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of note and some notable individuals born in England.

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Archaeologists and anthropologists

George Adamson George Alexander Graham Adamson MBE (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the ''Baba ya Simba'' ("Father of Lions" in Swahili), was a Kenyan wildlife conservationist and author. He and his wife, Joy, were depicted in the film '' ...

(1906–1989) *

Leslie Alcock Leslie Alcock (24 April 1925 – 6 June 2006) was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Medieval Britain. His major excavations included Dinas Powys hill fort in Wales, Cadbury C ...

(1925–2006) *

Mick Aston Michael Antony Aston (1 July 1946 – 24 June 2013) was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford an ...

(1946–2013) * Richard Atkinson (1920–1994) * Edward Russell Ayrton (1882–1914) *

Churchill Babington Churchill Babington (; 11 March 182112 January 1889) was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist. He served as Rector of Cockfield, Suffolk. He was a cousin of Cardale Babington. Life He was born at Rothley Temple, in Leic ...

(1821–1889) * Philip Arthur Barker (1920–2001) * Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) *

James Theodore Bent James Theodore Bent (30 March 1852 – 5 May 1897) was an English explorer, archaeologist, and author. Biography James Theodore Bent was born in Liverpool on 30 March 1852, the son of James (1807-1876) and Eleanor (née Lambert, c.1811-1873) B ...

(1852–1897) *

Geoffrey Bibby Thomas Geoffrey Bibby (14 October 1917 – 6 February 2001, Aarhus) was an English-born archaeologist. He is best known for discovering the ancient state of Dilmun, referred to in Mesopotamian mythology as a paradise. He is often considered to ...

(1917–2001) *

Howard Carter Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the ...

(1874–1939) * Grahame Clark (1907–1995) * David Clarke (1937–1976) *

Barry Cunliffe Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an Emeri ...

(born 1939) *

Glyn Daniel Glyn Edmund Daniel FBA, FRAI (23 April 1914 – 13 December 1986) was a Welsh scientist and archaeologist who taught at Cambridge University, where he specialised in the European Neolithic period. He was appointed Disney Professor of Archa ...

(1914–1986) * John Disney (1779–1857), barrister and archaeologist * E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), social anthropologist *

Cyril Fox Sir Cyril Fred Fox (16 December 1882 – 15 January 1967) was an English archaeologist and museum director. Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales, and subsequently served as director from 1926 to 1948. His most ...

(1882–1967) *

Dorothy Garrod Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA (5 May 1892 – 18 December 1968) was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period. She held the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1 ...

(1892–1968) * William Greenwell (1820–1918) * Phil Harding (born 1950) *

Kathleen Kenyon Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called ...

(1906–1978) * John Leland (1502–1552), antiquary * John Lubbock (1834–1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist *

John Robert Mortimer John Robert Mortimer (15 June 1825 – 19 August 1911) was an English corn-merchant and archaeologist who lived in Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was responsible for the excavation of many of the notable barrows in the Yorkshire Wolds, ...

(1825–1911) *

Francis Pryor Francis Manning Marlborough Pryor (born 13 January 1945) is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Bronze and Iron Ages in Britain. He is best known for his discovery and excavation of Flag Fen, a Bronze Age archaeological si ...

(born 1945) *

Colin Renfrew Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, (born 25 July 1937) is a British archaeologist, paleolinguist and Conservative peer noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, neuroarchaeology, ...

(born 1937), archaeologist *

Alice Roberts Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She was President ...

(born 1973), anatomist, osteoarchaeologist and anthropologist *

Andrew Sherratt Andrew George Sherratt (8 May 1946 – 24 February 2006) was an English archaeologist, one of the most influential of his generation. He was best known for his theory of the secondary products revolution. Early life and education Sherratt was ...

(1946–2006) * E.B. Tylor (1832–1917), anthropologist *

Mortimer Wheeler Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of both the National Museum of Wales an ...

(1890–1976)

Architects

Hubert Austin Hubert James Austin (31 March 1841 – 1915) was an English architect who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster. With his partners he designed many churches and other buildings, mainly in the northwest of England. Early life and ...

(1845–1915) *

Charles Barry Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860) was a British architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament) in London during the mid-19th century, but also respon ...

(1795–1860) (

Houses of Parliament The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place for both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Informally known as the Houses of Parliament, the Palace lies on the north ban ...

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George Basevi Elias George Basevi FRS (1 April 1794 – 16 October 1845) was a British architect who worked in both Neoclassical and Gothic Revival styles. A pupil of Sir John Soane, his designs included Belgrave Square in London, and the Fitzwilliam Mus ...

(1794–1845) *

William Burges William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoc ...

(1827–1881), architect and designer *

William Butterfield William Butterfield (7 September 1814 – 23 February 1900) was a Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement (or Tractarian Movement). He is noted for his use of polychromy. Biography William Butterfield was born in Lon ...

(1814–1900), leader in

Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

movement *

Rowland Carter Rowland Wilfred William Carter (1875–1916) was an architect, surveyor, insurance agent and auctioneer.Aspects of Design in Cromer.Author: A. D. Boyce. Published: 2007 by North Norfolk District Council-Conservation, Design & Landscape Section.P ...

(1875–1916) * William Chambers (1723–1796) ( Kew Gardens Pagoda and

Somerset House Somerset House is a large Neoclassical complex situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. The Georgian era quadrangle was built on the site of a Tudor palace ("O ...

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Thomas Edward Collcutt Thomas Edward Collcutt c.1890 Thomas Edward Collcutt (16 March 1840 – 7 October 1924) was an English architect in the Victorian era who designed several important buildings in London including the Savoy Hotel, Lloyd's Register of Shipping ...

(1840–1924) *

James Cubitt James Cubitt (1836–1914) was a Victorian church architect specialising in building non-conformist chapels.John Douglas (1830–1911) * Sir

Philip Dowson Sir Philip Henry Manning Dowson (16 August 1924 – 22 August 2014) was a leading British architect. He served as President of the Royal Academy from 1993 to 1999. Early life Philip Dowson was born in South Africa. Having moved to England, he ...

(1924–2014) *

Henry Flitcroft Henry Flitcroft (30 August 1697 – 25 February 1769) was a major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism. He came from a simple background: his father was a labourer in the gardens at Hampton Court and he began as a joiner by ...

(1697–1769) *

Sir Norman Foster ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(born 1935) *

Philip Hardwick Philip Hardwick (15 June 1792 in London – 28 December 1870) was an English architect, particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London and elsewhere. Hardwick is probably best known for London's demolished Euston Arch ...

(1792–1870) *

Thomas Hardwick Thomas Hardwick (1752–1829) was an English architect and a founding member of the Architects' Club in 1791. Early life and career Hardwick was born in Brentford, Middlesex the son of a master mason turned architect also named Thomas Hard ...

(1752–1829) * James Harrison (1814–1866) * Thomas Harrison (1744–1829) *

Nicholas Hawksmoor Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principa ...

(1661–1736) * Horace Jones (1819–1886) (

Tower Bridge Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. It crosses the River Thames clos ...

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Inigo Jones Inigo Jones (; 15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant architect in England and Wales in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. As the most notable archit ...

(1573–1652) * Henry Keene (1726–1776) *

William Kent William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, bu ...

(c. 1685 – 1748), architect,

landscape architect A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water manage ...

and furniture designer *

Edmund Kirby Edmund Kirby (8 April 1838 – 24 April 1920) was an English architect. He was born in Liverpool, and educated at Oscott College in Birmingham. He was articled to E. W. Pugin in London, then became an assistant to John Douglas in Ches ...

(1838–1920) *

Denys Lasdun Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, CH, CBE, RA (8 September 1914, Kensington, London – 11 January 2001, Fulham, London) was an eminent English architect, the son of Nathan Lasdun (1879–1920) and Julie (''née'' Abrahams; 1884–1963). Probably his b ...

(1914–2001) * Thomas Lockwood (1830–1900) *

Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memor ...

(1869–1944) *

Hugh May Hugh May (1621 – 21 February 1684) was an English architect in the period after the Restoration of King Charles II. He worked in the era which fell between the first introduction of Palladianism into England by Inigo Jones, and the full flower ...

(1621–1684) *

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He w ...

(1834–1896), architect and author * John Nash (1752–1835) (

Regent's Park Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. It occupies of high ground in north-west Inner London, administratively split between the City of Westminster and the Borough of Camden (and historically betwee ...

St. James's Park St James's Park is a park in the City of Westminster, central London. It is at the southernmost tip of the St James's area, which was named after a leper hospital dedicated to St James the Less. It is the most easterly of a near-continuous ch ...

Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square ( ) is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, laid out in the early 19th century around the area formerly known as Charing Cross. At its centre is a high column bearing a statue of Admiral Nelson comm ...

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Henry Paley Henry Anderson Paley (1859–1946) (usually known as Harry Paley) was an English architect. Training and career He was the fifth and last child of the Lancaster architect Edward Paley. He was educated at Castle Howard School in Lancaster, then ...

(1859–1946) * Sir

Joseph Paxton Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

(1801–1865) (

The Crystal Palace The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibit ...

for

The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition which took pl ...

, London) *

Thomas Mainwaring Penson Thomas Mainwaring Penson (1818–64) was an English surveyor and architect. His father and grandfather, who were both named Thomas Penson, were also surveyors and architects. His grandfather Thomas Penson (c. 1760–1824) worked from an office ...

(1818–1864) *

August Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( ; 1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and, ultimately, Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival st ...

(1812–1852) (

Palace of Westminster The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place for both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Informally known as the Houses of Parliament, the Palace lies on the north b ...

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Anthony Salvin Anthony Salvin (17 October 1799 – 17 December 1881) was an English architect. He gained a reputation as an expert on medieval buildings and applied this expertise to his new buildings and his restorations. He restored castles and country h ...

(1799–1881) *

George Gilbert Scott Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started ...

(1811–1878) (

Albert Memorial The Albert Memorial, directly north of the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington Gardens, London, was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband Prince Albert, who died in 1861. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic R ...

St Pancras Station St Pancras railway station (), also known as London St Pancras or St Pancras International and officially since 2007 as London St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It ...

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Giles Gilbert Scott Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was a British architect known for his work on the New Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral, and ...

(1880–1960) (

Waterloo Bridge Waterloo Bridge () is a road and foot traffic bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges. Its name commemorates the victory of the British, Dutch and Prussians at t ...

, also supervised rebuilding of

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...

, London) *

Edmund Sharpe Edmund Sharpe (31 October 1809 – 8 May 1877) was an English architect, architectural historian, railway engineer, and sanitary reformer. Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, he was educated first by his parents and then at schools locally and i ...

(1809–1877) * John William Simpson (1858–1933) *

George Edmund Street George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Though mainly an eccle ...

(1824–1881) *

John Vanbrugh Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restora ...

(1664–1726),

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...

architect (

Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace (pronounced ) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough and the only non- royal, non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, ...

) * Derek Walker (1929–2015) *

Alfred Waterhouse Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well. He is perhaps best known ...

(1830–1905) (

Natural History Museum, London The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...

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Aston Webb Sir Aston Webb (22 May 1849 – 21 August 1930) was a British architect who designed the principal facade of Buckingham Palace and the main building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other major works around England, many of them in p ...

(1849–1930) (

Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace () is a London royal residence and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality. It ...

and

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

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Ernest Berry Webber Ernest Berry Webber, (29 April 1896 – 19 December 1963)''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995'', p. 130. was an English architect, surveyor and town planner best known for his design ...

(1896–1963) * William Wilkins (1778–1839) (

National Gallery, London The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director of ...

) * Sir

Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 church ...

(1632–1723) *

James Wyatt James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1785 and was its president from 1805 to 1806. Early life W ...

(1746–1813)

Artists

Sophie Gengembre Anderson Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 – 10 March 1903) was a French-born British artist who specialised in genre painting of children and women, typically in rural settings. She began her career as a lithographer and painter of portraits, collaborat ...

(1823–1903), painter * James Andrews (1801–1876), botanical artist *

Richard Ansdell Richard Ansdell (11 May 1815 – 20 April 1885) was a British painter of animals and genre scenes. Life Ansdell was born in Liverpool (then in Lancashire), the son of Thomas Griffiths Ansdell, a freeman who worked at the port, and Anne Jacks ...

(1815–1885), painter *

Banksy Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigram ...

(born c. 1974),

graffiti Graffiti (plural; singular ''graffiti'' or ''graffito'', the latter rarely used except in archeology) is art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from s ...

artist * Walter Daniel Batley (1850–1936), painter *

Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the ...

(1872–1898), illustrator * Suzzan Blac (born 1960), painter * Sir Peter Blake (born 1932), pop artist *

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the Romantic poetry, poetry and visual art of t ...

(1757–1827), painter, poet * Henry Charles Bryant (1835–1915), portrait and landscape artist *

Albin R. Burt Albin Roberts Burt (1 December 178316 March 1842) was an English engraver and portrait-painter. Life Burt began his career as an engraver, having been a pupil of Robert Thew and Benjamin Smith but, finding himself unable to excel in this field ...

(1783–1842), portrait painter * Sir

Anthony Caro Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using ' found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moor ...

(1924–2013), sculptor * Anna Maria Charretie (1819–1875), miniature painter *

John Constable John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, th ...

(1776–1837), landscape painter * John Henry Dell (1830–1888), landscape artist and illustrator *

Tracey Emin Tracey Karima Emin, CBE, RA (; born 3 July 1963) is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and ...

(born 1963), conceptual artist *

Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of ...

(1727–1788), painter *

Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Early life Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire on 26 Ju ...

(born 1956), sculptor (

land art Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United StatesArt in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & mov ...

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Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; '' Another ...

OBE RA (born 1950), sculptor *

James Henry Govier James Henry Govier (1 August 1910 – 21 December 1974) was a British painter and etcher, who worked in Swansea and East Anglia. Biography Govier was born on 1 August 1910, at Oakley, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Henry Govier and Mary Ann ...

(1910–1974), painter, etcher and engraver * Steven Harris (born 1975), cartoonist * Thomas Hazlehurst (c. 1740 – c. 1821), miniature painter * Dame

Barbara Hepworth Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a lea ...

DBE (1903–1975), sculptor * Jamie Hewlett (born 1968), comic book artist and designer *

Nicholas Hilliard Nicholas Hilliard () was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England. He mostly painted small oval miniatures, but also some larger cabinet miniatures, ...

(1547–1619), miniature painter *

Damien Hirst Damien Steven Hirst (; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingd ...

(born 1965), sculptor/ conceptual artist *

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

(born 1937), painter * Sir

Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. Early life Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932 in Hammersmith, Lond ...

(1932–2017), painter *

William Hogarth William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like ...

(1697–1764), painter, engraver *

Master Hugo Master Hugo (fl. c.1130-c.1150) was a Romanesque lay artist and the earliest recorded professional artist in England. His documented career at Bury St Edmunds Abbey spans from before 1136 to after 1148. He is most famous for illuminating the fi ...

(fl. c. 1130–c. 1150), illuminated manuscript artist active in Bury St Edmunds *

William Holman Hunt William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism ...

(1827–1910) * Sir

Edwin Landseer Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the bas ...

(1802–1873), animal painter *

Celia Levetus Celia Levetus also known as C. A. Nicholson and Diana Forbes (1874-1936) was a Canadian-English author, poet and illustrator of the Birmingham School. Biography Celia Levetus was born in 1874 to English parents living in Montreal. Her father ...

(1874–1936), illustrator * Richard Long (born 1945), land artist * Sir

John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, ( , ; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest ...

(1829–1896), painter *

Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract art, abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Mo ...

(1898–1986), sculptor *

(1834–1896) * Lawrence Mynott (born 1954), illustrator, designer and portrait painter *

Chris Ofili Christopher Ofili, (born 10 October 1968) is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in T ...

(born 1968), painter * George Passmore (born 1942), artist ( Gilbert & George) * Sir

Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depend ...

