Comprised of 31 independent, self-governing colleges: Lucy Cavendish College, Christ's College, Churchill College, Clare College, Clare Hall, Corpus Christi College, Darwin College, Downing College, Murray Edwards College (a/k/a New Hall), Emmanuel College, Fitzwilliam College, Girton College, Gonville & Caius College, Homerton College, Hughes Hall, Jesus College, King's College, Magdalene College, Newnham College, Pembroke College, Peterhouse, Queens' College, Robinson College, St Catharine's College, St Edmund's College, St John's College, Selwyn College, Sidney Sussex College, Trinity College, Trinity Hall, and Wolfson College.
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 |
Liaquat Ahamed |
Economist |
14-Nov-1952 |
|
Lords of Finance |
George Biddell Airy |
Astronomer |
27-Jul-1801 |
2-Jan-1892 |
British Astronomer Royal |
Mark Akenside |
Poet |
9-Nov-1721 |
23-Jun-1770 |
The Pleasures of the Imagination |
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 |
Mulk Raj Anand |
Novelist |
22-Dec-1905 |
28-Sep-2004 |
Untouchable |
Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
|
Solid state physics |
Ross Anderson |
Scholar |
15-Sep-1956 |
|
Why Cryptosystems Fail |
Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Philosopher |
8-May-1954 |
|
The Ethics of Identity |
Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
Michael Apted |
Film Director |
10-Feb-1941 |
|
Gorillas in the Mist |
John Arden |
Playwright |
26-Oct-1930 |
|
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance |
David Armitage |
Historian |
1965 |
|
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire |
Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
Roger Ascham |
Scholar |
1515 |
30-Dec-1568 |
The Scholemaster |
Francis W. Aston |
Chemist |
1-Sep-1877 |
20-Nov-1945 |
Invented the mass spectograph |
Michael Atiyah |
Mathematician |
22-Apr-1929 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
David Attenborough |
Naturalist |
8-May-1926 |
|
Life on Earth |
Richard Ayoade |
Actor |
12-Jun-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 |
Deborah Baker |
Author |
28-Mar-1959 |
|
In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding |
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 |
19-Apr-2009 |
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 |
Robert Bartlett |
Historian |
27-Nov-1950 |
|
The Making of Europe |
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 |
Michael Bentley |
Historian |
8-Dec-1948 |
|
The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929 |
Richard Bentley |
Critic |
27-Jan-1662 |
14-Jul-1742 |
Reformed classical scholarship |
J. D. Bernal |
Physicist |
10-May-1901 |
15-Sep-1971 |
X-ray crystallography |
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 |
David Blackbourn |
Historian |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
Populists and Patricians |
Elizabeth H. Blackburn |
Scientist |
26-Nov-1948 |
|
Co-Discoverer of telomerase |
Patrick M. S. Blackett |
Physicist |
18-Nov-1897 |
13-Jul-1974 |
Cosmic radiation, continental drift |
Arthur Bliss |
Composer |
2-Aug-1891 |
28-Mar-1975 |
Morning Heroes |
Hans Blix |
Government |
28-Jun-1928 |
|
Weapons inspector before Iraq War |
Anthony Blunt |
Art 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 |
Hugh Bonneville |
Actor |
10-Nov-1963 |
|
Downton Abbey |
Max Born |
Physicist |
11-Dec-1882 |
5-Jan-1970 |
Pioneer of quantum mechanics |
J. C. Bose |
Botanist |
30-Nov-1858 |
23-Nov-1937 |
Plant physiology |
John Bossy |
Historian |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
Christianity in the West |
Steve Bourne |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
/bin/sh |
David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Brendan Bradshaw |
Historian |
28-May-1937 |
|
And So Began the Irish Nation |
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 |
E. R. Braithwaite |
Novelist |
27-Jun-1912 |
|
To Sir, with Love |
John Brewer |
Historian |
22-Mar-1947 |
|
The Sinews of Power |
William Bridgeman |
Politician |
31-Dec-1864 |
14-Aug-1935 |
UK Home Secretary, 1922-24 |
Leon Brittan |
Politician |
25-Sep-1939 |
21-Jan-2015 |
UK Home Secretary, 1983-85 |
Eleanor Bron |
Actor |
14-Mar-1934 |
|
A Touch of Love |
Lyndon Brook |
Actor |
10-Apr-1926 |
9-Jan-2004 |
Reach for the Sky |
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 |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Astronomer |
15-Jul-1943 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
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 |
Charles W. Burson |
Attorney |
c. 1944 |
|
Al Gore's Chief of Staff, 1999-2001 |
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 |
Herbert Butterfield |
Historian |
7-Oct-1900 |
20-Jul-1979 |
The Whig Interpretation of History |
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 |
José A. Cabranes |
Judge |
22-Dec-1940 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
John Caius |
Doctor |
6-Oct-1510 |
29-Jul-1573 |
Second founder of Gonville and Caius College |
Jonathan Cake |
Actor |
31-Aug-1967 |
|
