| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Abdu'l-Bahá |
Religion |
23-May-1844 |
28-Nov-1921 |
Baha'i leader |
| Ralph Abercromby |
Military |
7-Oct-1734 |
28-Mar-1801 |
British general |
| Edward P. Abraham |
Chemist |
10-Jun-1913 |
8-May-1999 |
Cephalosporins |
| Lord Acton |
Historian |
10-Jan-1834 |
19-Jun-1902 |
British historian |
| Edmund Allenby |
Military |
23-Apr-1861 |
14-May-1936 |
Defeated the Turks in WWI |
| Kingsley Amis |
Novelist |
16-Apr-1922 |
22-Oct-1995 |
Lucky Jim |
| Norman Angell |
Economist |
26-Dec-1872 |
7-Oct-1967 |
The Great Illusion |
| Walter Annenberg |
Business |
13-Mar-1908 |
1-Oct-2002 |
Media mogul, created TV Guide |
| Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
| David Arculus |
Business |
1946 |
|
Chairman of Severn Trent, 1998-2004 |
| Ove Arup |
Engineer |
16-Apr-1895 |
5-Feb-1988 |
Danish civil engineer |
| Paddy Ashdown |
Politician |
27-Feb-1941 |
|
Leader of Liberal Democrats, 1988-99 |
| Herbert Henry Asquith |
Head of State |
12-Sep-1852 |
15-Feb-1928 |
UK Prime Minister, 1908-16 |
| Michael Atiyah |
Mathematician |
22-Apr-1929 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
| David Attenborough |
Naturalist |
8-May-1926 |
|
Life on Earth |
| Richard Attenborough |
Film Director |
29-Aug-1923 |
|
Gandhi |
| Felix Aylmer |
Actor |
21-Feb-1889 |
2-Sep-1979 |
Henry V |
| Francis Bacon |
Philosopher |
22-Jan-1561 |
9-Apr-1626 |
Novum Organum |
| Robert Baden-Powell |
Military |
22-Feb-1857 |
8-Jan-1941 |
Founder of the Boy Scout movement |
| Stanley Baker |
Actor |
8-Feb-1927 |
28-Jun-1976 |
Knights of the Round Table |
| Michael Balcon |
Film/TV Producer |
19-May-1896 |
17-Oct-1977 |
Eealing Studios |
| Roger Bannister |
Track and Field |
23-Mar-1929 |
|
First to run a four-minute mile |
| Frederick G. Banting |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1891 |
21-Feb-1941 |
Discovered insulin |
| Derek Barton |
Chemist |
8-Sep-1918 |
16-Mar-1998 |
Conformational analysis |
| Alan Bates |
Actor |
17-Feb-1934 |
27-Dec-2003 |
Basil in Zorba the Greek |
| David Bates |
Astronomer |
18-Nov-1916 |
5-Jan-1994 |
Atmospheric and interstellar physics |
| Max Beerbohm |
Critic |
24-Aug-1872 |
20-May-1956 |
Caricaturist, Seven Men |
| David Bell |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005 |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jun-1955 |
|
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Sir Walter Besant |
Author |
14-Aug-1836 |
9-Jun-1901 |
All Sorts and Conditions of Men |
| Henry Bessemer |
Inventor |
19-Jan-1813 |
15-Mar-1898 |
Bessemer process to manufacture steel |
| John Betjeman |
Poet |
28-Aug-1906 |
19-May-1984 |
Summoned By Bells |
| James W. Black |
Scientist |
14-Jun-1924 |
22-Mar-2010 |
Propranolol and cimetidine |
| James Blyth |
Business |
8-May-1940 |
|
Chairman of Diageo, 2000-08 |
| John R. H. Bond |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Chairman, HSBC Holdings, 1998-2004 |
| David Bowie |
Singer/Songwriter |
8-Jan-1947 |
|
Ziggy Stardust |
| Don Bradman |
Cricket |
27-Aug-1908 |
25-Feb-2001 |
Greatest batsman of all time |
| 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 |
| Richard Branson |
Business |
18-Jul-1950 |
|
Founder of Virgin chain |
| Harry Brittain |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1873 |
9-Jul-1974 |
Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
| John Browne |
Business |
20-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 |
| Sir Thomas Browne |
Author |
19-Oct-1605 |
19-Oct-1682 |
