- John Wilson
John Wilson (18 May 1785 - 3 April 1854) was a Scottish writer, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine". He was born at Paisley, the son of a wealthy gauze manufacturer who died when John was eleven years old. He was the fourth child, but the eldest son, and he had nine brothers and sisters. He was only twelve when he entered the University of Glasgow, … - Piers Anthony
Anthony's family emigrated to the United States from Britain while he was a child. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in his twenties. He went to a liberal arts college in Vermont, married his college sweetheart, and then joined the army. After completing a two year stint in military service, he briefly taught public school before becoming a fulltime writer. Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida. - Hugh Latimer
Hugh Latimer (b. approx. 1485/90, d. October 16, 1555) was a famous Protestant martyr. Latimer was born into a family of farmers in Thurcaston, Leicestershire. From around 14 years of age he started to attend Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was known as a good student. After receiving his academic degrees and being ordained, he developed a reputation as a very zealous Roman Catholic. At first he opposed the Lutheran opinion of his day, … - Venetia Phair
Venetia Phair (née Burney was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the planet discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old and lived in Oxford, England. Burney was the great-niece of Henry Madan (1838-1901), Science Master of Eton, who in 1878 had suggested the names Phobos and Deimos for the moons of Mars. Her grandfather Falconer Madan (1851-1935), Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University, … - Jacinda Barrett
Jacinda Barrett (born August 2, 1972) is an Australian model turned actress. Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Barrett started modeling at the age of seventeen, through Europe. In 1995 she had her first television appearance as a cast member on MTV's "The Real World: London". After the show, she attended the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. Her first film role came in 1997 when she starred in "Campfire Tales". - Domonique Foxworth
Domonique Foxworth (born March 27, 1983 in Oxford, England) is an American football cornerback for the Denver Broncos of the NFL. He was selected with a third round pick in the 2005 NFL Draft out of the University of Maryland. - Heather Angel
Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 - December 13, 1986) was a British actress. - John Colet
John Colet (January 1467 - September 10, 1519) was an English churchman and educational pioneer. - Chris Brasher
Chris Brasher CBE (21 August 1928 – 28 February 2003) was a British athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon. Christopher William Brasher was born in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. Brasher was a student of the Duke of York's Royal Military School and later a graduate of St John's College, Cambridge. In 1954, he acted as pacemaker for Roger Bannister when the latter ran the first sub-four-minute mile at the Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford. - Tom Penny
Tom Penny (born April 13, 1977) is a professional skateboarder from Oxford, England. He is well known in the skateboarding community for his calm style and natural abilities and as a master of frontside flips and many kickflip variations. He is also known as one of the few talents to avoid the majority of skateboarding fame: he no longer competes in competition and hid in St. Victor, France, for many years. Tom was first spotted and sponsored by Sean Goff, … - Simon Levay
Simon LeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a neuroscientist and author known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation. He is also the co-author of a textbook on human sexuality and has coauthored books on diverse topics such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and extraterrestrial life. - Clive Walker
Clive Walker (born 26 May 1957 in Oxford, England) is a retired English footballer. His playing career spanned some 1,000 league and cup games for Chelsea, Sunderland, Fulham and Brighton before enjoying a renaissance in the Conference with Woking and Cheltenham. Walker was an old-fashioned winger with pace who used to terrorise full backs on a weekly basis, He began his career with Chelsea, playing in the same side as the likes of Ray Wilkins. - John Mill
John Mill was an English theologian. Mill was born circa 1645 at Shap in Westmorland, entered Queen's College, Oxford, as a servitor in 1661, and took his master's degree in 1669 in which year he spoke the "Oratio Panegyrica" at the opening of the Sheldonian Theatre. Soon afterwards he became a Fellow of Queen's. In 1676, he became chaplain to the bishop of Oxford, and, in 1681, he obtained the rectory of Bletchington, Oxfordshire, … - Henry Hammond
Henry Hammond (August 18, 1605 - April 25, 1660), was an English churchman. He was born at Chertsey in Surrey, and was educated at Eton College and at Magdalen College, Oxford, becoming demy or scholar in 1619, and fellow in 1625. He took Holy Orders in 1629, and in 1633 in preaching before the court he won the approval of the Earl of Leicester and was presented with the living of Penshurst in Kent. In 1643 he was made archdeacon of Chichester. - John Sergeant
