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Actors and actresses

• Alan Rickman, (born 1946)
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, (born 1967)
• Dame Julie Andrews (born 1935)
• Naveen Andrews, (born 1969)
• Helena Bonham Carter, (born 1966)
• Gabrielle Anwar, (born 1970)
• Rowan Atkinson (born 1955)
• Tom Baker, (born 1934)
• Sean Bean, (born 1959)
• Kate Beckinsale, (born 1973)
• Richard Beckinsale, (1947-1979)
• Steven Berkoff, (born 1937)
• Orlando Bloom, (born 1977)
• Kathy Burke, (born 1964)
• Sir Michael Caine, (born 1933)
• Kim Cattrall, (born 1956)
• Sacha Baron Cohen, (born 1971)
• Daniel Craig, (born 1968)
• Tim Curry, (born 1946)
• Daniel Day-Lewis, (born 1957)
• Roger Delgado, (born 1918)
• Dame Judi Dench, (born 1934)
• Sarah Douglas, (born 1952)
• Danny Dyer, (born 1977)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, (born 1974)
• Rupert Everett (born 1959)
• Craig Fairbrass, (born 1964)
• Tom Felton (born 1987)
• Ralph Fiennes, (born 1962)
• Colin Firth, (born 1960)
• Dexter Fletcher, (born 1966)
• Jamie Foreman, (born 1958)
• George Formby, (1904-1961)
• Stephen Fry, (born 1958)
• Sir Michael Gambon, (born 1940)
• Sir John Gielgud, (1904-2000)
• Cary Grant, (1904-1986)
• Hugh Grant, (born 1960)
• Leslie Grantham, (born 1947)
• John Gregson, (1919-1975)
• Sir Alec Guinness, (1914-2000)
• Brian Hall, (1937-1997)
• Jack Hawkins, (1910-1973)
• Will Hay, (1888-1949)
• Audrey Hepburn, (1929-1993) (Belgian-born to Anglo-Irish-Dutch descent)
• Dame Wendy Hiller, (1912-2003)
• Stanley Holloway, (1890-1982)
• Bob Hoskins, (born 1942)
• Leslie Howard, (1893-1943)
• John Hurt, (born 1940)
• Sir David Jason, (1940)
• Ben Kingsley, (born 1943)
• Keira Knightley, (born 1985)
• Charles Laughton, (1899-1962)
• Hugh Laurie, (born 1959)
• Jude Law, (born 1972)
• Joanna Lumley, (born 1946)
• Margaret Lockwood, (1916-1990)
• Roy Marsden, (born 1941)
• Sir Ian McKellen, (born 1939)
• Wentworth Miller, (born 1972)
• Sienna Miller, (born 1981)
• Hayley Mills, (born 1946)
• Sir John Mills, (1908-2005)
• Sir Roger Moore, (born 1928)
• Kenneth More, (1914-1982)
• Parminder Nagra, (born 1975)
• Anthony Newley, (1931-1999)
• Sophie Okonedo, (born 1969)
• Gary Oldman, (born 1958)
• Sir Laurence Olivier, (1907-1989)
• Clive Owen, (born 1964)
• Cecil Parker, (1897-1971)
• Simon Pegg, (born 1970)
• Dominic Purcell, (born 1970)
• Daniel Radcliffe, (born 1989)
• Oliver Reed, (1938-1999)
• Joely Richardson (born 1965)
• Miranda Richardson, (born 1958)
• Sir Ralph Richardson, (1902-1983)
• Tim Roth, (born 1958)
• Dame Margaret Rutherford, (1892-1972)
• Peter Sellers, (1925-1980)
• Dame Maggie Smith, (born 1934)
• Terence Stamp, (born 1939)
• Patrick Stewart, (born 1940)
• Kiefer Sutherland, (born 1966)
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor, (born 1932)
• Emma Thompson, (born 1959)
• Sir Peter Ustinov, (1921-2004)
• Julie Walters, (born 1950)
• Jack Warner, (1896-1981)
• Emily Watson, (born 1967)
• Emma Watson, (born 1990)
• Rachel Weisz, (born 1971)
• Michael Wilding, (1912-1979)
• Ray Winstone, (born 1957)
• Googie Withers, (born 1917)

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is an acclaimed award-winning English film, television and stage actor. ... Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje   (born August 22, 1967 in Islington, London, England) is a British/Nigerian actor and a former male fashion model. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born January 17, 1969) is an Emmy-and Golden Globe-nominated English actor. ... Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. ... Gabrielle Anwar (born February 4, 1970) is an English actress, known for her roles in the 1990s films The Three Musketeers and Body Snatchers. ... Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English comedian, actor and writer best known for playing Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder and for playing the title role in the British television comedy Mr. ... For other persons named Tom Baker, see Tom Baker (disambiguation). ... Sean Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English film and stage actor. ... Kathryn Bailey Kate Beckinsale (born July 26, 1973 in London) is an English actress. ... Richard Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor who is most famous for his role as Lennie Godber in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge. ... Steven Berkoff (born August 3, 1937) is an actor, writer and director. ... Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom[1] (born January 13, 1977) is an English actor. ... Kathy Burke (born June 13, 1964) is a British actress. ... Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite CBE (born March 14, 1933), known professionally as Michael Caine, is a two-time Academy Award-winning British film actor. ... Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21, 1956 in Widnes, England) is an Anglo-Canadian actress. ... Sacha Noam Baron Cohen[1] (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist from Staines, England) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). ... Daniel Wroughton Craig [1] (born 2 March 1968 [2] in Chester, England) is a BAFTA-nominated English actor best known as the sixth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the official film series from EON Productions. ... Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English actor, singer and composer perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) or as Pennywise in It (1990). ... Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957), is an Academy-Award winning and Golden Globe-award nominated actor. ... Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto (March 1, 1918 – June 18, 1973) was a British actor, best known for his role as the Master in Doctor Who. ... Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA, (born 9 December 1934), usually known as Dame Judi Dench, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, three-time BAFTA, and six-time Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress. ... Sarah Douglas (born December 12, 1952) is an English actress, most notable for playing strong villainessess in 1980s science fiction movies. ... Danny Dyer (born 24 July 1977) is an English actor. ... Ejiofor in Four Brothers Chiwetel Ejiofor (born 10 July 1974) is an award-winning British film and stage actor. ... Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959) is an English actor and a former singer. ... Craig Fairbrass (born Stepney, London 1964) is an English actor. ... Thomas Andrew Felton (born September 22, 1987) is an English actor. ... Ralph Fiennes, (IPA: ), born 22 December 1962 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England), is a Tony Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Genie Award-nominated English actor. ... Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor. ... Dexter Fletcher on the set of GamesMaster, of which he hosted only one series. ... Jamie Foreman (1958) is a British actor best known for his roles as Duke in Layer Cake (2004) and Bill Sykes in Roman Polanskis Oliver Twist (2005). ... George Formby (May 26, 1904 – March 6, 1961) was an English singer and comedian who became a major star of both cinema and music hall. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Michael Gambon in Charlotte Gray, (2001) Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE (born October 19, 1940), is an acclaimed Irish-born actor who has worked in television, film and theatre. ... Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning English theatre and film actor, and is generally regarded as one of the great British actors in history. ... Archibald Alec Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was a British-born film actor. ... Hugh John Mungo Grant[1] (born September 9, 1960) is a Golden Globe-winning British actor. ... Leslie Grantham as Den Watts in EastEnders Leslie Grantham (born April 30, 1947) is a British Actor. ... John Gregson (15 March 1919 - 8 January 1975) was a British actor. ... Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ... Brian Hall (born Glasgow, 22nd November 1946) was a compact and hard-working midfield player in the hugely successful Liverpool team of the 1970s. ... John Edward Jack Hawkins (September 14, 1910 - July 18, 1973) was a British film actor of the 1950s and 1960s. ... William Thompson Hay (December 6, 1888 – April 18, 1949) was a British comedian, actor and amateur astronomer. ... Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ... Wendy Hiller in I Know Where Im Going! (1945) Dame Wendy Hiller (August 15, 1912 – May 14, 2003) was a distinguished English film and stage actress. ... Stanley Augustus Holloway (October 1, 1890 - January 30, 1982) was a British actor and entertainer famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen. ... Robert William Bob Hoskins Jr. ... Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943) was an English stage and film actor. ... John Hurt as Chancellor Adam Sutler in V for Vendetta. ... Sir David Jason, OBE (born February 2, 1940) is a highly regarded English actor, admired equally for his dramatic work as for his comedy roles. ... Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning British actor. ... Keira Knightley (born 26 March 1985) (pronounced [1]) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated English[2] film actress. ... Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor. ... James Hugh Calum Laurie OBE (born June 11, 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning British actor, comedian and writer. ... David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an Academy Award nominated English actor. ... Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as Sapphire & Steel. ... Margaret Lockwood with Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (1938) Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 - 15 July 1990) was a British actress. ... Roy Marsden as Neil Burnside in The Sandbaggers Roy Marsden (born on June 25, 1941 in Stepney, London) is a British actor. ... Sir Ian Murray McKellen CBE, (born May 25, 1939) is a veteran English stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ... Wentworth Earl Miller (b. ... Sienna Rose Miller (born December 28, 1981) is an American-born English[1] actress and model. ... Hayley Catherine Rose Vivian Mills (born April 18, 1946) is an English actress. ... John Mills as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the Thames Television science-fiction serial Quatermass (1979). ... For other persons named Roger Moore, see Roger Moore (disambiguation). ... Kenneth Gilbert More CBE, (20 September 1914 - 12 July 1982) was a successful British cinema, television and theatre actor. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Anthony George Newley (born on September 24, 1931 in the London Borough of Hackney; died on April 14, 1999) was an English actor, singer and songwriter. ... Sophie Okonedo (born January 1, 1969) is an Academy Award-nominated British actress. ... Gary Oldman (born Leonard Gary Oldman on March 21, 1958 in New Cross, London, England) is an Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning English film actor, writer and director. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Clive Owen (born October 3, 1964) is a Golden Globe and BAFTA winning critically acclaimed English actor, now a regular performer in Hollywood and independent American films. ... Cecil Parker (1897 – 1971) was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1933 and 1969. ... Simon John Pegg (born 14 February 1970 in Gloucester) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and film and television actor. ... Dominic Purcell (born Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell[1] on February 17, 1970) is a British-born Australian actor of Irish-Norwegian parentage, most active in the United States. ... Daniel Jacob Radcliffe[1] (born 23 July 1989) is an English film, television and stage actor. ... Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen. ... Joely Richardson Joely Richardson (born January 9, 1965 in the U.K.) is a British actress, who was born into a theatrical family. ... Miranda Richardson as Queenie in Blackadder II (1986) Miranda Richardson (born 3 March 1958, in Southport, Merseyside) is an English actress, noted for her distinctive ability to deeply delve into the minds of the characters she plays. ... Ralph Richardson Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film. ... Tim Roth (born 14 May 1961 as Timothy Simon Smith) is an English film actor and director. ... Dame Margaret Rutherford DBE (11 May 1892–22 May 1972) was an English Academy Award-winning character actress who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Cowards Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest. ... Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ... Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Dame Maggie Smith, is a two-time Academy Award, and Emmy-winning English film, stage, and television actress. ... Terence Stamp (born July 22, 1939) is an English actor. ... Patrick Stewart OBE (born July 13, 1940) is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated English film, television and stage actor. ... Kiefer Sutherland (born December 21, 1966 in London, England) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian television and film actor, currently well known for his role of Jack Bauer on the series 24. ... For other persons named Elizabeth Taylor, see Elizabeth Taylor (disambiguation). ... Thompson in the 1989 film The Tall Guy Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is a two-time Academy Award and BAFTA-winning English actress, comedienne, and screenwriter. ... Ustinov at Large (book cover) Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning British-born actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, German, Russian and Ethiopian ancestry. ... Julia Mary Walters, OBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English Golden Globe-winning actress. ... Jack Warner (October 24, 1896 – May 24, 1981) was a popular British film and television actor. ... Emily Anita Watson (born January 14, 1967) is an Oscar nominated English actress best known for her acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Triers Breaking the Waves. ... Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson[1] (born 15 April 1990) is an English film actress who rose to fame playing the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. ... Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English actress. ... Michael Wilding could refer to one of two well-known people: Michael Wilding the actor. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Googie Withers (born March 12, 1917 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a British actress. ...