Pseudodoxia Epidemica |
| Edward Bullard |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1907 |
3-Apr-1980 |
Continental drift, magnetic fields |
| Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
Novelist |
25-May-1803 |
18-Jan-1873 |
The Last Days of Pompeii |
| Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
Scientist |
3-Sep-1899 |
31-Aug-1985 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Terence Burns |
Business |
13-Mar-1944 |
|
Chairman of Marks & Spencer |
| Sir Richard Burton |
Explorer |
19-Mar-1821 |
20-Oct-1890 |
Translated The Arabian Nights |
| George H.W. Bush |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1924 |
|
41st US President, 1989-93 |
| Colin Campbell |
Military |
20-Oct-1792 |
24-Aug-1863 |
Commander-in-chief of India |
| Menzies Campbell |
Politician |
22-May-1941 |
|
Leader of the Liberal Democrats, 2006-07 |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1836 |
22-Apr-1908 |
UK Prime Minister, 1905-08 |
| Roger Casement |
Activist |
1-Sep-1864 |
3-Aug-1916 |
Irish revolutionary, gay diarist |
| William Castell |
Business |
10-Apr-1947 |
|
CEO of GE Healthcare |
| George Cayley |
Inventor |
27-Dec-1773 |
8-Dec-1854 |
Father of aeronautics |
| James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
| Ernst B. Chain |
Scientist |
19-Jun-1906 |
12-Aug-1979 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Charlie Chaplin |
Actor |
16-Apr-1889 |
25-Dec-1977 |
Silent film comedian |
| John Charnley |
Doctor |
29-Aug-1912 |
5-Aug-1982 |
Hip replacement surgery |
| John Chisholm |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Chairman of QinetiQ |
| Winston Churchill |
Head of State |
30-Nov-1874 |
24-Jan-1965 |
WWII Prime Minister of England |
| Wesley Clark |
Military |
23-Dec-1944 |
|
Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000 |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
Novelist |
16-Dec-1917 |
19-Mar-2008 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Thomas Cochrane |
Military |
14-Dec-1775 |
31-Oct-1860 |
Rear Admiral, invented the smoke screen |
| John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
| Christopher Cockerell |
Inventor |
4-Jun-1910 |
1-Jun-1999 |
Hovercraft |
| John Compton |
Head of State |
29-Apr-1925 |
7-Sep-2007 |
Many-time Prime Minister of St. Lucia |
| Sean Connery |
Actor |
25-Aug-1930 |
|
James Bond |
| Alistair Cooke |
Journalist |
20-Nov-1908 |
29-Mar-2004 |
Alistair Cooke's America |
| Sir Eyre Coote |
Military |
1726 |
28-Apr-1783 |
British soldier, fought Hyder Ali |
| John Cornforth |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1917 |
|
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| Alan Cottrell |
Scientist |
17-Jul-1919 |
15-Feb-2012 |
Metallurgist at Cambridge |
| Noel Coward |
Playwright |
16-Dec-1899 |
26-Mar-1973 |
Design for Living |
| Stafford Cripps |
Politician |
24-Apr-1889 |
21-Apr-1952 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1947-50 |
| Donald G. Cruickshank |
Government |
c. 1942 |
|
Director-General of Oftel, 1993-98 |
| Hugh Cudlipp |
Business |
28-Aug-1913 |
17-May-1998 |
British news magnate |
| Henry Dale |
Scientist |
9-Jun-1875 |
23-Jul-1968 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| George Darwin |
Astronomer |
9-Jul-1845 |
7-Dec-1912 |
Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system |
| Howard J. Davies |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Director, London School of Economics |
| Crispin Davis |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Reed Elsevier |