John Sergeant (born 14 April 1944, Oxford) is a journalist and broadcaster. The son of a missionary who was also a distinguished linguist, he has Russian blood on his mother's side, and was brought up in various places including Jerusalem and Oxford. He was educated at Great Tew Primary School, Millfield School in Somerset, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He also made a name for himself in student comedy revues, … - Lem Dobbs
Lem Dobbs (born Lem Kitaj on December 24, 1959 in Oxford, England) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for the film "The Limey". Dobbs' chosen name is taken from the character played by Humphrey Bogart in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre". He is the son of American painter R.B. Kitaj. He has three sons: Joe, Sam, and Luke Kitaj. He is married to Dana Kraft. - Karen Ralls
Karen Ralls is a medieval historian and religious scholar based out of Oxford, England. She has regularly appeared on the History Channel and the Discovery Channel - Richard Chenevix Trench
Richard Chenevix Trench was an Anglican archbishop and poet. He was born at Dublin in Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom), and went to school at Harrow, and graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829. In 1830 he visited Spain. While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, he published (1835) "The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems", which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by "Sabbation, Honor Neale, … - Wilhelm Gesenius
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius, was a German orientalist and Biblical critic. He was born at Nordhausen, Thuringia. In 1803 he became a student of philosophy and theology at the University of Helmstedt, where Heinrich Henke was his most influential teacher; but the latter part of his university course was taken at the Göttingen, where J.G. Eichhorn and T.C. Tychsen were then at the height of their popularity. - Edwin Hatch
Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) was an English theologian born on September 4, 1835 in Derby, England. He is best known as the author of the paper "Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church", which he presented during the 1888 Hibbert Lectures. Hatch attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he studied under James Prince Lee, … - Shona Thorburn
Shona Thorburn (born August 7 1982 in Oxford, England) is a professional basketball player, a point guard for the Seattle Storm of the WNBA. Thorburn is a graduate of Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario. She later attended college at the University of Utah and graduated in 2006. Following her collegiate career, she was selected 7th overall in the 2006 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx. Most of Thorburn's rookie season was spent on the bench. - Francis Howard Bickerton
Francis Howard Bickerton (1889-1954) was born in Oxford, England, and served as mechanical engineer on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition between 1911-1914. Bickerton was responsible for converting a smashed Vickers D-Type monoplane for use as an 'air-tractor sledge' in the Antarctic. He also shared responsibility for the expedition's pioneering use of wireless telegraphy and led the three-man Western Sledging Expedition which, … - Thomas Tanner
Thomas Tanner (January 24, 1674 - December 14, 1735) was an English antiquary and prelate. He was born at Market Lavington in Wiltshire, and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, taking holy orders in 1694. The following year, he became chaplain and then fellow of All Souls', and a few years later private chaplain to John Moore, bishop of Norwich, and afterwards bishop of Ely, who appointed him chancellor of the diocese of Norwich. - James Hinton
James Hinton (1822 - December 16, 1875) was an English surgeon and author. He was born at Reading, the son of John Howard Hinton (1791-1873), Baptist minister and author of the "History and Topography of the United States" and other works. James was educated at his grandfather's school near Oxford, and at the Nonconformist school at Harpenden, and in 1838, on his father's removal to London, was apprenticed to a woollen-draper in Whitechapel. - Helen Dallimore
Helen Dallimore (b. October 31, 1971 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian actress. Dallimore grew up in Oxford, England and Sydney, Australia. She trained at National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1995. Dallimore's stage credits with the Sydney Theatre Company include: David Edgar's "Pentecost", "The Unlikely Prospect of Happiness", Andrew Upton and Gale Edwards' "The Hanging Man", and "Miss Adelaide" in "Guys & Dolls". - Philip E. Vernon
Philip E. Vernon was a British psychologist. He studied race and intelligence. Born in Oxford, England, he attended St. John's College, Cambridge and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1927. Vernon studied contributions of environmental and genetic factors to intellectual development. He concluded that individual differences in intelligence are approximately 60% attributable to genetic factors, … - Obadiah Walker
Obadiah Walker was a British academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688. Walker was born at Darfield near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and was educated at University College, Oxford, becoming a fellow and tutor of this society and a prominent figure in university circles. In July 1648, an act of parliament deprived him of his academic appointments, and he passed some years in teaching, studying and travelling. - Richard Hague
