- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Oona King
Oona Tamsyn King (born October 22, 1967, in Sheffield) is a British politician. She was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green & Bow from 1997 until the 2005 election, when she was defeated by Respect candidate George Galloway. - David MacLean
David John MacLean (born May 16, 1953, Scotland) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border since 1983. Educated at Fortrose Academy, Fortrose, The Black Isle, Highland, and at the University of Aberdeen, he was elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1983 following the ennoblement of William Whitelaw. - James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 - July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for Whistler's art was characterized by a subtle delicacy, in contrast to his combative public persona. - Alan Haselhurst
Sir Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst (born June 23, 1937) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden. He is the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. Alan Haselhurst was born in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire and was educated at the King Edward VI School, Birmingham, Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire, and Oriel College, Oxford. - John Dunwoody
Dr. John Elliot Orr Dunwoody CBE (3 June 1929 - 26 January 2006) was a British Labour politician. Dunwoody was educated at St Paul's School, then trained as a doctor at King's College London, and Westminster Medical School. A surgeon, he worked in Devon as a senior house physician at Newton Abbot Hospital from 1955 to 1956 and as a GP and medical officer in Totnes District Hospital from 1956 to 1966. He was active in the Socialist Medical Association. - 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. - Peter Bone
Peter William Bone (born October 19 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician, and MP for Wellingborough. Peter Bone was born in 1952 in Billericay and was educated at Westcliff-on-Sea High School for Boys In 1977 he was elected as a councillor to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, where he served for nine years until 1986. He was elected as the Vice Chairman of the Southend West Conservative Association. - Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 - 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951. The Labour Party under Attlee won a landslide election victory over Winston Churchill immediately after Churchill had led Britain through World War II. He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term and the first to have a majority in Parliament. - Nick Herbert
Nicholas Le Quesne Herbert, known as Nick Herbert, (born April 7, 1963) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs. He is currently Shadow Justice Secretary. Nick Herbert was educated at Haileybury and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read law and land economy. He was appointed as the director of public affairs at the British Field Sports Society in 1990 and remained in that position for six years. - Iqbal Khan
Iqbal Khan is currently Managing Director of HSBC's Amanah Finance division, London, United Kingdom. Iqbal was formerly the Managing Director of Citi-Islamic Investment Bank E.C (January 1998 to June 1998) and Global Head for Islamic Finance for Citicorp. Before that he was the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of the Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (Bahrain) from 1993-1997. - Ray Mallon
Ray Mallon (b. 1955 in Thornaby) is the directly-elected Mayor of Middlesbrough in England. - Ian Liddell-Grainger
Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (born 23 February 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bridgwater since the 2001 general election, when he succeeded Tom King. Liddell-Grainger was born at Edinburgh and educated at Millfield School in Somerset and South Scotland Agricultural College. - Crispin Blunt
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (born 15 July 1960) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate. He replaced rebel Eurosceptic George Gardiner in 1997. Crispin Blunt was born in 1960 and is married with two children. His niece is Golden Globe-award winning actress Emily Blunt. He was educated at Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he won the Queen's Medal, gaining a Regular Commission, … - John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist, best known for his novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps", and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. - Desmond Swayne
Desmond Angus Swayne (born 20 August 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of New Forest West in Hampshire, and was first elected in May 1997 and is currently the Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Cameron. He was educated at Bedford School and studied Theology at the University of St Andrews. In 2003 he served for five months in Iraq as a major in the Territorial Army. - Julian Brazier
Julian William Hendy Brazier TD (born July 24, 1953) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Canterbury. He is a shadow transport minister and a prominent member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. - Andrew Selous
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous (born 27 April 1962) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South West Bedfordshire and a prominent member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. - Daniel Byles
Daniel (Dan) Alan Byles FRGS (British, born 1974) is a mountaineer, sailor, ocean rower, and polar explorer. In 1997 he took part in the first ever Atlantic Rowing Race, the Port St Charles Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race, successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean unsupported in a 23 foot wooden rowing boat in 101 days with his mother Janice Meek. In 2007 he and his mother were united in adventure once again when, together with team mate Richard Profit, … - Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are "Reckless", "18 til I Die", and "Waking Up the Neighbours". Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, … - Charles Carmichael Monro
Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCSI (15 June 1860 - 7 December 1929) was Governor of Gibraltar from 1920 to 1929. During the First World War, Monro briefly commanded the British First Army in 1916. Monro died in 1929 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. - Steve Davis
Steve Davis, OBE, (born August 22, 1957, Plumstead, London) is an English professional snooker (and to a lesser extent pool) player. Davis has won more professional snooker titles (including six world and six UK Championships) Davis' most successful spell came during the 1980s, when he was snooker's world number one for seven years and reached eight world finals, culminating in him becoming the sport's first millionaire. - Patrick Mercer
Patrick John Mercer OBE (born 26 June 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Newark. - Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield OBE (16 April, 1939 - 2 March, 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned four decades. She achieved her most notable success during the 1960s, with a successful comeback in the late 1980s. - Linda Bellos
Linda Bellos OBE (b. 1950) is a British black, Jewish, lesbian activist and former London politician. - Nigel Dodds
Nigel Alexander Dodds, OBE (born Derry, August 20, 1958) is a barrister and Northern Ireland unionist politician. He is a Member of the British Parliament for Belfast North, and a member of the Democratic Unionist Party. He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP. Dodds became North Belfast's MP in the 2001 UK general elections. He is also a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and is Minister for Enterprise, … - Gerald Grosvenor 6th Duke of Westminster
Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, OBE, TD, DL (born 22 December 1951 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland), is the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and his wife Hon. Viola Maud Lyttelton. In 2005, he became Chancellor of the University of Chester. - Stephen Crabb
Stephen Crabb (born January 20, 1973) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire. Stephen Crabb was born in Inverness and brought up in council housing in Pembrokeshire. He was educated at the Tasker Milward School in Haverfordwest. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science at the University of Bristol and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School. - Tony Benn
Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. He was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963. During the 1970s and 1980s he was the prominent figure on the left of the Labour Party. In the second government of Harold Wilson he was Secretary of State for Industry. In the government of James Callaghan he was Secretary of State for Energy. - Andrew Stunell
Robert Andrew Stunell, known as Andrew Stunell, OBE (born 24 November 1942) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove, and was first elected at the 1997 general election. He is the Lib Dems' spokesman for Communities and Local Government. He was born in Sutton, Surrey and educated at Surbiton Grammar School, … - Christopher Chope
Christopher Robert Chope OBE (born May 19, 1947) is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Christchurch. Christopher Chope was born in Putney, the son of a judge, and was educated at the St Andrew's School in Eastbourne and Marlborough College, before attending the University of St Andrews where he was awarded a Bachelor of Laws degree, and finished his education at the Inns of Court School of law. - Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934 in Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television "alter egos" Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, … - 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. - Norman Tebbit
Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH, PC (born 29 March 1931) is a British Conservative politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Chingford, who was born in Southgate in Enfield. His wife became permanently wheelchair-bound after the Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing of the 1984 Conservative Party conference in Brighton. - Peter Lilley
Peter Bruce Lilley (born August 23, 1943, Hayes, Kent, England, educated at Dulwich College and Clare College, Cambridge) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament MP since 1983. He currently represents the constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden and, prior to boundary changes, represented St Albans which was its predecessor seat. - Mohammad Sarwar
Mohammad Sarwar (born 18 August 1952, Pirmahal Pakistan) is a politician in the United Kingdom, the Labour member of Parliament for Glasgow Central, Scotland. He was the UK's first Muslim MP, and swore the Oath of Allegiance on the Qur'an which was placed "in an envelope, to avoid it being touched by one not of the faith". Sarwar was an opponent of the 2003 Iraq war. He was first elected as the MP for Glasgow Govan in the 1997 general election. - Iain Smith
Iain Smith (born May 1, 1960) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Fife. He was elected to the first Scottish Parliament in May 1999 to represent his home constituency of North East Fife. He is a graduate of Newcastle University. Before becoming an MSP, he was a Councillor and Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Fife Council. Iain was also Constituency Organiser for North East Fife Liberal Democrats, … - Paddy Ashdown
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC, (born 27 February1941), commonly known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician. A former leader of the Liberal Democrats, until August 1999 he was the international community's High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 September 2002 to 30 May 2006. A gifted polyglot, Ashdown is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and other languages. - Andrew MacKinlay
Andrew Stuart MacKinlay (born 24 April 1949, Hampstead) is a British politician. He has been the member of Parliament for Thurrock since 1992 and is a member of the Labour Party. Andrew Mackinlay was educated variously at St Joseph's School, Wembley ; Our Lady Immaculate Primary School, Tolworth; the Salesian College, Chertsey; and Kingston College. - Ernest William Titterton
Sir Ernest (Ernie) William Titterton Ph. D. (born March 4, 1916 in Tamworth, UK, died 8 February 1990) was a nuclear physicist and professor.
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