| Everard Digby |
Criminal |
16-May-1578 |
30-Jan-1606 |
Gunpowder Plot |
| E. C. Dodds |
Scientist |
13-Oct-1899 |
16-Dec-1973 |
Diethylstilbestrol |
| Placido Domingo |
Singer |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
Tenorissimo! |
| Antal Doráti |
Conductor |
9-Apr-1906 |
13-Nov-1988 |
Conductor, Minneapolis Symphony, 1949-60 |
| Alec Douglas-Home |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1903 |
9-Oct-1995 |
UK Prime Minister, 1963-64 |
| Kenneth Dover |
Scholar |
11-Mar-1920 |
7-Mar-2010 |
Greek Homosexuality |
| Arthur Conan Doyle |
Novelist |
22-May-1859 |
7-Jul-1930 |
Creator of Sherlock Holmes |
| Sir Francis Drake |
Explorer |
c. 1540 |
28-Jan-1596 |
Defeated Spanish Armada |
| Frank W. Dyson |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1868 |
25-May-1939 |
Six pips on the BBC |
| James Dyson |
Inventor |
2-May-1947 |
|
Dyson vacuum cleaner |
| Lawrence Eagleburger |
Government |
1-Aug-1930 |
4-Jun-2011 |
US Secretary of State, 1992-93 |
| John Eccles |
Scientist |
27-Jan-1903 |
2-May-1997 |
Membrane potential of nerves |
| Arthur Eddington |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1882 |
22-Nov-1944 |
Eddington luminosity |
| Rod Eddington |
Business |
2-Jan-1950 |
|
CEO of British Airways, 2000-05 |
| Anthony Eden |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1897 |
14-Jan-1977 |
UK Prime Minister, 1955-57 |
| Edward Elgar |
Composer |
2-Jun-1857 |
23-Feb-1934 |
Pomp and Circumstance |
| Martin Evans |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1941 |
|
Embryonic stem cells |
| George Everest |
Explorer |
4-Jul-1790 |
1-Dec-1866 |
Namesake of Mt. Everest |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
Actor |
9-Dec-1909 |
7-May-2000 |
Sinbad the Sailor |
| Nick Faldo |
Golf |
18-Jul-1957 |
|
Winner of 6 Major tournaments |
| Richard Fanshawe |
Poet |
1608 |
16-Jun-1666 |
Translator of Camões |
| Antony Fisher |
Activist |
1915 |
Jul-1988 |
Libertarian think-tank founder |
| Ronald Fisher |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1890 |
29-Jul-1962 |
Analysis of variance and covariance |
| Niall FitzGerald |
Business |
13-Sep-1945 |
|
Chairman of Reuters |
| Alexander Fleming |
Scientist |
6-Aug-1881 |
11-Mar-1955 |
Discovered penicillin |
| John Ambrose Fleming |
Engineer |
29-Nov-1849 |
19-Apr-1945 |
Invented the vacuum tube |
| Howard Florey |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1898 |
21-Feb-1968 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Tom Foley |
Politician |
6-Mar-1929 |
|
Speaker of the House, 1989-95 |
| Norman Foster |
Architect |
1-Jun-1935 |
|
Architect of the Gherkin |
| T. R. Fraser |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1841 |
4-Jan-1920 |
Made poison and venom into medicine |
| David Frost |
Journalist |
7-Apr-1939 |
|
BBC's Breakfast with Frost |
| John H. Gaddum |
Scientist |
31-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1965 |
Drug antagonism |
| James Galway |
Musician |
8-Dec-1939 |
|
Flute virtuoso |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| Bob Geldof |
Musician |
5-Oct-1951 |
|
Live Aid, Boomtown Rats |
| Christopher Gent |
Business |
10-May-1948 |
|
CEO of Vodafone, 1997-2003 |
| Louis V. Gerstner |
Business |
1-Mar-1942 |
|
CEO of IBM, 1993-2002 |
| J. Paul Getty, Jr. |
Business |
7-Sep-1932 |
17-Apr-2003 |
Heir to the Getty Oil fortune |
| Carlos Ghosn |
Business |
9-Mar-1954 |
|
CEO of Nissan and Renault |
| John Gielgud |
Actor |
14-Apr-1904 |
21-May-2000 |
Prospero's Books |
