart: Titanic survivor
- Jennifer Hart: League of Nations Union member
- Charles Hill: Vulcan engineering apprentice
- Donald Hodge: child who witnessed 1899
- Reg Howard: Salford apprentice mechanic
- John Hunter:civil defence volunteer
- Gertrude Jarrett: suffragette
- Ray Jordan: Coventry resident
- Rita Kaye: cinema pianist
- Carol Kemp: London teenager
- Betty Lawrence: Plymouth midwifery student
- Ernie Lambert: Sutherland Football Club supporter
- Cecil Lewis: World War I pilot
- Mike Losban: Manchester teenager
- Billy McShane: Jarrow shipbuilder, later Jarrow Crusade marcher
- Robert Mitchell: member of British Olympic water polo
- Walter Moran: Decca factory worker
- Sid Newman: Plymouth resident
- Donald Newton: music shop manager
- Geoff Nugent: member of The Undertakers
- Billy O'Donnell: Liverpool Football Club supporter
- Olga Penrose: RSPCA volunteer
- Daphne Richards: bus driver
- Amy Sears: witnessed Queen Victoria
- Con Shiels: Jarrow shipbuilder, later Jarrow Crusade marcher
- Lord Soper: pacifist campaigner
- Mary Stott: Leicester voter, then journalist
- Norman Tennant: World War I artillerist
- Jonathan Tod: Royal Navy pilot
- David Triesman: Essex University student protest leader
- Ena Turnbull: London cinema pianist
- Wendy Vause: television viewer
- Minnie Way: Glasgow striker b1895
- Joyce Wheedon: Ford machinest
- George Williams: London film viewer
- Macinlay Wooden: soldier, then Kansas farmer
- Harry Young: Communist supporter
Canadians
- Robert Hunter: Greenpeace President
- Maurice Strong: Stockholm Conference chairman
Chileans
- Justo Ballesteros: copper miner
- Claudina Montano Diaz: nitrates worker
Chinese
- Shao Ailing: Shanghai school head
- Hu Benxu: Sichuan peasant farmer
- Zhang Baoqing: Beijing Red Guard
- Ho Bo: photographer
- Ren Fugin: Beijing street committee official
- Zeng Guodong: Tinjin district party secretary
- Jin Jingzhi: Shanghai resident
- He Jinhua: Henan steelworker
- Zhu Meichu: street singer
- Luo Shifa: Sichuan party official
- Jiao Shouyun: Beijing Red Guard
- Lian Tianyun: Henan steelworker
- Guo Jing Tong: witnessed Chinese revolution in 1911
- Tong Xiangling: Shanghai opera singer
- Tan Xianyao: Shanghai factory worker
- Guao Xiuying: Beijing literacy teacher
- Quian Xuhui: Yunan migrant factory worker
- Ren Yangcheng: Henan canal worker
- Wang Yong: Shanghai stockbroker
- Qi Youyi: Beijing factory worker
Cubans
- Arsenio Garcia: guerrilla
- Alberto Leon: guerrilla
Czechs
- Josef Beldar: Czech civil defence
- Bohumir Kriz: WHO smallpox team member
- Anna Masaryka: granddaughter of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- Petr Miller: metal worker
- Gertrud Peitsch: Sudeten German resident
- Jiri Stursa: schoolboy
Dutch
- Rita Hendriks: Dolle Mina activist
Egyptians
- Fathia El Assal: Cairo writer
- Ali Abdel Hamid: Cairo teacher
- Mahmoud: Cairo plasterer
- Yasser Tawfiq: Cairo preacher
French
- Raymond Abescat: Paris Exhibition attendee
- Marcel Batreau: World War I and II soldier
- Maurice Bourgeois: schoolboy
- Alice Clousier: Paris Exhibition attendee
- Etienne Crouy Chanel: aide to Édouard Daladier
- Jean Dubertret: Douai resident
- Monette Gaunt: Paris resident
- Romain Goupil: May 1968 protestor
- Arthur Herbaux: Renault production worker
- Raymond Jolivet: Bourges farmboy
- Evelyne Langey: Paris resident
- Michel Lequenne: French resistance member
- Roger Lorelliere: Renault worker and May 1968 protestor
- Jeanne Plouvin: witnessed first Trans-channel flight in 1909
- Zenaide Provins: Renault production worker
- Hermine Venot-Focke: World War I nurse
Georgians
- Endar Shengelai: film director
Germans
- Peter Bielenburg: member of anti-Nazi resistance
- Gerda Bodenheimer: Jewish Berlin resident
- Hans Brunswig: Hamburg fireman
