List of English people
This is a partial '''list of Ringtones for motorola England/English people''' and of some notable individuals born there, alphabetically within categories:
Actors/Actresses
*Lovely Tera Tom Baker, (1933-)
*Dame Hotlink caller ringtones Judi Dench (1934-)
*Jenny Reid George Formby, (1904-1961)
*Sir Alltel ringtones Michael Gambon, (1940-)
*Sir Ivana Fukalot John Gielgud, (1904-2000)
*Samsung ringtones John Gregson, (1919-1975)
*Sir The Sperm Lover Alec Guinness, (1914-2000)
*Real ringtones Will Hay, (1888-1949)
*Sasha Fucks Dasha Jack Hawkins, (1910-1973)
*Dame Cingular Ringtones Wendy Hiller (1912-2003)
*grab karadzic Stanley Holloway, (1890-1982)
*people currently Leslie Howard, (1893-1943)
*continent sale Charles Laughton, (1899-1962)
*energizing homegrown Margaret Lockwood, (1916-1990)
*the frugal Hayley Mills, (1946-)
*rocky strip John Mills, (1908-)
*details ted Kenneth More, (1914-1982)
*findings defy Anthony Newley, (1931-1999)
*Sir folks a Laurence Olivier, (1907-1989)
*tiggy legge Cecil Parker, (1897-1971)
*desperation near Miranda Richardson, (b1958)
*Sir herzl is Ralph Richardson, (1902-1983)
*Dame oruzgan to Margaret Rutherford, (1892-1972)
*open pavement Peter Sellers, (1925-1980)
*Dame wash their Maggie Smith, (b1934)
*Dame totalitarian intolerance Elizabeth Taylor, (b1932)
*morality he Emma Thompson, (b1959)
*Sir already he Peter Ustinov, (1921-2004)
*serve coffee Jack Warner, (1896-1981)
*early science Michael Wilding, (1912-1979)
*Googie Withers, (1917-)
Archaeologists and Anthropologists
*Mick Aston
*Richard Atkinson
*Churchill Babington
*Howard Carter
*Grahame Clark
*David L. Clarke/David Clarke
*Barry Cunliffe
*Glyn Daniel
*John Disney, (1779-1857), barrister and archaeologist
*E. E. Evans-Pritchard, (1902-1973), social anthropologist
*Cyril Fox
*Dorothy Garrod
*William Greenwell
*Kathleen Kenyon
*John Leland, (1502-1552), antiquary
*John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
*John Robert Mortimer
*Colin Renfrew, (born 1937), archaeologist
*Edward Burnett Tylor/E.B. Tylor, (1832-1917), anthropologist
*Mortimer Wheeler
*Kate Fox
Architects
*Charles Barry, (1795-1860), architect (Houses Of Parliament)
*George Basevi
*William Burges, (1827-1881), architect and interior designer
*William Butterfield, (1814-1900), leader in Gothic revival movement
*William Chambers, (1723-1796), (Kew Gardens pagoda and Somerset House)
*Sir Norman Foster, (1935-), architect
*Nicholas Hawksmoor, (1661-1736), architect
*Inigo Jones, (1573-1652), architect
*Edwin Lutyens, (1869-1944), architect
*William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
*John Nash, (1752-1835), (Regent's Park, St. Jame's Park, Trafalgar Square)
*Joseph Paxton, (1801-1865), (Great Exhibition Building, London)
*August Pugin, (1812-1852), architect (Houses Of Parliament)
*Richard Rogers, (b. 1933), (the Pompidou Centre)
*Gilbert Scott, (1880-1960), Waterloo Bridge, also supervised rebuilding of House Of Commons, London)
*John Vanbrugh, (1664-1726), Baroque architect (Blenheim Palace)
*Alfred Waterhouse, (1830-1905), (National History Museum, London)
*William Wilkins, (1778-1839), (National Gallery, London)
*Christopher Wren, (1632-1723), architect
Artists
*William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
*John Constable, (1776-1837), landscape painter.
*Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-1788), painter
*Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), novelist
*David Hockney, (1937-), painter
*Sir Edwin Landseer, (1802-1873), animal painter.
*Henry Moore, (1898-1986), sculptor
* Sir Joshua Reynolds, (1723-1792), artist
*J.M.W. Turner, (1775-1851), landscape and marine artist
*Flora Twort, (1893-1985), painter
Criminals
*Myra Hindley, Moors murderer
*Ian Huntley, Soham murderer
*The Kray twins, east London gangsters
*Harold Shipman, (1946-2004), serial killer
*Peter Sutcliffe, Yorkshire Ripper
*Fred West, serial killer
*Graham Young, (1947-1990), The Teacup Poisoner
Economists
*William Beveridge, (1879-1963), economist and social reformer
*John Maynard Keynes, (1883-1946), economist
*Thomas Malthus, (1766-1834), demographer
*Alfred Marshall, (1842-1924), economist
*John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher
Engineers
*Sir Benjamin Baker, (1840-1907), civil engineer
*Sir Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898), metallurgy engineer
*James Brindley, (1716-1772), canal engineer
*Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1806-1859), transport engineer
*Sidney Camm (1894-1966), aeronautical engineer
*William Tierney Clark, (1783-1852), civil engineer
*Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882 - 1965), aeronautical engineer
*Sir John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), electrical engineer
*R.J. Mitchell, (1895-1937), aeronautical engineer
*Sir Samuel Morton Peto, (1809-1889), civil engineer
*Sir Henry Royce, (1863-1933), engineer
*Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
*George Stephenson, (1781-1848), railway engineer
*Richard Trevithick, (1771-1833), engineer
*Sir Barnes Wallis, (1887-1978), engineer
*Sir Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), aeronautical engineer
*Sir Joseph Whitworth, (1803-1887), engineer
Entrepreneurs
*Richard Branson (1950-)
*Abraham Darby (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
*Sir Freddie Laker (1922-), Pioneer of cheap air travel
*William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877-1963)
*Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), industrialist
Filmmakers
*Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)
*Roy Boulting (1913-2001)
*Charlie Chaplin, (1889-1977)
*Mike Figgis (1948-)
*Lewis Gilbert (1920-)
*David Hare (1947-)
*Alfred Hitchcock, (1899-1980)
*Stan Laurel (1890-1965)
*David Lean (1908-1991)
*Mike Leigh (1943-)
*Ken Loach (1936-)
*Anthony Minghella (1954-)
*Mike Newell (1942-)
*Nick Park (1958-)
*Michael Latham Powell/Michael Powell (1905-1990)
*Ken Russell (1927-)
*Ridley Scott (1942-)
*Michael Winner (1935-)
Humorists
*Rowan Atkinson
*John Cleese
*Les Dawson
*Ken Dodd
*Ben Elton
*Tony Hancock, (1924-1968)
*Eric Morecambe
*Frank Muir (1920-1998)
*Denis Norden (1922-)
*Michael Palin (1943-)
*Ernie Wise (1925-1999)
Inventors
*Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), inventor of the hovercraft
*William Congreve (inventor)/William Congreve, rocketry pioneer
*Abraham Darby, (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
*James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), weaver and inventor
*John Harrison, (1693-1776), clockmaker
*Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), inventor of the modern postal service
*Thomas Newcomen, (1664-1729), inventor
*Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the reflector telescope
*James Starley, (1831-1881), bicycle pioneer
*George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer
*Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1975), inventor
*Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine
Military men and women
*Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal, CIGS during World War II
*Sir Alexander Ball/Alexander John Ball, (1759-1809), admiral, governor of Malta
*George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, (1608-1670), Civil War era General
*Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, (1891-1969), Field Marshal, World War II hero
*Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal, (1717-1797), General
*Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, (1768-1854), General, Hero of the Napoleonic Wars
*Sir Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), World War II commander
*Robert Baden-Powell, (1857-1941), soldier
*Sir Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), fighter pilot
*William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, (1865-1951), General, World War I