(1723–1792), portrait painter *

Bridget Riley Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. Early life and education Riley was born on 24 April 1931 in Norwood, Londo ...

(born 1931), painter *

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (), was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhoo ...

(1828–1882), painter * Sir

Stanley Spencer Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the sma ...

(1891–1959), painter *

George Stubbs George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds, Reynold ...

(1724–1806), painter *

Joseph Mallord William Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbul ...

(1775–1851), landscape and marine artist *

Flora Twort Flora Caroline Twort (24 June 1893 – 1985) was an English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels of the scenes and people of Petersfield, Hampshire. Twort was born in Yeovil, Somerset; her parents were Albert Samuel Twort an ...

(1893–1985), painter *

Mark Wallinger Mark Wallinger (born 25 May 1959) is a British artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation ''State Britain''. His work ''Ecce Homo'' (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the ...

(born 1959), conceptual artist * Rachel Whiteread (born 1963), sculptor *

Joseph Wright of Derby Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". Wr ...

(1734–1797), Enlightenment painter

Broadcasters

Michael Aspel Michael Terence Aspel (born 12 January 1933) is an English retired television newsreader and host of programmes such as '' Crackerjack'', ''Aspel & Company'', '' Give Us a Clue'', ''This is Your Life'', '' Strange but True?'' and ''Antiques Ro ...

(born 1933) * Sir

David Attenborough Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural histo ...

(born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster * Richard Baker (1925–2018), broadcaster and newsreader *

Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist, game show host and writer who specialises in motoring. He is best known for the motoring programmes '' Top Gear'' and '' The Grand Tour'' alongside R ...

(born 1960), TV presenter, broadcaster and writer *

Simon Cowell Simon Phillip Cowell (; born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur and record executive. He is the creator of '' The X Factor'' and ''Got Talent'' franchises which have been sold around the world. He has judged on ...

(born 1959), TV personality, record producer *

Johnny Kingdom Walter John Kingdon (23 February 1939 – 6 September 2018), known as Johnny Kingdom, was an English wildlife filmmaker and photographer specialising in his local area of Exmoor in north Devon and west Somerset. Early life Before finding fame, ...

(1939–2018), wildlife TV presenter *

Ray Mears Raymond Paul Mears (born 7 February 1964) is a British woodsman, instructor, businessman, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques. He is best known for the TV series '' Ray Mears' Bushcraft'', '' Ra ...

(born 1964), author, TV presenter and survival expert * Sir

Patrick Moore Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (; 4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter. Moore was president of the Bri ...

(1923–2012), writer, TV presenter, astronomer *

Michael Parkinson Sir Michael Parkinson (born 28 March 1935) is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his television talk show '' Parkinson'' from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, as well as other talk shows and programmes both in the U ...

(born 1935), presenter of British television chat show '' Parkinson'' *

John Peel John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...

(1939–2004), disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist *

Jonathan Ross Jonathan Stephen Ross (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He presented the BBC One chat show ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'' during the 2000s, hosted his own radio show on ...

(born 1960) *

Jimmy Savile Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (; 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English DJ, television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including ''Top of the Pops'' and '' Jim'll Fix It''. During his lifetime, he was well kno ...

(1926–2011), disc jockey, TV presenter, writer and media personality * Mike Smith (1955–2014), TV and radio presenter *

Ed Stewart Edward Stewart Mainwaring (23 April 1941 – 9 January 2016), known as Ed "Stewpot" Stewart, was an English radio broadcaster and TV presenter. He was principally known for his work as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 (particularly the Saturday morning '' J ...

(1941–2016), radio and TV presenter

Businessmen and businesswomen

* Sir Frederic Bolton (1851–1920), shipping * Sir

Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Branson expressed ...

(born 1950) * Sir John Brunner (1842–1919), chemicals * Frank Bustard (1886–1974), shipping *

Joseph Crosfield Joseph Crosfield (5 October 1792 – 16 February 1844) was a businessman who established a soap and chemical manufacturing business in Warrington, which was in the historic county of Lancashire and is now in the ceremonial county of Cheshire. ...

(1792–1844), soap and chemicals *

Ron Dennis Ronald Dennis CBE (born 1 June 1947) is a British businessman and Official British Business Ambassador for the United Kingdom. He is best known for his former role as owner, CEO, chairman and founder of McLaren Group. Dennis was removed from ...

(born 1947), McLaren automotive *

William Gossage William Gossage (12 May 1799 – 9 April 1877) was a chemical manufacturer who established a soap making business in Widnes, Lancashire, England. Early life William Gossage was born in the village of Burgh-le-Marsh, Lincolnshire to Thomas and El ...

(1799–1877), soap *

Philip Green Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) is a British businessman who was the chairman of the retail company the Arcadia Group. He owned the high street clothing retailers Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge from 2002 to 2020. As of M ...

(born 1952), retail * James Hanson, Baron Hanson (1922–2004), industrialist * Thomas Hazlehurst (1779–1842), soap and alkali *

Robert Spear Hudson Robert Spear Hudson (6 December 1812 – 6 August 1884) was an English businessman who popularised dry soap powder. His company was very successful thanks to both an increasing demand for soap and his unprecedented levels of advertising. After ...

(1812–1884), soap powder * John Hutchinson (1825–1865), alkali * Peter Jones (born 1966) * Sir

Freddie Laker Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982. Known as Freddie Laker, he was one of the first airline owners to ...

(1922–2006), pioneer of cheap air travel * William Losh (1770–1861), alkali *

Alfred Mond Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, PC, FRS, DL (23 October 1868 – 27 December 1930), known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician. In his later life he became an active Zio ...

(1868–1930), chemicals *

Henry Mond Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett (10 May 1898 – 22 January 1949) was a British politician, industrialist and financier. Early life and education Henry Mond was born in London, the only son of Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett and his wife ...

(1898–1949), chemicals * Julian Mond (1925–1973), industrialist * Stephan Morais (born 1973) *

William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, (10 October 1877 – 22 August 1963) was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered as the founder of the Nuffield Foundation, ...

(1877–1963) *

Edmund Knowles Muspratt Edmund Knowles Muspratt (6 November 1833 – 1 September 1923) was an English chemical industrialist. Early life and background Edmund Knowles Muspratt was born in Seaforth, near Liverpool, England, the fourth and youngest son of James Muspr ...

(1833–1923), industrialist *

Richard Muspratt Richard Muspratt (13 August 1822 – 18 August 1885) was a chemical industrialist. Richard Muspratt was born in Dublin, Ireland, the second son of James Muspratt and his wife Julia Josephine née Connor. His father was also a chemical industr ...

(1822–1885), industrialist * Charles Roe (1715–1781), silk industry *

Titus Salt Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 in Morley – 29 December 1876 in Lightcliffe), was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a ...

(1803–1876), industrialist * Harriet Samuel (1836–1908), jewellery * Sir

Ivan Stedeford Sir Ivan Arthur Rice Stedeford GBE, (28 January 18979 February 1975) was a British industrialist and philanthropist. Stedeford was chairman and managing director of Tube Investments (T.I.) and one of Britain's leading 20th-century industrial ...

(1897–1975), industrialist * Sir

Alan Sugar Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British business magnate, media personality, author, politician and political adviser. In 1968, he started what would later become his largest business venture, consumer electronics com ...

(born 1947), electronics * Richard Tompkins (1918–1992), Green Shield trading stamps * Jamie Waller (born 1979), entrepreneur *

Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the indus ...

(1730–1795), industrialist

Chefs

Lisa Allen Lisa Goodwin-Allen (born Lisa Allen, 29 April 1981) is a British chef best known for being executive chef of the Michelin-starred Northcote restaurant. She was also one of four winning chefs on season five of the BBC cooking show ''Great Briti ...

(born 1981) *

Frances Atkins Frances Atkins is a British chef. When she won a Michelin star at the Yorke Arms in 2003, she was the first female British chef to win a star. Career Frances Venning was born in Maidstone, Kent, but grew up in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Her fat ...

April Bloomfield April Bloomfield (born 1974) is a British chef who has opened two New York restaurants: The Spotted Pig (closed January 26, 2020) and The Breslin Bar & Dining Room. Bloomfield had previously worked at several restaurants in the United Kingdom, ...

(born 1974) *

Heston Blumenthal Heston Marc Blumenthal (; born 27 May 1966) is a British celebrity chef, TV personality and food writer. Blumenthal is regarded as a pioneer of multi-sensory cooking, food pairing and flavour encapsulation. He came to public attention with u ...

(born 1966) *

Avis Crocombe Avis Crocombe (c. 1839–1927) was an English domestic servant who was the head cook during the 1880s at Audley End House, a 17th-century country house near Saffron Walden in England. She found fame nearly a century after her death due to being ...

(c. 1839 – 1927) *

Tamasin Day-Lewis Lydia Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 17 September 1953) is an English television chef and food critic, who has also published a dozen books about food, restaurants, recipes and places. She writes regularly for ''The Daily Telegraph'', '' Vanity Fair'' ...

(born 1953) *

Fuchsia Dunlop Fuchsia Dunlop is an English writer and cook who specialises in Chinese cuisine, especially Sichuan cuisine. She is the author of five books, including the autobiographical ''Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper'' (2008). According to Julia Moskin in ...

Keith Floyd Keith Floyd (28 December 1943 – 14 September 2009) was a British celebrity cook, restaurateur, television personality and "gastronaut" who hosted cooking shows for the BBC and published many books combining cookery and travel. On televi ...

(1943–2009) * Rose Gray (1939–2010) * Sophie Grigson (born 1959) * Fiona Hamilton-Fairley (born 1963) * Angela Hartnett (born 1968) *

Rosemary Hume Rosemary Ethel Hume (1907 – 1984) was an English cook and writer. She taught at ''Le Cordon Bleu'' cookery school in London, and co-devised coronation chicken in 1953. Life Hume was born in Sevenoaks. She was one of the first British people ...

(1907–1984) * Robert Irvine (born 1965) *

Rachel Khoo Rachel Khoo ( Chinese: 邱瑞秋; born 28 August 1980.) is a British cook, author, and broadcaster who has hosted and co-hosted television cooking shows on the BBC, Food Network, and Netflix. Early life Khoo was born in Croydon, South London. ...

(born 1980) *

Diana Kennedy Diana Kennedy MBE (; 3 March 1923 – 24 July 2022) was a British food writer. A primary English-language authority on Mexican cuisine, Kennedy was known for her nine books on the subject, including '' The Cuisines of Mexico'', which changed ...

(born 1923) *

Nigella Lawson Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English food writer and television cook. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School, London. After graduating from the University of Oxford, where she was a member of Lady Margaret Hall, Lawson st ...

(born 1960) *

Rosa Lewis Rosa Lewis (''née'' Ovenden; 1867–1952) was an English cook and owner of The Cavendish Hotel in London, located at the intersection of Jermyn Street and Duke Street, St. James. Known as the "Queen of Cooks", her culinary skills were highly ...

(1867–1952) *

Elizabeth Marshall Elizabeth Marshall (born September 7, 1951) is a Canadian politician and member of the Senate. Background Elizabeth Marshall was born in Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland and Labrador. She received her early education in St. Lawrence, Corn ...

* James Martin (born 1972) * Allegra McEvedy (born 1970) *

Mary-Ellen McTague Mary-Ellen McTague is a Manchester chef who has run two successful restaurants in the city; Aumbry and 4244. Career Mary-Ellen McTague attended St Gabriel's RC High School and Holy Cross College in Bury but gave up studying languages at universit ...

Jamie Oliver James Trevor Oliver MBE OSI (born 27 May 1975) is an English chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. He is known for his casual approach to cuisine, which has led him to front numerous television shows and open many restaurants. Oliver reach ...

(born 1975) *

Merrilees Parker Merrilees Claire Parker (born 11 August 1971 in Westminster, London) is a British celebrity chef and television presenter. She is mainly known for presenting television programmes combining food and travel (''Planet Food'' and ''Full on Food'') ...

(born 1971) *

Jennifer Paterson Jennifer Mary Paterson (3 April 1928 – 10 August 1999) was a British celebrity cook, author, actress and television personality who appeared on the television programme ''Two Fat Ladies'' (1996–1999) with Clarissa Dickson Wright. Prior to th ...

(1928–1999) * Marguerite Patten (1915–2015) *

Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay (; born ) is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall; it currently holds a tot ...

(born 1966) *

Rosemary Shrager Rosemary Jacqueline Shrager (; born 21 January 1951) is a British chef and TV presenter, best known for being an haute cuisine teacher on the reality television programme ''Ladette to Lady'', and as a judge on ''Soapstar Superchef''. She also ...

(born 1951) *

Delia Smith Delia Ann Smith (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. One of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture, Smith has influenced viewers t ...

(born 1941) * Rick Stein (born 1947) * Emily Watkins *

Marco Pierre White Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. He has been dubbed "the first celebrity chef" and the ''enfant terrible'' of the UK restaurant scene. In January 1995, aged 33, White became ...

(born 1961) *

Anne Willan Anne Willan (born 26 January 1938 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is the founder of the École de Cuisine La Varenne, which operated in Paris and Burgundy France, from 1975 until 2007. La Varenne classes continued in Santa Monica, California, thr ...

(born 1938) * Sophie Wright *

Antony Worrall Thompson Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson (born 1 May 1951) is an English restaurateur and celebrity chef, television presenter and radio broadcaster. Early life Worrall Thompson was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. His parents, Michae ...

(born 1951)

Clergy

Pope Adrian IV Pope Adrian IV ( la, Adrianus IV; born Nicholas Breakspear (or Brekespear); 1 September 1159, also Hadrian IV), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 4 December 1154 to his death in 1159. He is the only Englishman t ...

(c. 1100 – 1159), only English Pope *

Thomas Arundel Thomas Arundel (1353 – 19 February 1414) was an English clergyman who served as Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of York during the reign of Richard II, as well as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1397 and from 1399 until his death, an outspoken op ...

(1353–1414),

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Just ...

Richard Bancroft Richard Bancroft (1544 – 2 November 1610) was an English churchman, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 to 1610 and "chief overseer" of the King James Bible. Life Bancroft was born in September 1544 at Farnworth, now part of Widnes, Ch ...

(1544–1610), Archbishop of Canterbury * Richard Barnes (1532–1587), bishop * Archbishop Lawrence Booth, of York (1420–1480) *

Thomas Cobham Thomas Cobham (died 1327) was an English churchman, who was Archbishop-elect of Canterbury in 1313 and later Bishop of Worcester from 1317 to 1327. Cobham earned a Doctor of Theology and a Doctor of Canon LawArchbishop-elect of Canterbury,

Bishop of Worcester A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

William Charles Cotton Rev William Charles Cotton (30 January 1813 – 22 June 1879) was an Anglican priest, a missionary and an apiarist. After education at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford he was ordained and travelled to New Zealand as chaplain to George Augu ...

(1813–1879), missionary and beekeeper *

Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Hen ...

(1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury *

William Edington William Edington (died 6 or 7 October 1366) was an English bishop and administrator. He served as Bishop of Winchester from 1346 until his death, Keeper of the wardrobe from 1341 to 1344, treasurer from 1344 to 1356, and finally as chancellor fr ...

(died 1366),

Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England. The bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire. The Bishop of Winchester has always held ''ex officio'' (except ...

* William Howley (1766–1848), Archbishop of Canterbury *

Trevor Huddleston Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston (15 June 191320 April 1998) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Stepney in London before becoming the second Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean. He was best known for ...

(1913–1998), anti-Apartheid activist *

Simon Islip Simon Islip (died 1366) was an English prelate. He served as Archbishop of Canterbury between 1349 and 1366. Early life Islip was the uncle of William Whittlesey. He was a cousin of Walter de Islip, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer:Ball, F. ...

