Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald Campbell both held world land and water speed records. Malcolm Campbell was a British racing motorist and motoring journalist, he gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called Blue Bird, including a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam.
Donald Campbell was the son of Malcolm Campbell, who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a speed attempt at the Lake District in northern England.