| William Golding |
Novelist |
19-Sep-1911 |
19-Jun-1993 |
Lord of The Flies |
| Eugene Goossens III |
Conductor |
24-May-1893 |
13-Jun-1962 |
Cincinnati Symphony, 1931-46 |
| Billy Graham |
Religion |
7-Nov-1918 |
|
Televangelist |
| Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
27-May-2009 |
Granger causality |
| Alan Greenspan |
Economist |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 |
| Alec Guinness |
Actor |
2-Apr-1914 |
5-Aug-2000 |
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars |
| Bernard Haitink |
Conductor |
4-Mar-1929 |
|
Conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| Sir William Rowan Hamilton |
Mathematician |
3-Aug-1805 |
2-Sep-1865 |
Inventor of Quaternions |
| Arthur Harden |
Chemist |
12-Oct-1865 |
17-Jun-1940 |
Enzymes of sugar fermentation |
| Rex Harrison |
Actor |
5-Mar-1908 |
2-Jun-1990 |
My Fair Lady |
| Basil Liddell Hart |
Military |
31-Oct-1895 |
29-Jan-1970 |
Military strategist |
| John Harvey-Jones |
Business |
16-Apr-1924 |
9-Jan-2008 |
Chairman of ICI, 1982-87 |
| Norman Haworth |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1883 |
19-Mar-1950 |
Carbohydrates and vitamin C |
| Edward Heath |
Head of State |
9-Jul-1916 |
17-Jul-2005 |
British Prime Minister, 1970-74 |
| King Henry VIII |
Royalty |
28-Jun-1491 |
28-Jan-1547 |
King of England, 1509-47 |
| Rowland Hill |
Inventor |
3-Dec-1795 |
27-Aug-1879 |
Invented the postage stamp |
| Edmund Hillary |
Explorer |
20-Jul-1919 |
11-Jan-2008 |
First to summit Mt. Everest |
| Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
The Kinetics of Chemical Change |
| Peter B. Hirsch |
Scientist |
16-Jan-1925 |
|
Electron microscopy in metallurgy |
| Alan L. Hodgkin |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1914 |
20-Dec-1998 |
Electrical impulses in nerves |
| Ian Holm |
Actor |
12-Sep-1931 |
|
Time Bandits |
| John Holmes |
Diplomat |
29-Apr-1951 |
|
UN Under Sec. Gen. for Humanitarian Affairs |
| Frederick Hopkins |
Scientist |
20-Jun-1861 |
16-May-1947 |
Discovered vitamins |
| Sir John Hotham |
Politician |
? |
3-Jan-1645 |
English parliamentarian |
| Godfrey N. Hounsfield |
Engineer |
28-Aug-1919 |
12-Aug-2004 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
| William Howe |
Military |
10-Aug-1729 |
12-Jul-1814 |
Commander-in-Chief in America |
| Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
| Tim Hunt |
Scientist |
19-Feb-1943 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
| Julian Huxley |
Biologist |
22-Jun-1887 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Sir Henry Irving |
Actor |
6-Feb-1838 |
13-Oct-1905 |
English actor, Theater manager |
| Alec Issigonis |
Engineer |
18-Nov-1906 |
2-Oct-1988 |
Designer of the Mini Cooper |
| Jony Ive |
Designer |
Feb-1967 |
|
Senior VP of Industrial Design, Apple |
| Henry B. Jackson |
Military |
21-Jan-1855 |
14-Dec-1929 |
Radio telegraphy |
| Derek Jacobi |
Actor |
22-Oct-1938 |
|
Claudius on I, Claudius |
| Mick Jagger |
Singer/Songwriter |
26-Jul-1943 |
|
Lead singer of the Rolling Stones |
| James H. Jeans |
Astronomer |
11-Sep-1877 |
16-Sep-1946 |
Continuous creation theory |
| Tom Jones |
Singer |
7-Jun-1940 |
|
It's Not Unusual |
| Li Ka-Shing |
Business |
29-Jul-1928 |
|
Chinese billionaire, net worth $23B |
| Hamid Karzai |
Head of State |
24-Dec-1957 |
|
President of Afghanistan |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| John C. Kendrew |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1917 |
23-Aug-1997 |
Determined structure of myoglobin |