(died 1366), Archbishop of Canterbury *

Simon Langham Simon de Langham (1310 – 22 July 1376) was an English clergyman who was Archbishop of Canterbury and a cardinal. Life Langham was born at Langham in Rutland. The manor of Langham was a property of Westminster Abbey, and he had become a ...

(1310–1376), Archbishop of Canterbury * John Leland (1691–1766), Presbyterian minister *

Henry Mackenzie Henry Mackenzie FRSE (August 1745 – 14 January 1831, born and died in Edinburgh) was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer sometimes seen as the Addison of the North. While remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal rol ...

(1808–1878),

Anglican Bishop of Nottingham The Anglican Bishop of Nottingham was an episcopal title used by a Church of England suffragan bishop. The title took its name after the county town of Nottingham and was first created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534. Until 1837, Notting ...

* Walter Maidstone (died 1317), Bishop of Worcester *

Simon Mepeham Simon Mepeham (or Meopham or Mepham; died 1333) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1328 to 1333. Early life Mepeham was educated at Oxford between the years 1290 and 1296 at Merton College where he devoted himself to the study of theology. He w ...

(died 1333), Archbishop of Canterbury *

John Henry Newman John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, polymath, historian, writer, scholar and poet, first as an Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and ...

(1801–1890), Catholic cardinal *

Adam Orleton Adam Orleton (died 1345) was an English churchman and royal administrator. Life Orleton was born into a Herefordshire family, possibly in Orleton, possibly in Hereford. The lord of the manor was Roger Mortimer, to whose interests Orleton was loy ...

(died 1345), Bishop of Winchester * Plegmund (died 923), Archbishop of Canterbury *

Walter Reynolds Walter Reynolds (died 1327) was Bishop of Worcester and then Archbishop of Canterbury (1313–1327) as well as Lord High Treasurer and Lord Chancellor. Early career Reynolds was the son of a baker from Windsor, Berkshire, and became a clerk, ...

(died 1327), Bishop of Worcester, Archbishop of Canterbury * William Smyth (c. 1460 – 1514), bishop *

Charles Spurgeon Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He wa ...

(1834–1892), Particular Baptist minister *

John de Stratford John de Stratford ( – 1348) was Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Winchester, Treasurer and Chancellor of England. Early life Stratford was born into the landed Stratford family of Stratford-on-Avon around 1275. His father was Robert de ...

(c. 1275 – 1348), Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Winchester * Simon Sudbury (died 1381), Archbishop of Canterbury *

Joshua Toulmin Joshua Toulmin ( – 23 July 1815) of Taunton, England was a noted theologian and a serial Dissenting minister of Presbyterian (1761–1764), Baptist (1765–1803), and then Unitarian (1804–1815) congregations. Toulmin's sympathy for b ...

(1740–1815), radical dissenting minister *

John Wesley John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Meth ...

(1703–1791), Methodist minister and evangelist *

Wilfrid Wilfrid ( – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and ...

(633-709/710),

Bishop of York The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers ...

William Whittlesey William Whittlesey (or Whittlesea) (died 5 June 1374) was a Bishop of Rochester, then Bishop of Worcester, then finally Archbishop of Canterbury. He also served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Life Whittlesey was probably born in the Cambr ...

(died 1374),

Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury. The town of Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was fo ...

, Bishop of Worcester, Archbishop of Canterbury * William Williams (1800–1878),

Bishop of Waiapu The Diocese of Waiapu is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the area around the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, including Tauranga, Taup ...

Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu (born Osbert John S. Moore; 25 June 1905 – 8 March 1960) was a British Theravada Buddhist monk and translator of Pali literature. Biography Born in Cambridge, Osbert was the only child of biologist John Edmund Sharrock M ...

(1905–1960), Theravada Buddhist monk and translator of Pali literature *

Ñāṇavīra Thera Ñāṇavīra Thera (born Harold Edward Musson; 5 January 1920 – 5 July 1965) was an English Theravāda Buddhist monk, ordained in 1950 in Sri Lanka. He is known as the author of ''Notes on Dhamma'', which were later published by Path Pres ...

(1920–1965), Theravada Buddhist monk and known as the author of ''Notes on Dhamma'' *

Ajahn Amaro Ajahn Amaro (born 1956) is a Theravāda Buddhist monk and teacher, and abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in South East England. The centre, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monasti ...

(born 1956), Abbot of

Amaravati Buddhist Monastery Amaravati is a Theravada Buddhist monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in South East England. Established in 1984 by Ajahn Sumedho as an extension of Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, the monastery has its roots in the Thai Forest ...

Ajahn Khemadhammo Ajahn Khemadhammo OBE (also known as Chao Khun Bhavanaviteht; born )Ajahn Sucitto Ajahn Sucitto (Bhikkhu Sucitto, born 4 November 1949) is a British-born Theravada Buddhist monk ('' Ajahn'' is the Thai rendition of ''ācārya'', the Sanskrit word for 'spiritual teacher'). He was, between 1992 and 2014, the abbot of ''Citta ...

(born 1949), former abbot of

Chithurst Buddhist Monastery ''Cittaviveka'' (Pali: ' discerning mind'), commonly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, is an English Theravada Buddhist Monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition. It is situated in West Sussex, England in the hamlet of Chithurst between M ...

Comedians

James Acaster James William Acaster (; born 9 January 1985) is an English comedian, writer, presenter and musician. As well as appearances on panel shows, he is known for the stand-up specials ''Repertoire'', co-hosting the food podcast ''Off Menu'' and co-p ...

(born 1985) *

Chris Addison Christopher David Addison (born 5 November 1971) is a British comedian, writer, actor, and director. He is perhaps best known for his role as a regular panellist on '' Mock the Week''. He is also known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two o ...

(born 1972) *

Chesney Allen William Ernest Chesney Allen (5 April 1894 – 13 November 1982) was a popular English entertainer of the Second World War period. He is best remembered for his double act with Bud Flanagan, Flanagan and Allen. Life and career Allen was bo ...

(1893–1982) * Stephen K. Amos (born 1967) *

Rowan Atkinson Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian and writer. He played the title roles on the sitcoms '' Blackadder'' (1983–1989) and '' Mr. Bean'' (1990–1995), and the film series ''Johnny English'' (2003–20 ...

(born 1955) *

Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is conside ...

(1889–1977) * Richard Ayoade (born 1977) *

Bill Bailey Mark Robert Bailey (born 13 January 1965), known professionally as Bill Bailey, is an English musician, comedian and actor. He is known for his role as Manny in the sitcom '' Black Books'' and his appearances on the panel shows '' Never Mind th ...

(born 1965) *

Ronnie Barker Ronald William George Barker (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as ''Porridge'', ''The Two Ronnies'', and '' Open All Hours''. ...

(1929–2005) *

Sacha Baron Cohen Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his creation and portrayal of the fictional satirical characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard, and Admiral ...

(born 1971) *

Julian Barratt Julian Barratt Pettifer (born 4 May 1968) is an English comedian, actor and musician. As a comedian and comic actor, he is known for his use of surreal humour and black comedy. During the 2000s he was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe along ...

(born 1968) *

Rob Beckett Robert Anthony Beckett (born 2 January 1986) is an English comedian, narrator, and presenter. He was a co-host on the ITV2 spin-off show '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW!'' from 2012 to 2014. Since 2016, Beckett has been a team capta ...

(born 1986) *

Matt Berry Matthew Charles Berry (born 2 May 1974) is an English actor, comedian, musician, and writer. He is best known for his roles in comedy series such as '' The IT Crowd'', '' Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', ''The Mighty Boosh'', ''Snuff Box'', ''Wha ...

(born 1974) * John Bird (born 1936) * Jo Brand (born 1957) *

Russell Brand Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian and actor known for his flamboyant, loquacious style and manner. Brand has received three British Comedy Awards: Best Newcomer (2006), Best Live Stand-Up (2008), and the award for ...

(born 1975) *

Charlie Brooker Charlton Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is an English television presenter, writer, producer and satirist. He is the creator and co-showrunner of the sci-fi drama anthology series ''Black Mirror'', and has written for comedy series such as ''Bras ...

(born 1971) *

Roy 'Chubby' Brown Roy Chubby Brown (born 3 February 1945) is an English stand-up comedian whose act consists of offensive humour, high profanity, forthright social commentary and outspoken disdain for political correctness. Early life Roy Chubby Brown (born ...

(born 1945) *

Adam Buxton Adam Offord Buxton (born 7 June 1969) is an English actor, comedian, podcaster and writer. With the filmmaker Joe Cornish, he is part of the comedy duo Adam and Joe. They presented the Channel 4 television series '' The Adam and Joe Show'' (19 ...

(born 1969) *

Alan Carr Alan Graham Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian, broadcaster and writer. His breakthrough was in 2001, winning the '' City Life'' Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. In the ensuing years, Carr's career burgeon ...

(born 1976) *

Jimmy Carr James Anthony Patrick Carr (born 15 September 1972) is a British-Irish comedian, presenter, writer, and actor. He is known for his deadpan delivery of controversial one-liners and distinctive laugh, for which he has been both praised and criti ...

(born 1972) *

Jasper Carrott Robert Norman Davis (born 14 March 1945), best known by his stage name, Jasper Carrott, is an English comedian, actor and television presenter. Early life Born in Shaftmoor Lane, Acocks Green, in Birmingham, Carrott was educated at Acocks Gr ...

(born 1945) *

Graham Chapman Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python. He portrayed authority figures such as The Colonel and the lead role in two P ...

(1941–1989) *

John Cleese John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and ...

(born 1939) *

Steve Coogan Stephen John Coogan (; born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. He is most known for creating original characters such as Alan Partridge, a socially inept and politically incorrect media personality, whi ...

(born 1965) *

Peter Cook Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, comedian, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishme ...

(1937–1995) *

Tommy Cooper Thomas Frederick Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a Welsh prop comedian and Magic (illusion), magician. As an entertainer, his appearance was large and lumbering at , and he habitually wore a red Fez (hat), fez when performing. He ...

(1921–1984) *

James Corden James Kimberley Corden (born 22 August 1978) is an English television host, actor, comedian, and singer. In the United Kingdom, he is best known for co-writing and starring in the critically acclaimed BBC sitcom '' Gavin & Stacey''. In the ...

(born 1978) *

Barry Cryer Barry Charles Cryer (23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022) was an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and television, Cryer wrote for many performers including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory ...

(1935–2022) *

Jon Culshaw Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English actor, comedian and impressionist. He is best known for his work on the radio comedy '' Dead Ringers'' since 2000. Culshaw has voiced a number of characters for ITV shows including ''2D ...

(born 1968) *

Jim Davidson James Cameron Davidson (born 13 December 1953) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer and TV presenter. He hosted the television shows '' Big Break'' and ''The Generation Game''. He also developed two adult pantomime shows such as ''B ...

(born 1953) *

Les Dawson Leslie Dawson Jr. (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife. Early life Les Dawson w ...

(1931–1993) *

Angus Deayton Gordon Angus Deayton (; born 6 January 1956) is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game '' Have I Got News for You,'' the host of British panel show '' Would I Lie ...

(born 1956) *

Hugh Dennis Peter Hugh Dennis (born 13 February 1962) is an English comedian, presenter, actor, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist who has appeared in the comedy double act Punt and Dennis with partner Steve Punt. He played Dr Piers Crispin in the ...

(born 1962) *

Ken Dodd Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd (8 November 1927 – 11 March 2018) was an English comedian, singer and occasional actor. He was described as "the last great music hall entertainer", and was primarily known for his live stand-up performances. A lifel ...

(1929–2018) *

Ade Edmondson Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He was part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s and had roles in the television series '' The Young Ones'' (1 ...

(born 1957) *

Jo Enright Jo Enright is an English stand-up comedian and actress who has appeared in a number of television and radio comedy programmes. She is best known for her roles in ''The Job Lot'', '' Life's Too Short'' and ''Trollied''. Career In 1995, she made ...

(born 1968) * Lee Evans (born 1964) *

Noel Fielding Noel Fielding (; (born 21 May 1973) is an English actor and comedian. He is best known for his work with The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside Julian Barratt in the 2000s, and more recently as a co-presenter of ''The Great British Bake Off'' ...

(born 1973) *

Bud Flanagan Bud Flanagan, (born Chaim Reuben Weintrop, 14 October 1896 – 20 October 1968) was a British music hall and vaudeville entertainer and comedian, and later a television and film actor. He was best known as a double act with Chesney Allen. Fla ...

(1896–1968) *

Micky Flanagan Michael John Flanagan (born 7 October 1962) is an English comedian. Flanagan has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured Britain with stand-up shows. He presented ''Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?'' for Radio 4 and has appeared on vario ...

(born 1962) *

John Fortune John Fortune (born John C. Wood; 30 June 1939 – 31 December 2013) was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series ''Bremner, Bird and Fortune''. Early life Fortu ...

(1939–2013) *

Dawn French Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show '' French and Saunders'' with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Sau ...

(born 1957) *

Stephen Fry Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring ...

(born 1958) *

Ed Gamble Edward Stephenson Jamison Gamble (born 11 March 1986) is an English comedian, known for co-presenting '' The Peacock and Gamble Podcast'' and his regular appearances on ''Mock the Week''. He studied at Durham University, where he began his come ...

(born 1986) *

Ricky Gervais Ricky Dene Gervais ( ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He co-created, co-wrote, and acted in the British television sitcoms ''The Office'' (2001–2003), '' Extras'' (2005–2007), and ''An Idiot Abroad'' ...

(born 1961) *

Dave Gorman David James Gorman (born 2 March 1971) is an English comedian, presenter, and writer. Gorman began his career writing for comedy series such as ''The Mrs Merton Show'' (1993–1998) and '' The Fast Show'' (1994–1997), and later garnered a ...

(born 1971) *

Tony Hancock Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series ''Hancock's Half Hour'', first broadcast on radio from 1954, ...

(1924–1968) *

Jeremy Hardy Jeremy James Hardy (17 July 19611 February 2019) was an English comedian. Born and raised in Hampshire, Hardy studied at the University of Southampton and began his stand-up career in the 1980s, going on to win the Perrier Comedy Award at the Ed ...

(1961–2019) *

Miranda Hart Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972) is an English actress and writer. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making appearances in va ...

(born 1972) *

Lenny Henry Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is a British actor, comedian, singer, television presenter and writer. Henry gained success as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s, culminating in '' The Le ...

(born 1958) *

Richard Herring Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian and writer, whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring (alongside Stewart Lee). He is described by ''The British Theatre Guide'' as "one of the lea ...

(born 1967) *

Benny Hill Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian, actor, singer and writer. He is remembered for his television programme ''The Benny Hill Show'', an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double ente ...

(1924–1992) *

Matthew Holness Matthew James Holness (born 1975) is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor. He is best known for creating and playing the fictional horror author Garth Marenghi. Early life and education Born in Whitstable, Kent, Holness became a ...

(born 1975) *

Alex Horne Alexander James Jeffery Horne (born 10 September 1978) is a British comedian and musician. Horne is the creator of BAFTA award-winning TV series '' Taskmaster'', in which he also performs as the Taskmaster's assistant. He is the host and ban ...

(born 1978) *

Russell Howard Russell Joseph Howard (born 23 March 1980) is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter, and actor. He was known for his television show ''Russell Howard's Good News'' and is currently doing ''The Russell Howard Hour'', and his ...

(born 1980) *

Lee Hurst Lee Hurst (born 16 October 1962) is an English comedian. Hurst was a regular panellist on the comedy sports quiz ''They Think It's All Over'' from 1995 to 1997. Career Hurst took up comedy after being employed in a number of jobs after leav ...

(born 1963) *

Eric Idle Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, musician and writer. Idle was a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the Broad ...

(born 1943) *

Robin Ince Robin Ince (born 20 February 1969) is an English comedian, actor and writer, known for presenting the BBC radio show '' The Infinite Monkey Cage'' with physicist Brian Cox, and his stand-up comedy career. Education After attending York Hous ...