*Admiral Robert Blake/Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
*Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, (1819-1904), Commander in Chief
*James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, (1797-1888), Commander of the Light Brigade
*Sir Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
*Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (1738-1805), General
*Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, (1721-1765), Captain-General, victor of Battle of Culloden/Culloden
*Hugh Dowding/Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (1882-1970), RAF Commander in World War II
*Sir Francis Drake, (1540-1596), sailor
*Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, (1782-1859)
*Charles George Gordon, (1833-1885), "Chinese Gordon", killed at Khartoum
*John Manners, Marquess of Granby, (1721-1770), General
*Sir Arthur Travers Harris, (1892-1984), airman
*Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (1726-1799), Admiral
*William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, (1729-1814), General in American Revolutionary War
*John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935), Admiral, World War I
*Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, (1850-1916), Field Marshal
*John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, (1680-1770), General
*George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (1800-1888), Commander of cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
*John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, (1650-1722), soldier
*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
*Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, (1788-1855), British commander in the Crimean War
*Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, (1832-1914), Field Marshal, last Commander in Chief of the Forces
*Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
*Henry Seymour Conway, (1721-1795), General
*William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, (1897-1970), Commander in Burma during World War II, Governor-General of Australia.
*Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, (1858-1930), General, World War I
*Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (1883-1950), World War II general, second to last Viceroy of India
*Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ("The Iron Duke"), (1769-1852), Commander-in-Chief of the British Army (see also his entry under '''Politicians''')
*James Wolfe, (1727-1759), General, hero of Quebec
*Prince Frederick, Duke of York, (1763-1827), son of King George III of the United Kingdom/George III, commander in French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
*John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (1852-1925), World War I general and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Monarchs
*Anne of Great Britain/Queen Anne, (1665-1714), also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of Great Britain after 1707
*Charles II of England/King Charles II, (1660-1685), also King of Scotland
*Edward I of England/King Edward I, (1272-1307), English monarch
*Edward III of England/King Edward III, (1327-1377), English monarch
*Edward IV of England/King Edward IV, (1461-1470 and 1471-1483), English monarch
*Edward V of England/King Edward V, (1470-1483?), English monarch
*Edward VI of England/King Edward VI, (1547-1553), first English Protestant monarch
*Edward VII of the United Kingdom/King Edward VII, (1841-1910)
*Edward VIII of the United Kingdom/King Edward VIII, (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
*Elizabeth I of England/Queen Elizabeth I, (1558-1603), Protestant queen and first ''Supreme Governor of the Church of England''
*Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom/Queen Elizabeth II, (born 1926) reigning monarch
*George III of the United Kingdom/King George III, (1801-1820), English, British monarch
*George IV of the United Kingdom/King George IV, (1762-1830)
*George V of the United Kingdom/King George V, (1910-1936), English, British monarch
*George VI of the United Kingdom/King George VI, (1895-1952), of England
*Henry III of England/King Henry III, (1207-1272), English monarch
*Henry IV of England/King Henry IV, (1367-1413), English monarch
*Henry VI of England/King Henry VI, (1421-1471), English monarch
*Henry VIII of England/King Henry VIII, (1491-1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholicism/Roman Catholic Church
*James II of England/King James II, (1685-1688), also King James VII of Scotland
*Mary I of England/Queen Mary I, (1553-1558), Roman Catholic queen
*Mary II of England/Queen Mary II, (1662-1694)
*Victoria of the United Kingdom/Queen Victoria, (1819-1901)
*William IV of the United Kingdom/King William IV, (1765-1837)
Musicians
*Malcolm Arnold, (born 1921), composer
*John Barbirolli, (1899-1970), conductor
*David Bedford, (born 1937), composer and musician
*Thomas Beecham, (1879-1961), conductor
*Harrison Birtwistle, (born 1934), composer
*Adrian Boult, (1889-1983), conductor
*Havergal Brian, (1876-1972), composer
*Benjamin Britten, (1913-1976), composer and pianist
*William Byrd, (1543-1623), composer
*Andrew Davis, (born 1944), conductor
*Colin Davis, (born 1927), conductor
*Frederick Delius, (1862-1934), composer
*John Dowland, (c. 1563-c. 1626), composer of songs
*John Dunstable, (c. 1383-1453), composer
*Edward Elgar, (1857-1934), composer
*Ron Goodwin, (1925-2003) composer and conductor
*George Harrison, (1943-2001), composer, member of the Beatles
*Gustav Holst, (1874-1934)), composer
*Olivia Newton-John, (born 1948), pop star
*Nigel Kennedy, (born 1956), violinist
*John Lennon, (1940-1980), pop star, co founder of the Beatles
*Andrew Lloyd Webber, (born 1948), composer of musicals
*Peter Maxwell Davies, (born 1934), composer
*Paul McCartney, (born 1942), pop star, co-founder of the Beatles
*Thomas Morley, (c. 1557-1602), consort composer
*Mike Oldfield, (b.1953), composer and instrumentalist
*Peter Pears, (1910-1986), tenor
*Jacqueline du Pré, (1945-1987), cellist
*Henry Purcell, (1659-1695), composer
*Simon Rattle, (born 1955), conductor
*Malcolm Sargent, (1895-1967), conductor
*Ringo Starr, (born 1940), composer, member of the Beatles
*Thomas Tallis, (c. 1505-1585), composer
*Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), composer
*Ralph Vaughan Williams, (1872-1958), composer
*William Walton, (1902-1983), composer
*Henry Wood, (1869-1944), conductor
Philosophers
*Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), philosopher and essayist
*Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832), philosopher
*Robert Boyle, (1627-1691), philosopher and physicist
*Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679), philosopher
*John Locke, (1632-1704), philosopher
*John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher
*William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349), philosopher
*Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), philosopher
*William Whewell, (1794-1866), philosopher
*Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947), mathematician
*Bernard Williams, (1929-2003), philosopher
Politicians
*Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (1757-1844)
*Herbert Asquith/Herbert Henry Asquith, (1852-1928), British prime minister
*Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), British prime minister
*Stanley Baldwin, British prime minister
*Ernest Bevin
*Margaret Bondfield
*Rab Butler
*George Canning, (1770-1827), politician
*William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
*William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
*Sir Austen Chamberlain, (1863-1937)
*Joseph Chamberlain, (1836-1914)
*Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), British prime minister
*Lord Randolph Churchill, (1849-1895)
*Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
