- Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially in the 1970s. John has sold more than 250 million albums plus hundreds of millions of singles, making him one of the most successful artists of all time.
- Horse
Horse (or, "Horse McDonald", born November 22 1958 in Newport on Tay, Fife) is a Scottish musician. Horse McDonald's career as a musician has spanned three decades, six albums, eight singles, and hundreds of live appearances. She has worked with artists such as Tina Turner, Robbie Williams, Burt Bacharach, Brian Ferry, BB King, Aztec Camera, Nanci Griffith, Sir Ian McKellen, Lesley Garrett, Pet Shop Boys, All Saints, Kid Creole, Culture Club, …
- Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MP MLA (born 6 April 1926) is the current First Minister of Northern Ireland. Styled as "The Reverend", "Right Honourable" or as "Doctor", depending upon his current role and location, Paisley is a veteran politician and church leader in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest single grouping in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, …
- Simon Hughes
Simon Henry Ward Hughes (born 17 May 1951) is a British politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North Southwark and Bermondsey. He has twice run unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party and was its unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of London in 2004. He is currently Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader to the House of Commons and has been President of the Liberal Democrats since September 1, 2004.
- George Michael
Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou (born June 25, 1963), better known as George Michael, is an English singer-songwriter who performs soul influenced pop, and who (as a solo artist and half of the duo Wham!) has enjoyed global success since 1982. His biggest commercial success to date was in 1987 with his debut solo album "Faith" which has sold to date well over the 20 million mark worldwide.
- Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels "Mrs Dalloway" (1925), "To the Lighthouse" (1927), and "Orlando" (1928), …
- Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. The former comedy collaborator of Hugh Laurie, his renowned intellect has most recently led to the success of television panel game "QI", of which he is host.
- Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. Sullivan is known for his unusual personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, and practising Roman Catholic).
- Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg has a piece in The Guardian today: The world watched in horror yesterday as the conflict in Gaza claimed its latest innocent victims in the rubble of a UN school. Any hopes of reconciliation are being snuffed out as anger spills into protests around the world. The past two weeks have been a telling indictment of the international community. We have an outgoing US president sanctioning Israel's military response and an aching silence from the president-elect.
- Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is the current British Commissioner of the European Union for Trade. Before taking this post, he was a British Labour politician, and served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool for twelve years. He is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the modern Labour Party and its rebranding as "New Labour". He twice resigned from the cabinet of Tony Blair's government.
- Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill (born July 3 1959 in Frenchay, Bristol) is a British writer, renowned for her invective and often contentious prose. She is best known as a newspaper columnist, but in June 2007 announced the end of her journalistic career.
- Andy Bell
Andy Bell (born Andrew Ivan Bell, 25 April 1964 in Peterborough, England) is the lead singer of the English Synthpop duo Erasure.
- Iain Dale
Iain Campbell Dale (born 15 July 1962) is an English Conservative, blogger, author, and presenter on internet TV station, 18 Doughty Street Talk TV, which he co-founded with Stephan Shakespeare. He was the first openly gay Conservative to be selected as a Parliamentary candidate. Dale is author or editor of fourteen political books. He presented "Planet Politics" on Oneword Radio and occasionally appeared on "Sunday Service" on BBC Radio Five Live.
- Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey William Hoon (born December 6 1953) is a British politician. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Ashfield, and Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.
- Peter Tatchell
Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-British human rights activist, who is best known internationally for his attempts to perform a citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001, on charges of torture and other human rights abuses. Tatchell was selected as Labour Party Parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey in 1981, …
- Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield OBE (16 April, 1939 - 2 March, 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned four decades. She achieved her most notable success during the 1960s, with a successful comeback in the late 1980s.
- David Martin
David Martin (born August 26, 1954 in Edinburgh) is a British Labour Party politician, and member of the European Parliament for Scotland. He was first elected as a councillor in 1982, and won the Lothians seat in the 1984 European Parliament elections. He retained his seat, and following a reform of the electoral system, was in 1999 was elected to represent the whole of Scotland along with other members.
- Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury was a British musician and songwriter, best known as the frontman and pianist of the rock band Queen. He is remembered for his vocal abilities and charisma as a live performer. As a songwriter, he composed many international hits, including "Killer Queen", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody to Love", "We Are the Champions" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". In 1991, Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia brought on by AIDS, …
- E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel "Howards End": "Only connect." Forster was homosexual, …
- Noel Coward
Sir Noel Peirce Coward was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. His forename is sometimes spelled with a diaeresis on the 'e' ("Noël"). Coward himself used this spelling only in later life.
- Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced // i.e. with the first syllable sounding like "crow" in English) was a British occultist, writer and mystic. He is perhaps best known today for his occult writings, especially "The Book of the Law", the central sacred text of Thelema. Crowley was also an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, …
- Ben Bradshaw
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960 in London) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter The Minister of State in the Department of Health and Minister for the South West was one of the first openly gay MPs.
- W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden IPA: ;, who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form, and content. The central themes of his poetry are: personal love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, …
- Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, KBE (born May 25, 1939) is a veteran English stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. McKellen is best known to moviegoers in recent years for his roles as Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and as Magneto in the "X-Men" trilogy. His work has spanned genres from serious Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction.
- Michael Brown
Michael Russell Brown (born 3 July, 1951) is a British former Conservative Party politician and is now a newspaper and broadcast political journalist.
- Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 - October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and the title character in "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
- Alan Duncan
Alan James Carter Duncan MP (born March 31, 1957) is a British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, where he was Head Monitor (head student), and St John's College, Oxford, where he coxed the college's first eight crew and was elected President of the Oxford Union. He went on to win a Kennedy Scholarship to study at Harvard.
- Robert Evans
Robert John Emlyn Evans (born on 23 October 1956 in Ashford, then in Middlesex, now in Surrey) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour and Co-operative Parties, representing London. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994, having previously stood unsuccessfully in 1989. Evans was educated at local schools before gaining a BEd and MA from London University. He then became a teacher and at the time of his election to the European Parliament, …
- Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English author and actor noted for his work, his boyish appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent.
- Betty Boothroyd
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, OM, PC (born October 8, 1929 in Dewsbury, England), is a British politician and was the first female Speaker of the House of Commons.
- Llew Smith
Llewellyn Thomas Smith (born 16 April 1944) was the Labour MP for Blaenau Gwent in Wales. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group. He became MP in 1992, and was previously a member of the European Parliament. He opposed the formation of the National Assembly for Wales. He stood down at the 2005 general election.
- Graham Watson
Graham Watson (born 23 March 1956 in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Scotland) is a Member of the European Parliament for South West England and Gibraltar for the Liberal Democrats. He was elected leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group at it's formation on 13 July 2004. His group comprises of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (of which is Liberal Democrats are a member) and the European Democratic Party.
- John Hill
John Edward Bernard Hill (born 13 November 1912) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for South Norfolk from 1955 to 1974, and from 1973-74 as one of the UK's first MEPs. Hill was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford, where he gained a football Blue. He was a barrister, called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1938, and a farmer. In World War II, he served with the 64th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, …
- David Harris
David Anthony Harris (born 1 November, 1937) is a British Conservative politician. Harris was Member of Parliament for St. Ives from 1983 until he stood down in 1997, and also Member of the European Parliament for Cornwall and Plymouth from 1979 to 1984.
- Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18 1893 - November 4 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke.
- Nick Brown
Nicholas Hugh "Nick" Brown (born June 13, Hawkhurst, Kent) is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend. He was the last Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and is currently Deputy Chief Whip, also known as Treasurer of the Household. Brown was brought up in Tunbridge Wells and studied at the University of Manchester. After leaving university he worked in advertising for Procter and Gamble, …
- Ivor Novello
David Ivor Davies (January 15, 1893 - March 6, 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century.
- Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (August 26, 1904 - January 4, 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist.
- Will Young
William Robert Young BA (Exon) (born January 20, 1979) is an English singer and actor. He catapulted to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural UK "Pop Idol" contest. He has continued to work very successfully in music, and also as an actor.
- Robert Atkins
Sir Robert James Atkins (born 5 February 1946 in London) is a British Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997 and became a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region in 1999. He was knighted in 1997 for services to the country and is a freeman of the City of London.