(born 1969) *

Eddie Izzard Edward John Izzard (; born 7 February 1962) is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime. Izzard's stand- ...

(born 1962) * Jethro (1948–2021) *

Russell Kane Russell Kane (born Russell David Anthony Grineau; 19 August 1975) is an English writer, comedian, and actor. He has 4 times been nominated at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, winning the Best Comedy Show award in 2010. Although known mainly for st ...

(born 1980) *

Peter Kay Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English actor, comedy writer and stand-up comedian. He has written, produced and acted in several television and film projects, and has written three books. Born and brought up in Bolton, Kay studied ...

(born 1973) *

Hugh Laurie James Hugh Calum Laurie (; born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and musician. He first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry. The two men acted together in ...

(born 1959) *

Stewart Lee Stewart Graham Lee (born 5 April 1968) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and television director. His stand-up routine is characterised by repetition, internal reference, deadpan delivery, and consistent breaking of the fourth wall. Lee b ...

(born 1968) *

Alice Lowe Alice Eva Lowe (born 3 April 1977)England & Wales births 1837 – 2006 is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Dr. Haynes in '' Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'' and Madeleine Wool/Liz Asher in '' Garth Maren ...

(born 1977) *

Matt Lucas Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series ''Little Britain'' (2003–2006, 2020) and '' Come Fl ...

(born 1974) *

Joe Lycett Joe Harry Lycett, also known by the self-given moniker Mummy, is an English comedian, painter and television presenter. Known for his sardonically camp style, whimsical public stunts and elaborate set designs, Lycett has been described as one ...

(born 1988) *

Lee Mack Lee Gordon McKillop (born 4 August 1968), known by his stage name Lee Mack, is an English comedian, actor, podcaster and presenter. He is known for his quick wit, writing and starring in the sitcom '' Not Going Out'', being a team captain on th ...

(born 1968) *

Stephen Mangan Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in ''Green Wing'', Dan Moody in ''I'm Alan Partridge'', Seán Lincoln in '' Episodes'', Bigwig in ''Watership Down'', Postm ...

(born 1968) *

Bernard Manning Bernard John Manning (13 August 1930 – 18 June 2007) was an English comedian and nightclub owner. Manning gained a high profile on British television during the 1970s, appearing on shows such as '' The Comedians'' and ''The Wheeltappers and ...

(1930–2007) *

Rik Mayall Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English actor, stand-up comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University and was a pioneer of alternative ...

(1958–2014) * Alistair McGowan (born 1964) * Rory McGrath (born 1956) *

Paddy McGuinness Patrick Joseph McGuinness (born 14 August 1973) is an English actor, comedian and television presenter. He rose to fame with the help of Peter Kay, who invited him to appear in his programmes ''That Peter Kay Thing'', ''Phoenix Nights'' and ''Ma ...

(born 1973) *

Michael McIntyre Michael Hazen James McIntyre (born 21 February 1976) is an English comedian, writer and television presenter. In 2012, he was the highest-grossing stand-up comedian in the world. He currently presents his own Saturday night series, ''Michael Mc ...

(born 1976) *

Stephen Merchant Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is an English comedian, actor, director, presenter and writer. Alongside Ricky Gervais, Merchant was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series ''The Office'' (2001–2003), and ...

(born 1974) *

Paul Merton Paul James Martin (born 9 July 1957), known under the stage name Paul Merton, is an English writer, actor, comedian and radio and television presenter. Known for his improvisation skill, Merton's humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and someti ...

(born 1957) *

Sarah Millican Sarah Jane Millican ( King; born 29 May 1975) is an English comedian, writer and presenter. Millican won the comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In February 2013 she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful ...

(born 1975) * David Mitchell (born 1974) *

Bob Monkhouse Robert Alan Monkhouse (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English comedian, writer and actor. He was the host of television game shows including ''The Golden Shot'', ''Celebrity Squares'', ''Family Fortunes'' and '' ''Wipeout'. Early ...

(1928–2003) *

Eric Morecambe John Eric Bartholomew, (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's de ...

(1926–1984) * Chris Morris (born 1962) *

Bob Mortimer Robert Renwick Mortimer (born 23 May 1959) is an English comedian, podcast presenter and actor. He is known for his work with Vic Reeves as part of their Vic and Bob comedy double act, and more recently the '' Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing ...

(born 1959) *

Frank Muir Frank Herbert Muir (5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wro ...

(1920–1998) *

Al Murray Alastair James Hay Murray (born 10 May 1968) is an English comedian, actor, musician and writer from Hammersmith. In 2003, he was listed in ''The Observer'' as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and in 2007 he was voted the 16th gr ...

(born 1968) *

Denis Norden Denis Mostyn Norden (6 February 1922 – 19 September 2018) was an English comedy writer and television presenter. After an early career working in cinemas, he began scriptwriting during the Second World War. From 1948 to 1959, he co-wrote the ...

(1922–2018) *

John Oliver John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is a British-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. Oliver started his career as a stand-up comedian in the United Kingdom. He came to wider attention ...

(born 1977) *

Michael Palin Sir Michael Edward Palin (; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, television presenter, and public speaker. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. Since 1980, he has made a number of travel documentaries. Palin w ...

(born 1943) *

Karl Pilkington Karl Pilkington (born 23 September 1972) is an English presenter, comedian, actor, voice-artist, producer and author. After working with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant as producer on their XFM radio show, Pilkington became a co-host of '' ...

(born 1972) *

Andy Parsons Andrew John Parsons (born 30 November 1966) is an English comedian and writer. He regularly appeared on ''Mock the Week'' from Series 3 to Series 14. With comedy partner Henry Naylor, he has written and presented nine series of ''Parsons and Na ...

(born 1967) *

Sue Perkins Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969) is an English actress, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in ''Mel and Sue'', she has since become best ...

(born 1969) *

Lucy Porter Lucy Donna Porter (born 27 January 1973) is an English actress, writer and comedian. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She is also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel sh ...

(born 1973) *

Jan Ravens Janet "Jan" Ravens (born 14 May 1958) is an English actress and impressionist, known for her voice work on ''Spitting Image'' and '' Dead Ringers''. Early life Ravens grew up in Hoylake, then in Cheshire, on the west side of the Wirral with he ...

(born 1958) *

Romesh Ranganathan Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan (born 27 March 1978), is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his deadpan and often self-deprecating comedy. Ranganathan has made numerous appearances on television comedy panel shows, and in 2016 he co-p ...

(born 1978) *

Vic Reeves James Roderick Moir (born 24 January 1959), better known by his stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, artist, surrealist, musician, actor and television presenter, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer as Reeves & Mortimer. ...

(born 1959) * Mike Reid (1940–2007) *

Jennifer Saunders Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English actress, comedian, singer and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s, when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of ...

(born 1958) *

Peter Sellers Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series ''The Goon Show'', featured on a number of hit comic songs ...

(1925–1980) *

Frank Skinner Christopher Graham Collins (born 28 January 1957), professionally known as Frank Skinner, is an English comedian, actor, presenter and writer. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was named Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. His televisio ...

(born 1957) * Arthur Smith (born 1954) *

Freddie Starr Freddie Starr (born Frederick Leslie Fowell; 9 January 1943 – 9 May 2019) was an English stand up comedian, impressionist, singer and actor. Starr was the lead singer of Merseybeat rock and roll group the Midniters during the early 1960s, an ...

(born 1944) *

Tracey Ullman Tracey Ullman (born Trace Ullman, 30 December 1959) is a British-American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and director. Her earliest mainstream appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows ''A Kick Up the Eighties'' (wi ...

(born 1959) *

Johnny Vegas Michael Joseph Pennington (born 5 September 1970), better known as Johnny Vegas, is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is known for his thick Lancashire accent, husky voice, overweight appearance, angry comedic rants, and us ...

(born 1970) *

Tim Vine Timothy Mark Vine (born 4 March 1967) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter best known for his one-liners and his role on the sitcom ''Not Going Out'' (2006–2014). He has released a number of stand-up comedy specials and has wr ...

(born 1967) *

David Walliams David Edward Williams (born 20 August 1971), known professionally as David Walliams, is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is best known for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series '' Little B ...

(born 1971) *

Holly Walsh Holly Dione Walsh (born 8 November 1980) is an English comedian and comedy writer. Early life The daughter of an Anglican vicar, Walsh attended Christ's Hospital School, before going on to read History of Art at Gonville and Caius College, Cam ...

(born 1980) *

Robert Webb Robert Patrick Webb (born 29 September 1972) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell. Webb and Mitchell both starred in the Channel 4 sitco ...

(born 1972) *

Jack Whitehall Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall (born 7 July 1988) is an English comedian, actor, presenter and writer. He is known for starring as JP in the series ''Fresh Meat (TV series), Fresh Meat'' (2011–2016) and Alfie Wickers in the series ''Bad Educat ...

(born 1988) *

Josh Widdicombe Joshua Michael Widdicombe (; born 8 April 1983) is an English comedian, presenter and actor. He is best known for his appearances on '' The Last Leg'' (2012–present), ''Fighting Talk'' (2014–2016), '' Insert Name Here'' (2016–2019), ''Mock ...

(born 1983) *

Norman Wisdom Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, musician and singer best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring a hapless onscreen character often called Norman ...

(1915–2010) *

Ernie Wise Ernest Wiseman, (27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became a national institution on British television, especially ...

(1925–1999)

Criminals

Myra Hindley The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward E ...

(1942–2002), Moors murderer *

Ian Huntley The Soham murders were a double child murder committed in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002. The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident and ...

(born 1974), Soham murderer * The

Kray twins Ronald Kray (24 October 193317 March 1995) and Reginald Kray (24 October 19331 October 2000) were identical twin brothers, gangsters and convicted criminals. They were the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London, Engl ...

(Ronald 1933–1995, Reginald 1933–2000), east London gangsters *

Jimmy Moody James Alfred Moody (27 February 1941 – 1 June 1993) was an English gangster and hitman whose career spanned more than four decades and included run-ins with Jack Spot, Billy Hill, "Mad" Frankie Fraser, the Krays, the Richardsons and the Provi ...

(1941–1993), armed robber, reputed contract killer and prison escapee * Raymond Morris (1929–2014), murderer *

Harold Shipman Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known by the public as Doctor Death and to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolif ...

(1946–2004), possibly the most prolific serial killer worldwide; convicted of 15 murders; probably killed over 250 *

Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020) was an English serial killer who was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper (an allusion to Jack the Ripper) by the press. Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting t ...

(1946–2020), the "Yorkshire Ripper" *

Fred West Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, most of them with his second wife, Rose West. All the victi ...

(1941–1995) and

Rosemary West Rosemary Pauline West (née Letts; born 29 November 1953) is an English serial killer who collaborated with her husband, Fred West, in the torture and murder of at least nine young women between 1973 and 1987;

(born 1953), serial killers * Steve Wright (born 1958), serial killer *

Graham Young Graham Frederick Young (7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990), best known as the Teacup Poisoner and later the St Albans Poisoner, was an English serial killer who used poison to kill his victims. Obsessed with poisons from an early age, Young be ...

(1947–1990), the "Teacup Poisoner" *

Michael McCrea The Orchard Towers double murders was the case of two deaths occurring at Balmoral Park, Singapore, before the victims' bodies were discovered at a carpark in Orchard Towers, thus the title of the case. The victims were 46-year-old Kho Nai Gua ...

(born 1958), former financial adviser and convicted killer who was jailed 24 years for the culpable homicide of a couple in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. *

John Martin Scripps John Martin (born John Martin Scripps, 9 December 1959 – 19 April 1996) was an English spree killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand—with another three unconfirmed victims. He p ...

(1959–1996), spree killer who was executed for murdering a South African tourist in Singapore.

Economists

R. G. D. Allen Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA (3 June 1906 – 29 September 1983) was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute. Life Allen was born in Worcester and educated at t ...

(1906–1983), economist, mathematician, and statistician *

Norman Angell Sir Ralph Norman Angell (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English Nobel Peace Prize winner. He was a lecturer, journalist, author and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union o ...

(1872–1967), British internationalist and economist *

William Beveridge William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and Liberal politician who was a progressive and social reformer who played a central role in designing the British welfare state. His 194 ...

(1879–1963), economist and social reformer *

Edwin Cannan Edwin Cannan (3 February 1861, Funchal, Madeira – 8 April 1935, Bournemouth), the son of David Cannan and artist Jane Cannan, was a British economist and historian of economic thought. He was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1 ...

(1861–1935), economist and historian * Colin Clark (1905–1989), British and Australian economist *

Ronald Coase Ronald Harry Coase (; 29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British economist and author. Coase received a bachelor of commerce degree (1932) and a PhD from the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. ...

(1910–2013), Nobel Prize–winning economist * Martin Ellison, consultant to the Bank of England *

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Haye ...

(1899–1992), Nobel Prize–winning economist *

John Hicks Sir John Richards Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economic ...

(1904–1989), Nobel Prize–winning economist * John Holland (1658–1722), founder of the

Bank of Scotland The Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: ''Banca na h-Alba'') is a commercial and clearing bank based in Scotland and is part of the Lloyds Banking Group, following the Bank of Scotland's implosion in 2008. The bank was established by th ...

in 1695 *

William Stanley Jevons William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 183513 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book ''A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy'' (1862) as the start of the mathematical method in ec ...

(1835–1882), economist and logician *

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...

(1883–1946), economist *

John Neville Keynes John Neville Keynes ( ; 31 August 1852 – 15 November 1949) was a British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes. Biography Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Keynes was the child of John Keynes (1805–1878) and his wife Anna Maynard Neville ...

(1852–1949), economist, father of John Maynard Keynes * Arthur Lewis (1915–1991), economist *

Thomas Malthus Thomas Robert Malthus (; 13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book '' An Essay on the Principle of Population'', Mal ...

(1766–1834), demographer *

Alfred Marshall Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist, and was one of the most influential economists of his time. His book '' Principles of Economics'' (1890) was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. I ...

(1842–1924), economist * Mary Paley Marshall (1850–1944), economist, wife of Alfred Marshall *

James Meade James Edward Meade, (23 June 1907 – 22 December 1995) was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "pathbreaking contribution to the ...

(1907–1995), Nobel Prize–winning economist *

John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to ...

(1806–1873), philosopher and economist *

Arthur Cecil Pigou Arthur Cecil Pigou (; 18 November 1877 – 7 March 1959) was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the School of Economics at the University of Cambridge, he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to take chair ...

(1877–1959), economist *

Lionel Robbins Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, (22 November 1898 – 15 May 1984) was a British economist, and prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is known for his leadership at LSE, his proposed def ...

(1898–1984), economist * Joan Violet Robinson (1903–1983), economist *

Richard Stone Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist, educated at Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was awarded t ...

(1913–1991), Nobel Prize–winning economist * Robert Torrens (1780–1864), army officer and economist *

Philip Wicksteed Philip Henry Wicksteed (25 October 1844 – 18 March 1927) is known primarily as an economist. He was also a Georgist, Unitarian theologian, classicist, medievalist, and literary critic. Family background He was the son of Charles Wicksteed ...

(1844–1927), economist

Engineers

* Sir Benjamin Baker (1840–1907), civil engineer, co-designer of the

Forth Railway Bridge The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, west of central Edinburgh. Completed in 1890, it is considered a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in ...

* William Baker (1817–1878), railway engineer *

Joseph Bazalgette Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (; 28 March 181915 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1 ...

(1819–1891), civil engineer, best known for creating the London Sewer System, hence making the city a healthier place to live * James Beatty (1820–1856), railway engineer * Sir

Henry Bessemer Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950. He ...

(1813–1898), metallurgy engineer *

Ronald Eric Bishop Ronald Eric Bishop CBE FRAeS (27 February 1903 – 11 June 1989), commonly referred to as R. E. Bishop, was a British engineer who was the chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito, one of the most famous aircraft of the Second World Wa ...