The One and Only |
A. E. Campbell |
Historian |
12-May-1929 |
2002 |
Great Britain and the United States |
Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1836 |
22-Apr-1908 |
UK Prime Minister, 1905-08 |
Thomas Campion |
Composer |
12-Feb-1567 |
1-Mar-1620 |
English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres |
David Cannadine |
Historian |
7-Sep-1950 |
|
Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy |
E. H. Carr |
Historian |
28-Jun-1892 |
3-Nov-1982 |
The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939 |
Robert Carr |
Politician |
11-Nov-1916 |
17-Feb-2012 |
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 |
Paul Cavanagh |
Actor |
8-Dec-1888 |
15-Mar-1964 |
The Scarlet Claw |
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 |
David Cesarani |
Historian |
13-Nov-1956 |
25-Oct-2015 |
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes |
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 |
Isolated 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 |
Evolutionary stages of stars |
Ha-Joon Chang |
Economist |
7-Oct-1963 |
|
Kicking Away the Ladder |
Graham Chapman |
Comic |
8-Jan-1941 |
4-Oct-1989 |
Monty Python's King Arthur |
Sydney Chapman |
Mathematician |
29-Jan-1888 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Geomagnetism |
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 |
3-Mar-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 |
A. J. Clark |
Scientist |
19-Aug-1885 |
30-Jul-1941 |
Drug responses |
J. C. D. Clark |
Historian |
28-Feb-1951 |
|
English Society, 1688-1832 |
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 |
Nick Clegg |
Politician |
7-Jan-1967 |
|
Leader of the Liberal Democrats |
Paul Clement |
Government |
24-Jun-1966 |
|
US Solicitor General, 2005-08 |
John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
Christopher Cockerell |
Inventor |
4-Jun-1910 |
1-Jun-1999 |
Hovercraft |
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, Cond� Nast |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poet |
21-Oct-1772 |
25-Jul-1834 |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Linda Colley |
Historian |
13-Sep-1949 |
|
Britons: Forging the Nation |
Anthony Collins |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1676 |
13-Dec-1729 |
A Discourse on Freethinking |
Olivia Colman |
Actor |
30-Jan-1974 |
|
Sophie Chapman on Peep Show |
Alex Comfort |
Doctor |
10-Feb-1920 |
26-Mar-2000 |
The Joy of Sex |
Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
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 |
Stuart Corbridge |
Geographer |
11-Apr-1957 |
|
Debt and Development |
Allan M. Cormack |
Physicist |
23-Feb-1924 |
7-May-1998 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
E. J. H. Corner |
Botanist |
12-Jan-1906 |
14-Sep-1996 |
Durian theory |
Charles Cornwallis |
Military |
31-Dec-1738 |
5-Oct-1805 |
Surrendered at Yorktown |
John Costello |
Author |
3-May-1943 |
26-Aug-1995 |
The Pacific War |
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 |
Jo Cox |
Politician |
22-Jun-1974 |
16-Jun-2016 |
British MP, Batley and Spen, assassinated |
Gregory B. Craig |
Attorney |
4-Mar-1945 |
|
White House Counsel, 2009 |
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 |
Henry Page Croft |
Politician |
22-Jun-1881 |
7-Dec-1947 |
British Under-Secretary of War, 1940-45 |
Oliver Cromwell |
Government |
25-Apr-1599 |
3-Sep-1658 |
Lord Protector of England 1653-58 |
Aleister Crowley |
Religion |
12-Oct-1875 |
1-Dec-1947 |
Wickedest man in the world |
Roger Crowley |
Historian |
28-Jun-1951 |
|
Empires of the Sea |
Ralph Cudworth |
Philosopher |
1617 |
26-Jun-1688 |
Intellectual System of the Universe |
John Culver |
Politician |
8-Aug-1932 |
|
US Senator from Iowa, 1974-81 |
Barry Cunliffe |
Archaeologist |
10-Dec-1939 |
|
Iron Age Communities in Britain |
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 |
Andrew Davis |
Conductor |
2-Feb-1944 |
|
Music Director, Lyric Opera of Chicago |
Richard Dawes |
Scholar |
1708 |
21-Mar-1766 |
Miscellanea Critica |
John Day |
Playwright |
1574 |
c. 1640 |
The Parliament of Bees |
Alain de Botton |
Author |
20-Dec-1969 |
|
The Architecture of Happiness |
Aubrey de Grey |
Biologist |
20-Apr-1963 |
|
Researcher of regenerative medicine |
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 |
Jared Diamond |
Scientist |
10-Sep-1937 |
|
Guns, Germs and Steel |
Lincoln Diaz-Balart |
Politician |
13-Aug-1954 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1993-2011 |
Paul Dirac |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1902 |
20-Oct-1984 |
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
Avinash K. Dixit |
Economist |
6-Aug-1944 |
|
Investment Under Uncertainty |
Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
12-Sep-2013 |
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 Institute for Advanced Study |
Terry Eagleton |
Critic |
22-Feb-1943 |
|
Literary Theory: An Introduction |
Abba Eban |
Government |
2-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-2002 |
Foreign Minister of Israel, 1966-74 |
