- Paul Williams
Paul Williams (born September 3, 1940, in London, England) is an English composer and pianist. - John Jones
John Idris Jones (b. December 12, 1957) is a musician and record producer who has worked with many high-profile rock and pop musicians. - David Anderson
English bishop David Anderson (1814, London, England-1885) was educated at University of Edinburgh and Exeter College, Oxford. He was the vice-principal of St. Bees College, Cumberland (1841-1847) and an incumbent of All Saints, Derby (1848-1849). In 1849, he arrived at the Red River Settlement as the bishop of Rupert's Land. He lived there until 1864, the year he returned to England. He later was vicar of Clifton and chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral. - Sarah
Sarah (Fendall) Contee (1732-1793), daughter of Benjamin Fendall I, Esq. (1708-1764) and first wife, Eleanor Lee (1710-1759). Sarah was born February 7, 1732 at "Potomoe", Charles Co., Maryland. She was the daughter of Benjamin Fendall I, Esq. (1708-1764) of "Potomack", and his first wife, Eleanor Lee (1710-1759). Sarah was described as a very beautiful woman with a wealth of golden hair. Sarah married Col. Thomas Contee (1729-1811) in 1751 in Charles Co., Maryland. - Peter Brown
Peter Brown (active 1758-1799) was an Danish natural history illustrator who worked mainly in London, England. His most important work was "New Illustrations of Zoology" (1776), published in London. He was an associate of naturalists Thomas Pennant and Joseph Banks. Brown's illustrations included birds, botanical subjects and insects. Though primarily an illustrator, he is credited with scientific descriptions of some species, … - Ben Webster
Ben Webster was a British-born actor, and the husband of actress Dame May Whitty, and father of U.S.-born stage actress, Margaret Webster. Ben Webster was born on June 2, 1864 in London, England, UK, and married his wife in 1892 in London. He acted in films for 30 years from 1913 to 1943. He died in Hollywood, California during surgery on February 26, 1947 at the age of 82. - Palmolive
Palmolive was the stage name for Spanish born drummer Paloma Romero. Palmolive was the drummer for influential punk groups The Slits and The Raincoats. Palmolive was born in 1955 in Southern Spain. She was educated in Catholic schools but by the age of 13 had grown bored and begun to challenge authority. She moved to Madrid, Spain and found that she was still unhappy with life in Spain. In 1972 Palmolive moved to London, England. - John Hunt
John Hunt (1712-1778) was a Quaker minister from London, England. Between 1738 and 1768, he made frequent voyages between London, Philadelphia and Virginia. In 1769, John Hunt, a widower, emigrated to the province of Pennsylvania with his three children. They settled near Philadelphia at Darby. He married Rachel Tory, a widow, on November 28, 1769. John Hunt and about twenty other prominent Quakers from Philadelphia were exiled by force of arms to Winchester, Virginia. - Osi Umenyiora
Osi Umenyiora (born November 16, 1981 in London, England) is an American Football player (defensive end) for the New York Giants. He was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2003 NFL Draft out of Troy State University, where he finished second in the nation with 16 sacks. Umenyiora was born in London to Nigerian parents. His family moved back to Nigeria and later to Auburn, Alabama where he started playing football in high school. - Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s - 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. His place of birth was London, England. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay, Canada, after he was set adrift, along with his son and eight others, by mutinous crewmen. Hudson's early life is an unknown, but he is thought to have spent many years at sea. He is said to have begun as a cabin boy at 16 and gradually worked his way up to ship's captain. - Jack Osbourne
Jack Joseph Osbourne (born November 8, 1985 in London, England) is the son of music legend Ozzy Osbourne and music manager Sharon Osbourne, which also makes him the grandson of Don Arden. He has 2 older sisters, Aimee Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne, and also two elder half-siblings; Jessica Osbourne and Louis John Osbourne, both of whom are from Ozzy's previous marriage to Thelma Riley. Jack also has an adopted brother Robert Mercato, … - Bob Martin
Bob Martin is a comedian/actor/writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been in many TV shows and has written many TV shows. He also provides the voice of Cuddles the comfort doll on an Canadian show called Puppets Who Kill aired on the Comedy Network. He most recently starred in the Broadway success "The Drowsy Chaperone" as the Man in Chair. He also collaborated with Don McKellar on the book. - Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman (born 12 December 1927) is a English actress, who is best known for the roles of Cathy Gale on "The Avengers" and as Bond girl Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger". - Scott Speedman
Scott Speedman (born September 1, 1975) is an English-born Canadian actor. He is probably best known for his role in the coming-of-age television drama "Felicity", where he played Ben Covington, and his role as Michael Corvin in the "Underworld" films. Speedman was born Robert Scott Speedman in London, England, but raised in Toronto, Canada. - Joe Ely