(1903–1989), chief designer of the

de Havilland Mosquito The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, shoulder-winged, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War. Unusual in that its frame was constructed mostly of wood, it was nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder", or ...

James Brindley James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer. He was born in Tunstead, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in Leek, Staffordshire, becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th century. Early life Born i ...

(1716–1772), canal engineer *

Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel (; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history," "one of the 19th-century engineering giants," and "one ...

(1806–1859), transport engineer * Sir Sydney Camm (1894–1966), aeronautical engineer *

Donald Campbell Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...

, railway engineer *

William Tierney Clark William Tierney Clark Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, FRAS (23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852) was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. ...

(1783–1852), civil engineer * Sir

Geoffrey de Havilland Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer. The aircraft company he founded produced the Mosquito, which has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built,D ...

(1882–1965), aeronautical engineer * Edmund Dummer (1651–1713), naval engineer * Sir

John Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic rad ...

(1848–1945), electrical engineer *

Tommy Flowers Thomas Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help ...

(1908–1998), designer and builder of the first electronic computer *

Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE (15 July 1817 – 20 November 1898) was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was engineer for the world's fir ...

, civil engineer most famous as co-designer, alongside Benjamin Baker, of the

Jesse Hartley Jesse Hartley (21 December 1780 – 24 August 1860) was Civil Engineer and Superintendent of the Concerns of the Dock Estate in Liverpool, England between 1824 and 1860. Hartley's career Despite having no experience of dock building, Hartley was ...

(1780–1860), civil engineer * J. B. Hartley (1814–1869), civil engineer *

Benjamin Hick Benjamin Hick (1 August 1790 – 9 September 1842) was an English civil and mechanical engineer, art collector and patron; his improvements to the steam engine and invention of scientific tools were held in high esteem by the engineering pr ...

(1790–1842), civil and mechanical engineer *

John Hick John Harwood Hick (20 January 1922 – 9 February 2012) was a philosopher of religion and theologian born in England who taught in the United States for the larger part of his career. In philosophical theology, he made contributions in the are ...

(1815–1894), civil and mechanical engineer *

Eric Laithwaite Eric Roberts Laithwaite (14 June 1921 – 27 November 1997) was a British electrical engineer, known as the "Father of Maglev" for his development of the linear induction motor and maglev rail system. Biography Eric Roberts Laithwaite wa ...

(1908–1998), engineer * Sir

William Lyons Sir William Lyons"Sir William Lyons – The Official Biography" by Philip Porter & Paul Skilleter, Haynes Publishing (4 September 1901 – 8 February 1985), known as "Mr. Jaguar", was with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co ...

(1901–1985), engineer, co-founder of the automobile manufacturer

Jaguar The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus '' Panthera'' native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the th ...

* William Mackenzie (1794–1851), civil engineer and contractor *

R.J. Mitchell Reginald Joseph Mitchell (20 May 189511 June 1937) was a British aeronautical engineering, aircraft designer who worked for the Southampton aviation company Supermarine from 1916 until 1936. He is best remembered for designing racing seaplan ...

(1895–1937), aeronautical engineer *

Robert Rawlinson Sir Robert Rawlinson KCB (28 February 1810 – 31 May 1898) was an English engineer and sanitarian. Early life He was born at Bristol. His father was a mason and builder at Chorley, Lancashire, and he himself began his engineering educatio ...

(1810–1898), engineer * Sir

Henry Royce Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, (27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933) was an English engineer famous for his designs of car and aeroplane engines with a reputation for reliability and longevity. With Charles Rolls (1877–1910) and Claude ...

(1863–1933), engineer *

Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect h ...

(1899–1960), aeronautical engineer and author *

George Stephenson George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for ...

(1781–1848), railway engineer * Charles Todd (1826–1910), meteorologist, in charge of constructing the Overland Telegraph across Australia * Sir

Barnes Wallis Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979) was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack ...

(1887–1978), engineer *

John Webster John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies '' The White Devil'' and ''The Duchess of Malfi'', which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and car ...

(1845–1914), engineer * Sir

Joseph Whitworth Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for scr ...

(1803–1887), engineer

Explorers

Gertrude Bell Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly ...

(1868–1926), traveller in Iraq *

Thomas Cavendish Sir Thomas Cavendish (1560 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and retu ...

(1560–1592), one of the Elizabethan

Sea Dogs The sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, is the body of salty water that covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface. The word sea is also used to denote second-order sections of the sea, such as the Mediterranean Sea, ...

, privateer, navigator * Capt.

James Cook James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...

(1728–1779), sailor, explorer *

William Dampier William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnav ...

(1651–1715) * John Davis (1550–1605), Sea Dog, explorer and navigator *

Charles Montagu Doughty Charles Montagu Doughty (19 August 1843 – 20 January 1926) was an English poet, writer, explorer, adventurer and traveller, best known for his two-volume 1888 travel book '' Travels in Arabia Deserta''. Early life and education Son of Rev. Ch ...

(1843–1926), explorer in the Middle East * Sir

Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake ( – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580 (t ...

(c. 1540 – 1596) * Sir

Ranulph Fiennes Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes () and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records. Fiennes served in the ...

(born 1944), listed as the "greatest living explorer" by the ''

Guinness Book of Records ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...

'' *

Martin Frobisher Sir Martin Frobisher (; c. 1535 – 22 November 1594) was an English seaman and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage. He probably sighted Resolution Island near Labrador in north-eastern Canada ...

(1535–1594), navigator, one of the Elizabethan Sea Dogs * Rob Gauntlett (1987–2009), youngest Briton to summit

Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heigh ...

* Sir

Robin Knox-Johnston Sir William Robert Patrick Knox-Johnston (born 17 March 1939) is a British sailor. In 1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Along with Sir Peter Blake, he won the second Jules Vern ...

(born 1939), first person to perform single handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe *

(born 1943) * Sir

Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh (; – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion ...

(c. 1552 – 1618) *

Robert Falcon Scott Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ''Terra Nov ...

(1868–1912), Antarctic explorer *

Ed Stafford Edward James Stafford (born 26 December 1975) is an English explorer and survivalist. He holds the '' Guinness World Record'' for being the first human ever to walk the length of the Amazon River. Stafford now hosts shows on the Discovery Cha ...

(born 1975), first person to walk the complete length of the

Amazon River The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile. The headwaters of t ...

Freya Stark Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 18939 May 1993), was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays ...

(1893–1993), Middle East explorer *

Wilfred Thesiger Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also known as Mubarak bin Landan ( ar, مُبَارَك بِن لَنْدَن, ''the blessed one of London'') was a British military officer, explorer, and writer. Thesiger's trav ...

(1910–2003), explorer in East Africa and the Middle East *

Henry Timberlake Henry Timberlake (1730 or 1735 – September 30, 1765) was a colonial Anglo-American officer, journalist, and cartographer. He was born in the Colony of Virginia and died in England. He is best known for his work as an emissary from the Briti ...

(1570–1625), merchant and traveller *

Helen Sharman Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist and cosmonaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit ...

(born 1963), first British person in space and first woman to visit the

Mir ''Mir'' (russian: Мир, ; ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to&n ...

Space Station * Major

Tim Peake Major Timothy Nigel Peake (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member. He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear ...

(born 1972), first British person in space under the

European Space Agency , owners = , headquarters = Paris, Île-de-France, France , coordinates = , spaceport = Guiana Space Centre , seal = File:ESA emblem seal.png , seal_size = 130px , image = Views in the Main Control Room (1205 ...

and first British Person to visit the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ...

Filmmakers

Richard Attenborough Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (; 29 August 192324 August 2014) was an English actor, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He was the president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the British Academy of Film and Televisio ...

(1923–2014) *

John Boorman Sir John Boorman (; born 18 January 1933) is a British film director, best known for feature films such as ''Point Blank'' (1967), ''Hell in the Pacific'' (1968), ''Deliverance'' (1972), ''Zardoz'' (1974), '' Exorcist II: The Heretic'' (1977), ...

(born 1933) *

John and Roy Boulting John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for thei ...

(1913–1985 and 1913–2001) *

Alan Clarke Alan John Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer. Life and career Clarke was born in Wallasey, Wirral, England. Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, ...

(1935–1990) *

(1889–1977) *

Mike Figgis Michael Figgis (born 28 February 1948) is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work in ''Leaving Las Vegas'' (1995). Figgis was the founding patron of the independent filmmakers o ...

(born 1948) *

Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as '' Reach for the Sky'' (1956), ''Sink the Bismarck!' ...

(1920–2018) *

David Hare David Hare may refer to: *David Hare (philanthropist) (1775–1842), Scottish philanthropist *David Hare (artist) (1917–1992), American sculptor and photographer *David Hare (playwright) (born 1947), English playwright and theatre and film direc ...

(born 1947) *

Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featur ...

(1899–1980) *

Peter Howitt Peter Howitt (; born 5 May 1957) is a British actor and film director. Biography Early life Howitt was born on 5 May 1957, the son of Frank Howitt, a renowned Fleet Street journalist who, in 1963, broke the infamous Profumo affair, Profumo ...

(born 1957) *

Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (19 August 1907 – 24 September 1950) was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation. Jennings was described by film critic and director Lindsay Anderson in 195 ...

(1907–1950) *

Stan Laurel Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was one half of the comedy double act, duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Ha ...

(1890–1965) *

David Lean Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics ''The Bridge on the River ...

(1908–1991) *

Mike Leigh Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design ...

(born 1943) *

Ken Loach Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is a British film director and screenwriter. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (''Poor Cow'', 1967), homelessne ...

(born 1936) *

Nick Love Nick Love (born 24 December 1969) is an English film director and writer. His credits include the films '' The Football Factory'', '' The Business'', ''Goodbye Charlie Bright'', ''Outlaw'', ''The Sweeney'', and a 2009 remake of football hoolig ...

(born 1969) *

Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella, (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Directo ...

(1954–2008) *

Carol Morley Carol Anne Morley (born 14 January 1966) is an English film director, screenwriter and producer. She is best known for her semi-documentary ''Dreams of a Life'', released in 2011, about Joyce Carol Vincent, who died in her North London bedsit i ...

(born 1966) * Mike Newell (born 1942) *

Christopher Nolan Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker. Known for his lucrative Cinema of the United States, Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century. ...

(born 1970) *

Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is a British animator who created ''Wallace and Gromit'', ''Creature Comforts'', ''Chicken Run'', ''Shaun the Sheep'', and '' Early Man''. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of ...

(born 1958) *

Michael Powell Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a serie ...

(1905–1990) *

Guy Ritchie Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the ''Sherlock Holmes'' films starring Robert Downey Jr. Ritchie left school at age 15 and wor ...

(born 1968) *

Ken Russell Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was a British film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films in the main were liberal adaptation ...

(1927–2011) *

Ridley Scott Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is a British film director and producer. Directing, among others, science fiction films, his work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. Scott has received many accolades thr ...

(born 1937) *

Tony Scott Anthony David Leighton Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012) was an English film director and producer. He was known for directing highly successful action and thriller films such as ''Top Gun'' (1986), ''Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987), ''Day ...

(1944–2012)

Historians

* Frank Barlow (1911–2009) *

William Camden William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of ''Britannia'', the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the ''Annal ...

(1551–1623) *

Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer, and member of parliament. His most important work, ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is k ...

(1737–1794) * Richard Holmes (1946–2011), military historian and author * Sir Peter Leycester (1614–1678), historian and antiquarian *

George Ormerod George Ormerod (20 October 1785 – 9 October 1873) was an English antiquary and historian. Among his writings was a major county history of Cheshire, in North West England. Biography George Ormerod was born in Manchester and educated first ...

(1785–1873), historian and antiquary *

Nicholas Rodger Nicholas Andrew Martin Rodger Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA FRHistS British Academy, FBA (born 12 November 1949) is a historian of the Royal Navy and senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Life and academia Th ...

(born 1949), naval historian *

John Speed John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins.S. Bendall, 'Speed, John (1551/2–1629), historian and cartographer', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (OUP 2004/ ...

(1542–1629), historian and cartographer *

A.J.P. Taylor Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his televi ...

(1906–1990), popular historian

Inventors

''See also

List of English inventions and discoveries English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England. Often, things Discovery (observation), discovered for the first time are also c ...

''. *

Ruth Amos Ruth Amos (born 1989) is a British entrepreneur and inventor of the StairSteady. The StairSteady is an aid to enable people with limited mobility to use their stairs confidently and safely. Amos designed it as part of a GCSE resistant materials ...

(born 1989), entrepreneur and inventor of StairSteady *

Richard Arkwright Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as t ...

(1733–1792), revolutionised the cotton industry in England during the Industrial Revolution; once called the "father of the Industrial Revolution" * Sir

Timothy Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a profes ...

(born 1955), inventor of the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...

(1813–1898), inventor of the

Bessemer Process The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is steelmaking, removal of impurities from the iron by ox ...

which was the first way of mass-producing steel *

Hubert Cecil Booth Hubert Cecil Booth (4 July 1871 – 14 January 1955) was an English engineer, best known for having invented one of the first powered vacuum cleaners. He also designed Ferris wheels, suspension bridges and factories. Later he became Chairm ...

(1871–1955), inventor of the

vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum or a hoover, is a device that causes suction in order to remove dirt from floors, upholstery, draperies, and other surfaces. It is generally electrically driven. The dirt is collected by either a ...

Joseph Bramah Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814), born Stainborough Lane Farm, Stainborough, in Barnsley, Yorkshire, was an English inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having improved the flush toilet and inventing the hydraulic pr ...

(1748–1814), inventor of the

hydraulic press A hydraulic press is a machine press using a hydraulic cylinder to generate a compressive force. It uses the hydraulic equivalent of a mechanical lever, and was also known as a Bramah press after the inventor, Joseph Bramah, of England. He inven ...

(beer pump) * Sir

Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish ( ; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "infl ...

(1731–1810), discoverer of hydrogen *

Christopher Cockerell Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS (4 June 1910 – 1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Early life and education Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cocker ...

(1910–1999), inventor of the

hovercraft A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious Craft (vehicle), craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the hull ...

William Congreve William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. He is known for his clever, satirical dialogue and influence on the comedy of manners style of that period. He was also a min ...

(1772–1828),

rocket A rocket (from it, rocchetto, , bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely fr ...

ry pioneer *

Abraham Darby Abraham Darby may refer to: People *Abraham Darby I (1678–1717) the first of several men of that name in an English Quaker family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. He developed a new method of producing pig iron with ...

(c. 1678 – 1717), ironmaster *

James Dyson Sir James Dyson (born 2 May 1947) is a British inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and billionaire entrepreneur who founded Dyson Ltd. He is best known as the inventor of the dual cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the princip ...

(born 1947), inventor *

James Hargreaves James Hargreaves ( 1720 – 22 April 1778) was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England. He was one of three men responsible for the mechanisation of spinning: Hargreaves is credited with inventing ...

(1720–1778), weaver and inventor * Sir John Harington (1561–1612), poet and inventor of the first

water closet A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC) – see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (principally urine and feces) by using the force of water to ''flush'' it through a drainpipe to another loca ...

John Harrison John Harrison ( – 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English Carpentry, carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the History of longitude, problem of calculating longitude while at s ...

(1693–1776), clockmaker *

Rowland Hill Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his soluti ...

(1795–1879), inventor of the modern postal service *

Benjamin Huntsman Benjamin Huntsman (4 June 170420 June 1776) was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel. Biography Huntsman was born the fourth child of William and Mary (née Nainby) Huntsman, a Quaker farming couple, in Epworth, Li ...

(1704–1776), inventor of crucible steel *

Archibald Low Archibald Montgomery Low (17 October 1888 – 13 September 1956) developed the first powered drone aircraft. He was an English consulting engineer, research physicist and inventor, and author of more than 40 books. Low has been called the "fa ...

(1888–1956), radio guidance *

Thomas Newcomen Thomas Newcomen (; February 1664 – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor who created the atmospheric engine, the first practical fuel-burning engine in 1712. He was an ironmonger by trade and a Baptist lay preacher by calling. He ...

