| |  | Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to th... |  | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician,... |  | Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, (born December 31, 1943) is a British actor. Kingsley is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard... |  | Kate Atkinson (b. 1951) is an English author. She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters... |  | Henry I (c. 1068/1069-1 December 1135) was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and the first born in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.... |  | Brian Howard Clough, OBE (21 March, 1935 – 20 September, 2004) was a successful footballer and subsequently football manager, most notable for hi... |  | Penelope Wilton OBE (born 3 June 1946) is an English actress who is well known for appearing in the sitcom "Ever Decreasing Circles" and in "Cry... |  | Myles Coverdale (also Miles Coverdale) (c. 1488 - January 20,1568) was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first complete printed... |  | Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (December 27, 1773 - December 15, 1857) was a prolific English engineer from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in... |  | Henry Eeles Dresser (May 9, 1838 - November 28, 1915) was an English businessman and ornithologist. Henry Dresser was born in Thirsk where his... | |
