- Ernest William Titterton
Sir Ernest (Ernie) William Titterton Ph. D. (born March 4, 1916 in Tamworth, UK, died 8 February 1990) was a nuclear physicist and professor. - Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, north Wiltshire, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, a boys' independent school in West Lavington, Wiltshire, and then at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He first came to public attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme "Zoo Time". His studies focus on animal and human behaviour, … - Chris Tarrant
Christopher John Tarrant OBE (born 10 October 1946, Reading, Berkshire) is an English radio broadcaster and television presenter, now best known for hosting the TV game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". - Chen Liangyu
Chen Liangyu (born October 1946) is a politician of the People's Republic of China from the ruling Communist Party, and the disgraced CPC Shanghai Committee Secretary, or party chief. He was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Known to be a prominent member of the Shanghai clique, and a close ally of former president Jiang Zemin and a formidable rival to the Hu Jintao administration, Chen was dismissed in September 2006 for alleged corruption charges. - David Lodge
David Lodge (born January 28, 1935 at London, England) is a British author. - Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane (February 3, 1971 - February 20, 1999) was an English playwright. - Tim Curry
Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English actor, singer and composer perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975). He also had an earlier career as a rock musician. His list of roles is extensive, in both TV and movies, live-action and voice-acting for animated features, and it is notable that he almost always plays a villain of one kind or another. - Simon Le Bon
Simon John Charles Le Bon (born October 27, 1958) is the lead singer and lyricist of the pop/rock band Duran Duran. He was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England and was raised in and around London. - John Lewis
John Lewis (February 1, 1889 - February 12, 1976) was a British Unitarian minister and Marxist philosopher and author of many works on philosophy, anthropology, and religion. Lewis's father, a successful builder and architect, came from a Welsh farming family, and was a very religious Methodist. Young Lewis's social and political views clashed with those of his father. Their quarrels eventually led to his father disinheriting him. - David Kelly
David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. - Valerie Amos Baroness Amos
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos of Brondesbury, PC (born 13 March 1954) is a British Labour Party politician and life peer, formerly serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. When she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2003, following the resignation of Clare Short, she became the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. - Granville Bantock
Sir Granville Bantock (August 7, 1868 - October 16, 1946), was a British composer of classical music. Bantock was born in London. A close friend of fellow composer Havergal Brian, he was professor of music at the University of Birmingham from 1908 to 1934 (in which post he succeeded Sir Edward Elgar). In 1934, he was elected Chairman of the Corporation of Trinity College of Music in London. He was knighted in 1930. - Kenny Anthony
Kenny Davis Anthony (born January 8 1951) was Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2006. Anthony is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, the University of Birmingham, and is a member of the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP). He became prime minister on May 24, 1997, a day after the SLP won parliamentary elections. This was significant because the SLP had been out of power for over a decade. Anthony was a member of one of the last labour governments, … - Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston (born Harborne/Birmingham, September 1 1877; died Cambridge, November 20 1945) was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule". - Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Greig, born 23 February 1967) is an English actress best known for her comedy performances. As of 2006 she is probably best known for two Channel 4 television comedy parts: Fran Katzenjammer in "Black Books" and Dr. Caroline Todd in "Green Wing". Other notable roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy drama "Love Soup" and Debbie Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera "The Archers". - Maurice Wilkins
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fields of phosphorescence, radar, isotope separation, and X-ray diffraction. He was most widely known for his work at King's College London on the structure of DNA, for which he, … - Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood OBE is a BAFTA award winning English comedian, actor, singer and writer born 19 May 1953 in Prestwich Village, Greater Manchester. She has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with songs of her own composition, which she accompanies on piano. - Herbert Austin
Herbert 'PA' Austin, 1st Baron Austin KBE (November 8, 1866 – May 23, 1941) was an English automobile designer and builder. He was born in Little Missenden, the son of a farmer in Buckinghamshire, but the family moved to Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire in 1870 when his father was appointed farm bailiff. Herbert Austin first went to the village school, later continuing his education at Rotherham Grammar School. In 1884 he emigrated to Australia, with an uncle, … - John Robert Vane
Sir John Robert Vane (March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004) was a British pharmacologist. His father was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia and his mother came from a Worcestershire farming family. He was educated at King Edward's School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and studied Chemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1944. Vane completed a doctorate in pharmacology from Oxford University in 1953. - Simon Thomas
Simon Thomas (born January 26, 1973 in Cromer, Norfolk) is a British television presenter. Thomas started life in Norfolk and then moved to Surrey, where he went to Aberdour School in Tadworth, and St. John's School, Leatherhead. Following his school career, he went to Birmingham University, where he graduated with a degree in History. Thomas began presenting the children's programme "Blue Peter" on 8 January 1999, after his fourth audition, replacing Richard Bacon. - Ann Widdecombe
Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born 4 October 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald and a Privy Counsellor. She is a prominent member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and an outspoken supporter of traditional family values. The daughter of a senior Ministry of Defence Civil Servant, she attended a Convent School in Bath, read Latin at Birmingham University and later attended Lady Margaret Hall, … - Norman Painting