(1664–1729), inventor * Sir

Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the grea ...

(1642–1727), founder of modern

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

, inventor of the

reflector telescope A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image. The reflecting telescope was invented in the 17th century by Isaac Newton as an alternati ...

Sir Clive Sinclair Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry, and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronic ...

(1940-2021), most commonly known for his work in the consumer electronics sector *

James Starley James Starley (21 April 1830 – 17 June 1881) was an English inventor and father of the bicycle industry. He was one of the most innovative and successful builders of bicycles and tricycles. His inventions include the differential gear and the ...

(1831–1881), bicycle pioneer *

(1781–1848), engineer *

Joseph Wilson Swan Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for develop ...

(1823–1914), inventor of the light bulb *

Charles Wheatstone Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS FRSE DCL LLD (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for di ...

(1802–1875), inventor * Sir

Frank Whittle Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, (1 June 1907 – 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for ...

(1907–1996), inventor of the

jet engine A jet engine is a type of reaction engine discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this broad definition can include rocket, Pump-jet, water jet, and hybrid propulsion, the term ...

(1803–1887), inventor, known for standardising the screw thread

Journalists

* Mark Austin (born 1958) *

Reginald Bosanquet Reginald Tindal Kennedy Bosanquet (9 August 1932 – 27 May 1984) was a British journalist and broadcaster who was an anchor of '' News at Ten'' for ITN from 1967 to 1979.Eddie Dyj"Bosanquet, Reginald (1932–1984)" BFI screenonline Early ...

(1932–1984) *

Christopher Booker Christopher John Penrice Booker (7 October 1937 – 3 July 2019) was an English journalist and author. He was a founder and first editor of the satirical magazine '' Private Eye'' in 1961. From 1990 onward he was a columnist for ''The Sunday T ...

(1937–2019) *

Michael Buerk Michael Duncan Buerk (born 18 February 1946) is a British journalist and newsreader. He presented BBC News from 1973 to 2002 and has been the host of BBC Radio 4's ''The Moral Maze'' since 1990. He was also the presenter of BBC One's docudrama ...

(born 1946) * Sir

Alastair Burnet Sir James William Alexander Burnet (12 July 192820 July 2012), known as Alastair Burnet, was a British journalist and broadcaster, best known for his work in news and current affairs programmes, including a long career with ITN as chief presente ...

(1928–2012) *

Edward Chattaway Edward Chattaway (1873 – 2 May 1956) was an English journalist and editor of '' The Star'' from 1930 to 1936. Early life Chattaway was born in Leamington Spa in 1873 the son of William Clarke Chattaway, he was educated at the Warwick School. ...

(1873–1956), editor of ''

The Star ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

'' *

Jill Dando Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She spent most of her career at the BBC and was the corporation's Personality of the Year in 1997. At the time of her death, her ...

(1961–1999) * Sir

Robin Day Sir Robin Day (24 October 1923 – 6 August 2000) was an English political journalist and television and radio broadcaster. Day's obituary in ''The Guardian'' by Dick Taverne stated that he was "the most outstanding television journalist of ...

(1923–2000) *

Katie Derham Catherine Beatrice Margaret Derham (born 18 June 1970) is a British newscaster and a presenter on television and radio. Early life and education Derham was born on 18 June 1970 in Canterbury, Kent to Margaret, a teacher, and John Derham, a chemi ...

(born 1970) *

Peter Donaldson Peter Ian Donaldson (23 August 1945 – 2 November 2015) was an English newsreader on BBC Radio 4. Early life Donaldson was born in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to Cyprus in 1952 at the time of the overthrow of King Farouk. He was a frequen ...

(born 1945) *

Julie Etchingham Julie Anne Etchingham (born 21 August 1969) is an English journalist who works as a television newsreader with ITV News. A graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, Etchingham joined the BBC as a trainee after completing her studies, and went on ...

(born 1969) *

Anna Ford Anna Ford (born 2 October 1943) is an English former journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She first worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader for Granada Television, ITN, and the BBC. Ford helped launch the British ...

(born 1943) * Paul Foot (1937–2004) * Andrew Gardner (1932–1999) *

Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born 5 April 1970) is a British journalist. He is the lead presenter of ''Channel 4 News''. He also presents '' Unreported World'', a foreign-affairs documentary series. Early life Guru-Murthy's father, an Indian consul ...

(born 1970) *

Nina Hossain Nina Hossain is a British journalist and presenter employed by ITN as the lead presenter of the ''ITV Lunchtime News''. Background Hossain was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother. Her fa ...

(born 1975) *

Richard Ingrams Richard Reid Ingrams (born 19 August 1937 in Chelsea, London, Chelsea, London) is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satire, satirical magazine ''Private Eye (magazine), Private Eye'', and founding editor of ' ...

(born 1937) *

Natasha Kaplinsky Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972)The Donor, News and information for blood donors, Winter 2009, National Blood Service, England, page 55 is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist, best known for her roles as a st ...

(born 1972) * Lottie Moggach *

Mary Nightingale Mary Nightingale (born 26 May 1963) is an English journalist and television presenter, best known for presenting the '' ITV Evening News'' since 2001. Education and early career Nightingale was educated at St Margaret's School, an independent s ...

(born 1963) *

Jeremy Paxman Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and television presenter. Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate ne ...

(born 1950) *

Sophie Raworth Sophie Jane Raworth () (born 15 May 1968) is an English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster working for the BBC. She is a senior newsreader and is one of the main presenters of BBC News (mainly ''BBC News at Six'' and ''BBC News at Ten''). S ...

(born 1968) *

Angela Rippon Angela May Rippon (born 12 October 1944)"Angela Rippon," ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Detroit: Gale, (2008) ''Gale Biography In Context'' is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and tele ...

(born 1944) *

Willie Rushton William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine ''Private Eye''. Early life Rushton was born 18 August 1937 in 3 Wilbraham Plac ...

(1937–1996) *

Peter Sissons Peter George Sissons (17 July 1942 – 1 October 2019) was an English journalist and broadcaster. He was a newscaster for ITN, providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4, before becoming the presenter of the BBC's ''Question Time'' between 1989 ...

(born 1942) * Jon Snow (born 1947) *

Alastair Stewart Alastair James Stewart Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 22 June 1952) is an English former journalist and newscaster. Formerly presenting for ITV News, he joined GB News as a presenter in 2021. He has won the Royal Television Society's New ...

(born 1952) *

Moira Stuart Moira Clare Ruby Stuart, (born 2 September 1949) is a British presenter and broadcaster. She was the first female newsreader of Caribbean heritage to appear on British national television, having worked on BBC News since 1981.John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...

(1767–1829), last survivor of the Bounty Mutineers *

Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, (10 December 1891 – 16 June 1969) was a senior British Army officer who served with distinction in both the First and the Second World War and, afterwards, as Governor Ge ...

(1891–1969), field marshal, Second World War commander * Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal (1717–1797), general *

George Anson, 1st Baron Anson Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a Royal Navy officer. Anson served as a junior officer during the War of the Spanish Succession and then saw active service against Spain at the Batt ...

(1697–1762), Admiral of the Fleet, noted naval reformer * Sir

Claude Auchinleck Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981), was a British Army commander during the Second World War. He was a career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, where he rose to become Commande ...

(1884–1981), Second World War commander *

Reginald Bacon Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, (6 September 1863 – 9 June 1947) was an officer in the Royal Navy noted for his technical abilities. He was described by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher, as the man "acknowledged to be the ...

(1863–1947), admiral, pioneer of submarines and torpedoes for the Royal Navy *

Robert Baden-Powell Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( ; (Commonly pronounced by others as ) 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the worl ...

(1857–1941), soldier * Sir

Douglas Bader Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, (; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared ...

(1910–1982), fighter pilot *

Ralph Bagnold Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, OBE, FRS, (3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990) was an English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier. In 1932, he staged the first recorded East-to-West crossing of the Libyan Desert. His work in the fi ...

(1896–1990), founder of the Long Range Desert Group; explorer * Sir

Alexander John Ball Sir Alexander John Ball, 1st Baronet ( it, Alessandro Giovanni Ball, 22 July 1757 – 25 October 1809) was a Rear-Admiral and Civil Commissioner of Malta. He was born in Ebworth Park, Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire. He was the fourth son of Robert ...

(1759–1809), admiral, governor of

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

Samuel Barrington Admiral Samuel Barrington (1729 – 16 August 1800) was a Royal Navy officer. Barrington was the fourth son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington of Beckett Hall at Shrivenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He enlisted in the navy at th ...

(1729–1800), rear admiral * Lord Aubrey Beauclerk (1710–1741), Officer of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

John Benbow Vice-Admiral John Benbow (10 March 16534 November 1702) was an English officer in the Royal Navy. He joined the navy aged 25 years, seeing action against Algerian pirates before leaving and joining the merchant navy where he traded until the ...

(1653–1702), admiral *

George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (16 April 1800 – 10 November 1888), styled Lord Bingham before 1839, was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish aristocrat and British Army officer. He was one of three men, along with Louis Nolan, Capta ...

(1800–1888), Commander of cavalry at the

Battle of Balaclava The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russian Empire, Russia's principal naval base on the Bl ...

William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, (13 September 1865 – 17 May 1951) was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl ...

(1865–1951), general,

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

Robert Blake Robert Blake may refer to: Sportspeople * Bob Blake (American football) (1885–1962), American football player * Robbie Blake (born 1976), English footballer * Bob Blake (ice hockey) (1914–2008), American ice hockey player * Rob Blake (born 19 ...

(1599–1657), reforming

Admiral *

William Bligh Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The mutiny on the HMS ''Bounty'' occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command; after being set adrift i ...

(1754–1817), best known for the mutiny of the ''Bounty'' * James Henry Robinson Bond (1871–1943), corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps *

Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet (2 September 1753 – 27 February 1822) was a British Royal Navy officer, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1807. Naval career Born in Stapleford, Nottinghams ...

(1753–1822), admiral *

Philip Broke Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, 1st Baronet (; 9 September 1776 – 2 January 1841) was a distinguished officer in the British Royal Navy. During his lifetime, he was often referred to as "Broke of the ''Shannon''", a reference to his notable comm ...

(1776–1841), rear admiral, known for his capture of USS ''Chesapeake'' * Thomas Bruce (1738–1797), lieutenant general and politician *

James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, (16 October 1797 – 28 March 1868), styled as Lord Cardigan, was an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, leading its charge ...

(1797–1888), Commander of the Light Brigade *

Richard Francis Burton Sir Richard Francis Burton (; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar,and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary kn ...

(1821–1890), soldier, spy, linguist and explorer *

Freddie Spencer Chapman Frederick Spencer Chapman, (10 May 1907 – 8 August 1971) was a British Army officer and World War II veteran, most famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya. His medals include the following: the Distinguished ...

(1907–1971), known for his exploits in the jungle during the Second World War *

Leonard Cheshire Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and group captain during the Second World War, and a philanthropist. Among the honours Cheshire received as ...

VC (1917–1992), Royal Air Force pilot during Second World War and founder of the Cheshire Homes *

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reign ...

(1650–1722), soldier * Sir

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...

(1874–1965), British

prime minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Charles Clerke Captain Charles Clerke (22 August 1741 – 22 August 1779) was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration, three with Captain James Cook. When Cook was killed during his 3rd expedition to the Pacific, Clerke took co ...

(1741–1779), sailed with

on all three of his expeditions, was the Captain of Discovery at the time of Cook's death he then took command until his own death at sea shortly after *

Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, (22 April 1772 – 19 August 1853) was a British Royal Navy officer. As a captain he was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in February 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars an ...

(1772–1853), Admiral of the Fleet, admiral in charge at the capture and burning of Washington in 1814 * Edwin Cole (1895–1984),

Squadron Leader Squadron leader (Sqn Ldr in the RAF ; SQNLDR in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly sometimes S/L in all services) is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence. It is also ...

Cuthbert Collingwood Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as ...

(1748–1810), vice admiral, Commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet *

Henry Seymour Conway Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721 – 9 July 1795) was a British general and statesman. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession. He ...

(1721–1795), general * John Cooke (1762–1805), captain of at the

Battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (180 ...

, where he was subsequently killed *

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as the Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army general and official. In the United S ...

(1738–1805), general * Christopher Augustus Cox (1889–1959), private *

Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Ki ...

(1599–1658),

Lord Protector Lord Protector (plural: ''Lords Protector'') was a title that has been used in British constitutional law for the head of state. It was also a particular title for the British heads of state in respect to the established church. It was sometimes ...

of England * Christopher Augustus Cox (1889–1959), private *

Miles Dempsey General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, (15 December 1896 – 5 June 1969) was a senior British Army officer who served in both world wars. During the Second World War he commanded the Second Army in north west Europe. A highly professional an ...

(1896–1969), commander of the British Second Army During the D-Day landing * Sir

(1540–1596), sailor * Sir John Duckworth (1748–1817), admiral, known for the Battle of San Domingo * Thomas Farrington (1664–1712), lieutenant general * Alexander Fraser (1824–1898), general * Bruce Fraser (1888–1981), Admiral of the Fleet, commander of the British Pacific Fleet during the Second World War *

Prince Frederick, Duke of York Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A soldier by profess ...

(1763–1827), son of King

George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...

Commander-in-Chief of the Forces The Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, later Commander-in-Chief, British Army, or just the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C), was (intermittently) the professional head of the English Army from 1660 to 1707 (the English Army, founded in 1645, was suc ...

during

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...

ary and

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

John French, 1st Earl of Ypres Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Born in Kent to ...

(1852–1925), general, World War I and

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (), or more formally Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, was the title of the chief governor of Ireland from the Williamite Wars of 1690 until the Partition of Ireland in 1922. This spanned the Kingdo ...

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (George William Frederick Charles; 26 March 1819 – 17 March 1904) was a member of the British royal family, a grandson of King George III and cousin of Queen Victoria. The Duke was an army officer by professio ...

(1819–1904),

Charles George Gordon Major-general (United Kingdom), Major-General Charles George Gordon Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and ...

("Chinese Gordon") (1833–1885), killed at

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

Hubert Gough General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough ( ; 12 August 1870 – 18 March 1963) was a senior officer in the British Army in the First World War. A favourite of the British Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, he experienced a meteoric ...

(1870–1963), general *

Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet, GCB (5 April 1769 – 20 September 1839) was a British Royal Navy officer. He took part in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797, the Battle of the Nile in August 1798 and the ...

(1769–1859), vice-admiral, captained at the

* Sir

Arthur Travers Harris Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butch" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C ...

(1892–1984),

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Marshal of the Royal Air Force (MRAF) is the highest rank in the Royal Air Force (RAF). In peacetime it was granted to RAF officers in the appointment of Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), and to retired Chiefs of the Air Staff (CAS), who were ...

, airman *

Eliab Harvey Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey (5 December 1758 – 20 February 1830) was an eccentric and hot-tempered officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars who was as distinguished for his gambling and dueling as for ...

(1758–1830), admiral, captain of , which played a crucial role at the

Edward Hawke Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, KB, PC (21 February 1705 – 17 October 1781), of Scarthingwell Hall in the parish of Towton, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, was a Royal Navy officer. As captain of the third-rate , he took part in the Battle of ...

(1705–1781), Admiral of the Fleet, best known as the admiral at the Battle of Quiberon Bay *

John Hawkwood Sir John Hawkwood ( 1323 – 17 March 1394) was an English soldier who served as a mercenary leader or '' condottiero'' in Italy. As his name was difficult to pronounce for non-English-speaking contemporaries, there are many variations of it in ...

(1320–1394), famous medieval mercenary *

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was an Admiral (Royal Navy), admiral in the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of , he drove a ...

(1724–1816), mentor of Nelson *

Brian Horrocks Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, (7 September 1895 – 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World W ...