- Karl von Clemm: World War I artillerist
- Anna-Maria Ernst: gypsy Auschwitz survivor
- Luise Essig: Agriculture Ministry education worker
- Josef Felder: Social Democratic Party of Germany parliamentarian
- Mike Frohnel: East German hospital worker
- Herta Grabarz: Lower Saxony villager
- Jurgen Kroeger: Einsatzgruppen interpreter
- Ilsa Kruger: Berlin resident
- Harald Jäger: East German border guard
- Hanne-Lore Lutgering: League of German Girls member
- Hans Margules: Jewish art student, later worker at Auschwitz
- Anita Moller: Berlin tunnel escapee
- Hans Münch: SS doctor at Auschwitz
- Karl Nagerl: Munich schoolboy, later soldier
- Karl-Henning Oldekop: World War I infantryman
- Dietmar Passenheim: East German transport police officer
- Marie Rau: daughter of euthenised schizophernic
- Barbel Reinke: East German waitress
- Fritz Schilgen: Berlin Olympics torch lighter
- Horst Slesina: Propaganda Ministry worker
- Friedl Sonnenberg: young girl
- Reinhard Spitzy: SS officer
- Margarethe Stahl: child who witnessed outbreak of the First World War
- George Stege: Volkswagen factory worker
- Ernst Weckerling: World War I officer
- Horst Westphal: Hamburg schoolboy
- Mercedes Wild: Berlin child
- Ilse Woile: League of German Girls member
- Margarette Zettel: Hamburg tram conductor, then civil defence worker
Ghanaians
- Geoffrey Aduamah: war veteran, later lawyer
- Anim Assiful: cocoa farmer
- Eddie Francois: civil servant
- Komla Gbedema: vice chairman, Convention People's Party
- E. T. Mensah: musician
- Beatrice Quatey: market stall keeper
Hungarians
- Gergely Pongratz: independence fighter
Indians
- Anil Agarwal: journalist
- Rahmat Bano: Jaipur television viewer
- Bikarma: smallpox sufferer
- Amravati Devi: villager
- Mukesh Gupta: smelter owner
- Buddu Harku: cataract sufferer
- Zafar Husain: smallpox campaigner
- Birenda Kaur: student
- Cha Kunga: World War I labourer
- Peter Morris: Bangalore medical scribe
- Vishnu Ogale: sterlised father
- Dutta Pai: family planning doctor
- Teju Raghuvir: Uttar Pradesh villager
- Bhairu Ram: Jaipur television viewer
- Rajam Ramanathan: Bangalore film viewer
- Satpal Saini: farmer
- Bano Shamshaad: Bhopal resident
- Asha Singh: villager
Iranians
- Hadi Gaffari: mullah
- Mohammed Shah Hossein: Tehran carpenter
- Zeynab Jalili:
- Darioush Keshuarpad: student
- Maloud Khanlary: schoolgirl
- Saeed Manesh: schoolboy, later soldier
- Soroor Moradi Nazari: Tehran resident
- Mohsen Rafighdoost: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's driver
- Mashid Amir Shahy: physics student
Italians
- Evio Barretti: Pontedera Vespa factory worker
- Duilia Bartoli: film viewer
- Luigi Cavaliere: projectionist
- Gerardo Ciola: Naples resident
- Edda Furlan: Pordenone factory worker
- Felice Gentile: Fiat worker
- Giovanni Gobbi: Fiat worker
- Don Giovanni Lano: Turin priest
- Franco Ricci: film viewer
- Lisetta Salis: Rome resident
- Giovanni de Stefanis: Turin factoryworker
Japanese
- Kinnojo Abe: bed salesman
- Tsuginori Hanamoto: Minamata Bay fisherman, later patients leader
- Yoshiko Hashimoto: Tokyo resident
- Akira Ishida: Hiroshima atom bomb survivor
- Tomiji Matsuda: victim of Minamata Bay accident
- Sumiko Morikawa: Tokyo resident
- Hakudo Nagatomi: soldier
- Jun Nagasawa: guitarist, The Three Funkies
- Miyoshi Ohba: rural health worker
- Matashichi Oshi: Lucky Dragon crewmember
- Katsumoto Saotome: schoolboy
- Nobuko Sato: Tokyo resident
- Taisuke Sato: Tokyo resident
- Hisako Sugawara: Sony factory worker
- Kuniyuki Takeshita: Minamata Chisso plant manager
- Sumiteru Taniguchi: Hiroshima atom bomb survivor
- Mohei Tamura: salesman
- Yoshihiro Yamashita: Chisso employee
- Suezo Uchida: Nagasaki shipbuilder
Kenyans
- Waijwa Theuri: Mau Mau fighter
