- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Spencer Gore
Spencer William Gore (March 10, 1850 - April 19, 1906) was a tennis player and cricketer for Surrey. Gore was born and raised within a mile of the All England Croquet Club in Wimbledon Common, Surrey, and christened at St Mary's Church, Wimbledon. He was educated at Harrow school, where he excelled at all games, especially football and cricket, and was the captain of the school cricket eleven. - James Blunt
James Blunt is a BRIT Award-winning and Grammy-nominated, English singer-songwriter whose debut album, "Back to Bedlam", and single releases — especially the number one hit "You're Beautiful" — brought him to fame in 2005. His style is a mix of pop and acoustic rock. Along with vocals, James Blunt plays a wide variety of instruments including the piano, guitar, organ, marimba, and mellotron. He is signed to Linda Perry's American label Custard, … - Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 - 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. He was also a key figure in International politics in the post-war period, and was one of the founding figures of the non-alignment. Popularly referred to as Panditji ("Scholar"), Nehru was also a writer, scholar and amateur historian, … - Morton Betts
Morton Peto Betts (b. 30 August 1847, Bloomsbury, London, d. 19 April 1914, Menton, France) was a leading English sportsman of the late 19th century. He was notable for scoring the first goal in an English FA Cup Final. His sporting career also featured first-class cricket for Middlesex (1 match) and Kent (2 matches). Switching between football and cricket duties frequently, he is also associated with Essex. - James Fox
James Fox OBE (born 19 May 1939) is an English actor. He was born in London to theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is a brother of actor Edward Fox and film producer Robert Fox. He is also a paternal half-brother of Daniel Chatto and a brother-in-law of Lady Sarah Chatto. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actor Laurence Fox is his son. His grandfather was playwright Frederick Lonsdale. - John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English barrister turned prolific writer and dramatist. Educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford, his oeuvre includes over fifty books, plays, and scripts. The play, "A Voyage Round My Father" (1971) is autobiographical, recounting his experiences as a young barrister and his relationship with his blind father. - Bill Deedes
Lord Deedes powerfully recounted stories of his travels and experiences at numerous receptions and events championing children's rights and winning support for UNICEF's work. Lord Deedes also contributed to the 'Weekenders' book series including the award winning "Weekenders-Travels in the Heart of Africa" and "Weekenders-Adventures in Calcutta", both of which have raised funds for UNICEF's work with children. - Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. Trollope has always remained a popular novelist. - Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (13 February 1743 - 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and science patron. He took part in Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and around 80 species bear Banks' name. He is credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, "Banksia". - C. W. Alcock
Charles William Alcock (December 2, 1842 - February 26, 1907) was an influential English sportsman and administrator. He was a major instigator of the development of both international football and cricket, as well as being the creator of the FA Cup - Edward Fox
Edward Charles Morrice Fox, OBE (born 13 April, 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor. He is generally associated with the role of an upper-class Englishman. He is known particularly for playing the title role in the film "The Day of the Jackal" (1973) and for his portrayal of Edward VIII in the television miniseries "Edward and Mrs Simpson" (1978). - 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. - Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox (born 1978) is a British actor. He was educated at Harrow School. He has appeared in several films, stage and television productions. He trained at RADA where he was a contemporary of Rhys Meredith. He is currently appearing in the stage play "Treats" opposite Billie Piper. - Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 - 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from December 10, 1834 to April 8, 1835, and again from August 30, 1841 to June 29, 1846. He helped create the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary, oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws. - Michael A. Jackson
Professor Michael Anthony Jackson (born 1936) works as an independent computing consultant in London, England, and also as a part-time researcher at AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA. He is a visiting research professor at the Open University in the UK. Jackson was educated at Harrow School where he was taught by Christopher Strachey and wrote his first program under Strachey's guidance. He then studied classics at Oxford University (known as "Greats"), … - 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. - Charles Wordsworth
The Reverend Charles Wordsworth, M.A. (August 22, 1806 - December 5, 1892), Scottish bishop, was the son of the Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, born in London and educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He was the older brother of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, and a nephew of the poet William Wordsworth. He was a brilliant classical scholar, and a famous cricketer and athlete. - Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 - January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. - Charles Merivale
Charles Merivale (March 8, 1808 - December 27, 1893) was an English historian and churchman, for many years dean of Ely Cathedral. Charles was the second son of John Herman Merivale (1770-1844) and Louisa Heath Drury, daughter of Dr Drury, headmaster of Harrow. His father was a barrister, and, from 1831, a commissioner in bankruptcy; he collaborated with Robert Bland (1770-1825) in his "Collections from the Greek Anthology", … - Victor Pasmore
