- John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (5 June 1883 - 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms.
- John Neville Keynes
John Neville Keynes (31 August 1852 - 15 November 1949) was a British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes.
- Geoffrey Keynes
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (March 25, 1887 in Cambridge - July 5, 1982, in Cambridge) was an English surgeon, physician, scholar and bibliophile. He was the younger brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes.
- Randal Keynes
Randal Hume Keynes OBE is a British author and a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the well known author of the intimate exploration of his famous ancestry, "Annie's Box", subtitled "Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution" a book about the relationship between Darwin and his daughter Annie whose early death deeply affected him and his views on religion.
- Simon Keynes
Simon Douglas Keynes MA, PhD, Litt.D, FBA (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University. He was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Keynes is the son of Richard Darwin Keynes and his wife Anne Adrian. His brothers are Randal Keynes and Roger Keynes. He is the grandson of the surgeon Geoffrey Keynes and Nobelist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, …
- Richard Keynes
Richard Darwin Keynes CBE FRS (born 14 August 1919) is a British physiologist. Keynes (pronounced "Canes") was born in London, the eldest son of Geoffrey Keynes, and thus the nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes. His mother, Elizabeth (née Darwin) was the daughter of the astronomer George Howard Darwin and the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin. His brothers are Quentin, Milo and Stephen (see also Darwin — Wedgwood family).
- Milo Keynes
Dr William Milo Keynes MA DM MD MCh FRCS (born 1924) is a British doctor and author. Keynes (pronounced "Canes") is the third son of Geoffrey Keynes, and his wife Margaret Darwin, daughter of Sir George Darwin. He is a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin, and a nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes. His brothers are Richard, Quentin and Stephen. He has published a collection of essays on his uncle and a biography of his uncle's wife, Lydia Lopokova.
- Florence Ada Keynes
Florence Ada Keynes (1861 -- February 1958) was a British author and social reformer.
- Soumaya Keynes
Soumaya Keynes is an English actress who has appeared in various productions for BBC Radio 4. Her parents are writer Randal Keynes and Zelfa Cecil Hourani. Her maternal grandfather, Cecil Fadlo Hourani, is a famous writer of Lebanese descent, and the brother of Albert Hourani, also a well-known writer and professor. Through her father, Soumaya is the great-great-great granddaughter of the famous scientist Charles Darwin. She is the older sister of actor Skandar Keynes, …
- Stephen Keynes
Stephen John Keynes OBE FLS (born 19 October 1927) a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, is chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust. Keynes is the fourth son of Geoffrey Keynes, and his wife Elizabeth Darwin, daughter of Sir George Darwin. His brothers are Richard, Quentin and Milo. In 1955 he married Mary Cecilia Knatchbull-Hugessen, daughter of the Canadian senator Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen.
- Skandar Keynes
Skandar Amin Casper Keynes (born 5 September 1991) is an English actor. He is best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in "The Chronicles of Narnia" film series. He will appear in the second installment, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian", currently scheduled for release in the summer of 2008. Keynes was born in London to writer Randal Keynes and Zelfa Cecil Hourani.
- Quentin Keynes
Quentin George Keynes was a bibliophile. Keynes (pronounced "Canes") was born in London, the second son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of George Howard Darwin who in turn was the son of Charles Darwin, making him the great-grandson of Charles Darwin (see Darwin — Wedgwood family). He was also the nephew of the renowned economist, John Maynard Keynes. His older brother Richard is a physiologist, and younger brothers Milo and Stephen both writers.
- Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt was a libertarian philosopher, economist, and journalist for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The American Mercury, among other publications. In childhood his family's finances were meager, his father having died when Henry was an infant, and he left college after a year and a half to become a journalist. He was credited with bringing Austrian economics to an English-speaking audience.
- Gunnar Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal (December 6, 1898 - May 17, 1987) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was born in Gustafs, Dalarna, and died in Danderyd, close to Stockholm. He graduated from Stockholm University Law School in 1923 and received a doctorate degree in Economics in 1927. He married Alva Myrdal in 1924, and they had three children including Jan Myrdal and Sissela Bok.
