| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edwin A. Abbott |
Author |
20-Dec-1838 |
12-Oct-1926 |
Flatland |
| Peter Ackroyd |
Author |
5-Oct-1949 |
|
The Great Fire of London |
| Douglas Adams |
Author |
11-Mar-1952 |
11-May-2001 |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| John Couch Adams |
Astronomer |
5-Jun-1819 |
21-Jan-1892 |
Discovered planet Neptune |
| Edgar Adrian |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1889 |
4-Aug-1977 |
Electricity within nerve cells |
| George Biddell Airy |
Astronomer |
27-Jul-1801 |
2-Jan-1892 |
British Astronomer Royal |
| Christopher Alexander |
Architect |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order |
| Gordon W. Allport |
Psychologist |
11-Nov-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation |
| Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Jon Amiel |
Film Director |
20-May-1948 |
|
Entrapment |
| Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Philosopher |
8-May-1954 |
|
The Ethics of Identity |
| Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Proved existence of ionosphere |
| Michael Apted |
Film Director |
10-Feb-1941 |
|
Gorillas in the Mist |
| John Arden |
Playwright |
26-Oct-1930 |
|
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance |
| Roger Ascham |
Scholar |
1515 |
30-Dec-1568 |
The Scholemaster |
| Francis W. Aston |
Chemist |
1-Sep-1877 |
20-Nov-1945 |
Invented the mass spectograph |
| David Attenborough |
Naturalist |
8-May-1926 |
|
Life on Earth |
| Richard Ayoade |
Comic |
1977 |
|
Dean Learner on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace |
| Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
| Charles Babbage |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1791 |
18-Oct-1871 |
Inventor of the Difference Engine |
| Francis Bacon |
Philosopher |
22-Jan-1561 |
9-Apr-1626 |
Novum Organum |
| Nathaniel Bacon |
Politician |
2-Jan-1647 |
26-Oct-1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion |
| Martin N. Baily |
Economist |
1945 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-96, 1999-2001 |
| Stanley Baldwin |
Head of State |
3-Aug-1867 |
14-Dec-1947 |
UK Prime Minister three times |
| Arthur Balfour |
Head of State |
25-Jul-1848 |
19-Mar-1930 |
UK Prime Minister, 1902-05 |
| John Ball |
Naturalist |
20-Aug-1818 |
21-Oct-1889 |
Irish Alpinist |
| J. G. Ballard |
Author |
18-Nov-1930 |
|
Empire of the Sun, Crash |
| Jamie Bamber |
Actor |
3-Apr-1973 |
|
Battlestar Galactica |
| Charles Glover Barkla |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1877 |
23-Oct-1944 |
X-Ray scattering |
| Gregory Bateson |
Anthropologist |
9-May-1904 |
4-Jul-1980 |
Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
| William Bateson |
Biologist |
8-Aug-1861 |
8-Feb-1926 |
Founder of genetics |
| Jacob D. Beam |
Diplomat |
24-Mar-1908 |
16-Aug-1993 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1969-73 |
| R. Meredith Belbin |
Educator |
1926 |
|
Father of team-role theory |
| David Bell |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005 |
| Richard Bentley |
Critic |
27-Jan-1662 |
14-Jul-1742 |
Reformed classical scholarship |
| John Berryman |
Poet |
25-Oct-1914 |
7-Jan-1972 |
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet |
| Sir Walter Besant |
Author |
14-Aug-1836 |
9-Jun-1901 |
All Sorts and Conditions of Men |
| John Biffen |
Politician |
3-Nov-1930 |
14-Aug-2007 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1982-87 |
| Thomas Bilney |
Religion |
c. 1495 |
19-Aug-1531 |
English martyr, influenced Latimer |
| Patrick M. S. Blackett |
Physicist |
18-Nov-1897 |
13-Jul-1974 |
Studied cosmic radiation |
| Hans Blix |
Government |
28-Jun-1928 |
|
Weapons inspector before Iraq War |
| Anthony Blunt |
Historian |
26-Sep-1907 |
26-Mar-1983 |
Art historian, Soviet spy |
| Eavan Boland |
Poet |
24-Sep-1944 |
|
In a Time of Violence |
| John G. Bolton |
Astronomer |
5-Jun-1922 |
6-Jul-1993 |
First Director of Parkes Observatory |
| Max Born |
Physicist |
11-Dec-1882 |
5-Jan-1970 |
Pioneer of quantum mechanics |
| Steve Bourne |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
/bin/sh |
| David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| Lawrence Bragg |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1890 |
1-Jul-1971 |
Bragg's Law of diffraction |
| William Bragg |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1862 |
12-Mar-1942 |
Analyzed crystal structures |
| William Bridgeman |
Politician |
31-Dec-1864 |
14-Aug-1935 |
