- Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics. He held the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and spent the last ten years of his life at Florida State University. Among other discoveries, he formulated the so-called "Dirac equation," which describes the behavior of fermions and which led to the prediction of the existence of antimatter. - Matt Lucas
Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March, 1974) is an English comedy actor. He is perhaps best known for his acclaimed work with David Walliams in the television sketch show "Little Britain" and spoof interview series "Rock Profile", as well as for his portrayal of the surreal scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the Reeves and Mortimer comedy panel game "Shooting Stars". - David Walliams
David Walliams (born David Williams, August 20, 1971) is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show "Little Britain". - James Blunt
James Blunt is a BRIT Award-winning and Grammy-nominated, English singer-songwriter whose debut album, "Back to Bedlam", and single releases — especially the number one hit "You're Beautiful" — brought him to fame in 2005. His style is a mix of pop and acoustic rock. Along with vocals, James Blunt plays a wide variety of instruments including the piano, guitar, organ, marimba, and mellotron. He is signed to Linda Perry's American label Custard, … - Simon Pegg
Simon John Pegg (born 14 February 1970 in Gloucester) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and film and television actor. He is known for his title roles in "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", and for the British sitcom "Spaced". Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright. - Derren Brown
Derren Victor Brown (born February 27 1971) is an English psychological illusionist and skeptic of paranormal phenomena. He was born in Croydon, South London, where he attended Whitgift School, where his father was the swimming teacher. While studying Law and German at the University of Bristol he attended a show by the hypnotist Martin S. Taylor, which inspired him to turn to illusion and hypnosis as a career. - Alastair Stewart
Alastair James Stewart OBE (born June 22, 1952) is a British television newsreader. He is currently with the British news organisation ITN, for whom he presents some ITV News bulletins, and anchors ITV London's daily early-evening news programme "London Tonight" with Katie Derham. He received an OBE from the Queen in June 2006 for his services in broadcasting. - David Bohm
David Joseph Bohm (b. December 20 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - d. October 27 1992, London) was an American-born quantum physicist, who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project. - Dick King-Smith
Dick King-Smith (born 27 March, 1922, March Bitton, Gloucestershire, England) is a prolific English children's author, best known for writing "The Sheep-Pig", retitled in the US as "Babe the Gallant Pig", upon which the movie "Babe" was based. He was a farmer for 20 years before he became a teacher and author. - Chris Morris
Chris Morris (born September 5, 1965 in Bristol, England) is an English satirical comedian, writer, producer, director, actor and radio DJ. Morris began his career in radio before later moving into television. He found fame in the nineties fronting the spoof current affairs shows "The Day Today" and "Brass Eye". Morris is known for his often highly controversial yet intelligent brand of comedy, which has brought him praise and criticism in equal measure. - Angela Carter
Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist and science fiction works. - Nevill Francis Mott
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (September 30, 1905 - August 8, 1996), FRS, CH, was a British physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977, sharing the award with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck, who had pursued independent research. - Cecil Frank Powell
Cecil Frank Powell was a British physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle. His collaborators in the study, published in 1947, were Giuseppe Occhialini, H. Muirhead and young Brazilian physicist César Lattes. - Klaus Fuchs
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (December 29, 1911 - January 28, 1988) was a German-born theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was convicted of surreptitiously supplying information on the British and American atomic bomb research to the USSR during, and shortly after, World War II. Fuchs was an extremely competent scientist, … - David Nicholls
David Nicholls is the author of the novels "Starter for Ten" (2003) and "The Understudy". He was born on November 30 1966, and is the middle of three siblings. He attended Barton Peveril sixth-form college at Eastleigh, Hampshire, from 1983 to 1985 (taking A-levels in drama and theatre studies - like his elder and younger siblings -, English, physics and biology, and playing a wide range of roles in college drama productions, … - Euan Blair
Euan Anthony Blair (born January 19, 1984, London), is the eldest son of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. While his 'official' residence, in common with his parents and his brothers and sister was the ex officio London residence of all Prime Ministers, 10 Downing Street, the family in fact lived at 11 Downing Street since the accommodation there is bigger. Euan moved out of home to attend university at the age of 18. On leaving office on 27th June 2007, … - Sue Lawley
Sue Lawley (born July 14, 1946) is an English broadcaster. She presented "Desert Island Discs" on BBC Radio 4 from 1988 until August 26 2006. (See) Born in Sedgley, Staffordshire, England and brought up in the Black Country, she was educated at Dudley Girls' High School and graduated in languages from the University of Bristol and some time later started her career at the BBC in Plymouth. - Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom (b. March 29 1961 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is a prolific British filmmaker, who has directed fifteen films in the past twelve years, six of them written by screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, including "Welcome to Sarajevo" and "24 Hour Party People". He has two daughters with his ex-wife, author Sabrina Broadbent. Winterbottom went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, taking his O Levels in an accelerated 4 years, … - Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane (February 3, 1971 - February 20, 1999) was an English playwright. - Philip Jackson
Philip Jackson (b. June 18 1948 in Retford, Nottinghamshire) is an English actor, well known for his long running role as Chief Inspector Japp in "Agatha Christie's Poirot." He also played Abbot Hugo de Rainault, brother to the Sheriff of Nottingham, in "Robin of Sherwood." Jackson started acting while studying Drama and German at the University of Bristol, and has worked in the theatre in Liverpool and London. - Philip Jackson