| Aaron Klug |
Chemist |
11-Aug-1926 |
|
Structural analysis of viruses |
| Hans Krebs |
Scientist |
25-Apr-1900 |
22-Nov-1981 |
Tricarboxylic acid cycle |
| Sir Harold Kroto |
Chemist |
7-Oct-1939 |
|
Co-Discovered fullerenes |
| Denys Lasdun |
Architect |
8-Sep-1914 |
11-Jan-2001 |
British modernist architect |
| Wilfrid Laurier |
Head of State |
20-Nov-1841 |
17-Feb-1919 |
Canadian Prime Minister |
| David Lean |
Film Director |
25-Mar-1908 |
16-Apr-1991 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
| Christopher Lee |
Actor |
27-May-1922 |
|
The Face of Fu Manchu |
| Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
| Frederick Leighton |
Painter |
31-Dec-1830 |
25-Jan-1896 |
Classical Victorian English painter |
| Arthur Lewis |
Economist |
23-Jan-1915 |
15-Jun-1991 |
Economics of developing nations |
| David K. P. Li |
Business |
13-Mar-1939 |
|
CEO, Bank of East Asia |
| Bernard Lovell |
Astronomer |
31-Aug-1913 |
|
Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank |
| Rilwanu Lukman |
Government |
26-Aug-1938 |
|
Secretary General of OPEC, 1995-2000 |
| Charles Lyell |
Geologist |
14-Nov-1797 |
22-Feb-1875 |
Principles of Geology |
| John A. Macdonald |
Head of State |
11-Jan-1815 |
6-Jun-1891 |
Canadian Prime Minister, founding father |
| Peter Mansfield |
Scientist |
9-Oct-1933 |
|
Magnetic resonance imaging |
| Neville Marriner |
Conductor |
15-Apr-1924 |
|
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields |
| George Martin |
Music Producer |
3-Jan-1926 |
|
Beatles producer |
| Harrie Massey |
Astronomer |
16-May-1908 |
27-Nov-1983 |
British National Committee for Space Research |
| Deryck Maughan |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Citigroup International, 1998-2002 |
| Paul McCartney |
Musician |
18-Jun-1942 |
|
Beatle |
| Ian McKellen |
Actor |
25-May-1939 |
|
Gandalf the Grey |
| Tom McKillop |
Business |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland |
| Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Paul Mellon |
Philanthropist |
11-Jun-1907 |
1-Feb-1999 |
Yale Center for British Art benefactor |
| Yehudi Menuhin |
Violinist |
22-Apr-1916 |
12-Mar-1999 |
Child prodigy violinist, conductor |
| Robert Menzies |
Head of State |
20-Dec-1894 |
15-May-1978 |
Twice Prime Minister of Australia |
| Jonathan Miller |
Film Director |
21-Jul-1934 |
|
Beyond the Fringe |
| Spike Milligan |
Comic |
16-Apr-1918 |
27-Feb-2002 |
The Goon Show |
| James A. Mirrlees |
Economist |
5-Jul-1936 |
|
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Mark Moody-Stuart |
Business |
15-Sep-1940 |
|
Chairman of Anglo American |
| Patrick Moore |
TV Personality |
4-Mar-1923 |
|
BBC's The Sky At Night |
| Roger Moore |
Actor |
14-Oct-1927 |
|
James Bond after Sean Connery |
| Sir Henry Morgan |
Military |
1635 |
25-Aug-1688 |
Knighted pirate of the Caribbean |
| Nevill F. Mott |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1905 |
8-Aug-1996 |
Properties of semiconductors |
| Lewis Mumford |
Historian |
19-Oct-1895 |
26-Jan-1990 |
Technics and Civilization |
| Lord Nelson |
Military |
29-Sep-1758 |
21-Oct-1805 |
Most celebrated British admiral |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| Wayne Newton |
Singer |
3-Apr-1942 |
|
Top Las Vegas act |
| John Nott |
Politician |
1-Feb-1932 |
|
Defence Minister during Falklands War |
| Mark Oliphant |
Physicist |
8-Oct-1901 |
14-Jul-2000 |
Deuterium reactions |
| Laurence Olivier |
Actor |
22-May-1907 |
11-Jul-1989 |
Shakespearean actor |
| Eugene Ormandy |
Conductor |
