| | | | |
Edwin A. Abbott |
Author |
20-Dec-1838 |
12-Oct-1926 |
Flatland |
Peter Ackroyd |
Author |
5-Oct-1949 |
|
The Great Fire of London |
Douglas Adams |
Author |
11-Mar-1952 |
11-May-2001 |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
John Couch Adams |
Astronomer |
5-Jun-1819 |
21-Jan-1892 |
Discovered planet Neptune |
Edgar Adrian |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1889 |
4-Aug-1977 |
Electricity within nerve cells |
Liaquat Ahamed |
Economist |
14-Nov-1952 |
|
Lords of Finance |
George Biddell Airy |
Astronomer |
27-Jul-1801 |
2-Jan-1892 |
British Astronomer Royal |
Mark Akenside |
Poet |
9-Nov-1721 |
23-Jun-1770 |
The Pleasures of the Imagination |
Christopher Alexander |
Architect |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order |
Gordon W. Allport |
Psychologist |
11-Nov-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation |
Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
Jon Amiel |
Film Director |
20-May-1948 |
|
Entrapment |
Mulk Raj Anand |
Novelist |
22-Dec-1905 |
28-Sep-2004 |
Untouchable |
Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
|
Solid state physics |
Ross Anderson |
Scholar |
15-Sep-1956 |
|
Why Cryptosystems Fail |
Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Philosopher |
8-May-1954 |
|
The Ethics of Identity |
Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
Michael Apted |
Film Director |
10-Feb-1941 |
|
Gorillas in the Mist |
John Arden |
Playwright |
26-Oct-1930 |
|
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance |
David Armitage |
Historian |
1965 |
|
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire |
Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
Roger Ascham |
Scholar |
1515 |
30-Dec-1568 |
The Scholemaster |
Francis W. Aston |
Chemist |
1-Sep-1877 |
20-Nov-1945 |
Invented the mass spectograph |
Michael Atiyah |
Mathematician |
22-Apr-1929 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
David Attenborough |
Naturalist |
8-May-1926 |
|
Life on Earth |
Richard Ayoade |
Actor |
12-Jun-1977 |
|
Dean Learner on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace |
Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
Charles Babbage |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1791 |
18-Oct-1871 |
Inventor of the Difference Engine |
Francis Bacon |
Philosopher |
22-Jan-1561 |
9-Apr-1626 |
Novum Organum |
Nathaniel Bacon |
Politician |
2-Jan-1647 |
26-Oct-1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion |
Martin N. Baily |
Economist |
1945 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-96, 1999-2001 |
Deborah Baker |
Author |
28-Mar-1959 |
|
In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding |
Stanley Baldwin |
Head of State |
3-Aug-1867 |
14-Dec-1947 |
UK Prime Minister three times |
Arthur Balfour |
Head of State |
25-Jul-1848 |
19-Mar-1930 |
UK Prime Minister, 1902-05 |
John Ball |
Naturalist |
20-Aug-1818 |
21-Oct-1889 |
Irish Alpinist |
J. G. Ballard |
Author |
18-Nov-1930 |
19-Apr-2009 |
Empire of the Sun, Crash |
Jamie Bamber |
Actor |
3-Apr-1973 |
|
Battlestar Galactica |
Charles Glover Barkla |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1877 |
23-Oct-1944 |
X-ray scattering |
Robert Bartlett |
Historian |
27-Nov-1950 |
|
The Making of Europe |
Gregory Bateson |
Anthropologist |
9-May-1904 |
4-Jul-1980 |
Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
William Bateson |
Biologist |
8-Aug-1861 |
8-Feb-1926 |
Founder of genetics |
Jacob D. Beam |
Diplomat |
24-Mar-1908 |
16-Aug-1993 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1969-73 |
R. Meredith Belbin |
Educator |
1926 |
|
Father of team-role theory |
David Bell |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005 |
Michael Bentley |
Historian |
8-Dec-1948 |
|
The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929 |
Richard Bentley |
Critic |
27-Jan-1662 |
14-Jul-1742 |
Reformed classical scholarship |
J. D. Bernal |
Physicist |
10-May-1901 |
15-Sep-1971 |
X-ray crystallography |
John Berryman |
Poet |
25-Oct-1914 |
7-Jan-1972 |
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet |
Sir Walter Besant |
Author |
14-Aug-1836 |
9-Jun-1901 |
All Sorts and Conditions of Men |
John Biffen |
Politician |
3-Nov-1930 |
14-Aug-2007 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1982-87 |
Thomas Bilney |
Religion |
c. 1495 |
19-Aug-1531 |
English martyr, influenced Latimer |
David Blackbourn |
Historian |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
Populists and Patricians |
Elizabeth H. Blackburn |
Scientist |
26-Nov-1948 |
|
Co-Discoverer of telomerase |
Patrick M. S. Blackett |
Physicist |
18-Nov-1897 |
13-Jul-1974 |
Cosmic radiation, continental drift |
Arthur Bliss |
Composer |
2-Aug-1891 |
28-Mar-1975 |
Morning Heroes |
Hans Blix |
Government |
28-Jun-1928 |
|
Weapons inspector before Iraq War |
Anthony Blunt |
Art Historian |
26-Sep-1907 |
26-Mar-1983 |
Art historian, Soviet spy |
Eavan Boland |
Poet |
24-Sep-1944 |
|
In a Time of Violence |
John G. Bolton |
Astronomer |
5-Jun-1922 |
6-Jul-1993 |
First Director of Parkes Observatory |
Hugh Bonneville |
Actor |
10-Nov-1963 |
|
Downton Abbey |
Max Born |
Physicist |
11-Dec-1882 |
5-Jan-1970 |
Pioneer of quantum mechanics |
J. C. Bose |
Botanist |
30-Nov-1858 |
23-Nov-1937 |
Plant physiology |
John Bossy |
Historian |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
Christianity in the West |
Steve Bourne |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
/bin/sh |
David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Brendan Bradshaw |
Historian |
28-May-1937 |
|
And So Began the Irish Nation |
Lawrence Bragg |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1890 |
1-Jul-1971 |
Bragg's Law of diffraction |
William Bragg |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1862 |
12-Mar-1942 |
Analyzed crystal structures |
E. R. Braithwaite |
Novelist |
27-Jun-1912 |
|
To Sir, with Love |
John Brewer |
Historian |
22-Mar-1947 |
|
The Sinews of Power |
William Bridgeman |
Politician |
31-Dec-1864 |
14-Aug-1935 |
UK Home Secretary, 1922-24 |
Leon Brittan |
Politician |
25-Sep-1939 |
21-Jan-2015 |
UK Home Secretary, 1983-85 |
Eleanor Bron |
Actor |
14-Mar-1934 |
|
A Touch of Love |
Lyndon Brook |
Actor |
10-Apr-1926 |
9-Jan-2004 |
Reach for the Sky |
Rupert Brooke |
Poet |
3-Aug-1887 |
23-Apr-1915 |
1914 and Other Poems |
Ernest W. Brown |
Astronomer |
29-Nov-1866 |
22-Jul-1938 |
Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
John Browne |
Business |
20-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 |
Stanley Bruce |
Head of State |
15-Apr-1883 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29 |
John Bull |
Composer |
c. 1562 |
12-Mar-1628 |
English composer and organist |
Edward Bullard |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1907 |
3-Apr-1980 |
Continental drift, magnetic fields |
Claus von Bulow |
Socialite |
11-Aug-1926 |
|
Allegedly tried to kill wife Sunny |
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
Novelist |
25-May-1803 |
18-Jan-1873 |
The Last Days of Pompeii |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Astronomer |
15-Jul-1943 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
Thomas Burnet |
Religion |
1635 |
27-Sep-1715 |
Telluris Tehoria Sacra |
Andrew Burnham |
Politician |
7-Jan-1970 |
|
British MP, Leigh |
Janet Burroway |
Novelist |
21-Sep-1936 |
|
The Dancer from the Dance |
Charles W. Burson |
Attorney |
c. 1944 |
|
Al Gore's Chief of Staff, 1999-2001 |
Rab Butler |
Politician |
9-Dec-1902 |
8-Mar-1982 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64 |
Samuel Butler |
Author |
4-Dec-1835 |
18-Jun-1902 |
Erewheon |
Samuel Butler |
Scholar |
30-Jan-1774 |
4-Dec-1839 |
Headmaster of Shrewsbury School |
Herbert Butterfield |
Historian |
