- Old Briton
Memeskia or Old Briton (d. June 21, 1752), also known as La Demoselle, was an eighteenth century Piankashaw chieftain who fought against the French in 1747. A prominent member of the Piankashaw tribe, Memeskia was one of the earliest opponents of the increasing French presence in North America regarding their dominance and monopoly over the fur trade in the western Great Lakes region. In 1747, Old Briton (as he was now known), …
- Sicilian Briton
The Sicilian Briton was an early 5th century Christian theologian known for his egalitarianism. He came from Britain and wrote in Sicily, but his name is unknown. He wrote six pamphlets, all on the text "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor" (Matthew 19:21). In his best known work, "De Divitiis" ("On Riches"), he blamed the existence of poverty on the existence of wealth. He divided people into three categories: the rich, the poor, …
- Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon, also known as Solo, (born in Glasgow in 1966) is a British hacker accused by the United States of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time." Following legal hearings in the UK it was decided in July 2006 that he should be extradited to the United States. In February 2007 his lawyers argued against ruling in an appeal to the High Court in London, …
- James Thompson
James "The Colossus" Thompson (born December 16 1978) is a British Mixed Martial Arts fighter. He currently fights as a heavyweight for PRIDE Fighting Championships in Japan and Cage Rage in the United Kingdom. He is characterized by his size, strength, affable way of speaking and humility. In interviews he has described his occupations before professional fighting as "debt collector" and "Gypsy remover", though he has not elaborated on the latter.
- Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls (born Edward Michael Bear Grylls on 7 June 1974) is a British mountaineer and adventurer as well as best-selling author, television presenter, and international motivational speaker. Grylls, a former member of the Special Air Service (SAS), made his name by becoming, at the age of 23, the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest and return alive in 1998. He hosts the television program on Channel 4 in the UK called "Man vs.
- Haroon Rashid Aswat
Haroon Rashid Aswat (born ca. 1979 in Britain) is a British citizen of Indian origin. He was reportedly an MI6 informant and he is the alleged Al Qaeda organizer responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Police sources have told newspapers that Aswat made some 20 mobile phone calls to two of the suspected bombers, Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, one just hours before the blasts.
- Helen Sharman
Born in Sheffield's Jessop Hospital in 1963, Helen's family originally lived in Grenoside where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School and then moved to Greenhill. After studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive, Helen gained a Chemistry degree at Sheffield University.
- Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade (born July 10 1945, in Bournemouth, Dorset, England) is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. She won three Grand Slam singles titles and four Grand Slam doubles titles. She is particularly remembered for winning the women's singles title at Wimbledon in the championship's Centenary year on July 1, 1977, currently the last Briton to do so. It was also the Queen's Silver Jubilee year.
- Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957 in New York City) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actress. She is married to actor/director, Antonio Banderas.
- Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson (born in London, 1955) is a British Asian actor. He is most famous for being one of the original cast members of "EastEnders", playing the shop-keeper Saeed Jeffery from February 1985 - December 1985. During his time on the show, Johnson's troubled character struggled in an arranged marriage to an unwilling wife, Naima (played by Shreela Ghosh).
- Bill Oddie
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941 in Rochdale, Lancashire), is a British comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. He became famous as one of the "The Goodies". A birdwatcher since his childhood in Birmingham, Oddie has now established a reputation for himself as an ornithologist, conservationist and television presenter on wildlife issues. Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings.
- Mary Seacole
Mary Jane Seacole (1805 - 14 May 1881) was a mixed-race British nurse. Born in Jamaica, she operated boarding houses in Panama and Crimea while simultaneously treating the sick. Seacole was taught herbal remedies and folk medicine by her mother. Always of a nomadic disposition, on hearing of the terrible conditions of the Crimean War and certain that her knowledge of tropical medicine would be of use, she travelled to London and volunteered as a nurse.
- Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for movies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually" and the hit TV programmes "Blackadder", "Mr. Bean", and "The Vicar of Dibley". Richard Curtis lives with script editor and broadcaster Emma Freud, with whom he has four children and lives in Suffolk.
- Andrew Robertson
Andrew Robertson is a British actor remembered for his performances on television. He appeared as Mr. Fibuli in the 1978 "Doctor Who" serial "The Pirate Planet". Other credits include: "Adam Adamant Lives!", "The Borderers", "Oil Strike North", "Secret Army", "Blake's 7", "The Onedin Line", "All Creatures Great and Small", "One By One", "Rumpole of the Bailey", …
- William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 - 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983), best known for his novel "Lord of the Flies". He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980, for his novel "Rites of Passage," the first book of the trilogy "To the Ends of the Earth".
- Jake Meyer
Jake Meyer At the age of 14, Jake Meyer set himself the challenge of becoming the youngest person to climb the 7 Summits; the highest mountain on each continent. On the 4th June 2005 at the age of 21, he stood on the summit of Mt Everest, thus becoming the youngest Briton to climb Everest, as well as the youngest man in the world to complete the 7 Summits.
- William Adams
William Adams, was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Briton ever to reach that country. He was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's bestselling novel "Shogun". Soon after Adams' arrival in Japan, he became a key advisor to the "shogun" Tokugawa Ieyasu and built for him Japan's first Western-style ships.