- Wangugu Gitchonga: detainee
- Syvia Richardson: British settler
Koreans
- Yeon Bong Hak: Pohang Steel employee
- Park Dae Hyun: teacher
- Yi Chong Kak: textile worker, then union leader
- Kim Bok Soon: housekeeper, then New Community Movement activist
- Jang Chang Sun: wrestler at the Tokyo Olympics
- Yan Pyon Tou: forced labourer
- Kwak Man Young: student, then highway engineer
Israelis
- Dora Schwartz: Holocaust survivor
Lithuanian
- Zvi Michaeli: Holocaust survivor
Mexicans
- Serafina Gallardo: shanty town dweller
Mozambiquans
- Xadreque Paulino Sarea: Frelimo fighter
- Leia Isaia Mbazima: cotton worker
Pakistanis
- Tahir Kazi: Rawalpindi shopkeeper
- Shazia Lal: schoolgirl
Palestinians
- Abu Daoud: Black September leader
Peruvians
- Luis Correa Camacho: mayor of Otuzco
- Maria Llanos Rudas: wife of cholera victim
Poles
- Henryka Kryzwonos: Gdańsk tram driver and Solidarność leader
Romanians
- Ioan Banciu: Timișoara engineer
- Mihai Radu: student
- Ioan Savu: Timișoara chemical worker
- Steliana Stefonoiu: Bucharest television viewer
Russians
- Lev Altshuller: nuclear scientist
- Alyosha: Saint Petersburg street kid
- Mikhail Arkhipov: Magnitogorsk volunteer
- Tamara Banketik: child presenter
- Oleg Blotski: platoon commander
- Alexander Briansky: revolutionary in 1905 and 1917
- Arkadi Brish: nuclear scientist
- Izo Degtyar: musician
- Anastasia Denisova: literacy campaign worker
- Sergey Evdokimov: anti-putschist tank brigade commander
- Tatiana Fedeorova': labourer, then Soviet parliamentarian
- Nina Fedorovna: Kirov Plant inspector, later unemployed
- Leonid Galperin: Road of Life commandant
- Dasha Khubova: student?
- Max Kleinman: factory worker, then World War I infantryman
- Alexei Kozlov: jazz musician
- Stanislava Kraskovskaya: witnessed pogroms in Russia
- Natasha Kuznetsova: Moscow resident
- Anna Larina: wife of Nikolai Bukharin
- Nikolai Lukianov: revolutionary in 1905
- Evgeny Mahayev: fishmonger
- Ksenya Matus: Leningrad Radio Orchestra oboist
- Mikhail Midlin: Konsomolol member, later purged
- Valentina Mikova: Magnitogorsk party worker
- Nina Motova: Ballbearing factory worker
- Mikhail Rozenthal: World War I soldier
- Oleg Rumiantsev: Kirov Plant worker, later entrepreneur
- Alexandra Sakharova: forced labourer
- Anatoly Semiriaga: Soviet Army captain, then major
- Ella Shistyer: student, then electrical engineer, later purged
- Alexandr Silvashko: Soviet Army lieutenant
- Elena Taranukhina: Leningrad resident
- Boris Yefimov: Pravda cartoonist
- Lubov Zhakova: Leningrad resident
Senegalese
- Amadou Barro Diene: student
- Majhemout Diop: party activist
Somalis
- Ali Maalin: last smallpox sufferer
South Africans
- Magdeline Chosane: Soweto schoolgirl
- Justina Coha: East London nurse
- Christine Hadebe: Johannesburg maid
- John Kani: actor
- M P Lombaard: civil servant
- Moira Mbelu: Soweto schoolgirl
- Amos Msimanga: African National Congress member
- Ray Mahlambeni: Pan African Congress member
- Mbongeni Ndlovu: Johannesburg resident
- Dorah Ramothibe: Transvaal farmworker
- Eric Rothele: Soweto schoolboy
- Nico Smith: theology student
- Tournament Vusani: General Motors worker
Sudanese
- John Robien Ayai: amputee convict
Swedes
- Gota Rosen: Social Democrats member
Turks
- Serodor Peliganovlu: schoolboy
Ukrainians
- Izrail Chernitsky: young communist
- Pelageya Ovcharenko: peasant
- Veniamin Prianichnikov: Chernobyl engineer
- Valery Staradumov: Chernobyl scientist
Uruguyans
- Diego Lucero: football journalist
- Ondino Viera: Football coach
Vietnamese
- Nguyen Thi Be: child guerrilla
- Phan Dien: Viet Cong local leader
- Võ Nguyên Giáp: Việt Minh leader
- Tran Thi Gung: Viet Cong guerrilla
- Chau Van Nhat: farmer
- Lam Van Phan: North Vietnamese spy
- Lâm Văn Phát: South Vietnam army general