7-Oct-1900 |
20-Jul-1979 |
The Whig Interpretation of History |
Stewart Butterfield |
Business |
1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Flickr |
A. S. Byatt |
Critic |
24-Aug-1936 |
|
Possession |
Lord Byron |
Poet |
22-Jan-1788 |
19-Apr-1824 |
English romantic poet |
Vincent Cable |
Politician |
9-May-1943 |
|
British MP, Twickenham |
José A. Cabranes |
Judge |
22-Dec-1940 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
John Caius |
Doctor |
6-Oct-1510 |
29-Jul-1573 |
Second founder of Gonville and Caius College |
Jonathan Cake |
Actor |
31-Aug-1967 |
|
The One and Only |
A. E. Campbell |
Historian |
12-May-1929 |
2002 |
Great Britain and the United States |
Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1836 |
22-Apr-1908 |
UK Prime Minister, 1905-08 |
Thomas Campion |
Composer |
12-Feb-1567 |
1-Mar-1620 |
English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres |
David Cannadine |
Historian |
7-Sep-1950 |
|
Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy |
E. H. Carr |
Historian |
28-Jun-1892 |
3-Nov-1982 |
The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939 |
Robert Carr |
Politician |
11-Nov-1916 |
17-Feb-2012 |
UK Home Secretary, 1972-74 |
Thomas Cartwright |
Religion |
c. 1535 |
27-Dec-1603 |
English Puritan divine |
Edmund Castell |
Lexicographer |
1606 |
1685 |
Lexicon Heptaglotton |
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh |
Politician |
18-Jun-1769 |
12-Aug-1822 |
Architected Napoleon's defeat |
James McKeen Cattell |
Psychologist |
24-May-1860 |
20-Jan-1944 |
Academic freedom |
Paul Cavanagh |
Actor |
8-Dec-1888 |
15-Mar-1964 |
The Scarlet Claw |
Andrew Cavendish |
Aristocrat |
2-Jan-1920 |
3-May-2004 |
11th Duke of Devonshire |
Henry Cavendish |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1731 |
24-Feb-1810 |
Discovered hydrogen |
William Cecil |
Government |
13-Sep-1520 |
5-Aug-1598 |
Closest advisor to Elizabeth I |
David Cesarani |
Historian |
13-Nov-1956 |
25-Oct-2015 |
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes |
Lord Chadlington |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of Huntsworth |
James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
Ernst B. Chain |
Scientist |
19-Jun-1906 |
12-Aug-1979 |
Isolated penicillin |
Austen Chamberlain |
Politician |
16-Oct-1863 |
16-Mar-1937 |
British pol, Nobel Prize recipient |
Alexander Chancellor |
Editor |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Editor of The Spectator, 1975-84 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Astronomer |
19-Oct-1910 |
21-Aug-1995 |
Evolutionary stages of stars |
Ha-Joon Chang |
Economist |
7-Oct-1963 |
|
Kicking Away the Ladder |
Graham Chapman |
Comic |
8-Jan-1941 |
4-Oct-1989 |
Monty Python's King Arthur |
Sydney Chapman |
Mathematician |
29-Jan-1888 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Geomagnetism |
Prince Charles |
Royalty |
14-Nov-1948 |
|
Heir to the throne of Britain |
Leslie Charteris |
Novelist |
12-May-1907 |
15-Apr-1993 |
Created Simon Templar |
Ron Chernow |
Author |
3-Mar-1949 |
|
The Warburgs and Alexander Hamilton |
John Chisholm |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Chairman of QinetiQ |
Charles Chree |
Astronomer |
5-May-1860 |
12-Aug-1928 |
Geomagnetic phenomena |
Charles Churchill |
Poet |
1731 |
4-Nov-1764 |
Rosciad |
A. J. Clark |
Scientist |
19-Aug-1885 |
30-Jul-1941 |
Drug responses |
J. C. D. Clark |
Historian |
28-Feb-1951 |
|
English Society, 1688-1832 |
Charles Clarke |
Politician |
21-Sep-1950 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 2004-06 |
David L. Clarke |
Archaeologist |
3-Nov-1937 |
27-Jun-1976 |
Analytical Archaeology |
John Clarke |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1942 |
|
Superconducting quantum interference |
Kenneth Clarke |
Politician |
2-Jul-1940 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993-97 |
Samuel Clarke |
Philosopher |
11-Oct-1675 |
17-May-1729 |
Newtonian theologian |
John Cleese |
Comic |
27-Oct-1939 |
|
Monty Python |
Nick Clegg |
Politician |
7-Jan-1967 |
|
Leader of the Liberal Democrats |
Paul Clement |
Government |
24-Jun-1966 |
|
US Solicitor General, 2005-08 |
John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
Christopher Cockerell |
Inventor |
4-Jun-1910 |
1-Jun-1999 |
Hovercraft |
Jonathan Coe |
Novelist |
19-Aug-1961 |
|
What a Carve Up! |
Sacha Baron Cohen |
Comic |
13-Oct-1971 |
|
Boyakasha! Respec |
Nicholas Coleridge |
Business |
1957 |
|
Managing Director, Condé Nast |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poet |
21-Oct-1772 |
25-Jul-1834 |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Linda Colley |
Historian |
13-Sep-1949 |
|
Britons: Forging the Nation |
Anthony Collins |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1676 |
13-Dec-1729 |
A Discourse on Freethinking |
Olivia Colman |
Actor |
30-Jan-1974 |
|
Sophie Chapman on Peep Show |
Alex Comfort |
Doctor |
10-Feb-1920 |
26-Mar-2000 |
The Joy of Sex |
Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
John Conway |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1937 |
|
Game of Life |
Peter Cook |
Comic |
19-Nov-1937 |
9-Jan-1995 |
Bedazzled |
Alistair Cooke |
Journalist |
20-Nov-1908 |
29-Mar-2004 |
Alistair Cooke's America |
Stuart Corbridge |
Geographer |
11-Apr-1957 |
|
Debt and Development |
Allan M. Cormack |
Physicist |
23-Feb-1924 |
7-May-1998 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
E. J. H. Corner |
Botanist |
12-Jan-1906 |
14-Sep-1996 |
Durian theory |
Charles Cornwallis |
Military |
31-Dec-1738 |
5-Oct-1805 |
Surrendered at Yorktown |
John Costello |
Author |
3-May-1943 |
26-Aug-1995 |
The Pacific War |
John Cotton |
Religion |
4-Dec-1585 |
23-Dec-1652 |
First Church of Boston |
Robert Cotton |
Scholar |
22-Jan-1571 |
6-May-1631 |
Cottonian Library |
Christian Coulson |
Actor |
3-Oct-1978 |
|
Tom Riddle in Harry Potter |
Jo Cox |
Politician |
22-Jun-1974 |
16-Jun-2016 |
British MP, Batley and Spen, assassinated |
Gregory B. Craig |
Attorney |
4-Mar-1945 |
|
White House Counsel, 2009 |
Thomas Cranmer |
Religion |
2-Jul-1489 |
21-Mar-1556 |
First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury |
F. Marion Crawford |
Novelist |
2-Aug-1854 |
9-Apr-1909 |
Whosoever Shall Offend |
Henry Page Croft |
Politician |
22-Jun-1881 |
7-Dec-1947 |
British Under-Secretary of War, 1940-45 |
Oliver Cromwell |
Government |
25-Apr-1599 |
3-Sep-1658 |
Lord Protector of England 1653-58 |
Aleister Crowley |
Religion |
12-Oct-1875 |
1-Dec-1947 |
Wickedest man in the world |
Roger Crowley |
Historian |
28-Jun-1951 |
|
Empires of the Sea |
Ralph Cudworth |
Philosopher |
1617 |
26-Jun-1688 |
Intellectual System of the Universe |
John Culver |
Politician |
8-Aug-1932 |
|
US Senator from Iowa, 1974-81 |
Barry Cunliffe |
Archaeologist |
10-Dec-1939 |
|
Iron Age Communities in Britain |
Tim Curry |
Actor |
19-Apr-1946 |
|
Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show |
Sir Simonds D'Ewes |
Curator |
18-Dec-1602 |
18-Apr-1650 |
Journals of all the Parliaments |
Henry Dale |
Scientist |
9-Jun-1875 |
23-Jul-1968 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
Erasmus Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Dec-1731 |
18-Apr-1802 |
English naturalist, very bad poet |
George Darwin |
Astronomer |
9-Jul-1845 |
7-Dec-1912 |
Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system |
Clement Davies |
Politician |
19-Feb-1884 |
23-Mar-1962 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1945-56 |
Paul Davies |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1946 |
|
The Mind of God |
Andrew Davis |
Conductor |
2-Feb-1944 |
|
Music Director, Lyric Opera of Chicago |
Richard Dawes |
Scholar |
1708 |
21-Mar-1766 |
Miscellanea Critica |
John Day |
Playwright |
1574 |
c. 1640 |