- Charlie O'Connell
Charles "Charlie" O'Connell (born April 21, 1975 in New York City) is an American actor and reality television personality. He was born to a Polish-American mother and a British father, and is the younger brother of actor Jerry O'Connell. Charles O'Connell is best known for his appearance on "The Bachelor", as well as appearing in several of his brother's projects, …
- Daniel James
Daniel James (b. 1971, London), is a British-Canadian game developer based in San Francisco. He is a co-founder and CEO of Three Rings Design, the company behind the MMORPGs "Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates" and "Bang! Howdy".
- John Reynolds
John Reynolds is a retired British motorcycle racer who won the British Superbike Championship in 1992, 2001 and 2004. His first domestic success lead him into the 500c World Championship on a Padgetts Yamaha, taking 8 top 10 finishes over two seasons. He joined Revé Kawasaki in World Superbikes for 1995, qualifying 2nd at Brands Hatch and taking 3rd place finishes there and Assen, en route to 10th overall. In 1996 he rode a Suzuki to 12th overall.
- Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (17 December 1778 - 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and physicist. He was born in Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom and both his brother John Davy and cousin Edmund Davy were also noted chemists.
- Nigel Watson
Nigel Watson (July 30, 1954) is a British writer, researcher and UFO consultant.
- Wentworth Miller
Wentworth Earl Miller (born June 2, 1972) is a British-born American actor who achieved fame as Michael Scofield in the Fox Network's television series "Prison Break".
- Michael Ball
Michael Ball is a British actor and singer, best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in "Les Misérables", Alex in "Aspects of Love", and Caractacus Potts in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
- Alex Smith
Alex Smith (Born - April 2, 1904 in Bootle, England, UK, died 1963) is a retired British professional ice hockey defenceman who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators, Detroit Falcons, Boston Bruins and New York Americans.
- Nicholas Winton
Sir Nicholas Winton MBE (born May 19 1909) is a Briton who organized the rescue of about 669 Jewish Czech children from their doomed fate in the Nazi death camps prior to the outbreak of World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport. His achievement went unrecognised for more than half a century until 1988. For fifty years the children did not know to whom they owed their lives.
- John Stevenson
John Stevenson (born 1937) is a British writer who since 1976 has been a regular script writer on Britain's longest running soap opera, Coronation Street. He was originally a newspaper journalist. He also co-wrote the popular comedy drama, Brass with Coronation Street scriptwriter, "Julian Roach" in the 1980s and more recently scripted the sitcom, "Mother's Ruin", starring Roy Barraclough. However, this was not a ratings success and only ran to one series.
- Emily Pidgeon
In athletics, Emily Pidgeon (born 1989 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is the current 5000 metres European Junior Champion. In December 2006, Pidgeon, the 2005 European Junior silver-medalist, was in the victorious junior female team at the European Cross Country Championships. She finished fourth individually behind fellow Briton, Stephanie Twell. At the World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa on 24 March 2007, …
- Riothamus
Riothamus (also spelled Riotimus, Rigothamus, Rigotamos), was a military leader, active circa 470, called "King of the Brittones" by Jordanes, who states in "The Origin and Deeds of the Goths": If the name is a Latinization of "highest leader", some scholars have suggested, it may be a title, and not a personal name. It has been argued whether Jordanes' "Brittones" refers to the Bretons of Brittany, …
- Vera Lynn
Dame Vera Lynn DBE (born 20 March 1917) is a retired British singer whose career flourished during World War II, when she was nicknamed "The Forces Sweetheart". She is best known for the popular songs "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover". Lynn is one of the last surviving major entertainers of the war years.
- Anthony Smith
Anthony Smith (born March 30, 1926) is, among other things, an explorer, author and former "Tomorrow's World" television presenter. He is perhaps best known for his bestselling work "The Body" (originally published in 1968 and later renamed "The Human Body"), which has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide and tied in with a BBC television series, known in America by the name "Intimate Universe: The Human Body".
- Dorothy Mackaill
Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 - August 12, 1990) was a British-born American actress, most notably of the silent film era and into the early 1930s.
- Jay Rayner
Jay Rayner is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster born in 1966.
- Kit Malthouse
Kit Malthouse (born 1966) is a British politician and former city councillor and Deputy Leader for Westminster City Council in London. Malthouse is a member of the Conservative Party has led a battle, for five years, to eliminate prostitution advertising in telephone booths. Malthouse is the owner and chief executive of Alpha Strategic PLC, a financial firm.
- Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Jeanne Harris (born 1923, London) is a British writer of fiction for children. Harris attended school in Weymouth, and then studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the Chelsea School of Art and the Courtauld Institute. She served in the British Red Cross Nursing Auxiliary Westminster Division during World War II, and has worked as a picture restorer, a reader for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, …
- Roy Porter
Roy Porter (31 December 1946 to 3 March 2002) was a British historian noted for his work on the history of medicine. He grew up in South London and attended Wilson's School in Camberwell. He won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied under J. H. Plumb. His contemporaries included Simon Schama and Andrew Wheatcroft. He achieved a double starred first and became a junior Fellow in 1968, studying under Robert M. Young.
- Nana Sahib
Nana Sahib (born 1824), born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian leader during the rebellion of 1857.
- Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy (born July 26, 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment.
- 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.
- Thomas Jones Barker
Thomas Jones Barker was an English historical and portrait painter. Born at Bath, he studied in Paris under Horace Vernet, in 1835-45 exhibited much at the Salon and subsequently at the Royal Academy. In his later life he was known especially as a military painter, and observed on the spot the Franco-Prussian War, of which, as well as the Crimean War, he left numerous pictures.