- Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, … - Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially in the 1970s. John has sold more than 250 million albums plus hundreds of millions of singles, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. - Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore, CBE (born 14 October 1927) is an English actor known for his suave and witty demeanour. He may be best known for portraying two British action heroes, Simon Templar in the television series "The Saint" from 1962 to 1969, and James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He has been a UNICEF ambassador since 1991. - Noel Coward
Sir Noel Peirce Coward was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. His forename is sometimes spelled with a diaeresis on the 'e' ("Noël"). Coward himself used this spelling only in later life. - Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. He was born and raised in Wales, but became an American citizen in 2000. - Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West. - John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April, 1904 - 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning theatre and film actor. He is generally regarded as one of the great English actors in history. - Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema. He starred in seven Bond films (six EON-produced films, 1962–67 and 1971; and an unofficial Columbia-produced "Thunderball"-remake in 1983). Connery is known for his Scottish accent and rugged good looks. He repeatedly is named as one of the most attractive men alive by magazines, … - Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born August 29 1923) is a English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won an Academy Award, BAFTA and three Golden Globes. - Terry Wogan
Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3 1938, in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland), more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom (UK) for most of his career. He has been a leading media personality in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s, and is often referred to as a "national treasure". - Tom Jones
Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, born 7 June, 1940, who is better known, especially in the United States, by his stage name, Tom Jones, is a Grammy Award-winning Welsh popular music singer. He was born in Treforest, Pontypridd, near Cardiff in South Wales. - Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is a British neurologist, theatre and opera director, television presenter, humourist and sculptor. He lives in Camden, North London. - Andrew Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London) is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system. Hodgkin and Huxley shared the prize that year with John Carew Eccles, who was cited for research on synapses. - Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Phillip "Mick" Jagger CBE (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. He is best known as the lead singer of the English rock band The Rolling Stones. - Jackie Stewart
Sir John Young Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939 in Milton, West Dunbartonshire), better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scot, is a Scottish former racing driver. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three world titles. He also competed in the Can-Am championship. - Ian Botham
Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE, (born 24 November 1955) is a retired England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder, and remains well known by his nicknames "Beefy" and "Guy the Gorilla". - Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. - Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a nuclear physicist who became known as the "father" of nuclear physics. He pioneered the orbital theory of the atom through his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment. - Michael Caine
Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite CBE (born March 14, 1933), known professionally as Michael Caine, is a two-time Academy Award-winning English film actor. - Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003) was an English actor. - Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Nunn CBE (born 14 January, 1940) is an English theatre and film director. He has held both the posts of Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Director of the Royal National Theatre, following in the footsteps of Sir Peter Hall. He was knighted by the Queen in 2002. He was born in Ipswich, England and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career. In 1968, he was appointed Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, … - Ralph Richardson
Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 - 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film. - Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 - October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He is the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. - 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. - Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC, FRS, FZS, (September 14, 1909 – August 29, 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter and sportsman. Peter Scott was born in London, the only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who died when Peter was two years old. He famously left instructions to his wife, the sculptor Kathleen Bruce, regarding Peter, to "try and make the boy interested in natural history if you can". - Peter Cook
Sir Peter Cook (born in 1936 in Southend, Essex) is a notable English architect, teacher and writer about architecture. From 1953 to 1958, he studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art, and then moved to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1960. He later returned to the AA as a teacher. While working in the office of James Cubitt & Partners, … - George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin CBE (born 3 January 1926 in Highbury, London, England) is sometimes referred to as "the fifth Beatle"—a title that he owes to his work as producer of almost all of The Beatles' records. In recognition of his services to the music industry and popular culture, he was made a Knight Bachelor of the British Empire in 1996. He is also the father of producer Giles Martin, and actor Gregory Paul Martin. - David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS (born on 8 May 1926 in London, England) is one of the world's best known broadcasters and naturalists. Widely considered one of the pioneers of the nature documentary, his career as the respected face and voice of British natural history programmes has endured more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the eight "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, … - Henry Irving
John Henry Brodribb, knighted in 1895, as Sir Henry Irving, was one of the most famous stage actors of the Victorian era. - Alex Ferguson
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson CBE (born 31 December 1941 in Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United F.C. He has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of English football and has been in charge of Manchester United for more than 1,000 matches. With 20 years under his belt, he is the second-longest serving manager in the history of Manchester United after Sir Matt Busby. - Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE (born 22 October, 1938) is an English actor and director, knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British. - Malcolm Sargent
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he was associated included the Ballets Russes, the Royal Choral Society, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and the London Philharmonic, Hallé, Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic orchestras. - Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (April 8, 1889 - February 22,1983) was an English conductor. - Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel "2001: A Space Odyssey", and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of what was sometimes known as the "Big Three" of science fiction, which included Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. - David Murray
Sir David Edward Murray (born Ayr, 14 October 1951) is a Scottish entrepreneur, businessman and Chairman of Rangers Football Club. - George Porter
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS (December 6, 1920 - August 31, 2002) was a British chemist. Porter was born in Stainforth, Yorkshire. He won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry. He then served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. Porter then went on to do research at Cambridge under Norrish where he began the work that ultimately led to them becoming Nobel Laureates. - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, … - Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (May 13 1842 - November 22 1900) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert, including the still-popular "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Pirates of Penzance", and "The Mikado". Sullivan's artistic output included 23 operas, 13 orchestral works, eight choral or oratorio works, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, … - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.
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