Joe Ely (born February 9 1947) is an Austin, Texas honky-tonk/country musician. Ely, born in Amarillo, spent his formative years from age 12 in Lubbock, Texas. Shortly after high school, in 1970, with fellow Lubbock musicians Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, he formed The Flatlanders. According to Ely, "Jimmie was like a well of country music. He knew everything about it. And Butch was from the folk world. I was kinda the rock & roll guy, and we almost had a triad. - Richard Hughes
Sir Richard Hughes (c. 1729 - 5 January 1812) was probably born in London, England, and entered the Portsmouth Naval Academy in 1739. He served on a number of ships in various locations during his naval career. It is known that Hughes was in Canada in 1778, as he was appointed resident commissioner of the Halifax dockyard. This appointment was short, as by August of the same year he became lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, succeeding Mariot Arbuthnot in that position. - Paul Buckmaster
Paul Buckmaster is an artist, arranger, and composer. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Elton John, but he has also worked as an arranger on various hit songs, including David Bowie's "Space Oddity" (1969), and has played with Miles Davis, on On the Corner. Born in London, England, Paul was taught the cello from age 4. At age eleven, he won a cello scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London. - Vanessa Angel
Vanessa Madeline Angel (born November 10, 1966 in London, England) is an English model and actress. She is best remembered for playing the role of Lisa on the "Weird Science" TV series. Her movie roles include "King of New York", "The Perfect Score" and "Kingpin", and she has also had recurring roles on the television shows "Reasonable Doubts" and "Stargate SG-1". - Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey was an Academy Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films. Laurence Harvey maintained throughout his life that his birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne, but his real name was Zvi Mosheh (Hirsh) Skikne and he was called Hirshkeh by his family. He was the youngest of three boys born to Ber "Boris" and Ella Skikne, a Jewish family in the town of Joniškis, Lithuania. - Alan James
Alan James is the bandleader of Powerhouse, a leading event entertainment group based in Naples, Florida. Originally born Alan Painter, Alan James is from London, England and has an extensive career in the music business. In the early seventies he spent several years traveling and entertaining US forces around the world. In 1975 Alan was hired to be the lead guitarist for international singing star Roy Orbison. - David Heyman
David Heyman is a British film producer born in London, England in 1961. He first worked in the film industry as a production assistant, before producing his first film, "Juice", in 1992, followed by the cult "stoner" film "The Stoned Age" (1994). He enjoyed some success as an executive in America, before returning to London to found his own production company, Heyday Films, in 1997. Heyman has since produced a number of notable films, … - Tommy Steele
Tommy Steele OBE (born December 17, 1936 in London, England) is a English entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain's first pop idol. Born Thomas Willam Hicks in Mason Street, Bermondsey, South East London, England, his cheeky Cockney image and boy-next-door looks won him success as a musician, singer and actor. - Robert Donat
Friedrich Robert Donath (March 18, 1905 - June 9, 1958), better known by his stage name Robert Donat, was a distinguished Academy Award-winning English film and stage actor of English, Polish and German descent. He was born in Withington, Manchester. Donat made his first stage appearance in 1921 and his film debut in 1932 in "Men of Tomorrow". His first great screen success came with "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (playing Thomas Culpepper), … - Jim Dine
Jim Dine was born June 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at night at the Cincinnati Art Academy during his senior year of high school and then attended the University of Cincinnati, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ohio University, Athens, from which he received his B.F.A. in 1957. Dine moved to New York in 1959 and soon became a pioneer creator of "Happenings", together with Allan Kaprow , and Robert Whitman . - Sam Wanamaker
Sam Wanamaker (born Samuel Watenmaker) (June 14, 1919 - December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died of prostate cancer in London at the age of 74. - Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is a Tony Award-winning British actor. - Terence Rattigan
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was one of England's most important 20th century dramatists. He was born in London of Irish Protestant extraction and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, and his work to some extent reflects this privileged and intellectual background. - Kay Gardner