The Parliament of Bees |
Alain de Botton |
Author |
20-Dec-1969 |
|
The Architecture of Happiness |
Aubrey de Grey |
Biologist |
20-Apr-1963 |
|
Researcher of regenerative medicine |
Augustus De Morgan |
Mathematician |
27-Jun-1806 |
18-Mar-1871 |
De Morgan's Laws |
John Dennis |
Critic |
1657 |
6-Jan-1734 |
The Usefulness of the Stage |
Delia Derbyshire |
Electronic Musician |
5-May-1937 |
3-Jul-2001 |
Constructed the Doctor Who theme |
Jared Diamond |
Scientist |
10-Sep-1937 |
|
Guns, Germs and Steel |
Lincoln Diaz-Balart |
Politician |
13-Aug-1954 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1993-2011 |
Paul Dirac |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1902 |
20-Oct-1984 |
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
Avinash K. Dixit |
Economist |
6-Aug-1944 |
|
Investment Under Uncertainty |
Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
12-Sep-2013 |
Inventor of Dolby stereo |
John Donne |
Poet |
1572 |
31-Mar-1631 |
Anniversaries |
Margaret Drabble |
Novelist |
5-Jun-1939 |
|
The Millstone |
Nick Drake |
Singer/Songwriter |
19-Jun-1948 |
25-Nov-1974 |
Pink Moon |
John Dryden |
Poet |
19-Aug-1631 |
1-May-1700 |
Absalom and Achitophel |
Will Durant |
Historian |
5-Nov-1885 |
7-Nov-1981 |
The Story of Civilization |
Frank W. Dyson |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1868 |
25-May-1939 |
Six pips on the BBC |
Freeman Dyson |
Physicist |
15-Dec-1923 |
|
Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study |
Terry Eagleton |
Critic |
22-Feb-1943 |
|
Literary Theory: An Introduction |
Abba Eban |
Government |
2-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-2002 |
Foreign Minister of Israel, 1966-74 |
Myron Ebell |
Activist |
1953 |
|
Global Warming cynic |
Richard Eberhart |
Poet |
5-Apr-1904 |
9-Jun-2005 |
Collected Poems |
Arthur Eddington |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1882 |
22-Nov-1944 |
Eddington luminosity |
James Chuter Ede |
Politician |
11-Sep-1882 |
11-Nov-1965 |
UK Home Secretary, 1945-51 |
King Edward VII |
Royalty |
9-Nov-1841 |
6-May-1910 |
King of England, 1901-1910 |
Prince Edward |
Royalty |
10-Mar-1964 |
|
The Earl of Wessex |
Robert G. Edwards |
Scientist |
27-Sep-1925 |
10-Apr-2013 |
In vitro fertilization |
Jennifer Egan |
Novelist |
6-Sep-1962 |
|
A Visit from the Goon Squad |
Herb Elliott |
Track and Field |
25-Feb-1938 |
|
Middle distance runner |
Daniel Ellsberg |
Government |
7-Apr-1931 |
|
Pentagon Papers source |
Mark Elvin |
Historian |
18-Aug-1938 |
|
The Pattern of the Chinese Past |
William Empson |
Critic |
27-Sep-1906 |
15-Apr-1984 |
Seven Types of Ambiguity |
Martin Evans |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1941 |
|
Embryonic stem cells |
Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
Rona Fairhead |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
CEO of Financial Times Group |
Richard Fanshawe |
Poet |
1608 |
16-Jun-1666 |
Translator of Camões |
Julian Fellowes |
Actor |
17-Aug-1949 |
|
Shadowlands |
Niall Ferguson |
Historian |
18-Apr-1964 |
|
The House of Rothschild |
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. |
Government |
28-Oct-1951 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF |
Marshall Field III |
Business |
28-Sep-1893 |
8-Nov-1956 |
Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times |
Orlando Figes |
Historian |
20-Nov-1959 |
|
A People's Tragedy |
Antony Fisher |
Activist |
1915 |
Jul-1988 |
Libertarian think-tank founder |
John Fisher |
Religion |
19-Oct-1469 |
22-Jun-1535 |
Saint John Fisher, executed by Henry VIII |
Ronald Fisher |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1890 |
29-Jul-1962 |
Analysis of variance and covariance |
John Flamsteed |
Astronomer |
19-Aug-1646 |
31-Dec-1719 |
Founder of Greenwich Observatory |
John Ambrose Fleming |
Engineer |
29-Nov-1849 |
19-Apr-1945 |
Invented the vacuum tube |
John Fletcher |
Playwright |
1579 |
29-Aug-1625 |
Collaborator with Francis Beaumont |
Howard Florey |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1898 |
21-Feb-1968 |
Isolated penicillin |
Mary Parker Follett |
Business |
3-Sep-1868 |
18-Dec-1933 |
Community centers and conflict resolution |
Sarah Foot |
Historian |
23-Feb-1961 |
|
Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England |
Trent Ford |
Actor |
16-Jan-1979 |
|
How to Deal |
E. M. Forster |
Author |
1-Jan-1879 |
7-Jun-1970 |
Howards End |
John Forster |
Author |
2-Apr-1812 |
2-Feb-1876 |
Life of Charles Dickens |
Richard Fortey |
Paleontologist |
1946 |
|
Trilobites and graptolites |
Dian Fossey |
Anthropologist |
16-Jan-1932 |
26-Dec-1985 |
Gorillas in the Mist |
Norman Fowler |
Politician |
2-Feb-1938 |
|
Former MP, now Baron Fowler |
William A. Fowler |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1911 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Element generation within stars |
Joseph S. Francisco |
Chemist |
1955 |
|
Atmospheric chemist |
Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist |
25-Jul-1920 |
16-Apr-1958 |
Photographed DNA's structure |
Peter Fraser |
Politician |
29-May-1945 |
23-Jun-2013 |
Baron Fraser of Carmyllie |
Sir James Frazer |
Anthropologist |
1-Jan-1854 |
7-May-1941 |
The Golden Bough |
Fred Frith |
Guitarist |
2-Feb-1949 |
|
Avant garde rock guitarist |
David Frost |
Journalist |
7-Apr-1939 |
31-Aug-2013 |
BBC's Breakfast with Frost |
Stephen Fry |
Actor |
24-Aug-1957 |
|
Jeeves and Wooster |
John H. Gaddum |
Scientist |
31-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1965 |
Drug antagonism |
James K. Galbraith |
Scholar |
29-Jan-1952 |
|
Economics Professor at UT-Austin |
Francis Galton |
Anthropologist |
16-Feb-1822 |
17-Jan-1911 |
Word Association Test |
Stephen Gardiner |
Religion |
c. 1493 |
12-Nov-1555 |
English bishop, statesman |
David J. Garrow |
Historian |
11-May-1953 |
|
Bearing the Cross |
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Author |
16-Sep-1950 |
|
The Signifying Monkey |
Michael Geist |
Blogger |
11-Jul-1968 |
|
Internet law professor, University of Ottawa |
Leo Genn |
Actor |
9-Aug-1905 |
26-Jan-1978 |
Quo Vadis |
Gwilym Lloyd George |
Politician |
4-Dec-1894 |
14-Feb-1967 |
UK Home Secretary, 1954-57 |
Ivar Giaever |
Physicist |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Tunneling through superconductors |
Anthony Giddens |
Sociologist |
18-Jan-1938 |
|
New Rules of Sociological Method |
Walter Gilbert |
Chemist |
21-Mar-1932 |
|
Sequencing techniques for DNA |
William Gilbert |
Physicist |
24-May-1544 |
10-Dec-1603 |
De Magnete |
Anton Gill |
Author |
22-Oct-1948 |
|
The Journey Back From Hell |
John Gilmour |
Politician |
27-May-1876 |
30-Mar-1940 |
UK Home Secretary, 1932-35 |
Joscelyn Godwin |
Historian |
16-Jan-1945 |
|
Historian of the esoteric |
Thomas Gold |
Scientist |
22-May-1920 |
22-Jun-2004 |
Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel |
Maurice Goldhaber |
Physicist |
18-Apr-1911 |
11-May-2011 |
Neutrons |
Ralph E. Gomory |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
George Peabody Gooch |
Historian |
21-Oct-1873 |
31-Aug-1968 |
English Democratic Ideas in the 17th Century |
Jane Goodall |
Naturalist |
3-Apr-1934 |
|
Primate researcher |
Thomas Gray |
Poet |
26-Dec-1716 |
30-Jul-1771 |
An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard |
Stephen Greenblatt |
Critic |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
The Swerve |
Robert Greene |
Playwright |
Jul-1558 |
3-Sep-1592 |
Friar Bacon |
Meg Greenfield |
Journalist |
27-Dec-1930 |
13-May-1999 |
The Washington Post |
Paul Greengard |
Scientist |
11-Dec-1925 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
Paul Greengrass |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1955 |
|
The Bourne Supremacy |
Germaine Greer |
Activist |
29-Jan-1939 |
|
Feminism Diva |