Philip Jackson (born 1944) is an award winning British sculptor, noted for his modern style and emphasis on form. Acting as Royal Sculptor to Queen Elizabeth II, his sculptures appear in numerous UK cities, as well as Argentina and Switzerland. His twice life size statue of Bobby Moore is due to be unveiled at the opening of the new Wembley Stadium in 2007. Philip Jackson was born in Scotland during the world war & now lives & works in West Sussex. - David Bamber
David Bamber (b. September 19, 1954) is a British actor, known for his television and theatre work. - Michael Berry
Sir Michael Victor Berry, FRS FRSE (born 14 March 1941), is a mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1982 and knighted in 1996. From 2006 he has been Editor of the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society A. He is famous among other things for the Berry phase,a phenomenon observed e.g. in quantum mechanics and optics. He specialises in semiclassical physics (asymptotic physics, quantum chaos), … - Bob Marshall-Andrews
Robert Graham Marshall-Andrews, known as Bob Marshall-Andrews, QC (born April 10, 1944) is an English politician and barrister. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Medway in Kent - Dawn Primarolo
Dawn Primarolo (born 2 May 1954 in London) is a British Labour Member of Parliament representing Bristol South. Since 29 June 2007 she has been a Minister of State at the Department of Health. Between 1999 and 2007 she was Paymaster General, after being Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1997 to 1999. Schooled at the Thomas Bennett Comprehensive School in Sussex, she joined the Labour Party in 1973 and was first elected to Parliament at the 1987 general election, … - Tom Avery
Tom Avery was born on December 17 1975 in London, England and is an explorer, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. Avery was brought up in East Sussex, Brazil and France and attended Harrow School and the University of Bristol. He has participated in guided mountaineering expeditions to the South American Andes, New Zealand, Tanzania and the Eastern Zaalay Mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. - Jim White
Jim White is a British journalist and presenter who currently fronts STV's coverage of the UEFA Champions League. He attended Manchester Grammar School and went on to read English at Bristol University. White has covered all the world’s major sporting events for the Daily Telegraph and is a long-serving contributor to BBC Radio 4 and Five Live. He has also appeared on the BBC and Sky, … - Josh Lewsey
Owen Joshua Lewsey MBE (born 30 November 1976) is an English rugby union footballer who plays fullback, wing or centre for Wasps and England. Lewsey was born in Bromley in Kent and grew up in Watford in Hertfordshire, where he attended Watford Grammar School for Boys. He played for the Amersham and Chiltern Rugby Football Club. He joined Wasps at eighteen and played for their Colts side and was under-21 captain. - Matthew Warchus
Matthew Warchus (born November 30 1965 is an English director and dramatist. - Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is a British actor. Raised in Liverpool and later in London, he fell accidentally into acting during his first year at university, and went on to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Initially known as a TV actor in the UK, his biggest international film break was being selected to portray the villain, Colonel William Tavington, opposite Mel Gibson in the Revolutionary War epic "The Patriot" (2000). - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Doctor Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma (born 27 January 1949) is a South African politician and was an anti-apartheid activist. Since 17 June 1999 she has been the South African Minister of Foreign Affairs. Dlamini-Zuma, a Zulu, was born in Natal, the oldest of eight children. She completed high school at the Amanzimtoti Training College in 1967. In 1971, she started her studies in Zoology and Botany at the University of Zululand, … - Marcus Brigstocke
Marcus Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television and radio. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently appeared on several of its shows. - David Kidney
David Neil Kidney (born 21 March 1955, Meir Stoke-on-Trent) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. - Jemima Goldsmith
Jemima Khan, also known as Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith (born January 30, 1974, London), ex-wife of cricketer Imran Khan, is a British socialite and a UK ambassador for UNICEF. - Sarah Montague
Sarah Montague (born February 8, 1966) is a British journalist best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as a Political Correspondent and for being a presenter of the "Today" Programme. Montague was born in Guernsey and attended Blanchelande Girls College, a girls' independent school in St Andrew's, Guernsey, and studied Biology at the University of Bristol. Her first job was as a stockbroker for County NatWest and Eurobond dealer with NatWest Capital Markets in London. - Kyran Bracken
Kyran Paul Patrick Bracken MBE (born 22 November, 1971 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is a former rugby union footballer who played at scrum-half for Saracens, Bristol and Waterloo R.F.C. He won a total of 51 England caps and captained the team on three occasions, retiring from international rugby in 2004. His father was a dentist and his mother had played hockey for Ireland. - Nigel Thrift
Corbridge S, Martin R & Thrift N (Eds.) (1997) "Money, Power and Space", Oxford: Blackwell<br /> Leyshon A & Thrift N (Eds.) (1997) "Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation", London: Routledge<br /> Peet R & Thrift N (Eds.) (1989) "New Models in Geography: The Political-Economy Perspective", … - William Lewis
William Lewis (born 1969) is a British journalist and editor of "The Daily Telegraph" in London. He was appointed editor of the "Daily Telegraph" on 9 October, 2006, becoming the youngest ever editor of the paper. He was previously deputy editor and City editor of the paper. Before joining the "Telegraph" in 2005, Lewis was business editor of the "The Sunday Times" for three years. Before that, he worked at the Financial Times for 8 years. - Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith (born on 13 May, 1946, in Rugby, Warwickshire, England) is an English film and television actor. He was educated at Wyggeston Boys' School, Leicester and Bristol University. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Perhaps his most famous roles were in the television dramatisations of "Jewel in the Crown" and Mrs Gaskell's "North and South". His film career has recently included the 2004 film "Alexander", … - Chris Woodhead
Christopher Woodhead (born 1947) was the Chief Inspector of Schools in England from 1994 until 2000 and is one of the most controversial figures in debates on the direction of English education policy. He is currently the Chairman of Cognita, a company dedicated to fostering private education. A graduate of English from the University of Bristol, Woodhead worked as a teacher for several years before moving into teacher education.
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