Archaeologists and anthropologists

• Mick Aston (born 1946)
• Richard Atkinson (1920-1994)
• Churchill Babington (1821-1889)
• Howard Carter (1874-1939)
• Grahame Clark (1907-1995)
• David Clarke (1937-1976)
• Barry Cunliffe (born 1939)
• Glyn Daniel (1914-1986)
• John Disney, (1779-1857), barrister and archaeologist
• E. E. Evans-Pritchard, (1902-1973), social anthropologist
• Cyril Fox (1882-1967)
• Dorothy Garrod (1892-1968)
• William Greenwell (1820-1918)
• Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978)
• John Leland, (1502-1552), antiquary
• John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
• John Robert Mortimer (1825-1911)
• Colin Renfrew, (born 1937), archaeologist
• E.B. Tylor, (1832-1917), anthropologist
• Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976)

Professor Michael Aston (born 1946) has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. ... Richard John Copland Atkinson (1920 – 1994) was a British prehistorian and archaeologist. ... Churchill Babington ( 11th March, 1821- 1889) was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Roecliffe, in Leicestershire. ... KV62 in the Valley of the Kings Howard Carter (May 9, 1874 – March 2, 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist born in Kensington, England. ... Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark (28 July 1907–12 September 1995) was a British archaeologist most notable for his work on the Mesolithic and his theories on palaeoeconomy. ... David Leonard Clarke (1937-1976) was an archaeologist, born in Kent, England. ... Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe CBE (born December 10, 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, has been Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford since 1972. ... Glyn Edmund Daniel (23 April 1914–13 December 1986) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the European Neolithic and made some of the earliest efforts to popularise the subject on radio and television. ... John Disney (29th May, 1779-6th May, 1857) was an English barrister and archaeologist. ... Sir Edward Evan (E. E.) Evans-Pritchard (September 21, 1902 – September 11, 1973) was a British anthropologist instrumental in the development of social anthropology in that country. ... Sir Cyril Fred Fox (16 December 1882–15 January 1967) was an English archaeologist. ... Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod (1892 - 1968) was a British archaeologist who was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the Palaeolithic period. ... Canon William Greenwell (23 March 1820–27 January 1918) was an English archaeologist. ... Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978), important English archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent and excavator of Jericho in Jordan from 1952 to 1958. ... John Leland (September 13, 1502–April 18, 1552) was an English antiquary. ... John Lubbock. ... John Robert Mortimer (1825-1911) was an English corn-merchant and archaeologist who lived in Driffield, Yorkshire and was responsible for the excavation of many barrows in that area, including Duggleby Howe. ... Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (born 25 July 1937), English archaeologist, notable for his work on the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites. ... Edward Burnett Tylor. ... Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler Kt, CH, CIE, MC (10 September 1890–22 July 1976), was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century. ...

Architects

• Charles Barry, (1795-1860), architect (Houses Of Parliament)
• George Basevi, (1794-1845), architect
• William Burges, (1827-1881), architect and interior designer
• William Butterfield, (1814-1900), leader in Gothic revival movement
• William Chambers, (1723-1796), (Kew Gardens pagoda and Somerset House)
• Sir Norman Foster, (born 1935), architect
• Derek Walker, (born 1929), architect
• Nicholas Hawksmoor, (1661-1736), architect
• Inigo Jones, (1573-1652), architect
• Denys Lasdun, (1914-2001), architect
• Edwin Lutyens, (1869-1944), architect
• William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
• John Nash, (1752-1835), (Regent's Park, St. Jame's Park, Trafalgar Square)
• Joseph Paxton, (1801-1865), (Great Exhibition Building, London)
• August Pugin, (1812-1852), architect (Houses Of Parliament)
• Richard Rogers, (born 1933), (the Pompidou Centre)
• Gilbert Scott, (1880-1960), Waterloo Bridge, also supervised rebuilding of House Of Commons, London)
• John Vanbrugh, (1664-1726), Baroque architect (Blenheim Palace)
• Alfred Waterhouse, (1830-1905), (National History Museum, London)
• William Wilkins, (1778-1839), (National Gallery, London)
• Christopher Wren, (1632-1723), architect

The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, Barrys most famous building. ... Elias George Basevi (1 April 1794-16 October 1845) was an English architect famous for designing buildings such as the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. ... William Burges William Burges (1827-1881) was an English architect and designer with influences which continue today. ... St Mary Brookfield William Butterfield (7 September 1814 – 23 February 1900), born in London, architect of the Gothic revival, and associated with the Oxford Movement (aka the Tractarian Movement). ... The central courtyard of Chambers Somerset House in London. ... The restored Reichstag in Berlin, housing the German parliament. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The career of Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 - 25 March 1736) formed the brilliant middle link in Britains trio of great baroque architects. ... Inigo Jones, by Sir Anthony van Dyck Inigo Jones (July 15, 1573–June 21, 1652) is regarded as the first significant English architect. ... Sir Denys Lasdun (8 September 1914-11 January 2001) was an eminent English architect of the 20th century, particularly associated with the Modernist design of the Royal National Theatre on Londons South Bank of the River Thames. ... Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a leading 20th century English architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. ... William Morris, socialist and innovator in the Arts and Crafts movement William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. ... John Nash For other people of the same name, see John Nash. ... Sir Joseph Paxton (1803–1865) was an English gardener and architect of The Crystal Palace. ... Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (March 1, 1812 _ September 14, 1852) was an English-born architect, designer and theorist of design now best remembered for his work on churches and on the Houses of Parliament. ... It has been suggested that Richard Rogers Partnership be merged into this article or section. ... Gilbert Scott may refer to several of a family of British architects: Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811 - 1878), who was principally known for his architectural designs for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and St Pancras Station George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839 - 1897), son of the above Sir Giles Gilbert Scott... Sir John Vanbrugh in Godfrey Knellers Kit-cat portrait, considered one of Knellers finest portraits. ... The Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, has an ornate terracotta facade typical of high Victorian architecture. ... William Wilkins (31 August 1778 — 31 August 1839) was an English architect, classicist and archaeologist. ... Sir Christopher Wren, (20 October 1632–25 February 1723) was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometrician, and the greatest English architect of his time. ...

Artists

• Sophie Gengembre Anderson, (1823-1903), painter.
• Banksy (born c.1974), graffiti artist
• William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
• John Constable, (1776-1837), landscape painter.
• Frederick Deane, (born 1924), portrait painter
• Tracey Emin (born 1963), conceptual artist
• Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-1788), painter
• Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), novelist
• Gilbert & George, arists
• Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956), sculptor (Land Art)
• Damien Hirst (born 1965), sculptor/ conceptual artist
• David Hockney, (born 1937), painter
• Sir Edwin Landseer, (1802-1873), animal painter.
• Henry Moore, (1898-1986), sculptor
• Sir Joshua Reynolds, (1723-1792), portrait painter.
• J.M.W. Turner, (1775-1851), landscape and marine artist
• Flora Twort, (1893-1985), painter

Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 in Paris – 1903 in Falmouth) was a British artist. ... Robert Banks (born 1974[1]), better known as Banksy, is a well-known yet pseudo-anonymous[2] English graffiti artist from Yate near Bristol. ... William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. ... A self portrait by John Constable John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. ... Front cover of Tracey Emins memoir, Strangeland, published in 2005. ... Self-portrait, painted 1759 Thomas Gainsborough (May 14, 1727 (baptised) – August 2, 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. ... Elizabeth Gaskell — from the portrait by George Richmond Photograph taken late in Gaskells life Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810–12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. ... Gilbert Proesch (born in Italy September 11, 1943) and George Passmore (born in England January 8, 1942), better known as Gilbert & George, are artists. ... One of the Three Cones, a permanent sculpture by Andy Goldsworthy at the Neuberger Museum of Art of the State University of New York at Purchase in New York. ... The Spiral Jetty from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005. ... The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991) Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the leading artist of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961. ... Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer, 1851: the image was widely distributed in steel engravings Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (March 7, 1802 - October 1, 1873) was a British painter, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. ... Reclining Figure (1951) outside the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is characteristic of Moores sculptures, with an abstract female figure intercut with voids. ... Sir Joshua Reynolds in a self-portrait Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, The Archers, 1769. ... J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, painted 1839. ... Flora Twort (1893-1985) was an English painter. ...

Businessmen

• Sir Richard Branson (born 1950)
• Sir John Brunner, (1842-1919), chemicals
• Joseph Crosfield, (1792-1844), soap and chemicals
• Abraham Darby (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
• Philip Green, (born 1952), retail
• James Hanson, Baron Hanson, (1922-2004), Industrialist
• Thomas Hazlehurst, (1779-1842), soap and alkali
• Robert Spear Hudson, (1812-1884), soap powder
• Peter Jones (born 1966)
• Sir Freddie Laker (1922-2006), Pioneer of cheap air travel
• William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877-1963)
• Titus Salt (1803-1876), Industrialist
• Sir Ivan Stedeford (1897-1975), Industrialist
• Sir Alan Sugar (born 1947), Electronics
• Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), Industrialist

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... Statue of John Brunner in Winnington, Cheshire Sir John Tomlinson Brunner, 1st Baronet, PC (8 February 1842 – 1 July 1919) was a British industrialist and Liberal Party politician who represented Northwich, Cheshire, as a Member of Parliament. ... Joseph Crosfield (5 October 1792 – 16 February 1844) was a businessman who established a soap and chemical manufacturing business in Warrington, which was formerly in Lancashire but is now in the county of Cheshire. ... Abraham Darby is the name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution. ... Sir Philip Green (born 15 March 1952) is a British billionaire businessman who owns some of the United Kingdoms largest retailers, including Bhs and the Arcadia Group. ... James Edward, Baron Hanson (January 20, 1922 – November 1, 2004) was an English conservative industrialist who built his businesses through the process of leveraged buyouts through Hanson plc. ... Thomas Hazlehurst (27 February 1779-18 February 1842) was a businessman who founded the soap and alkali manufacturing company of Hazlehurst & Sons in Runcorn, Cheshire. ... Robert Spear Hudson (6 December 1812 - 6 August 1884) was a businessman who popularised dry soap powder. ... Peter Jones (born 18 March 1966) is a British businessman with interests in mobile telecommunications, television, media, leisure and property. ... Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006), was a British airline entrepreneur. ... William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield GBE CH (10 October 1877–22 August 1963) was the founder of the Morris Motor Company and a philanthropist. ... Sir Titus Salt (20 September 1803 - 29 December 1876), born in Morley, was a manufacturer and benefactor in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. ... Sir Ivan Arthur Rice Stedeford, GBE (28 January 1897–9 February 1975) was a British industrialist and philanthropist. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 – January 3, 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery. ...

Clergy

• Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 - 1159), only English Pope
• Richard Bancroft, (1544-1610), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Richard Barnes, (1532-1587), bishop
• Gildas, (c. 510 - c.570), monk
• Trevor Huddleston, (1913-1998), anti-Apartheid activist
• John Henry Newman, (1801-1890), Catholic cardinal
• William Smyth, (c. 1460-1514), bishop
• Joshua Toulmin (1740-1815), radical Dissenting minister
• William Noyes, (1568-), Reverend Rector Church at Cholderton

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• Roland Meyrick, (ab 1500)First Protestant Bishop Bangor buried under Bangor Cathedral

Economists

• William Beveridge, (1879-1963), economist and social reformer
• John Maynard Keynes, (1883-1946), economist
• Thomas Malthus, (1766-1834), demographer
• Alfred Marshall, (1842-1924), economist
• John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal (March 5, 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and social reformer. ... John Maynard Keynes (right) and Harry Dexter White at the Bretton Woods Conference John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (pronounced cains, IPA ) (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well... Thomas Robert Malthus, FRS (13th February, 1766 – 29th December, 1834), usually known as Thomas Malthus, although he preferred to be known as Robert Malthus, was an English demographer and political economist. ... Alfred Marshall Alfred Marshall (July 26, 1842–July 13, 1924), born in Bermondsey, London, England, became one of the most influential economists of his time. ... John Stuart Mill (20th May 1806 – 8th May 1873), a British philosopher and political economist, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. ...