Myron Ebell |
Activist |
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 |
Robert G. Edwards |
Scientist |
27-Sep-1925 |
10-Apr-2013 |
In vitro fertilization |
Jennifer Egan |
Novelist |
6-Sep-1962 |
|
A Visit from the Goon Squad |
Herb Elliott |
Track and Field |
25-Feb-1938 |
|
Middle distance runner |
Daniel Ellsberg |
Government |
7-Apr-1931 |
|
Pentagon Papers source |
Mark Elvin |
Historian |
18-Aug-1938 |
|
The Pattern of the Chinese Past |
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 Cam�es |
Julian Fellowes |
Actor |
17-Aug-1949 |
|
Shadowlands |
Niall Ferguson |
Historian |
18-Apr-1964 |
|
The House of Rothschild |
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. |
Government |
28-Oct-1951 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF |
Marshall Field III |
Business |
28-Sep-1893 |
8-Nov-1956 |
Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times |
Orlando Figes |
Historian |
20-Nov-1959 |
|
A People's Tragedy |
Antony Fisher |
Activist |
1915 |
Jul-1988 |
Libertarian think-tank founder |
John Fisher |
Religion |
19-Oct-1469 |
22-Jun-1535 |
Saint John Fisher, executed by Henry VIII |
Ronald Fisher |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1890 |
29-Jul-1962 |
Analysis of variance and covariance |
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 |
John Fletcher |
Playwright |
1579 |
29-Aug-1625 |
Collaborator with Francis Beaumont |
Howard Florey |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1898 |
21-Feb-1968 |
Isolated penicillin |
Mary Parker Follett |
Business |
3-Sep-1868 |
18-Dec-1933 |
Community centers and conflict resolution |
Sarah Foot |
Historian |
23-Feb-1961 |
|
Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England |
Trent Ford |
Actor |
16-Jan-1979 |
|
How to Deal |
E. M. Forster |
Author |
1-Jan-1879 |
7-Jun-1970 |
Howards 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 |
William A. Fowler |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1911 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Element generation within stars |
Joseph S. Francisco |
Chemist |
1955 |
|
Atmospheric chemist |
Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist |
25-Jul-1920 |
16-Apr-1958 |
Photographed DNA's structure |
Peter Fraser |
Politician |
29-May-1945 |
23-Jun-2013 |
Baron Fraser of Carmyllie |
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 |
31-Aug-2013 |
BBC's Breakfast with Frost |
Stephen Fry |
Actor |
24-Aug-1957 |
|
Jeeves and Wooster |
John H. Gaddum |
Scientist |
31-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1965 |
Drug antagonism |
James K. Galbraith |
Scholar |
29-Jan-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 |
David J. Garrow |
Historian |
11-May-1953 |
|
Bearing the Cross |
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Author |
16-Sep-1950 |
|
The Signifying Monkey |
Michael Geist |
Blogger |
11-Jul-1968 |
|
Internet law professor, University of Ottawa |
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 |
Ivar Giaever |
Physicist |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Tunneling through superconductors |
Anthony Giddens |
Sociologist |
18-Jan-1938 |
|
New Rules of Sociological Method |
Walter Gilbert |
Chemist |
21-Mar-1932 |
|
Sequencing techniques for DNA |
William Gilbert |
Physicist |
24-May-1544 |
10-Dec-1603 |
De Magnete |
Anton Gill |
Author |
22-Oct-1948 |
|
The Journey Back From Hell |
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 |
Maurice Goldhaber |
Physicist |
18-Apr-1911 |
11-May-2011 |
Neutrons |
Ralph E. Gomory |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
George Peabody Gooch |
Historian |
21-Oct-1873 |
31-Aug-1968 |
English Democratic Ideas in the 17th Century |
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 |
Stephen Greenblatt |
Critic |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
The Swerve |
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 |
17-May-2010 |
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 |
27-Sep-2015 |
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 |
Christopher Haigh |
Historian |
28-Aug-1944 |
|
English Reformations |
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 |
Educator |
19-Mar-1932 |
|
Cities in Civilization |
Peter Hall |
Theater Director |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Work Is a 4-Letter Word |
Rebecca Hall |
Actor |
3-May-1982 |
|
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
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 |
Nigel Hamilton |
Author |
16-Feb-1944 |
|
JFK: Reckless Youth |
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 |
Joanne Harris |
Novelist |
3-Jul-1964 |
|
Chocolat |
Naomie Harris |
Actor |
6-Sep-1976 |
|
Pirates of the Caribbean |
Robert Harris |
Author |
7-Mar-1957 |
|
Fatherland |
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 |
Samuel Hartlib |
Scholar |
c. 1600 |
c. 1662 |
Influential German-English man of letters |
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 |
Eric A. Havelock |
Scholar |
3-Jun-1903 |
4-Apr-1988 |
Preface to Plato |
Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Wheelchair-bound physicist |
Norman G. Heatley |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1911 |
5-Jan-2004 |
Isolated penicillin |
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 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
John R. Hicks |
Economist |
8-Apr-1904 |
20-May-1989 |
Value and Capital |
Tom Hiddleston |
Actor |
9-Feb-1981 |
|
Thor |
Raymond Hide |
Physicist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
Archibald V. Hill |
Scientist |
26-Sep-1886 |
3-Jun-1977 |
Studied muscles and nerves |
Carole Hillenbrand |
Historian |
1943 |
|
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives |
James Hilton |
Novelist |
9-Sep-1900 |
20-Dec-1954 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
F. H. Hinsley |
Historian |
26-Nov-1918 |
16-Feb-1998 |
Cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park |
Peter B. Hirsch |
Scientist |
16-Jan-1925 |
|
Electron microscopy in metallurgy |
Benjamin Hoadly |
Religion |
14-Nov-1676 |
17-Apr-1761 |
Anglican Bishop and controversialist |
Eric Hobsbawm |
Historian |
9-Jun-1917 |
1-Oct-2012 |
The Age of Revolution |
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 |
William Holder |
Musicologist |
1616 |
24-Jan-1698 |
Music theorist |
Tom Holland |
Author |
5-Jan-1968 |
|
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic |
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 |
Alistair Horne |
Historian |
9-Nov-1925 |
|
Seven Ages of Paris |
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 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
Michael Howard |
Politician |
7-Jul-1941 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1993-97 |
Geoffrey Howe |
Politician |
20-Dec-1926 |
9-Oct-2015 |
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 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
Arianna Huffington |
Columnist |
15-Jul-1950 |
|
The Huffington Post |
Ted Hughes |
Poet |
16-Aug-1930 |
28-Oct-1998 |
Crow |
T. E. Hulme |
Poet |
16-Sep-1883 |
28-Sep-1917 |
Modernist poet and critic |
Tim Hunt |
Scientist |
19-Feb-1943 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
Douglas Hurd |
Politician |
8-Mar-1930 |
|
Former UK Home, Foreign Secretary |
Waris Hussein |
Film Director |
9-Dec-1938 |
|
Melody |
Andrew F. Huxley |
Scientist |
22-Nov-1917 |
30-May-2012 |
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 |
|
BP's head of exploration & production, 2007-10 |
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 |
Lisa Jardine |
Historian |
12-Apr-1944 |
25-Oct-2015 |
Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse |
James H. Jeans |
Astronomer |
11-Sep-1877 |
16-Sep-1946 |
Continuous creation theory |
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 |
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 |
Tony Judt |
Historian |
2-Jan-1948 |
6-Aug-2010 |
Postwar |
Nicholas Kaldor |
Economist |
12-May-1908 |
30-Sep-1986 |
An Expenditure Tax |
Pyotr Kapitsa |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1894 |
8-Apr-1984 |
Discovered superfluidity |
Steven T. Katz |
Author |
12-Aug-1944 |
|
Professor of Religion |
Barry J. Kemp |
Archaeologist |
1940 |
|
Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation |
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 |
Father of Keynesian economics |
Ancel Keys |
Scientist |
26-Jan-1904 |
20-Nov-2004 |
Nutritionist, created the K ration |
H. Gobind Khorana |
Scientist |
9-Jan-1922 |
9-Nov-2011 |
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 |
Imre Lakatos |
Philosopher |
9-Nov-1922 |
2-Feb-1974 |
Philosopher of Science and Mathematics |
Anthony Lake |
Government |
2-Apr-1939 |
|
Clinton's National Security Advisor |
Norman Lamont |
Politician |
8-May-1942 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1990-93 |
Lev Landau |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1908 |
1-Apr-1968 |
Superfluidity of helium |
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 |
Peter Laslett |
Historian |
18-Dec-1915 |
8-Nov-2001 |
The World We Have Lost |
Hugh Latimer |
Religion |
c. 1490 |
16-Oct-1555 |
English Reformation |
Hugh Laurie |
Actor |
11-Jun-1959 |
|
Jeeves and Wooster, House |
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 |
Nathaniel Lee |
Playwright |
c. 1653 |
6-May-1692 |
The Rival Queens |
John F. Lehman |
Politician |
14-Sep-1942 |
|
9-11 Commission member |
John Lehmann |
Poet |
2-Jun-1907 |
7-Apr-1987 |
Thrown to the Woolfs |
Stanford E. Lehmberg |
Historian |
23-Sep-1931 |
14-Jun-2012 |
Sir Thomas Elyot: Tudor Humanist |
Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
Brian Lenihan |
Politician |
21-May-1959 |
10-Jun-2011 |
Irish Finance Minister, 2008-11 |
Mark Leonard |
Author |
27-Aug-1974 |
|
What Does China Think? |
Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
Ralph Lerner |
Scholar |
2-May-1928 |
|
The Thinking Revolutionary |
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 |
Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Historian |
31-Oct-1951 |
|