UK Home Secretary, 1922-24 |
| Leon Brittan |
Politician |
25-Sep-1939 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1983-85 |
| Eleanor Bron |
Actor |
14-Mar-1934 |
|
A Touch of Love |
| Rupert Brooke |
Poet |
3-Aug-1887 |
23-Apr-1915 |
1914 and Other Poems |
| Ernest W. Brown |
Astronomer |
29-Nov-1866 |
22-Jul-1938 |
Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
| John Browne |
Business |
20-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 |
| Stanley Bruce |
Head of State |
15-Apr-1883 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29 |
| John Bull |
Composer |
c. 1562 |
12-Mar-1628 |
English composer and organist |
| Edward Bullard |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1907 |
3-Apr-1980 |
Continental drift, magnetic fields |
| Claus von Bulow |
Socialite |
11-Aug-1926 |
|
Allegedly tried to kill wife Sunny |
| Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
Novelist |
25-May-1803 |
18-Jan-1873 |
The Last Days of Pompeii |
| Thomas Burnet |
Religion |
1635 |
27-Sep-1715 |
Telluris Tehoria Sacra |
| Andrew Burnham |
Politician |
7-Jan-1970 |
|
British MP, Leigh |
| Janet Burroway |
Novelist |
21-Sep-1936 |
|
The Dancer from the Dance |
| Rab Butler |
Politician |
9-Dec-1902 |
8-Mar-1982 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64 |
| Samuel Butler |
Author |
4-Dec-1835 |
18-Jun-1902 |
Erewheon |
| Samuel Butler |
Scholar |
30-Jan-1774 |
4-Dec-1839 |
Headmaster of Shrewsbury School |
| Stewart Butterfield |
Business |
1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Flickr |
| A. S. Byatt |
Critic |
24-Aug-1936 |
|
Possession |
| Lord Byron |
Poet |
22-Jan-1788 |
19-Apr-1824 |
English romantic poet |
| Vincent Cable |
Politician |
9-May-1943 |
|
British MP, Twickenham |
| John Caius |
Doctor |
6-Oct-1510 |
29-Jul-1573 |
Second founder of Gonville and Caius College |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1836 |
22-Apr-1908 |
UK Prime Minister 1905-08 |
| David Cannadine |
Historian |
1950 |
|
Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy |
| Robert Carr |
Politician |
11-Nov-1916 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1972-74 |
| Thomas Cartwright |
Religion |
c. 1535 |
27-Dec-1603 |
English Puritan divine |
| Edmund Castell |
Lexicographer |
1606 |
1685 |
Lexicon Heptaglotton |
| Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh |
Politician |
18-Jun-1769 |
12-Aug-1822 |
Architected Napoleon's defeat |
| James McKeen Cattell |
Psychologist |
24-May-1860 |
20-Jan-1944 |
Academic freedom |
| Andrew Cavendish |
Aristocrat |
2-Jan-1920 |
3-May-2004 |
11th Duke of Devonshire |
| Henry Cavendish |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1731 |
24-Feb-1810 |
Discovered hydrogen |
| William Cecil |
Government |
13-Sep-1520 |
5-Aug-1598 |
Closest advisor to Elizabeth I |
| Lord Chadlington |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of Huntsworth |
| James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
| Ernst B. Chain |
Scientist |
19-Jun-1906 |
12-Aug-1979 |
Discovered penicillin |
| Austen Chamberlain |
Politician |
16-Oct-1863 |
16-Mar-1937 |
British pol, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Alexander Chancellor |
Editor |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Editor of The Spectator, 1975-84 |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Astronomer |
19-Oct-1910 |
21-Aug-1995 |
Evolution stages of stars |
| Graham Chapman |
Comic |
8-Jan-1941 |
4-Oct-1989 |
Monty Python's King Arthur |
| Prince Charles |
Royalty |
14-Nov-1948 |
|
Heir to the throne of Britain |
| Leslie Charteris |
Novelist |
12-May-1907 |
15-Apr-1993 |
Created Simon Templar |
| Ron Chernow |
Author |
1949 |
|
The Warburgs and Alexander Hamilton |
| John Chisholm |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Chairman of QinetiQ |
| Charles Chree |
Astronomer |
5-May-1860 |
12-Aug-1928 |
Geomagnetic phenomena |
| Charles Churchill |
Poet |
1731 |
4-Nov-1764 |
Rosciad |
| Charles Clarke |
Politician |
21-Sep-1950 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 2004-06 |
| David L. Clarke |
Archaeologist |
3-Nov-1937 |
27-Jun-1976 |
Analytical Archaeology |
| John Clarke |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1942 |
|
Superconducting quantum interference |
| Kenneth Clarke |
Politician |
2-Jul-1940 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993-97 |
| Samuel Clarke |
Philosopher |
11-Oct-1675 |
17-May-1729 |
Newtonian theologian |
| John Cleese |
Comic |
27-Oct-1939 |