*Kenneth Clarke
*Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
*Sir Stafford Cripps
*George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (1859-1925)
*Archibald Dalzel, (1740-1811), Governor of the Gold Coast (British colony)/Gold Coast
*Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, (1833-1908)
*Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (1799-1869)
*Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, (1826-1893)
*Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881), British prime minister
*Alec Douglas-Home, (1903-1995)
*Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), British prime minister
*Hugh Gaitskell, (1906-1963)
*William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898), British prime minister
*Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
*Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
*George Grenville, British prime minister
*William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville
*Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
*Denis Healey
*Edward Heath, British prime minister
*John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
*George Lansbury, (1859-1940)
*Nigel Lawson
*Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
*John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
*Harold Macmillan, British prime minister
*John Major, (born 1943), British prime minister
*Reginald Maudling
*William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
*Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
*Frederick North, Lord North
* Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister
*Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British prime minister
*Henry Pelham
*Spencer Perceval
*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
*Enoch Powell
*Cecil Rhodes, (1853-1902), imperialist
*Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich/Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, (1782-1859)
*Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
*John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
*Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, (1837-1916)
*Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, (1830-1903)
*John Allsebrook Simon/John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, (1873-1954)
*Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, (1864-1937)
*Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), British prime minister
*Sir Robert Walpole, British prime minister
*Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), British prime minister
*William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist
*Henry Willink, (1894-1973), politician
*Harold Wilson, (1916-1995), British prime minister
Scientists
*Arthur Aikin, (1773-1854), chemist and mineralogist
*Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), mathematician
*Joseph Banks, (1743-1820), naturalist
*Thomas Bayes, (c. 1702-1761), mathematician
*Tim Berners-Lee, (born 1955), computer scientist
*George Boole, (1815-1864), mathematician
*Robert Boyle, (1627-1691), philosopher and physicist
*Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, (1897-1974), physicist
*Isaac Barrow, (1630-1677), mathematician
*Henry Cavendish, (1731-1810), scientist
*Sir George Cayley, (1773-1857), polymath and aviator
*Francis Crick, (1916 - 2004), molecular biologist
*John Dalton, (1766-1844), chemist and physicist
*Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
*Humphry Davy, (1778-1829), chemist
*Richard Dawkins, (born 1941), biologist
*Horace Donisthorpe (1870-1951), entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist
*Paul Dirac, (1902-1984), physicist
*Arthur Eddington, (1882-1944), physicist
*Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), scientist
*Ronald Fisher, (1890-1962), geneticist and statistician
*Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), molecular biologist
*J. B. S. Haldane, (1892-1964), geneticist
*Stephen Hawking, (born 1942), cosmologist
*Oliver Heaviside, (1850-1925), physicist
*C. A. R. Hoare, computer scientist
*Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), scientist
*John Herschel, (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer
*Edward Jenner, (1749-1823), doctor
*R. V. Jones, (1911-1997), physicist
*James Prescott Joule, (1818-1889), physicist
*Joseph Lister, (1827-1912), surgeon
*Bernard Lovell, 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, geneticist
*Desmond Morris, (born 1928), zoologist
*Roger Needham, (1935-2003), computer scientist
*Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, last of the alchemists
*Roger Penrose, (born 1931), cosmologist
*Joseph Prestwich, (1812-1896), geologist
*Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804), chemist
*Adam Sedgwick, (1785-1873), geologist
*Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914), physicist and chemist
*Joseph John Thomson/J. J. Thomson, (1856-1940), physicist
*Henry Tizard, scientist
*Alan Turing, (1912-1954), mathematician
*Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823-1913), naturalist
*Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), scientist
*Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947), mathematician
*Maurice Vincent Wilkes, (born 1913), computer scientist
*James H. Wilkinson, (1919-1986), mathematician
*William Hyde Wollaston, (1766-1828), chemist
*Thomas Young (scientist)/Thomas Young, (1773-1829), scientist
Sportsmen/sportswomen
*Harold Abrahams (1899-1978), athlete, one of the two subjects of ''Chariots of Fire''
*Roger Bannister (born 1929), first sub-four-minute miler
*Alan Ball (football player)/Alan Ball (born 1945), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Gordon Banks (born 1937), goalkeeper of Football World Cup 1966/1966 World Cup winning team
*David Beckham (born 1975), football player
*Ian Botham (born 1955), cricketer
*Geoffrey Boycott (born 1940), cricketer
*Sir Bobby Charlton (born 1937), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Jack Charlton (born 1935), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Don Cockell (born 1928), heavyweight boxer
*Sir Henry Cooper (boxer)/Henry Cooper (born 1934), heavyweight boxer
*Jonathan Edwards (sports)/Jonathan Edwards (born 1966), athlete (triple jump)
*Godfrey Evans (1920-1999), cricketer (wicket-keeper)
*James Figg, Boxing's first world champion
*Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917), boxing's first world champion in three divisions
*Paul Gascoigne (born 1967), football player
*Sir Steve Redgrave (born 1962), rower, winner of gold medal in five consecutive Olympics
*W. G. Grace (1848-1915), cricketer
*Naseem Hamed (born 1974), world champion featherweight boxer
*Ricky Hatton (born 1978), highly touted boxing prospect
*Sir Geoff Hurst (born 1941), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Len Hutton (1916-1990), cricketer
*Martin Johnson (born 1970), rugby player
*Dougie Lampkin, (born 1976), Motorcycle Trials World Champion
*Lennox Lewis (born 1965), world champion heavyweight boxer
*Gary Lineker (born 1960), football player
*George Mallory (1886-1924), mountaineer
*Nigel Mansell (born 1953), racing driver, F1 and CART champion
*Alan Minter (born 1951), world champion boxer
*Bobby Moore (1941-1993), captain of 1966 soccer World Cup winning team
*Michael Owen (born 1979), football player
*Fred Perry (1909-1995), Wimbledon champion tennis player
*Martin Peters (born 1943), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Paula Radcliffe (born 1973), athlete (distance runner)
*Sir Gordon Richards (1904-1988), jockey
*Alan Shearer (born 1970), football player
*Nobby Stiles (born 1942), football World Cup winner
*Randolph Turpin (1928-1966), middleweight boxer
*Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player
*Jonny Wilkinson (born 1979), rugby player
Writers
*Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
*David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
*W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
*Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
*Alan Ayckbourn, (b. 1939) playwright
*Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet
*Hilaire Belloc, (1870-1953), writer and poet
*John Betjeman, (1906-1984), poet laureate
*Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), author
*William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
*Robert Bolt, (1924-1995), dramitist and screenwriter. Wrote A Man For All Seasons
*Anne Brontë/Anne Bronte, (1820-1849), author
*Charlotte Brontë/Charlotte Bronte, (1816-1855), author
*Emily Brontë/Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), author
*Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915), poet
*Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), poet
*Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
*Anthony Buckeridge, (1912-2004) children's author
*John Bunyan, (1628-88), author
*Samuel Butler, (1835-1902), author
* George Gordon, Lord Byron
*Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), author of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''
*Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343-1400), poet, author of The Canterbury Tales.
*G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), author essayist
*Dame Agatha Christie, (1891-1976), mystery writer
*Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister, author
*John Clare, (1793-1864), poet.
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
*Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), novelist
*William Congreve (playwright)/William Congreve, (1670-1729), poet
*Walter de la Mare, (1873-1956),poet and novelist
*Daniel Defoe (or De Foe), (1660?1731), writer
*Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author
*John Donne], (1572-1631), poet.
*John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet
*Daphne Du Maurier, (190789), novelist
*George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
*T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), poet, playwright and Nobel prizewinner
*C.S. Forester, 1899-1966) author
*E. M. Forster/E.M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
*John Galsworthy, (1867-1933) author and dramatist
*Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
*William Golding, writer, Nobel prizewinner
*Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1931), author
*Robert Graves, (1895-1985), author
*Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
*Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author, writer
*Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), poet
*William Hazlitt, (1778-1830)
*Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1884-1889), poet
*Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
*A. E. Housman, (1859-1936),poet and scholar.
*Ted Hughes, 1930-1998), poet laureate.
*James Henry Leigh Hunt/Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
*Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
*Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term ''agnosticism''
* Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), humorist and playwright
*Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
*Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet
*John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
*Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), author
*Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
*D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
*Edward Lear, (1812-1888), artist, humourist and poet
*Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
*Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
*Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
*John Masefield, (1878-1967), poet laureate, and novelist
*William Somerset Maugham, (18741965), writer
*A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), author and poet
*John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
*Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973), novelist
*William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
*William Ralph Inge, clergyman, writer, mysticist
*Joe Orton, (1933-1967), dramatist
*George Orwell, (1903-1950), (Eric Blair), journalist and novelist
*John Osborne, (1929-1994), dramatist, wrote Look Back In Anger
*Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet
*Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist and public official in 17th century England
*Harold Pinter, (b. 1930), playwright
*Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
*Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943),author and illustrator
*J. B. Priestley, (1894-1984), dramatist and novelist
*Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
*Arthur Ransome, (18841967), author,
*Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), poet
*Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), poet
*J. K. Rowling (born 1965), author, creator of Harry Potter
*John Ruskin, (1819-1900), writer, critic and reformer
*Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
*Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer
*William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet
*Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
*Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
*Philip Sidney, (1554-1586), poet and soldier
*Edmund Spenser,(c. 1552-1599), poet. Wrote The Faerie Queene
*Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
*Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet and novelist
*Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
*Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
*Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
*William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-193), novelist
*Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novellist
*John Webster, (died 1630), poet
*Gilbert White, (1720-1795)
*P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), humorous author
*Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797), pioneer feminist known for her work ''A Vindication of the Rights of Woman''
*Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), author and feminist.
*William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), Romanticism/Romantic poet
Other Notables
*Douglas Adams (1952-2001), author, comic and radio dramatist
*Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 - 1159)
*David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
*Admiral Robert Blake/Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
*Capability Brown, (171583), landscape gardener
*William Camden, (1551-1623), historian
*William Caxton, (c. 1422-c. 1491), printer
*Sir Malcolm Campbell, (1885–1949), automobile and speedboat racer.
*Sir Francis Chichester, (1901-1972), yachtsman.
*James Cook, (1728-1779), British explorer
*Grace Darling, (1815-1842), heroine
*Thomas de Quincey
*Elizabeth Fry, (1780-1845), prison reformer
*Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), historian
*Gildas, (c. 510 - c.570), monk
*William Godwin, (1756-1836)
*Ebenezer Howard, (1850-1928), urban planner
*Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208?-1265). English statesman and soldier.
*Sir Patrick Moore, (1923-) Writer, T.V. Presenter, Astronomer.
*Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910), nurse
*Joshua A. Norton, (1811-1880), Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
*John Reith, (1889-1971), broadcaster
*John Speed, (1542-1629), historian and cartographer
*Wat Tyler, (?-1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381)
*William Wakefield, (1801-1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand
*William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist
The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.