18-Nov-1899 |
12-Mar-1985 |
Music Director, Philadelphia Orchestra, 1938-80 |
| John Boyd Orr |
Scientist |
23-Sep-1880 |
25-Jun-1971 |
Nutritionist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Sir Thomas Overbury |
Poet |
18-Jun-1581 |
15-Sep-1613 |
The Wife |
| Lindsay Owen-Jones |
Business |
17-Mar-1946 |
|
CEO of L'Oreal, 1988-2006 |
| Eduardo Paolozzi |
Sculptor |
7-Mar-1924 |
22-Apr-2005 |
Surrealist sculptor |
| Alan Parker |
Film Director |
14-Feb-1944 |
|
Pink Floyd: The Wall |
| John Parker |
Business |
Apr-1942 |
|
Chairman of National Grid |
| Sir Henry Percy |
Military |
20-Mar-1364 |
21-Jul-1403 |
Hotspur |
| Lynden Oscar Pindling |
Politician |
22-Mar-1930 |
25-Aug-2000 |
Father of The Bahamas |
| Arthur Wing Pinero |
Playwright |
24-May-1855 |
23-Nov-1934 |
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray |
| Brian Pitman |
Business |
13-Dec-1931 |
11-Mar-2010 |
CEO of Lloyds TSB |
| Sidney Poitier |
Actor |
20-Feb-1927 |
|
In The Heat Of The Night |
| Terry Pratchett |
Novelist |
28-Apr-1948 |
|
Discworld sci-fi series |
| Ian Prosser |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Six Continents plc, 1987-2000 |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Politician |
5-Sep-1888 |
17-Apr-1975 |
Philosopher-President of India, 1962-67 |
| Sir Stamford Raffles |
Government |
6-Jul-1781 |
5-Jul-1826 |
Founder of Singapore |
| Michael Rake |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Chairman of British Telecom |
| Sir Walter Raleigh |
Explorer |
c. 1552 |
29-Oct-1618 |
Favorite of Queen Elizabeth I |
| Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1888 |
21-Nov-1970 |
Discovered the Raman Effect |
| Carol Reed |
Film Director |
30-Dec-1906 |
25-Apr-1976 |
Oliver! |
| Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
| Tim Rice |
Songwriter |
10-Nov-1944 |
|
Collaborator with Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Cliff Richard |
Singer |
14-Oct-1940 |
|
England's most famous Christian |
| Owen Willans Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Apr-1879 |
15-Feb-1959 |
Electron emissions of metals |
| Sir Robert Robinson |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1886 |
8-Feb-1975 |
Researcher of alkaloids |
| Jacob Rothschild |
Business |
29-Apr-1936 |
|
RIT Capital Partners |
| Henry Royce |
Engineer |
27-Mar-1863 |
22-Apr-1933 |
Designed the first Rolls-Royce |
| Artur Rubinstein |
Pianist |
28-Jan-1887 |
20-Dec-1982 |
Polish-American piano virtuoso |
| Renato Ruggiero |
Politician |
9-Apr-1930 |
|
Director-General of the WTO, 1995-99 |
| Salman Rushdie |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1947 |
|
The Satanic Verses |
| Klaus Schwab |
Economist |
30-Mar-1938 |
|
Founder, World Economic Forum |
| Norman Schwarzkopf |
Military |
22-Aug-1934 |
|
Leader in Persian Gulf War |
| Ridley Scott |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1937 |
|
Alien |
| Brent Scowcroft |
Government |
19-Mar-1925 |
|
National Security Advisor to Ford and GHWB |
| Harry Secombe |
Actor |
8-Sep-1921 |
11-Apr-2001 |
Neddie Seagoon on The Goon Show |
| Ernest Shackleton |
Explorer |
15-Feb-1874 |
5-Jan-1922 |
Antarctic explorer |
| Peter Shaffer |
Playwright |
15-May-1926 |
|
Amadeus, Equus |
| Sir Run Run Shaw |
Film/TV Producer |
23-Nov-1907 |
|
Kung fu movie mogul |
| Hugh Shelton |
Military |
2-Jan-1942 |
|
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1997-2001 |
| Charles Sherrington |
Doctor |
27-Nov-1857 |
4-Mar-1952 |
Neurons and synapses |
| Isaac Shoenberg |