|
Monty Python |
| Paul Clement |
Government |
1966 |
|
US Solicitor General |
| John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
| Jonathan Coe |
Novelist |
19-Aug-1961 |
|
What a Carve Up! |
| Sacha Baron Cohen |
Comic |
13-Oct-1971 |
|
Boyakasha! Respec |
| Nicholas Coleridge |
Business |
1957 |
|
Managing Director, Condé Nast |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poet |
21-Oct-1772 |
25-Jul-1834 |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Anthony Collins |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1676 |
13-Dec-1729 |
A Discourse on Freethinking |
| John Conway |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1937 |
|
Game of Life |
| Peter Cook |
Comic |
19-Nov-1937 |
9-Jan-1995 |
Bedazzled |
| Alistair Cooke |
Journalist |
20-Nov-1908 |
29-Mar-2004 |
Alistair Cooke's America |
| Allan M. Cormack |
Physicist |
23-Feb-1924 |
7-May-1998 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
| John Cotton |
Religion |
4-Dec-1585 |
23-Dec-1652 |
First Church of Boston |
| Robert Cotton |
Scholar |
22-Jan-1571 |
6-May-1631 |
Cottonian Library |
| Christian Coulson |
Actor |
3-Oct-1978 |
|
Tom Riddle in Harry Potter |
| Thomas Cranmer |
Religion |
2-Jul-1489 |
21-Mar-1556 |
First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury |
| F. Marion Crawford |
Novelist |
2-Aug-1854 |
9-Apr-1909 |
Whosoever Shall Offend |
| Aleister Crowley |
Religion |
12-Oct-1875 |
1-Dec-1947 |
Wickedest man in the world |
| Ralph Cudworth |
Philosopher |
1617 |
26-Jun-1688 |
Intellectual System of the Universe |
| John Culver |
Politician |
8-Aug-1932 |
|
US Senator from Iowa, 1974-81 |
| Tim Curry |
Actor |
19-Apr-1946 |
|
Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| Sir Simonds D'Ewes |
Curator |
18-Dec-1602 |
18-Apr-1650 |
Journals of all the Parliaments |
| Henry Dale |
Scientist |
9-Jun-1875 |
23-Jul-1968 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
| Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
| Erasmus Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Dec-1731 |
18-Apr-1802 |
English naturalist, very bad poet |
| George Darwin |
Astronomer |
9-Jul-1845 |
7-Dec-1912 |
Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system |
| Clement Davies |
Politician |
19-Feb-1884 |
23-Mar-1962 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1945-56 |
| Paul Davies |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1946 |
|
The Mind of God |
| Richard Dawes |
Scholar |
1708 |
21-Mar-1766 |
Miscellanea Critica |
| John Day |
Playwright |
1574 |
c. 1640 |
The Parliament of Bees |
| Augustus De Morgan |
Mathematician |
27-Jun-1806 |
18-Mar-1871 |
De Morgan's Laws |
| John Dennis |
Critic |
1657 |
6-Jan-1734 |
The Usefulness of the Stage |
| Delia Derbyshire |
Electronic Musician |
5-May-1937 |
3-Jul-2001 |
Constructed the Doctor Who theme |
| Lincoln Diaz-Balart |
Politician |
13-Aug-1954 |
|
Congressman, Florida 21st |
| Paul Dirac |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1902 |
20-Oct-1984 |
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
| Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
|
Inventor of Dolby Stereo |
| John Donne |
Poet |
1572 |
31-Mar-1631 |
Anniversaries |
| Margaret Drabble |
Novelist |
5-Jun-1939 |
|
The Millstone |
| Nick Drake |
Singer/Songwriter |
19-Jun-1948 |
25-Nov-1974 |
Pink Moon |
| John Dryden |
Poet |
19-Aug-1631 |
1-May-1700 |
Absalom and Achitophel |
| Will Durant |
Historian |
5-Nov-1885 |
7-Nov-1981 |
The Story of Civilization |
| Frank W. Dyson |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1868 |
25-May-1939 |
Six pips on the BBC |
| Freeman Dyson |
Physicist |
15-Dec-1923 |
|
Theoretical physicist at Princeton |
| Abba Eban |
Government |
2-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-2002 |
Foreign Minister of Israel, 1966-74 |
| Myron Ebell |
Activist |
c. 1953 |
|
Global Warming cynic |
| Richard Eberhart |
Poet |
5-Apr-1904 |
9-Jun-2005 |
Collected Poems |
| Arthur Eddington |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1882 |
22-Nov-1944 |
Eddington luminosity |
| James Chuter Ede |
Politician |
11-Sep-1882 |
11-Nov-1965 |
UK Home Secretary, 1945-51 |
| King Edward VII |
Royalty |
9-Nov-1841 |
6-May-1910 |
King of England, 1901-1910 |
| Prince Edward |
Royalty |
10-Mar-1964 |
|
The Earl of Wessex |
| Herb Elliott |
Track and Field |
25-Feb-1938 |
|
Middle distance runner |
| Daniel Ellsberg |
Government |
7-Apr-1931 |
|
Pentagon Papers source |
| William Empson |
Critic |
