- Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed "Slowhand", is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Often viewed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time among critics and fans alike, … - Alec Stewart
Alec James Stewart OBE (born 8 April, 1963 in Merton, Greater London) is a retired English cricketer, a right-handed batsman-wicketkeeper and former captain of the English cricket team. He is the most capped English cricketer of all time in both Test matches and one-day internationals, having played in 133 Tests and 170 ODIs. - Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950, in Chobham, Surrey, England) is an English musician. He first came to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. More recently he has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts. - Max Clifford
Maxwell Frank Clifford (born April 6 1943 in Kingston upon Thames), is an English publicist. Although his client range is varied, he is a controversial figure for often representing unpopular clients (such as those accused or convicted of crimes) and acting as an agent to people selling "kiss-and-tell" stories to tabloid newspapers. A traditional Labour supporter, Clifford openly vowed to bring down the government of John Major because he personally felt, … - Ashley Giles
Ashley Fraser Giles MBE (born in Chertsey, Surrey, on 19 March, 1973) is an English cricketer who plays Test cricket for England and county cricket for Warwickshire. Giles began as a fast bowler, but an early injury forced him to become a left-arm orthodox spinner (turning the ball away from right-handed batsmen). While his inability to get the ball to turn sharply has been criticised, he has also been able to use his height (6' 4") to extract plenty of bounce. - Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. - Jonny Wilkinson
Jonathan Peter "Jonny" Wilkinson OBE (born 25 May 1979 in Frimley, Surrey) is an English rugby union player and member of the England rugby union team. From 2001-2003, before and during the 2003 Rugby World Cup, Wilkinson rose to fame for being one of the world’s best rugby players. He was an integral member of the 2003 Rugby World Cup winning England squad, scoring the winning drop goal in the last minute of extra time against Australia. - Robert Green
Robert Paul Green (born January 18, 1980 in Chertsey, Surrey) is an English professional footballer who currently plays for West Ham United and the England national football team as a goalkeeper. - Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy" and the football memoir "Fever Pitch". In his work he frequently touches upon sports, music, and the aimless and obsessive personalities of his main characters. - Henry Thornton
Henry Thornton (1760 - 1815), economist, banker, philanthropist and parliamentarian, was the son of John Thornton (1729-90) of Clapham, Surrey, who had been one of the early supporters and patrons of the emerging evangelical awakening in Britain. He was one of the founders of the Clapham Sect and campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade. - Nick Clarke
Nicholas Campbell Clarke, was an English radio and television presenter and journalist, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4. Clarke was born in 1948 in Godalming, Surrey, and educated at Westbourne House School, West Sussex, Bradfield College, Berkshire and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Clarke began his career in newspapers on the "Yorkshire Evening Post", before joining the BBC in 1973 as Northern Industrial Correspondent. - Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is a Golden Globe and BAFTA-award winning English actor. He started working in theatre and television, before his first cinema role in 1981. He is perhaps best known for his roles in "Love Actually", the "Underworld" movies, "Shaun of the Dead" and as Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. - Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born September 9, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. He is best known for his 1965-1985 career with the band Pink Floyd as their main songwriter (after the departure of Syd Barrett), bass player and one of their lead vocalists (along with David Gilmour and, to a lesser extent, Rick Wright). He was also the mastermind behind many of the band's concept albums, … - John Ward
Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward CB CMG (21 November 1866-19 December 1934) was an English politician, trade union leader and soldier. - Donald Campbell
Donald Malcolm Campbell C.B.E.(March 23, 1921 - January 4, 1967) was a British car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s. He remains the only person to set both land and water speed records in the same year (1964). - Bonnie Langford
Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford (July 22, 1964) is an English actress and entertainer. She came to prominence as a child star in the early 1970s then subsequently became one of the best-known companions of Doctor Who and has appeared on stage in various musicals such as "Peter Pan: The Musical", "Cats" and "The Pirates of Penzance". - Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. Sullivan is known for his unusual personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, and practising Roman Catholic). - Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass (b. August 13, 1955 in Cheam, Surrey) is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning English writer and film director. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge University. He first worked as a director in the 1980s, for the ITV current affairs programme "World in Action". - Paul McGann
Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959 in Liverpool) is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial "The Monocled Mutineer", in which he played the lead role. He is also known for his role in "Withnail and I", and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 "Doctor Who" television movie and subsequent tie-in media. - John Martyn
John Martyn (born Iain David McGeachy on September 11, 1948 in New Malden, Surrey, England) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. - Robert Browning
Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets - Pete Brown
Pete Brown (born December 25, 1940 in Ashtead, Surrey, England) is a British performance poet, lyricist and musical producer, best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce. He worked also with The Battered Ornaments, and formed his own group Piblokto. He was part of the poetry scene in Liverpool during the 1960s. - James Hunt