Richard Gregory |
Psychologist |
24-Jul-1923 |
17-May-2010 |
Optical illusions and "hands-on" science |
Sir Thomas Gresham |
Business |
1518 |
21-Nov-1579 |
Founder of Gresham College |
Nehemiah Grew |
Botanist |
26-Sep-1641 |
25-Mar-1712 |
Anatomy of Plants |
Ernest Howard Griffiths |
Physicist |
15-Jun-1851 |
3-Mar-1932 |
The Thermal Measurement of Energy |
Nicholas Grimald |
Poet |
1519 |
1559 |
Songes and Sonettes |
John Guillermin |
Film Director |
11-Nov-1925 |
27-Sep-2015 |
The Bridge at Remagen |
John Gummer |
Politician |
26-Nov-1939 |
|
British MP, Suffolk Coastal |
Thom Gunn |
Poet |
29-Aug-1929 |
25-Apr-2004 |
The Man with Night Sweats |
Ian Hacking |
Philosopher |
18-Feb-1936 |
|
The Taming of Chance |
Christopher Haigh |
Historian |
28-Aug-1944 |
|
English Reformations |
Stephen Hales |
Scientist |
7-Sep-1677 |
4-Jan-1761 |
Statical Essays |
Edward Hall |
Historian |
c. 1495 |
1547 |
English chronicler |
Joseph Hall |
Author |
1-Jul-1574 |
8-Sep-1656 |
Virgidemiarum |
Peter Hall |
Educator |
19-Mar-1932 |
|
Cities in Civilization |
Peter Hall |
Theater Director |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Work Is a 4-Letter Word |
Rebecca Hall |
Actor |
3-May-1982 |
|
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
John Halliday |
Actor |
14-Sep-1880 |
17-Oct-1947 |
The Philadelphia Story |
Robert Hamer |
Film Director |
31-Mar-1911 |
4-Dec-1963 |
Kind Hearts and Coronets |
Nigel Hamilton |
Author |
16-Feb-1944 |
|
JFK: Reckless Youth |
G. H. Hardy |
Mathematician |
7-Feb-1877 |
1-Dec-1947 |
A Mathematician's Apology |
David Hare |
Playwright |
5-Jun-1947 |
|
Racing Demon |
Sir John Harington |
Author |
1561 |
20-Nov-1612 |
The Metamorphosis of Ajax |
Joanne Harris |
Novelist |
3-Jul-1964 |
|
Chocolat |
Naomie Harris |
Actor |
6-Sep-1976 |
|
Pirates of the Caribbean |
Robert Harris |
Author |
7-Mar-1957 |
|
Fatherland |
Roy Harrod |
Economist |
13-Feb-1900 |
9-Mar-1978 |
Towards a Dynamic Economics |
Basil Liddell Hart |
Military |
31-Oct-1895 |
29-Jan-1970 |
Military strategist |
David Hartley |
Philosopher |
8-Aug-1705 |
28-Aug-1757 |
Theory of associationism |
Samuel Hartlib |
Scholar |
c. 1600 |
c. 1662 |
Influential German-English man of letters |
John Harvard |
Religion |
26-Nov-1607 |
14-Sep-1638 |
Bequest to Harvard College |
William Harvey |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1578 |
3-Jun-1657 |
Discovered circulation of blood |
Martin Harwit |
Astronomer |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy |
Eric A. Havelock |
Scholar |
3-Jun-1903 |
4-Apr-1988 |
Preface to Plato |
Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Wheelchair-bound physicist |
Norman G. Heatley |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1911 |
5-Jan-2004 |
Isolated penicillin |
Tony Hendra |
Comic |
1941 |
|
National Lampoon |
George Herbert |
Poet |
3-Apr-1593 |
1-Mar-1633 |
The Temple |
Robert Herrick |
Poet |
1591 |
Oct-1674 |
Hesperides |
John Herschel |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1792 |
11-May-1871 |
Discovered many moons of Saturn |
John Hersey |
Novelist |
17-Jun-1914 |
24-Mar-1993 |
A Bell for Adano |
Chaim Herzog |
Head of State |
17-Sep-1918 |
17-Apr-1997 |
President of Israel, 1983-93 |
Antony Hewish |
Astronomer |
11-May-1924 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
John R. Hicks |
Economist |
8-Apr-1904 |
20-May-1989 |
Value and Capital |
Tom Hiddleston |
Actor |
9-Feb-1981 |
|
Thor |
Raymond Hide |
Physicist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
Archibald V. Hill |
Scientist |
26-Sep-1886 |
3-Jun-1977 |
Studied muscles and nerves |
Carole Hillenbrand |
Historian |
1943 |
|
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives |
James Hilton |
Novelist |
9-Sep-1900 |
20-Dec-1954 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
F. H. Hinsley |
Historian |
26-Nov-1918 |
16-Feb-1998 |
Cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park |
Peter B. Hirsch |
Scientist |
16-Jan-1925 |
|
Electron microscopy in metallurgy |
Benjamin Hoadly |
Religion |
14-Nov-1676 |
17-Apr-1761 |
Anglican Bishop and controversialist |
Eric Hobsbawm |
Historian |
9-Jun-1917 |
1-Oct-2012 |
The Age of Revolution |
Alan L. Hodgkin |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1914 |
20-Dec-1998 |
Electrical impulses in nerves |
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chemist |
12-May-1910 |
29-Jul-1994 |
Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
William Holder |
Musicologist |
1616 |
24-Jan-1698 |
Music theorist |
Tom Holland |
Author |
5-Jan-1968 |
|
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic |
Tom Hollander |
Actor |
25-Aug-1967 |
|
Gosford Park |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author |
29-Aug-1809 |
7-Oct-1894 |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
Matthew Holness |
Comic |
? |
|
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace |
Thomas Hooker |
Religion |
7-Jul-1586 |
7-Jul-1647 |
American colonial Puritan leader |
Geoff Hoon |
Politician |
6-Dec-1953 |
|
UK Minister of Defence, 1999-2005 |
Frederick Hopkins |
Scientist |
20-Jun-1861 |
16-May-1947 |
Discovered vitamins |
John Hopkinson |
Engineer |
27-Jul-1849 |
27-Aug-1898 |
English electrical engineer |
Nick Hornby |
Author |
17-Apr-1957 |
|
High Fidelity |
Alistair Horne |
Historian |
9-Nov-1925 |
|
Seven Ages of Paris |
Jeremiah Horrocks |
Astronomer |
1619 |
3-Jan-1641 |
Observed transit of Venus |
Outerbridge Horsey |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1910 |
18-Aug-1983 |
US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1963-66 |
Edward Horsman |
Politician |
1807 |
30-Nov-1876 |
Scottish parliamentarian |
Fenton J. A. Hort |
Religion |
23-Apr-1828 |
30-Nov-1892 |
Translator of the New Testament |
Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
Michael Howard |
Politician |
7-Jul-1941 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1993-97 |
Geoffrey Howe |
Politician |
20-Dec-1926 |
9-Oct-2015 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1983-89 |
John Howe |
Religion |
17-May-1630 |
2-Apr-1706 |
The Living Temple |
David Howell |
Politician |
18-Jan-1936 |
|
Former MP, Guildford |
Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
Arianna Huffington |
Columnist |
15-Jul-1950 |
|
The Huffington Post |
Ted Hughes |
Poet |
16-Aug-1930 |
28-Oct-1998 |
Crow |
T. E. Hulme |
Poet |
16-Sep-1883 |
28-Sep-1917 |
Modernist poet and critic |
Tim Hunt |
Scientist |
19-Feb-1943 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
Douglas Hurd |
Politician |
8-Mar-1930 |
|
Former UK Home, Foreign Secretary |
Waris Hussein |
Film Director |
9-Dec-1938 |
|
Melody |
Andrew F. Huxley |
Scientist |
22-Nov-1917 |
30-May-2012 |
Electrical impulses in nerves |
Michael Ignatieff |
Author |
12-May-1947 |
|
Blood and Belonging |
David Ignatius |
Columnist |
1950 |
|
Washington Post op-ed columnist |
Andy Inglis |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
BP's head of exploration & production, 2007-10 |
Christopher Isherwood |
Author |
26-Aug-1904 |
4-Jan-1986 |
The Berlin Stories |
Derek Jacobi |
Actor |
22-Oct-1938 |
|
Claudius on I, Claudius |
M. R. James |
Author |
1-Aug-1862 |
12-Jun-1936 |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
Lisa Jardine |
Historian |
12-Apr-1944 |
25-Oct-2015 |
Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse |
James H. Jeans |
Astronomer |
11-Sep-1877 |
16-Sep-1946 |
Continuous creation theory |
Patrick Jenkin |
Politician |
7-Sep-1926 |
|
Former MP, Wanstead and Woodford |
David L. Johnston |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
President, University of Waterloo |
G. Lewis Jones |
Diplomat |
18-May-1907 |
13-Nov-1971 |
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1956-59 |
Griff Rhys Jones |
