- Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. - William Thomas
William Thomas (c. 1799 - 26 December 1860) was an architect in England and Canada. He began his own practice at Leamington Spa in 1831 but suffered bankruptcy in 1837 and emigrated with his wife and 10 children to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1843. It was in Toronto that his career as an architect flourished. He was also city engineer in Toronto and across Canada. Two of his sons, William Tutin Thomas and Cyrus Pole Thomas, also became architects. - John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Peel was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio. - John Constable
John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling". His most famous paintings include "Dedham Vale" of 1802 and "The Hay Wain" of 1821. - John Gummer
John Selwyn Gummer MP (born November 26 1939) is a British politician, and Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal. He is chairman of the environmental consultancy company Sancroft International. He is also a non-executive director and regular columnist for the "Catholic Herald". - Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. - John Clarke
John Clarke (8 October, 1609- 20 April, 1676) was a medical doctor, Baptist minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and author of its charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas. Clarke was born at Westhorpe, Suffolk County, England on October 8, 1609, to Thomas and Rose (Kerrich) Clarke. He was one of eight children, six of whom came to America and settled in New England. - Lil Chris
Christopher James Hardman, (born August 26,1990) is from Lowestoft, England. He performs under the pseudonym Lil' Chris - a reference to his slight stature (5 ft 4 in; 164 cm). - Peter Hall
Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (born 22 November, 1930) is an English theatre and film director. He was born in Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, England and attended The Perse School, Cambridge. Hall learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service. He produced and acted in several productions while at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1953 from St Catharine's College. - Mary Tudor
Mary I (18 February, 1516 - 17 November, 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 6 July1553 (de facto) or 19 July 1553 (de jure) until her death on 17 November, 1558. Mary, the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, after the uncrowned Jane Grey and before Elizabeth I, is remembered for briefly returning England to Roman Catholicism. - Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (pronounced /ref fanz/; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List, Quiz Show, The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda, Red Dragon, The Constant Gardener, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and the Harry Potter films. Most recently he appeared in The Reader. - Bob Hoskins
Robert William "Bob" Hoskins Jr. (born October 26, 1942) is an English Academy Award-nominated actor best known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for his performances in family films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) and "Hook" (1991). He has two children with his current wife, and two children from a previous marriage. - Peter Pears
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (Farnham, June 22 1910 - Aldeburgh, April 3 1986) was an English tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten. He studied music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, but left without taking his degree. He later studied voice for two terms at the Royal College of Music. He met Britten in 1934, when he was a member of the BBC Singers. - Brian Eno
Brian Eno (born Brian Peter George Eno on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. As a solo artist, he is probably best known as the father of modern ambient music, though he is also a highly celebrated record producer. With an art school background and inspiration from minimalism, … - Delia Smith
Delia Smith OBE (born 18 June, 1941) is an English television chef, known for her interest in food and teaching basic cookery. - Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling is a British painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best known public works are a memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London and "Scallop", a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach, dedicated to Benjamin Britten. Both works have proved controversial. Hambling studied at the East Anglian School of Painting from 1960 under Cedric Morris, then at Ipswich School of Art (1962–4), Camberwell (1964-7), … - Bernie Ecclestone
Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone (born October 29 1930 near Bungay, Suffolk, England) is the president and CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, and owns a stake in Alpha Prema, the parent company of the Formula One Group of companies. As such, he is generally considered the primary authority in Formula One racing. He is most commonly addressed in tabloid journalism as "F1 Supremo". - Ian Wright
Ian Douglas Wright (born May 17, 1965, Suffolk, England) is a host of Pilot Productions' travel/adventure television series "Globe Trekker" (also called Pilot Guides in Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet). He also hosted the short-lived program "Ian Wright Live", a show filmed before a live audience and featured discussions on various travel topics. - Sue Ryder
Margaret Susan Cheshire, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire, CMG, OBE (3 July 1923 - 2 November 2000), best-known as Sue Ryder, was a British peeress who worked with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War and afterwards led many charitable organizations, notably the Sue Ryder charity named after her. She was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and educated at Benenden School. - John Simpson
John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born August 9, 1944), commonly known as John Simpson, is a British journalist who currently holds the most senior role of World Affairs Editor for BBC News. He also presents the current affairs programme "Simpson's World". - 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. - George Burley
