- Caroline Munro
Caroline Munro (born January 16, 1950 in Windsor, Berkshire) is a British actress and model best known for her many appearances in science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s. - John Robinson
John Robinson (7 November, 1650 - 11 April, 1723), English diplomat and prelate, a son of John Robinson (d. 1651), was born at Cleasby, near Darlington. - John Douglas
John Douglas (July 14, 1721-May 18, 1807) was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop. Douglas was born at Pittenweem, Fife, the son of a shopkeeper, and was educated at Dunbar, East Lothian, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his MA degree in 1743. As chaplain to the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, he was at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745. He then returned to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner; became Vicar of High Ercall, … - Anne Hyde
Lady Anne Hyde (March 1637 - 31 March 1671), daughter of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and his wife, Frances Aylesbury, became the first wife of James, Duke of York (the future King James II of England and VII of Scotland), and the mother of two queens, Mary II of England and Anne of Great Britain. She was born, on either 12 March or 22 March 1637, at Windsor, Berkshire, to Frances (daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, … - Julius Caesar
Sir Julius Caesar (1557/58 - 18 April 1636) was an English judge and politician. He was born near Tottenham in Middlesex. His father was Giulio Cesare Adelmare, an Italian physician to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, descended by the female line from the dukes of Cesarini. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at the University of Paris, where in the year 1581 he was made a doctor of civil law. - Andrew Weatherall
Andrew Weatherall (b. 1963-04-06, Windsor, England) is a DJ, producer, and remixer. Starting off with his work alongside seminal DJ Paul Oakenfold on the "Hallelujah" remix for the Happy Mondays, Weatherall entered the fray of the indie rock and acid house sounds of Madchester. Other pivotal remixes followed, including "World In Motion" by New Order and "Loaded", a hit remix of Primal Scream's earlier track "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have". - Simon Williams
Simon Williams (born 16 June 1946) is an English actor who is best known for playing James Bellamy in the period drama "Upstairs, Downstairs". He is known for playing Dr. Charles Cartwright in the sitcom "Don't Wait Up" and Sir Charles Merrick in medical drama "Holby City". He frequently plays upper-class roles. - Ali Bastian
Ali Bastian (born 1982) is a television actress best known for playing Becca Dean in the Channel 4 soap opera "Hollyoaks" from 2001 to 2006. She has also appeared on television in "Jane Eyre", "Cave Girl", "A Touch of Frost", "Twenty Four 7" and "Here After". - Constance Collier
Constance Collier (January 22, 1878 - May 21, 1955) was a British-born American film actress and acting coach. Born Laura Constance Hardie, in Windsor, Berkshire; Collier made her stage debut at the age of 3, when she played Fairy Peasblossom in "A Midsummer's Night Dream". In 1893, at the age of 15, she joined the "Gaiety Girls", the famous dance troupe based at the Gaiety Theatre in London. - Gwladus Ddu
Gwladus Ddu, Gladys Dhu ("Gwladus the Dark"), full name Gwladus ferch Llywelyn (died 1251) was a Welsh princess who was a daughter of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd and was married to two Marcher lords. Sources differ as to whether Gwladus was Llywelyn's legitimate daughter by his wife Joan or an illegitimate daughter by Tangwystl Goch. However, it is more than likely she was the daughter of Joan, as some sources say that Joan gave her lands to Gwladus. - Denis Compton
Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE (born 23 May, 1918 in Hendon, Middlesex, died 23 April, 1997 in Windsor, Berkshire) was an English cricketer and footballer. Denis Compton was the second son of Harry and Jessie Compton. He was educated at an Elementary School and he joined the MCC groundstaff at Lord's in 1934. By the late 1930s he was a leading England batsman and remained at the top of his profession for almost three decades. - Chesney Hawkes
Chesney Lee Hawkes (born 22 September 1971), is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his one and only British chart-topping Single "The One and Only", which was released in March 1991. - Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery (born on September 12, 1972 in Windsor, Berkshire, England) is an English-born actor and voice actor. He studied at St John's College and, briefly, at Reading Blue Coat School. After completing Drama School at the University of the Witwatersrand, he acted extensively in South Africa, working on stage, screen and radio. Emery became a familiar face through dozens of zany on-camera commercials. - Charles Knight
Charles Knight (March 15, 1791 - March 9, 1873) was an English publisher and author. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father, but on completion of his indentures he took up journalism and had an interest in several newspaper speculations, including the "Windsor, Slough and Eton Express" which continues to this day. In 1823, in conjunction with friends he had made as publisher (1820-1821) of "The Etonian", … - Amanda Griffin
