Derek Talbot is a former English badminton player. One of Britain's most successful "all-rounders," he won eleven English National Championships four singles, three doubles, and four mixed doubles. He also won four Commonwealth Games gold medals and in partnership with the formidable Gillian Gilks he won three mixed doubles crowns at the prestigious All-England Open.

Gillian Gilks is an English former badminton player who won numerous major titles in all three events between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s.