Richard D'Oyly Carte (May 3 1844 - April 3 1901) was an English theatrical impresario during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He is best known for producing the Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, founding the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and building both the Savoy Theatre and the Savoy Hotel.

Charles John Phipps FSA, known as C. J. Phipps (1835-1897) was an English architect best known for his theatres. Born in Bath, his first major work was the rebuilding of Theatre Royal, Bath in 1862/3, after the old theatre had been destroyed by fire. Moving to London, he quickly established himself as the leading theatrical architect. He designed and directed the building of several London theatres, …

David Haig (September 20, 1955) is an English actor and writer. He is known for his versatility, having been successfully cast in dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes. He has appeared in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 20 years.

William Greet (1851 - April 25 1914) was a British theatre manager from the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. He was one of nine children of Captain Wiliam Greet, commander of the H.M.S. Crocodile, and the former Sarah Vallance Barling. His younger brother was Sir Philip (Ben) Greet.

Colin Clive (20 January 1900 - 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein". Clive was born in St. Malo, France to a British colonel and attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor.

Rudolph Chambers Lehmann (1856-1929), usually referred to as R.C. Lehmann, was an English writer, best known the period of three three decades as in which he was a major contributor to "Punch magazine". His children were John Lehmann, Rosamond Lehmann and the actress Beatrix Lehmann (1903-1979). He had a varied career, being president of the Cambridge Union Society, a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Harborough, …

Lillah McCarthy (September 22, 1875 - April 15, 1960) was an English actress and theatrical manager. McCarthy was born in Cheltenham. She studied elocution under Hermann Vezin and Emil Behnke, and made her first appearance on the stage in 1895. She joined Wilson Barrett at the Lyric, London, in 1896-97, and after touring in Australia she became leading lady with him in 1900, playing in "Quo Vadis?", "The Sign of the Cross", "Virginius", …

Florence Easton (not to be confused with the better known soprano Florence Easton) was a British singer and actress who sang with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the early 1890s. Easton appeared in several small roles, and one large one, in the Savoy Operas between May 1892 and June 1894. She was Polly in "Captain Billy", the one-act curtain raiser that accompanied "The Vicar of Bray", in May and June 1892.

Lena Ashwell (28 September 1872 - 13 March 1957) was a British actress and manager, known as the first to organize large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during World War I. Born Lena Margaret Pocock on the "Wellesley" while anchored in the River Tyne, she was the daughter of Commander Pocock and the sister of Roger Pocock, founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen.

Brian Aherne was an English actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood. He was born William Brian de Lacy Aherne in King's Norton, Worcestershire, the son of William de Lacy Aherne by his spouse Louise née Thomas. Educated at Edgbaston, Birmingham, he had also carried out some early stage training at Italia Conti Academy in London and had some child roles before completing his education at Malvern College.

Lisa Davina Phillip is a British actress and singer. Phillip began acting in her early teens, when she appeared in various productions for local theatre group Second Wave Centre For Youth Arts. She then studied Drama, Media and Popular Culture at University College Northampton, and went on to train as an actress at the Academy Drama School in London, where she was the recipient of the "Stage" Scholarship.

Charles Brookfield was a British actor, author and journalist. He was born in London on 19 May 1857 and died on 20 October 1913. A student at Cambridge University, he made his stage debut in 1879 in a production of "Still Waters Run Deep". One of his last acting roles was in The Grand Duchess for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Having given up acting due to illness, Brookfield took to writing for the theatre.

Rebecca Wheatley (born 1965) is a British actress and musician. Wheatley grew up in Teddington, Middlesex, where she went to St Catherine's convent school, before gaining her BA in English literature from the University of Wales, Lampeter. She is best known as Amy Howard, the receptionist in the BBC's Casualty drama, a role which she played for four years until March 2001. Although Wheatley originally trained as a classical singer, …

Lily Hanbury was an English stage performer. Educated in London, her début was in 1888's W. S. Gilbert's "Pygmalion and Galatea" at the Savoy Theatre; and later she appeared on most of the leading stages of the English metropolis. Her extensive repertory included, 'Countess Wintersen' in "The Stranger"; 'Hetty Preene' in G. R. Sims' "Lights o' London"; and 'Petra' in Ibsen's Enemy of the People'.

Lydia Sokolova (1896-1974), born in Wanstead as Hilda Munnings, was an English ballerina. She trained at the Stedman Ballet Academy and learned from such luminaries as Anna Pavlova and Enrico Cecchetti. She began her career at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1910 and then joined the company of Mikhail Mordkin for a tour of the United States and the Koslov company for a tour of Europe.