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Listed below are of note and of some notable individuals born in . Contents

[hide] • 1 and actresses • 2 Archaeologists and anthropologists • 3 Architects • 4 Artists • 5 Photographers • 6 Businessmen • 7 Clergy • 8 Economists • 9 Engineers • 10 Explorers • 11 Filmmakers • 12 Humourists • 13 Inventors / engineers • 14 Military: soldiers/sailors/airmen • 15 Monarchs • 16 Criminals • 17 Musicians • 18 Chefs • 19 • 20 Politicians • 21 Scientists • 22 Sportsmen and sportswomen • 23 Writers • 24 Conspirators • 25 Other notables o 25.1 English expatriates • 26 References

• 27 See also [edit] Actors and actresses

• Dame (born 1935) • Vanessa Angel Actress (born-1966) • Gabrielle Anwar (born 1970) • (born 1955) • (born 1986) • Christian Bale (born 1974) • Mischa Barton (born 1986) • (born 1934) • Eliza Bennett Actress (born-1992) • (born 1959) • (born 1973) • (1947–1979) • Martin Benson (1918–2010) • (born 1937) • Brian Blessed (born 1937) • Emily Blunt Actress (born 1983) • (born 1977) • (born 1934) • Kelly Brook (born 1979) • (born 1964) • Saffron Burrows Actress/Model (born 1972) • Sebastian Cabot (1918–1977) • Sir (born 1933) • Kim Cattrall (born 1956) • Actress (born 1966) • (born 1971) • Joan Collins (born 1933) • (born 1968) • Michael Crawford (born 1942) • Mackenzie Crook (born 1971) • Tim Curry (born 1946) • Anthony Dawson (1916–1992) • Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957) • Roger Delgado (1918–1973) • Dame (born 1934) • Sarah Douglas (born 1952) • Minnie Driver Actress (born 1970) • Tamsin Egerton Actress (born 1988) • Idris Elba (born 1972) • Actress (born-1983) • Jennifer Ehle Actress (born 1969) • Alice Eve Actress (born-1982) • Rupert Everett (born 1959) • Craig Fairbrass (born 1964) • Tom Felton (born 1987) • (born 1962) • (born 1960) • Dexter Fletcher (born 1966) • Jamie Foreman (born 1958) • George Formby (1904–1961) • Claire Forlani Actress (born-1972) • (born 1976) • (born 1958) • Emilia Fox Actress (born-1974) • Sadie Frost Actress (born-1965) • Sir (born 1940) • Romola Garai Actress (born-1982) • (born −1961) • Sir (1904–2000) • Stephen Graham (born 1973) • Sienna Guillory Actress (born 1975) • (1904–1986) • (born 1960) • Leslie Grantham (born 1947) • John Gregson (1919–1975) • Rupert Grint (born 1988) • Sir (1914–2000) • Brian Hall (1937–1997) • Hall Actress (born-1982) • Frank Harper (born 1962) • Jack Hawkins (1910–1973) • (1888–1949) • David Hess Multi-Millionaire (born 1972) • Dame Wendy Hiller (1912–2003) • Stanley Holloway (1890–1982) • Bob Hoskins (born 1942) • Nicholas Hoult (born 1989) • Leslie Howard (actor) • Elizabeth Hurley Actress (born-1965) • (born 1940) • (born 1948) • Sir (born 1940) • Aaron Johnson (born 1990) • William Kempe (died 1603) • Sir (born 1943) • (born 1985) • (1899–1962) • Stan Laurel (1890–1965) • Hugh Laurie (born 1959) • Jude Law (born 1972) • Vivien Leigh (1913–1967) • Jane Leeves Actress (born-1961) • (born 1946) • Margaret Lockwood (1916–1990) • Roy Marsden (born 1941) • Martine McCutcheon Actress (born-1976) • Sir Ian McKellen (born 1939) • Miller (born 1972) • (born 1981) • Hayley Mills (born 1946) • Sir (1908–2005) • Dame (born 1945) • Audrey Hepburn Actress/Icon (born 1929) • Dominic Monaghan (born 1976) • Actress (born 1977) • Sir (born 1927) • Nick Moran (born 1969) • Kenneth More (1914–1982) • (born 1941) • Carey Mulligan Actress (born-1985) • Sophia Myles Actress (born-1980) • Parminder Nagra (born 1975) • (1931–1999) • (born 1949) • David Niven (1910–1983) • Merle Oberon (born 1911–1979) • (born 1969) • (born 1958) • Sir (1907–1989) • Clive Owen (born 1964) • Cecil Parker (1897–1971) • Dev Patel (born 1990) • Robert Pattinson (born 1986) • (born 1970) • Alex Pettyfer (1990) • Actress (born-1979) • Actress (born-1982) • Dominic Purcell (born 1970) • Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989) • Oliver Reed (1938–1999) • Joely Richardson (born 1965) • Miranda Richardson (born 1958) • (1963–2009) • Sir (1902–1983) • Alan Rickman (born 1946) • Tim Roth (born 1958) • Dame Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972) • George Sanders (born 1906–1972) • Peter Sellers (1925–1980) • Actress (born-1951) • Robert Shaw (born 1927–1978) • Nicollette Sheridan Actress (born-1963) • Dame (born 1934) • (born 1939) • (born 1940) • Rachel Stevens Actress/singer (born-1978) • Dame (born 1932) • Juno Temple Actress (born-1989) • Emma Thompson (born 1959) • Kristin Scott Thomas Actress (born-1960) • Patrick Troughton (1920–1987) • Sir (1921–2004) • (born 1950) • Jack Warner (1896–1981) • Naomi Watts Actress (born-1968) • Emily Watson (born 1967) • Emma Watson (born 1990) • Rachel Weisz (born 1971) • (born 1969) • Ed Westwick (born 1987) • Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (born 1987) • Michael Wilding (1912–1979) • Tom Wilkinson (born 1948) • Kate Winslet (born 1975) • (born 1957) [edit] Archaeologists and anthropologists

• George Adamson (1906–1989) • Mick Aston (born 1946) • Richard Atkinson (1920–1994) • Churchill Babington (1821–1889) • Howard Carter (1874–1939) • Grahame Clark (1907–1995) • David Clarke (1937–1976) • Barry Cunliffe (born 1939) • Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) • John Disney (1779–1857), barrister and archaeologist • E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), social anthropologist • Cyril Fox (1882–1967) • Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) • William Greenwell (1820–1918) • Phil Harding (born 1950) • Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) • John Leland (1502–1552), antiquary • John Lubbock (1834–1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist • Francis Pryor (born 1945) • John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) • Colin Renfrew (born 1937), archaeologist • Alice Roberts (born 1973), anatomist, osteoarchaeologist and anthropologist • E.B. Tylor (1832–1917), anthropologist • Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) [edit] Architects

• Hubert Austin (1845–1915) • Charles Barry (1795–1860), (Houses of Parliament) • George Basevi (1794–1845) • William Burges (1827–1881), architect and interior designer • William Butterfield (1814–1900), leader in Gothic revival movement • William Chambers (1723–1796), ( Gardens Pagoda and House) • John Douglas (1830–1911) • Sir Norman Foster (born 1935) • James Harrison (1814–66) • Thomas Harrison (1744–1829) • Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661–1736) • Inigo Jones (1573–1652) • Edmund Kirby (1838–1920) • Denys Lasdun (1914–2001) • Thomas Lockwood (1830–1900) • Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944) • William Morris (1834–1896), architect and author • John Nash (1752–1835), (Regent's Park, St. James's Park, Trafalgar Square) • Henry Paley (1859–1946) • Joseph Paxton (1801–1865), (The Crystal Palace for The Great Exhibition, ) • Thomas Mainwaring Penson (1818–64) • August Pugin (1812–1852), (Houses of Parliament) • Richard Rogers (born 1933), (Pompidou Centre) • Anthony Salvin (1799–1881) • Gilbert Scott (1880–1960), (Waterloo Bridge, also supervised rebuilding of House of Commons, London) • Edmund Sharpe (1809–77) • John William Simpson (1858–1933) • John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), Baroque architect (Blenheim Palace) • Derek Walker (born 1929) • Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), (Natural , London) • William Wilkins (1778–1839), (National Gallery, London) • Christopher Wren (1632–1723) [edit] Artists

• Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823–1903), painter • (born c. 1974), graffiti artist • Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) illustrator • Sir born 1932, pop artist • (1757–1827), painter, poet • Sir Anthony Caro (born 1924) sculptor • (1776–1837), landscape painter • Tracey Emin (born 1963), conceptual artist • Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), painter • Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956), sculptor (Land Art) • Antony Gormley OBE RA (born 1950) sculptor • James Henry Govier (1910–1974), painter, etcher and engraver • Steven Harris (cartoonist) (born 1975) cartoonist • Thomas Hazlehurst (c.1740–c.1821), miniature painter • Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (1903–1975) sculptor • Jamie Hewlett (born 1968), comic artist and designer • Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619) miniature painter • Damien Hirst (born 1965), sculptor/ conceptual artist • David Hockney (born 1937), painter • Sir Howard Hodgkin (born 1932) painter • William Hogarth (1697–1764), painter, engraver • William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) • Sir Edwin Landseer (1802–1873), animal painter • Richard Long (born 1945) land artist • Chris Ofili (born 1968) painter • Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896) painter • Henry Moore (1898–1986), sculptor • William Morris (1834–1896) • George Passmore (born 1942), artist (Gilbert & George) • Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), portrait painter • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), painter • Bridget Riley (born 1931), painter • Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959), painter • George Stubbs (1724–1806) Painter • Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), landscape and marine artist • Flora Twort (1893–1985), painter • Mark Wallinger (born 1959) conceptual artist • Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) sculptor • Joseph Wright of (1734–1797), Enlightenment Painter [edit] Photographers

• David Bailey (born 1938) • Emma Barton (1872–1938) • Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) • John Blakemore (born 1936) • Samuel Bourne (1834–1912) • (1926–1971), Photojournalist • George Davison (1854–1930) • Terence Donovan (1936–1996)) • Brian Duffy (1933–2010) • Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943) • Roger Fenton (1819–1869) • John French (1907–1966) • Francis Frith (1822–1898) • Bert Hardy (1913—1995) • Don McCullin (1935), Photojournalist • Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) • Horace Nicholls (1867–1941) • Tony Ray-Jones (1941–1972) • Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901) • George Rodger (1908–1995), Photojournalist • Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1853–1941) • William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), Photographer, inventor of the calotype process [edit] Businessmen

• Sir Richard Branson (born 1950) • Sir John Brunner (1842–1919), chemicals • Joseph Crosfield (1792–1844), soap and chemicals • Abraham Darby (c. 1678–1717), ironmaster • William (1799–1877), soap • Philip Green (born 1952), retail • James Hanson, Baron Hanson (1922–2004), industrialist • Thomas Hazlehurst (1779–1842), soap and alkali • (1812–1884), soap powder • John Hutchinson (1825–65), alkali • (born 1966) • Sir (1922–2006), pioneer of cheap air travel • William Losh (1770–1861), alkali • Alfred Mond (1868–1930), chemicals • Henry Mond (1898–1949), chemicals • Julian Mond (1925–73), industrialist • Stephan Morais (born 1973) • William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877–1963) • Edmund Knowles Muspratt (1833–1923), industrialist • Richard Muspratt (1822–85), industrialist • Charles Roe (1715–1781), silk • Titus Salt (1803–1876), industrialist • Sir Ivan Stedeford (1897–1975), industrialist • Sir (born 1947), electronics • Richard Tompkins (1918–1992), Green Shield trading stamps • Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795), industrialist [edit] Clergy

• Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100–1159), only English Pope • Thomas Arundel (1353–1414), Archbishop of Canterbury • Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), Archbishop of Canterbury • Richard Barnes (1532–1587), bishop • Archbishop Lawrence Booth, of York (1420–1480) • William Charles Cotton (1813–79), missionary and beekeeper • Gildas (c. 510 – c. 570), monk • Trevor Huddleston (1913–1998), anti-Apartheid activist • John Leland (1691–1766), English Presbyterian minister • John Henry Newman (1801–1890), Catholic cardinal • Plegmund (died 923), Archbishop of Canterbury • William Smyth (c. 1460–1514), bishop • Simon Sudbury (died 1381), Archbishop of Canterbury • Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815), radical Dissenting minister [edit] Economists

• R. G. D. Allen (1906–1983), economist, , and statistician • Norman Angell (1872 –1967) – British internationalist and economist • William Beveridge (1879–1963), economist and social reformer • Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), economist and historian • Colin Clark (1905–1989), British and Australian economist • Ronald Coase (1910–), Nobel Prize winning economist • Friedrich Hayek (1899 –1992) – Nobel Prize winning Economics • John Hicks (1904–1989), Nobel Prize winning economist • William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), economist and logician • John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), economist • John Neville Keynes (1852–1949), economist, father of John Maynard Keynes • Arthur Lewis (1915–1991), economist • Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), demographer • Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), economist • Mary Paley Marshall (1850–1944), economist, wife of Alfred Marshall • James Meade (1907–1995), Nobel Prize winning economist • John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), and economist • Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), economist • Lionel Robbins (1898–1984), economist • Joan Violet Robinson (1903–1983), economist • Richard Stone (1913–1991), Nobel Prize winning economist • Robert Torrens (1780–1864), army officer and economist • Philip Wicksteed (1844–1927), economist [edit] Engineers

• Sir Benjamin Baker (1840–1907), civil engineer • William Baker (1817–1878), railway engineer • James Beatty (1820–1856) railway engineer • Sir Henry Bessemer (1813–1898), metallurgy engineer • James Brindley (1716–1772), canal engineer • Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), transport engineer • Sir Camm (1894–1966), aeronautical engineer • Donald Campbell , railway engineer • William Tierney Clark (1783–1852), civil engineer • Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), aeronautical engineer • Sir John Ambrose Fleming (1848–1945), electrical engineer • Tommy Flowers (1908–1998), engineer • Eric Laithwaite (1908–1998), engineer • William Mackenzie (1794–1851), civil engineer and contractor • R.J. Mitchell (1895–1937), aeronautical engineer • Sir Henry Royce (1863–1933), engineer • George Stephenson (1781–1848), railway engineer • Nevil Shute (1899–1960), aeronautical engineer and author • Thomas Telford (1757–1834), engineer • Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1978), engineer • (1845–1914), engineer • Sir Joseph Whitworth (1803–1887), engineer [edit] Explorers

• Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), traveller in Iraq • Capt. James Cook (1728–1779), sailor explorer • Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), explorer in the Middle East • Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540–1596) • Sir Ranulph Fiennes (born 1944), listed as the "greatest explorer ever" by the Guinness Book of Records • Rob Gauntlett (1987–2009), youngest Briton to summit Everest • (born 1943) • Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552–1618) • Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) Antarctic explorer • Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1921) "Sir Ernest Shackleton's name will for evermore be engraved with letters of fire in the history of Antarctic exploration" Roald Amundsen • Freya Stark (1893–1993), Middle East explorer • Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003), explorer in East Africa and the Middle East [edit] Filmmakers

• (born 1923) • (born 1933) • John and Roy Boulting (1913–1985 and 1913–2001) • (1889–1977) • Alan Clarke (1935–1990) • Mike Figgis (born 1948) • Lewis Gilbert (born 1920) • David Hare (born 1947) • (1899–1980) • Peter Howitt (born 1957) • Humphrey Jennings (1907–1950) • Stan Laurel (1890–1965) • (1908–1991) • (born 1943) • (born 1936) • Nick Love (born 1969) • Anthony Minghella (1954–2008) • Mike Newell (born 1942) • Nick Park (born 1958) • (1905–1990) • Guy Ritchie (born 1968) • Ken Russell (born 1927) • (born 1942) • Tony Scott (born 1948) [edit] Humourists

• Chesney Allen (1893–1982) • Rowan Atkinson (born 1955) • (1929–2005) • Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971) • Roy 'Chubby' Brown (born 1945) • Alan Carr (born 1976) • Jimmy Carr (born 1972) • Jasper Carrott (born 1945) • (1941–1989) • (born 1939) • (born 1965) • Peter Cook (1937–1995) • Tommy Cooper (1921–1984) • (born 1935) • Jim Davidson (born 1953) • Les Dawson (1931–1993) • Angus Deayton (born 1956) • Ken Dodd (born 1929) • Adrian Edmondson (born 1957) • Lee Evans (born 1964) • Bud Flanagan (1896–1968) • (born 1957) • Stephen Fry (born 1958) • Ricky Gervais (born 1961) • Tony Hancock (1924–1968) • Lenny Henry (born 1958) • Lee Hurst (born 1963) • (born 1943) • Eddie Izzard (born 1962) • Jethro (born 1948) • Peter Kay (born 1973) • Hugh Laurie (born 1959) • (born 1974) • Bernard Manning (1930–2007) • Rik Mayall (born 1958) • Rory McGrath (born 1956) • Patrick McGuinness (born 1973) • (born 1957) • (1928–2003) • Eric (1926–1984) • (born 1959) • Frank Muir (1920–1998) • Denis Norden (born 1922) • Michael Palin (born 1943) • (born 1959) • (1940–2007) • (born 1958) • Peter Sellers (1925–1980) • (born 1957) • Arthur Smith (born 1954) • Freddie Starr (born 1944) • (born 1959) • (born 1971) • Norman Wisdom (1915–2010) • (1925–1999) [edit] Inventors / engineers

• Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (born 1955), inventor of the World Wide Web • Hubert Cecil Booth (1871–1955), inventor of the vacuum cleaner • Joseph Bramah (1748–1814), inventor of the hydraulic press (beer pump) • Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999), inventor of the hovercraft • William Congreve (1772–1828), rocketry pioneer • Abraham Darby (c. 1678–1717), ironmaster • James Dyson (born 1947), inventor • James Hargreaves (1720–1778), weaver and inventor • Sir John Harington (1561–1612), poet and inventor of the first water closet • John Harrison (1693–1776), clockmaker • (1795–1879), inventor of the modern postal service • Archibald Low (1888–1956), radio guidance • Thomas Newcomen (1664–1729), inventor • Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the reflector telescope • James Starley (1831–1881), bicycle pioneer • George Stephenson (1781–1848), engineer • Joseph Wilson Swan (1823–1914), inventor of the light bulb • Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), inventor • Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996), inventor of the jet engine • Sir Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), discoverer of hydrogen [edit] Military: soldiers/sailors/airmen

• Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of (1891–1969), Field Marshal, World War II hero • Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal (1717–1797), General • Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884–1981), World War II Commander • Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), soldier • Sir Douglas Bader (1910–1982), fighter pilot • Sir Alexander John Ball (1759–1809), Admiral, governor of • George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800–1888), Commander of cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava • William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865–1951), General, World War I • Robert Blake (1599–1657), reforming Admiral • Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), Field Marshal, Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II • James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1888), Commander of the Light Brigade • John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), soldier • Sir (1874–1965), British Prime Minister • Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805), General • (1721–1795), General • Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), Lord Protector of England • Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of (c. 1208–1265), English statesman and soldier. • , 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), RAF Commander in World War II • Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596), sailor • Prince Frederick, Duke of York (1763–1827), son of King George III, Commander-in- Chief of the Forces during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars • John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852–1925), General, World War I and Lord of Ireland • Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819–1904), Commander-in-Chief of the Forces • Charles George Gordon ("Chinese Gordon") (1833–1885), killed at Khartoum • Sir Arthur Travers Harris (1892–1984), Marshal of the , 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 • John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721–1770), General • William McMurdo (1819–1894), General • Andy McNab (born 1959), former Special Air Service soldier and commander of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War • George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670), Civil War era General in Chief Command • Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ("The Desert Rat") (1887–1976), Field Marshal and hero of World War II • Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979), statesman, sailor • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile (1758–1805), sailor, Admiral • Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854), General, hero of the Napoleonic Wars • Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832–1914), Field Marshal, last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces • Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782–1859) • Chris Ryan (born 1961), Former Special Air Service soldier and member of the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission during the first Iraq Gulf War • (1886–1967), war poet • William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1897–1970), Commander in Burma during World War II, Governor-General of . • Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien (1858–1930), General, World War I • Fitzroy Somerset, 1st (1788–1855), British commander in the Crimean War • Sir David Stirling, founder of the SAS • Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956), "Father of the RAF" and first Chief of the Air Staff • Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950), World War II general, second to last Viceroy of India • Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), Field Marshal, victor of Waterloo, politician • Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), Captain-General, victor of Culloden • James Wolfe (1727–1759), General, hero of Quebec during the Seven Years' War [edit] Monarchs

The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (December 2007) Further information: List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England • Alfred the Great (c. 849 – 899), King of the Anglo-Saxons. • Queen Anne (1665–1714), also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of after 1707 • Charles II (1660–1685), also King of Scotland • Edward I (1272–1307), English monarch • Edward II (1307–1327), English monarch • Edward III (1327–1377), English monarch • Edward IV (1461–1470 and 1471–1483), English monarch • Edward V (1470 – c. 1483), English monarch • Edward VI (1547–1553), first English Protestant monarch. • (1558–1603), Protestant queen and first Supreme Governor of the • Elizabeth II of the (1926), English-born British monarch • Henry III (1207–1272), English monarch • Henry IV (1367–1413), English monarch • Henry VI (1421–1471), English monarch • Henry VIII (1491–1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman • Mary I (1553–1558), Roman Catholic queen • Mary II (1662–1694) • Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199), English monarch, leader and hero of the Third Crusade • Richard III (1483–1485), last Plantagenet King, and last British monarch to die in Battle • William the Conqueror (1066–1087) • William IV (1765–1837) [edit] Criminals

• Myra Hindley (1942–2002) and Ian Brady (born 1938), Moors murderers • Ian Huntley (born 1974), Soham murderer • The Kray twins (Ronald 1933–1995, Reginald 1933–2000), east London gangsters • Harold Shipman (1946–2004), possibly the most prolific serial killer worldwide – convicted of 15 – probably killed over 250 [1] • Peter Sutcliffe (born 1946), Ripper • Fred West (1941–1995) and Rosemary West (1953–), serial killers • Steve Wright (born 1958), serial killer • Graham Young (1947–1990), The Teacup Poisoner • Jack the Ripper (serial killer) [edit] Musicians

• Stuart Adamson , lead singer of Big Country • Thomas Adès (born 1971), • (born 1968), singer- • John Alldis (born 1929), chorus master and conductor • Lily Allen (born 1985) • David Arnold (born 1962), composer, musician and film scorer (notably four films) • Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006), composer • Rick Astley (born 1966), singer-songwriter • Alexander Baillie (born 1956), cellist • Bryan Balkwill (1922–2007), conductor • John Barbirolli (1899–1970), conductor • Beckham (born 1974), singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and model • David Bedford (born 1937), composer and musician • Natasha Bedingfield (born 1981), singer • Thomas Beecham (1879–1961), conductor • Lisa Beznosiuk (1956), flautist • Roger Birnstingl , bassoonist • Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934), composer • James Blunt (born 1977) • Tim Booth (1960) Singer-songwriter and actor • Adrian Boult (1889–1983), conductor • James Bourne , member of the former rock group Busted, singer and song-writer • David Bowie (born 1947) • William Boyce (1711–1779), composer • Havergal Brian (1876–1972), composer • (born 1960), singer, actress, songwriter and dancer • Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer and pianist • Justin Broadrick (born 1969), vocalist and guitarrist, member of Godflesh and Jesu • Kate Bush (born 1958), singer, songwriter, musician and • William Byrd (1543–1623), composer • Justin Chancellor (born 1971), bassist, member of Tool • Eric Clapton (born 1945) • Adam Clayton born 1960, bassist, member of U2 • Imogen Cooper (born 1949), pianist • Cheryl Cole Singer (born 1983) • Roger Daltrey (born 1944) singer, lead of The Who • Peter Maxwell Davies (born 1934), composer • Andrew Davis (born 1944), conductor • Colin Davis (born 1927), conductor • Norman Del Mar (1919–1994), conductor • Frederick Delius (1862–1934), composer • Dido (Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong) (born 1971), singer and songwriter • Pete Doherty former co-lead singer of The Libertines and current lead singer of Babyshambles and solo artist • Peter Donohoe (born 1953), pianist • John Dowland (c. 1563 – c. 1626), composer of songs • John Dunstaple (c. 1383–1453), composer • Ian Dury (1942–2000), lyricist and vocalist for The Blockheads • (1857–1934), composer • Gerald Finzi (1901–1956), composer • Lita Ford • Noel Gallagher (born 1967), singer-songwriter • Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625), composer • Ron Goodwin (1925–2003) composer and conductor • Bella Hardy folk musician, singer, songwriter • Dhani Harrison (born 1978) guitarist, son of George Harrison • George Harrison (1943–2001), composer, member of • Anthony Hewitt (born 1971), pianist • Gustav Holst (1874–1934), composer • Saul Hudson aka 'Slash', (born 1965), guitarist, member of Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit and Velvet Revolver • John Ireland (1879–1962), composer • Robert Irving (1913–1991), conductor • Sir (born 1947), pop star and composer • Brian Johnson (born 1947), rock singer • Davy Jones (born 1945), singer/percussionist, member of The Monkees • Nigel Kennedy (born 1956), violinist • Thea King (1925–2007), clarinetist • Adrian Lambert (born 1976), bassist • Albert Lee (born 1945), guitarist • John Lennon (1940–1980), pop star, co-founder of The Beatles • Leona Lewis (born 1985), singer and songwriter • (born 1948), composer of musicals • (born 1991), singer • Chris Lowe (born 1959), keyboardist and composer, member of Pet Shop Boys (Duo) • Sir Paul McCartney (born 1942), pop star, co-founder of The Beatles • Steve Marsden (born 1965), bassoonist • Chris Martin (born 1977) singer-songwriter, lead of Coldplay • Thomas Morley (c. 1557–1602), consort composer • Gareth Morris (1920–2007), flautist • Morrissey (born 1959), composer, member of • Olivia Newton-John (born 1948), pop star • John Ogdon (1937–1989), pianist • Mike Oldfield (born 1953), composer and instrumentalist • Ozzy Osbourne (born 1948) • Jimmy Page (born 1944), guitarist • Hubert Parry (1848–1918), composer • Peter Pears (1910–1986), tenor • Gervase de Peyer (born 1926), clarinetist and conductor • Robert Plant (born 1948), singer, member of Led Zeppelin • Anthony Pleeth (born 1948), cellist • Jacqueline du Pré (1945–1987), cellist • Stephen Preston , flautist • Henry Purcell (1659–1695), composer • Simon Rattle (born 1955), conductor • Martin Roscoe (born 1952), pianist • Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967), conductor • Ringo Starr (born 1940), composer, member of The Beatles • Crispin Steele-Perkins (born 1944), trumpeter • Rod Stewart (born 1945) • Joss Stone (born 1987) • Joe Strummer (1952–2002), singer, member of The Clash • Bernard Sumner , lead singer of New Order • Connie Talbot (born 2000), child singer and reality star • Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–1585), composer • Neil Tennant (born 1954), vocalist, member of Pet Shop Boys (Duo) • Lionel Tertis (1876–1975), violist • Frederick Thurston (1901–53), clarinetist • Michael Tippett (1905–1998), composer • Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer • Ricky Walters (born 1965), aka rapper Slick Rick • William Walton (1902–1983), composer • Roger Waters (born 1943), founder of Pink Floyd • Thomas Weelkes (c. 1575–1623), composer • John Wilbye (1574–1638), composer • Steven Wilson (1967), musician, producer, composer and founder of Porcupine Tree • Cliff Williams (born 1949), bassist • (born 1974) • (born 1983) • Henry Wood (1869–1944), conductor • Marvin Young (born 1967), aka rapper Young MC • Thom Yorke (born 1968), singer-songwriter, musician, member of Radiohead [edit] Chefs