Engineer |
1-Mar-1880 |
25-Jan-1963 |
405-line format television |
| Clive Sinclair |
Business |
30-Jul-1940 |
|
Sinclair ZX80 |
| Garfield Sobers |
Cricket |
28-Jul-1936 |
|
West Indies cricket great |
| Frank Soskice |
Politician |
23-Jul-1902 |
1-Jan-1979 |
UK Home Secretary, 1964-65 |
| Harold Spencer Jones |
Astronomer |
29-Mar-1890 |
3-Nov-1960 |
10th Royal Astronomer of England |
| Steven Spielberg |
Film Director |
18-Dec-1946 |
|
E.T. |
| Frederick Arthur Stanley |
Government |
15-Jan-1841 |
14-Jun-1908 |
Hockey's Stanley Cup |
| Henry Morton Stanley |
Explorer |
28-Jan-1841 |
10-May-1904 |
Dr. Livingstone, I presume? |
| David Steel |
Politician |
31-Mar-1938 |
|
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1976-88 |
| Richard Steele |
Author |
1672 |
1-Sep-1729 |
The Spectator |
| Robert Stephens |
Actor |
14-Jul-1931 |
12-Nov-1995 |
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
| Patrick Stewart |
Actor |
13-Jul-1940 |
|
Captain Picard in Star Trek: TNG |
| James Stirling |
Architect |
22-Apr-1926 |
25-Jun-1992 |
Pritzker-winning architect |
| Richard Stone |
Economist |
30-Aug-1913 |
6-Dec-1991 |
National Income and Expenditure |
| Tom Stoppard |
Playwright |
3-Jul-1937 |
|
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
| John E. Sulston |
Scientist |
27-Mar-1942 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Peter Sutherland |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
First Director General of the WTO |
| Morris Tabaksblat |
Business |
1937 |
|
Chairman of Reed Elsevier, 1999-2005 |
| John Templeton |
Philanthropist |
29-Nov-1912 |
8-Jul-2008 |
Billionaire fund manager |
| D'Arcy Thompson |
Biologist |
2-May-1860 |
21-Jun-1948 |
On Growth and Form |
| George Paget Thomson |
Physicist |
3-May-1892 |
10-Sep-1975 |
Diffraction of electrons |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclaic acid, nucleotides |
| John Townsend |
Mathematician |
7-Jun-1868 |
16-Feb-1957 |
Electron's charge |
| Peter Ustinov |
Actor |
16-Apr-1921 |
28-Mar-2004 |
British stage actor |
| John Vanbrugh |
Playwright |
24-Jan-1664 |
26-Mar-1726 |
The Provok'd Wife |
| John R. Vane |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1927 |
19-Nov-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| John E. Walker |
Chemist |
7-Jan-1941 |
|
ATP process |
| Robert Walpole |
Head of State |
26-Aug-1676 |
18-Mar-1745 |
UK's first Prime Minister |
| Robert Watson-Watt |
Physicist |
13-Apr-1892 |
5-Dec-1973 |
Radar |
| Dennis Weatherstone |
Business |
29-Nov-1930 |
13-Jun-2008 |
CEO of JP Morgan, 1990-94 |
| Caspar Weinberger |
Government |
18-Aug-1917 |
28-Mar-2006 |
Iran-Contra figure pardoned by Bush |
| Arthur Wellesley |
Military |
1-May-1769 |
14-Sep-1852 |
1st Duke of Wellington |
| Simon Wiesenthal |
Activist |
31-Dec-1908 |
20-Sep-2005 |
Nazi hunter |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1921 |
26-Sep-1996 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| King William IV |
Royalty |
21-Aug-1765 |
20-Jun-1837 |
King of England, 1830-37 |
| P. G. Wodehouse |
Author |
15-Oct-1881 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Jeeves novels |
| Terry Wogan |
Radio Personality |
3-Aug-1938 |
|
BBC's Wake Up To Wogan |
| James Wolfensohn |
Business |
1-Dec-1933 |
|
World Bank president, 1995-2005 |
| George Younger |
Politician |
22-Sep-1931 |
26-Jan-2003 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1986-89 |
| Franco Zeffirelli |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1923 |
|
Romeo and Juliet |