Norman Painting, OBE (Born April 23 1924 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) is an actor who has played Phil Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers" since the pilot episodes were aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in summer 1950. The series went national on January 1 1951. He is the longest-serving member of the cast. Painting, a graduate of The University of Birmingham and Christ Church, University of Oxford, was already an interviewer, … - Aaron Valero
Aaron Valero (1913-2000) was an Israeli physician and educator who helped establish hospitals and medical schools, authored medical publications and contributed greatly to the advancement of medical education in Israel in the latter half of the 20th Century. Valero was born in Jerusalem to a distinguished Sephardi family which had settled in Palestine in the early 1800s and on his mother's side, in the late 1400s. - Philippa Forrester
Philippa Forrester (born in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British television presenter and producer as well as an author - Lisa Clayton
Lisa Lyttelton, Dowager Viscountess Cobham (born c. 1958 as Lisa Clayton) is the first British woman to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world. She was educated in Birmingham at the Church of England School for Girls and the University of Birmingham. On September 17, 1994, Clayton set out to attempt two world records, namely "Fastest Sail Around The World By A Woman, … - Kumar Bhattacharyya Baron Bhattacharyya
Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE (born 6 June 1940) is an Indian-born British engineer, educator and government advisor. Bhattacharyya was born in Bangalore in 1940, the Brahmin son of an eminent academic. He did his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, MSc and PhD from University of Birmingham, Honorary Doctorate from University of Surrey, Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from UTM Malaysia, … - Alan Cottrell
Sir Alan Howard Cottrell (born 1919) is a British metallurgist and physicist. He received his BSc degree from the University of Birmingham in 1939 and a PhD for research on welding in 1942. He joined the staff as a lecurer at Birmingham, being made professor in 1949, and transforming the teaching of the department by emphasing modern concepts of solid state physics. In 1955 he moved to A.E.R.E. Harwell, to become Deputy Head of Metallurgy under Monty Finniston. - George Davies
George Davies (born 1941) is a British fashion retailer who headed Next from its creation in the 1980s, and founded the fashion label 'George at Asda' in the 1990s. Subsequently, he has also produced the successful Per Una fashion collection, launched in September 2001 at Marks & Spencer stores. Per Una symbolizes Davies' aspirations for a clothing collection to suit all the needs of modern women. - Hilary Armstrong
Born in Sunderland, Hilary lives in Crook, County Durham and is married to Professor Paul Corrigan . Before entering parliament Hilary spent time overseas as a VSO volunteer, teaching at a Girls School in Kenya. Returning to Britain, Hilary turned to Social and Community work in Southwick, Sunderland and in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne. Hilary was first elected to parliament in General Election of 1987. - Ken Loach
Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is an English television and film director. He is known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues as homelessness (e.g., "Cathy Come Home") and poverty (e.g., "Riff-Raff"). - Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll (February 26, 1906 - October 2, 1987) was a British actress, immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, who was renowned for her great beauty. She was born as Edith Madeleine Carroll at 32 Herbert Street (now number 44) West Bromwich, England, and she graduated from the University of Birmingham, England. Widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women in films, … - Lorna Sage
Lorna Sage (13 January 1943, Hanmer, North Wales - 11 January 2001, London), was a Welsh-born academic, as well as an award winning literary critic and author, known widely for her contribution to the consideration of women's writing. - Harry Boot
Dr Henry Albert Howard "Harry" Boot (29 July, 1917 - 8 February, 1983) was a physicist who with Sir John Randall and James Sayers developed the cavity magnetron, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. He was born in Birmingham, United Kingdom and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and the University of Birmingham. While working on his PhD the war broke out. - Brian Flowers Baron Flowers
Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS (born 13 September 1924) is a British physician and academican. The son of Revernd Harold Joseph Flowers, he was educated at Bishop Gore Grammar School in Swansea and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts. Flowers was further educated at the University of Birmingham, where he reached a Doctor of Science. - C. J. Sansom
C. J. Sansom is an English writer of crime novels. He came to prominence with his series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century, whose main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake. Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in "Dissolution" and "Dark Fire" and then Thomas Cranmer in "Sovereign". His most recent novel, "Winter in Madrid", is a spy thriller set in Spain in 1940. - Mick Aston
Michael (Mick) Aston (born July 1 1946) is a British archaeologist. He is a passionate educator and popularizer of archaeology, particularly through the Channel 4 television series "Time Team". Aston is known to the viewing public for his colourful sweaters. - Homa Katouzian
Homa Katouzian is an economist, historian, political scientist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. Katouzian’s formal academic training was in economics and the social sciences but he concurrently continued his studies of Persian history and literature at a professional academic level. He began studying the life and works of the greatest modern Persian writer, Sadeq Hedayat, as well as that of Iran’s Prime Minister in the early 1950s, … - Alan Dedicoat
Alan "Deadly" Dedicoat (born 1954, in Hollywood in Worcestershire) is a senior British continuity announcer for BBC television who is also a newsreader on BBC Radio 2 and is the head of the station's newsreading team. He is perhaps best known as the "Voice of the Balls" on the National Lottery programme on BBC One. He is also a regular on Radio 2's breakfast programme, "Wake Up to Wogan". He was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill for Boys in Birmingham, … - Mike Jackson
General Sir Michael "Mike" Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, (born 21 March 1944) is a British army officer, formerly Chief of the General Staff. He was formerly commander of KFor in Kosovo as well as UNPROFOR (see Timeline of UN peacekeeping missions) commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina. - David Drew
David Elliott Drew (born April 13, 1952) British politician. He is the Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Stroud. David Drew was born in Gloucestershire, the son of an accountant, and was educated at the Kingsfield School, …
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