Engineers

• Sir Benjamin Baker, (1840-1907), civil engineer
• William Baker, (1817-1878), railway engineer
• James Beatty, (1820-1856) railway engineer
• Sir Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898), metallurgy engineer
• James Brindley, (1716-1772), canal engineer
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1806-1859), transport engineer
• Sidney Camm (1894-1966), aeronautical engineer
• Donald Campbell, railway engineer
• William Tierney Clark, (1783-1852), civil engineer
• Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882 - 1965), aeronautical engineer
• Sir John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), electrical engineer
• Tommy Flowers, (1908-1998), engineer
• Eric Laithwaite, (1908-1998), engineer
• R.J. Mitchell, (1895-1937), aeronautical engineer
• Sir Henry Royce, (1863-1933), engineer
• George Stephenson, (1781-1848), railway engineer
• Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
• Thomas Telford, (1757-1834), engineer
• Sir Barnes Wallis, (1887-1978), engineer
• John Webster, (1845-1914), engineer
• Sir Joseph Whitworth, (1803-1887), engineer

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Explorers

• Gertrude Bell(1868 – 1926), traveller in Iraq
• James Cook, (1728-1779), sailor explorer
• Charles Montagu Doughty, (1843-1926), explorer in the Middle East
• Sir Ranulph Fiennes, (born 1944)
• St. John Philby,(1885-1960), Arabist and Middle East explorer
• Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) Antarctic explorer
• Freya Stark (1893-1993), Middle East explorer
• Wilfred Thesiger, (1910-2003), explorer in East Africa and the Middle East

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (July 14, 1868–July 12, 1926) was a British woman who had a major hand in creating the modern state of Iraq. ... James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 - 1926) was an English poet and traveler. ... Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE (born 7 March 1944), usually known simply as Ranulph Fiennes, is a British explorer and holder of several endurance records. ... Harry St. ... For other persons named Robert Scott, see Robert Scott (disambiguation). ... Freya Madeleine Stark (1893-1993) was famous for writing of her travels in the Middle East. ... Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger KBE, DSO (3 June 1910 – August 24, 2003) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). ...

Filmmakers

• Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)
• Richard Attenborough (born 1923)
• John Boorman (born 1933)
• John and Roy Boulting (1913-1985 & 1913-2001)
• Charlie Chaplin, (1889-1977)
• Alan Clarke (1935-1990)
• Mike Figgis (born 1948)
• Lewis Gilbert (born 1920)
• David Hare (born 1947)
• Alfred Hitchcock, (1899-1980)
• Peter Howitt, (born 1957)
• Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
• Stan Laurel (1890-1965)
• David Lean (1908-1991)
• Mike Leigh (born 1943)
• Ken Loach (born 1936)
• Nick Love (born 1969)
• Anthony Minghella (born 1954)
• Mike Newell (born 1942)
• Nick Park (born 1958)
• Michael Powell (1905-1990)
• Guy Ritchie (born 1968)
• Ken Russell (born 1927)
• Ridley Scott (born 1942)
• Tony Scott (born 1944)

Lindsay Anderson (April 17, 1923 - August 30, 1994), English film and documentary director. ... Sir Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born August 29, 1923) is a prolific English film and stage actor, and Academy Award, BAFTA and three-time Golden Globe winning director, producer and entrepreneur. ... John Boorman (born January 18, 1933 in Shepperton, Surrey, United Kingdom), is a British filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, and The General. ... John and Roy Boulting were English film-makers, who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. ... Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 - 24 July 1990) was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. ... Mike Figgis (born February 28, 1948) is an English film director, writer, and composer. ... Lewis Gilbert (born March 6, 1920) is a British film director born in London, England. ... Sir David Hare (born June 5, 1947) is an English dramatist and director. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Peter Howitt (born May 5, 1957) is a British actor and film director. ... Humphrey Jennings, (August 19, 1907 Walberswick, Suffolk - September 24, 1950 Greece), was a British film-maker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization. ... Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as part of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th Century until post-World War II. // Stan Laurel... Sir David Lean, KBE (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago . ... Mike Leigh OBE (born February 20, 1943 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire) is an award winning English film and theatre director. ... Ken Loach Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is an English television and film director, known for his naturalistic style and socialist themes. ... Nick Love (born December 24, 1969) is a British film director and writer. ... Anthony Minghella (born January 6, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning British film director, playwright and screenwriter. ... Michael Cormac Newell (born March 28, 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. ... Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE (b. ... Michael Powell film-maker. ... Guy Ritchie (born 10th September 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire[1]) is an English writer-director. ... Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell (born July 3, 1927), is a controversial English film director, particularly known for his films about famous composers. ... Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, England) is an influential Academy Award-nominated English film director and producer. ... See also Tony Scott for the American clarinet jazz musician. ...

Humorists

• Rowan Atkinson (born 1955)
• Ronnie Barker (1929-2005)
• Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971)
• Roy 'Chubby' Brown (born 1945)
• Jasper Carrott (born 1945)
• Graham Chapman (1941-1989)
• John Cleese (born 1939)
• Joe Clift (born 1912)
• Steve Coogan (born 1965)
• Peter Cook (1937-1995)
• Tommy Cooper (1921-1984)
• Ronnie Corbett (born 1930)
• Barry Cryer (born 1935)
• Jim Davidson (born 1953)
• Les Dawson (1931-1993)
• Angus Deayton (born 1956)
• Ken Dodd (born 1929)
• Adrian Edmondson (born 1957)
• Lee Evans (born 1964)
• Dawn French (born 1957)
• Stephen Fry (born 1958)
• Ricky Gervais (born 1961)
• Tony Hancock, (1924-1968)
• Lee Hurst (born 1963)
• Eric Idle (born 1943)
• Eddie Izzard (born 1962)
• Nathan Jeavons (born 1990)
• Jethro (born 1948)
• Peter Kay (born 1973)
• Hugh Laurie, (born 1959)
• Matt Lucas, (born 1974)
• Bernard Manning (born 1930)
• Rik Mayall (born 1958)
• Patrick McGuinness (born 1973)
• Paul Merton (born 1957)
• Eric Morecambe (1926-1984)
• Bob Mortimer (born 1959)
• Frank Muir (1920-1998)
• Denis Norden (born 1922)
• Michael Palin (born 1943)
• Vic Reeves (born 1959)
• Mike Reid, (born 1940)
• Jennifer Saunders (born 1958)
• Peter Sellers (1925-1980)
• Frank Skinner (born 1957)
• Arthur Smith (born 1954)
• Freddie Starr (born 1944)
• David Walliams (born 1971)
• Norman Wisdom (born 1915)
• Ernie Wise (1925-1999)

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Jasper Carrott - (Audio tape cover) Jasper Carrott OBE (born Robert Davis, March 14, 1945) is an English comedian (declaring himself world famous in Birmingham). Born in Acocks Green, Birmingham, he was educated at Moseley School. ... Graham Chapman (8 January 1941–4 October 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer and physician. ... John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy winning English comedian and actor most famous for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python. ... Steve Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, impressionist, and comedian. ... Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. ... Tommy Cooper in his comedy show (VHS) The Plank (DVD cover) Tommy Cooper (March 19, 1921 – April 15, 1984) was a Welsh prop comedian and magician born in Caerphilly, Wales. ... Ronnie Corbett in Extras Ronald Balfour Corbett, OBE (born 4 December 1930 in Edinburgh, commonly credited as Ronnie Corbett) is a British comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies. ... Barry Cryer (born March 23, 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK) is a writer and comedian. ... Davidson as Buttons in Sinderella Comes Again. ... Les Dawson (2 February 1934, Collyhurst, Manchester - 10 June 1993) was a popular English comedian, known for his deadpan style. ... Gordon Angus Deayton (born January 6, 1956) is an English comic actor and television presenter. ... Ken Dodd Show Poster Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (born 8 November 1927, in Knotty Ash, Liverpool) is a veteran English comedian and singer, famous for selling over 100 million records, his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster (or tickling stick), and his catchphrases, often playing on the tickled motif, e. ... Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, director, and writer. ... Lee Evans - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Dawn French (born 11 October 1957) is a British comedian and actress best known for being part of a comic duo with her comic partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role in The Vicar of Dibley as Geraldine Granger. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Ricky Dene Gervais (IPA: or ) (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. ... Biography published in 1978 (1983 paperback reprint shown) Anthony John Hancock, best known as Tony Hancock (May 12, 1924 – June 24, 1968) was a major figure in British television and radio comedy in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Lee Hurst is a comedian who runs his own club, Lee Hursts Backyard Comedy club, in Londons East End. ... Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and writer of comedic songs. ... Edward John Eddie Izzard (born February 7, 1962) is a British stand-up comedian and actor; famous for his cross-dressing, he describes himself as an executive or action transvestite. ... Cover of JeThRo video Go You Ahead Hmmm. ... This article cites very few or no references or sources. ... James Hugh Calum Laurie OBE (born June 11, 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning British actor, comedian and writer. ... Matthew Richard Lucas (born March 5, 1974) is an English comedy actor. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Richard Michael Rik Mayall (born on March 7, 1958 in Harlow, Essex) is an English comedian and actor. ... Patrick Joseph McGuinness (b. ... Paul Merton (born Paul Martin 9 July 1957[1]) is an English actor, deadpan comedian and writer, who is best known as a panellist on the BBC TV show Have I Got News for You and Radio 4s Just a Minute, as well as Channel 4s Whose Line... John Eric Bartholomew OBE (May 14, 1926 – May 28, 1984), better known by his stage name, Eric Morecambe was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise, formed the double act Morecambe and Wise. ... Robert Bob Renwick Mortimer (born May 23, 1959 in Middlesbrough, England), is an English comedian and actor who is best known for his double act with Vic Reeves (see Vic and Bob). ... Frank Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. ... Denis Norden (born 1922) is a British comedy writer and television presenter. ... Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born May 5, 1943) is an English comedian, actor and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ... James Jim Roderick Moir, more commonly known by the pseudonym Vic Reeves, (born January 24, 1959) is an English comedian, best known through his double act with Bob Mortimer (see Vic and Bob). ... Mike Reid (born 19 January 1940) is a fast-talking, gravel-voiced British Cockney comedian and character actor. ... Jennifer Saunders Jennifer Jane Saunders (born July 6, 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire) is an English comedian, actress, and comedy writer. ... Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ... Christopher Graham Collins, aka Frank Skinner (born 28 January 1957 is an English writer and comedian. ... Arthur Smith Arthur Smith (born 1954) is a British alternative comedian and writer. ... Freddie Starr as seen on the cover of his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped. ... David Walliams, (born David Williams) August 20, 1971 in Surrey, is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show Little Britain. ... Sir Norman Wisdom, OBE (born 4 February 1915) is an English comedian, singer and actor. ... Ernie Wise OBE (November 27, 1925 – March 21, 1999) was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became an institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials. ...

Inventors

• Cecil Booth, inventor of the vacuum cleaner
• Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), inventor of the hovercraft
• William Congreve, (1772-1828) rocketry pioneer
• Abraham Darby, (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
• James Dyson, (born 1947), inventor
• James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), weaver and inventor
• Sir John Harington, (1561–1612), poet and inventor of the first water closet
• John Harrison, (1693-1776), clockmaker
• Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), inventor of the modern postal service
• Archibald Low, (1888-1956), radio guidance
• Thomas Newcomen, (1664-1729), inventor
• Sir Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the reflector telescope
• Charles Pym, (1931-2002), inventor of the Popcorn Machine
• James Starley, (1831-1881), bicycle pioneer
• George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer
• Joseph Wilson Swan, (1823-1914), inventor of the light bulb
• Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1975), inventor
• Sir Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), inventor of the jet engine

Regular vacuum cleaner for home use. ... Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 – June 1, 1999) was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft. ... BHC SR-N4 The worlds largest car and passenger carrying hovercraft A Hovercraft, or Air-Cushion Vehicle (ACV), is an amphibious vehicle or craft, designed to travel over any sufficiently smooth surface - land or water - supported by a cushion of slowly moving, low-pressure air, ejected downwards against the... William Congreve Sir William Congreve (May 20, 1772-May 16, 1828), was an English inventor and rocket pioneer. ... A Soyuz rocket, at Baikanur launch pad. ... Abraham Darby is the name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution. ... Sir James Dyson, CBE (born 2 May 1947) is an British industrial designer. ... James Hargreaves (1720 – 22 April 1778) was a weaver, carpenter, and an inventor in Lancashire, England. ... Sir John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton Sir John Harington (August 4, 1561 – November 20, 1612) was the inventor of the first modern Flush toilet. ... John Harrison John Harrison (March 24, 1693–March 24, 1776) was an English clockmaker, who designed and built the worlds first successful chronometer (maritime clock), one whose accuracy was great enough to allow the determination of longitude over long distances. ... Rowland Hill Sir Rowland Hill KCB, FRS (December 3, 1795 - August 27, 1879) was a British teacher and social reformer. ... Professor Archibald Montgomery Low Professor Archibald Montgomery Low (born 1888 Purley, London, died September 1956) was an English engineer, research physicist and inventor, he was also the author of more than 40 books. ... Thomas Newcomen (baptised 24 February 1664; died 5 August 1729) was an ironmonger by trade, and a Baptist lay preacher by calling. ... Sir Isaac Newton, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [ OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science. ... Physics (Greek: (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the branch of science concerned with the fundamental laws of the Universe. ... Ritchey 24 reflecting telescope A reflecting telescope (reflector) is an optical telescope which uses mirrors, rather than lenses, to reflect light. ... Statue commemorating James Starley in Coventry James Starley (Born April 21, 1830, died June 17, 1881) was an English inventor and Father of the Bicycle Industry. ... George Stephenson George Stephenson For the British politician, see George Stevenson. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Charles Wheatstone Sir Charles Wheatstone (February 6, 1802 - October 19, 1875) was the British inventor of many innovations including the English concertina the Stereoscope an early form of microphone the Playfair cipher (named for Lord Playfair, the person who publicized it) He was a major figure in the development of... Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE FRS (1 June 1907–9 August 1996) was a Royal Air Force officer who invented the jet engine. ... A Pratt and Whitney turbofan engine for the F-15 Eagle is tested at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, USA. The tunnel behind the engine muffles noise and allows exhaust to escape. ...