Actor |
6-Nov-1953 |
|
Alas Smith & Jones |
Simon Jones |
Actor |
27-Jul-1950 |
|
Arthur Dent on radio Hitchhiker's Guide |
Ben Jonson |
Playwright |
11-Jun-1572 |
6-Aug-1637 |
Volpone |
Brian D. Josephson |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Discovered the Josephson Effect |
Tony Judt |
Historian |
2-Jan-1948 |
6-Aug-2010 |
Postwar |
Nicholas Kaldor |
Economist |
12-May-1908 |
30-Sep-1986 |
An Expenditure Tax |
Pyotr Kapitsa |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1894 |
8-Apr-1984 |
Discovered superfluidity |
Steven T. Katz |
Author |
12-Aug-1944 |
|
Professor of Religion |
Barry J. Kemp |
Archaeologist |
1940 |
|
Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation |
John C. Kendrew |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1917 |
23-Aug-1997 |
Determined structure of myoglobin |
Otto Kerner |
Politician |
15-Aug-1908 |
9-May-1976 |
Governor of Illinois, 1961-68 |
Roy Kerr |
Mathematician |
16-May-1934 |
|
Rotating black holes |
John Maynard Keynes |
Economist |
5-Jun-1883 |
21-Apr-1946 |
Father of Keynesian economics |
Ancel Keys |
Scientist |
26-Jan-1904 |
20-Nov-2004 |
Nutritionist, created the K ration |
H. Gobind Khorana |
Scientist |
9-Jan-1922 |
9-Nov-2011 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
Aaron Klug |
Chemist |
11-Aug-1926 |
|
Structural analysis of viruses |
Georges J.F. Köhler |
Scientist |
17-Apr-1946 |
1-Mar-1995 |
Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies) |
John A. Koskinen |
Business |
30-Jun-1939 |
|
President, US Soccer Foundation |
Howard J. Krongard |
Government |
12-Dec-1940 |
|
US State Dept Inspector General |
Imre Lakatos |
Philosopher |
9-Nov-1922 |
2-Feb-1974 |
Philosopher of Science and Mathematics |
Anthony Lake |
Government |
2-Apr-1939 |
|
Clinton's National Security Advisor |
Norman Lamont |
Politician |
8-May-1942 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1990-93 |
Lev Landau |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1908 |
1-Apr-1968 |
Superfluidity of helium |
Ian Lang |
Politician |
27-Jun-1940 |
|
British MP for Galloway, 1979-97 |
Paul Langevin |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1872 |
19-Dec-1946 |
Studied piezoelectricity |
Lewis Lapham |
Editor |
8-Jan-1935 |
|
Editor Emeritus, Harper's |
Peter Laslett |
Historian |
18-Dec-1915 |
8-Nov-2001 |
The World We Have Lost |
Hugh Latimer |
Religion |
c. 1490 |
16-Oct-1555 |
English Reformation |
Hugh Laurie |
Actor |
11-Jun-1959 |
|
Jeeves and Wooster, House |
William Law |
Religion |
1686 |
9-Apr-1761 |
Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life |
Louis Leakey |
Anthropologist |
7-Aug-1903 |
1-Oct-1972 |
Discovered Homo Habilis |
Nathaniel Lee |
Playwright |
c. 1653 |
6-May-1692 |
The Rival Queens |
John F. Lehman |
Politician |
14-Sep-1942 |
|
9-11 Commission member |
John Lehmann |
Poet |
2-Jun-1907 |
7-Apr-1987 |
Thrown to the Woolfs |
Stanford E. Lehmberg |
Historian |
23-Sep-1931 |
14-Jun-2012 |
Sir Thomas Elyot: Tudor Humanist |
Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
Brian Lenihan |
Politician |
21-May-1959 |
10-Jun-2011 |
Irish Finance Minister, 2008-11 |
Mark Leonard |
Author |
27-Aug-1974 |
|
What Does China Think? |
Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
Ralph Lerner |
Scholar |
2-May-1928 |
|
The Thinking Revolutionary |
Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
David K. P. Li |
Business |
13-Mar-1939 |
|
CEO, Bank of East Asia |
Selwyn Lloyd |
Politician |
28-Jul-1904 |
18-May-1978 |
Speaker, House of Commons, 1971-76 |
Louise Lombard |
Actor |
13-Sep-1970 |
|
Sofia Curtis on CSI |
Lee Hsien Loong |
Head of State |
10-Feb-1952 |
|
Prime Minister of Singapore |
Graham Love |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of QinetiQ |
Malcolm Lowry |
Novelist |
28-Jul-1909 |
27-Jun-1957 |
Under the Volcano |
André Lwoff |
Scientist |
8-May-1902 |
30-Sep-1994 |
Operon theory of genetic control |
Michael Lynch |
Business |
1965 |
|
Founder and CEO of Autonomy Corporation |
Donald Lynden-Bell |
Astronomer |
5-Apr-1935 |
|
Astrophysicist at Cambridge |
Jonathan Lynn |
Screenwriter |
3-Apr-1943 |
|
Yes, Minister |
Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Historian |
25-Oct-1800 |
28-Dec-1859 |
History of England |
Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Historian |
31-Oct-1951 |
|
Reformation: Europe's House Divided |
Alan G. MacDiarmid |
Chemist |
14-Apr-1927 |
7-Feb-2007 |
Metallic polymers |
Heather Mac Donald |
Columnist |
c. 1956 |
|
Neoconservative bombthrower |
Ian MacDonald |
Critic |
3-Oct-1948 |
20-Aug-2003 |
Revolution in the Head |
Donald Maclean |
Spy |
25-May-1913 |
6-Mar-1983 |
Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five |
Fitzroy Maclean |
Politician |
11-Mar-1911 |
15-Jun-1996 |
Eastern Approaches |
Iain Macleod |
Politician |
11-Nov-1913 |
20-Jul-1970 |
UK Colonial Secretary, 1959-61 |
John Madden |
Film Director |
8-Apr-1949 |
|
Shakespeare in Love |
Angus Maddison |
Economist |
6-Dec-1926 |
24-Apr-2010 |
Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD |
F. W. Maitland |
Historian |
28-May-1850 |
19-Dec-1906 |
The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I |
John Makinson |
Business |
? |
|
Chairman & CEO, Penguin Group |
Michael Mandelbaum |
Author |
23-Sep-1946 |
|
The Global Rivals |
Miriam Margolyes |
Actor |
18-May-1941 |
|
The Age of Innocence |
Christopher Marlowe |
Playwright |
6-Feb-1564 |
30-May-1593 |
Doctor Faustus |
Richard Marquand |
Film Director |
17-Apr-1938 |
4-Sep-1987 |
Return of the Jedi |
Andrew Marr |
Journalist |
31-Jul-1959 |
|
BBC Political Editor, 2000-05 |
Alfred Marshall |
Economist |
26-Jul-1842 |
13-Jul-1924 |
Principles of Economics |
Archer J. P. Martin |
Chemist |
1-Mar-1910 |
28-Jul-2002 |
Partition chromatography |
Andrew Marvell |
Poet |
31-Mar-1621 |
18-Aug-1678 |
English poet and member of Parliament |
Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
James Mason |
Actor |
15-May-1909 |
27-Jul-1984 |
North by Northwest |
Harrie Massey |
Astronomer |
16-May-1908 |
27-Nov-1983 |
British National Committee for Space Research |
Ann Mather |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CFO of Pixar, 1999-2004 |
Arjun K. Mathrani |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CFO of Chase Manhattan, 1994-96 |
Drummond Matthews |
Geologist |
5-Feb-1931 |
20-Jul-1997 |
Plate tectonics |
Frederick Denison Maurice |
Religion |
29-Aug-1805 |
1-Apr-1872 |
19th c. Anglican theologian |
Hamish Maxwell |
Business |
24-Aug-1926 |
19-Apr-2014 |
CEO of Philip Morris, 1984-91 |
James Clerk Maxwell |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1831 |
5-Nov-1879 |
Maxwell's equations |
Thomas May |
Poet |
1595 |
13-Nov-1650 |
The History of the Long Parliament |
John Maynard Smith |
Biologist |
6-Jan-1920 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
Richard Mayne |
Author |
2-Apr-1926 |
29-Nov-2009 |
The Community of Europe |
John McCallum |
Politician |
9-Apr-1950 |
|
Canadian MP, Markham--Unionville |
William McDougall |
Psychologist |
22-Jun-1871 |
28-Nov-1938 |
An Introduction to Social Psychology |
Ian McKellen |
Actor |
25-May-1939 |
|
Gandalf the Grey |
Marshall McLuhan |
Author |
21-Jul-1911 |
31-Dec-1980 |
Understanding Media |
John McNee |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the UN |
John McPhee |
Author |
8-Mar-1931 |
|
Annals of the Former World |
David J. P. Meachin |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Cross Border Enterprises |
James Edward Meade |
Economist |
23-Jun-1907 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Theory of International Economic Policy |
Edward Mellanby |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1884 |
30-Jan-1955 |
Rickets |
Paul Mellon |
Philanthropist |
11-Jun-1907 |