*Alistair Cooke, (1908-2004)
*Bob Hope, (1903-2003)
*Thomas Paine, (1737-1809)
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Actors/Actresses
*Lovely Tera Tom Baker, (1933-)
*Dame Hotlink caller ringtones Judi Dench (1934-)
*Jenny Reid George Formby, (1904-1961)
*Sir Alltel ringtones Michael Gambon, (1940-)
*Sir Ivana Fukalot John Gielgud, (1904-2000)
*Samsung ringtones John Gregson, (1919-1975)
*Sir The Sperm Lover Alec Guinness, (1914-2000)
*Real ringtones Will Hay, (1888-1949)
*Sasha Fucks Dasha Jack Hawkins, (1910-1973)
*Dame Cingular Ringtones Wendy Hiller (1912-2003)
*grab karadzic Stanley Holloway, (1890-1982)
*people currently Leslie Howard, (1893-1943)
*continent sale Charles Laughton, (1899-1962)
*energizing homegrown Margaret Lockwood, (1916-1990)
*the frugal Hayley Mills, (1946-)
*rocky strip John Mills, (1908-)
*details ted Kenneth More, (1914-1982)
*findings defy Anthony Newley, (1931-1999)
*Sir folks a Laurence Olivier, (1907-1989)
*tiggy legge Cecil Parker, (1897-1971)
*desperation near Miranda Richardson, (b1958)
*Sir herzl is Ralph Richardson, (1902-1983)
*Dame oruzgan to Margaret Rutherford, (1892-1972)
*open pavement Peter Sellers, (1925-1980)
*Dame wash their Maggie Smith, (b1934)
*Dame totalitarian intolerance Elizabeth Taylor, (b1932)
*morality he Emma Thompson, (b1959)
*Sir already he Peter Ustinov, (1921-2004)
*serve coffee Jack Warner, (1896-1981)
*early science Michael Wilding, (1912-1979)
*Googie Withers, (1917-)
Archaeologists and Anthropologists
*Mick Aston
*Richard Atkinson
*Churchill Babington
*Howard Carter
*Grahame Clark
*David L. Clarke/David Clarke
*Barry Cunliffe
*Glyn Daniel
*John Disney, (1779-1857), barrister and archaeologist
*E. E. Evans-Pritchard, (1902-1973), social anthropologist
*Cyril Fox
*Dorothy Garrod
*William Greenwell
*Kathleen Kenyon
*John Leland, (1502-1552), antiquary
*John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
*John Robert Mortimer
*Colin Renfrew, (born 1937), archaeologist
*Edward Burnett Tylor/E.B. Tylor, (1832-1917), anthropologist
*Mortimer Wheeler
*Kate Fox
Architects
*Charles Barry, (1795-1860), architect (Houses Of Parliament)
*George Basevi
*William Burges, (1827-1881), architect and interior designer
*William Butterfield, (1814-1900), leader in Gothic revival movement
*William Chambers, (1723-1796), (Kew Gardens pagoda and Somerset House)
*Sir Norman Foster, (1935-), architect
*Nicholas Hawksmoor, (1661-1736), architect
*Inigo Jones, (1573-1652), architect
*Edwin Lutyens, (1869-1944), architect
*William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
*John Nash, (1752-1835), (Regent's Park, St. Jame's Park, Trafalgar Square)
*Joseph Paxton, (1801-1865), (Great Exhibition Building, London)
*August Pugin, (1812-1852), architect (Houses Of Parliament)
*Richard Rogers, (b. 1933), (the Pompidou Centre)
*Gilbert Scott, (1880-1960), Waterloo Bridge, also supervised rebuilding of House Of Commons, London)
*John Vanbrugh, (1664-1726), Baroque architect (Blenheim Palace)
*Alfred Waterhouse, (1830-1905), (National History Museum, London)
*William Wilkins, (1778-1839), (National Gallery, London)
*Christopher Wren, (1632-1723), architect
Artists
*William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
*John Constable, (1776-1837), landscape painter.
*Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-1788), painter
*Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), novelist
*David Hockney, (1937-), painter
*Sir Edwin Landseer, (1802-1873), animal painter.
*Henry Moore, (1898-1986), sculptor
* Sir Joshua Reynolds, (1723-1792), artist
*J.M.W. Turner, (1775-1851), landscape and marine artist
*Flora Twort, (1893-1985), painter
Criminals
*Myra Hindley, Moors murderer
*Ian Huntley, Soham murderer
*The Kray twins, east London gangsters
*Harold Shipman, (1946-2004), serial killer
*Peter Sutcliffe, Yorkshire Ripper
*Fred West, serial killer
*Graham Young, (1947-1990), The Teacup Poisoner
Economists
*William Beveridge, (1879-1963), economist and social reformer
*John Maynard Keynes, (1883-1946), economist
*Thomas Malthus, (1766-1834), demographer
*Alfred Marshall, (1842-1924), economist
*John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher
Engineers
*Sir Benjamin Baker, (1840-1907), civil engineer
*Sir Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898), metallurgy engineer
*James Brindley, (1716-1772), canal engineer
*Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1806-1859), transport engineer
*Sidney Camm (1894-1966), aeronautical engineer
*William Tierney Clark, (1783-1852), civil engineer
*Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882 - 1965), aeronautical engineer
*Sir John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), electrical engineer
*R.J. Mitchell, (1895-1937), aeronautical engineer
*Sir Samuel Morton Peto, (1809-1889), civil engineer
*Sir Henry Royce, (1863-1933), engineer
*Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
*George Stephenson, (1781-1848), railway engineer
*Richard Trevithick, (1771-1833), engineer
*Sir Barnes Wallis, (1887-1978), engineer
*Sir Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), aeronautical engineer
*Sir Joseph Whitworth, (1803-1887), engineer
Entrepreneurs
*Richard Branson (1950-)
*Abraham Darby (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
*Sir Freddie Laker (1922-), Pioneer of cheap air travel
*William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877-1963)
*Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), industrialist
Filmmakers
*Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)
*Roy Boulting (1913-2001)
*Charlie Chaplin, (1889-1977)
*Mike Figgis (1948-)
*Lewis Gilbert (1920-)
*David Hare (1947-)
*Alfred Hitchcock, (1899-1980)
*Stan Laurel (1890-1965)
*David Lean (1908-1991)
*Mike Leigh (1943-)
*Ken Loach (1936-)
*Anthony Minghella (1954-)
*Mike Newell (1942-)
*Nick Park (1958-)
*Michael Latham Powell/Michael Powell (1905-1990)
*Ken Russell (1927-)
*Ridley Scott (1942-)
*Michael Winner (1935-)
Humorists
*Rowan Atkinson
*John Cleese
*Les Dawson
*Ken Dodd
*Ben Elton
*Tony Hancock, (1924-1968)
*Eric Morecambe
*Frank Muir (1920-1998)
*Denis Norden (1922-)
*Michael Palin (1943-)
*Ernie Wise (1925-1999)
Inventors
*Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), inventor of the hovercraft
*William Congreve (inventor)/William Congreve, rocketry pioneer
*Abraham Darby, (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
*James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), weaver and inventor
*John Harrison, (1693-1776), clockmaker
*Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), inventor of the modern postal service
*Thomas Newcomen, (1664-1729), inventor
*Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the reflector telescope
*James Starley, (1831-1881), bicycle pioneer
*George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer
*Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1975), inventor
*Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine
Military men and women
*Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (1883-1963), Field Marshal, CIGS during World War II
*Sir Alexander Ball/Alexander John Ball, (1759-1809), admiral, governor of Malta
*George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, (1608-1670), Civil War era General
*Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, (1891-1969), Field Marshal, World War II hero
*Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal, (1717-1797), General
*Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, (1768-1854), General, Hero of the Napoleonic Wars
*Sir Claude Auchinleck, (1884-1981), World War II commander
*Robert Baden-Powell, (1857-1941), soldier
*Sir Douglas Bader, (1910-1982), fighter pilot
*William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, (1865-1951), General, World War I
*Admiral Robert Blake/Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
*Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, (1819-1904), Commander in Chief
*James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, (1797-1888), Commander of the Light Brigade
*Sir Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
*Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (1738-1805), General
*Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, (1721-1765), Captain-General, victor of Battle of Culloden/Culloden
*Hugh Dowding/Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (1882-1970), RAF Commander in World War II
*Sir Francis Drake, (1540-1596), sailor
*Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, (1782-1859)
*Charles George Gordon, (1833-1885), "Chinese Gordon", killed at Khartoum
*John Manners, Marquess of Granby, (1721-1770), General
*Sir Arthur Travers Harris, (1892-1984), airman
*Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (1726-1799), Admiral
*William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, (1729-1814), General in American Revolutionary War
*John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935), Admiral, World War I
*Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, (1850-1916), Field Marshal
*John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, (1680-1770), General
*George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (1800-1888), Commander of cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava
*John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, (1650-1722), soldier
*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
*Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, (1788-1855), British commander in the Crimean War
*Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, (1832-1914), Field Marshal, last Commander in Chief of the Forces
*Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
*Henry Seymour Conway, (1721-1795), General
*William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, (1897-1970), Commander in Burma during World War II, Governor-General of Australia.
*Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, (1858-1930), General, World War I
*Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (1883-1950), World War II general, second to last Viceroy of India
*Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ("The Iron Duke"), (1769-1852), Commander-in-Chief of the British Army (see also his entry under '''Politicians''')
*James Wolfe, (1727-1759), General, hero of Quebec
*Prince Frederick, Duke of York, (1763-1827), son of King George III of the United Kingdom/George III, commander in French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
*John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, (1852-1925), World War I general and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Monarchs
*Anne of Great Britain/Queen Anne, (1665-1714), also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of Great Britain after 1707
*Charles II of England/King Charles II, (1660-1685), also King of Scotland
*Edward I of England/King Edward I, (1272-1307), English monarch
*Edward III of England/King Edward III, (1327-1377), English monarch
*Edward IV of England/King Edward IV, (1461-1470 and 1471-1483), English monarch
*Edward V of England/King Edward V, (1470-1483?), English monarch
*Edward VI of England/King Edward VI, (1547-1553), first English Protestant monarch
*Edward VII of the United Kingdom/King Edward VII, (1841-1910)
*Edward VIII of the United Kingdom/King Edward VIII, (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
*Elizabeth I of England/Queen Elizabeth I, (1558-1603), Protestant queen and first ''Supreme Governor of the Church of England''
*Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom/Queen Elizabeth II, (born 1926) reigning monarch
*George III of the United Kingdom/King George III, (1801-1820), English, British monarch
*George IV of the United Kingdom/King George IV, (1762-1830)
*George V of the United Kingdom/King George V, (1910-1936), English, British monarch
*George VI of the United Kingdom/King George VI, (1895-1952), of England
*Henry III of England/King Henry III, (1207-1272), English monarch
*Henry IV of England/King Henry IV, (1367-1413), English monarch
*Henry VI of England/King Henry VI, (1421-1471), English monarch
*Henry VIII of England/King Henry VIII, (1491-1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholicism/Roman Catholic Church
*James II of England/King James II, (1685-1688), also King James VII of Scotland
*Mary I of England/Queen Mary I, (1553-1558), Roman Catholic queen
*Mary II of England/Queen Mary II, (1662-1694)
*Victoria of the United Kingdom/Queen Victoria, (1819-1901)
*William IV of the United Kingdom/King William IV, (1765-1837)
Musicians
*Malcolm Arnold, (born 1921), composer
*John Barbirolli, (1899-1970), conductor
*David Bedford, (born 1937), composer and musician
*Thomas Beecham, (1879-1961), conductor
*Harrison Birtwistle, (born 1934), composer
*Adrian Boult, (1889-1983), conductor
*Havergal Brian, (1876-1972), composer
*Benjamin Britten, (1913-1976), composer and pianist
*William Byrd, (1543-1623), composer
*Andrew Davis, (born 1944), conductor
*Colin Davis, (born 1927), conductor
*Frederick Delius, (1862-1934), composer
*John Dowland, (c. 1563-c. 1626), composer of songs
*John Dunstable, (c. 1383-1453), composer
*Edward Elgar, (1857-1934), composer
*Ron Goodwin, (1925-2003) composer and conductor
*George Harrison, (1943-2001), composer, member of the Beatles
*Gustav Holst, (1874-1934)), composer
*Olivia Newton-John, (born 1948), pop star
*Nigel Kennedy, (born 1956), violinist
*John Lennon, (1940-1980), pop star, co founder of the Beatles
*Andrew Lloyd Webber, (born 1948), composer of musicals
*Peter Maxwell Davies, (born 1934), composer
*Paul McCartney, (born 1942), pop star, co-founder of the Beatles
*Thomas Morley, (c. 1557-1602), consort composer
*Mike Oldfield, (b.1953), composer and instrumentalist
*Peter Pears, (1910-1986), tenor
*Jacqueline du Pré, (1945-1987), cellist
*Henry Purcell, (1659-1695), composer
*Simon Rattle, (born 1955), conductor
*Malcolm Sargent, (1895-1967), conductor
*Ringo Starr, (born 1940), composer, member of the Beatles
*Thomas Tallis, (c. 1505-1585), composer
*Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), composer
*Ralph Vaughan Williams, (1872-1958), composer
*William Walton, (1902-1983), composer
*Henry Wood, (1869-1944), conductor
Philosophers
*Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), philosopher and essayist
*Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832), philosopher
*Robert Boyle, (1627-1691), philosopher and physicist
*Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679), philosopher
*John Locke, (1632-1704), philosopher
*John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher
*William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349), philosopher
*Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970), philosopher
*William Whewell, (1794-1866), philosopher
*Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947), mathematician
*Bernard Williams, (1929-2003), philosopher
Politicians
*Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (1757-1844)
*Herbert Asquith/Herbert Henry Asquith, (1852-1928), British prime minister
*Clement Attlee, (1883-1967), British prime minister
*Stanley Baldwin, British prime minister
*Ernest Bevin
*Margaret Bondfield
*Rab Butler
*George Canning, (1770-1827), politician
*William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
*William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
*Sir Austen Chamberlain, (1863-1937)
*Joseph Chamberlain, (1836-1914)
*Neville Chamberlain, (1869-1940), British prime minister
*Lord Randolph Churchill, (1849-1895)
*Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister
*Kenneth Clarke
*Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
*Sir Stafford Cripps
*George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (1859-1925)