Reformation: Europe's House Divided |
Alan G. MacDiarmid |
Chemist |
14-Apr-1927 |
7-Feb-2007 |
Metallic polymers |
Heather Mac Donald |
Columnist |
c. 1956 |
|
Neoconservative bombthrower |
Ian MacDonald |
Critic |
3-Oct-1948 |
20-Aug-2003 |
Revolution in the Head |
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 |
Angus Maddison |
Economist |
6-Dec-1926 |
24-Apr-2010 |
Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD |
F. W. Maitland |
Historian |
28-May-1850 |
19-Dec-1906 |
The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I |
John Makinson |
Business |
? |
|
Chairman & CEO, Penguin Group |
Michael Mandelbaum |
Author |
23-Sep-1946 |
|
The Global Rivals |
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 |
Andrew Marr |
Journalist |
31-Jul-1959 |
|
BBC Political Editor, 2000-05 |
Alfred Marshall |
Economist |
26-Jul-1842 |
13-Jul-1924 |
Principles of Economics |
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 |
Hamish Maxwell |
Business |
24-Aug-1926 |
19-Apr-2014 |
CEO of Philip Morris, 1984-91 |
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 |
Richard Mayne |
Author |
2-Apr-1926 |
29-Nov-2009 |
The Community of Europe |
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 |
Understanding Media |
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 |
Edward Mellanby |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1884 |
30-Jan-1955 |
Rickets |
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 |
Anne Milgram |
Attorney |
c. 1970 |
|
Attorney General of New Jersey, 2007-10 |
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 |
Andrew Mitchell |
Politician |
23-Mar-1956 |
|
British MP, Sutton Coldfield |
David Mitchell |
Comic |
14-Jul-1974 |
|
Peep Show |
Peter Mitchell |
Chemist |
29-Sep-1920 |
10-Apr-1992 |
ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria |
Steven Mithen |
Archaeologist |
16-Oct-1960 |
|
After the Ice |
Keith Moffatt |
Mathematician |
12-Apr-1935 |
|
Fluid dynamics |
Christopher Monckton |
Politician |
14-Feb-1952 |
|
Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party |
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 |
Stanford Moore |
Chemist |
4-Sep-1913 |
23-Aug-1982 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
Richard K. Morgan |
Novelist |
1965 |
|
Altered Carbon |
Simon Conway Morris |
Paleontologist |
6-Nov-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 |
29-Jul-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1974-78 |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
2-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 |
Howard H. Newman |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Partner, Warburg Pincus |
Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
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 |
Rapid chemical processes |
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 |
Michael Oakeshott |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1901 |
19-Dec-1990 |
Rationalism in Politics |
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 |
23-Apr-1977 |
|
Last Week Tonight |
Frank Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
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 |
29-Feb-1928 |
31-Jul-2016 |
Programming language LOGO |
Matthew Parker |
Religion |
6-Aug-1504 |
15-May-1575 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-75 |
Cecil Parkinson |
Politician |
1-Sep-1931 |
22-Jan-2016 |
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 |
|
Theory of cosmic censorship |
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 Elder |
Head of State |
15-Nov-1708 |
11-May-1778 |
Seven Years War |
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 |
J. G. A. Pocock |
Historian |
7-Mar-1924 |
|
The Machiavellian Moment |
Norman Podhoretz |
Author |
16-Jan-1930 |
|
Prominent neocon author |
Richard Poirier |
Critic |
9-Sep-1925 |
15-Aug-2009 |
Raritan, A Quarterly Review |
Martyn Poliakoff |
Physicist |
16-Dec-1947 |
|
The Periodic Table of Videos |
John A. Pople |
Chemist |
31-Oct-1925 |
15-Mar-2004 |
Quantum mechanics of molecules |
George Porter |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1920 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Rapid chemical and biological processes |
Rodney R. Porter |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1917 |
6-Sep-1985 |
Chemical structure of antibodies |
Michael Portillo |
Politician |
26-May-1953 |
|
Former Conservative MP |
George H. Poste |
Biologist |
c. 1944 |
|
Health Technology Networks |
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 |
Simon Preston |
Organist |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
Organist at Westminster Abbey, 1981-87 |
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 |
Francis Pym |
Politician |
13-Feb-1922 |
6-Mar-2008 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1982-83 |
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown |
Anthropologist |
17-Jan-1881 |
24-Oct-1955 |
Father of modern social anthropology |
Tunku Abdul Rahman |
Head of State |
8-Feb-1903 |
6-Dec-1990 |
First Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1957-70 |
Kathleen Raine |
Poet |
14-Jun-1908 |
6-Jul-2003 |
Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
Scientist |
1952 |
|
Ribosomes |
Srinivasa Ramanujan |
Mathematician |
22-Dec-1887 |
26-Apr-1920 |
Self-educated mathematician |
Robin Raphel |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1997-2000 |
Ahmed Rashid |
Author |
8-Jun-1948 |
|
The Resurgence of Central Asia |
Lord Rayleigh |
Physicist |
12-Nov-1842 |
30-Jun-1919 |
Why the sky is blue |
Michael Redgrave |
Actor |
20-Mar-1908 |
21-Mar-1985 |
Mourning Becomes Electra |
Eddie Redmayne |
Actor |
6-Jan-1982 |
|
Red |
Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
Uwe E. Reinhardt |
Educator |
24-Sep-1937 |
|
Health economist |
Robin W. Renwick |
Diplomat |
13-Dec-1937 |
|
UK Ambassador to the US, 1991-95 |
I. A. Richards |
Critic |
26-Feb-1893 |
7-Sep-1979 |
The Meaning of Meaning |
Owen Willans Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Apr-1879 |
15-Feb-1959 |
Electron emissions of metals |
Nicholas Ridley |
Religion |
c. 1500 |
16-Oct-1555 |
Anglican Bishop and martyr |
Jonathan Riley-Smith |
Historian |
27-Jun-1938 |
|
The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading |
Andrew Roberts |
Historian |
13-Jan-1963 |
|
Eminent Churchillians |
Richard J. Roberts |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1943 |
|
Eukaryotic (split) genes |
Charles Stewart Rolls |
Business |
27-Aug-1877 |
12-Jul-1910 |
Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce |
Eugene Victor Rostow |
Educator |
25-Aug-1913 |
25-Nov-2002 |
Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65 |
Edmund de Rothschild |
Business |
2-Jan-1916 |
17-Jan-2009 |
British banker |
William S. Rukeyser |
Journalist |
1939 |
|
Managing Editor of Fortune |
Alan Rusbridger |
Editor |
29-Dec-1953 |
|
Editor of The Guardian |
Salman Rushdie |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1947 |
|
The Satanic Verses |
Bertrand Russell |
Mathematician |
18-May-1872 |
2-Feb-1970 |
Mathematician, atheist, and social critic |
Dora Russell |
Activist |
3-Apr-1894 |
31-May-1986 |
Feminist, birth control and peace activist |
Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
Martin Ryle |
Astronomer |
27-Sep-1918 |
14-Oct-1984 |
Radio astronomer |
Charles Ryskamp |
Administrator |
21-Oct-1928 |
26-Mar-2010 |
Frick Collection Director, 1987-97 |
Abdus Salam |
Physicist |
29-Jan-1926 |
21-Nov-1996 |
Electroweak Theory |
Philippe Sands |
Scholar |
17-Oct-1960 |
|
Lawless World |
Frederick Sanger |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1918 |
19-Nov-2013 |
Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry |
Siegfried Sassoon |
Poet |
8-Sep-1886 |
1-Sep-1967 |
War Poems |
Simon Schama |
Historian |
13-Feb-1945 |
|
Landscape and Memory |
Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
Roger Scruton |
Philosopher |
27-Feb-1944 |
|
The Meaning of Conservatism |
Amartya Sen |
Economist |
3-Nov-1933 |
|
Poverty and Famines |
Thomas Shadwell |
Playwright |
c. 1642 |
19-Nov-1692 |
Epsom Wells |
Peter Shaffer |
Playwright |
15-May-1926 |
6-Jun-2016 |
Amadeus, Equus |
John Shattuck |
Attorney |
1943 |
|
CEO, JFK Library Foundation |
Charles Shaughnessy |
Actor |
9-Feb-1955 |
|
Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny |
Charles Sherrington |
Doctor |
27-Nov-1857 |
4-Mar-1952 |
Neurons and synapses |
James Shirley |
Playwright |
1596 |
29-Oct-1666 |
Love Tricks |
William Shirley |
Government |
2-Dec-1694 |
24-Mar-1771 |
Colonial Governor of Massachusetts |
David Shoenberg |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1911 |
10-Mar-2004 |
Physicist at Cambridge |
Peter Shore |
Politician |
20-May-1924 |
24-Sep-2001 |
Former MP, Stepney |
Henry Sidgwick |
Philosopher |
31-May-1838 |
29-Aug-1900 |
Method of Ethics |
Don Siegel |
Film Director |
26-Oct-1912 |
20-Apr-1991 |
Dirty Harry |
Richard G. Sim |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
APW Ltd. |
Claude Simon |
Novelist |
10-Oct-1913 |
6-Jul-2005 |
Le Tricheur |
Manmohan Singh |
Head of State |
26-Sep-1932 |
|
Prime Minister of India |
Simon Singh |
Author |
19-Sep-1964 |
|
Fermat's Enigma |
John Skelton |
Poet |
c. 1460 |
21-Jun-1529 |
Why come ye nat to courte |
Quentin Skinner |
Historian |
26-Nov-1940 |
|
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought |
Tony Slattery |
Actor |
9-Nov-1959 |
|
Whose Line Is it Anyway? |
Sir Hans Sloane |
Curator |
16-Apr-1660 |
11-Jan-1753 |
Milk chocolate and the British Museum |
Ali Smith |
Author |
24-Aug-1962 |
|
There But For The |
C. Aubrey Smith |
Actor |
21-Jul-1863 |
20-Dec-1948 |
The Four Feathers |
Zadie Smith |
Novelist |
27-Oct-1975 |
|
White Teeth |
Jan Smuts |
Politician |
24-May-1870 |
11-Sep-1950 |
South African Prime Minister |
C. P. Snow |
Author |
15-Oct-1905 |
1-Jul-1980 |
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution |
Iain Softley |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1956 |
|
K-PAX |
Henry Spelman |
Scholar |
c. 1564 |
Oct-1641 |
English antiquary |