27-Sep-1906 |
15-Apr-1984 |
Seven Types of Ambiguity |
| Martin Evans |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1941 |
|
Embryonic stem cells |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Rona Fairhead |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
CEO of Financial Times Group |
| Richard Fanshawe |
Poet |
1608 |
16-Jun-1666 |
Translator of Camões |
| Niall Ferguson |
Historian |
18-Apr-1964 |
|
The House of Rothschild |
| Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. |
Government |
28-Oct-1951 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1997-2006 |
| Marshall Field III |
Business |
28-Sep-1893 |
1956 |
Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times |
| Antony Fisher |
Activist |
1915 |
Jul-1988 |
Libertarian think-tank founder |
| John Flamsteed |
Astronomer |
19-Aug-1646 |
31-Dec-1719 |
Founder of Greenwich Observatory |
| John Ambrose Fleming |
Engineer |
29-Nov-1849 |
19-Apr-1945 |
Invented the vacuum tube |
| Howard Florey |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1898 |
21-Feb-1968 |
Discovered penicillin |
| Trent Ford |
Actor |
16-Jan-1979 |
|
How to Deal |
| E. M. Forster |
Author |
1-Jan-1879 |
7-Jun-1970 |
Howard's End |
| John Forster |
Author |
2-Apr-1812 |
2-Feb-1876 |
Life of Charles Dickens |
| Richard Fortey |
Paleontologist |
1946 |
|
Trilobites and graptolites |
| Dian Fossey |
Anthropologist |
16-Jan-1932 |
26-Dec-1985 |
Gorillas in the Mist |
| Norman Fowler |
Politician |
2-Feb-1938 |
|
Former MP, now Baron Fowler |
| Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist |
25-Jul-1920 |
16-Apr-1958 |
Photographed DNA's structure |
| Sir James Frazer |
Anthropologist |
1-Jan-1854 |
7-May-1941 |
The Golden Bough |
| Fred Frith |
Guitarist |
2-Feb-1949 |
|
Avant garde rock guitarist |
| David Frost |
Journalist |
7-Apr-1939 |
|
BBC's Breakfast with Frost |
| Stephen Fry |
Actor |
24-Aug-1957 |
|
Jeeves and Wooster |
| James K. Galbraith |
Scholar |
c. 1952 |
|
Economics Professor at UT-Austin |
| Francis Galton |
Anthropologist |
16-Feb-1822 |
17-Jan-1911 |
Word Association Test |
| Stephen Gardiner |
Religion |
c. 1493 |
12-Nov-1555 |
English bishop, statesman |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Author |
16-Sep-1950 |
|
The Signifying Monkey |
| Leo Genn |
Actor |
9-Aug-1905 |
26-Jan-1978 |
Quo Vadis |
| Gwilym Lloyd George |
Politician |
4-Dec-1894 |
14-Feb-1967 |
UK Home Secretary, 1954-57 |
| Walter Gilbert |
Chemist |
21-Mar-1932 |
|
Sequencing techniques for DNA |
| William Gilbert |
Physicist |
24-May-1544 |
10-Dec-1603 |
De Magnete |
| John Gilmour |
Politician |
27-May-1876 |
30-Mar-1940 |
UK Home Secretary, 1932-35 |
| Joscelyn Godwin |
Historian |
16-Jan-1945 |
|
Historian of the esoteric |
| Thomas Gold |
Scientist |
22-May-1920 |
22-Jun-2004 |
Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel |
| Ralph E. Gomory |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Jane Goodall |
Naturalist |
3-Apr-1934 |
|
Primate researcher |
| Thomas Gray |
Poet |
26-Dec-1716 |
30-Jul-1771 |
An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard |
| Robert Greene |
Playwright |
Jul-1558 |
3-Sep-1592 |
Friar Bacon |
| Meg Greenfield |
Journalist |
27-Dec-1930 |
13-May-1999 |
The Washington Post |
| Paul Greengard |
Scientist |
11-Dec-1925 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Paul Greengrass |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1955 |
|
The Bourne Supremacy |
| Germaine Greer |
Activist |
29-Jan-1939 |
|
Feminism Diva |
| Richard Gregory |
Psychologist |
24-Jul-1923 |
|
Optical illusions and "hands-on" science |
| Sir Thomas Gresham |
Business |
1518 |
21-Nov-1579 |
Founder of Gresham College |
| Nehemiah Grew |
Botanist |
26-Sep-1641 |
25-Mar-1712 |
Anatomy of Plants |
| Ernest Howard Griffiths |
Physicist |
15-Jun-1851 |
3-Mar-1932 |
The Thermal Measurement of Energy |
| Nicholas Grimald |
Poet |
1519 |
1559 |
Songes and Sonettes |
| John Guillermin |
Film Director |
11-Nov-1925 |
|
The Bridge at Remagen |
| John Gummer |
Politician |
26-Nov-1939 |
|
British MP, Suffolk Coastal |
| Thom Gunn |
Poet |
29-Aug-1929 |
25-Apr-2004 |
The Man with Night Sweats |
| Ian Hacking |
Philosopher |
18-Feb-1936 |
|
The Taming of Chance |
| Stephen Hales |
Scientist |
7-Sep-1677 |
4-Jan-1761 |
Statical Essays |
| Edward Hall |
Historian |
c. 1495 |
1547 |
English chronicler |
| Joseph Hall |
Author |
1-Jul-1574 |
8-Sep-1656 |
Virgidemiarum |
| Peter Hall |