Amanda Griffin (born Amanda Claire Griffin in Windsor, Berkshire) is an English model and television personality in the Philippines. Griffin is the eldest of three children born in Windsor to an English father and a Filipino mother. She spent her childhood growing up in the United Kingdom, the United States and in the Philippines, where she is currently based. She attended a university in Australia and has degrees in both Communications and Business. - Mark Wilkinson
Mark Wilkinson (born in Windsor, England on October 31952) is best known for his detailed surrealistic cover art that he created for a number of British bands, most prominently the Progressive Rock band, Marillion. Though versed in a number of techniques, he is considered to be a master of the airbrush. Wilkinson's first artistic creation for Marillion was the cover of their debut 12" EP "Market Square Heroes" (1982). - Alex Smith
Alex Smith (born July 16, 1985 in Windsor, England) is an American soccer player who was last with FC Dallas of Major League Soccer. Smith began his collegiate soccer career at Centenary College of Louisiana in 2003, where he scored 6 goals and 6 assists in 17 games. At the end of the season he transferred to Southern Methodist University. In 19 matches with the Mustangs he score 13 goals and assisted on four. - Mary Moser
Mary Moser (27 October 1744-2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated women artists of 18th century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy (1768), Moser is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers. London-born Moser was trained by her Swiss-born artist and enameller father George Michael Moser (1706-1783) and her talents were evident at an early age: she won her first Society of Arts medal at 14, … - Jenny Scott
Jenny Scott (born 1970) is an English economist, journalist and BBC news presenter. A native of Windsor, Berkshire, Jenny Scott had an adventurous childhood, travelling through West Africa and Australia due to her father's career as an engineer. She studied at a convent before graduating with a degree in economics from King's College, Cambridge. She then worked for two years as an economist at the Bank of England, before joining Reuters in 1994. - Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (born October 21, 1931 in Windsor), is a British historian. Thomas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset before taking a BA in 1953 at Queens' College, Cambridge. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. His 1961 book "The Spanish Civil War" won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1962. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was released in 1977. - Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor
Sir Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor (1467-1543) was an English nobleman. He inherited the manor of Stanwell near Windsor. In 1542, during a visit by King Henry VIII, he was obliged to surrender the manor to the crown. In return he was offered the lands of Tardebigge and the seat of Hewell Grange in modern Worcestershire. His son William (1542-1558) succeeded him as the 2nd Baron. - Christopher Finney
Christopher Finney GC (born 23 May 1984 in Brussels, Belgium) is a British soldier of the Blues and Royals awarded the George Cross for bravery under friendly fire during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Finney grew up in Marple, near Stockport, later moving to Dorset where he trained with the Dorset Army Cadet Force. He joined the Army in September 2000, attending the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, and joining the Household Cavalry Regiment at Windsor in January 2002. - Walter Reynolds
Walter Reynolds (d. 1327), Archbishop of Canterbury (1313-1327), was the son of a baker from Windsor in Berkshire, and became a clerk, or chaplain, in the service of Edward I. He held several livings and, owing perhaps to his histrionic skill, he became a prime favourite with the prince of Wales, afterwards Edward II. - Paul Sandby
Paul Sandby (1725 (this birth year seems most unlikely – 1730/1 seems more likely)9 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Born in Nottingham, Sandby joined the topographical drawing room of the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London in the early 1740s and in 1746 was tasked with mapping the remote Scottish Highlands. - Lana Morris
Lana Morris (born March 11, 1930 in Ruislip, Middlesex; died May 28, 1998 in Windsor, Berkshire) was a popular film, stage and television actress during the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to the BBC executive Ronnie Waldman (1914-1978) (from 1953 to 1978). Her best known television role was probably that of Helene in the 1967 BBC adaptation of "The Forsyte Saga", but she appeared in many other television programmes. - Zinzan Brooke
Zinzan Valentine Brooke (born Murray Zinzan Brooke on February 14, 1965; changed name by deed poll) is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer who played at. He played 58 tests for New Zealand, and 42 non-international matches for the All Blacks, captained Auckland Blues to Super 12 championships in 1996 and 1997 and an influential figure in Auckland's dominance in the National Provincial Championship during the late '80's and 90's. - Norman Lovett
Norman Lovett (born October 31 1946) is a British stand-up comedian and actor, best known for the role of Holly in "Red Dwarf" during the first, second, seventh and eighth series. His comedy has a quiet, dead-pan surrealism, and in 2000 he made a successful stand up tour, co-headlining with Chris Barrie, who played Rimmer in "Red Dwarf". In 1989, he was given his own BBC2 sitcom called "I, Lovett", which was surreal, … - Herbert Taylor
Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor (1775- 1839) GCB GCH was the first Private Secretary to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Born in 1775, he joined the 2nd Dragoon Guards as a cornet in 1794. The following year he was promoted to lieutenant and then to captain. In 1795 he served as assistant secretary and aide de camp to the Duke of York, then commander-in-chief of the British Army. Taylor was later the Duke of York's assistant military secretary, … - Peter Scheemakers
Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781) was a Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. Scheemakers studied both classical and baroque styles of sculpture in Rome before settling in London in 1716. Scheemakers is perhaps best known for executing the William Kent-designed sculpture of William Shakespeare which was erected in Westminster Abbey in 1740, as well as that to John Dryden in the same church. - Jeremy Sinden
Jeremy Sinden, born in London, was an English actor. Sinden was born into a theatrical family, both his parents were actors. His father is Sir Donald Sinden and his mother, Diana, Lady Sinden, née Mahony. He was educated at Edgeborough and Lancing College, then went on to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre to train as an assistant stage manager. - Alexander Hore-Ruthven 1st Earl of Gowrie
Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, GCMG, CB, DSO, PC (6 July, 1872 - 2 May, 1955), tenth Governor-General of Australia, was born in Windsor, Berkshire, the second son of the Walter Hore-Ruthven, 8th Lord Ruthven of Freeland. Hore-Ruthven (pronounced "Hore-Riven") was educated at Eton College, but was withdrawn from the school due to poor eyesight. In 1898 Hore-Ruthven joined the British Army. - Thomas Sprat
Thomas Sprat (1635 - May 20, 1713), English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670. Having taken orders he became a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1660. In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem "To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector" (London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters. - Adam Wakeman
Adam Wakeman (born March 11, 1974 in Windsor, Berkshire, England) is the current keyboardist for the legendary rock band Black Sabbath and also keyboardist for Ozzy Osbourne's band. Prior to joining the band in June 2004, Adam was involved with such artists as Annie Lennox, Travis, A Company of Snakes, Victoria Beckham, and Atomic Kitten. Adam is the son of longtime Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. He recorded several projects with his father as Wakeman with Wakeman. - Piers Faccini
Piers Faccini (born in England) is an English singer, painter and songwriter. Faccini's father is an Italian while his mother is English. His family moved to France when he was five years old. He went to Eton College which is a private school near Windsor in Berkshire. Faccini first appeared on the music scene in London in 1997, when he co-founded with performance poet Francesca Beard the group Charley Marlowe, playing spoken word gigs initially, … - Henry Hallam
Henry Hallam (July 9, 1777 - January 21, 1859) was an English historian. The only son of John Hallam, canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1799. Called to the bar, he practised for some years on the Oxford circuit; but his tastes were literary, and when, on his father's death in 1812, he inherited a small estate in Lincolnshire, he gave himself up wholly to academic study. - Richard Montagu
Richard Montagu (or Mountague, English divine, was born at Dorney, Buckinghamshire and educated at Eton and Cambridge. In 1613, he was elected fellow of Eton and became rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex. He was appointed to the deanery of Hereford in 1616, but exchanged it next year for a canonry of Windsor, which he held with the rectory of Petworth, Sussex. He was also chaplain to James I. Like William Laud, … - Thomas de Cantilupe
Thomas de Cantilupe (c. 1218 - 25 August 1282), English saint and prelate, was a son of William de Cantilupe, the 2nd baron (d. 1251), one of King John's ministers, and a nephew of Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester. He was born at Hambleden in Buckinghamshire and educated in Paris and Orleans, afterwards becoming a teacher of canon law at Oxford and chancellor of the university in 1262. During the Barons' War Thomas favoured Simon de Montfort and the baronial party. - Isaac Vossius
The Dutch scholar and manuscript collector Isaak Vossius, sometimes anglicised Isaac Voss (Leiden 1618-London February 21, 1689), was the son of the better-known humanist Gerhard Johann Vossius. Isaak formed what was accounted the best private library in the world (Massil 2003). He had a contemporary reputation for eccentricity, refusing the sacrament on his deathbed, it was reported, … - Celina Hinchcliffe
Celina Hinchcliffe (born March 1976. Windsor, England) is a British television sports presenter. Her father, Philip Hinchcliffe, is a British television producer. Celina went to Sir William Perkins' School in Chertsey, and after gaining a degree in English Literature and Drama from the University of Birmingham, she worked with various theatre companies and travelled. She got her first break in broadcasting in 2001 at BBC Southern Counties Radio, … - Frederic Leighton 1st Baron Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (3 December 1830-25 January 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter.
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