(1895–1985), highly regarded general during World War II *

William Hoste Captain Sir William Hoste, 1st Baronet KCB RN (26 August 17806 December 1828) was a Royal Navy captain. Best known as one of Lord Nelson's protégés, Hoste was one of the great frigate captains of the Napoleonic wars, taking part in six majo ...

(1780–1828), well-known frigate captain during the Napoleonic War *

William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham Admiral William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham (1736–1813) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He was the son of Sir Beaumont Hotham (died 1771), a lineal descendant of Sir John Hotham. Biography Hotham was educated at Westminster School and at the R ...

(1736–1813), admiral *

John Howard John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the s ...

(1912–1999), British Army major who led the coup de main party that captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges. *

Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (8 March 1726 – 5 August 1799) was a British naval officer. After serving throughout the War of the Austrian Succession, he gained a reputation for his role in amphibious operations aga ...

(1726–1799), admiral *

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB PC (10 August 172912 July 1814) was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in the Colonies during the American War of Independence. Howe was one of three brot ...

(1729–1814), general in the

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...

John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland ...

(1859–1935), admiral during the First World War *

Louis Fleeming Jenkin Captain Louis Fleeming Jenkin, Military Cross & Bar, (22 August 1895 – 11 September 1917) was a First World War flying ace credited with 22 victories. Early life and service Jenkin was born in London, England, on 22 August 1895 to Austin Fleem ...

(1895–1917), captain *

Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, (4 October 1872 – 26 December 1945) was a British naval officer. As a junior officer he served in a corvette operating from Zanzibar on slavery suppression missions. Ear ...

(1872–1945), admiral *

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum Horatio is an English male given name, an Italianized form of the ancient Roman Latin '' nomen'' (name) '' Horatius'', from the Roman ''gens'' (clan) '' Horatia''. The modern Italian form is '' Orazio'', the modern Spanish form '' Horacio''. It ap ...

(1850–1916), field marshal *

Lofty Large Donald "Lofty" Large (27 September 1930 – 22 October 2006) was a British soldier and author. Having joined the Army as a boy, Large fought in the Korean War and was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Imjin. He spent two years in ...

, SAS soldier, author * FitzRoy Henry Lee (1699–1750), Vice Admiral, Commodore Governor of the

Colony of Newfoundland Newfoundland Colony was an English and, later, British colony established in 1610 on the island of Newfoundland off the Atlantic coast of Canada, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. That followed decades of sporadic English ...

John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier Field Marshal John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, (7 November 168028 April 1770), was a French Huguenot exile, born Jean Louis de Ligonier in Castres, Southern France. He had a long and distinguished career in the British army and was appointed ...

(1680–1770), general *

Trafford Leigh-Mallory Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, (11 July 1892 – 14 November 1944) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. Leigh-Mallory served as a Royal Flying Corps pilot and squadron commander during the First World War. Remaining in th ...

(1892–1944), air commander of the Allied invasion of Normandy *

John Manners, Marquess of Granby Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby, (2 January 1721 – 18 October 1770) was a Kingdom of Great Britain, British soldier and the eldest son of the John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, 3rd Duk ...

(1721–1770), general *

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(born 1959), former Special Air Service soldier and commander of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War * Samuel Mitchell (VC) (1841–1894), killed in action during the New Zealand Wars * George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670), English civil war, Civil War era Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, general in Chief Command * Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c. 1208 – 1265), statesman and soldier * 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, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile (1758–1805), sailor, admiral * Augustus Charles Newman (1904–1972) Victoria Cross, VC, The Essex Regiment, No.2 Commando, SAS, led the raid on St. Nazaire * John Norris (soldier), John Norreys (1547–1597), Tudor soldier * Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854), general, hero of the

* Sir William Parker (1781–1866), Admiral of the Fleet, was the admiral during the First Opium War * Arthur Phillip (1738–1814), admiral, commanded the First Fleetinto what is now known as Port Jackson, First Governor of New South Wales * Basil Charles Godfrey Place VC (1921–1994), along with Donald Cameron VC and crew crippled the pocket battleship ''Tirpitz'' during operation Source * Dudley Pound (1877–1943), Admiral of the Fleet, First Sea Lord during the Second World War * Henry Pulleine (1838–1879), lieutenant colonel * Bertram Ramsay (1883–1945), admiral, commander of operation Neptune during Second World War * Bernard Rawlings (Royal Navy officer), Bernard Rawlings (1889–1962), admiral, second in command of the British Pacific Fleet during Second World War * Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832–1914), field marshal, last

* Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet (1860–1933), "Wully" Robertson, distinguished soldier; the only man ever in the British Army to rise from the rank of private soldier to field marshal; the head of the Army for much of World War I; a highly influential figure as to strategy * Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782–1859) * George Rooke (1650–1709), Admiral of the Fleet * William Victor Trevor Rooper (1897–1917), captain * 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 * Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer), Charles Saunders (1715–1775), admiral, commanded the Fleet at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham * Derek Anthony Seagrim (1903–1943), lieutenant colonel * James Simpson (British Army officer), Sir James Simpson (1792–1868), general * William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1897–1970), Commander in Burma during Second World War, Governor-General of Australia * Sir Sidney Smith (1764–1840), Napoleon famously said of him "that man made me miss my destiny" * Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien (1858–1930), general, World War I * Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855), British commander in the Crimean War * James Somerville (1882–1949), Admiral of the Fleet, Commander at Mers-El-Kabir * Bill Speakman Victoria Cross, VC (born 1927), Black Watch, SAS Regiment * Richard Strachan (1760–1828), known for his action after the Battle of Trafalgar * James Brian Tait VC (1916–2007), nicknamed" Tirpitz", commander of 617 squadron * Henry Tandey VC (1891–1977), most highly decorated private of the First World War * Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956), "father of the RAF" and first Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom), Chief of the Air Staff * Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827–1905), general * Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (1758–1807), rear admiral * Reginald Tyrwhitt (1870–1951), Admiral of the Fleet, commander of the Harwich Force during World War I * George Vancouver (1757–1798), distinguished Royal Navy captain and explorer * Edward Vernon (1684–1757), admiral * Philip Vian (1894–1968), Admiral of the Fleet, distinguished destroyer captain also Commander in Charge of Air Operations, British Pacific Fleet during Second World War * Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950), World War II general, second to last Viceroy of India * William Welsh (RAF officer), Sir William Welsh (1891–1962), air marshal * Jane Whorwood (1612–1684), Royalist agent during the English Civil War * Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), captain-general, victor of Battle of Culloden, Culloden * James Wolfe (1727–1759), general, hero of The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Quebec during the Seven Years' War * John Woodhouse (British Army officer), John Woodhouse (1922–2008), reformed SAS selection and training techniques after World War Two

Monarchs

* Alfred the Great (c. 849–899) (reigned 880s–899), King of the Anglo-Saxons * Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen Anne (reigned 1702–1714), also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of Great Britain after 1707 * Charles I of England, Charles I (reigned 1625–1649), also King of Scotland, and Ireland * Charles II of England, Charles II (reigned 1660–1685), also King of Scotland * Charles III * Cnut (reigned 1016–1035) * Edward the Confessor, Saint Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066) * Edward I of England, Edward I (reigned 1272–1307), English monarch * Edward II of England, Edward II (reigned 1307–1327), English monarch * Edward III of England, Edward III (reigned 1327–1377), English monarch * Edward IV of England, Edward IV (reigned 1461–1470 and 1471–1483), English monarch * Edward V of England, Edward V (reigned 1483–1483), English monarch * Edward VI of England, Edward VI (reigned 1547–1553), first English Protestant monarch * Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I (reigned 1558–1603), Protestant queen and first ''Supreme Governor of the Church of England'' * Elizabeth II * Harold Godwinson (reigned 6 January 1066 – 14 October 1066), died in Battle of Hastings * Harold Harefoot (reigned 1035–1040) * Harthacnut (reigned 1040–1042) * Henry I of England, Henry I (reigned 1100–1135) * Henry III of England, Henry III (reigned 1216–1272), English monarch * Henry IV of England, Henry IV (reigned 1399–1413), English monarch * Henry V of England, Henry V (reigned 1413–1422) * Henry VI of England, Henry VI (reigned 1422–1461), English monarch * Henry VII of England, Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509) (Henry Tudor, the first Tudor monarch) * Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII (reigned 1509–1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church * James II of England, James II (reigned 1685–1689) * Lady Jane Grey (de facto 10 July 1553 – 19 July 1553) ("the nine days queen"), beheaded 1554, aged 16 * John, King of England, King John (reigned 1199–1216) * Mary I of England, Mary I (reigned 1553–1558), Roman Catholic queen * Mary II of England, Mary II (reigned 1689–1694), reigned jointly with her husband William III * Richard of Cornwall (reigned 1257–1272), King of the Romans * Richard I of England, Richard the Lionheart (reigned 1189–1199), Richard I, English monarch, leader and hero of the Third Crusade * Richard II (reigned 1377–1399) * Richard III of England, Richard III (reigned 1483–1485), last Plantagenet King, and last British monarch to die in Battle * William the Conqueror, William I (reigned 1066–1087), "William the Conqueror", William of Normandy * William II of England, William II (reigned 1087–1100) * William III of England, William III (reigned 1689–1702), "William of Orange", born 1650 at The Hague in Holland, married an English princess, reigned jointly with his wife Mary II, until her death

Musicians

* Stuart Adamson, lead singer of Big Country * Adele, singer * Thomas Adès (born 1971), composer * Damon Albarn (born 1968), singer-songwriter * John Alldis (1929–2010), chorus master and conductor * Lily Allen (born 1985) * Marsha Ambrosius (born 1977), singer-songwriter * Jon Anderson (born 1944), singer-songwriter, member of Yes (band), Yes * David Arnold (born 1962), composer, musician and film scorer (notably four James Bond films) * Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006), composer * Quenton Ashlyn, society entertainer * Rick Astley (born 1966), singer-songwriter * Alexander Baillie (born 1956), cellist * Bryan Balkwill (1922–2007), conductor * John Barbirolli (1899–1970), conductor * Gary Barlow (born 1971), singer-songwriter and member of Take That * Syd Barrett (1946–2006), singer-songwriter, member of the early Pink Floyd * Norman Beaker (born 1950), blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer * Victoria Beckham (born 1974), singer-songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and model * David Bedford (born 1937), composer and musician * Mark Bedford (born 1961), musician, songwriter and composer, bass guitarist for Madness (band), Madness * Natasha Bedingfield (born 1981), singer * Thomas Beecham (1879–1961), conductor * Matthew Bellamy (born 1978), composer for Muse (band), Muse * Lisa Beznosiuk (born 1956), flautist * Acker Bilk (1929–2014), clarinettist and vocalist * Alan Parsons (born 1948), composer and musician * Roger Birnstingl, bassoonist * Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022), composer * Colin Vearncombe aka Black (1962 – January 2016) best known for the song Wonderful Life. * Cilla Black (1943–2015), British singer and television presenter * James Blunt (born 1977) * Ian Gillan (born 1945), singer for Deep Purple * John Bonham (1948–1980), drummer for Led Zeppelin * Ritchie Blackmore (born 1945) * Tim Booth (born 1960), singer-songwriter and actor * Adrian Boult (1889–1983), conductor * James Bourne, member of the former rock group Busted, singer-songwriter * David Bowie (1947–2016) * Robin Gibb (1949–2012), singer-songwriter, member of Bee Gees * William Boyce (composer), William Boyce (1711–1779), composer * Billy Bragg (born 1957) * Havergal Brian (1876–1972), composer * Sarah Brightman (born 1960), singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer * Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer and pianist * Justin Broadrick (born 1969), vocalist and guitarist, member of Godflesh and Jesu (band), Jesu * Ian Broudie (born 1958), singer-songwriter member of The Lightning Seeds * Pete Burns (born 1959), singer-songwriter and lead vocalist with Dead or Alive (band), Dead or Alive * Kate Bush (born 1958), singer-songwriter, musician and record producer * Bilinda Butcher (born 1961), singer-songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine (band), My Bloody Valentine * William Byrd (1543–1623), composer * Martyn Campbell (born 1970), bassist of The Lightning Seeds * Les Chadwick (1943–2019), bassist of Gerry and the Pacemakers * Justin Chancellor (born 1971), bassist, member of Tool (band), Tool * Eric Clapton (born 1945) * Adam Clayton (born 1960), bassist, member of U2 * Cheryl Cole (born 1983), singer * Phil Collins (born 1951), singer-songwriter, musician, member of Genesis (band), Genesis * Imogen Cooper (born 1949), pianist * Graham Coxon (born 1969), guitarist, singer-songwriter, former member of Blur (band), Blur and solo artist * Ian Curtis (1956–1980), lead singer and composer for Joy Division * Roger Daltrey (born 1944), singer, lead of The Who * Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016), composer * Andrew Davis (conductor), Andrew Davis (born 1944), conductor * Colin Davis (born 1927), conductor * Chris de Burgh (born 1948), singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist * Gervase de Peyer (born 1926), clarinettist and conductor * Norman Del Mar (1919–1994), conductor * Frederick Delius (1862–1934), composer * Dido (singer), Dido (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, 1971), singer-songwriter * Pete Doherty, former co-lead singer of The Libertines; current lead singer of Babyshambles; solo artist * Peter Donohoe (pianist), Peter Donohoe (born 1953), pianist * John Dowland (c. 1563 – c. 1626), composer of songs * Nick Drake (1948–1974), singer-songwriter * Jacqueline du Pré (1945–1987), cellist * John Dunstaple (c. 1383 – 1453), composer * Ian Dury (1942–2000), lyricist and vocalist for The Blockheads * Edward Elgar (1857–1934), composer * John Entwistle (1944–2002) * George Ezra (born 1993), singer-songwriter * Marianne Faithfull (born 1946) * Gerald Finzi (1901–1956), composer * Lita Ford (Born 1958) * Chris Foreman (born 1956), musician, singer-songwriter and composer, guitarist for Madness (band), Madness * George Formby (1906-1961), wartime entertainer, famous for his playing of the Banjolele and contribution to film * Peter Gabriel (born 1950), singer-songwriter and former lead vocalist with Genesis (band), Genesis * Noel Gallagher (born 1967), singer-songwriter * Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625), composer * David Gilmour (born 1946), guitarist, singer and composer of Pink Floyd * Ron Goodwin (1925–2003), composer and conductor * Debbie Googe (born 1962), bassist of My Bloody Valentine (band), My Bloody Valentine * Ellie Goulding (born 1986), singer-songwriter, musician * Bella Hardy folk musician, singer-songwriter * Dhani Harrison (born 1978), guitarist, son of George Harrison * George Harrison (1943–2001), composer, member of The Beatles * PJ Harvey (born 1969) * Anthony Hewitt (born 1971), pianist * Steve Hogarth (born 1959), songwriter, musician and lead singer of the band Marillion * Gustav Holst (1874–1934), composer * Dominic Howard (born 1977), member of Muse (band), Muse * Tony Iommi (born 1948), guitarist for Black Sabbath * John Ireland (composer), John Ireland (1879–1962), composer * Robert Irving (conductor), Robert Irving (1913–1991), conductor * Jessie J (born 1988), singer-songwriter * Mick Jagger (born 1943), rock singer and frontman of The Rolling Stones * Sir Elton John (born 1947), pop star and composer * Brian Johnson (born 1947), rock singer * Brian Jones (1942–1969), founding member and guitarist of The Rolling Stones * Davy Jones (actor), Davy Jones (1945–2012), singer/percussionist, member of The Monkees * John Paul Jones (musician), John Paul Jones (born 1946), bassist, mandolinist and keyboardist for Led Zeppelin * Nigel Kennedy (born 1956), violinist * Thea King (1925–2007), clarinettist * Adrian Lambert (born 1976), bassist * Jen Ledger (born 1989), drummer and backing vocalist for Skillet (band), Skillet * Albert Lee (born 1945), guitarist * John Lennon (1940–1980), singer-songwriter, co-founder of The Beatles * Leona Lewis (born 1985), singer-songwriter * Cher Lloyd (born 1993), singer * Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), composer of musicals * Julian Lloyd Webber (born 1951), cellist * Pixie Lott (born 1991), singer * Chris Lowe (born 1959), keyboardist and composer, member of Pet Shop Boys * Les Maguire (born 1941), pianist for Gerry and the Pacemakers * Zayn Malik (born 1993), member of British-Irish boy band One Direction * Gerry Marsden (1942–2021), leader of Gerry and the Pacemakers * Chris Martin (born 1977), singer-songwriter, lead of Coldplay * Sir Paul McCartney (born 1942), singer-songwriter, guitarist, co-founder of The Beatles * Graham McPherson (born 1961), aka Suggs (singer), Suggs, lead vocalist of Madness (band), Madness * George Michael (1963–2016) * Tony Mills (musician), Tony Mills (1962–2019), singer and guitarist, member of Shy (band), Shy * Keith Moon (1946–1978) * Thomas Morley (c. 1557 – 1602), consort composer * Ella Mai (born 1994), singer-songwriter * Gareth Morris (1920–2007), flautist * Morrissey (born 1959), composer, member of The Smiths * Olivia Newton-John (born 1948), pop star * John Ogdon (1937–1989), pianist * Mike Oldfield (born 1953), composer and instrumentalist * Ozzy Osbourne (born 1948), vocalist for Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne Band, Ozzy Osbourne * Jimmy Page (born 1944), guitarist * Hubert Parry (1848–1918), composer * Liam Payne (born 1993), member of British-Irish boy band One Direction * Bob and Alf Pearson (1907–1985 and 1910–2012 respectively), singers and pianist (Bob) * Peter Pears (1910–1986), tenor * Robert Plant (born 1948), singer, member of Led Zeppelin * Anthony Pleeth (born 1948), cellist * Stephen Preston (flautist), Stephen Preston, flautist * Henry Purcell (1659–1695), composer * Simon Rattle (born 1955), conductor * Keith Richards (born 1943), guitarist and former member for the Rolling Stones * Paul Rodgers (born 1949), singer * Martin Roscoe (born 1952), pianist * Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967), conductor * 21 Savage (born 1992), rapper, record producer * Chris Sharrock (born 1964), drummer for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds * Ed Sheeran (born 1991), singer-songwriter * Elsie Southgate (1880–1946), violinist * Zak Starkey (born 1965), drummer, son of Ringo Starr * Ringo Starr (born 1940), composer, drummer, member of The Beatles * Crispin Steele-Perkins (born 1944), trumpeter * Rod Stewart (born 1945) * Joss Stone (born 1987) * Joe Strummer (1952–2002), singer, member of The Clash * Harry Styles (born 1994), member of British-Irish boy band One Direction * Bernard Sumner, lead singer of New Order (band), New Order * Connie Talbot (born 2000), child singer and reality star * Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585), composer * Benson Taylor (born 1983), composer * Tinie Tempah (born 1988), rapper * Neil Tennant (born 1954), vocalist, member of Pet Shop Boys * Lionel Tertis (1876–1975), violist * Frederick Thurston (1901–1953), clarinettist * Lee Thompson (saxophonist), Lee Thompson (born 1957), multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer, founder and saxophonist of Madness (band), Madness * Michael Tippett (1905–1998), composer * Louis Tomlinson (born 1991), member of British-Irish boy band One Direction * Pete Townshend (born 1945) * Alex Turner, leader singer of the band Arctic Monkeys * Sid Vicious (born John Simon Ritchie in 1957), bassist for Sex Pistols * Rick Wakeman (born 1949), piano, keyboardist, musician * Ricky Walters (born 1965), aka rapper Slick Rick * William Walton (1902–1983), composer * Roger Waters (born 1943), founder of Pink Floyd * Charlie Watts (born 1941), drummer, The Rolling Stones * Thomas Weelkes (c. 1575 – 1623), composer * Florence Welch (born 1986), lead singer of Florence and The Machine * John Wilbye (1574–1638), composer * Cliff Williams (born 1949), bassist * Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer * Robbie Williams (born 1974) * Steven Wilson (born 1967), musician, producer, composer and founder of Porcupine Tree * Ron Wood (born 1947), guitarist for the Rolling Stones, former guitarist for The Faces * Amy Winehouse (1983–2011), singer-songwriter * Christopher Wolstenholme (born 1978), member of Muse (band), Muse * Henry Wood (conductor), Henry Wood (1869–1944), conductor * Dan Woodgate (born 1960), musician, songwriter, composer and record producer, drummer for Madness (band), Madness * Thom Yorke (born 1968), singer-songwriter, musician, member of Radiohead * Marvin Young (born 1967), aka rapper Young MC * Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer

