British Army Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, 3rd Baronet, KCB, CBE, DSO, the second contest to appear, became a noted horticulturist, writing books on cacti and keeping a well noted garden at his house, Lower Hall in Worfield, England.
One time panelist Jerome Hines, besides being an operatic bass who performed at the Metropolitan Opera from 1946 to 1987, was also a mathematician and chemist (UCLA), publishing five papers on mathematics in the 1950s.