- John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda". - A. E. J. Collins
Arthur Edward Jeune (James) Collins, typically known by his initials AEJ Collins, was an English cricketer and soldier. He is most famous for achieving the highest-ever recorded score in cricket: as a 13-year-old schoolboy, he scored 628 not out over four afternoons in June 1899. - Henry Newbolt
Sir Henry John Newbolt (June 6, 1862 - April 19, 1938) was an English author and poet. - Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (March 20, 1908—March 21, 1985) was an English actor of great renown. Redgrave was born in Bristol, the son of the silent film actor Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore. He never knew his father, who left when Michael was only six months old, to pursue a career in Australia. His mother remarried Captain James Anderson, a wealthy tea planter, but he hated his step-father. - Edward Tylecote
Edward Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote (born 23 June 1849 in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, England; died 15 March 1938 in New Hunstanton, Norfolk, England) - cricketer. Tylecote played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Kent. He also played six Test matches for England. His career lasted from 1869 to 1886. - R. P. Keigwin
Richard Prescott Keigwin (8 April 1883 - 26 November 1972) was an English academic. He also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club, Essex County Cricket Club and Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, and played hockey for Essex and England. - James Kirtley
Robert James Kirtley is an English Test cricketer, who was born on the 10 July 1975 in Eastbourne in the county of Sussex. He is a right arm fast to medium bowler and a right hand batsman. He also studied at Eastbourne College and St.Andrews School. Both are in Eastbourne. - Roger Fry
Roger Eliot Fry was an English artist and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, as he matured as a critic he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. The first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, … - Alan Napier
Alan Napier (born Alan Napier-Clavering, January 7, 1903 in Birmingham, England, died August 8, 1988 in Santa Monica, California) was an English character actor. He is best known for playing Alfred in the 1960s live-action "Batman" television series. Napier was a cousin of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940 and the great-great grandson of author Charles Dickens. - John Kendrew
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (March 24, 1917 - August 23, 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz; their group in the Cavendish Laboratory investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins. - Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale CBE (born January 12, 1961) is an award-winning British actor. Russell Beale's stocky frame and soft speaking style are essential elements of his stage persona. His performances have been lauded for their subtlety, wit, intelligence and emotional power. - John Hicks
Sir John Richard Hicks (April 8, 1904 - May 20, 1989) was one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. His most familiar contributions in the field of economics were the IS/LM model, which summarised the Keynesian view of macroeconomics, and his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics. - Norman O. Brown
Norman Oliver Brown (1913, El Oro, Mexico - 2002, Santa Cruz, California) was an American intellectual of wide ranging interests. His father was an Anglo-Irish mining engineer; his mother was a Cuban of Alsatian and Cuban origin. He was educated at Clifton College, then Balliol College, Oxford (BA, MA, Greats; his tutor was Isaiah Berlin), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD, Classics). - John Houseman
John Houseman (September 22, 1902 - October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born actor and film producer. He was born Jacques Haussmann in Bucharest to a French-born Jewish father and an English mother. He was educated in England at Clifton College before emigrating to the United States, where he took the stage name of John Houseman. Along with Orson Welles, Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, … - John Inverdale
John Inverdale (born in April 6th 1957 Plymouth, England) is an English radio and television broadcaster who works for the BBC. He is the son of a Royal Navy dental surgeon, Captain John Inverdale, who played rugby for Devonport Services R.F.C. in Plymouth. Inverdale was educated at Clifton College in Bristol and at the University of Southampton, where he obtained a history degree in 1979, … - Frank Yates
Frank Yates (May 12, 1902 - June 17, 1994) was one of the pioneers of 20th century statistics. He was born in Manchester. Yates was the eldest of five children, and the only boy, born to Edith and Percy Yates. His father was a seed merchant. He attended a private school Wadham House, before obtaining a scholarship to attend Clifton College in 1916. After four years at Clifton he obtained a Cambridge University scholarship to study at St. - Julian Richer
Julian Richer is the founder of the British hifi retail chain Richer Sounds. He was educated at Clifton College in Bristol. - Martin Lings
Martin Lings (Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din). After completing his doctorate, Lings worked at the British Museum and later British Library, overseeing eastern manuscripts and other textual works, rising to the position of Keeper of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts 1970-73. A writer throughout this period, Lings output increased in the last quarter of his life. While his thesis work on Ahmad al-Alawi had been well-regarded, his most famous work was a biography about Muhammad, … - Roger Hollis
Sir Roger Henry Hollis, KBE, CB (1905 - 1973) was a British journalist, secret-service agent and director general (DG) of MI5. His father was Bishop of Taunton. He was educated at Clifton College and Worcester College, Oxford. After a pre-war career as reporter for the "Shanghai Post", and with British American Tobacco in China, Hollis developed tuberculosis and returned to England in 1939. He joined MI5 shortly before World War II and rose quickly through the ranks, … - David Willcocks
Sir David Willcocks (born December 30, 1919) is a renowned British choral conductor, organist, and composer. Born in Newquay in Cornwall, he began his musical training as a chorister at Westminster Abbey from 1929 to 1934. From 1934 to 1938, he was a music scholar at Clifton College, Bristol, before his appointment as organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge. With the outbreak of World War II, he interrupted his studies in music to serve in the British Infantry, … - Roger Alton
