- Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. - Hans Blix
Dr Hans Blix , the former Foreign Minister of Sweden, was most recently the head of the UN's weapons inspection team in Iraq. Before that, from 1981 to 1997, he was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in which capacity he oversaw the dismantling of Iraq's nuclear weapons program. He was a delegate to the UN General Assembly for 20 years and to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva for 16. - Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". - J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September, 1894, Bradford - 14 August, 1984, Warwickshire) was an English writer and broadcaster - Matthew Holness
Matthew Holness is an English comedian. Hailing from Whitstable in Kent, Holness read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights. In 2000, "Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight", a stage show written by Holness and Richard Ayoade, and starring Holness, Ayoade and Alice Lowe, was nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. The show was built around Holness's spoof horror writer character Garth Marenghi, … - Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner (c. 1497 - November 12, 1555) was an English bishop and politician who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I of England. - Geoffrey Howe
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, PC, QC (born 20 December 1926), known until 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician. He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and finally Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister. - Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr (born 31 July 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British journalist and political commentator. He edited "The Independent" for two years, until May 1998, and was the political editor for the BBC from 2000 until 2005. He then began hosting a political programme called "Sunday AM" on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005 onwards. In May 2007 he began a new political history series on BBC Two, "Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain". - Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English film and television actress. She became known after her roles in the Hollywood films "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns", and has since continued appearing in major film roles. - Mark Tully
Sir Mark Tully (born 24 October 1935 in Calcutta, India) was the Chief of Bureau, BBC, New Delhi for 22 years. Schooled in England, he stayed mostly in India covering all major incidents in South Asia during his tenure. He was made an Officer of The Order of the British Empire in 1985 and was awarded the Padma Shree in 1992, a rare exception for a non-Indian. He was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours. In 2005 he received the Padma Bhushan. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1st Baron Lytton
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night." Despite his popularity in his heyday, today his name is known as a byword for bad writing. - Tony Slattery
Anthony Declan James Slattery (born 9 November 1959) is an English actor and comedian. Slattery was born in Stonebridge, London, to Irish Catholic immigrant parents. In his youth, he represented England at under-15 judo. He was educated at Gunnersbury Boy's Grammar School in West London, and later studied Mediaeval and Modern Languages, specifically French and Spanish, at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, where he also became a member of the Cambridge Footlights. - David Sheppard
David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool (6 March 1929 - 5 March 2005) was a high-profile bishop of the Church of England and, previously, an English cricketer. Sheppard was born in Charlwood, Surrey and educated at Sherborne School, Dorset where his cricketing talent first emerged. He then went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge and played for Cambridge University (blue 1950, 1951 and 1952; captain 1952), Sussex (captain 1953) and England. - Magnus Linklater
Magnus Linklater (born 21 February 1942) is a Scottish journalist and former newspaper editor. Linklater was born in Orkney, and is the son of Scottish writer Eric Linklater. He was brought up in Easter Ross, attending the local school at Nigg before moving to high school in Dunbar, East Lothian, then on to Eton College in England. He continued his studies with courses at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany and the Sorbonne in Paris, … - Billy Fiske
William Meade Lindsley "Billy" Fiske III (June 4, 1911 - August 17, 1940), was an American notable for his achievements in the 1928 Winter Olympics, as well as being the first American pilot casualty of World War II during the Battle of Britain. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a wealthy banking family. At the age of 16, Billy Fiske became the youngest American to win an Olympic gold medal while participating in the 1928 Winter Olympic Games. - Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane is a British author and speaker on lateral thinking and innovation. He was born in 1950 in Johnstone, Scotland and was educated at St Joseph's College, Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Engineering. From 1974 to 1984 he worked for IBM in Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing and he was part of the team that launched the IBM PC in the UK in 1982. He became UK Marketing Director and then Managing Director of the database company, Ashton-Tate. - Khawaja Nazimuddin
Khawaja Nazimuddin was the second Governor-General of Pakistan, and later the second Prime Minister of Pakistan as well. - Nicholas Hytner
Nicholas Hytner (born May 7, 1956) is an award-winning English producer and director. - Ronald Firbank
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) was a British novelist. - Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick (baptized August 24 1591- October 1674) was a 17th century English poet. Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith, who committed suicide when Robert was a year old. It is likely that he attended Westminster School. In 1607 he became apprenticed to his uncle, Sir William Herrick, who was a goldsmith and jeweller to the king. The apprenticeship ended after only six years when Herrick, … - John Aislabie
John Aislabie (4 December 1670 - 18 June 1742) was a British politician, notable for his involvement in the South Sea Bubble and for creating the water garden at Studley Royal. Aislabie's family were originally Baltic merchants who settled in York. His father George married into the highly influential Mallory family. He attended St. John's College and Trinity Hall at Cambridge. He inherited the Studley estate from his mother's family in 1693, … - Norman Fowler
Peter Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC (born 2 February 1938) known as Norman Fowler before he was given his peerage, and now also known as Lord Fowler, is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet. - Sir Charles Dilke 2nd Baronet