*Archibald Dalzel, (1740-1811), Governor of the Gold Coast (British colony)/Gold Coast
*Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, (1833-1908)
*Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (1799-1869)
*Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, (1826-1893)
*Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881), British prime minister
*Alec Douglas-Home, (1903-1995)
*Anthony Eden, (1897-1977), British prime minister
*Hugh Gaitskell, (1906-1963)
*William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898), British prime minister
*Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
*Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
*George Grenville, British prime minister
*William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville
*Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
*Denis Healey
*Edward Heath, British prime minister
*John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
*George Lansbury, (1859-1940)
*Nigel Lawson
*Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
*John Lubbock, (1834-1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
*Harold Macmillan, British prime minister
*John Major, (born 1943), British prime minister
*Reginald Maudling
*William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
*Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
*Frederick North, Lord North
* Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister
*Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British prime minister
*Henry Pelham
*Spencer Perceval
*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
*Enoch Powell
*Cecil Rhodes, (1853-1902), imperialist
*Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich/Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, (1782-1859)
*Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
*John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
*Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, (1837-1916)
*Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, (1830-1903)
*John Allsebrook Simon/John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, (1873-1954)
*Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, (1864-1937)
*Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), British prime minister
*Sir Robert Walpole, British prime minister
*Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), British prime minister
*William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist
*Henry Willink, (1894-1973), politician
*Harold Wilson, (1916-1995), British prime minister
Scientists
*Arthur Aikin, (1773-1854), chemist and mineralogist
*Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), mathematician
*Joseph Banks, (1743-1820), naturalist
*Thomas Bayes, (c. 1702-1761), mathematician
*Tim Berners-Lee, (born 1955), computer scientist
*George Boole, (1815-1864), mathematician
*Robert Boyle, (1627-1691), philosopher and physicist
*Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, (1897-1974), physicist
*Isaac Barrow, (1630-1677), mathematician
*Henry Cavendish, (1731-1810), scientist
*Sir George Cayley, (1773-1857), polymath and aviator
*Francis Crick, (1916 - 2004), molecular biologist
*John Dalton, (1766-1844), chemist and physicist
*Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
*Humphry Davy, (1778-1829), chemist
*Richard Dawkins, (born 1941), biologist
*Horace Donisthorpe (1870-1951), entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist
*Paul Dirac, (1902-1984), physicist
*Arthur Eddington, (1882-1944), physicist
*Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), scientist
*Ronald Fisher, (1890-1962), geneticist and statistician
*Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), molecular biologist
*J. B. S. Haldane, (1892-1964), geneticist
*Stephen Hawking, (born 1942), cosmologist
*Oliver Heaviside, (1850-1925), physicist
*C. A. R. Hoare, computer scientist
*Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), scientist
*John Herschel, (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer
*Edward Jenner, (1749-1823), doctor
*R. V. Jones, (1911-1997), physicist
*James Prescott Joule, (1818-1889), physicist
*Joseph Lister, (1827-1912), surgeon
*Bernard Lovell, 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, geneticist
*Desmond Morris, (born 1928), zoologist
*Roger Needham, (1935-2003), computer scientist
*Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, last of the alchemists
*Roger Penrose, (born 1931), cosmologist
*Joseph Prestwich, (1812-1896), geologist
*Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804), chemist
*Adam Sedgwick, (1785-1873), geologist
*Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914), physicist and chemist
*Joseph John Thomson/J. J. Thomson, (1856-1940), physicist
*Henry Tizard, scientist
*Alan Turing, (1912-1954), mathematician
*Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823-1913), naturalist
*Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), scientist
*Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947), mathematician
*Maurice Vincent Wilkes, (born 1913), computer scientist
*James H. Wilkinson, (1919-1986), mathematician
*William Hyde Wollaston, (1766-1828), chemist
*Thomas Young (scientist)/Thomas Young, (1773-1829), scientist
Sportsmen/sportswomen
*Harold Abrahams (1899-1978), athlete, one of the two subjects of ''Chariots of Fire''
*Roger Bannister (born 1929), first sub-four-minute miler
*Alan Ball (football player)/Alan Ball (born 1945), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Gordon Banks (born 1937), goalkeeper of Football World Cup 1966/1966 World Cup winning team
*David Beckham (born 1975), football player
*Ian Botham (born 1955), cricketer
*Geoffrey Boycott (born 1940), cricketer
*Sir Bobby Charlton (born 1937), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Jack Charlton (born 1935), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Don Cockell (born 1928), heavyweight boxer
*Sir Henry Cooper (boxer)/Henry Cooper (born 1934), heavyweight boxer
*Jonathan Edwards (sports)/Jonathan Edwards (born 1966), athlete (triple jump)
*Godfrey Evans (1920-1999), cricketer (wicket-keeper)
*James Figg, Boxing's first world champion
*Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917), boxing's first world champion in three divisions
*Paul Gascoigne (born 1967), football player
*Sir Steve Redgrave (born 1962), rower, winner of gold medal in five consecutive Olympics
*W. G. Grace (1848-1915), cricketer
*Naseem Hamed (born 1974), world champion featherweight boxer
*Ricky Hatton (born 1978), highly touted boxing prospect
*Sir Geoff Hurst (born 1941), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Len Hutton (1916-1990), cricketer
*Martin Johnson (born 1970), rugby player
*Dougie Lampkin, (born 1976), Motorcycle Trials World Champion
*Lennox Lewis (born 1965), world champion heavyweight boxer
*Gary Lineker (born 1960), football player
*George Mallory (1886-1924), mountaineer
*Nigel Mansell (born 1953), racing driver, F1 and CART champion
*Alan Minter (born 1951), world champion boxer
*Bobby Moore (1941-1993), captain of 1966 soccer World Cup winning team
*Michael Owen (born 1979), football player
*Fred Perry (1909-1995), Wimbledon champion tennis player
*Martin Peters (born 1943), 1966 football World Cup winner
*Paula Radcliffe (born 1973), athlete (distance runner)
*Sir Gordon Richards (1904-1988), jockey
*Alan Shearer (born 1970), football player
*Nobby Stiles (born 1942), football World Cup winner
*Randolph Turpin (1928-1966), middleweight boxer
*Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player
*Jonny Wilkinson (born 1979), rugby player
Writers
*Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
*David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
*W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
*Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
*Alan Ayckbourn, (b. 1939) playwright
*Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet
*Hilaire Belloc, (1870-1953), writer and poet
*John Betjeman, (1906-1984), poet laureate
*Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), author
*William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
*Robert Bolt, (1924-1995), dramitist and screenwriter. Wrote A Man For All Seasons
*Anne Brontë/Anne Bronte, (1820-1849), author
*Charlotte Brontë/Charlotte Bronte, (1816-1855), author
*Emily Brontë/Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), author
*Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915), poet
*Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), poet
*Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
*Anthony Buckeridge, (1912-2004) children's author
*John Bunyan, (1628-88), author
*Samuel Butler, (1835-1902), author
* George Gordon, Lord Byron
*Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), author of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''
*Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343-1400), poet, author of The Canterbury Tales.
*G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), author essayist
*Dame Agatha Christie, (1891-1976), mystery writer
*Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister, author
*John Clare, (1793-1864), poet.
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
*Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), novelist
*William Congreve (playwright)/William Congreve, (1670-1729), poet
*Walter de la Mare, (1873-1956),poet and novelist
*Daniel Defoe (or De Foe), (1660?1731), writer
*Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author
*John Donne], (1572-1631), poet.
*John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet
*Daphne Du Maurier, (190789), novelist
*George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
*T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), poet, playwright and Nobel prizewinner
*C.S. Forester, 1899-1966) author
*E. M. Forster/E.M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
*John Galsworthy, (1867-1933) author and dramatist
*Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
*William Golding, writer, Nobel prizewinner
*Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1931), author
*Robert Graves, (1895-1985), author
*Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
*Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author, writer
*Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), poet
*William Hazlitt, (1778-1830)
*Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1884-1889), poet
*Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
*A. E. Housman, (1859-1936),poet and scholar.
*Ted Hughes, 1930-1998), poet laureate.
*James Henry Leigh Hunt/Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
*Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
*Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term ''agnosticism''
* Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), humorist and playwright
*Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
*Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet
*John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
*Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), author
*Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
*D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
*Edward Lear, (1812-1888), artist, humourist and poet
*Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
*Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
*Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
*John Masefield, (1878-1967), poet laureate, and novelist
*William Somerset Maugham, (18741965), writer
*A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), author and poet
*John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
*Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973), novelist
*William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
*William Ralph Inge, clergyman, writer, mysticist
*Joe Orton, (1933-1967), dramatist
*George Orwell, (1903-1950), (Eric Blair), journalist and novelist
*John Osborne, (1929-1994), dramatist, wrote Look Back In Anger
*Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet
*Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist and public official in 17th century England
*Harold Pinter, (b. 1930), playwright
*Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
*Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943),author and illustrator
*J. B. Priestley, (1894-1984), dramatist and novelist
*Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
*Arthur Ransome, (18841967), author,
*Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), poet
*Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), poet
*J. K. Rowling (born 1965), author, creator of Harry Potter
*John Ruskin, (1819-1900), writer, critic and reformer
*Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
*Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer
*William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet
*Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
*Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
*Philip Sidney, (1554-1586), poet and soldier
*Edmund Spenser,(c. 1552-1599), poet. Wrote The Faerie Queene
*Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
*Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet and novelist
*Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
*Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
*Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
*William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-193), novelist
*Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novellist
*John Webster, (died 1630), poet
*Gilbert White, (1720-1795)
*P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), humorous author
*Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797), pioneer feminist known for her work ''A Vindication of the Rights of Woman''
*Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), author and feminist.
*William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), Romanticism/Romantic poet
Other Notables
*Douglas Adams (1952-2001), author, comic and radio dramatist
*Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 - 1159)
*David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
*Admiral Robert Blake/Robert Blake, (1599 - 1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral
*Capability Brown, (171583), landscape gardener
*William Camden, (1551-1623), historian
*William Caxton, (c. 1422-c. 1491), printer
*Sir Malcolm Campbell, (1885–1949), automobile and speedboat racer.
*Sir Francis Chichester, (1901-1972), yachtsman.
*James Cook, (1728-1779), British explorer
*Grace Darling, (1815-1842), heroine
*Thomas de Quincey
*Elizabeth Fry, (1780-1845), prison reformer
*Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), historian
*Gildas, (c. 510 - c.570), monk
*William Godwin, (1756-1836)
*Ebenezer Howard, (1850-1928), urban planner
*Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208?-1265). English statesman and soldier.
*Sir Patrick Moore, (1923-) Writer, T.V. Presenter, Astronomer.
*Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910), nurse
*Joshua A. Norton, (1811-1880), Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
*John Reith, (1889-1971), broadcaster
*John Speed, (1542-1629), historian and cartographer
*Wat Tyler, (?-1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381)
*William Wakefield, (1801-1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand
*William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), abolitionist
The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.
*Alistair Cooke, (1908-2004)
*Bob Hope, (1903-2003)
*Thomas Paine, (1737-1809)
See also: List of people by nationality, List of Britons, List of Welsh people, List of Scots, UK topics
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