Roger Alton, the current editor of the British national newspaper, "The Observer", was educated at Clifton College. Previously he was arts editor and G2 editor of "The Guardian". He has overseen a rise in circulation during his editorship and introduced the award-winning Observer Sports, Food, and Music Monthlies. - Francis Younghusband
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (31 May, 1863 - 31 July, 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist. He is remembered chiefly for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia and his writings on the subject. - Hector Sants
Hector Sants is a British investment banker. He was appointed the Financial Services Authority chief in July 2007. Sants was educated at Clifton College (Bristol, England) and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He started his career at Philips & Drew, moving to head its Wall Street section in New York at the age of 30. In 1998, he joined Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. Sants is married with three children and lives in Oxford. - Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard, CBE (29 September 1913 - 7 January 1988), born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English movie, stage and television actor. - David Swift
David Swift (born April 3 1931, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is a British actor. He was educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied law. He made his television debut in 1961, and since then has rarely been off the screen. However, it is as the irascible newsreader Henry Davenport in the 1990s series, "Drop the Dead Donkey" written by Andy Hamilton, that he has become popular. - Clive Swift
Clive Walter Swift (born February 9, 1936) is a British actor originally from Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Swift was educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read English literature. He was previously a teacher at Lamda and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Swift has appeared in many TV series and movies. He is most noted for his performance in "Keeping Up Appearances", starring as Richard Bucket, … - Nevill Francis Mott
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (September 30, 1905 - August 8, 1996), FRS, CH, was a British physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977, sharing the award with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck, who had pursued independent research. - Theodore Wright
Theodore Wright (15 May 1883-14 September 1914) born in Vailly, France) he was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. - Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 1944) is a British academic philosopher also known for his efforts to popularise philosophy. He attended Clifton College and went on to receive his bachelor's degree in Moral Sciences (i.e. philosophy) in 1965 from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, a position formerly held by such philosophers as Elizabeth Anscombe, G.H. Von Wright, Wittgenstein, and G.E. Moore, and a fellow of Trinity College, … - Geoffrey Household
Geoffrey Edward West Household (November 30, 1900 - October 4, 1988) was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his 1939 novel "Rogue Male". Many of his stories have scenes set in caves, and there is a science-fiction or supernatural element in some, although this is handled with restraint. The typical Household hero was a strong, capable Englishman with a high sense of honour which bound him to a certain course of action. - Edwin Samuel Montagu
Edwin Samuel Montagu (February 6 1879 - November 15 1924) was a British Liberal politician, the second son and seventh child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. First elected as an MP in 1906, Edwin Montagu was Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. He was the second Jew to enter the British Cabinet but was strongly opposed to Zionism, which he called "a mischievous political creed." He opposed the Balfour Declaration, … - John Wyndham Beynon
Sir John Wyndham Beynon, 1st Baronet CBE (2 December 1864-13 October 1944) was a Welsh iron and steel manufacturer and coal owner. Beynon was born in Castleton, Monmouthshire. He was educated at Clifton College, after which he went into business and eventually became chairman and managing director of the Ebbw Vale Colliery Company, as well as being a director of a number of other iron, steel and coal concerns. - Walter Gibb
Walter Gibb DSO, DFC (born March 26, 1919 at Port Talbot, Wales; died October 4, 2006) was a British test pilot who twice held the world altitude record. Gibb and his observer, FM Piper, took off from Filton, near Bristol, on May 4, 1953 in an English Electric Canberra bomber powered by two Bristol Olympus engines. Climbing to the west, the Canberra reached an altitude of 63,668 ft, more than 4,000 ft higher than the previous record. - W. O. Bentley
Walter Owen Bentley, often known as W.O. Bentley or just "W.O." was the founder of Bentley Motors. - Conrad Hal Waddington
Conrad Hal Waddington FRS FRSE (1905 - 1975) was a developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology. He had wide interests that included poetry and painting, as well as left-wing political leanings. - Edward Donald Bellew
Edward Donald Bellew (October 28, 1882, Bombay, February 1, 1961, Kamloops, British Columbia), Captain of the 7th Bn British Columbia Regiment, CEF was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 32 years old, and a Lieutenant in the 7th (1st British Columbia) Battalion, … - Hugo Cunliffe-Owen
Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet (16 August 1870-14 December 1947) was an English industrialist. Cunliffe-Owen was the younger son of Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen. He was educated at Brighton College and then Clifton College and then went into business in Bristol. He became a director of the British-American Tobacco Company on its formation in 1902, later becoming vice-chairman, and chairman from 1923 until his retirement in 1945. - Cyril Gordon Martin
Cyril Gordon Martin (19 December 1891-14 August 1980)(VC, CBE, DSO) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 23 years old, and a Lieutenant in the 56th Field Coy., Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. - J. M. E. McTaggart
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart was an Idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was considered one of England's leading Hegel scholars at the beginning of the 20th century and among the most notable of the British Idealists. - Paul Grice
Herbert Paul Grice (March 13, 1913, Birmingham, England - August 28, 1988, Berkeley, California), usually publishing under the name Paul Grice, was a British-educated philosopher of language, who spent the final two decades of his career in the U.S.
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