Philosophers

* Donald Adamson (born 1939) * G. E. M. Anscombe (1919–2001), philosopher * Anselm of Canterbury (born 1033), philosopher, famous for creation of the Ontological Argument * 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, founder of Utilitarianism * 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 *

(1806–1873), economist, political philosopher * G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher * William of Ockham (c. 1285 – 1349), philosopher, theologian, created Ockham's Razor * Thomas Paine (1737–1809), theorist * Derek Parfit (born 1942), philosopher * Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher * Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher * Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), philosopher * Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) * Peter Strawson (1919–2006), philosopher * William Whewell (1794–1866), philosopher * Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician * Bernard Williams (1929–2003), philosopher

Photographers

* David Bailey (photographer), David Bailey (born 1938) * Emma Barton (photographer), Emma Barton (1872–1938) * Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) * George Beldam (1868–1937), first-class cricketer and a pioneer of Sports photography, action photography in sport * John Blakemore (born 1936) * Samuel Bourne (1834–1912) * Larry Burrows (1926–1971), photojournalist * George Davison (photographer), George Davison (1854–1930) * Terence Donovan (photographer), Terence Donovan (1936–1996) * Brian Duffy (photographer), Brian Duffy (1933–2010) * Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943) * Roger Fenton (1819–1869) * John French (photographer), John French (1907–1966) * Francis Frith (1822–1898) * Peter Wickens Fry (1798–1860), early amateur photographer * Bert Hardy (1913–1995) * Alfred Horsley Hinton (1863–1908) * Don McCullin (born 1935), photojournalist * Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) * Horace Nicholls (1867–1941) * Tony Ray-Jones (1941–1972) * Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901) * George Rodger (1908–1995), photojournalist * Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1853–1941) * William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), photographer, inventor of the calotype process

Politicians

* John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel (1348–1379) * Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel (1285–1326) * Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (1306–1376) * H. H. Asquith (1852–1928), British prime minister * Clement Attlee (1883–1967), British prime minister * Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947), British prime minister * John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (1678–1734) * Charles George Beauclerk (1774–1845) * Lord Sidney Beauclerk (1703–1744) * Tony Benn (1925–2014), Labour politician * Ernest Bevin (1881–1951), Labour politician * Margaret Bondfield (1873–1953), Labour politician and first female Cabinet Minister * Harold Briggs (politician), Harold Briggs (1870–1945) * John Bright (1811–1889), liberal politician * Sir Paul Bryan (politician), Paul Bryan (1913–2004) * Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington (1699–1758) * George Canning (1770–1827), politician * William Cartwright (1634–1676), William Cartwright (1634–1676), politician * Barbara Castle (1910–2002), politician * Lord Henry Cavendish (1673–1700), nobleman and politician * Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937) * Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) * Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940), British prime minister * James Chase (apothecary), James Chase (1650–1721) * Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1895) *

(1874–1965), British prime minister * Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338–1368) * Kenneth Clarke (born 1940), Conservative politician * William Cobbett (1763–1835), MP and reformer * 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 (British colony), Gold Coast * Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893) * Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869) * William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire (1640–1707), soldier, nobleman, and Whig politician * Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833–1908) * William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (c. 1720 – 1764) * Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), British prime minister * Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), British prime minister * Anthony Eden (1897–1977), British prime minister * Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1584–1648), nobleman and politician, also a commander in the Roundheads, Parliamentary army in the English Civil War * Michael Foot (1913–2010), Labour leader * William Bower Forwood (1840–1928), politician * Sir Henry Bartle Frere (1815–1884), Colonial administrator * Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), Labour politician * William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), British prime minister * Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735–1811) * George Grenville (1712–1770), British prime minister * William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville (1759–1834) * Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845) * William Hague (born 1961), Conservative politician * William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax (1665–1700) * James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton (1786–1814), nobleman and politician * Denis Healey (1917–2015), Labour politician * Edward Heath (1916–2005), British prime minister * Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773–1840) * Boris Johnson (born 1964), British prime minister * William Kenrick (Birmingham MP), William Kenrick (1831–1919) * Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (1384–1408) * John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902) * Brownlow William Knox (1806–1873) * George Lansbury (1859–1940) * Nigel Lawson (born 1932), Conservative politician * Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet (1639–1667) * John Leland (politician), John Leland (?–1808), English Member of Parliament for Stamford, 1796–1808 * Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815–1891) * John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln (c. 1192 – 1240) * Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln (c. 1251 – 1311) * 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 * William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) * Herbert Morrison (1888–1965), Labour politician * Theresa May (born 1956), British Prime Minister * Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) * Frederick North, Lord North (1732–1792) * Philip Oliver (British politician), Philip Oliver (1884–1954) * Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British prime minister * Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850), British prime minister * Henry Pelham (1694–1754) * Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (c. 1100 – 1148) * William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146/1147–1219) * Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1130–1176) * Spencer Perceval (1762–1812), British prime minister * William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, 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 Viscount Goderich, Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (1782–1859), politician * William Robson, Baron Robson (1852–1918) * Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782) * Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Baronet (1831–1917), ship-owner and Conservative Party politician * Thomas Royden, 1st Baron Royden (1871–1950), businessman and Conservative Party politician * 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) * Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans (1670–1726) * John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (1231–1304) * Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733–1800), Home Secretary in the Pitt government; suggested using what is now Australia as a penal colony for Britain * Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), British prime minister * Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), British prime minister * Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet (1747–1800) * Sir Godfrey Webster, 5th Baronet (1789–1836) * William Wilberforce (1759–1833), abolitionist * William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (c. 1370 – 1409) * Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (c. 1385 – 1452) * Shirley Williams (1930–2021), Social Democratic Party (UK), SDP founder * Henry Willink (1894–1973), politician * Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (c. 1674 – 1743) * Harold Wilson (1916–1995), British prime minister * Edward Maria Wingfield (1550–1631), also soldier and English overseas possessions, English colonist in America

Revolutionaries

*Robert Aske (political leader), Robert Aske (c. 1500 – 1537), revolutionary leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace *Thomas Baker (Peasants' Revolt leader), Thomas Baker (d. 1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt *John Ball (priest), John Ball (c. 1338 –1381), English priest and revolutionary leader of the Peasants' Revolt *Robert Catesby (1572–1605), lead planner of the Gunpowder Plot *Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), central participant in the Gunpowder Plot *Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521–1554), leader of Wyatt's rebellion

Scientists

* Arthur Aikin (1773–1854), chemist and mineralogist * Nathan Alcock (1707–1779), doctor * Jim Al-Khalili (born 1962), theoretical physicist and broadcaster * 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

* Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897–1974), physicist * George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician * Robert Boyle (1627–1691), natural philosopher * Richard Bright (physician), Richard Bright (1630–1677), doctor, founder of Bright's Disease (a form of kidney disease) * Henry Brunner (1838–1916), chemist *

(1731–1810), scientist * Sir George Cayley (1773–1857), polymath and aviator * Frank Close (born 1945), physicist * Brian Cox (physicist), Brian Cox (born 1968), physicist * Francis Crick (1916–2004), molecular biologist * John Dalton (1766–1844), chemist and physicist * Charles Darwin (1809–1882), initiator of the theory of evolution * Richard Dawkins (born 1941), evolutionary theorist * Henry Deacon (industrialist), Henry Deacon (1822–1876), chemist * Paul Dirac (1902–1984), physicist * Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951), entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist * Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), physicist * Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist * Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), geneticist and statistician * Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), particle physicist * Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), chemist and X-ray crystallography, x-ray crystallographer * J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), geneticist * James Hargreaves (chemist), James Hargreaves (1834–1915), chemist * Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), cosmologist * Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), physicist * John Herschel (1792–1871), mathematician and astronomer * Peter Higgs (born 1929), physicist * C. A. R. Hoare (born 1934), computer scientist * Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist * Edward Jenner (1749–1823), doctor * Reginald Victor Jones, R. V. Jones (1911–1997), physicist * James Prescott Joule (1818–1889), physicist * Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Joseph Lister (1827–1912), surgeon * Bernard Lovell (1913–2012), 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 * John McClellan (chemist), John McClellan (1810–1881), chemist * Robert Mond (1867–1938), chemist * Desmond Morris (born 1928), zoologist * Roger Needham (1935–2003), computer scientist * Sir

(1642–1727), founder of modern

, last of the alchemy, alchemists * William Penney (1909–1991), mathematician, physicist, director of British nuclear weapon research * Roger Penrose (born 1931), mathematical physicist * Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896), geologist * Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), chemist * Martin Rees (born 1942), cosmologist and astrophysicist * Frederick Sanger (1918–2013), double Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist * Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), geologist * John Snow (physician), John Snow (1813–1858), epidemiologist *

(1828–1914), physicist and chemist * George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), physicist * 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 (1913–2010), computer scientist * James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician * William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), chemist * Thomas Young (scientist), Thomas Young (1773–1829), scientist

Sportsmen and sportswomen

Terrorists

*Sally-Anne Jones, ISIS terrorist

Writers

* William Shakespeare (1564–1616), playwright, actor and poet

Other notables

* Hannah Aldworth (died 1778), philanthropist * Margery Arnold (fl. mid 14th century), landowner * Rachel Ashwell (born 1959), author, designer and entrepreneur * Edward Betts (1815–1872), civil engineering contractor * Thomas Brassey (1805–1870), civil engineering contractor * Capability Brown (1715–1783), landscape gardener * Donald Campbell (1921–1967), world land and water speed record holder * Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885–1949), automobile and speedboat racer * William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491), printer * Sir John Chesshyre (1662–1738), lawyer * Grace Darling (1815–1842), heroine * William Emes (c. 1729 – 1803), landscape gardener * Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), prison reformer * Thomas Grissell (1801–1874), public works contractor * Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), pioneer aviator and aviation entrepreneur * Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928), urban planner * Daniel Howell (born 1991), YouTube personality and radio host * Edward Kemp (landscape architect), Edward Kemp (1817–1891), garden designer * Gideon Lester (born 1972), dramaturg, adaptator, theatre artistic director * Philip Lester (born 1987), YouTube personality and radio host * Peter Molyneux (born 1959), video game designer * Sir Samuel Morton Peto (1809–1889), civil engineering contractor * Joshua A. Norton (1811–1880), Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico * Wat Tyler (died 1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381) * William Wakefield (1801–1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand * Richard Walker (angler), Richard Walker (1918–1985), writer and pioneer of modern-day angling in Britain * Sarah Elizabeth Wardroper (1814–1892), Matron of St Thomas's Hospital from 1854 to 1887 * Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), political activist and suffragist * Joseph Williamson (philanthropist), Joseph Williamson (1769–1840), philanthropist, merchant and tunneler * Philip Yates (1913–1998), coal miner awarded the Edward Medal

English expatriates

The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life. * John Alden (c. 1599 – 1687), one of the leaders of the Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony), Pilgrims to North America * George Alsop, (c. 1630s-c. 1670s), author * Anthony Aston (died 1731), actor and dramatist *

(1889–1977) * Alistair Cooke (1908–2004) * Cary Grant (1904–1986), film actor * Avraham Harman (1915–1992), Israeli diplomat and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Bob Hope (1903–2003) * Stephen Hough (born 1961), concert pianist, became Australian citizen * Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

References

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