Military: Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen

• Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal, CIGS during World War II
• George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, (1608-1670), Civil War era General
• Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, (1891-1969), Field Marshal, World War II hero
• Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal, (1717-1797), General
• Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, (1768-1854), General, Hero of the Napoleonic Wars
• Sir Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), World War II commander
• Robert Baden-Powell, (1857-1941), soldier
• Sir Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), fighter pilot
• Sir Alexander John Ball, (1759-1809), admiral, governor of Malta
• William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, (1865-1951), General, World War I
• Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
• Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, (1819-1904), Commander in Chief
• James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, (1797-1888), Commander of the Light Brigade
• Sir Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
• Henry Seymour Conway, (1721-1795), General
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (1738-1805), General
• Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, (1721-1765), Captain-General, victor of Culloden
• Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (1882-1970), RAF Commander in World War II
• Sir Francis Drake, (1540-1596), sailor
• Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, (1782-1859)
• Charles George Gordon, (1833-1885), "Chinese Gordon", killed at Khartoum
• John Manners, Marquess of Granby, (1721-1770), General
• Sir Arthur Travers Harris, (1892-1984), Marshal of the Royal Air Force, airman
• Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (1726-1799), Admiral
• William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, (1729-1814), General in American Revolutionary War
• John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935), Admiral, World War I
• Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, (1850-1916), Field Marshal
• Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208?-1265). English statesman and soldier.
• John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, (1680-1770), General
• George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (1800-1888), Commander of cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
• John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, (1650-1722), soldier
• William McMurdo, (1819-1894), general
• Andy McNab, (born 1959), former Special Air Service soldier and commander of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War.
• Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ("The Desert Rat"), (1887-1976), Field Marshal and hero of World War II
• Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (1900-1979), statesman, sailor
• Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile, (1758-1805), sailor, Admiral
• Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, (1788-1855), British commander in the Crimean War
• Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, (1832-1914), Field Marshal, last Commander in Chief of the Forces
• Chris Ryan, (born 1961), Former Special Air Service soldier and member of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War.
• Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
• William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, (1897-1970), Commander in Burma during World War II, Governor-General of Australia.
• Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, (1858-1930), General, World War I
• Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, (1873-1956), father of the RAF and first Chief of the Air Staff
• Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (1883-1950), World War II general, second to last Viceroy of India
• James Wolfe, (1727-1759), General, hero of Quebec
• Prince Frederick, Duke of York, (1763-1827), son of King George III, commander in French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
• John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (1852-1925), World War I general and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

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Monarchs

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Further information: List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England

• Alfred the Great, (849?-899), King of the Anglo-Saxons.
• Queen Anne, (1665-1714), also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of Great Britain after 1707
• Charles II, (1660-1685), also King of Scotland
• Edward I, (1272-1307), English monarch
• Edward II, (1307-1327), English monarch
• Edward III, (1327-1377), English monarch
• Edward IV, (1461-1470 and 1471-1483), English monarch
• Edward V, (1470-1483?), English monarch
• Edward VI, (1547-1553), first English Protestant monarch
• Edward VII, (1841-1910)
• Edward VIII, (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
• Elizabeth I, (1558-1603), Protestant queen and first Supreme Governor of the Church of England
• Elizabeth II, (1926-2007) reigning British monarch
• George III, (1801-1820), British monarch
• George IV, (1762-1830)
• George V, (1910-1936), British monarch
• George VI, (1895-1952), British monarch
• Henry III, (1207-1272), English monarch
• Henry IV, (1367-1413), English monarch
• Henry VI, (1421-1471), English monarch
• Henry VIII, (1491-1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholic Church
• Mary I, (1553-1558), Roman Catholic queen
• Mary II, (1662-1694)
• Richard III, (1483-1485). Last Plantagenet King, and last British monarch to die in Battle.
• Queen Victoria, (1819-1901)
• William the Conqueror, (1066-1087)
• William IV, (1765-1837)
• Doodoo, (1234-1323) House of Turner

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Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461 to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470–1471. ... Edward V (4 November 1470 – 1483?) was the King of England from 9 April 1483 until his deposition two months later. ... Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) became King of England, King of France (in practice only the town and surrounding district of Calais) and Ireland on 28 January 1547, and crowned on 20 February, at just nine years of age. ... Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth Realms, and the Emperor of India. ... Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from the death of his father, George V (1910–36), on 20... Elizabeth I redirects here. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Henry VIII was the founder of the Church of England yet did not hold the title of Supreme Governor. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ... George IV (George Augustus Frederick) (12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death. ... 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The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 6 July 1553 (de facto) or 19 July 1553 (de jure) until her death. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Mary II (30 April 1662–28 December 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and as Queen of Scots (as Mary II of Scotland) from 11 April 1689 until her death. ... Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death. ... Angevin is the name applied to two distinct medieval dynasties which originated as counts (from 1360, dukes) of the western French province of Anjou (of which angevin is the adjectival form), but later came to rule far greater areas including England, Hungary and Poland (see Angevin Empire). ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 May 1876, until her death on 22 January 1901. ... William I of England (c. ... William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Murderers (Noteworthy)

• Myra Hindley (1942-2002) and Ian Brady (1938-), Moors murderers
• Ian Huntley, (born 1974), Soham murderer
• Jack the Ripper
• The Kray twins, (Ronald 1933-1995, Reginald 1933-2000), East London gangsters
• Harold Shipman, (1946-2004), possibly the most prolific serial killer worldwide - convicted of 15 - probably killed over 250 [1]
• Peter Sutcliffe, (born 1946), Yorkshire Ripper
• Fred West (1941-1995) and Rosemary West (1953-), serial killers
• Graham Young, (1947-1990), The Teacup Poisoner

Myra Hindley (23 July 1942 – 15 November 2002) was an English murderer involved in the Moors murders. ... Moors murderer Ian Brady at the time of his arrest in October 1965. ... Mug shots of Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady at the time of their arrest in October 1965. ... Ian Kevin Huntley (born 31 January 1974 in Grimsby, England) is a former school caretaker, who in 2003 was convicted of murdering two schoolgirls - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - in the case known as the Soham murders. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ... The Kray twins, Reginald (left) and Ronald, photographed by David Bailey. ... East London area East London is the name commonly given to the north eastern part of London, England on the north side of the River Thames. ... Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946–13 January 2004) was a British general practitioner who was the most prolific known serial killer in modern history. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Frederick Walter Stephen West (September 29, 1941 – January 1, 1995) was a serial killer who, together with his wife Rosemary West murdered at least 12 young women, many at the couples home in Gloucester, England. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Graham Frederick Young (September 7, 1947 - August 1, 1990) was a British serial killer who poisoned a total of three people to death: his stepmother, and then years later two work colleagues, Bob Eagle and Fred Biggs, as well as administering smaller doses to scores of others. ...

Musicians and bands

• Lily Allen
• Aphex Twin, (born 1971), electronic music pioneer
• Arctic Monkeys
• Autechre, electronic music pioneers
• David Arnold, composer, musician and film scorer (notably four James Bond films)
• Malcolm Arnold, (1921-2006), composer
• Bryan Balkwill, (1922-2007), conductor
• John Barbirolli, (1899-1970), conductor

• David Bedford, (born 1937), composer and musician
• Thomas Beecham, (1879-1961), conductor
• The Bee Gees
• Harrison Birtwistle, (born 1934), composer
• Black Sabbath
• James Blunt, (born 1977)
• Adrian Boult, (1889-1983), conductor
• David Bowie, (born 1947)
• Havergal Brian, (1876-1972), composer
• Benjamin Britten, (1913-1976), composer and pianist
• William Byrd, (1543-1623), composer
• Chas & Dave
• The Chemical Brothers
• Eric Clapton (born 1945)
• Adam Clayton, U2 bassist
• The Cure
• The Clash
• Coldplay
• Cream
• Culture Club
• Andrew Davis, (born 1944), conductor
• Colin Davis, (born 1927), conductor
• Deep Purple
• Depeche Mode
• Dido (singer)
• Frederick Delius, (1862-1934), composer
• John Dowland, (c. 1563-c. 1626), composer of songs
• John Dunstable, (c. 1383-1453), composer
• Duran Duran
• Edward Elgar, (1857-1934), composer
• Orlando Gibbons, (1583-1625), composer
• Ron Goodwin, (1925-2003) composer and conductor
• George Harrison, (1943-2001), composer, member of The Beatles
• Gustav Holst, (1874-1934), composer
• Saul Hudson aka 'Slash', (born 1965), guitarist, member of Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit and Velvet Revolver
• John Ireland, (1879-1962), composer
• Iron Maiden
• The Jam
• Sir Elton John, (born 1947), pop star and composer
• Davy Jones (born 1945), Singer/Percussionist The Monkees
• Kasabian
• Keane
• Nigel Kennedy, (born 1956), violinist
• The Kinks
• Led Zeppelin
• Albert Lee, (born 1945), guitarist
• Leftfield, dance music pioneers
• John Lennon, (1940-1980), pop star, co founder of The Beatles
• Andrew Lloyd Webber, (born 1948), composer of musicals
• Madness
• Massive Attack
• Peter Maxwell Davies, (born 1934), composer
• Sir Paul McCartney, (born 1942), pop star, co-founder of The Beatles
• Thomas Morley, (c. 1557-1602), consort composer
• Gareth Morris, (1920-2007), flautist
• Morrissey, (born 1959), composer, member of The Smiths
• Muse
• Olivia Newton-John, (born 1948), pop star
• Oasis
• Mike Oldfield, (born 1953), composer and instrumentalist
• Ozzy Osbourne (born 1948)
• Jimmy Page, (Born 1944), guitarist
• Peter Pears, (1910-1986), tenor
• Pink Floyd
• Portishead
• Robert Plant (born 1948)
• The Police
• Jacqueline du Pré, (1945-1987), cellist
• Henry Purcell, (1659-1695), composer
• Queen
• Radiohead
• Simon Rattle, (born 1955), conductor
• Simply Red
• The Rolling Stones
• Malcolm Sargent, (1895-1967), conductor
• Sex Pistols
• Slade
• Slash, (born 1965), guitarist, ex-member of Guns N' Roses
• The Small Faces
• The Spice Girls
• The Stranglers
• Ringo Starr, (born 1940), composer, member of The Beatles
• Rod Stewart, (born 1945)
• Suede
• Thomas Tallis, (c. 1505-1585), composer
• Lionel Tertis, (1876-1975), violist
• Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), composer
• Underworld (band), dance music pioneers
• Ralph Vaughan Williams, (1872-1958), composer
• The Verve
• William Walton, (1902-1983), composer
• Thomas Weelkes, (c.1575-1623), composer
• The Who
• John Wilbye, (1574-1638), composer
• Henry Wood, (1869-1944), conductor
• Roger Waters, (born 1943) founder of Pink Floyd
• Robbie Williams (born 1974)