1-Feb-1999 |
Yale Center for British Art benefactor |
Sam Mendes |
Film Director |
1-Aug-1965 |
|
American Beauty |
Thomas Merton |
Author |
31-Jan-1915 |
10-Dec-1968 |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
John Michell |
Geologist |
1724 |
21-Apr-1793 |
Phaenomena of Earthquakes |
Anne Milgram |
Attorney |
c. 1970 |
|
Attorney General of New Jersey, 2007-10 |
Jonathan Miller |
Film Director |
21-Jul-1934 |
|
Beyond the Fringe |
Robert L. Mills |
Physicist |
15-Apr-1927 |
27-Oct-1999 |
Subatomic particles |
A. A. Milne |
Author |
18-Jan-1882 |
31-Jan-1956 |
Winnie the Pooh |
E. Arthur Milne |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1896 |
21-Sep-1950 |
Kinematic relativity |
Richard Monckton Milnes |
Poet |
19-Jun-1809 |
11-Aug-1885 |
Poetry for the People |
César Milstein |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1927 |
24-Mar-2002 |
Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies) |
John Milton |
Poet |
9-Dec-1608 |
8-Nov-1674 |
Paradise Lost |
James A. Mirrlees |
Economist |
5-Jul-1936 |
|
Asymmetric information in economics |
Andrew Mitchell |
Politician |
23-Mar-1956 |
|
British MP, Sutton Coldfield |
David Mitchell |
Comic |
14-Jul-1974 |
|
Peep Show |
Peter Mitchell |
Chemist |
29-Sep-1920 |
10-Apr-1992 |
ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria |
Steven Mithen |
Archaeologist |
16-Oct-1960 |
|
After the Ice |
Keith Moffatt |
Mathematician |
12-Apr-1935 |
|
Fluid dynamics |
Christopher Monckton |
Politician |
14-Feb-1952 |
|
Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party |
Mark Moody-Stuart |
Business |
15-Sep-1940 |
|
Chairman of Anglo American |
Philip Moon |
Physicist |
17-May-1907 |
9-Oct-1994 |
Gamma ray fluorescence |
G. E. Moore |
Philosopher |
4-Nov-1873 |
24-Oct-1958 |
Principia Ethica |
Stanford Moore |
Chemist |
4-Sep-1913 |
23-Aug-1982 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
Richard K. Morgan |
Novelist |
1965 |
|
Altered Carbon |
Simon Conway Morris |
Paleontologist |
6-Nov-1951 |
|
Evolutionary paleobiologist |
Nevill F. Mott |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1905 |
8-Aug-1996 |
Properties of semiconductors |
Lord Mountbatten |
Military |
25-Jun-1900 |
27-Aug-1979 |
Last Viceroy of India |
Malcolm Muggeridge |
Author |
24-Mar-1903 |
14-Nov-1990 |
Highly iconoclastic English wit |
Frederick Mulley |
Politician |
3-Jul-1918 |
15-Mar-1995 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1976-79 |
Iris Murdoch |
Novelist |
15-Jul-1919 |
8-Feb-1999 |
The Sea, the Sea |
Richard W. Murphy |
Diplomat |
29-Jul-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1974-78 |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
2-Jul-1977 |
Lolita |
Joseph Needham |
Historian |
9-Dec-1900 |
24-Mar-1995 |
Science and Civilization in China |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Head of State |
14-Nov-1889 |
27-May-1964 |
First Prime Minister of India |
Howard H. Newman |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Partner, Warburg Pincus |
Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
Thandie Newton |
Actor |
6-Nov-1972 |
|
The Truth About Charlie |
Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
Philip Noel-Baker |
Politician |
1-Nov-1889 |
8-Oct-1982 |
Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN |
Ronald G. W. Norrish |
Chemist |
9-Nov-1897 |
7-Jun-1978 |
Rapid chemical processes |
John Nott |
Politician |
1-Feb-1932 |
|
Defence Minister during Falklands War |
Trevor Nunn |
Theater Director |
14-Jan-1940 |
|
Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968-86 |
Brendan O'Neill |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Imperial Chemical Industries, 1999-2003 |
Michael Oakeshott |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1901 |
19-Dec-1990 |
Rationalism in Politics |
Titus Oates |
Criminal |
15-Sep-1649 |
12-Jul-1705 |
Popish Plot |
Sophie Okonedo |
Actor |
1-Jan-1969 |
|
Hotel Rwanda |
Mark Oliphant |
Physicist |
8-Oct-1901 |
14-Jul-2000 |
Deuterium reactions |
John Oliver |
Comic |
23-Apr-1977 |
|
Last Week Tonight |
Frank Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
14-Aug-1912 |
3-Feb-1985 |
Founder of the Exploratorium |
Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
William Oughtred |
Mathematician |
5-Mar-1574 |
30-Jun-1660 |
Inventor of the slide rule |
David Owen |
Politician |
2-Jul-1938 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1977-79 |
William Paley |
Religion |
1743 |
25-May-1805 |
Moral and Political Philosophy |
Seymour Papert |
Computer Programmer |
29-Feb-1928 |
31-Jul-2016 |
Programming language LOGO |
Matthew Parker |
Religion |
6-Aug-1504 |
15-May-1575 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-75 |
Cecil Parkinson |
Politician |
1-Sep-1931 |
22-Jan-2016 |
Thatcherite MP and Minister |
Charles Stewart Parnell |
Politician |
27-Jun-1846 |
6-Oct-1891 |
Irish Nationalist leader |
Thomas Parnell |
Poet |
1679 |
1718 |
The Hermit |
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
George Peacock |
Mathematician |
9-Apr-1791 |
8-Nov-1858 |
Treatise on Algebra |
Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
Vladimir Peniakoff |
Military |
30-Mar-1897 |
May-1951 |
Head of Popski's Private Army |
Roger Penrose |
Mathematician |
8-Aug-1931 |
|
Theory of cosmic censorship |
Samuel Pepys |
Author |
23-Feb-1633 |
26-May-1703 |
London diarist |
Spencer Perceval |
Head of State |
1-Nov-1762 |
11-May-1812 |
UK Prime Minister, 1809-12 |
Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
John Pethica |
Physicist |
1953 |
|
Atomic force microscopy |
Kim Philby |
Spy |
1-Jan-1912 |
11-May-1988 |
One of the Cambridge Five in MI6 |
Ambrose Philips |
Poet |
c. 1675 |
18-Jun-1749 |
Pastorals |
Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
William Pitt the Elder |
Head of State |
15-Nov-1708 |
11-May-1778 |
Seven Years War |
William Pitt the Younger |
Head of State |
28-May-1759 |
23-Jan-1806 |
UK Prime Minister |
Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Daddy |
George Plimpton |
Author |
18-Mar-1927 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Paper Lion |
J. H. Plumb |
Historian |
20-Aug-1911 |
21-Oct-2001 |
England in the Eighteenth Century |
J. G. A. Pocock |
Historian |
7-Mar-1924 |
|
The Machiavellian Moment |
Norman Podhoretz |
Author |
16-Jan-1930 |
|
Prominent neocon author |
Richard Poirier |
Critic |
9-Sep-1925 |
15-Aug-2009 |
Raritan, A Quarterly Review |
Martyn Poliakoff |
Physicist |
16-Dec-1947 |
|
The Periodic Table of Videos |
John A. Pople |
Chemist |
31-Oct-1925 |
15-Mar-2004 |
Quantum mechanics of molecules |
George Porter |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1920 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Rapid chemical and biological processes |
Rodney R. Porter |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1917 |
6-Sep-1985 |
Chemical structure of antibodies |
Michael Portillo |
Politician |
26-May-1953 |
|
Former Conservative MP |
George H. Poste |
Biologist |
c. 1944 |
|
Health Technology Networks |
Andrew Powell |
Musician |
18-Apr-1949 |
|
Orchestral arranger for Alan Parsons |
Cecil Powell |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1903 |
9-Aug-1969 |
Discovered the pi-meson |
Enoch Powell |
Politician |
16-Jun-1912 |
8-Feb-1998 |
British demagogue |
John Cowper Powys |
Novelist |
8-Oct-1872 |
17-Jun-1963 |
Wolf Solent |
Simon Preston |
Organist |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
Organist at Westminster Abbey, 1981-87 |
J. B. Priestley |
Novelist |
13-Sep-1894 |
14-Aug-1984 |
An Inspector Calls |
James Prior |
Politician |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
Minister for Northern Ireland, 1981-84 |
Frederic Prokosch |
Novelist |
17-May-1908 |
6-Jun-1989 |
The Skies of Europe |