Jonathan D. Spence |
Historian |
11-Aug-1936 |
|
The Search for Modern China |
Harold Spencer Jones |
Astronomer |
29-Mar-1890 |
3-Nov-1960 |
10th Royal Astronomer of England |
Edmund Spenser |
Poet |
c. 1552 |
13-Jan-1599 |
The Faerie Queene |
John Sperling |
Business |
9-Jan-1921 |
22-Aug-2014 |
Founder, University of Phoenix |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
Richard Spring |
Politician |
24-Sep-1946 |
|
British MP, West Suffolk |
Norman St. John-Stevas |
Politician |
18-May-1929 |
2-Mar-2012 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81 |
Barbara Stallings |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Watson Institute for International Studies |
Sir Leslie Stephen |
Encyclopaedist |
28-Nov-1832 |
22-Feb-1904 |
Dictionary of National Biography |
Laurence Sterne |
Novelist |
24-Nov-1713 |
18-Mar-1768 |
Tristram Shandy |
Dan Stevens |
Actor |
10-Oct-1982 |
|
Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey |
Dennis Stevenson |
Business |
19-Jul-1945 |
|
Chairman of HBOS |
Ian Stewart |
Mathematician |
24-Sep-1945 |
|
Catastrophe theory |
Potter Stewart |
Judge |
23-Jan-1915 |
7-Dec-1985 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81 |
Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
George Gabriel Stokes |
Physicist |
13-Aug-1819 |
1-Feb-1903 |
Fluid dynamicist, optic waves |
Richard Stone |
Economist |
30-Aug-1913 |
6-Dec-1991 |
National Income and Expenditure |
Lytton Strachey |
Author |
1-Mar-1880 |
21-Jan-1932 |
Eminent Victorians |
Bjarne Stroustrup |
Computer Programmer |
1950 |
|
Inventor of C++ programming language |
William Stukeley |
Historian |
7-Nov-1687 |
3-Mar-1765 |
Stonehenge, a Temple Restored |
Sir John Suckling |
Poet |
1609 |
1642 |
Fragmenta Aurea |
Thomas J. Sugrue |
Historian |
24-Jul-1962 |
|
The Origins of the Urban Crisis |
John E. Sulston |
Scientist |
27-Mar-1942 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
Clive Swift |
Actor |
9-Feb-1936 |
|
Keeping Up Appearances |
Graham Swift |
Novelist |
4-May-1949 |
|
Last Orders |
Tilda Swinton |
Actor |
5-Nov-1960 |
|
The Deep End |
Thomas Sydenham |
Doctor |
13-Sep-1624 |
29-Dec-1689 |
The English Hippocrates |
James Joseph Sylvester |
Mathematician |
3-Sep-1814 |
15-Mar-1897 |
Studied finite analysis |
Richard L. M. Synge |
Chemist |
28-Oct-1914 |
18-Aug-1994 |
Partition chromatography |
Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
Peter Guthrie Tait |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1831 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Treatise on Quaternions |
William Henry Fox Talbot |
Inventor |
11-Feb-1800 |
17-Sep-1877 |
Calotype method of photography |
Brook Taylor |
Mathematician |
18-Aug-1685 |
29-Dec-1731 |
Calculus of Finite Differences |
Jeremy Taylor |
Religion |
15-Aug-1613 |
13-Aug-1667 |
Holy Living and Holy Dying |
J. André Teixeira |
Business |
17-Jun-1952 |
|
President of Coca-Cola Russia, 1998-2001 |
Harold Temperley |
Historian |
20-Apr-1879 |
11-Jul-1939 |
The Foreign Policy of Canning |
Julien Temple |
Film Director |
26-Nov-1953 |
|
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Poet |
6-Aug-1809 |
6-Oct-1892 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
Novelist |
18-Jul-1811 |
24-Dec-1863 |
Vanity Fair |
Stephan Thernstrom |
Scholar |
1934 |
|
Neoconservative thinker |
D'Arcy Thompson |
Biologist |
2-May-1860 |
21-Jun-1948 |
On Growth and Form |
E. P. Thompson |
Historian |
3-Feb-1924 |
28-Aug-1993 |
The Making of the English Working Class |
Emma Thompson |
Actor |
15-Apr-1959 |
|
Howard's End |
George Paget Thomson |
Physicist |
3-May-1892 |
10-Sep-1975 |
Diffraction of electrons |
J. J. Thomson |
Physicist |
18-Dec-1856 |
30-Aug-1940 |
Discovered the electron |
Ken Thomson |
Business |
1-Sep-1923 |
12-Jun-2006 |
Ex-CEO, Thomson Corp. |
Brian Tierney |
Scholar |
1-May-1922 |
|
Origins of Papal Infallibility |
Stephen Timms |
Politician |
29-Jul-1955 |
|
Labour MP for East Ham, stabbed |
Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nucleic acid, nucleotides |
Eckhart Tolle |
Religion |
16-Feb-1948 |
|
The Power of Now |
John Townsend |
Mathematician |
7-Jun-1868 |
16-Feb-1957 |
Electron's charge |
G. M. Trevelyan |
Historian |
16-Feb-1876 |
21-Jul-1962 |
England under Queen Anne |
Roger Y. Tsien |
Scientist |
1-Feb-1952 |
24-Aug-2016 |
Green Fluorescent Protein |
Richard Tuck |
Educator |
9-Jan-1949 |
|
Natural Rights Theories |
Alan Turing |
Mathematician |
23-Jun-1912 |
7-Jun-1954 |
Computing pioneer |
Herbert Hall Turner |
Astronomer |
13-Aug-1861 |
20-Aug-1930 |
Stellar positions |
Paul Twomey |
Business |
18-Jul-1961 |
|
CEO of ICANN |
William Tyndale |
Religion |
1492 |
6-Oct-1536 |
Bible translator, burnt at the stake |
Tom Udall |
Politician |
18-May-1948 |
|
US Senator from New Mexico |
David M. Upton |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Professor at HBS |
Yanis Varoufakis |
Economist |
24-Mar-1961 |
|
Greek Finance Minister |
Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Composer |
12-Oct-1872 |
26-Aug-1958 |
Sinfonia Antarctica |
John Venn |