• (born 1975) • (born 1941) • Rick Stein (born 1947) • Keith Floyd (1943-2009) • Nigella Lawson (born 1960) • James Martin (born 1972) • Antony Worrall Thompson (born 1951) • Marco Pierre White (born 1961) • Heston Blumenthal (born 1966) [edit] Philosophers

• Donald Adamson (born 1939) • G.E.M. Anscombe (1919–2001), philosopher • A.J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher • Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher and essayist • Roger Bacon (1214–1294), medieval philosopher, alchemist, and theologian • (1748–1832), philosopher • R.M. Hare (1907–2002), philosopher • H.L.A. Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher • Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), philosopher • William Godwin (1756–1836), political philosopher • John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher • John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), economist, philosopher • G.E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher • Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) • William of Ockham (c. 1285–1349), philosopher, theologian • Thomas Paine (1737–1809), theorist • Derek Parfit (born 1942), philosopher • Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher • Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher • Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), philosopher • Peter Strawson (1919–2006), philosopher • William Whewell (1794–1866), philosopher • Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician • Bernard Williams (1929–2003), philosopher [edit] Politicians

• H. H. Asquith (1852–1928), British prime minister • (1883–1967), British prime minister • (1867–1947), British prime minister • Ernest Bevin (1881–1951), Labour politician • Tony Benn (born 1925), Labour politician • (born 1953), British prime minister • Margaret Bondfield (1873–1953), Labour politician & first female Cabinet Minister • John Bright (1811–1889), liberal politician • (1770–1827), politician • Barbara Castle (1910–2002), politician • Sir (1863–1937) • Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) • (1869–1940), British prime minister • (1849–1895) • Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British prime minister • (born 1940), Conservative politician • Sir (1889–1952), Labour politician • George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), Viceroy of India • Archibald Dalzel (1740–1811), Governor of the Gold Coast • William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (c. 1720–1764) • Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833–1908) • Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869) • Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893) • (1804–1881), British prime minister • Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), British prime minister • (1897–1977), British prime minister • (1906–1963), Labour politician • (1809–1898), British prime minister • Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735–1811) • (born 1913), Labour leader • Sir Henry Bartle Frere (1815–1884), Colonial administrator • Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), Labour leader • Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815–1891) • (1712–1770), British prime minister • William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville (1759–1834) • Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845) • , (1961–)Conservative politician • (born 1917), Labour politician • (1916–2005), British prime minister • (1964–), Conservative politician • John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902) • George Lansbury (1859–1940) • (born 1932), Conservative politician • John Leland (?–1808), English Member of Parliament for Stamford, 1796–1808 • Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of (1770–1828) • John Lubbock (1834–1913), banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist • (1894–1986), British prime minister • (born 1943), British prime minister • (1917–1979), Conservative politician • (1888–1965), Labour politician • William Lamb, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848) • Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) • Frederick North, Lord North (1732–1792) • Sir (1788–1850), British prime minister • Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British prime minister • (1694–1754) • (1762–1812), British Prime Minister • William Pitt (the Elder), 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) • (1759–1806), British prime minister • William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809) • Enoch Powell (1912–1998) • Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), imperialist • Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (1782–1859), politician • Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782) • , 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) • Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn (1837–1916) • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), British Prime Minister • , 1st (1757–1844) • John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873–1954) • Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw (1864–1937) • (born 1925), British prime minister • Sir (1676–1745), British prime minister • William Wilberforce (1759–1833), abolitionist • Shirley Williams (born 1930), SDP founder • Henry Willink (1894–1973), politician • Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (c. 1674–1743) • (1916–1995), British prime minister [edit] Scientists

• Arthur Aikin (1773–1854), chemist and mineralogist • Nathan Alcock (1707–1779), • Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician • Joseph Banks (1743–1820), naturalist • Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), mathematician • Thomas Bayes (c. 1702–1761), mathematician • Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), computer scientist – inventor of the WorldWideWeb • Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897–1974), physicist • George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician • Robert Boyle (1627–1691), natural philosopher • Richard Bright (1630–1677), doctor, founder of Bright's Disease (form of kidney disease) • Henry Brunner (1838–1916), chemist • Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), scientist • Sir George Cayley (1773–1857), polymath and aviator • Francis Crick (1916–2004), molecular biologist • John Dalton (1766–1844), chemist and physicist • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution • Richard Dawkins (born 1941), evolutionary theorist • Henry Deacon (1822–76), chemist • Paul Dirac (1902–1984), physicist • Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951), entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist • Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), physicist • (1791–1867), scientist • Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), geneticist and statistician • Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), chemist and x-ray crystallographer • J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), geneticist • James Hargreaves (1834–1915), chemist • Stephen Hawking (born 1942), cosmologist • (1850–1925), physicist • John Herschel (1792–1871), mathematician and astronomer • C. A. R. Hoare (born 1934), computer scientist • Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist • Edward Jenner (1749–1823), doctor • R. V. Jones (1911–1997), physicist • (1818–1889), physicist • Joseph Lister (1827–1912), surgeon • Bernard Lovell (born 1913), astronomer • James Lovelock (born 1919), scientist • Martin Lowry (1874–1936), chemist • John William Lubbock (1803–1865), banker, mathematician and astronomer • Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist • John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), geneticist • John McClellan (1810–81), chemist • Robert Mond (1867–1938), chemist • Desmond Morris (born 1928), zoologist • Roger Needham (1935–2003), computer scientist • Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), founder of modern physics, last of the alchemists • Roger Penrose (born 1931), cosmologist • Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896), geologist • Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), chemist • Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), geologist • John Snow (1813–1858), epidemiologist • Joseph Wilson Swan (1828–1914), physicist and chemist • George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), physicist • J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), physicist • Henry Tizard (1885–1959), chemist and inventor • Alan Turing (1912–1954), mathematician • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist • Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician • Maurice Vincent Wilkes (born 1913), computer scientist • James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician • William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), chemist • Thomas Young (1773–1829), scientist [edit] Sportsmen and sportswomen