Joseph Proudman |
Mathematician |
30-Dec-1888 |
26-Jun-1975 |
Tidal currents |
Reginald Punnett |
Biologist |
20-Jun-1875 |
3-Jan-1967 |
Early geneticist |
Francis Pym |
Politician |
13-Feb-1922 |
6-Mar-2008 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1982-83 |
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown |
Anthropologist |
17-Jan-1881 |
24-Oct-1955 |
Father of modern social anthropology |
Tunku Abdul Rahman |
Head of State |
8-Feb-1903 |
6-Dec-1990 |
First Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1957-70 |
Kathleen Raine |
Poet |
14-Jun-1908 |
6-Jul-2003 |
Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
Scientist |
1952 |
|
Ribosomes |
Srinivasa Ramanujan |
Mathematician |
22-Dec-1887 |
26-Apr-1920 |
Self-educated mathematician |
Robin Raphel |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1997-2000 |
Ahmed Rashid |
Author |
8-Jun-1948 |
|
The Resurgence of Central Asia |
Lord Rayleigh |
Physicist |
12-Nov-1842 |
30-Jun-1919 |
Why the sky is blue |
Michael Redgrave |
Actor |
20-Mar-1908 |
21-Mar-1985 |
Mourning Becomes Electra |
Eddie Redmayne |
Actor |
6-Jan-1982 |
|
Red |
Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
Uwe E. Reinhardt |
Educator |
24-Sep-1937 |
|
Health economist |
Robin W. Renwick |
Diplomat |
13-Dec-1937 |
|
UK Ambassador to the US, 1991-95 |
I. A. Richards |
Critic |
26-Feb-1893 |
7-Sep-1979 |
The Meaning of Meaning |
Owen Willans Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Apr-1879 |
15-Feb-1959 |
Electron emissions of metals |
Nicholas Ridley |
Religion |
c. 1500 |
16-Oct-1555 |
Anglican Bishop and martyr |
Jonathan Riley-Smith |
Historian |
27-Jun-1938 |
|
The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading |
Andrew Roberts |
Historian |
13-Jan-1963 |
|
Eminent Churchillians |
Richard J. Roberts |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1943 |
|
Eukaryotic (split) genes |
Charles Stewart Rolls |
Business |
27-Aug-1877 |
12-Jul-1910 |
Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce |
Eugene Victor Rostow |
Educator |
25-Aug-1913 |
25-Nov-2002 |
Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65 |
Edmund de Rothschild |
Business |
2-Jan-1916 |
17-Jan-2009 |
British banker |
William S. Rukeyser |
Journalist |
1939 |
|
Managing Editor of Fortune |
Alan Rusbridger |
Editor |
29-Dec-1953 |
|
Editor of The Guardian |
Salman Rushdie |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1947 |
|
The Satanic Verses |
Bertrand Russell |
Mathematician |
18-May-1872 |
2-Feb-1970 |
Mathematician, atheist, and social critic |
Dora Russell |
Activist |
3-Apr-1894 |
31-May-1986 |
Feminist, birth control and peace activist |
Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
Martin Ryle |
Astronomer |
27-Sep-1918 |
14-Oct-1984 |
Radio astronomer |
Charles Ryskamp |
Administrator |
21-Oct-1928 |
26-Mar-2010 |
Frick Collection Director, 1987-97 |
Abdus Salam |
Physicist |
29-Jan-1926 |
21-Nov-1996 |
Electroweak Theory |
Philippe Sands |
Scholar |
17-Oct-1960 |
|
Lawless World |
Frederick Sanger |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1918 |
19-Nov-2013 |
Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry |
Siegfried Sassoon |
Poet |
8-Sep-1886 |
1-Sep-1967 |
War Poems |
Simon Schama |
Historian |
13-Feb-1945 |
|
Landscape and Memory |
Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
Roger Scruton |
Philosopher |
27-Feb-1944 |
|
The Meaning of Conservatism |
Amartya Sen |
Economist |
3-Nov-1933 |
|
Poverty and Famines |
Thomas Shadwell |
Playwright |
c. 1642 |
19-Nov-1692 |
Epsom Wells |
Peter Shaffer |
Playwright |
15-May-1926 |
6-Jun-2016 |
Amadeus, Equus |
John Shattuck |
Attorney |
1943 |
|
CEO, JFK Library Foundation |
Charles Shaughnessy |
Actor |
9-Feb-1955 |
|
Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny |
Charles Sherrington |
Doctor |
27-Nov-1857 |
4-Mar-1952 |
Neurons and synapses |
James Shirley |
Playwright |
1596 |
29-Oct-1666 |
Love Tricks |
William Shirley |
Government |
2-Dec-1694 |
24-Mar-1771 |
Colonial Governor of Massachusetts |
David Shoenberg |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1911 |
10-Mar-2004 |
Physicist at Cambridge |
Peter Shore |
Politician |
20-May-1924 |
24-Sep-2001 |
Former MP, Stepney |
Henry Sidgwick |
Philosopher |
31-May-1838 |
29-Aug-1900 |
Method of Ethics |
Don Siegel |
Film Director |
26-Oct-1912 |
20-Apr-1991 |
Dirty Harry |
Richard G. Sim |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
APW Ltd. |
Claude Simon |
Novelist |
10-Oct-1913 |
6-Jul-2005 |
Le Tricheur |
Manmohan Singh |
Head of State |
26-Sep-1932 |
|
Prime Minister of India |
Simon Singh |
Author |
19-Sep-1964 |
|
Fermat's Enigma |
John Skelton |
Poet |
c. 1460 |
21-Jun-1529 |
Why come ye nat to courte |
Quentin Skinner |
Historian |
26-Nov-1940 |
|
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought |
Tony Slattery |
Actor |
9-Nov-1959 |
|
Whose Line Is it Anyway? |
Sir Hans Sloane |
Curator |
16-Apr-1660 |
11-Jan-1753 |
Milk chocolate and the British Museum |
Ali Smith |
Author |
24-Aug-1962 |
|
There But For The |
C. Aubrey Smith |
Actor |
21-Jul-1863 |
20-Dec-1948 |
The Four Feathers |
Zadie Smith |
Novelist |
27-Oct-1975 |
|
White Teeth |
Jan Smuts |
Politician |
24-May-1870 |
11-Sep-1950 |
South African Prime Minister |
C. P. Snow |
Author |
15-Oct-1905 |
1-Jul-1980 |
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution |
Iain Softley |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1956 |
|
K-PAX |
Henry Spelman |
Scholar |
c. 1564 |
Oct-1641 |
English antiquary |
Jonathan D. Spence |
Historian |
11-Aug-1936 |
|
The Search for Modern China |
Harold Spencer Jones |
Astronomer |
29-Mar-1890 |
3-Nov-1960 |
10th Royal Astronomer of England |
Edmund Spenser |
Poet |
c. 1552 |
13-Jan-1599 |
The Faerie Queene |
John Sperling |
Business |
9-Jan-1921 |
22-Aug-2014 |
Founder, University of Phoenix |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
Richard Spring |
Politician |
24-Sep-1946 |
|
British MP, West Suffolk |
Norman St. John-Stevas |
Politician |
18-May-1929 |
2-Mar-2012 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81 |
Barbara Stallings |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Watson Institute for International Studies |
Sir Leslie Stephen |
Encyclopaedist |
28-Nov-1832 |
22-Feb-1904 |
Dictionary of National Biography |
Laurence Sterne |
Novelist |
24-Nov-1713 |
18-Mar-1768 |
Tristram Shandy |
Dan Stevens |
Actor |
10-Oct-1982 |
|
Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey |
Dennis Stevenson |
Business |
19-Jul-1945 |
|
Chairman of HBOS |
Ian Stewart |
Mathematician |
24-Sep-1945 |
|
Catastrophe theory |
Potter Stewart |
Judge |
23-Jan-1915 |
7-Dec-1985 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81 |
Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
George Gabriel Stokes |
Physicist |
13-Aug-1819 |
1-Feb-1903 |
Fluid dynamicist, optic waves |
Richard Stone |
Economist |
30-Aug-1913 |
6-Dec-1991 |
National Income and Expenditure |
Lytton Strachey |
Author |
1-Mar-1880 |
21-Jan-1932 |
Eminent Victorians |
Bjarne Stroustrup |
Computer Programmer |
1950 |
|
Inventor of C++ programming language |
William Stukeley |
Historian |
7-Nov-1687 |
3-Mar-1765 |
Stonehenge, a Temple Restored |
Sir John Suckling |
Poet |
1609 |
1642 |
Fragmenta Aurea |
Thomas J. Sugrue |
Historian |
24-Jul-1962 |
|
The Origins of the Urban Crisis |
John E. Sulston |
Scientist |
27-Mar-1942 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
Clive Swift |
Actor |
9-Feb-1936 |
|
Keeping Up Appearances |
Graham Swift |
Novelist |
4-May-1949 |
|
Last Orders |
Tilda Swinton |
Actor |
5-Nov-1960 |
|
The Deep End |
Thomas Sydenham |
Doctor |
13-Sep-1624 |
29-Dec-1689 |
The English Hippocrates |
James Joseph Sylvester |
Mathematician |
3-Sep-1814 |