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet was an English Liberal and reformist politician, son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet, and husband of the feminist art historian Emilia Dilke. Paradoxically both an imperialist and a leading and determined radical within the party, he helped to pass the 1884–85 parliamentary Reform Acts as well as supporting laws giving the municipal franchise to women, legalizing labour unions, … - Nick Hancock
Nick Hancock (born October 25, 1962, Stoke-on-Trent) is a British actor and television presenter. Probably TV's most well known Stoke City supporter, he hosted the "laddish" sports quiz "They Think It's All Over" for 10 years. He also formerly presented "Room 101" (1994-1999) on TV, as well as its earlier "radio version" (1992-1994). Taking a sabbatical from show business, from 2005 he began working for a friend's mortgage brokerage. - Sophie Winkleman
Sophie Winkleman (born 5 August 1981) is an English actress. She is arguably best known for her role as Jeremy (Robert Webb)'s on/off girlfriend Big Suze in Channel 4 offbeat cult sitcom "Peep Show". She appeared in several sketches in BBC1 TV series Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul (2007), with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. Other TV credits include small parts in ITV1 police dramas Lewis (a spin-off of Inspector Morse) and Poirot, … - Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen (November 28, 1832 - February 22, 1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. - Frederick James Furnivall
Frederick James Furnivall (February 4, 1825 - July 2, 1910), English philologist and editor, co-creator of the "Oxford English Dictionary" (OED) and founder of literary societies. Frederick Furnivall was one of the three founders and the second editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary". He founded a number of learned societies on early English Literature, and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, … - Stephan Körner
Professor Stephan Körner, FBA, (26 September 1913—17 August 2000) was a British philosopher, who specialised in the work of Kant, the study of concepts, and in the philosophy of mathematics. Born to a Jewish family in Czechoslovakia, he left the country to avoid certain death at the hands of the Nazis after the German occupation in 1939, and came to the United Kingdom as a refugee, … - Thomas Bilney
Thomas Bilney was an English martyr. - Alan Campbell Baron Campbell of Alloway
Alan Robertson Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway QC (born 24 May 1917) is a British judge, barrister and author. The son of John Kenneth Campbell and Juliet Pinner was educated at Aldenham School, Hertfordshire and Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris in 1934. He was further educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics and law in 1938, and with a Master of Arts. - Arthur Middleton
Arthur Middleton was born in South Carolina in 1742. He was educated in England and graduated a Cambridge in 1763. He was elected to the Council of Safety at Charleston in 1775, and in 1776 was a delegate to the Continental Congress. He was captured by the British when Charleston was overrun 1780, and held prisoner at St. Augustine for a year. Most of his fortune was destroyed during the Revolution. - Nicholas Tomalin
Nicholas Osborne Tomalin (30 October 1931 - 17 October, 1973) was a British journalist and writer. Tomalin was the son of Miles Tomalin, a Communist poet and veteran of the Spanish Civil War. He studied English literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. As a student he was President of the Cambridge Union and editor of the prestigious undergraduate "Granta" magazine. He graduated in 1954 and began work as a foreign correspondent for various London-based newspapers. - Denis Richards
Denis Richards was a British historian. He is famous for his work on the history of the Royal Air Force, including the three-volume official history of the service during World War II, which was co-written with Hilary St. George Saunders. Richards came from London and was educated at Owen's School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1931 he graduated from Cambridge University with a double first in history. For the next eight years he was a master at Manchester Grammar School, … - Henry Benyon
Sir Henry Arthur Benyon, 1st Baronet JP (1884-1959) was the immediate post-War Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. Born Henry Arthur Fellowes, the son of James Herbert Fellowes of Kingston Maurward House in Dorset. His father changed is name to Benyon after inheriting the Englefield House estate in Berkshire from his uncle. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Benyon lived at Ufton Court during his father's lifetime. - Peter Millett Baron Millett
Peter Julian Millett, Baron Millett, PC, QC (born 23 June 1932) is a British judge and barrister. The son of Denis and Adele Millett was educated at Harrow School, London and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he received a Master of Arts in classics and law in 1954. From 1955 to 1957, he served as Flying Officer in Royal Air Force. Millett was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1955. In 1959, he came to the Lincoln's Inn, made a Bencher in 1980. - Sir Charles Dilke 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet (18 February 1810 - 10 May 1869), English Whig politician, son of Charles Wentworth Dilke, proprietor and editor of "The Athenaeum", was born in London, and was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He helped pass the parliamentary Reform Act of 1832, enacted under the Whig administration of the 2d Earl Grey. He studied law, and in 1834 took his degree of LL.B., but did not practise. - Robert Megarry
Sir Robert Edgar Megarry PC FBA (1 June, 1910-11 October, 2006) was a British lawyer. Originally a solicitor, he requalified as a barrister and also pursued a parallel career as a legal academic. He later became a High Court judge and served as Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division from 1976 to 1981. Afterwards he served as Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court from 1982 to 1985. - Samuel Silkin Baron Silkin of Dulwich
Samuel Charles Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich, PC, QC (6 March 1918 - 17 August 1988) was a British Labour Party politician and cricketer. He was the second son of Lewis Silkin (afterwards Baron Silkin), a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and a minister in Clement Attlee's Cabinet from 1945 to 1950. His brother, John, was also an MP and Cabinet minister. Samuel Silkin was educated at Dulwich College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. - Sir Alexander Cockburn 12th Baronet
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th Baronet (24 December 1802 - 20 November 1880) was Lord Chief Justice of England. - Alan Nunn May
Alan Nunn May (May 2, 1911-January 12, 2003) was a British physicist and a spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union during the Manhattan project. He was born in Kings Norton, Birmingham, England and attended Cambridge University. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1930s. During World War II, May worked on a secret British project to develop radar.
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