Mathematician |
4-Aug-1834 |
4-Apr-1923 |
Venn diagrams |
Frederick Vine |
Geologist |
17-Jun-1939 |
|
Plate tectonics |
Justine Waddell |
Actor |
4-Nov-1976 |
|
Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
Sir Thomas Francis Wade |
Diplomat |
25-Aug-1818 |
31-Jul-1895 |
British envoy to China |
Edmund Waller |
Poet |
3-Mar-1606 |
21-Oct-1687 |
Go, Lovely Rose |
John Wallis |
Mathematician |
23-Nov-1616 |
28-Oct-1703 |
Arithmetica Infinitorum |
Robert Walmsley |
Military |
1-Feb-1941 |
|
Retired Royal Navy Admiral |
Horace Walpole |
Author |
24-Sep-1717 |
2-Mar-1797 |
Wrote the first Gothic novel |
Robert Walpole |
Head of State |
26-Aug-1676 |
18-Mar-1745 |
UK's first Prime Minister |
Sir Francis Walsingham |
Government |
c. 1532 |
6-Apr-1590 |
Secretary to Elizabeth I |
Ernest T. S. Walton |
Physicist |
6-Oct-1903 |
25-Jun-1995 |
Split the atom |
Michael Walzer |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1935 |
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Just and Unjust Wars |
Nathaniel Ward |
Religion |
c. 1578 |
Oct-1652 |
Wrote Massachusetts' Body of Liberties |
Peter Watkins |
Film Director |
29-Oct-1935 |
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Punishment Park |
Douglas G. Watson |
Business |
c. 1945 |
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CEO of Novartis USA, 1996-99 |
James Watson |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1928 |
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Co-Discoverer of DNA |
Robert Webb |
Comic |
29-Sep-1972 |
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Peep Show |
Eugen Weber |
Historian |
24-Apr-1925 |
17-May-2007 |
The Western Tradition |
Rachel Weisz |
Actor |
7-Mar-1971 |
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The Constant Gardener |
W. C. Wentworth |
Government |
1790 |
20-Mar-1872 |
Australian patriot |
William Whiston |
Religion |
9-Dec-1667 |
22-Aug-1752 |
Apostolical Constitutions |
Patrick White |
Novelist |
28-May-1912 |
30-Sep-1990 |
Riders in the Chariot |
T. H. White |
Author |
29-May-1906 |
17-Jan-1964 |
The Once and Future King |
Alfred North Whitehead |
Mathematician |
15-Feb-1861 |
30-Dec-1947 |
Metaphysical mathematician |
William Whitelaw |
Politician |
28-Jun-1918 |
1-Jul-1999 |
UK Deputy Prime Minister, 1979-88 |
Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
William Wilberforce |
Activist |
24-Aug-1759 |
29-Jul-1833 |
Abolitionist activist and author |
Andrew Wiles |
Mathematician |
11-Apr-1953 |
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Proved Fermat's Last Theorem |
Malcolm R. Wilkey |
Judge |
6-Dec-1918 |
15-Aug-2009 |
US Ambassador to Uruguay, 1985-90 |
Maurice Wilkins |
Biologist |
15-Dec-1916 |
5-Oct-2004 |
Took X-ray pictures of DNA |
Olivia Williams |
Actor |
26-Jul-1968 |
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The Sixth Sense |
Raymond Williams |
Critic |
31-Aug-1921 |
26-Jan-1988 |
Culture and Society |
Roger Williams |
Religion |
c. 1604 |
1684 |
Founder of Rhode Island Colony |
Rowan Williams |
Religion |
14-Jun-1950 |
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Archbishop of Canterbury |
Barry W. Wilson |
Business |
c. 1945 |
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Senior VP at Medtronic |
C. T. R. Wilson |
Physicist |
14-Feb-1869 |
15-Nov-1959 |
Cloud chamber |
Peter H. Wilson |
Historian |
1963 |
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The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy |
Tony Wilson |
TV Personality |
20-Feb-1950 |
10-Aug-2007 |
Founder of Factory Records |
Sophie Winkleman |
Actor |
5-Aug-1980 |
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The Trial of Tony Blair |
Michael Winner |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1935 |
20-Jan-2013 |
Death Wish |
John Winthrop |
Politician |
12-Jan-1588 |
26-Mar-1649 |
Governor of Massachusetts Colony |
William Wollaston |
Philosopher |
26-Mar-1659 |
29-Oct-1724 |
The Religion of Nature Delineated |
William Hyde Wollaston |
Chemist |
6-Aug-1766 |
22-Dec-1828 |
Discovered palladium, rhodium |
Shaun Woodward |
Politician |
26-Oct-1958 |
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British MP, St. Helens South |
Leonard Woolf |
Author |
25-Nov-1880 |
14-Aug-1969 |
British memoirist, husband of Virginia |
William Wordsworth |
Poet |
7-Apr-1770 |
23-Apr-1850 |
English romantic poet laureate |
Douglas T. Wright |
Educator |
4-Oct-1927 |
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President, University of Waterloo, 1981-93 |
E. A. Wrigley |
Historian |
17-Aug-1931 |
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Continuity, Chance and Change |
Sir Thomas Wyat |
Poet |
1503 |
6-Oct-1542 |
Introduced sonnet to England |
Daniel Yergin |
Author |
6-Feb-1947 |
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The Prize |
Lee Kuan Yew |
Head of State |
16-Sep-1923 |
23-Mar-2015 |
Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959-90 |
Warren Zimmermann |
Diplomat |
16-Nov-1934 |
2-Feb-2004 |
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-92 |