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Flemings commissioned image of James Bond to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Sir Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. ... Bryan Havell Balkwill (2 July 1922 - 24 February 2007) was an English orchestral conductor. ... Sir John (Giovanni Battista) Barbirolli (December 2, 1899 - July 29, 1970), was a British conductor and cellist who led the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. ... David Vickerman Bedford (born August 4, 1937) is a British composer and musician. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Bee Gees: Maurice, Barry and Robin The Bee Gees were a British and Australian band, originally a pop singer-songwriter combination, reborn as funk and disco. ... Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle, CH (born July 15, 1934) is a British composer, widely seen as one of the most significant modern composers from that country. ... For other uses, see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, February 22, 1974) is a BRIT Award winning, 5 times Grammy Nominated, English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases — especially the number one hit Youre Beautiful — brought him to fame in 2005. ... Sir Adrian Cedric Boult (April 8, 1889   February 22, 1983) was an English conductor. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... William (Havergal) Brian (January 29, 1876 – November 28, 1972), was a British composer. ... Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (November 22, 1913 Lowestoft, Suffolk - December 4, 1976 Aldeburgh, Suffolk) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ... William Byrd William Byrd (c. ... Chas and Dave are cockney pop rock music artists, often billed as Chas n Dave. ... The Chemical Brothers is a Grammy Award winning electronic music duo from England, comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons (occasionally referred to as Chemical Ed and Chemical Tom). ... Eric Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century,[1] garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England), is best known as the bass player of the rock band U2. ... This article is about the Irish rock band. ... The Cure are a successful English rock band formed in Crawley, Sussex in 1976, widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock scene of the 1980s. ... The Clash were an English punk rock band who were active from 1976 to 1986. ... Coldplay is an English rock band from London. ... Cream were a 1960s British rock band, which consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. ... Culture Club was a very popular 1980s English pop group, famous for its gender-bending frontman Boy George. ... Andrew Frank Davis (born February 2, 1944) is a British conductor. ... Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE was born September 25, 1927 in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano. ... This article is about the rock band. ... Depeche Mode are an electronic band formed in 1980 in Essex, England. ... Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong Gould [] (born December 25, 1971) is a English Brit Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter who performs under the name Dido. ... Theodor Albert Frederick Fritz Delius CH (January 29, 1862, – June 10, 1934) was a composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. ... John Dowland (1563 – February 20, 1626) was an English composer, singer, and lutenist. ... John Dunstable or Dunstaple (c. ... Duran Duran is a British pop/rock band notable for a long series of popular, hit singles and vivid music videos. ... Sir Edward Elgar Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 â€“ 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. ... Orlando Gibbons Orlando Gibbons (baptised December 25, 1583 – June 5, 1625) was an English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. ... Ronald Alfred Goodwin (February 17, 1925 - January 8, 2003) was a British composer and conductor best known for his film scores. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... Gustav Holst Gustav Holst (September 21, 1874 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - May 25, 1934) [1] [2] was an English composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years. ... Saul Hudson, better known to the world as Slash, was one of the guitarists of hard rock band Guns N Roses. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Slashs Snakepit Slashs Snakepit was a side-project formed by Slash in 1994 with former Guns N Roses members Slash on lead guitars, Matt Sorum on drums, Gilby Clarke on rhythm guitars and Dizzy Reed on keyboards. ... Velvet Revolver (abbrieviated to VR) is a hard rock supergroup with three former members of Guns N Roses — Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum (who also played with rock bands Hawk and The Cult) — plus Scott Weiland, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, and Dave Kushner of the 80s... This article is about the English composer. ... Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from east London. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE [2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a multiple Grammy and Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Davy Jones, 1967 Davy Jones redirects here, for other uses see David Jones. ... The Monkees were a pop-rock quartet created and based in Los Angeles in 1965 for an NBC American television series of the same name. ... Kasabian are an English rock band from Blaby and Countesthorpe, formed by Tom Meighan (vocals), Sergio Pizzorno (guitar and vocals), Chris Edwards (bass) and Chris Karloff (guitar and keyboards), who met while attending Leysland High School and Countesthorpe Community College. ... Keane are an English piano rock band, first established in Battle, East Sussex in 1995, taking their current name in 1997. ... Nigel Kennedy (born December 28, 1956 in Brighton, England) is a violinist and violist. ... The Kinks were an English rock group formed in 1963 by lead singer-songwriter Ray Davies and his brother, lead guitarist and vocalist, Dave Davies. ... Led Zeppelin were an English rock band who formed in 1968. ... Albert Lee is an English guitarist. ... Leftfield are a duo of electronica artists and record producers, Paul Daley (formerly of A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies) and Neil Barnes formed in 1989 in London, England. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre and the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. ... Madness are an English pop band that formed in 1976. ... Massive Attack are a trip hop band from Bristol, England. ... Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE (b. ... Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is an iconic Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of the Beatles. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. ... Gareth Morris (born 13 May 1920) is a British flautist. ... Steven Patrick Morrissey (born May 22, 1959) is an English singer and songwriter from Manchester, England. ... The Smiths were an English rock group active from 1982 to 1987. ... Muse is an award-winning English rock band formed in Teignmouth, Devon in 1997, comprised of Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards), Chris Wolstenholme (backing vocals, bass guitar, keyboards) and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion). ... Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born September 27, 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated, and Academy Award-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress. ... Oasis are a popular English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ... Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ... Ozzy redirects here. ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9th January 1944) is an English guitarist and record producer. ... Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (June 22, 1910 – April 3, 1986) was an English tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde style and for being pioneers of progressive rock music. ... Beth Gibbons, Portishead For the town, see Portishead, Somerset. ... Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England) is the greatest English rock singer and songwriter, most famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin, but also for his successful solo career. ... The Police are a three-piece rock band consisting of singer/bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers, and drummer Stewart Copeland. ... Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE (January 26, 1945 – October 19, 1987) was an English cellist. ... Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (IPA: [1]; September 10 (?) [2], 1659–November 21, 1695), a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of Englands greatest composers. ... Queen [are] an English rock band, formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. ... Radiohead are an English rock band from Oxfordshire, initially formed in 1986 under the name On a Friday. ... Simon Rattle recording Porgy and Bess with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road in 1988, aged 33. ... Simply Red are an English pop band. ... “Rolling Stones” redirects here. ... Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts) Sargent (April 29, 1895 – October 3, 1967) was a British conductor, organist and composer. ... The Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk rock band, formed in London in 1975. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Small Faces, left to right: Ian McLagan, Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane For the Scottish film, see Small Faces (film). ... The Spice Girls were a British vocal girl band. ... The Stranglers are an English rock music group, formed on September 11, 1974 in Guildford, Surrey. ... Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940 in Liverpool),[1] known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of the Beatles. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... Roderick David Stewart, CBE (born January 10, 1945), is a Scottish / English singer born and raised in London. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis (c 1505–23 November 1585) was an English composer. ... Lionel Tertis (December 29, 1876 - February 22, 1975) was a English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame. ... Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, O.M. (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was one of the foremost English composers of the 20th century. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential English composer. ... The Verve (originally Verve) were an English alternative rock band of the 1990s, originally formed in 1989 at Winstanley Sixth Form College, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. ... Sir William Turner Walton, OM (March 29, 1902–March 8, 1983) was a British composer whose style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky, Sibelius and jazz. ... Thomas Weelkes (baptised 25 October 1576 – buried 1 December 1623) was an English composer and organist. ... It has been suggested that Bob Pridden be merged into this article or section. ... John Wilbye, English 16th-century madrigal composer, was born probably at Bury St Edmunds, but the details of his life are obscure. ... Sir Henry Wood Kt CH (3 March 1869 – 19 August 1944) was an English conductor, forever associated with the Promenade Concerts which he conducted for half a century. ... George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde style and for being pioneers of progressive rock music. ... Robbie Williams (born Robert Peter Williams on February 13, 1974) is a Grammy Award-nominated and fifteen time BRIT Award-winning English singer/songwriter. ...

Philosophers

• G.E.M. Anscombe, (1919-2001), philosopher
• A.J. Ayer, (1910-1989), philosopher
• Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), philosopher and essayist
• Roger Bacon, (1214-1294), medieval philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
• Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832), philosopher
• R.M. Hare, (1907-2002), philosopher
• H.L.A. Hart, (1907-1992), legal philosopher
• Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679), philosopher
• William Godwin, (1756-1836), political philosopher
• John Locke, (1632-1704), philosopher
• John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher
• William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349), philosopher
• Thomas Paine (1737-1809), theorist
• Derek Parfit, (1942- ), philosopher
• Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), philosopher
• Henry Sidgwick, (1838-1900), philosopher
• Peter Strawson, (1919-2006), philosopher
• William Whewell, (1794-1866), philosopher
• Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947), mathematician
• Bernard Williams, (1929-2003), philosopher

G. E. M. Anscombe (18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001) (born Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, also known as Elizabeth Anscombe) was a British analytic philosopher. ... Alfred Jules Ayer (October 29, 1910 - June 27, 1989), better known as simply A. J. Ayer (and called Freddie by friends), was a British philosopher. ... Sir Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English astrologer, philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. ... Statue of Roger Bacon in the Oxford University Museum Roger Bacon (c. ... Jeremy Bentham (IPA: or ) (February 15, 1748 O.S. (February 26, 1748 N.S.) – June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. ... R.M. Hare Richard Mervyn Hare (March 21, 1919 – January 29, 2002) was an English moral philosopher, who held the post of Whites Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. ... H. L. A. Hart (Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart) (1907-1992) is considered one of the most important legal philosophers of the twentieth century. ... “Hobbes” redirects here. ... William Godwin William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English political and miscellaneous writer, considered one of the important precursors of both utilitarian and liberal anarchist thought. ... This article is about John Locke, the English philosopher. ... John Stuart Mill (20th May 1806 – 8th May 1873), a British philosopher and political economist, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. ... William of Ockham William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) (c. ... Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 – 8 June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical intellectual, and deist. ... Derek Parfit (born December 11, 1942) is a British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics, and the relations between them. ... Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician and advocate for social reform. ... Henry Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (May 31, 1838–August 28, 1900) was an English philosopher. ... Peter Frederick Strawson (born November 23, 1919 in London) is a philosopher associated with the ordinary language philosophy movement within analytical philosophy. ... William Whewell In later life William Whewell (May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. ... Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15, 1861 Ramsgate, Kent, England – December 30, 1947 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an English-born mathematician who became a philosopher. ... Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (September 21, 1929 – June 10, 2003) was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral philosopher of his time. ...

Politicians

• H. H. Asquith, (1852-1928), British prime minister
• Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), British prime minister
• Stanley Baldwin, (1867-1947), British prime minister
• Ernest Bevin, (1881-1951), Labour politician
• Tony Benn (born 1925), Labour politician
• Margaret Bondfield, (1873-1953), Labour politician & first female Cabinet Minister
• John Bright, (1811-1889), liberal politician
• Rab Butler, (1902-1982), Conservative politician
• George Canning, (1770-1827), politician
• Barbara Castle, (1910-2002), politician
• Sir Austen Chamberlain, (1863-1937)
• Joseph Chamberlain, (1836-1914)
• Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), British prime minister
• Lord Randolph Churchill, (1849-1895)
• Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
• Kenneth Clarke, (born 1940), Conservative politician
• Sir Stafford Cripps, (1889-1952), Labour politician
• George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (1859-1925), Viceroy of India
• Archibald Dalzel, (1740-1811), Governor of the Gold Coast
• William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, (c.1720-1764)
• Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, (1833-1908)
• Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (1799-1869)
• Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, (1826-1893)
• Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881), British prime minister
• Alec Douglas-Home, (1903-1995), British prime minister
• Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), British prime minister
• Hugh Gaitskell, (1906-1963), Labour politician
• William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898), British prime minister
• Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, (1735-1811)
• Michael Foot, (born 1913), Labour leader
• Hugh Gaitskell (1906-1963), Labour leader
• Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, (1815-1891)
• George Grenville, (1712-1770), British prime minister
• William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville, (1759-1834)
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, (1764-1845)
• Denis Healey, (born 1917), Labour politician
• Edward Heath, (1916-2005), British prime minister
• John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, (1826-1902)
• George Lansbury, (1859-1940)
• Nigel Lawson, (born 1932), Conservative politician
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, (1770-1828)
• John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
• Harold Macmillan, (1894-1986), British prime minister
• John Major, (born 1943), British prime minister
• Reginald Maudling, (1917-1979), Conservative politician
• Herbert Morrison, (1888-1965), Labour politician
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, (1779-1848)
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, (1693-1768)
• Frederick North, Lord North, (1732-1792)
• Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (1784-1865), British prime minister
• Henry Pelham, (1694-1754)
• Spencer Perceval, (1762-1812), British Prime Minister
• William Pitt (the Elder), 1st Earl of Chatham, (1708-1778)
• William Pitt the Younger, (1759-1806), British prime minister
• William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (1738-1809)
• Enoch Powell, (1912-1998)
• Cecil Rhodes, (1853-1902), imperialist
• Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, (1782-1859), politician
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, (1730-1782)
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (1792-1878)
• Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, (1837-1916)
• Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, (1830-1903), British Prime Minister
• Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (1757-1844)
• John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, (1873-1954)
• Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, (1864-1937)
• Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), British prime minister
• Sir Robert Walpole, (1676-1745), British prime minister
• William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist
• Shirley Williams, (born 1930), SDP founder
• Henry Willink, (1894-1973), politician
• Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, (c.1674-1743)
• Harold Wilson, (1916-1995), British prime minister