Theater Director |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Work Is a 4-Letter Word |
| John Halliday |
Actor |
14-Sep-1880 |
17-Oct-1947 |
The Philadelphia Story |
| Robert Hamer |
Film Director |
31-Mar-1911 |
4-Dec-1963 |
Kind Hearts and Coronets |
| G. H. Hardy |
Mathematician |
7-Feb-1877 |
1-Dec-1947 |
A Mathematician's Apology |
| David Hare |
Playwright |
5-Jun-1947 |
|
Racing Demon |
| Sir John Harington |
Author |
1561 |
20-Nov-1612 |
The Metamorphosis of Ajax |
| Naomie Harris |
Actor |
6-Sep-1976 |
|
Pirates of the Caribbean |
| Roy Harrod |
Economist |
13-Feb-1900 |
9-Mar-1978 |
Towards a Dynamic Economics |
| Basil Liddell Hart |
Military |
31-Oct-1895 |
29-Jan-1970 |
Military strategist |
| David Hartley |
Philosopher |
8-Aug-1705 |
28-Aug-1757 |
Theory of associationism |
| John Harvard |
Religion |
26-Nov-1607 |
14-Sep-1638 |
Bequest to Harvard College |
| William Harvey |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1578 |
3-Jun-1657 |
Discovered circulation of blood |
| Martin Harwit |
Astronomer |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy |
| Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Wheelchair-bound physicist |
| Tony Hendra |
Comic |
1941 |
|
National Lampoon |
| George Herbert |
Poet |
3-Apr-1593 |
1-Mar-1633 |
The Temple |
| Robert Herrick |
Poet |
1591 |
Oct-1674 |
Hesperides |
| John Herschel |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1792 |
11-May-1871 |
Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| John Hersey |
Novelist |
17-Jun-1914 |
24-Mar-1993 |
A Bell for Adano |
| Chaim Herzog |
Head of State |
17-Sep-1918 |
17-Apr-1997 |
President of Israel 1983-93 |
| Antony Hewish |
Astronomer |
11-May-1924 |
|
First to discover a pulsar |
| John R. Hicks |
Economist |
8-Apr-1904 |
20-May-1989 |
Value and Capital |
| Raymond Hide |
Geologist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
| Archibald V. Hill |
Scientist |
26-Sep-1886 |
3-Jun-1977 |
Studied muscles and nerves |
| James Hilton |
Novelist |
9-Sep-1900 |
20-Dec-1954 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| Peter B. Hirsch |
Scientist |
16-Jan-1925 |
|
Electron microscopy in metallurgy |
| Benjamin Hoadly |
Religion |
14-Nov-1676 |
17-Apr-1761 |
Anglican Bishop and controversialist |
| Alan L. Hodgkin |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1914 |
20-Dec-1998 |
Electrical impulses in nerves |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chemist |
12-May-1910 |
29-Jul-1994 |
Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
| Tom Hollander |
Actor |
25-Aug-1967 |
|
Gosford Park |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author |
29-Aug-1809 |
7-Oct-1894 |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
| Matthew Holness |
Comic |
? |
|
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace |
| Thomas Hooker |
Religion |
7-Jul-1586 |
7-Jul-1647 |
American colonial Puritan leader |
| Geoff Hoon |
Politician |
6-Dec-1953 |
|
UK Minister of Defence, 1999-2005 |
| Frederick Hopkins |
Scientist |
20-Jun-1861 |
16-May-1947 |
Discovered vitamins |
| John Hopkinson |
Engineer |
27-Jul-1849 |
27-Aug-1898 |
English electrical engineer |
| Nick Hornby |
Author |
17-Apr-1957 |
|
High Fidelity |
| Jeremiah Horrocks |
Astronomer |
1619 |
3-Jan-1641 |
Observed transit of Venus |
| Outerbridge Horsey |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1910 |
18-Aug-1983 |
US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1963-66 |
| Edward Horsman |
Politician |
1807 |
30-Nov-1876 |
Scottish parliamentarian |
| Fenton J. A. Hort |
Religion |
23-Apr-1828 |
30-Nov-1892 |
Translator of the New Testament |
| Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| Michael Howard |
Politician |
7-Jul-1941 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1993-97 |
| Geoffrey Howe |
Politician |
20-Dec-1926 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1983-89 |
| John Howe |
Religion |
17-May-1630 |
2-Apr-1706 |
The Living Temple |
| David Howell |
Politician |
18-Jan-1936 |
|
Former MP, Guildford |
| Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Steady-state universe |
| Arianna Huffington |
Columnist |
15-Jul-1950 |
|
The Huffington Post |
| Ted Hughes |
Poet |
16-Aug-1930 |
28-Aug-1998 |
Crow |
| Tim Hunt |
Scientist |
19-Feb-1943 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
| Douglas Hurd |
Politician |
8-Mar-1930 |
|
Former UK Home, Foreign Secretary |
| Andrew F. Huxley |
Scientist |
22-Nov-1917 |
|
Electrical impulses in nerves |
| Michael Ignatieff |
Author |
