- Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad's supposed "romanticism" is heavily imbued with irony and a fine sense of man's capacity for self-deception. Many critics regard Conrad as an important forerunner of Modernist literature. Conrad's narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, … - Rachel Grant
Rachel Louise Grant De Longueuil, more commonly known as Rachel Grant, (born 1977 on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines) is an actress and model of British/French and Filipino ancestry. She moved to the United Kingdom when she was a baby. Her British father is a retired doctor and hypnotist. He is known as the Baron de Longueuil, a French colonial title dating back to the early 18th century. She is most famous for her role as Nina, … - Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Consort
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was the only husband of a British queen regnant to have formally held the title of Prince Consort. Upon Queen Victoria's death in 1901, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha succeeded the House of Hanover on the British throne. - Andrzej Panufnik
Sir Andrzej Panufnik (September 24, 1914 - October 27,1991) was a Polish composer, pianist, and conductor. - Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski (January 18 1908, Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - August 22 1974, East Hampton, New York, USA) was an English-Polish mathematician, best known as the presenter of the BBC television documentary series, "The Ascent of Man". - Germaine Lindsay
Germaine Maurice Lindsay, also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, (September 23, 1985 - July 7, 2005) was one of the four terrorists who detonated bombs on three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, killing 56 (including themselves) and injuring more than 700. Lindsay, who changed his name to Abdullah Shaheed Jamal after his conversion to Islam, detonated the bomb that killed 26 people, … - C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901-19 May 1989) was an Anglo-Trinidadian journalist, socialist theorist and writer. - Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (4 November, 1908 - 31 August, 2005) was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. His work on nuclear fall-out was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the Russell-Einstein manifesto, he was secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from its founding until 1973. - Olga Sosnovska
Olga Sosnovska (Sosnowska) (born May 21, 1972 in Warsaw) is a Polish-born UK/US-based actress. Olga is perhaps best known in America for her role as Polish businesswoman, Lena Kundera, on the soap opera, "All My Children". Her pairing with Bianca Montgomery, the daughter of Erica Kane, and their subsequent kiss made television history. In 2005 she exited the popular series "Spooks" mid-season due to being pregnant with her first child. - Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek, G.M., O.B.E., Croix de guerre (1 May, 1915 - 15 June, 1952) was a Polish-born World War II British SOE agent also known by the "nom de guerre", Christine Granville. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in Nazi-occupied Poland and France. She was the longest-serving of all SOE's women agents. - Hussein Chalayan
Hussein Chalayan MBE in 1970. He graduated from the Turkish Maarif College of his hometown, and his family having moved to England in 1982, obtained British citizenship and later studied design in London. While finishing his studies at the Central St. Martin’s School of Art in 1993, his senior year collection, “The Tangent Flows“, was displayed in Browns Windows. In 1995, Chalayan beat 100 competitors to clinch a top London fashion design award. - Alexander Litvinenko
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (30 August 1962 – 23 November 2006) was a lieutenant-colonel in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and later a Russian dissident and writer. A son of a physician, Litvinenko was schooled in Nalchik, before being drafted into the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a private. After graduating in 1985 from the Kirov Higher Command School, he became a platoon commander in an Internal Troops regiment. - August Zaleski
August Zaleski (1883-1972) was a Polish economist, politician and diplomat. Twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, he served as the President of Poland within the Polish Government in Exile. - Trevor McDonald
Sir Trevor McDonald OBE (born George McDonald on 16 August, 1939) is a Trinidadian-born British television presenter. Until 2005, he was a newscaster with ITN, notable for having been the first black news anchor in the UK. McDonald was seen as a part of the broadcasting establishment, and was knighted in 1999. His clear, confident delivery and serious attitude made him one of British television's most trusted reporters. - Hersch Lauterpacht
Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897, Zolkiew, Poland - 8 May 1960) was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1954 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1955 to 1960. In the words of former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel, Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht's "attainments are unsurpassed by any international lawyer of this century [...] he taught and wrote with unmatched distinction" [S.M. Schwebel, … - Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish-born sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven there by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the Communist Party of Poland. Professor of sociology at the University of Leeds (and since 1990 emeritus professor), Bauman has become best known for his analyses of the links between modernity and the Holocaust and of postmodern consumerism. - Anthony Joseph
Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born avant garde poet, novelist, Spoken word performer and musician. Joseph was born in Trinidad in 1966 and has lived in the United Kingdom since 1989. He is the author of two poetry collections ("Desafinado" in 1994 and "Teragaton" in 1997) and two spoken-word CDs ("Liquid Textology" and "Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band"), which combined poetry and Afro-Caribbean free jazz. - Bernie Grant
Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 - 8 April, 2000), known simply as Bernie Grant, was a politician in the United Kingdom, and was Labour member of Parliament for Tottenham at the time of his death. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and took up the British government's offer to let people from colonies move to the UK to do blue-collar work, in 1963. In the mid-1960s he was for a period a member of the Socialist Labour League. - Bertrand Ramcharan
Dr. Bertrand G. Ramcharan, from Guyana, a former United Nations (UN) official who once held functional diplomatic status, is Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and currently Visiting Professor of International Law in Lund University, Sweden. Dr. Ramcharan is the first holder of the HEI Swiss Chair of Human Rights at the at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies. - Valerie Amos Baroness Amos
