- Mick Anglo
Michael "Mick" Anglo (1916-) is a British comic book writer, artist, and popular culturist. He is best known for creating the Captain Marvel-based Marvelman, better known to American readers as Miracleman. However, from his Gower Street Studio in the 1950s, Anglo had a hand in the creation of many independent comic books and magazines. Anglo and his staff created "packets" for various publishers. - George Washington
George Constant Louis Washington (May 1871 - March 29, 1946) was an American inventor and businessman of Anglo-Belgian origin. He is best remembered for his invention of an early instant coffee process and for the company he founded to mass-produce it, the "G. Washington Coffee Company". - Tom Brown
Thomas Tarlton Brown (September 21 1860 in Liverpool, England - October 25 1927 in Washington, DC) was an Anglo-American center fielder in Major League Baseball. During his 17-year career, he batted a respectable .265, while averaging 3.8 home runs and 43 RBI a year. Upon his retirement he ranked fifth in major league history in runs scored. In June of 1882, Tom Brown signed on with the fledgling American Association team the Baltimore Orioles. - Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and early gentleman scientist, noted for his work in physics and chemistry. He is best known for the formulation of Boyle's law. Although his research and personal philosophy clearly has its roots in the alchemical tradition, he is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist. He is very famous in the science world for being the first scientist that kept accurate experiment logs. - Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21, 1956, in Widnes, Lancashire) is an English-born Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series "Sex and the City". The role earned her an Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award. - Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is a Dutch-born historian and journalist. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. - Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. Although there was prejudice against Hispanic actors at the time, Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one of the first Hispanic-American "sex goddess" of "Golden Age" Hollywood with leading roles in film. - Rio Ferdinand
Rio Gavin Ferdinand (born November 7, 1978 in Peckham, London) is an English footballer of mixed St Lucian and Anglo-Irish descent. He plays at centre-back for Manchester United in the FA Premier League and at the international level for the England national football team. He has achieved more than 50 caps for the English national team, and has been selected for three FIFA World Cup squads. - Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez (born Maria Antonia Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people’s legacy of fine artwork and crafts. Maria was from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, a community located 20 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. - Benjamin West
Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 - March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. He was born in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, in a house that is now on the campus of Swarthmore College, as the tenth child of an innkeeper. West told John Galt, with whom, late in his life, he collaborated on a memoir, "The Life and Studies of Benjamin West" (1816, 1820) that, when he was a child, … - Moses Austin
Moses Austin (October 4, 1761 - June 10, 1821) was a leading figure in the development of the American lead industry and the father of Stephen F. Austin, a pioneer settler of Texas. He was the first to obtain permission for Anglo Americans to settle in Spanish Texas. He also established the first Anglo-American settlement west of the Mississippi River. - Breaker Morant
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, and soldier whose renowned skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker." Articulate, intelligent, and well educated, he was also a published poet and became one of the better-known "back-block bards" of the 1890s, with the bulk of his work appearing in "The Bulletin" magazine. - Baby Bash
Baby Bash, also known as Baby Beesh, (born Ronnie Ray Bryant on October 18, 1975 in Vallejo, California, USA) is an American rapper. - Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon (February 19, 1911 - November 23, 1979), born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, was an Academy Award-nominated Anglo-Indian film actress. - Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900-August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. She used often in her works real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include "Dynasty of Death" (1938), … - C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901-19 May 1989) was an Anglo-Trinidadian journalist, socialist theorist and writer. - Antony Burgmans
Antony Burgmans (February 13, 1947) is currently the non-executive Chairman of the Anglo-Dutch food & health products giant Unilever N.V. and PLC. - Harold Frederic
Harold Frederic (August 19, 1856 - October 19, 1898) was an Anglo-American journalist and novelist. Frederic was born in Utica, New York, was educated there, and took up journalism. He went to live in England as London correspondent of the "New York Times" in 1884 and was soon recognized for his ability both as a writer and as a talker. He wrote several early stories, but it was not until he published "Illumination" (1896), better known by its American title, … - Olivia Hussey
Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna on April 17, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Anglo-Argentine actress perhaps best known for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of "Romeo and Juliet". - Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe L. Moraga is an Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. Moraga was born in Whittier, California. She earned her Bachelor's degree from a college in Hollywood, California and her Master's from San Francisco State University in 1980. Of both Anglo and Mexican American heritage, her writing focuses on her experiences as a Chicana lesbian. Moraga has taught courses in dramatic arts and writing at various universities across the nation, … - Peter Warlock
Peter Warlock was a pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine (October 30, 1894 - December 17, 1930), an Anglo-Welsh composer and music critic. Although he used his own name when writing as a music critic, he composed under the pseudonym "Peter Warlock" and is now better known by this name. - Timothy Mo
Timothy Peter Mo is an Anglo-Chinese novelist. Born to a Welsh-Yorkshire mother and a Hong Kong Chinese father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10 before he moved to Britain. He has his own publishing house, "Paddleless Press" - Edward Goldsmith