12-May-1947 |
|
Blood and Belonging |
| David Ignatius |
Columnist |
1950 |
|
Washington Post op-ed columnist |
| Andy Inglis |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO Exploration & Production, BP |
| Christopher Isherwood |
Author |
26-Aug-1904 |
4-Jan-1986 |
The Berlin Stories |
| Derek Jacobi |
Actor |
22-Oct-1938 |
|
Claudius on I, Claudius |
| M. R. James |
Author |
1-Aug-1862 |
12-Jun-1936 |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
| Patrick Jenkin |
Politician |
7-Sep-1926 |
|
Former MP, Wanstead and Woodford |
| David L. Johnston |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
President, University of Waterloo |
| G. Lewis Jones |
Diplomat |
18-May-1907 |
13-Nov-1971 |
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1956-59 |
| Griff Rhys Jones |
Actor |
6-Nov-1953 |
|
Alas Smith & Jones |
| Harold Spencer Jones |
Astronomer |
29-Mar-1890 |
3-Nov-1960 |
10th Royal Astronomer of England |
| Simon Jones |
Actor |
27-Jul-1950 |
|
Arthur Dent on radio Hitchhiker's Guide |
| Ben Jonson |
Playwright |
11-Jun-1572 |
6-Aug-1637 |
Volpone |
| Brian D. Josephson |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Discovered the Josephson Effect |
| Pyotr Kapitsa |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1894 |
8-Apr-1984 |
Discovered superfluidity |
| John C. Kendrew |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1917 |
23-Aug-1997 |
Determined structure of myoglobin |
| Otto Kerner |
Politician |
15-Aug-1908 |
9-May-1976 |
Governor of Illinois, 1961-68 |
| Roy Kerr |
Mathematician |
16-May-1934 |
|
Rotating black holes |
| John Maynard Keynes |
Economist |
5-Jun-1883 |
21-Apr-1946 |
Economist advocated deficit necessity |
| Ancel Keys |
Scientist |
26-Jan-1904 |
20-Nov-2004 |
Nutritionist, created the K ration |
| H. Gobind Khorana |
Scientist |
9-Jan-1922 |
|
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Aaron Klug |
Chemist |
11-Aug-1926 |
|
Structural analysis of viruses |
| Georges J.F. Köhler |
Scientist |
17-Apr-1946 |
1-Mar-1995 |
Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies) |
| John A. Koskinen |
Business |
30-Jun-1939 |
|
President, US Soccer Foundation |
| Howard J. Krongard |
Government |
12-Dec-1940 |
|
US State Dept Inspector General |
| Anthony Lake |
Government |
2-Apr-1939 |
|
Clinton's National Security Advisor |
| Norman Lamont |
Politician |
8-May-1942 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1990-93 |
| Ian Lang |
Politician |
27-Jun-1940 |
|
British MP for Galloway, 1979-97 |
| Paul Langevin |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1872 |
19-Dec-1946 |
Studied piezoelectricity |
| Lewis Lapham |
Editor |
8-Jan-1935 |
|
Editor Emeritus, Harper's |
| Hugh Latimer |
Religion |
c. 1490 |
16-Oct-1555 |
English Reformation |
| Hugh Laurie |
Actor |
11-Jun-1959 |
|
Jeeves and Wooster |
| William Law |
Religion |
1686 |
9-Apr-1761 |
Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life |
| Louis Leakey |
Anthropologist |
7-Aug-1903 |
1-Oct-1972 |
Discovered Homo Habilis |
| John F. Lehman |
Politician |
14-Sep-1942 |
|
9-11 Commission member |
| John Lehmann |
Poet |
2-Jun-1907 |
7-Apr-1987 |
Thrown to the Woolfs |
| Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
| Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
| David K. P. Li |
Business |
13-Mar-1939 |
|
CEO, Bank of East Asia |
| Selwyn Lloyd |
Politician |
28-Jul-1904 |
18-May-1978 |
Speaker, House of Commons, 1971-76 |
| Louise Lombard |
Actor |
13-Sep-1970 |
|
Sofia Curtis on CSI |
| Lee Hsien Loong |
Head of State |
10-Feb-1952 |
|
Prime Minister of Singapore |
| Graham Love |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of QinetiQ |
| Malcolm Lowry |
Novelist |
28-Jul-1909 |
27-Jun-1957 |
Under the Volcano |
| André Lwoff |
Scientist |
8-May-1902 |
30-Sep-1994 |
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Michael Lynch |
Business |
1965 |
|
Founder and CEO of Autonomy Corporation |
| Donald Lynden-Bell |
Astronomer |
5-Apr-1935 |
|
Astrophysicist at Cambridge |
| Jonathan Lynn |
Screenwriter |
3-Apr-1943 |
|
Yes, Minister |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Historian |
25-Oct-1800 |
28-Dec-1859 |
History of England |
| Alan G. MacDiarmid |
Chemist |
14-Apr-1927 |
7-Feb-2007 |
Metallic polymers |
| Heather Mac Donald |
Columnist |
c. 1956 |
|
Neoconservative bombthrower |
| Donald Maclean |
Spy |
25-May-1913 |
6-Mar-1983 |
Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five |
| Fitzroy Maclean |
Politician |