- Colin Clark
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national economies. Colin Clark was born in London. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at Winchester College, and from 1924 at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied chemistry.
- Michał Kalecki
Michał Kalecki was a Polish economist who specialized in macroeconomics. For most of his life he worked at the Institute of Business Cycles and Prices in Warsaw. He is referred to as 'one of the most distinguished economists of the 20th century' and was sometimes regarded as the 'left-wing' Keynes He has simultaneously developed many of the theories Keynes had, …
- Holbrook Working
Holbrook Working, a professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University’s Food Research Institute, is known for his contributions on hedging, the theory of futures prices – which anticipated the efficient markets hypothesis, an early theory of market maker behavior, and the theory of storage (including the "Working curve" which plots the difference between short term and long term grain futures prices against current inventory).
- Wilhelm Lautenbach
Dr. Wilhelm Lautenbach (1891-1948) was a German economist and official of the Economics Ministry at the beginning of the 1930s. He has been called a "a pre-Keynes Keynesian." He is known for his proposal that Germany default on reparations and foreign credits and implement a plan of self-financing forms of public works.
- John Langdon Down
John Langdon Haydon Down was a British doctor best known for his description of what is now called Down syndrome. Down was born in Torpoint, Cornwall. He was descended on his father’s side from an Irish family, his great-great grandfather having been Catholic bishop of Derry. His sister’s daughters eventually married into the Adrian, Darwin and Keynes families. John Down went to local schools including the Devonport Classical and Mathematical School.
- Edgar Hardcastle
Edgar Richard "Hardy" Hardcastle was a theoretician of Marxian economics. The son of a founder member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, Hardcastle went to prison as a socialist conscientious objector in the First World War, formally joining his father's party in 1922. After studying at the London School of Economics under Professor Edwin Cannan, he worked all his life as a researcher in the trade union movement, first for the Agriculture Workers Union, …
- Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-)
- Phyllis Starkey
Dr Phyllis Margaret Starkey (born 4 January, 1947, Ipswich as Phyllis Margaret Williams) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South West, and was first elected in 1997. She had previously been leader of Oxford City Council. Dr Starkey's parliamentary voting record shows she has been a staunch supporter of all the Blairite legislation, including the occasional contentious issues within the Labour Party.
- Mark Lancaster
John Mark Lancaster known as Mark Lancaster (born 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for the North East Milton Keynes constituency at the 2005 general election, unseating former MP Brian White of the Labour Party. He had previously contested Nuneaton at the 2001 general election, and been a councillor.
- Gordon Moakes
Gordon Moakes (born 22 June 1976), educated at Ousedale School, Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, is the bassist and backing singer for English art rock band Bloc Party. Moakes became a member after replying to an advertisement placed in a music magazine by Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack, asking for bass players to join their band.
- George E. Clymer
George E. Clymer (1754-1834) was an American mechanic and inventor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1813 he invented the Columbian Printing Press, an iron, lever-operated replacement for the wooden screw presses based on Gutenberg's design. Clymer began making wooden presses of the Gutenberg model around 1790. He switched to exclusively making the Columbian Press in 1816.
- James Hildreth
James Hildreth (born September 9, 1984 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire) is an English cricketer who plays for Somerset County Cricket Club. He attended Millfield School, Somerset. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Hildreth represented England at all youth levels including the 2003-04 Under-19 World cup held in Bangladesh.
- Anna Fox
Anna Fox (born 1961) is British photographer. She studied at Farnham, Surrey, and first came to attention with her 1988 documentary study of London office life on the mid-1980s, "Work Stations: Office Life in London", published by the left-wing "Camerawork". Between 2001 & 2003 she published four monographs in her "Made in" series: "Made in Milton Keynes", "Made in Kansas", "Made in Gothenburg" and "Made in Florence".