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos of Brondesbury, PC (born 13 March 1954) is a British Labour Party politician and life peer, formerly serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. When she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2003, following the resignation of Clare Short, she became the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. - Theo Paphitis
Theo Paphitis is a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur based in England. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2006 he was ranked 444th with an estimated wealth of £125 million. - Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century because of his pioneering work on ethnographic fieldwork, the study of reciprocity, and his detailed contribution to the study of Melanesia. - Katie Melua
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British-Georgian singer and musician, who was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. She is, as of 2006, the United Kingdom's biggest-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist. - Eddy Grant
Eddy Grant is an artist of singular creative vision, ambition and determination, integrity and dignity, self-sufficiency and humour. He's also a vocal advocate of progressive socio-political and humanitarian issues and a vociferous promoter of the culture and achievements of contemporary black people. - Thorsten Kaye
Thorsten Kaye (born Thorsten Ernest Keiselbach) was born on February 22, 1966 in Mainz, Germany. He is known for portraying soap opera characters on ABC's soaps. - Linda Papadopoulos
Dr. Linda Papadopoulos (born February 3,1973) is an English-Greek-American psychologist based in England. She was course director of the MSc in counselling psychology at London Guildhall University, and is the author of numerous health books such as "The Man Manual", which tries to explains the workings of men's minds and author of "Mirror Mirror: Dr. Linda's Body Image Revolution", a book on body image. - Edward Szczepanik
Edward Franciszek Szczepanik was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile. - Mick Karn
Mick Karn (born July 24, 1958) is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, most noted as the bassist for the art rock band Japan, from 1974 to 1982. Karn was born Anthony Michaelides in Nicosia, Cyprus before emigrating to London, England at the age of 3. He has worked with such noted and diverse artists as Gary Numan, Kate Bush, … - Tessa Sanderson
Tessa Sanderson CBE (born 14 March 1956) is a former British javelinist and heptathlete. Sanderson was born in St Elizabeth, Jamaica of Ghanaian ancestry, she later emigrated to Wolverhampton, England. She was the UK's leading javelin thrower from the early 1970s, winning silver in the 1978 European championships and gold in the Commonwealth Games twice, but was eclipsed during the 1980s by the up-and-coming Fatima Whitbread. - Isaac Deutscher
Isaac Deutscher (3 April 1907 - 19 August 1967), British journalist, historian and political activist of Polish-Jewish birth, became well-known as the biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs. - Michael Marks
Michael Marks, was one of the two co-founders of the retail chain Marks and Spencer. Marks, who was born in Slonim, Belarus (then part of Russian Empire and Poland) as Michał Marks of Polish and Jewish ancestry, emigrated to England as a young man. He moved to Leeds where a company called Barran was known to employ Jewish refugees. Marks met Isaac Dewhurst, the owner of a Leeds warehouse, in 1884. - Jan Pieńkowski
Jan Michel Pieńkowski is a Polish-born British illustrator and author of children's books. Pieńkowski illustrated his first book at the age of eight, as a present for his father. During World War II, Pieńkowski's family moved about Europe, finally settling in Herefordshire, England in 1946. He attended the Vaughn School in London, and later read English and Classics at King's College, Cambridge. - Shridath Ramphal
Sir Shridath 'Sonny' Ramphal, OE, OM (Jamaica), GCMG, ONZ, AC, QC, FRSA, (born October 3, 1928, New Amsterdam, British Guyana) was the second Commonwealth Secretary-General (1975-1990). Ramphal served as Foreign Minister of Guyana from 1972-1975. He was born in Guyana to an Indo-Guyanese family. He was the Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 1989 to 2002, the University of the West Indies until 2003 and also served as Chancellor of the University of Guyana. - Floella Benjamin
Floella Benjamin OBE, Hon D.Litt (Exon) (born September 23 1949) is a British actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and Chancellor of the University of Exeter. She is particularly well-known as the energetic presenter of popular children's programmes such as "Play School" and "Play Away". She was the first woman permitted to appear fully pregnant on British television. - Peter Suschitzky
Peter Suschitzky (born July 25, 1941) is a Polish-British cinematographer, born in Warsaw the son of fellow cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky. He is known primarily as the director of photography on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and the later works of David Cronenberg, which the director had mostly departed from his horror-film days into more sedate works of literary adaptation. - Akhmed Zakayev
Akhmed Khalidovich Zakayev is the Foreign Minister of Chechen Republic government-in-exile, appointed by the President Aslan Maskhadov shortly after his 1997 election, and again in 2006 by Abdul Halim Sadulayev. - Alec Issigonis
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS (November 18, 1906-October 2, 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1959. - Asil Nadir
Asil Nadir, a Turkish Cypriot, was born in Cyprus on May 1 1941. He came to prominence in the 1980s as a tycoon and the CEO of British conglomerate Polly Peck. An organisation with over 24,000 shareholders and interests ranging from produce to electronics, his alleged criminal mismanagement lead to its collapse in 1990. He was prosecuted on various counts of theft and fraud, … - Rudolph Walker
Rudolph Walker OBE (born 28 September, 1939) is a British character actor. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Walker came to the United Kingdom in 1960. He is known for his comedic roles in "Love Thy Neighbour", "The Thin Blue Line" and in "Ali G Indahouse which stared his future co-star Charlie G Hawkins on Eastenders". He also appeared in "Doctor Who" in 1969. He was the first black actor to be seen regularly on British TV, … - Tomasz Arciszewski
Tomasz Arciszewski (4 November, 1877 - 1955) was a Polish socialist politician, a member of the Polish Socialist Party and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile in London from 1944 to 1947, presiding over the period when the government lost the recognition of the Western powers.
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