George Elder Burley (born June 3, 1956 in Cumnock, Kyle, East Ayrshire) is an ex-footballer. He is currently the manager of Southampton in the Football League Championship. Like many other ex-Ipswich players he owns a home Suffolk where his wife and daughter own shops. George is uncle to ex-Celtic midfielder Craig Burley. - Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. - Richard Wright
Richard Ian Wright (born November 5, 1977 in Ipswich, England) is an English goalkeeper, playing for West Ham United. He signed after being released by Everton, after enjoying stints with Ipswich Town and Arsenal. He has been a member of the England squad, and has two caps. - Bartholomew Gosnold
Bartholomew Gosnold (1572-August 22, 1607) was an English lawyer, explorer, and privateer, instrumental in founding the Virginia Company of London, and Jamestown, Virginia. He is considered by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) to be the "prime mover of the colonization of Virginia." Gosnold also led the first European expedition to visit Cape Cod, on May 15, 1602. - Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for movies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually" and the hit TV programmes "Blackadder", "Mr. Bean", and "The Vicar of Dibley". Richard Curtis lives with script editor and broadcaster Emma Freud, with whom he has four children and lives in Suffolk. - George Crabbe
George Crabbe (December 24, 1754 - February 3, 1832) was an English poet and naturalist. He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. While apprenticed to a local doctor, he met his future wife, Sarah Elmy. His first major work, a poem entitled "Inebriety", was self-published in 1775. By this time he had completed his medical training, and had decided to take up writing seriously. - Kieron Dyer
Kieron Courtney Dyer (born 29 December 1978 in Ipswich) is an English footballer currently playing for Newcastle United. Known for his speed, dribbling and cool finishing, Dyer is a regular for the England squad but has failed to win a regular place in the starting line-up. He is of Antiguan descent via his mother. - Robert Fitzroy
Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS "Beagle" during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality. He was an able surveyor and hydrographer and became Governor-General of New Zealand. - P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE (born 3 August, 1920) is an English writer of crime fiction under the name P. D. James and a life peer in the House of Lords. - Frankie Dettori
Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori, MBE (born December 15, 1970 in Milan) is a thoroughbred race horse jockey and celebrity. He is the son of Sardinian jockey Gianfranco Dettori, himself having been a prolific winner in Italy. - Earl Of Suffolk
The title of Earl of Suffolk has been created several times in the Peerage of England, most recently in 1603 for Thomas Howard, 1st Baron Howard de Walden. Several times, it has also been a Dukedom. The third creation of the dukedom of Suffolk was for Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, in 1551. The Duke also held the title "Baron Ferrers of Groby" (1300). These titles became forfeit when the duke was attainted in 1554. - Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, GCSI, OM, FRS, MD (June 30, 1817 - December 10, 1911) was an English botanist and traveller. - David Sheepshanks
David Sheepshanks is best known for being the chairman of Ipswich Town football club in the Football League Championship in England. He was elected to the Ipswich Town board in 1987 and was appointed chairman in 1995. Other business interests included Suffolk Foods Ltd which he founded with his brother Rick and was a majority shareholder. During his time at Ipswich he oversaw promotion to the Premiership through the play off in 2000, … - Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blythe is an English writer and editor, best known in his native England for his "Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village" (1969), a portrait of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. As editor of Penguin Classics for more than 20 years, Blythe has edited modern editions of works by writers such as Thomas Hardy, Henry James and William Hazlitt. He has also prepared a number of compilations, … - John Hayward
Sir John Hayward (c. 1560 - June 27, 1627), English historian, was born at or near Felixstowe, Suffolk, where he was educated, and afterwards proceeded to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took the degrees of B.A., M.A. and LL.D. In 1599 he published "The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IV" dedicated to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. This was reprinted in 1642. - Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield (December 3, 1766 - August 19, 1823), was an English poet. He was born of a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk. He lost his father when he was a year old, and received the rudiments of education from his mother, who kept the village school. Apprenticed at the age of eleven to a farmer, he was too small and frail for field labour, and four years later he came to London to work for a shoemaker under an elder brother, enduring extreme poverty. - Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, (born February 17, 1930), is an English best-selling mystery and psychological crime writer, often called the Queen of Crime. Born in London, the daughter of teachers, Ruth (Barbara), née Grasemann, grew up and was educated at the County High School for Girls in Loughton Essex. She then worked as a journalist for Essex newspapers. - Terence Blacker
Terence Blacker , the versatile and high profile author of both children and adult fiction, was born 5th February 1948, near Hadleigh, Suffolk. Terence started off working in horse-racing and as an amateur jockey before moving into the world of books by working as a bookseller for Parks and then working for a publisher. In 1983 Terence became a full time professional writer. His first adult novel, FIXX, won critical acclaim and was described by the Guardian as a 'tour de force'. - Nathaniel Ward
The Reverend Nathaniel Ward (1578 - October 1652) wrote the first constitution in North America in 1641. He was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England. He studied law and graduated from Cambridge University in 1603. He practised as a barrister and travelled in continental Europe. In Heidelberg he met a German Protestant reformer, David Pareus, who persuaded him to enter the ministry. In 1618 he was a clergyman at Elbing, in Prussia.
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