• Barney Aaron (Young) (1800–1850), lightweight boxer, Hall of Fame[2] • (1899–1978), athlete, Olympic champion (100 metre sprint) and silver (4x100-m relay), one of the two subjects of Chariots of Fire • Sir Sidney Abrahams (1885–1957), Olympic long jumper • Chris Adams (1955–2001), pro wrestler and judoka • Neil Adams (born 1958), judoka and two-time silver medalist in Judo (1980 and 1984), younger brother of Chris Adams • (born 1966), football player • Jo Ankier (born 1982), Britain, record holder (1,500-m & 3,000-m steeplechase) • Alan Ball (1945–2007), member of the 1966 World Cup winning team • (born 1937), goalkeeper of 1966 World Cup winning team • Sir Roger Bannister (born 1929), first sub-four-minute miler • Viktor Barna (born "Győző Braun") (1911–1972), 22-time table tennis world champion, International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame ("ITTFHoF") • Lord Frederick Beauclerk (1773–1850), player and administrator • (born 1975), football player • Jack Kid Berg (Judah Bergman) (1909–1991), world champion junior welterweight boxer, Hall of Fame • Richard Bergmann (1919–1970), 7-time table tennis world champion, ITTFHoF • Chris Bonington (born 1934), mountaineer • Sir (born 1955), cricketer • Mark Bott , cricketer[3] • (born 1940), cricketer • Eric Bristow (born 1957), world champion darts player • Jenson Button (born 1980), F1 World Champion • Angela Buxton (born 1934), won 1956 French Women's Doubles (w/Althea Gibson) and 1956 Wimbledon Women's Doubles (w/Gibson), highest world ranking # 9 • Sir (born 1937), member of the 1966 World Cup winning team • (born 1935), member of the 1966 World Cup winning team • Sir Francis Chichester (1901–1972), yachtsman • Don Cockell (1928–1983), heavyweight boxer • (born 1939), right back, World Cup champion • Paul Collingwood (born 1976), cricketer • Sir (born 1934), heavyweight boxer • (born 1972), World Cup winning rugby footballer • Tom Daley (born 1994), youngest olympian diver ever to compete in olympics (participated in Beijing 2008) • Laura Davies (born 1963), golfer • (born 1957), six times World Snooker Champion • (born 1972), World Cup winning rugby footballer • John Deacon (1962–2001), motorcycle endurance racer • (born 1958), figure skater • Percy Down (1883–?), player, represented England and Great Britain. • Jonathan Edwards (born 1966), triple jump • Godfrey Evans (1920–1999), cricketer (-keeper) • Percy Fender , cricketer • James Figg (1695–1734), first English bare-knuckle boxing champion • Bob Fitzsimmons (1863–1917), boxing's first World Champion in three divisions • (born 1977), cricketer • C B Fry (1872–1956), cricketer and all-round athlete • (born 1967), football player • (born 1980), football player • (born 1953), cricketer • Pete Goss (born 1961), around-the-world yachtsman • W G Grace (1848–1915), cricketer • (born 1972), rugby footballer • Naseem Hamed (born 1974), featherweight boxer • (born 1985), F1 World Champion • Ricky Hatton (born 1978), world champion boxer • David Haye (born 1980), world champion boxer • Ben Helfgott (born 1930), 3-time British weightlifting champion (lightweight), 3-time Maccabiah champion • (born 1960), F1 World Champion • Graham Hill (1929–1975), two times F1 World Champion • Jack Hobbs (1882–1963), cricketer • (born 1957), footballer • Sir (born 1941), member of the 1966 World Cup winning team • (born 1968), cricketer • (1916–1990), cricketer • E.J. 'John' Jackett , rugby union player, represented England and Great Britain. • Joe Jacobson (born 1986), association football left back (Oldham Athletic & U21 national team) • Peter Jaffe, Olympic silver (yachting; star-class) • Allan Jay (born 1931), épée & foil fencer, Olympic 2-time silver, world champion • Martin Johnson (born 1970), World Cup winning rugby union footballer • Trish Johnson (born 1966), golfer • Amir Khan (born 1986), lightweight boxer • (born 1978), footballer • Dougie Lampkin (born 1976), Motorcycle Trials World Champion • Mark Lazarus , footballer, right winger • Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff) (1893–1970), world champion welterweight boxer, Hall of Fame • (born 1965), world champion heavyweight boxer • Josh Lewsey (born 1976), rugby footballer • (born 1960), footballer • Dar Lyon , cricketer • Dame Ellen MacArthur (born 1976), sailor who holds the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe • (1886–1924), mountaineer • (born 1953), racing driver, F1 and CART champion • Terry Marsh (born 1958), world champion boxer

Darren Matthews (professional wrestler) (born 1968)

• Daniel Mendoza (1764–1836), world heavyweight champion boxer, Hall of Fame • Alan Minter (born 1951), world champion boxer • (1941–1993), captain of the 1966 World Cup winning team • Alfred Mynn (1807–1861), cricketer • (born 1975), footballer • (born 1977), footballer • Alison Nicholas (born 1962), golfer • Ronnie O'Sullivan (born 1975), three times World Snooker Champion • Fred Oberlander (1911–1996), world champion wrestler (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion • (born 1979), football player • Rachel Parish (born 1981), markswoman and fencer • John Parrott (born 1964), World Snooker Champion • Fred Perry (1909–1995), Wimbledon champion tennis player • (born 1943), member of the 1966 World Cup winning team • (born 1980), cricketer • Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), tennis player, highest world ranking # 6 • Samuel Rabin (1903–1991, Olympic bronze wrestler (freestyle middleweight) • (born 1973), distance runner • John Raphael , cricket and rugby union • Sir (born 1962), rower, winner of gold medal in five consecutive Olympics • Sir Gordon Richards (1904–1988), jockey, holder of several records • Sir (1933–2009), Football Manager • (born 1985), footballer • (born 1974), footballer • Edgar Seligman (1867–1958), épée, foil, and sabre fencer, Olympic 2-time silver (épée), 2-time British champion in each weapon • (born 1970), footballer, all-time leading goal scorer in the premiership • (born 1966), football player • (born 1942), football World Cup winner • Andrew Stoddart (1863–1915), rugby and cricket player • Karen Stupples (born 1973), golfer • Phil Taylor (born 1960), multi world champion darts player • (born 1980), footballer • (born 1957), figure skater • (born 1975), cricketer • Fred Trueman , fast bowler • Phil Tufnell (born 1966), cricketer • Randolph Turpin (1928–1966), middleweight boxer • (born 1974), cricketer • (born 1945), tennis player • Frank Warren (born 1952), boxing promoter • Dan Wheldon (born 1978), 2005 Indy 500 Winner, 2005 Indycar Series Champion • Jimmy White (born 1962), snooker player • Sir William Wavell Wakefield (1898–1983), rugby footballer and politician • (born 1979), world cup winning rugby footballer • Justin Wilson (born 1978), Champ Car race [edit] Writers

See List of English writers [edit] Conspirators

• Guy Fawkes (1570–1606) [edit] Other notables

• (1952–2001), author, comic and radio dramatist • Rachel Ashwell (born 1959), author, designer and entrepreneur • (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster • Edward Betts (1815–1872), civil engineering contractor • Thomas Brassey (1805–1870), civil engineering contractor • Capability Brown (1715–1783), landscape gardener • William Camden (1551–1623), historian • William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491), printer • Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885–1949), automobile and speedboat racer. • Sir John Chesshyre (1662–1738), lawyer • (born 1960), T.V. Presenter, broadcaster and writer. • James Cook (1728–1779), British explorer • (born 1959), T.V. personality, record producer • Grace Darling (1815–1842), heroine • William Emes (c. 1729–1803), landscape gardener • Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), prison reformer • Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), historian • (1959), Video game designer • Thomas Grissell (1801–1874), public works contractor • Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), pioneer aviator and aviation entrepreneur • Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928), urban planner • Edward Kemp (1817–91), garden designer • Gideon Lester (b. 1972), dramaturg, adaptator, theatre artistic director • Sir Peter Leycester (1614–78), historian and antiquarian • Ray Mears (born 1964), Author, T.V. presenter and survival expert • Sir Patrick Moore (born 1923), Writer, TV Presenter, Astronomer. • Joshua A. Norton (1811–1880), Emperor of the United States and Protector of • George Ormerod (1785–1873), historian and antiquary • (born 1935), Presenter of British television chat show Parkinson • Sir Samuel Morton Peto (1809–1889), civil engineering contractor • John Speed (1542–1629), historian and cartographer • Wat Tyler (died 1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381) • William Wakefield (1801–1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand • Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), political activist and suffragist • Joseph Williamson (1769–1840), philanthropist, merchant and tunneler

[edit] English expatriates

The following were born English, but changed nationality later in their life.

• John Alden (c. 1599–1687), one of the leaders of the Pilgrims to North America[4] • John F. Allen (1829–1900), inventor of Porter-Allen engine and two pneumatic riveting systems[4] • George Alsop , noted author[4] • James Anderson , noted nineteenth century, especially remembered for his performance as [4] • Anthony Aston (died 1731), noted actor and dramatist[4] • Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) • Cary Grant (1904–1986), film actor. • Alistair Cooke (1908–2004) • Bob Hope (1903–2003)

Stephen Hough (born 1961), concert pianist, became Australian  citizen •  Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

Famous People from America Listing of famous people from the country of the United States of America.