15-Mar-1897 |
Studied finite analysis |
Richard L. M. Synge |
Chemist |
28-Oct-1914 |
18-Aug-1994 |
Partition chromatography |
Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
Peter Guthrie Tait |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1831 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Treatise on Quaternions |
William Henry Fox Talbot |
Inventor |
11-Feb-1800 |
17-Sep-1877 |
Calotype method of photography |
Brook Taylor |
Mathematician |
18-Aug-1685 |
29-Dec-1731 |
Calculus of Finite Differences |
Jeremy Taylor |
Religion |
15-Aug-1613 |
13-Aug-1667 |
Holy Living and Holy Dying |
J. André Teixeira |
Business |
17-Jun-1952 |
|
President of Coca-Cola Russia, 1998-2001 |
Harold Temperley |
Historian |
20-Apr-1879 |
11-Jul-1939 |
The Foreign Policy of Canning |
Julien Temple |
Film Director |
26-Nov-1953 |
|
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Poet |
6-Aug-1809 |
6-Oct-1892 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
Novelist |
18-Jul-1811 |
24-Dec-1863 |
Vanity Fair |
Stephan Thernstrom |
Scholar |
1934 |
|
Neoconservative thinker |
D'Arcy Thompson |
Biologist |
2-May-1860 |
21-Jun-1948 |
On Growth and Form |
E. P. Thompson |
Historian |
3-Feb-1924 |
28-Aug-1993 |
The Making of the English Working Class |
Emma Thompson |
Actor |
15-Apr-1959 |
|
Howard's End |
George Paget Thomson |
Physicist |
3-May-1892 |
10-Sep-1975 |
Diffraction of electrons |
J. J. Thomson |
Physicist |
18-Dec-1856 |
30-Aug-1940 |
Discovered the electron |
Ken Thomson |
Business |
1-Sep-1923 |
12-Jun-2006 |
Ex-CEO, Thomson Corp. |
Brian Tierney |
Scholar |
1-May-1922 |
|
Origins of Papal Infallibility |
Stephen Timms |
Politician |
29-Jul-1955 |
|
Labour MP for East Ham, stabbed |
Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nucleic acid, nucleotides |
Eckhart Tolle |
Religion |
16-Feb-1948 |
|
The Power of Now |
John Townsend |
Mathematician |
7-Jun-1868 |
16-Feb-1957 |
Electron's charge |
G. M. Trevelyan |
Historian |
16-Feb-1876 |
21-Jul-1962 |
England under Queen Anne |
Roger Y. Tsien |
Scientist |
1-Feb-1952 |
24-Aug-2016 |
Green Fluorescent Protein |
Richard Tuck |
Educator |
9-Jan-1949 |
|
Natural Rights Theories |
Alan Turing |
Mathematician |
23-Jun-1912 |
7-Jun-1954 |
Computing pioneer |
Herbert Hall Turner |
Astronomer |
13-Aug-1861 |
20-Aug-1930 |
Stellar positions |
Paul Twomey |
Business |
18-Jul-1961 |
|
CEO of ICANN |
William Tyndale |
Religion |
1492 |
6-Oct-1536 |
Bible translator, burnt at the stake |
Tom Udall |
Politician |
18-May-1948 |
|
US Senator from New Mexico |
David M. Upton |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Professor at HBS |
Yanis Varoufakis |
Economist |
24-Mar-1961 |
|
Greek Finance Minister |
Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Composer |
12-Oct-1872 |
26-Aug-1958 |
Sinfonia Antarctica |
John Venn |
Mathematician |
4-Aug-1834 |
4-Apr-1923 |
Venn diagrams |
Frederick Vine |
Geologist |
17-Jun-1939 |
|
Plate tectonics |
Justine Waddell |
Actor |
4-Nov-1976 |
|
Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
Sir Thomas Francis Wade |
Diplomat |
25-Aug-1818 |
31-Jul-1895 |
British envoy to China |
Edmund Waller |
Poet |
3-Mar-1606 |
21-Oct-1687 |
Go, Lovely Rose |
John Wallis |
Mathematician |
23-Nov-1616 |
28-Oct-1703 |
Arithmetica Infinitorum |
Robert Walmsley |
Military |
1-Feb-1941 |
|
Retired Royal Navy Admiral |
Horace Walpole |
Author |
24-Sep-1717 |
2-Mar-1797 |
Wrote the first Gothic novel |
Robert Walpole |
Head of State |
26-Aug-1676 |
18-Mar-1745 |
UK's first Prime Minister |
Sir Francis Walsingham |
Government |
c. 1532 |
6-Apr-1590 |
Secretary to Elizabeth I |
Ernest T. S. Walton |
Physicist |
6-Oct-1903 |
25-Jun-1995 |
Split the atom |
Michael Walzer |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1935 |
|
Just and Unjust Wars |
Nathaniel Ward |
Religion |
c. 1578 |
Oct-1652 |
Wrote Massachusetts' Body of Liberties |
Peter Watkins |
Film Director |
29-Oct-1935 |
|
Punishment Park |
Douglas G. Watson |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Novartis USA, 1996-99 |
James Watson |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1928 |
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Co-Discoverer of DNA |
Robert Webb |
Comic |
29-Sep-1972 |
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Peep Show |
Eugen Weber |
Historian |
24-Apr-1925 |
17-May-2007 |
The Western Tradition |
Rachel Weisz |
Actor |
7-Mar-1971 |
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The Constant Gardener |
W. C. Wentworth |
Government |
1790 |
20-Mar-1872 |
Australian patriot |
William Whiston |
Religion |
9-Dec-1667 |
22-Aug-1752 |
Apostolical Constitutions |
Patrick White |
Novelist |
28-May-1912 |
30-Sep-1990 |
Riders in the Chariot |
T. H. White |
Author |
29-May-1906 |
17-Jan-1964 |
The Once and Future King |
Alfred North Whitehead |
Mathematician |
15-Feb-1861 |
30-Dec-1947 |
Metaphysical mathematician |
William Whitelaw |
Politician |
28-Jun-1918 |
1-Jul-1999 |
UK Deputy Prime Minister, 1979-88 |
Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
William Wilberforce |
Activist |
24-Aug-1759 |
29-Jul-1833 |
Abolitionist activist and author |
Andrew Wiles |
Mathematician |
11-Apr-1953 |
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Proved Fermat's Last Theorem |
Malcolm R. Wilkey |
Judge |
6-Dec-1918 |
15-Aug-2009 |
US Ambassador to Uruguay, 1985-90 |
Maurice Wilkins |
Biologist |
15-Dec-1916 |
5-Oct-2004 |
Took X-ray pictures of DNA |
Olivia Williams |
Actor |
26-Jul-1968 |
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The Sixth Sense |
Raymond Williams |
Critic |
31-Aug-1921 |
26-Jan-1988 |
Culture and Society |
Roger Williams |
Religion |
c. 1604 |
1684 |
Founder of Rhode Island Colony |
Rowan Williams |
Religion |
14-Jun-1950 |
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Archbishop of Canterbury |
Barry W. Wilson |
Business |
c. 1945 |
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Senior VP at Medtronic |
C. T. R. Wilson |
Physicist |
14-Feb-1869 |
15-Nov-1959 |
Cloud chamber |
Peter H. Wilson |
Historian |
1963 |
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The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy |
Tony Wilson |
TV Personality |
20-Feb-1950 |
10-Aug-2007 |
Founder of Factory Records |
Sophie Winkleman |
Actor |
5-Aug-1980 |
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The Trial of Tony Blair |
Michael Winner |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1935 |
20-Jan-2013 |
Death Wish |
John Winthrop |
Politician |
12-Jan-1588 |
26-Mar-1649 |
Governor of Massachusetts Colony |
William Wollaston |
Philosopher |
26-Mar-1659 |
29-Oct-1724 |
The Religion of Nature Delineated |
William Hyde Wollaston |
Chemist |
6-Aug-1766 |
22-Dec-1828 |
Discovered palladium, rhodium |
Shaun Woodward |
Politician |
26-Oct-1958 |
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British MP, St. Helens South |
Leonard Woolf |
Author |
25-Nov-1880 |
14-Aug-1969 |
British memoirist, husband of Virginia |
William Wordsworth |
Poet |
7-Apr-1770 |
23-Apr-1850 |
English romantic poet laureate |
Douglas T. Wright |
Educator |
4-Oct-1927 |
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President, University of Waterloo, 1981-93 |
E. A. Wrigley |
Historian |
17-Aug-1931 |
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Continuity, Chance and Change |
Sir Thomas Wyat |
Poet |
1503 |
6-Oct-1542 |
Introduced sonnet to England |
Daniel Yergin |
Author |
6-Feb-1947 |
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The Prize |
Lee Kuan Yew |
Head of State |
16-Sep-1923 |
23-Mar-2015 |
Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959-90 |
Warren Zimmermann |
Diplomat |
16-Nov-1934 |
2-Feb-2004 |
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-92 |