- Mark Gasser
Mark Gasser (born 1972 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) to Scottish and Austrian parents. Gasser studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Music and is a Fellow of both. Gasser is renowned for playing both large scale standard piano literature as well as broadcasting and recording on five continents. He is recognized as having a dramatic affinity for the "Viennese Classics" (Mozart, … - Robert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (5 December 1924 ; 27 February 1978) was a South African political dissident, who founded the Pan Africanist Congress in opposition to the Apartheid regime. - Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (IPA: [xoliaa mandela]; born 18 July 1918) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994-1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of the African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. - Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell OBE (born February 23, 1944) is a prolific and popular English historical novelist. Bernard Cornwell was adopted by a family by the name of Wiggins. After he left them he changed his name to his mother's maiden name, Cornwell. Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was a Canadian airman. His mother was English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted and brought up in Essex by the Wiggins family, … - Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 - February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankenstein's monster in 1931's "Frankenstein". His popularity following "Frankenstein" in the early 1930s was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or, on some movie posters, "Karloff the Uncanny". - Michael Foster
Sir Michael Foster (March 8, 1836 - January 29, 1907) was an English physiologist. He was born at Huntingdon. He was educated at University College School. After graduating in medicine at the University of London in 1859, he began to practise in his native town, but in 1867 he returned to London as teacher of practical physiology at University College London, where two years afterwards he became professor. In 1870 he was appointed by Trinity College, Cambridge, … - B. Carroll Reece
Brazilla Carroll Reece (December 22, 1889-March 19, 1961) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee. Reece was born on a farm near Butler, Tennessee. He attended Watauga Academy, Carson-Newman College, New York University, and the University of London. He then opened a successful law practice in Johnson City, and also served as a banker and publisher. He was an assistant secretary and instructor at New York University in 1916 and 1917. - Joseph Lister 1st Baron Lister
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS (5 April 1827 - 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds. - Robert Hill
Robert Murray Hill (born 25 September 1946), is the current Australian Ambassador to the United Nations and a former Australian politician. Mr Hill was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from July 1981 to March 2006, representing South Australia. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at the University of Adelaide and London University, where he gained a masters degree in law. - Larry Trask
Robert Lawrence "Larry" Trask (November 10, 1944 - March 27, 2004) was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex and an authority on Basque language and historical linguistics. Born in upstate New York, USA, he initially studied chemistry in his home country, but after a brief stint in the Peace Corps he took an interest in linguistics. He received his PhD in linguistics from the University of London, … - Vera Baird
Vera Baird QC MP (born February 13, 1951) British politician, author and barrister, Member of Parliament for Redcar, and a Queen's Counsel. She is a member of the Labour Party and is Solicitor General for England and Wales. She was born in 1951 in Oldham, Lancashire, and was educated at the Chadderton Grammar School; Newcastle Polytechnic; the Open University; the University of London; and the University of Teesside. - Denis Macshane
Denis MacShane (born May 21, 1948, Glasgow) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Rotherham, and was the Minister of State for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until the ministerial reshuffle that followed the 2005 general election. He first entered Parliament after a 1994 by-election caused by the death of Jimmy Boyce. He was born as Denis Matyjaszek, to an Irish mother and her Polish husband, … - Jonathan Dollimore
Jonathan Dollimore (b. 1948) is a British sociologist and social theorist in the fields of Renaissance literature (especially drama), gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), art, censorship, history of ideas, death studies, decadence, and cultural theory. - Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen (born circa 1960) is a British-American entrepreneur and author best known as a critic of Web 2.0. In The Weekly Standard, Keen wrote that Web 2.0 is a "grand utopian movement" similar to "communist society" as described by Karl Marx. "It worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer. - Alan Campbell
Pastor Alan Campbell is the Pentecostal pastor of the Cregagh Covenant People's Fellowship in Belfast, Northern Ireland, co-director of Open Bible Ministries with Glyn Jones, and a prominent scholar and lecturer in the British Israel movement. Campbell is also popular in Historicist circles because of his identification of the Papacy as the Antichrist of Biblical prophecy. Although his credentials as a pastor have been challenged, … - Greer Garson
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (September 29, 1904 - April 6, 1996) was an Academy Award-winning English actress very popular during the World War II years and was the leading lady in many pictures with Walter Pidgeon. - Lynden Pindling
Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, JP (22 March 1930 - 26 August 2000) served as the first black Premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands, 1967-1973 and as Prime Minister of the Bahamas, 1973-1992, as leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). He was also a Privy Councilor and knighted by the Queen in 1983. A lawyer by profession, he obtained a law degree from the University of London (1952). - Antony C. Sutton
Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14, 1925 - June 17, 2002) was a British-born economist, historian, and writer. He was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973. He is a former economics professor at California State University Los Angeles. He was educated at the universities of London, Goettingen and California with a D.Sc. degree from University of Southampton, England. - Frank Pick
Frank Pick (23 November 1878 - 7 November 1941) was Managing Director of the Underground Group from 1928 and Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board from its creation in 1933 until 1940. Pick was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, the son of a draper. After attending St Peter's School in York he studied Law at London University before starting work at the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1902. - Reuben Goodstein