See also: Famous American Quotes, Famous American Women, American Authors Famous American Activists, Famous African Americans, Famous American Men Famous American Spiritual Leaders

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FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM CANADA

Canada has many faomous people, many of whom we don't even know they are Canadians. Here are some of them:

Famous Canadians include:

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]

A

• Brian Adams (singer) • Dan Akroyd (comic and actor) • Pamela Anderson Lee (Baywatch actor) • Anderson (Macgyver) • Paul Anka (singer) • April Wine () • Jan Arden (musician) • Arrogant Worms ( group) • Margaret Atwood [(1939- ), author]

B

• Bachman-Turner Overdrive (band) • Donavan Bailey (track and field) • Carroll Baker (country singer) • Frederick Banting/Charles Best (Nobel Prize for discovering insulin in 1922) • Bass is Base (music group) • Bare Naked Ladies (music group) • Myriam Bedard (biathalon, 2 gold medals in 1994 olympics) • Jean Beliveau (hockey player) • Alexander Graham Bell [(1847-1922), invented the telephone in , , in 1874] • Billy Bishop [(1894-1956), WWI flying ace - shot down 72 enemy planes] • Blue Rodeo (band) • J. Armand Bombardier [(1907-1964), invented the "Ski-Doo" (i.e. snowmobile)] • Roberta Bondar (astronaut) • Raymond Bourque (hockey player) • Martin Brodeur (hockey player) • Kurt Browning (figure skater) • Michael Budman (co-founded 'Roots' clothing chain) • Sandra Bullock (actress) • Raymond Burr (actor, "Perry Mason") • Pierre [(1920- ), journalist, author, director]

C

• James Cameron (director of "Aliens", "Terminator", "True Lies" & "Titanic") • Rod Cameron (actor) • Neve Campbell (actress) • (comic and actor) • (actor) • Emily Carr [(1871-1945), painter and writer] • Kim Cattrall (actress, Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) • Sarah Chalke (actress) • Thomas Chong (comedian, 1/2 of Cheech & Chong) • William Christie [(1829-1900) founded the Christie biscuit company] • Paul Coffey (hockey player) • [(1934- ), poet and singer] • Crash Test Dummies (band) • David Cronenberg (director)

D

• Robertson Davies (author) • Celine Dion (singer) • James Doohan (actor, Scotty of Star Trek)

E

• Timothy Eaton [(1834-1907), founded Eaton Co. 1867] • Econoline Crush (music group) • David Elliot (actor on Melrose Place) • Rik Emmett (musician, of the band Triumph) • Robert Esmie (sprinter, gold in )

F

• Ivan Ferguson (developed IMAX and OMNIMAX film systems) • Maynard Ferguson (jazz trumpeter) • Dave Foley (actor) • Glenn Ford (movie Actor) • David Foster (composer) • Michael J. Fox ([1961- ) actor] • Terry Fox ("Marathon of Hope" 1981) • Matt Frewer (actor, Max Headroom) • Fruit de la passion (singer) G

• John Kenneth Galbraith (US economist and diplomat) • Marc Garneau (astronaut) • Glenroy Gilbert (sprinter, gold in Atlanta) • Samuel Goldwyn (of MGM) • Robert Goulet (actor) • Great Big Sea (band) • Don Green (co-founded 'Roots'clothing chain) • Lorne Greene (actor) • Wayne Gretzky [(1961- ), hockey player] • Paul Gross (actor) • Bruce Greenwood, (actor, Nowhere Man on UPN) • Guess Who (band) • Peter Gzowski (author, broadcaster)

H

• Monty Hall (game show host) • Rick Hansen (wheelchair athlete "Man in Motion" tour) • Lawren Harris [(1885-1970), painter] • Cory Hart (singer) • Phil Hartman (actor, comedian) • Bret the Hitman Hart • Headstones (music group]) • Jeff Healey (musician) • Tim Horton (hockey player, donut mogul) • Gordie Howe [(1928- ), hockey player] • Henry Hudson (explorer; Hudson Bay) in 1611 • Bobby Hull (NHL Hall of Famer) • Brett Hull (hockey player)

I

• I Mother Earth (band) • Michael Ironside (actor)

J

• Ferguson Jenkins (hall of fame pitcher) • Peter Jennings (newscaster) • Ben Johnson (track and field) • Lynn Johnson (cartoonist - For Better or For Worse)

K

• Margot Kidder (Psycho\actress) • The Killjoys (music group) • The Kids in the Hall (comics-actors-geniuses)

L • K.D. Lang (punk-country and pop singer, composer) • Margaret Laurence (author) • Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) (humorist) • Geddy Lee (singer) • Mario Lemieux (hockey player, NHL's leading scorer) • Alex Lifeson (guitarist for RUSH) • Gordon Lightfoot (singer • Eric Lindros (hockey player) • Rich Little (comedian) • Guy Lombardo [(1902-1977), bandleader The Royal Canadians] • Lowinger, Tessa (and Wiebe, Jennifer) (behind the first unionization of a McDonald's)

M

• Cluny MacPherson [(1879-1966), invented the gas mask] • Howie Mandel (comedian) • Elizabeth Manley (figure skater) • Amanda Marshall (singer) • John McCrae [(1872-1918), doctor, wrote "In Flanders Field" 1915] • Sarah McLachlan (Singer) • Mark Messier (hockey player) • Joni Mitchell [(1943- ), singer-composer] • Kim Mitchell (musician) • Moist (Music group) • Lucy Maud Montgomery [(1874-1942), author of Anne of Green Gables] • The Moffatts: Dave, Bob, Scott & Clint (band) • Greg Moore (indycar driver) • Rob Moore (very big in the computer industry) • (actor) • Alanis Morrisette (singer) • Barry Morse (actor, from the original Fugitive) • Farley Mowat (author) • Anne Murray (singer-composer) • ( actor)

N

• Dr. Naismith [(1861-1939),invented in1891] • Cam Neely (hockey player) • John Neville (director) • Leslie Nielsen (actor)

O

• Odds (band) • Catherine O'Hara (actress) • Brian Orser (figure skater) • Our Lady Peace (band)

P • Lester B. Pearson (Canadian prime minister, Nobel Prize for Peace 1957) • Neil Peart (of RUSH) • (actor, ) • Stone Phillips (newscaster) • Gordon Pinsent (actor) • Sarah Polley (actress) • Jason Priestly (90210 actor) • Christopher Plummer (actor, Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

Q

• Paul Quarrington (author)

R

• Mark Recchi (hockey player) • Keanu Reeves (actor) • Ivan Reitman (director) • Manon Rheaume (first lady of professional hockey) • Maurice "Rocket" Richard (hockey player) • Mordecai Richler (author) • John Roberts (news anchor) • Spider Robinson (writer) • Patrick Roy (hockey player) • Royal Canadian Air Farce (comedy group) • Tommy Ryan [(1882-1961), invented 5-pin bowling] • Rymes With Orange (Music group)

S

• (60 minutes journalist) • Joe Sakic (hockey player) • Sawa (actor) • Paul Schaffer • Barbara Ann Scott (figure skater - gold medal 1948) • Laura Secord (confectioner/stool pigeon) • Mack Sennett (Michael Sinnott) [(1880-1960) launched Charlie Chaplin's career, creator of the Keystone Kops] • Brendan Shanahan (hockey player) • William Shatner (actor and author) • (actor) • Joe Shuster [(1914-1992) co-creator of ] • Jay Silverheels [(1919-1980),Tonto in The Lone Ranger] • Sloan (Band) • Spirit of the West (music group) • Steppenwolf (rock band) • Emily Stowe [(1831-1903), first Canadian woman to practice medicine] • Elvis Stoyko (figure skater) • Alfred Sung (designer) • Bruny Surin (sprinter) • Donald Sutherland [(1935- ), actor] • Keifer Sutherland (actor - Donald's son) • David Suzuki (environmentalist, geneticist, writer)

T

• Ken Taylor (Canadian ambassador smuggled Americans out of Iran, 1980 - called The Canadian Caper) • The Tea Party (music group) • Allan Thicke (actor) • (actor, comedian) • The Tragically Hip (music band) • Paul Tracy (indycar driver) • Alex Trebek (Jeopardy host) • Shania Twain (singer)

U

• Gary Unger (hockey player)

V

• Gilles Villeneuve (F1 racing driver) • Jacques Villeneuve (F1 racing driver)