James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 - 15 June 1993) was an English racing driver and Formula 1 world champion and subsequently a commentator and businessman. Never one to take himself too seriously, Hunt endeared himself to the British public with his charisma and charm and brought a whole new audience to Formula One in the mid 1970's. - Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE, (26 May 1913-11 August1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee. He was also asked, because he was such a familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, to appear as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original "Star Wars" film. - James Whale
Michael Whale, better known as James Whale is a British radio and television broadcaster, born on 13 May, 1951 in Ewell, Surrey, England). He was brought up in and around Epsom, Surrey by his Welsh mother and English father, who was of at least partial Scottish descent and owned a pub. He has been married to Melinda Whale since 1970, and has two children, James and Peter - William Cobbett
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 - 18 June 1835) was a radical politician, agriculturist and prolific journalist. He was born at Farnham, Surrey. He thought that the reform of Parliament and the abolition of the rotten boroughs would help cure the poverty of the farm labourers. Cobbett constantly attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters". He opposed the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain. Through the many apparent inconsistencies in Cobbett's life, … - Toby Flood
Tobias Gerald Flood (born 8 August 1985 in Frimley), is an English rugby union player who plays at fly half or inside centre for Newcastle Falcons and England. Flood attended Chantry School in Morpeth and later Kings School in Tynemouth, and is a product of the Falcons academy. Has recently graduated from Northumbria University, after studying business management. His third year at the university was completed on a part time basis due to his rugby commitments. - Prunella Scales
Prunella Scales CBE (born 22 June 1932) is an English actress best known for her role as the fearsome Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers". Born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, she has had a long and distinguished career as an actress mostly in comic roles. Her early film roles included "Pride and Prejudice" and "Hobson's Choice". Her first career break came with the early 1960s sitcom, … - Archibald Campbell 3rd Duke of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1st Earl of Ilay (June 1682-April 15, 1761) was a Scottish nobleman, politician, lawyer, and soldier. He was known as Lord Archibald Campbell from 1703 to 1706, and as the Earl of Ilay from 1706 until 1743, when he succeeded to the dukedom. Born in Petersham, Surrey, he supported his brother, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (on many topics, most notably the Act of Union), … - Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll (November 29, 1843-December 8, 1932), (pronounced JEE-kul, to rhyme with 'treacle') was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA and contributed over 1,000 articles to "Country Life", "The Garden" and other magazines. Gertrude Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward JH Jekyll, … - William Of Ockham
William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings,) (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. He is considered, along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, one of the major figures of medieval thought and found himself at the center of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. - Richard Briers
Richard David Briers CBE (born 14 January 1934) is a popular English actor, whose career has encompassed the theatre, television, film and radio. He first came to fame as George Starling in "Marriage Lines" in the mid-1960s. The following decade, the role of Tom Good in the BBC sitcom "The Good Life" made him a household name. - Lady Louise Windsor
The Lady Louise Windsor is a member of the British Royal Family. She is currently the only child of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Elizabeth II, and Sophie, The Countess of Wessex (née Rhys-Jones) but the couple are expecting a second child in December 2007. Lady Louise is 8th in line to the throne and has been since her birth in 2003. - Richard Hughes
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey of Welsh parentage, and educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1922. A Charterhouse schoolmaster had sent Hughes' first published work to "The Spectator" in 1917. (The article, written as a school essay, was an attack on "The Loom of Youth", by Alec Waugh, … - Angus Deayton
Gordon Angus Deayton (born 6 January 1956) is an English comic actor and television presenter. He is best-known as the presenter of the satirical panel game "Have I Got News for You", a job from which he was sacked in October 2002 after a second round of tabloid revelations about his personal life. - Peter Ladefoged
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data. He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet. - John Surtees
John Surtees MBE (born February 11 1934) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula 1 driver from England. He remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. - Simon Patterson
Simon Patterson (b. 1967) is an English artist and was born in Leatherhead, Surrey. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 for his exhibitions at the Lisson Gallery, the Gandy Gallery and his three shows in Japan. He attended Hertfordshire College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College between 1985 and 1989. At Goldsmiths he was included in the Freeze Exhibition showing two wall text pieces, one simply showing the names Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, … - John Thornton
John Thornton (1720 - 1790) was a merchant and Christian philanthropist. Thornton was the son of Robert Thornton of Clapham, Surrey, a merchant who became a director of the Bank of England. He invested heavily in the Russian and Baltic trade and acquired wealth that he donated to Christian ministry causes. A devout Anglican, he espoused evangelical causes, regardless of denomination, and his extensive giving included evangelical ministries in various parts of the world. - Tom Richardson
Tom Richardson was one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time and certainly the most prolific in terms of wicket-taking feats, largely owing to his amazing stamina and appetite for work, which allowed him to gain remarkable success under conditions that were far too much for almost all other bowlers of his time. Relying, owing to the playing conditions of his time, exclusive on the break-back (a fast ball spinning from off to leg) his model action, …
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