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. ... Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951. ... Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951) was a British labour leader, politician, and statesman best known for his time as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government. ... Tony Benn about to join March 2005 anti-war demo in London Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician on the left of the Labour Party. ... Margaret Grace Bondfield (17th March, 1873-16th June, 1953), an English politician and feminist was born in Chard, Somerset, the eleventh child of Anne Taylor and William Bondfield, a textiles worker with left-wing views. ... John Bright John Bright (November 16, 1811–March 27, 1889), was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. ... Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. ... George Canning (11 April 1770-8 August 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister. ... Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn (October 6, 1910 – May 3, 2002), British left-wing politician, was born Barbara Anne Betts in Bradford, Yorkshire, and adopted her familys politics, joining the Labour Party. ... The Rt. ... The Rt. ... Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. ... Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British statesman. ... Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English statesman, soldier and author. ... Kenneth Harry Clarke, QC, MP, (born 2 July 1940) is a leading Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. ... Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, known as Stafford Cripps, (April 24, 1889 - April 21, 1952) was a British Labour politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer for several years following World War II. // Cripps was born in London. ... George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, British statesman The Most Honourable George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (January 11, 1859 – March 20, 1925), was a conservative British statesman who served as Viceroy of India. ... The Governor-General of India (or Governor-General and Viceroy of India) was the head of the British administration in India. ... Archibald Dalzel (1740-1811) was a British adventurer and Governor of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). ... For other uses, see Governor (disambiguation). ... Flag of Gold Coast Map from 1896 of the British Gold Coast Colony. ... William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (c. ... Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (29 June 1833 - 19 October 1908) was a British politician, previously known (1858-1891) as Marquess of Hartington. ... Arms of Edward Smith-Stanley Statue in Parliament Square, London Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC (29 March 1799–23 October 1869) was a British statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and is to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative... The Rt Hon. ... Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ... Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home1, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (July 2, 1903 – October 9, 1995), 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative (actually SUP) politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964. ... Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (June 12, 1897– January 14, 1977), British politician, was Foreign Secretary for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957. ... Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (April 9, 1906 – January 18, 1963) was a British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. ... William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). ... Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (October 1, 1735 - March 14, 1811), was a British politician of the Georgian era. ... For other persons named Michael Foot, see Michael Foot (disambiguation). ... Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (April 9, 1906 – January 18, 1963) was a British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. ... Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (May 11, 1815 - March 31, 1891) was an English statesman. ... George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of seven years, reaching the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. ... William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British statesman and Prime Minister. ... The Right Honourable Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764–17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. ... Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH, MBE, PC (born 30 August 1917), is a British Labour politician, regarded by some (especially in the Labour Party) as the best Prime Minister we never had.[1] Denis Healey was born in Mottingham in Kent but in 1922 at the age of five... Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, OBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ... John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826-1902), English statesman, was born on 7 January 1826, being the eldest son of the Hon. ... Under a cloud (with a silver lining). ... Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, PC (born March 11, 1932), was a British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer between June 1983 and October 1989. ... Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (June 7, 1770 - December 4, 1828) was a British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827. ... John Lubbock. ... Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ... Sir John Major, KG, CH, PC (born 29 March 1943) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. ... Rt. ... Herbert Morrison For others named Herbert Morrison, see Herbert Morrison (disambiguation). ... Arms of Lord Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC (15 March 1779–24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830-1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835-1841), and a mentor of Queen Victoria. ... Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme (July 21, 1693 - November 17, 1768) was a Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century. ... Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC (13 April 1732 – 5 August 1792), more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782, and a major actor in the American Revolution. ... Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from December 10, 1834 to April 8, 1835, and again from August 30, 1841 to June 29, 1846. ... The Right Honourable Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (October 20, 1784 - October 18, 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid 19th century. ... The Right Honourable Henry Pelham (25 September 1694–6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 to his death about ten years later. ... Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and Prime Minister. ... William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (15 November 1708–11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary of State during the Seven Years War (aka French and Indian War) and who was later Prime Minister of Great Britain. ... William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ... William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (April 14, 1738 - October 30, 1809) was a British Whig and Tory statesman and Prime Minister. ... Simon Heffers biography of Enoch Powell, published in 1999 John Enoch Powell, MBE, PC, (June 16, 1912 – February 8, 1998) was a right-wing British politician and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. ... Cecil Rhodes. ... The Right Honourable Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon PC (November 1, 1782 – January 28, 1859), Frederick John Robinson until 1827, The Viscount Goderich 1827–1833, and The Earl of Ripon 1833 onwards, was a British statesman and Prime Minister (when he was known as Lord Goderich). ... Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (May 13, 1730 – July 1, 1782) was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain. ... John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. ... The Rt Hon. ... Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (February 3, 1830–August 22, 1903). ... The Right Honourable Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, PC (30 May 1757–15 February 1844) was a British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804. ... John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873-1954) was a British politician and statesman. ... Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (July 18, 1864 - May 15, 1937) was a British politician, and the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born October 13, 1925), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ... The Right Honourable Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), usually known as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. ... William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and abolitionist who led the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade. ... The Baroness Williams of Crosby Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, PC (born July 27, 1930), is a British politician. ... The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. ... Rt Hon Sir Henry Urmston Willink, Bt (1894-1973) was Conservative Minister of Health from 1943-1945 in the wartime Coalition Government. ... The Rt. ... James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...

Scientists

• Arthur Aikin, (1773-1854), chemist and mineralogist
• Nathan Alcock, (1707-1779), doctor
• Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), mathematician
• Joseph Banks, (1743-1820), naturalist
• Isaac Barrow, (1630-1677), mathematician
• Thomas Bayes, (c.1702-1761), mathematician
• Tim Berners-Lee, (born 1955), computer scientist - inventor of the WorldWideWeb
• George Boole, (1815-1864), mathematician
• Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, (1897-1974), physicist
• Richard Bright, (1630-1677), doctor, founder of Bright's Disease (form of kidney disease)
• Henry Cavendish, (1731-1810), scientist
• Sir George Cayley, (1773-1857), polymath and aviator
• Francis Crick, (1916-2004), molecular biologist
• John Dalton, (1766-1844), chemist and physicist
• Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
• Richard Dawkins, (1941-), evolutionary theorist
• Horace Donisthorpe (1870-1951), entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist
• Paul Dirac, (1902-1984), physicist
• Arthur Eddington, (1882-1944), physicist
• Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), scientist
• Ronald Fisher, (1890-1962), geneticist and statistician
• Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), chemist and x-ray crystalographer
• J. B. S. Haldane, (1892-1964), geneticist
• Stephen Hawking, (born 1942), cosmologist
• Oliver Heaviside, (1850-1925), physicist
• C. A. R. Hoare, (born 1934), computer scientist
• John Herschel, (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer
• Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), scientist
• Edward Jenner, (1749-1823), doctor
• R. V. Jones, (1911-1997), physicist
• James Prescott Joule, (1818-1889), physicist
• Joseph Lister, (1827-1912), surgeon
• Bernard Lovell, (born 1913), astronomer
• James Lovelock, (born 1919), scientist
• Martin Lowry, (1874-1936), chemist
• John William Lubbock, (1803-1865), banker, mathematician and astronomer
• Sir Charles Lyell, (1797-1875), geologist
• John Maynard Smith, (1920-2004), geneticist
• Desmond Morris, (born 1928), zoologist
• Roger Needham, (1935-2003), computer scientist
• Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, last of the alchemists
• Roger Penrose, (born 1931), cosmologist
• Joseph Prestwich, (1812-1896), geologist
• Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804), chemist
• Adam Sedgwick, (1785-1873), geologist
• John Snow, (1813-1858), epidemiologist
• Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914), physicist and chemist
• J. J. Thomson, (1856-1940), physicist
• Henry Tizard, (1885-1959), chemist and inventor
• Alan Turing, (1912-1954), mathematician
• Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823-1913), naturalist
• Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947), mathematician
• Maurice Vincent Wilkes, (born 1913), computer scientist
• James H. Wilkinson, (1919-1986), mathematician
• William Hyde Wollaston, (1766-1828), chemist
• Thomas Young, (1773-1829), scientist

Arthur Aikin (May 19, 1773 - April 15, 1854), English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, was born at Warrington in Lancashire. ... Nathan Alcock (September 1707—8 December 1779), was a noted English physician. ... Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer. ... Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (13 February 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and science patron. ... Isaac Barrow (October 1630 - May 4, 1677) was an English divine, scholar and mathematician who is generally given minor credit for his role in the development of modern calculus; in particular, for his work regarding the tangent; for example, Barrow is given credit for being the first to calculate the... Thomas Bayes (c. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... WorldWideWeb was the worlds first web browser and WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) HTML editor. ... George Boole [], (November 2, 1815 – December 8, 1864) was a British mathematician and philosopher. ... Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (November 18, 1897—July 13, 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. ... Richard Bright Richard Bright (September 28, 1789 – December 16, 1858) was an English physician and early pioneer in the research of kidney disease. ... Brights disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis. ... For other persons named Henry Cavendish, see Henry Cavendish (disambiguation). ... Sir George Cayley Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (27 December 1773–15 December 1857) was an exuberant English polymath from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in Yorkshire. ... Leonardo da Vinci is seen as an epitome of the Renaissance man or polymath // A polymath (Greek polymathÄ“s, πολυμαθής, meaning having learned much,[1]), Renaissance man or Homo universalis are common terms to describe a person well educated in a wide variety of subjects or fields in which he excels. ... Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist, who is most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. ... John Dalton John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was an English chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. ... For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ... This article is about evolution in biology. ... Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. ... Image:Donisthorpe. ... Entomology is the scientific study of insects. ... Myrmecology is the branch of entomology dealing with ants. ... Coleopterology is the scientific study of beetles (insects of the order Coleoptera). ... Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (IPA: [dɪræk]) (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. ... One of Sir Arthur Stanley Eddingtons papers announced Einsteins theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. ... Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. ... Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist. ... Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was an English-born physical chemist and crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite. ... A chemist pours from a round-bottom flask. ... X-ray crystallography, also known as single-crystal X-ray diffraction, is the oldest and most common crystallographic method for determining the structure of molecules. ... John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (November 5, 1892 – December 1, 1964), who normally used J.B.S. as a first name, was a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist. ... Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. ... Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 – February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, developed techniques for applying Laplace transforms to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwells field equations in terms of electric and... Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort, the worlds most widely used sorting algorithm, in 1960. ... John Herschel Sir John Frederick William Herschel (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English mathematician and astronomer. ... Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. ... Portrait of Edward Jenner Edward Jenner, FRS, (May 17, 1749 – January 26, 1823) was an English country doctor who studied nature and his natural surroundings from childhood and practiced medicine in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. ... Professor R V Jones Reginald Victor Jones (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was an English physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an invaluable role in the defence of Britain in World War II. // Biography Born in Dulwich, Jones was educated at Alleyns School, Dulwich and Wadham... James Joule - English physicist James Prescott Joule, FRS (December 24, 1818 – October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Sale, Cheshire. ... Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (April 5, 1827-February 10, 1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Infirmary. ... Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell OBE PhD FRS (born 31 August 1913, Oldland Common, Bristol) is a British physicist and radio astronomer. ... James Lovelock in front of a statue of Gaia in 2000 Dr James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurologist who lives in Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain. ... Thomas Martin Lowry (October 26, 1874–November 2, 1936) was an English physical chemist. ... Sir John William Lubbock (March 26, 1803 – June 21, 1865) was an English banker, mathematician and astronomer. ... Charles Lyell Sir Charles Lyell (November 14, 1797 – February 22, 1875), British geologist, and popularizer of uniformitarianism. ... Professor John Maynard Smith[1], F.R.S. (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. ... Dr Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. ... Horrid old man, I hope you died in pain Roger Needham in 1999 Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (February 9, 1935–March 1, 2003) was a British computer scientist. ... Sir Isaac Newton, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [ OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science. ... Physics (Greek: (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the branch of science concerned with the fundamental laws of the Universe. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. ... Joseph Prestwich (12 March 1812 - June 23, 1896) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes. ... Joseph Frederick Priestley is often credited for the discovery of oxygen. ... Adam Sedgwick (March 22nd, 1785–January 27, 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. ... There have been several people named John Snow: Dr. John Snow (physician), the founder of epidemiology and a major contributor to the development of anaesthesia John W. Snow, current United States Secretary of the Treasury John Snow (cricketer), English cricketer See also Jon Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire... This article needs cleanup. ... Sir Joseph John Thomson Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940), often known as J. J. Thomson, was an English physicist, the discoverer of the electron. ... Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885 - 1959) was a British scientist and inventor. ... Alan Mathison Turing, OBE (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. ... Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (January 8, 1823 – November 7, 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. ... Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15, 1861 Ramsgate, Kent, England – December 30, 1947 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an English-born mathematician who became a philosopher. ... Maurice V. Wilkes Maurice Vincent Wilkes (born June 26, 1913 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England) is a British computer scientist, credited with several important developments in computing. ... James Hardy Wilkinson (27 September 1919–5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. ... William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston FRS (August 6, 1766 – December 22, 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore. ... Thomas Young, English scientist // Young belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset, where he was born in 1773, the youngest of ten children. ...