Edward ('Teddy') Goldsmith (born 1928 in Paris, France) is an Anglo-French environmentalist and eco-philosopher. The eldest son of Major Frank Goldsmith, and elder brother of billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, Edward Goldsmith was the editor of The Ecologist magazine from its foundation in 1969 until 1990, and then again from 1997 until 1998. He has now been succeeded by his nephew Zac Goldsmith. Goldsmith is particularly well known for his anti-industrial, rural beliefs, … - Carl Dalemo
Carl Dalemo is the bassist of the Anglo/Swedish band Razorlight. In his native Lidköping, Sweden, he sang and played guitar for over five years with different bands mainly his much beloved Spiral stairs. Shortly after arriving in England, he was called by friend, the guitarist Björn Ågren, who suggested that he try out for the band he was playing in. Carl had never played bass until he arrived at a Razorlight rehearsal, … - Hermann Bondi
Professor Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS (1 November 1919-10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will probably be his important contributions to the theory of general relativity. - Frances O'Connor
Frances O'Connor (born on 12 June, 1967 in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England) is an Anglo-Australian actress. At two years of age she moved to Perth, Western Australia, with her nuclear physicist father and pianist mother. O'Connor was raised a strict Roman Catholic and attended a convent school in Perth, but considers Melbourne her home. - Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine CBE (26 January 1922 - 26 November 1996) was a comedian, comic actor, and member of the Goons. Bentine was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, of Anglo-Peruvian parentage and grew up in Folkestone, Kent, one of his friends being the young David Tomlinson. He was educated at Eton College. He spoke fluent Spanish and French. His father was an early aeronautical engineer for Sopwith aircraft during and after World War I. - Sean Martin
Sean Martin (b. in Weston-super-Mare, England in 1966) is an Anglo-Irish writer and film director. He has written popular books on the Knights Templar and the Cathars, and appeared on History Channel documentaries such as "Decoding the Past". Martin studied film and history in Plymouth, and later lived in London. He is also a poet, and has had a number of poems published in various magazines in the UK and Ireland. - Shola Ameobi
Foluwashola "Shola" Ameobi (born October 12, 1981 in Zaria, Nigeria) is an Anglo-Nigerian football player. He currently plays for Newcastle United in the English Premiership as a centre forward. He has spent his entire career at the club. - Edward Conze
Eberhart (Edward) Julius Dietrich Conze (1904 - 1979) was an Anglo-German scholar probably best known for his pioneering translations of Buddhist texts. - Ashley Eden
Sir Ashley Eden, KCSI, CIE (13 November, 1831-8 July, 1887) was an Anglo-Indian official and diplomatist, third son of Robert John Eden, 3rd Lord Auckland and bishop of Bath and Wells. He was educated at Rugby, Winchester and the East India Company's college at Haileybury, entering the Indian civil service in 1852. In 1855 he gained distinction as assistant to the special commissioner for the suppression of the Santal rising, … - Anthony St Leger
Major General Anthony St Leger (1731/32 - 19th April 1786) was a successful soldier, a Member of Parliament for Grimsby, and the founder of the St. Leger Stakes horse race. Born into the St Leger family, an Anglo-Irish family of Norman stock, he was educated at Eton College and Peterhouse, Cambridge, before embarking on a career in the army. In 1761, St Leger married a Yorkshire woman, Margaret Wombwell. - Michael Foale
Colin Michael 'Mike' Foale, CBE, PhD, (born 6 January 1957) is an Anglo-American astrophysicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and holds the record for most time spent in space by a UK and US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes. Born in Louth and raised in Cambridge, Foale was educated at The King's School, … - David Hoggan
David Leslie Hoggan (March 23, 1923-August 7, 1988) was an American historian whose work was the subject of much controversy. Hoggan was born in Portland, Oregon and received his education at Reed College and Harvard University. At Harvard, Hoggan was awarded a PhD for a dissertation on relations between Germany and Poland in the years 1938-1939 in 1948. During his time at Harvard, Hoggan befriended Harry Elmer Barnes, whose thinking would have much influence on Hoggan. - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune was a French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France. The son of a lawyer, he was born at Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze. Brune settled in Paris before the French Revolution, studied law, and became a political journalist. Following the French Revolution he joined the Cordeliers and was a friend of Georges Danton. - Robert Waley Cohen
Sir Robert Waley Cohen (8 September 1877 - 27 November 1952) was a British industrialist and prominent leader of Anglo-Jewry. - Roger The Poitevin
Roger the Poitevin was born in Normandy, around the year 1058, and died between 1122 and 1140. He was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat, who possessed large holdings in both England and (in right of his wife) in France. He was the third son of Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel of Bellême. The appellation "the Poitevin" was for his marriage to an heiress from Poitou (see below). Around1074 Roger acquired, probably through the influence of his father, … - Ursula Martinez
Ursula Martinez is an Anglo-Spanish performance artist noted for her use of nudity and non-actors. Her father is English and her mother Spanish. She has worked with experimental theater groups Forced Entertainment, Insomniac Productions, The Glee Club, and Duckie. In the 1990s she began to combine this with her experience in cabaret, establishing a reputation in the queer arts community. With collaborator Mark Whitelaw, she created "A Family Outing", … - Kate Charles
Kate Charles (born 1950) is an Anglo-American crime writer. Kate Charles was born Carol Fosher in Cincinnati. Her family moved to Bloomington, Illinois when she was 10. She graduated from Bloomington High School and went on to Illinois State University where she graduated with a degree in library science in 1972. She then went on to earn an MA from the Indiana University. She married Rory Chase and lives in Ludlow, UK. - Björn Ågren
Björn Sten Ågren is the guitarist for the Anglo-Swedish band Razorlight. He is originally from Sweden where he met Carl Dalemo, the bassist of the band. Ågren encouraged Dalemo to audition for the band in 2002, when Ågren was already a member. He joined Razorlight after replying to an ad in the NME saying "Guitarist wanted. No pentatonics" He wrote the song "To The Sea" on Razorlight's debut album, "Up All Night", …
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