Victor Pasmore (3 December 1908 - 23 January 1998) was an English artist and architect. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s. Pasmore was born in Chelsham, Surrey. He studied at Harrow but with the death of his father in 1927 he was forced to take an administrative job at the London County Council. He studied painting part-time at the Central School of Art and was a member of the Euston Road School. - John McCririck
John McCririck (born 17 April 1940, Surbiton, Surrey) is an English television horse racing pundit. He is notable not only for his racing opinions, but his gentry style of dress and mannerisms. With his trademark deerstalker hat, tweed jacket and huge sideburns, which he calls his "wackers", he looks the part of a stereotypical English upper-class eccentric, and he happily acts this role. - John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds (October 5 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as "l'amour de l'impossible." - Henry Bence Jones
Henry Bence Jones (December 31, 1813 - April 20, 1873), English physician and chemist, was born at Thorington Hall, Suffolk, the son of an officer in the Dragoon guards. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Subsequently he studied medicine at St George's Hospital, and chemistry at University College, London. In 1841 he went to Giessen in Germany to work at chemistry with Liebig. Besides becoming a fellow, and afterwards senior censor, … - James Bruce
James Bruce (December 14, 1730 - April 27, 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile. - Cary Elwes
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962) is an English actor credited as Cary Elwes, known for his performances in "The Princess Bride", "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and "Saw". - Henry Nottidge Moseley
Henry Nottidge Moseley (14 november 1844 - 10 november 1891) was a British naturalist. He went on the expedition of HMS "Challenger" 1872-1876. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879. He studied at Harrow, Oxford (Arts) and the University of London (medicine). He married Miss Jeffreys in 1881, and his son was the British physicist Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley. He participated as naturalist in expeditions to Ceylon, and to California and Oregon, … - Prince Rashid Bin al Hassan
Prince Rashid bin El Hassan was born on May 20, 1979. His father is Prince Hassan bin Al Talal and his mother is Princess Sarvath Al Hassan. - Nicky Oppenheimer
Nicky Oppenheimer , chairman of De Beers, the world's top diamond producer, has previously said Angola and the DRC are the new great things in Africa in terms of prospecting. De Beers, which is 45 percent owned by Anglo American, also has exploration in Gabon, Guinea, and the Central African Republic and spent $100 million on global prospecting in 2006. - William Peel
Captain Sir William Peel VC KCB (2 November 1824-27 April 1858) 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 the third son of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, both of whom were educated at Harrow School - Eric Lubbock 4th Baron Avebury
Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, PC (born 29 September 1928) is an English politician. A Liberal Member of Parliament from 1963 to 1970, he succeeded as Baron Avebury in 1971. In 1999, when the House of Lords was reformed, he was elected as a Liberal Democrat representative peer. - John Profumo
John Dennis Profumo, CBE (January 30, 1915 – March 9, 2006), informally known as Jack Profumo, was a British politician. He also held the Sardinian title Baron Profumo. Although Profumo held a variety of increasingly-responsible political posts in the 1950s, he is best known today for his involvement in a 1963 scandal involving a prostitute. The scandal, which is now called the Profumo Affair, … - William Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot was an early photographer who made major contributions to the photographic process. He is remembered as the holder of a patent which affected the early development of photography in England, and made some important early photographs of York - see "Nathaniel Whittock's bird's-eye view of the City of York in the 1850's" by Hugh Murray. - George Byron 6th Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January, 1788 - 19 April, 1824) was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Among Lord Byron's best-known works are the narrative poems "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and "Don Juan". The latter remained incomplete on his death. He was regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely read. Lord Byron's fame rests not only on his writings but also on his life, … - Keith Joseph
Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, CH, PC (17 January 1918-10 December 1994) was a British barrister, politician, and Conservative Cabinet Minister under three different Ministries. He is widely regarded as the "power behind the throne" in the creation of what came to be known as "Thatcherism". He was known for most of his political life as Sir Keith Joseph. - Sandy Wilson
Sandy Wilson (born May 19, 1924) is a British composer and lyricist, best known for his musical, "The Boy Friend" (1954). Wilson was born in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. Most of his work for the stage was material for revues, such as "Slings and Arrows", "Oranges and Lemons", and "See You Later", starring such performers as Peter Cook. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (October 30, 1751 - July 7, 1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman. - Faisal II of Iraq
Faisal II was Iraq's last king. He reigned from 4 April, 1939 until he was killed during a coup d'état. - William Sotheby
William Sotheby (1757 - 1833) was an English poet and translator. He belonged to a wealthy family, and was educated at Harrow School, then joined the army. He published a few dramas and books of poems, which had limited success; his reputation rests upon his translations of the "Oberon" of Wieland, the "Georgics" of Virgil, and the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by Homer. The last two were begun when he was over 70, but he lived to complete them.
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