Sportsmen and sportswomen

• Harold Abrahams (1899-1978), athlete, one of the two subjects of Chariots of Fire
• Chris Adams (1955-2001), pro wrestler and judoka
• Neil Adams (born 1958), judoka and two-time silver medalist in Judo (1980 and 1984). Younger brother of Chris Adams
• Tony Adams (Born 1966), football player
• Alan Ball (1945-2007), 1966 football World Cup winner
• Gordon Banks (born 1937), goalkeeper of 1966 World Cup winning team
• Roger Bannister (born 1929), first sub-four-minute miler
• Lord Frederick Beauclerk, (1773-1850) cricket player and administrator
• David Beckham, (born 1975), football player
• Ian Botham (born 1955), cricketer
• Geoffrey Boycott (born 1940), cricketer
• Eric Bristow (born 1957), world champion darts player
• Jenson Button (born 1980), F1 Driver
• Sir Bobby Charlton (born 1937), 1966 football World Cup winner
• Jack Charlton (born 1935), 1966 football World Cup winner
• Sir Francis Chichester, (1901-1972), yachtsman
• Don Cockell (1928-1983), heavyweight boxer
• Paul Collingwood (born 1976), cricket player
• Sir Henry Cooper (born 1934), heavyweight boxer
• Lawrence Dallaglio (born 1972), world cup winning rugby footballer
• Laura Davies (born 1963), golfer
• Steve Davis (born 1957), six times world snooker champion
• Matt Dawson (born 1972), world cup winning rugby footballer
• John Deacon (1962-2001), motorcycle endurance racer
• Christopher Dean (born 1958), figure skater
• Jonathan Edwards (born 1966), athlete (triple jump)
• Godfrey Evans (1920-1999), cricketer (wicket-keeper)
• James Figg, (1695-1734), first English bare-knuckle boxing champion
• Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917), boxing's first world champion in three divisions
• Andrew Flintoff (born 1977), cricket player
• C B Fry (1872-1956), cricketer and all-round athlete
• Paul Gascoigne (born 1967), football player
• Steven Gerrard, (born 1980), football player
• W G Grace (1848-1915), cricketer
• Will Greenwood (born 1972), rugby footballer
• Naseem Hamed, (born 1974), featherweight boxer
• Lewis Hamilton (born 1985), F1 Driver
• Ricky Hatton (born 1978), world champion boxer
• Damon Hill (born 1960), F1 world champion
• Graham Hill (1929-1975), Two times F1 world champion
• Jack Hobbs (1882-1963), cricketer
• Glenn Hoddle, (born 1957), footballer
• Sir Geoff Hurst (born 1941), 1966 football World Cup winner
• Nasser Hussain (born 1968), cricket player
• Len Hutton (1916-1990), cricketer
• Martin Johnson (born 1970), world cup winning rugby footballer
• Trish Johnson (born 1966), golfer
• Amir Khan, (born 1986), lightweight boxer
• Dougie Lampkin, (born 1976), Motorcycle Trials World Champion
• Lennox Lewis (born 1965), world champion heavyweight boxer
• Josh Lewsey, (born 1976), rugby footballer
• Gary Lineker (born 1960), football player
• Dame Ellen MacArthur (born 1976), sailor who holds the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe
• George Mallory (1886-1924), mountaineer
• Nigel Mansell (born 1953), racing driver, F1 and CART champion
• Paul Merson (born 1968), football player
• Alan Minter (born 1951), world champion boxer
• Bobby Moore (1941-1993), captain of 1966 football World Cup winning team
• Alfred Mynn (1807-61), cricketer
• Alison Nicholas (born 1962), golfer
• Ronnie O'Sullivan (born 1975), two times World Champion Snooker player
• Michael Owen (born 1979), football player
• Rachel Parish (born 1981), markswoman and fencer
• John Parrott (born 1964), world champion snooker player
• Fred Perry (1909-1995), Wimbledon champion tennis player
• Martin Peters (born 1943), 1966 football World Cup winner
• Kevin Pieterson, (born 1980), cricket player
• Paula Radcliffe (born 1973), athlete (distance runner)
• Sir Steve Redgrave (born 1962), rower, winner of gold medal in five consecutive Olympics
• Sir Gordon Richards (1904-1988), jockey
• Wayne Rooney (born 1985), football player
• Alan Shearer (born 1970), football player
• Teddy Sheringham (born 1966), football player
• Nobby Stiles (born 1942), football World Cup winner
• Andrew Stoddart (1863-1915), rugby and cricket player
• Karen Stupples (born 1973), golfer
• Phil Taylor (born 1960), multi world champion darts player
• Jayne Torvill (born 1957), figure skater
• Marcus Trescothick (born 1975), cricket player
• Phil Tufnell (born 1966), cricket player
• Randolph Turpin (1928-1966), middleweight boxer
• Michael Vaughan (born 1974), cricket player
• Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player
• Theo Walcott (born 1989), football player
• Frank Warren (born 1952), boxing promoter
• Dan Wheldon (born 1978), racing driver
• Jimmy White (born 1962), snooker player
• Sir William Wavell Wakefield, (1898-1983) rugby footballer and politician
• Jonny Wilkinson (born 1979), world cup winning rugby footballer
• Justin Wilson (Born 1978), Champ Car Racer

Harold Maurice Abrahams (December 15, 1899 – January 14, 1978) was a Jewish British athlete. ... Chariots of Fire is a British film released in 1981. ... Christopher Adams (also known as Christopher Loofboro) (February 10, 1955 – October 7, 2001) was a professional wrestler, wrestling promoter, trainer and judoka. ... Neil Adams, MBE (born September 27, 1958) is a British-born judoka who won numerous Olympic and Judo World Championship medals in judo. ... Christopher Adams (also known as Christopher Loofboro) (February 10, 1955 – October 7, 2001) was a professional wrestler, wrestling promoter, trainer and judoka. ... Anthony Alexander Adams MBE (born 10 October 1966) is an English former football player who is currently assistant manager of Portsmouth. ... Alan Ball MBE (born May 12, 1945 in Farnworth, Lancashire) was an English football player of the 1960s and 70s who played in Englands 1966 World Cup winning team. ... Gordon Banks OBE (born December 30, 1937) is a former English footballer, elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the second best goalkeeper of the 20th Century. ... 1966 was a year of triumph for the host nation, England, which won in a controversial final beating West Germany 4-2. ... Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CBE (born March 23, 1929) is a British former athlete best known as the first man to run the mile in less than 4 minutes. ... Reverend Lord Frederick Beauclerk (May 8, 1773–April 22, 1850) was the son of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans. ... David Beckham David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE (born May 2, 1975) is an English footballer born in Leytonstone, London. ... Ian Terence Botham OBE, (born November 24, 1955 in Heswall, Cheshire) (nicknamed Both, Beefy, Beef or Guy the Gorilla) is a retired England Test cricketer. ... Geoffrey Boycott OBE (born October 21, 1940) is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer. ... Eric Bristow MBE (born Hackney, London, 27th April 1957) is a British darts player whose skill at the game in the 1980s helped turn it into a worldwide spectator sport. ... Jenson Alexander Lyons Button, often called Jens, (born 19 January 1980) is a British Formula One racing driver from England. ... Sir Robert Bobby Charlton, CBE (born 11 October 1937 in Ashington, Northumberland) is a former English professional football player who won the World Cup and was named the European Footballer of the Year in 1966. ... John Jack Charlton OBE (born Ashington, Northumberland, May 8, 1935) was a footballer who spent his whole career in the successful Leeds United side of the 1960s and 1970s and won the World Cup with England. ... Sir Francis Chichester (September 17, 1901 – August 26, 1972), aviator and sailor, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day. ... Don Cockell was a British boxer who won the British and European heavyweight titles. ... Paul David Collingwood MBE (born 26 May 1976, Shotley Bridge, Durham), is an English cricketer. ... Sir Henry Cooper OBE, (born May 3, 1934), is a former British heavyweight boxer. ... Lorenzo Lawrence 110% Bruno Nero Dallaglio (born on August 10, 1972 in London) is the former captain of the English national rugby union team. ... Laura Davies (born May 10, 1963 in Coventry, England) is an English professional golfer. ... Steve Davis OBE (born August 22, 1957) is an English professional snooker player who was born in London and lives in Brentwood, Essex with his wife and two sons. ... Matthew James Sutherland Daws Dawson MBE (born 31 October 1972 in Birkenhead) is a now retired English rugby union footballer who played scrum half for Wasps having played most of his career for Northampton Saints. ... John Deacon (* 1962; † August 9, 2001) was a Motorcycle enduro racer. ... Christopher Colin Dean (born July 22, 1958 in Nottingham, Great Britain) is a British figure skater who won a gold medal in ice dancing at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... Jonathan David Edwards CBE (born May 10, 1966 in London, England) is a former British triple jumper and widely regarded as the finest triple jumper of all time. ... Thomas Godfrey Evans CBE (August 18, 1920 – May 3, 1999) was an English cricketer who played for Kent and England. ... A wicket keeper in characteristic position, ready to face a delivery. ... James Figg (c. ... See also bare-knuckle for other uses. ... Robert James Bob Fitzsimmons (May 26, 1863 - October 22, 1917) was a Cornish native and moved to New Zealand in his childhood. ... Andrew Freddie Flintoff MBE (born 6 December 1977 Preston, Lancashire) is a first class cricketer who plays for Lancashire and England. ... Charles Burgess Fry (born 25 April 1872 in Croydon, died 7 September 1956 in Hampstead) was an English sportsman. ... Paul John Gascoigne (born 27 May 1967 in Gateshead, England), often referred to by his nickname Gazza, is a former English football player. ... Steven George Gerrard MBE[2][3][4][5] (IPA: []) (born 30 May 1980, Whiston, Merseyside) is an English football player. ... William Gilbert Grace (July 18, 1848–October 23, 1915) was an English cricketer who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket perhaps the first modern spectator sport, and who developed most of the techniques of modern batting. ... William John Heaton Greenwood MBE (born October 20, 1972 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is a former English rugby union player. ... Naseem redirects here. ... Lewis Carl Hamilton (born January 7, 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England) is a British Formula One racing driver, curently leading the 2007 Formula One championship. ... Richard Hatton MBE (born October 6, 1978 in Manchester) is an English boxer raised on the Hattersley council estate in Hyde, Greater Manchester, Great Britain. ... Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE (born 17 September 1960 in London) is a British former racing driver from England. ... Norman Graham Hill, known as Graham Hill (February 15, 1929 - November 29, 1975) was an English racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. ... Sir John Berry Jack Hobbs (born 16 December 1882 in Cambridge, England, died 21 December 1963 in Hove, Sussex) played cricket for Surrey and England. ... Glenn Hoddle (born October 27, 1957 in Hayes, London) is a football manager and former player for Tottenham Hotspur and England. ... Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst, MBE (born December 8, 1941 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is a footballer enshrined in the games history as the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final. ... Nasser Hussain (born March 28, 1968, Madras (now Chennai, India) is a former Essex and England cricketer. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Martin Osborne Johnson CBE (born March 9, 1970) is a former England rugby union player and captain. ... Patricia Mary Trish Johnson is an English golfer. ... Amir Khan (born December 8, 1986) is a British boxer from Bolton, Lancashire, England. ... Dougie Lampkin internationally renowned motorcycle trials rider who currently lives in the Isle Of Man. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Bold text Owen Joshua Lewsey MBE (born 30 November 1976) is an English rugby union footballer who plays fullback or wing or centre for Wasps and England. ... Gary Winston Lineker, OBE (born 30 November 1960 in Leicester) is a former English international football striker who scored ten goals in two World Cups for the England national team and is currently a sports broadcaster for the BBC. He is also known for appearing in adverts for the Walkers... Ellen MacArthur Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born July 8, 1976) is an English sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. ... George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 June/9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. ... Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE (born August 8, 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire) is a British racing driver from England who won world championships in both Formula One (1992) and CART (1993). ... Paul Charles Merson (born Harlesden, 20 March 1968) is a retired English football player, and former player-manager of Walsall. ... Alan Minter (born August 17, 1951) in Crawley, England, is a former boxer who was Middleweight champion of the world. ... Robert Frederick Chelsea Bobby Moore, OBE (born Barking, England, April 12, 1941 - died London, February 24, 1993) was an English footballer. ... Alfred Mynn (born 19 January 1807 at Twisden, near Goudhurst in Kent; died 1 November 1861 at Newington near Southwark) was a famous English cricketer during the games Roundarm Era. He was a genuine all-rounder, being both an attacking right-handed batsman and a formidable right arm fast... Alison Nicholas (born 6 March 1962, Gibraltar) is an English golfer. ... Ronald Antonio OSullivan (born 5 December 1975 in Wordsley, West Midlands, England),[1][2][3] known as Ronnie OSullivan, is an English professional snooker player, nicknamed The Rocket due to his rapid playing style, with other monikers including The Essex Exocet and The Magician. He has won the... Michael Owen (born December 14, 1979, in Chester, Cheshire) is an English football player currently with Newcastle United. ... Image:Rachel Parish. ... John Parrott MBE (born 11 May 1964 in Liverpool, England) is an English professional snooker player. ... Fred Perry hitting a backhand volley Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 – February 2, 1995) in Stockport, Cheshire. ... Martin Stanford Peters MBE, (born November 8, 1943 in Plaistow, London) was a football player and hero of the victorious England team which won the 1966 World Cup. ... Kevin Peter Pietersen MBE (born 27 June 1980 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa) is a cricketer - an attacking right-handed batsman who plays for England and Hampshire. ... Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE (born December 17, 1973) is a British long-distance runner. ... Image:Stevebook. ... Sir Gordon Richards (May 5, 1904 - November 10, 1988) was an English jockey, and is usually considered the worlds greatest ever jockey. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Alan Shearer OBE (born 13 August 1970 in Gosforth, Tyne and Wear) is an English former professional footballer who played for the English national team and three English Premiership clubs: Southampton, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United. ... Edward Paul Teddy Sheringham (born April 2, 1966 in Highams Park, London) is a fucking old veteran kunt English footballer. ... Norbert Nobby Peter Stiles MBE (born Collyhurst, Manchester, 18 May 1942) was the toothless midfield ballwinner of Englands 1966 World Cup winning side. ... Andrew Ernest Stoddart (11 March 1863 – 4 April 1915) was an English cricketer and rugby union player. ... Karen Stupples (born 6 June 1973 in Dover, Kent) is an English professional golfer who plays primarily on the U.S. based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. ... For the Motörhead drummer, see Phil Philthy Animal Taylor. ... Jayne Torvill (born October 7, 1957, Nottingham, United Kingdom) is a British figure skater who won a gold medal in ice dancing at the 1984 Winter Olympics with her skating partner Christopher Dean and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... Marcus Edward Trescothick MBE (born in Keynsham, Somerset on 25 December 1975) is an English cricketer. ... Philip (Phil) Clive Roderick Tufnell (born April 29, 1966 in Barnet, Hertfordshire) is an English cricketer and television personality. ... Randy Turpin (June 7, 1928 - May 17, 1966) was a boxer from Britain who was considered by many to be Europes best Middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s. ... Alias, see Michael Vaughn. ... Sarah Virginia Wade (born July 10, 1945, in Bournemouth, England) is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom. ... Theo James Walcott (born 16 March 1989 in Stanmore, London) is an English footballer who currently plays for Arsenal FC, having signed there from Southampton on 20 January 2006. ... Frank Warren (born in Islington, London on 28 February, 1952) is an English boxing manager and promoter. ... Daniel Clive Wheldon (born 22 June 1978) is a successful British auto racing driver. ... James Jimmy Warren White, MBE (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player. ... Jonathan Peter Jonny Wilkinson OBE (born 25 May 1979 in Frimley, Surrey) is an English rugby union player and member of the England rugby union team. ... Justin Wilson (born 31 July 1978, Sheffield, England) is a former Formula One driver who is now racing in the Champ Car series. ...