Reuben Louis Goodstein (born 15 December 1912 in London, died 8 March 1985 in Leicester) was an English mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. As a boy, he attended St Paul's School in London. He received his Master's degree from the University of Cambridge. After this, he worked at the University of Reading but ultimately spent most of his academic career in the University of Leicester. - Michael Festing
Michael Festing is a British research scientist best known for his interest in research using laboratory animals. He is one of 19 members of the UK Animal Procedures Committee, which advises the Home Secretary on matters related to animal experimentation, one of five trustees of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME), which funds and promotes research into the use of animal alternatives. - Michael Young
Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (August 9, 1915, Manchester - January 14, 2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. During an active life he founded or helped found a remarkable number of socially useful organizations. These include the Consumers' Association, the National Consumer Council the Open University and Language Line, a telephone-interpreting business. Young's father was an Australian violinist and music critic, … - Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner (born 1961 in Brazil) is a German expert in environmental politics. From 2001 to 2006 he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Since June 2006 he is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Steiner grew up in Brazil. He studied philosophy, political science and economics at the University of Oxford. - Shirley Pearce
Professor Shirley Pearce CBE is Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University, a position she has held since January 2006. Before becoming the University's 7th Vice-Chancellor Professor Pearce held was a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of East Anglia and Dean of the Institute of Health. Professor Pearce was educated at Norwich High School, before studying Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford University, gaining a BA in 1975. - Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a British novelist. - Kate Burridge
Kate Burridge is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Clayton campus. Burridge completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University of Western Australia. This was followed by three years postgraduate study at the University of London. - Louis Essen
Louis Essen (September 6, 1908 - August 24, 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. - Thomas Gibson Bowles
Thomas Gibson Bowles, the founder of the magazines "The Lady" and the English "Vanity Fair", and the maternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters. He was the illegitimate offspring of Thomas Milner Gibson and a servant girl named Susannah. He attended the University of London for a year. His father gave him a yearly stipend of £90 and helped him find a job at Somerset House. - Patricia Scotland Baroness Scotland of Asthal
Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, PC, QC (born 19 August 1955) is a barrister and the current Attorney General for England and Wales, a ministerial position in the British Government. - Hilary Deacon
Dr Hilary John Deacon, born 1936 in Cape Town, is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, specialising in the ‘emergence of modern humans’ and African archaeology. He is principal researcher at the Klasies River Caves one of the oldest known sites of ‘anatomically modern humans’ who lived there circa 125,000 years ago. - George James
George Granville Monah James was born in Georgetown, Guyana, South America. His parents were Reverend Linch B. and Margaret E. James. George studied at Durham University in Britain and after a period at the University of London he gained his doctorate at Columbia University, New York, USA. He then qualified to teach mathematics, Latin, and Greek. Later he was Professor of Logic and Greek at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina for two years, … - Jenny Randerson
Jennifer (Jenny) Randerson (born 26 May 1948) is a Welsh Liberal Democrats politician, and Member of the Welsh Assembly for Cardiff Central. - Diana Elles Baroness Elles
Diana Louie Elles, Baroness Elles (born 19 July 1921) is a former British United Nations representant. The daughter of Colonel Stewart Newcombe, she was educated at private schools in London, Paris and Florence as well as at the University of London, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French and Italian in 1941. Between 1941 and 1945, Elles served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, becoming a Flight Officer in 1944. Called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1956, … - Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington (July 8, 1892 - July 27, 1962), name at birth Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet. He was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel "Death of a Hero", and the controversy arising from his 1955 "Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry". - S. O. Davies
Stephen Owen Davies (c. November 9, 1886 - February 25, 1972) was a Welsh politician, and a member of the British House of Commons from 1934 to his death. Born in Abercwmboi, he began work as a coal miner at the age of 12, combining mining work with study for a degree. Davies was educated at the University of Wales and the University of London. He was active as a trade unionist, and became vice-president of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain in 1933. - Robert Swinhoe
Robert Swinhoe (September 1, 1836 - October 28, 1877) was an English naturalist. Swinhoe was born in Calcutta, India. There is no clear record of the date of his arrival in England, but it is known he attended the University of London, and in 1854 joined the China consular corps. He was stationed to the remote port of Amoy, some 300 miles to the northeast of Hong Kong, in 1855. - Fei Xiaotong
Fei Xiaotong (Chinese: 費孝通) (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist. Considered by some as one of China's finest and most prominent sociologists and anthropologists, … - Henry Wace
The Very Reverend Henry Wace (December 10, 1836 - January 9, 1924) was Principal of King's College London and Dean of Canterbury. Wace was educated at Marlborough College, Rugby School, King's College London, and Brasenose College, Oxford (BA Literae Humaniores and Mathematics, Honorary Fellow 1911). He took Holy Orders and served curacies at St Luke's, Berwick Street (1861-63), St James's, Piccadilly (1863-69), and Grosvenor Chapel (1870-72). - Ronald St. John MacDonald
Ronald St. John Macdonald, C.C. (20 August 1928 - 7 September 2006) was a Canadian legal academic and jurist. Born in Montreal, the son of R. St. John Macdonald and Elizabeth Smith, he served as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (Reserve) during World War II. Returning back to Canada he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 from St. Francis Xavier University, a Bachelor of Law degree in 1952 from Dalhousie Law School, … - David Chaytor
David Michael Chaytor (August 3, 1949) is a British politician, the Labour Member of Parliament for Bury North.
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