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1. Sir Winston Churchill Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's most famous and celebrated Prime Minister. 2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an extraordinary Victorian engineer. He designed and built amongst other structures bridges, ships, railways and viaducts 3. Diana, Princess of From the time of her to the Prince of Wales in 1981 until her in a car accident in in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales was one of the world's most high- profile, most photographed, and most iconic celebrities. 4. Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was a British naturalist of the nineteenth century. He and others developed the theory of evolution. This theory forms the basis for the modern life sciences. Darwin's most famous books are 'The Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man'. 5. William Shakespeare was a playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in English . He wrote dozens of plays which continue to dominate world theater 400 years later. 6. Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was a mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion. 7. Queen Elizabeth I The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth 1 reigned England from 1558–1603. Her reign was marked by several plots to overthrow her, the execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1587), the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588), and domestic prosperity and literary achievement. Find out more about Elizabeth 1 8. John Lennon John Lennon was a musician and composer who was a member of the Beatles, the biggest rock band of the . 9. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson Nelson is the greatest hero in British naval history, an honour he earned by defeating 's fleet in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar. 10. Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell was a military, political, and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War (1642–1649) and called for the execution of Charles I. He was Lord Protector of England for much of the 1650s, ruling in place of the country's traditional monarchy. 11. Ernest Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer of the South Pole who is best remembered for leading his crew to safety after the failed expedition of the Endurance (1914-16). 12. Captain James Cook James Cook was an explorer of the eighteenth century, known for his voyages to the Pacific Ocean. Cook visited New Zealand, established the first European colony in Australia, and was the first European to visit Hawaii. He also approached Antarctica and explored much of the coast of North America. 13. Robert Baden-Powell British soldier who founded the Boy Scouts (1908) and with his sister Agnes (1858–1945) the Girl Guides (1910). 14. King Alfred the Great King of the West Saxons (871–899), scholar, and lawmaker who repelled the Danes and helped consolidate England into a unified kingdom. 15. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington British general and politician. Commander of British troops during the Peninsular War (1808–1814), he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo (1815), thus ending the Napoleonic Wars. As prime minister (1828–1830) he passed the Catholic Emancipation Act (1829). 16. Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Margaret Thatcher was the United Kingdom's first woman prime minister, and she held the office of PM for longer than anyone in the 20th century. 17. Michael Crawford -Actor 18. Victoria's nearly 64-year reign was the longest in British history. Find out more about Victoria 19. Sir Paul McCartney McCartney was a singer, songwriter and guitarist for The Beatles, the biggest rock band of the 1960s. 20. Sir Alexander Fleming British bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928, for which he shared a Nobel Prize in 1945. 21. Alan Turing English mathematician whose works explored the possibility of computers and raised fundamental questions about artificial intelligence. During World War II he contributed to the allied victory by helping to decipher the German Enigma codes. 22. Michael Faraday British physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1831) and proposed the field theory later developed by Maxwell and Einstein. 23. Owain Glyndwr The last Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales. 24. Queen Elizabeth II Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary), is the Queen regnant and Head of State of the United and Northern Ireland and fifteen other Commonwealth countries. 25. Professor Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist noted for his research into the origin of the universe. His work influenced the development of the big bang and black hole theories. 26. William Tyndale English religious reformer and martyr whose translation of the New Testament was the basis of the King James Bible. 27. Emmeline Pankhurst 28. William Wilberforce British politician. As a member of Parliament (1780–1825) he campaigned for the British abolition of slavery. 29. David Bowie David Bowie, is a British musician, actor, and artist who has had a profound influence on rock and roll from the 1960s to the present. 30. Guy Fawkes English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606) Find out more 31. Leonard , Baron Cheshire of Woodall 32. - comic 33. David Beckham Beckham is a leading English footballer and a former star of the legendary team United. 34. Thomas Paine British-born American writer and Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain. In England he published The Rights of Man (1791– 1792), a defence of the French Revolution. 35. Boudicca Queen of ancient Britain who led a temporarily successful revolt against the Roman army that had claimed her deceased husband's kingdom. 36. Sir Steve Redgrave A British rower who won a gold medal at five consecutive from 1984 to 2000, as well as an additional bronze medal in 1988. As the only Briton ever to achieve this feat, he is widely considered to be Britain's greatest Olympian. 37. Sir English politician, humanist scholar, and writer who refused to comply with the Act of Supremacy, by which English subjects were enjoined to recognize Henry VIII's authority over the pope, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London and beheaded for treason. 38. William Blake British poet and artist whose paintings and poetic works, such as Songs of Innocence (1789) and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790), have a mystical, visionary quality. 39. John Harrison An English clock designer, who developed and built the world's first successful maritime clock, one whose accuracy was great enough to allow the determination of longitude over long distances. 40. King Henry VIII Henry VIII is one of the most famous and controversial kings of England. His divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, compelled him to break from the Catholic Church by the Act of Supremacy (1534). 41. Charles Dickens - writer Charles Dickens wrote some of the most popular and widely read novels of the 19th century, from Oliver Twist to A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. 42. Sir Frank Whittle English aeronautical engineer. Whittle was one of the first men to associate the gas turbine with jet propulsion. 43. John Peel John Peel was a disc jockey on BBC's Radio 1 whose 37 years of broadcasting out-of- the-mainstream acts helped popularise reggae, punk and hip-hop in Britain. 44. John Logie Baird A Scottish inventor, who in 1926 gave the first demonstration of true television 45. Aneurin Bevan Welsh-born British politician who as minister of health (1945–1951) was the chief architect of the National Health Service. 46. Boy George - singer 47. Sir Douglas Bader 48. Sir William Wallace Scottish patriot who led resistance against the English and briefly gained control of Scotland in 1298. 49. Sir Francis Drake English naval hero and explorer who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577–1580) and was vice admiral of the fleet that destroyed the Spanish Armada (1588). 50. John Wesley British religious leader who founded Methodism (1738). His brother Charles (1707– 1788) wrote thousands of hymns, including “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.” 51. King Arthur A legendary British hero, said to have been king of the Britons in the sixth century A.D. and to have held court at Camelot. 52. Florence Nightingale British nurse who organized (1854) and directed a unit of field nurses during the Crimean War and is considered the founder of modern nursing. (Although Florence was born in Italy, her parents were British and from of one, Florence lived in Britain). 53. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) Welsh-born British soldier, adventurer, and writer who led the Arab revolt against the Turks (1916–1918) and later wrote an account of his adventures, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926). 54. Sir Robert Falcon Scott British explorer who reached the South Pole (January 1912) only to find that Roald Amundsen had discovered the spot one month before. 55. Enoch Powell 56. Sir Cliff Richard One of the UK's most popular singers of all time 57. Sir Alexander Graham Bell Scottish-born American inventor of the telephone. 58. Freddie Mercury 59. Dame Julie Andrews A British actress, singer, and author, best known for her starring roles in the musical films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). 60. Sir Edward Elgar 61. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 62. George Harrison 63. Sir David Attenborough 64. James Connolly 65. George Stephenson 66. Sir Charlie Chaplin 67. Tony Blair 68. William Caxton 69. Bobby Moore 70. Jane Austen 71. William Booth 72. King Henry V 73. Aleister Crowley 74. King Robert the Bruce 75. Bob Geldof 76. The Unknown Warrior 77. Robbie Williams 78. Edward Jenner 79. , 1st Earl Lloyd George 80. Charles Babbage 81. Geoffrey Chaucer 82. King Richard III 83. J.K. Rowling - 84. James Watt 85. Sir Richard Branson 86. Bono (Born in Ireland) 87. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) 88. Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein 89. Donald Campbell 90. King Henry II 91. 92. J.R.R. Tolkien 93. Sir Walter Raleigh 94. King Edward I 95. Sir Barnes Wallis 96. 97. Tony Benn 98. David Livingstone 99. Sir Tim Berners-Lee 100. Marie Stopes

List of famous Australia people Art

• Howard Arkley, painter • Charles Blackman, painter • Sir William Dobell, painter • Ken Done, painter • Sir Russell Drysdale, painter • Donald Friend, painter • Joy Hester, painter • Sir Hans Heysen, painter • Nora Heysen (died 2003), painter • Robert Hughes, art critic • Norman Lindsay , painter • Tracey Moffatt, film and video maker, photographer • Reg Mombassa • Albert Namatjira (1902-1959), painter • Sir Sidney Nolan - painter • Margaret Preston (1875-1963), modernist painter and woodblock artist • Tom Roberts, painter • Martin Sharp, pop artist • Jeffrey Smart, painter • Stelarc, performance artist • Sir Arthur Streeton - painter • Albert Tucker, painter • Brett Whiteley , painter Literature

• , (1911-1983), journalist • Peter Carey , novelist, twice winner of the Booker Prize • James Clavell , (1924-1994), British author of Shogun fame • Nick Earls, novelist • Dame Mary Gilmore, poet • A D Hope, poet • Paul Jennings, children's author • Henry Lawson - prose and poetry • Kathy Lette, novelist ('Puberty Blues') • John Marsden - most popular Australian author for young adults, and writer of the Tomorrow series. • Sally Morgan • Oodgeroo Noonuccal (aka Kath Walker) • Banjo Paterson , (1864-1941), writer, author of Waltzing Matilda and The Man from Snowy River • Christina Stead , novelist ('The Man Who Loved Children') • , (1912-1990), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature • Tim Winton - Western Australian author of books such as Cloudstreet • Judith Wright , poet ('South of My Days') Medical

• Dr Victor Chang - surgeon • Rev John Flynn - founder of the Royal Flying Doctor's Service • Dr - (born NZ) eye doctor Military • Sir Henry George Chauvel , (1865-1945), WWI general • Sir John Monash , (1865-1931), WWI general • Nancy Wake (born NZ 1912), operative with WWII French resistance Movies and TV