Writers

See List of English writers List of English writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of writers from England. ...

Other notables

• Douglas Adams (1952-2001), author, comic and radio dramatist
• David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
• Edward Betts, (1815-1872), civil engineering contractor
• Thomas Brassey, (1805-1870), civil engineering contractor
• Capability Brown, (1715–83), landscape gardener
• William Camden, (1551-1623), historian
• William Caxton, (c. 1422-c. 1491), printer
• Sir Malcolm Campbell, (1885–1949), automobile and speedboat racer.
• Sir John Chesshyre, (1662-1738), lawyer
• Jeremy Clarkson, (born 1960), T.V. Presenter, broadcaster and writer.
• James Cook, (1728-1779), British explorer
• Simon Cowell, (born 1959), T.V. personality, record producer
• Grace Darling, (1815-1842), heroine
• William Emes, (1729/30-1803), landscape gardener
• Elizabeth Fry, (1780-1845), prison reformer
• Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), historian
• Thomas Grissell, (1801-1874), public works contractor
• Hilda Hewlett, (1864–1943), pioneer aviator and aviation entrepreneur
• Ebenezer Howard, (1850-1928), urban planner
• Sir Patrick Moore, (born 1923), Writer, TV Presenter, Astronomer.
• Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910), nursing reformist
• Joshua A. Norton, (1811-1880), Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
• George Ormerod, (1785-1873), historian and antiquary
• Michael Parkinson, (born 1935), Presenter of British television chat show Parkinson
• Sir Samuel Morton Peto, (1809-1889), civil engineering contractor
• John Reith, (1889-1971), broadcaster
• John Speed, (1542-1629), historian and cartographer
• Wat Tyler, (?-1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381)
• William Wakefield, (1801-1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand
• Harriet Shaw Weaver, (1876-1961), political activist and suffragist
• Joseph Williamson, (1769-1840), philanthropist, merchant and tunneler

The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS (born on 8 May 1926 in London, England) is one of the worlds best known broadcasters and naturalists. ... Edward Ladd Betts (5 June 1815 - 21 January 1872) was an English civil engineering contractor who was mainly involved in the building of railways. ... Thomas Brassey (1805-1870) was an English railway contractor, born in Cheshire. ... Capability Brown, by Nathaniel Dance, ca. ... William Camden William Camden (May 2, 1551 - November 9, 1623) was an English antiquarian and historian. ... The printers device of William Caxton, 1478. ... Portrait of Sir Malcolm Campbell (undated), courtesy of the Florida Photographic Collection Sir Malcolm Campbell (born March 11, 1885 in Chislehurst, Kent, England - died December 31, 1948 in Reigate, Surrey, England) was a racing motorist and motoring journalist. ... Sir John Chesshyre (11 November 1662 - 15 May 1738) was an English lawyer who rose to the position of kings first serjeant. ... Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. ... James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... This list of explorers is sorted by surname. ... Simon Philip Cowell (Born 7 October 1959) is an English artist and repertoire (A&R) executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom, but is best known as a judge on the television programs Pop Idol, The X Factor and American Idol. ... Grace Darling (November 24, 1815–October 20, 1842[1]) is one of Englands best-loved Victorian heroines, on the strength of a celebrated incident in 1838. ... William Emes (1729 or 1730 - 13 March 1803) was an English landscape gardener. ... Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; May 21, 1780 – October 12, 1845) was an English prison reformer, social reformer and philanthropist. ... Edward Gibbon (1737–1794). ... Thomas Grissell (4 October 1801 - 26 May 1874) was an English public works contractor who was responsible for constructing a number of prestigious buildings in England. ... Hilda Beatrice Hewlett (17 February 1864–21 August 1943) was the first British woman aviator to earn a pilots licence. ... Ebenezer Howard (1850 - 1928) was a prominent British urban planner. ... Sir Patrick Moore presenting The Sky at Night, October 2005 Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923), known as Patrick Moore, is an English amateur astronomer who has attained legendary status in British astronomy as a long-running writer, organizer and presenter of the subject. ... Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing, and a noted statistician. ... Joshua Abraham Norton ( 1819[2] – January 8, 1880), also known as His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, was a celebrated citizen of San Francisco, California who, in 1859, proclaimed himself Emperor of these United States[3] and later Protector of Mexico.[4] Born of Jewish origin in London, England, Norton... George Ormerod (20 October 1785 - 9 October 1873) was an English antiquary and historian. ... Michael Parkinson CBE (born 28 March 1935) is an English journalist and television presenter. ... Parkinson is a chat show presented by Michael Parkinson. ... Sir Samuel Morton Peto Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet (August 4, 1809 – November 13, 1889) was an English entrepreneur in the 19th century. ... John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (July 20, 1889 - June 16, 1971), later Sir John Reith (1927-), then Baron Reith (1940-) established the British tradition of independent public service broadcasting. ... John Speed (1542-1629) was a historian, now best remembered as the cartographer whose maps of English counties are often found framed in homes throughout the UK. He was born at Farndon in Cheshire, and went into his fathers tailoring business where he worked until he was about 50... Wat Tylers Death Walter Tyler, commonly known as Wat Tyler (died June 15, 1381) was the leader of the English Peasants Revolt of 1381. ... Colonel William Wakefield (1801-1848), married 1826 to Emily Sydney, the fifth child of Edward Wakefield and Priscilla Bell, he was the leader of the first colonizing expedition to New Zealand and founder of Wellington. ... Alternative meanings at Wellington (disambiguation) A view of Wellington from the top of Mount Victoria. ... Harriet Shaw Weaver, 1876 - 1961, was the patron of James Joyce. ... Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-3 October 1701), English politician, was born at Bridekirk, near Cockermouth, his father, Joseph Williamson, being vicar of this place. ...

• John Alden, (1599?-1687), one of the leaders of the Pilgrims to North America ^[1]
• John F. Allen, (1829-1900), inventor of Porter-Allen engine and 2 pneumatic riveting systems^[1]
• George Alsop, noted author^[1]
• James Anderson, noted 19th century, especially remembered for his performance as Othello^[1]
• Anthony Aston, (died 1731), noted actor and dramatist^[1]
• Joe Calzaghe, (born 1972), world champion boxer
• Charlie Chaplin, (1889-1977)
• Cary Grant, (1904-1986), film actor.
• Alistair Cooke, (1908-2004)
• Bob Hope, (1903-2003)
• Stephen Hough, (born 1961), concert pianist, became Australian citizen
• Stan Laurel, (1890-1965)
• Thomas Paine, (1737-1809)

Signing of the Mayflower Compact John Alden (1599?-September 22, 1687) was one of the Pilgrims who emigrated to America in 1620 on the Mayflower and founded the Plymouth Colony. ... Pilgrims is the name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony, MA. Their leadership came from a religious congregation who had fled religious persecution in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm of Holland in the Netherlands. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... George Alsop, an American author, was born in 1638; the year and place of his death are unknown. ... James Anderson (13 July 1921 in Wetumpka, Alabama, USA - 14 September 1969 in Billings, Montana, USA) was an American supporting actor. ... Title page of the first quarto edition of Othello, published in 1622 The Tragedy of Othello, The Moore of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written around 1603. ... Anthony Aston (d. ... Joseph Joe Calzaghe (born 23 March 1972 in Hammersmith, London, England) is a Welsh boxer of Italian origin, particularly from Sardinian and Welsh descent. ... Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. ... Archibald Alec Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was a British-born film actor. ... Alistair Cooke KBE (November 20, 1908 – March 30, 2004) was a legendary British-American journalist and broadcaster. ... Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-Born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. ... Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British-born classical pianist and composer. ... Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as part of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th Century until post-World War II. // Stan Laurel... Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 – 8 June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical intellectual, and deist. ...

References

• 1. ^ ^{a b c d e} (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 

See also

• List of people by nationality
• List of Britons
• List of Cornish people
• List of Northern Irish people
• List of Scots
• List of Welsh people
• UK topics

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