11-Mar-1911 |
15-Jun-1996 |
Eastern Approaches |
| Iain Macleod |
Politician |
11-Nov-1913 |
20-Jul-1970 |
UK Colonial Secretary, 1959-61 |
| John Madden |
Film Director |
8-Apr-1949 |
|
Shakespeare in Love |
| John Makinson |
Business |
? |
|
Chairman & CEO, Penguin Group |
| Miriam Margolyes |
Actor |
18-May-1941 |
|
The Age of Innocence |
| Christopher Marlowe |
Playwright |
6-Feb-1564 |
30-May-1593 |
Doctor Faustus |
| Richard Marquand |
Film Director |
17-Apr-1938 |
4-Sep-1987 |
Return of the Jedi |
| Archer J. P. Martin |
Chemist |
1-Mar-1910 |
28-Jul-2002 |
Partition chromatography |
| Andrew Marvell |
Poet |
31-Mar-1621 |
18-Aug-1678 |
English poet and member of Parliament |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| James Mason |
Actor |
15-May-1909 |
27-Jul-1984 |
North by Northwest |
| Harrie Massey |
Astronomer |
16-May-1908 |
27-Nov-1983 |
British National Committee for Space Research |
| Ann Mather |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CFO of Pixar, 1999-2004 |
| Arjun K. Mathrani |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CFO of Chase Manhattan, 1994-96 |
| Drummond Matthews |
Geologist |
5-Feb-1931 |
20-Jul-1997 |
Plate tectonics |
| Frederick Denison Maurice |
Religion |
29-Aug-1805 |
1-Apr-1872 |
19th c. Anglican theologian |
| James Clerk Maxwell |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1831 |
5-Nov-1879 |
Maxwell's Equations |
| Thomas May |
Poet |
1595 |
13-Nov-1650 |
The History of the Long Parliament |
| John Maynard Smith |
Biologist |
6-Jan-1920 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
| John McCallum |
Politician |
9-Apr-1950 |
|
Canadian MP, Markham--Unionville |
| William McDougall |
Psychologist |
22-Jun-1871 |
28-Nov-1938 |
An Introduction to Social Psychology |
| Ian McKellen |
Actor |
25-May-1939 |
|
Gandalf the Grey |
| Marshall McLuhan |
Author |
21-Jul-1911 |
31-Dec-1980 |
The medium is the message |
| John McNee |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the UN |
| John McPhee |
Author |
8-Mar-1931 |
|
Annals of the Former World |
| David J. P. Meachin |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Cross Border Enterprises |
| James Edward Meade |
Economist |
23-Jun-1907 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Theory of International Economic Policy |
| Paul Mellon |
Philanthropist |
11-Jun-1907 |
1-Feb-1999 |
Yale Center for British Art benefactor |
| Sam Mendes |
Film Director |
1-Aug-1965 |
|
American Beauty |
| Thomas Merton |
Author |
31-Jan-1915 |
10-Dec-1968 |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
| John Michell |
Geologist |
1724 |
21-Apr-1793 |
Phaenomena of Earthquakes |
| Jonathan Miller |
Film Director |
21-Jul-1934 |
|
Beyond the Fringe |
| Robert L. Mills |
Physicist |
15-Apr-1927 |
27-Oct-1999 |
Subatomic particles |
| A. A. Milne |
Author |
18-Jan-1882 |
31-Jan-1956 |
Winnie the Pooh |
| E. Arthur Milne |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1896 |
21-Sep-1950 |
Kinematic relativity |
| Richard Monckton Milnes |
Poet |
19-Jun-1809 |
11-Aug-1885 |
Poetry for the People |
| César Milstein |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1927 |
24-Mar-2002 |
Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies) |
| John Milton |
Poet |
9-Dec-1608 |
8-Nov-1674 |
Paradise Lost |
| James A. Mirrlees |
Economist |
5-Jul-1936 |
|
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Peter Mitchell |
Chemist |
29-Sep-1920 |
10-Apr-1992 |
ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia |
| Keith Moffatt |
Mathematician |
12-Apr-1935 |
|
Fluid dynamics |
| Mark Moody-Stuart |
Business |
15-Sep-1940 |
|
Chairman of Anglo American |
| Philip Moon |
Physicist |
17-May-1907 |
9-Oct-1994 |
Gamma ray fluorescence |
| G. E. Moore |
Philosopher |
4-Nov-1873 |
24-Oct-1958 |
Principia Ethica |
| Simon Conway Morris |
Paleontologist |
1951 |
|
Evolutionary paleobiologist |
| Nevill F. Mott |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1905 |
8-Aug-1996 |
Properties of semiconductors |
| Lord Mountbatten |
Military |
25-Jun-1900 |
27-Aug-1979 |
Last Viceroy of India |
| Malcolm Muggeridge |
Author |
24-Mar-1903 |
14-Nov-1990 |
Highly iconoclastic English wit |
| Frederick Mulley |
Politician |
3-Jul-1918 |
15-Mar-1995 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1976-79 |
| Iris Murdoch |
Novelist |
15-Jul-1919 |
8-Feb-1999 |
The Sea, the Sea |
| Richard W. Murphy |
Diplomat |
1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1974-78 |
| Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
02-Jul-1977 |
Lolita |
| Joseph Needham |
Historian |
9-Dec-1900 |
24-Mar-1995 |
Science and Civilization in China |
| Jawaharlal Nehru |
Head of State |
14-Nov-1889 |
27-May-1964 |
First Prime Minister of India |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of modern physics |
| Thandie Newton |
Actor |
6-Nov-1972 |
|
The Truth About Charlie |
| Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
| Philip Noel-Baker |
Politician |
1-Nov-1889 |
8-Oct-1982 |
Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN |
| Ronald G. W. Norrish |
Chemist |
9-Nov-1897 |
7-Jun-1978 |
Studied fast chemical reactions |
| John Nott |
Politician |
1-Feb-1932 |
|
Defence Minister during Falklands War |
| Trevor Nunn |
Theater Director |
14-Jan-1940 |
|
Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968-86 |
| Brendan O'Neill |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Imperial Chemical Industries, 1999-2003 |
| Titus Oates |
Criminal |
15-Sep-1649 |
12-Jul-1705 |
Popish Plot |
| Sophie Okonedo |
Actor |
1-Jan-1969 |
|
Hotel Rwanda |
| Mark Oliphant |
Physicist |
8-Oct-1901 |
14-Jul-2000 |
Deuterium reactions |
| John Oliver |
Comic |
1977 |
|
The Daily Show |
| Frank Oppenheimer |
Relative |
14-Aug-1912 |
3-Feb-1985 |
Founder of the Exploratorium |
| Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
| William Oughtred |
Mathematician |
5-Mar-1574 |
30-Jun-1660 |
Inventor of the slide rule |
| David Owen |
Politician |
2-Jul-1938 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1977-79 |
| William Paley |
Religion |
1743 |
25-May-1805 |
Moral and Political Philosophy |
| Seymour Papert |
Computer Programmer |
1-Mar-1928 |
|
Programming language LOGO |
| Matthew Parker |
Religion |
6-Aug-1504 |
15-May-1575 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-75 |
| Cecil Parkinson |
Politician |
1-Sep-1931 |
|
Thatcherite MP and Minister |
| Charles Stewart Parnell |
Politician |
27-Jun-1846 |
6-Oct-1891 |
Irish Nationalist leader |
| Thomas Parnell |
Poet |
1679 |
1718 |
The Hermit |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| George Peacock |
Mathematician |
9-Apr-1791 |
8-Nov-1858 |
Treatise on Algebra |
| Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
| Vladimir Peniakoff |
Military |
30-Mar-1897 |
May-1951 |
Head of Popski's Private Army |
| Roger Penrose |
Mathematician |
8-Aug-1931 |
|
Cosmologist and theoretical physicist |
| Samuel Pepys |
Author |
23-Feb-1633 |
26-May-1703 |
London diarist |
| Spencer Perceval |
Head of State |
1-Nov-1762 |
11-May-1812 |
UK Prime Minister, 1809-12 |
| Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
| John Pethica |
Physicist |
1953 |
|
Atomic force microscopy |
| Kim Philby |
Spy |
1-Jan-1912 |
11-May-1988 |
One of the Cambridge Five in MI6 |
| Ambrose Philips |
Poet |
c. 1675 |
18-Jun-1749 |
Pastorals |
| Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
| William Pitt the Younger |
Head of State |
28-May-1759 |
23-Jan-1806 |
UK Prime Minister |
| Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Daddy |
| George Plimpton |
Author |
18-Mar-1927 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Paper Lion |
| J. H. Plumb |
Historian |
20-Aug-1911 |
21-Oct-2001 |
England in the Eighteenth Century |
| Norman Podhoretz |
Author |
16-Jan-1930 |
|
Prominent neocon author |
| John A. Pople |
Chemist |
31-Oct-1925 |
15-Mar-2004 |
Quantum mechanics of molecules |
| Rodney R. Porter |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1917 |
6-Sep-1985 |
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Michael Portillo |
Politician |
26-May-1953 |
|
Former Conservative MP |
| Andrew Powell |
Musician |
18-Apr-1949 |
|
Orchestral arranger for Alan Parsons |
| Cecil Powell |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1903 |
9-Aug-1969 |
Discovered the pi-meson |
| Enoch Powell |
Politician |
16-Jun-1912 |
8-Feb-1998 |
British demagogue |
| John Cowper Powys |
Novelist |
8-Oct-1872 |
17-Jun-1963 |
Wolf Solent |
| J. B. Priestley |
Novelist |
13-Sep-1894 |
14-Aug-1984 |
An Inspector Calls |
| James Prior |
Politician |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
Minister for Northern Ireland, 1981-84 |
| Frederic Prokosch |
Novelist |
17-May-1908 |
6-Jun-1989 |
The Skies of Europe |
| Joseph Proudman |
Mathematician |
30-Dec-1888 |
26-Jun-1975 |
Tidal currents |
| Reginald Punnett |
Biologist |
20-Jun-1875 |
3-Jan-1967 |
Early geneticist |
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