• Eric Bana - actor • - filmmaker (Barry McKenzie, Don's Party, Breaker Morant, The Fringe Dwellers, Driving Miss Daisy) • Cate Blanchett - actor • Bille Brown - actor • Bryan Brown - actor • John Clarke, (born NZ), actor, comedian • Paul Cox - (born ) filmmaker • Russell Crowe , (born NZ 1964), actor • Judy Davis - actor • - actor • Ernie Dingo - actor • Errol Flynn - (1909-1959) actor • Colin Friels - actor • Mel Gibson - (born 1956) - actor American born, Australian raised • - actor • David Gulpilil - actor & dancer • Scott Hicks - filmmaker ('Shine', 'Snow Falling on Cedars') • - (born 1939) actor • P J Hogan - film director ('Muriel's Wedding', 'My Best Friend's Wedding', '') • Barry Humphries - actor/comedian • Steve Irwin - (born 1962) The Crocodile Hunter • Hugh Jackman - actor • Nicole Kidman - (1967-) actor American born, Australian raised • Baz Luhrmann - filmmaker • Phillip Noyce - filmmaker • , (born 1967), actor • Gina Riley - comedian • - actor (won 1997 Best Actor Oscar for "Shine") • Fred Schepisi - filmmaker • Yahoo Serious - comedian, filmmaker • Jack Thompson - (born 1940)actor • Sigrid Thornton - actor • Peter Weir , (born 1944), filmmaker • - actor Music

A-H

• Christine Anu - singer • Tina Arena - singer • Chris Bailey - frontman for punk rock band The Saints • Jimmy Barnes - singer • Betty Beath - composer • Richard Bonynge - conductor, pianist, husband of Dame • Philip Bracanin - composer • Daryl Braithwaite - singer • Joan Carden - soprano • Stuart Challender - conductor • Peter Dawson - baritone • Ross Edwards - composer • Peter Garrett - former lead singer and songwriter of Midnight Oil, currently a political activist • Lisa Gerrard , (1961?- ) - former Dead Can Dance(1981-1998) member, solo artist and movie score composer • Andy Gibb , (1958-1988), pop singer • Percy Grainger , pianist, composer (later became an American citizen) • Dame Joan Hammond - New Zealand born soprano • Sir - conductor • Matthew Hindson - composer • Michael Hutchence , (1960-1997), frontman for INXS

I-U

• Natalie Imbruglia - singer • Daniel Johns , (born 1978), singer of Silverchair • Kamahl, (born Malaysia, Sri Lankan descent), singer, actor • Elena Kats-Chernin - Russian-born composer • Jeff Lang - guitar virtuoso • Jimmy Little - singer • Sir Charles Mackerras - conductor • Dame Nellie Melba - opera singer • , (born 1968), singer • Olivia Newton-John , (born UK 1948), singer • Shannon Noll - singer, runner-up to Guy Sebastian in 2003 Australian Idol • Johnny O'Keefe - singer 'The Wild One' • Joseph Post - conductor • Helen Reddy - singer • Bon Scott , Malcolm & Angus Young - members of hard rock band AC/DC • Peter Sculthorpe - composer • Guy Sebastian - singer, winner of 2003 Australian Idol • Mark Seymour - lead singer of the Hunters & Collectors • Dame Joan Sutherland - soprano, known as 'La Stupenda' • Deniz Tek - of the punk rock band Radio Birdman • Keith Urban , (born NZ 1967), country musician

V-Y

• Carl Vine - composer • Gerard Willems - Dutch-born pianist • Simone Young - conductor • - singer & political activist Politics

• Tony Abbott, Liberal Minister in 's government • Lance Barnard, Deputy PM to Gough Whitlam • Sir Edmund Barton , (1849-1920), first Prime Minister of Australia • Peter Beattie , Premier of • Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland • - politician • Steve Bracks , Premier of Victoria • Bob Brown - Green leader and Senator • Brian Burke - WA premier, later Ambassador to the Holy See - jailed for corruption • Jim Cairns , Treaurer and Deputy PM to Gough Whitlam • Bob Carr , Premier of NSW • Ben Chifley , Labour Prime Minister 1945-49 • Peter Costello , Treasurer in John Hiward's government since 1996 • Simon Crean , Opposition Leader to John Howard 2001-03 • Bob Collins - NT politician, Federal Senator, Minister of Hawke government • Don Dunstan - SA premier • Herbert Evatt , Labour politician, Opposition Leader to Menzies • Paul Everingham - first Chief Minister of the Northern Territory; later Federal politician • Sir Arthur Fadden , record-breaking Treasurer under Menzies • Tim Fischer , Deputy Prime Minister 1996-1999 • Germaine Greer , (born 1939), feminist, writer, academic (moved to U.K.) • Nick Greiner, Premier of NSW • Pauline Hanson - former Senator, controversial founder of the One Nation Party • Bob Hawke , ALP Prime Minister 1983-91 • Harold Holt , (1908-1967), Prime Minister • John Howard , (born 1939), Prime Minister • Paul Keating , ALP Prime Minister 1991-96 • Cheryl Kernot, Leader of Democrats, defected to ALP and lost seat in 2001 • Mark Latham , Leader of the Opposition (Australian Labor Party) (2003- ) • Sir John McEwen , Country Party leader, briefly Prime Minister after Holt's drowning • Sir William McMahon , Liberal Prime Minister 1971-72 • Eddie Mabo - political activist • Clare Martin - first female and first ALP Chief Minister of the NT • Sir Robert Menzies , (1894-1978), Prime Minister • Sir Henry Parkes - "father of Federation" • Peter Reith, Liberal Minister under John Howard • Wilson Tuckey, controversial Liberal politician • Gough Whitlam , (1916-), Prime Minister • Neville Wran, Premier of NSW Science

• Sir William Lawrence Bragg - physicist, Nobel Prize winner • Peter Doherty - immunologist, Nobel Prize winner • Sir John Eccles (born 1903) - Nobel prize physiologist • - zoologist and author • Lord Howard Florey - co-discoverer of penicillin • James Harrison - pioneer of mechanical refrigeration, (1816 - 1893) • Sir - immunologist • Professor Fiona Stanley - epidemiologist Sport

B-K

• , (born 1965), Australian rules football player turned American football star • Raelene Boyle, athlete • Sir Donald Bradman , (1908-2001), cricketer • Betty Cuthbert , (born 1938), athlete • Herb Elliott - middle distance runner • Roy Emerson - tennis player • - soccer • Johnny Famechon - world boxing champion • Jeff Fenech - (born 1964), world boxing champion • - swimmer • , (born 1973) - athlete • Evonne Goolagong - tennis player • , swimmer • Grant Hackett, swimmer • Matthew Hayden , cricketer • Lleyton Hewitt , (born 1981) - tennis player • Kim Hughes , cricketer • Marjorie Jackson , athlete, later Governor of South Australia • , (born 1978) - soccer • Michael Klim, swimmer

L-S

• John Landy, athlete, second person to run a mile in under 4 minutes; later Governor of Victoria • Rod Laver , (born 1938) - tennis player • Brett Lee, cricketer (fast bowler) • Ray Lindwall - cricketer • - basketball player, many NBA teams. • Lew Hoad - tennis player • , Rugby League icon • Keith Miller - cricketer • Anthony Mundine - Rugby League, then boxer • Tony Mundine - boxer • John Newcombe - tennis player • Greg Norman , (born 1955), golfer • Kieren Perkins , swimmer • Mark Philippoussis , tenis player • Patrick Rafter - tennis player • Frank Sedgeman, tennis player • Matt Shirvington, athlete • Margaret Smith Court - tennis player • Shirley Strickland (1925-2004), athlete

T-W

• Ian Thorpe , (born 1982) - swimmer • Michele Timms , (born 1965) - basketball player, WNBA • Kostya Tszyu , (born 1969) - world boxing champion, Russian born but Australian citizen. • , (born 1975) - soccer • Shane Warne - cricketer • Mark Waugh - cricketer • - cricketer • Karrie Webb, (born 1974) - golfer Other

• Daisy Bates - self-proclaimed anthropologist • Mary Elizabeth Donaldson - future wife of HRH Crown Prince Frederik of • Megan Gale - model and actress • Eve van Grafhorst, AIDS patient and activist (moved to New Zealand) • - artist, singer and TV personality • Harry Hawker , (1889-1921) aviation pioneer • Frank Hurley - photographer on Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition • Ned Kelly , (c. 1854-1880), bushranger • Sir Charles Kingsford Smith , (1897-1935), aviator • Elle MacPherson - model • Michael Mansell - Aboriginal activist • Sir Douglas Mawson - explorer • - philosopher, major influence on . • Trugernanna or Truganini- called last of the Tasmanian Aborigines