- Mithali Raj
Mithali Raj (b. December 3, 1982) is the captain of the Indian women's cricket team. She made her one-day international debut in 1999 against Ireland at Milton Keynes and scored 114 runs without getting out in that match. She made her test match debut in the 2001-02 season against England at Lucknow. She became famous for her score of 214 runs in a test match against England at Taunton, which broke the record for the highest score in women's Test cricket.
- Greg Rutherford
Greg Rutherford (born November 17, 1986) is a British athlete who competes in long jump and 100 m, his home club being Marshall Milton Keynes AC. Rutherford competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games for England. On August 8th, 2006, he won the silver medal in the long jump at the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, with a jump of 8.13 m. Greg is one of a growing band of athletes who uses Red Bull to aid his performance.
- Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and formerly Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire.
- Brent Livermore
Brent James Livermore OAM (born July 5, 1976 in Grafton, New South Wales) is a field hockey midfielder from Australia, who won the golden medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Livermore was first selected in the Australian A-Team in March 1997 and captained the Australian Junior World Cup Team to a gold medal that same year in Milton Keynes. Livermore, nicknamed "Chief" or "Livers", played club hockey in The Netherlands, …
- Errol Barnett
Errol Barnett is best known for anchoring for Channel One News. He was born and raised in Milton Keynes, England and grew up in Avondale, Arizona near Phoenix. He has covered President Bush's State of the Union Address and second Inauguration from Washington DC, flown through a Hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico with the Hurricane Hunters and reported in a two-part series on heroin use in American suburbs.
- Troy Elder
Troy Elder OAM (born October 15, 1977 in Bunbury, Western Australia) is a field hockey striker and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Olympic Games, Elder finished in third spot with The Kookaburras, as the national team is called. Elder played club hockey for the Queensland Blades in his native country.
- Isobel McCall
Councillor Isobel McCall (known as Isobel Wilson before her August 2005 marriage to fellow councillor Douglas McCall) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and the Leader of Milton Keynes Council.
- Laura Sicurello
Laura Sicurello is best known for her appearance on the Reality TV programme "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?". She was known as "Tomboy Maria". Laura was born in 1980 and lives in Milton Keynes. For the past nine years she has been a Police Intelligence Officer.
- Mae-Wan Ho
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho is a noted and controversial holistic scientist and a critic of genetic engineering. Her career spans more than 30 years in research and teaching in biochemistry, evolution, molecular genetics, and biophysics. She is the Co-Founder and Director of the UK-based Institute of Science in Society. She is former head of the Bio-Electrodynamics laboratory at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England. She is Editor of the radical science magazine, …
- Barry Legg
Barry Charles Legg (born 1949) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South West from 1992 until the 1997 general election when he was defeated by Labour's Phyllis Starkey. He was one of the Maastricht Rebels. He was controversially selected by Iain Duncan Smith to be the new Conservative Party Chief Executive. He was appointed on 14 February 2003 and resigned on 7 May 2003.
- William Benyon
Sir William Richard Benyon (born 17 January 1930) is a retired British Conservative Party politician, Berkshire landowner and former High Sheriff. At least in his political persona, he generally preferred the familiar Bill Benyon form of his name. He was born William Richard Shelley, the son of Vice-Admiral Richard Shelley and his wife, Eve Alice Gascoyne-Cecil, the daughter of the Right Reverend Lord (Rupert Ernest) William Gascoyne-Cecil, …
- Vincent Strudwick
The Reverend Canon Professor Vincent Noel Harold Strudwick, BA, MA, DD, (b. 1932) is a British theologian and educationalist. His areas of expertise include sixteenth-century English history and the ecclesiology of Richard Hooker. After serving as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, Strudwick entered Kelham Theological College (1952), which is run by the Society of the Sacred Mission. He also studied at the University of Nottingham, …
- Bevan George
Bevan George (born March 22, 1977 in Narrogin, Western Australia) is a field hockey defender from Australia, who won the golden medal with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was also part of the Australian Junior Team that won the golden medal at the Junior World Cup in Milton Keynes, 1997. George, nicknamed "Jethro", played his 100th match for "The Kookaburrus" on May 23, 2004 against Belgium during the European Tour.