Kay Gardner, (born 1927), was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario. She was born in Poland and moved with her family to Canada in 1929. The family lived in Alberta and British Columbia. In 1947 she married a journalist, Ray Gardner, in London, England. In 1951 they moved to Toronto where Ray obtained a job with the Toronto Star. They have two sons. Gardner lived in the Forest Hill neighbourhood and worked for the local library. - Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence (July 4 1898 - September 6 1952) was an actress and musical performer popular in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing on stage in London and on Broadway, and in several films. She is particularly associated with the light comedy of Noel Coward. She was born Gertrude Alexandria Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen, of English and Danish extraction, in London, England, and was a professional performer by the age of ten. - Pax Lodge
Pax Lodge is the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) World Centre in London, England. It was opened in 1990 but was not the first world centre in England. It was preceded by "Olave House", named after Olave Baden-Powell which was preceded by "Our Ark". Pax Lodge is next to the WAGGGS World Bureau in Olave Centre at 12c Lyndhurst Road, London NW3 5PQ. - Phil Lewis
Phil Lewis is the current vocalist for American sleaze rock band L.A. Guns. He was born on January 9, 1957 in London, England, although he sometimes claims his birthdate as June 6, 1966 (666). Prior to joining L.A. Guns Lewis has also worked with Girl (featuring Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen), New Torpedos, and Torme. While temporarily out of L.A. Guns, he sang for the bands Filthy Lucre and the Liberators. - Ben Cross
Ben Cross (born Harry Bernard Cross on December 16, 1947 in London, England) is an English actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Jewish Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie "Chariots of Fire". Cross first emerged as a minor actor in the 1977 war film "A Bridge Too Far". He appeared in two "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries, namely "The Flame Trees of Thika" and "The Citadel", … - Robin Wood
Robin Wood (born Robert Paul Wood on 23 February, 1931, in London, England) is a Canada-based author of several books of film criticism, including volumes on Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, and Arthur Penn. Wood is also a member of the editorial collective that publishes the magazine "CineACTION!", a film theory collective founded by Wood and other colleagues of Toronto's York University where he is also a professor emeritus of film. - George Webb
George Webb (June 9, 1911 in Struster, England - December 30, 1998 in London, England) was an English actor. He was best known for playing the role of "Daddy" in the BBC sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances" and also appeared in an episode of Mr. Bean. His character in "Keeping Up Appearances" spoke little, his most famous quotations being "What's going on here?" and "It was horrifying!" yet his actions and mannerisms often had hilarious results. - Cyril Cusack
Cyril Cusack (November 26, 1910 - October 7, 1993) was an Irish actor. Born in Durban, Natal, South Africa he was the son of a sergeant in the mounted police and an actress. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack was educated in Newbridge College, Newbridge, Co. - Ian Hendry
Ian Hendry (January 13, 1931-December 24, 1984) was an English film and television actor best known for his work on several British TV series of the early 1960s. Hendry was born in Ipswich. He was educated at Culford School, Suffolk. Hendry's film and TV career began in 1959 and within a year he had landed the lead role of Dr. Geoffrey Brent in the crime series "Police Surgeon". - Jane Lee
Jane Lee (1912-March 17, 1957) was a child star in silent motion pictures beginning in 1914. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Along with her sister, Katherine Lee, she appeared in the original "Neptune's Daughter" filmed in 1914. Katherine was seven years old and Jane was only five in 1917 when they starred in "Troublemakers", produced by the Fox Film Corporation, and "Two Little Imps". Jane and Katherine continued performing in vaudeville. - Andy Martin
Andy Martin is a musician, lyricist and writer who lives in London, England. - Daniel Massey
Daniel Raymond Massey (October 10, 1933 - March 25, 1998) was a British actor of Canadian antecedents; he was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. Although successful on stage and screen, his career was eclipsed by other members of Canada's noted Massey family: his father, Raymond Massey, his sister, Anna Massey and his uncle Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada. His mother was the actress Adrianne Allan. Daniel Massey was born and died in London. - Isaac Allerton
Isaac Allerton (c. 1585 or 1586-1659) was one of the original Pilgrim fathers who came on the "Mayflower" to settle the Plymouth Colony in 1620. Allerton is an ancestor to Presidents of the United States Zachary Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is believed to have been born in London, England, about 1585 or 1586 and was raised to become a tailor. A religious non-conformist, he apparently followed the Scrooby exiles to Leiden, Holland as a young man.
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