Richard Hague (b. 1947) is an American poet and writer. Born August 7, he was raised in Steubenville, Ohio, in Appalachian Ohio's Steel Valley, where he worked summers for Wheeling Steel and the Penn Central Railroad. He studied as a high school student at Northwestern University's Summer High School Journalism Institute and as an adult in Oxford, England on a six-week NEH Seminar. His BS and MA degrees in English are from Xavier University in Cincinnati. - Muriel Smith
Muriel Smith (May 9, 1930-) is a Manitoba politician. She ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba in 1979, and subsequently served in the cabinet of NDP Premier Howard Pawley. Smith was born Muriel Lipsey at Britannia Beach, British Columbia, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and the Oxford Institute of Education, in Oxford, England. In 1952, she married Gordon Smith, son of former Manitoba Liberal politician Charles Rhodes Smith. - Peter Gunning
Peter Gunning (1614-July 6, 1684), was an English Royalist church leader, Bishop of Chichester and later of Ely. He was born at Hoo, in Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1633. Having taken orders, he advocated the royalist cause eloquently from the pulpit. In 1644, during the English Civil War, he retired to Oxford, … - Thomas Noon Talfourd
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, SL (May 26, 1795 – March 13, 1854), was an English judge and author. The son of a well-to-do brewer, he was born at Reading, Berkshire (not, as is sometimes stated, at Doxey, near Stafford). He received his early education at Hendon, and at the Reading grammar school. At the age of eighteen he was sent to London to study law under Joseph Chitty, the special pleader. Early in 1821 he joined the Oxford circuit, … - Kathleen Raven
Dame Kathleen Annie Raven, DBE, FRCN (b. 9 November 1910, Coniston, Cumbria, England - d. 19 April 1999, Oxford, England) was a British nurse, matron, government health official, health care engineer and university endowee. - Richard Allestree
Richard Allestree or Allestry (1619 - January 28, 1681), was a Royalist churchman and provost of Eton College from 1665. The son of Robert Allestree, descended from an old Derbyshire family, he was born at Uppington in Shropshire. He was educated at Coventry and later at Christ Church College, Oxford, under Richard Busby. He entered as a commoner in 1636, was made a student shortly afterwards, and took the degree of B.A. in 1640 and of M.A. in 1643. - Thomas Wansey
Thomas Wansey is an English television actor who most notably played the character of Mark Hollander in the children's TV show Ace Lightning<br /> Born: December 12, 1986, Oxford, England, United Kingdom<br /><br /><br /> Television Appearances <br /> * Keen Eddie * Goodbye, Mr. Chips * Ace Lightning * Murder Rooms: The White Knight Stratagem * Tales of Uplift and Moral Improvement * Tilly Trotter <br /><br /> [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911225/ Thomas Wansey at imdb.com]] - Edward Feild
Bishop Edward Feild (1801 - 1876) was a university tutor, university examiner, parish clergyman, inspector of schools and second Bishop of Newfoundland, born Worcester, England. Educated Rugby School and Queen's College, Oxford, England. - David R. Bowen
David Reece Bowen is a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. Born in Houston, Mississippi, Bowen graduated from Cleveland (Mississippi) High School, 1950. He attended University of Missouri from 1950 to 1952. A.B., Harvard University, 1954. M.A., Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1956. He served in the United States Army, private first class from 1957 to 1958. He served as assistant professor of political science and history, Mississippi College from 1958 to 1959, … - Gordon P. Hugenberger
Gordon P. Hugenberger is the senior pastor at historic Park Street Church, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, one of seven children. While working at a Salvation Army camp as a high schooler, he had a conversion experience and began to follow Jesus Christ as his God. Hugenberger received his Bachelor of Arts in physics from Harvard University, … - Paul Garnault
Paul Garnault is a Welsh actor, director and lecturer. He was born in Oxford, England, 1961 - Hokuto "hok" Konishi
Hokuto "Hok" Konishi , (born July 11, 1984 in Tokyo, Japan) also known as Hok or Hawk, was a finalist on the third season of the American reality television show So You Think You Can Dance. Konishi is a breakdancer and has also appeared on the show in seasons one and two. In season two, Konishi nearly made it to the final twenty, but had only a student visa and was unable to be legally employed in the United States, which resulted in his dismissal from the program. - Petre Mais
Stuart Petre Brodie Mais (1885 - 1975) was an English writer and broadcaster, best remembered for his travel books, many of which were commissioned by railway companies. He worked as a journalist for the "Oxford Times" newspaper, and also for the BBC as a radio broadcaster. He presented "Letter from America" from 1933, 13 years before it was made famous by Alistair Cooke, he also presented a series on "This Unknown Island".
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