By Tim Lambert
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Joss Ackland 1928- Actor
Peter Ackroyd 1949- Actor
Anna Airy 1882-1964 Artist
Margery Allingham 1904-1966 Writer
Eric Ambler 1909-1998 Writer
Kingsley Amis 1922-1995 Writer
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1836-1917 The first woman to register as a doctor in England
Anthony Andrews 1948- Actor
Agnes Arber 1879-1960 Botanist
George Arliss 1868-1946 Actor
Leslie Ash 1960- Actor
Jane Asher 1946- Actor
Eric Ashby 1904-1992 Botanist
Daisy Ashford 1881-1972 Writer
Anthony Asquith 1902-1968 Film Director
Clement Attlee 1883-1967 Politician
Gladys Aylward 1902-1970 Missionary
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Charles Babbage 1791-1871 Pioneer of the computer
Francis Bacon 1562-1626 Philosopher
Robert Baden-Powell 1857-1941 Founder of boy scouts
David Bailey 1938- Photographer
Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820 Botanist
Granville Bantock 1868-1946 Composer
Charles Barry 1795-1860 Architect
Lionel Bart 1930-1999 Composer
Sir Cecil Beaton 1904-1980 Photographer
Thomas Becket 1118-70 Archbishop of Canterbury
Jill Bennett 1931-1990 Actor
Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832 Philosopher
Steven Berkoff 1937- Actor
Honor Blackman 1927- Actress
Arthur Bliss 1908-1989 Composer
Enid Blyton 1897-1968 Children’s writer
James Booth 1933-2005 Actor
David Bowie 1947-2016 Singer
John Bratby 1928-1992 Artist
Robert Browning 1812-1889 Poet
C
Simon Callow 1949- Actor
Charles Chaplin 1889-1977 Comedian
Geoffrey Chaucer c 1340-1400 Writer
Mary Clare 1894-1970 Actor
Martin Clunes 1961- Actor
Joan Collins 1933- Actress
Jasper Conran 1959- Fashion designer
Fay Compton 1894-1978 Actor
Henry Cooper 1934-2011 Boxer
Sir William Crookes 1832-1919 Scientist
Peter Cushing 1913-1994 Actor
D
Siobhan Davies 1950- Choreographer
Jack Dee 1964- Comedian
Daniel Defoe 1661-1731 Writer
John Donne 1572-1631 Poet
Anthony Dowell 1943- Dancer
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 Prime minister
Daphne du Maurier 1907-1989 Writer
E
Samantha Eggar 1939- Actress
Denholm Elliott 1922-1994 Actor
Dick Emery 1919-1983 Comedian
Tracey Emin 1963- Artist
David Essex 1947- Singer
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Marianne Faithfull 1946- Singer
Michael Faraday 1791-1867 Scientist
Tom Felton 1987- Actor
Ian Fleming 1908-1964 Creator of James Bond
E M Forster 1879-1970 Writer
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Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 Novelist
Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 Historian
Stella Gibbons 1902-1989 Writer
Sir John Gielgud 1904-2000 Actor
Sir William Gilbert 1836-1911 Writer of comic operas
Carl Giles 1916-1995 Cartoonist who drew the ‘Giles’ family in the Daily Express
Penelope Gilliatt 1932-1993 Writer
Thomas Girtin 1775-1802 Painter
Charles Gordon 1835-1885 General
Noele Gordon 1922-1985 Actor
Sir Edmund Gosse 1849-1928 Poet
Hugh Grant 1960- Actor
Lucinda Green 1953- Equestrian
Joseph Grimaldi 1779-1837 Clown
Alec Guinness 1914-2000 Actor
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Edmund Halley 1656-1742 Astronomer
Stanley Hayter 1901-1988 Artist
John Hegley 1953- Poet
Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980 Film Director
William Hogarth 1697-1767 Artist
Luke Howard 1772-1864 Meteorologist
J
Sir David Jacobi 1938- Actor
David Jason 1940- Comedian/actor
Pamela Johnson 1912-1981 Writer
Inigo Jones 1573-1652 Architect
John Junkin 1930-2006 Comedian
K
Boris Karloff 1887-1969 Actor
John Keats 1795-1821 Poet
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Edward Lear 1812-1888 Poet
Christopher Lee 1922-2015 Actor
John Leech 1817-1864 Artist
Daniel Day Lewis 1957- Actor
Augusta Ada King, Countess Lovelace 1815-1852 Mathematician
M
Irene Manton 1904-1988 Botanist
Roddy McDowall 1928-1998 Actor
Alan Alexander Milne 1882-1956 Writer
John Milton 1608-1674 Writer
Bernard Montgomery 1887-1975 General
Thomas More 1478-1535 Writer and Statesman
Dudley Moore 1935-2002 Comedian
Roger Moore 1927-2017 Actor
William Morris 1834-96 Artist and wallpaper designer
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Anna Neagle 1904-1986 Actress
Edith Nesbit 1858-1924 Writer
David Niven 1910-1983 Actor
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Bruce Oldfield 1950- Fashion designer
John Osborne 1929-1994 Playwright
Bill Owen 1914-1999 Actor
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William Penn 1644-1718 Founded Pennsylvania
Samuel Pepys 1663-1703 Diarist
Katherine Philips 1631-1664 Poet
Brian (Alfred) Pippard 1920-2008 Scientist
Beatrix Potter 1866-1943 Writer
Henry Purcell 1659-1695 Composer
Eric Porter 1928-1995 Actor
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Mary Quant 1934- Fashion designer
Pauline Quirke 1959- Actress
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Kylie Ravis 1970- Actress
Vanessa Redgrave 1937- Actor
Oliver Reed 1938-1999 Actor
Natasha Richardson 1963- Actress
William Heath Robinson 1872-1944 Cartoonist
Christina Rossetti 1830-1894 Poet
Thomas Rowlandson 1756-1827 Artist
Dame Margaret Rutherford 1892-1972 Actress
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Gerald Scarfe 1936- Cartoonist
Mary Shelley 1797-1851 Writer
Nevil Shute 1899-1960 Writer
Stephen Spender 1909-1995 Poet
Jerry Springer 1944- T.V. Host
Janet Street-Porter 1946- Journalist
Kiefer Sutherland 1966- Actor
Lorna Swain 1891-1936 Mathematician
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Jessica Tandy 1907-1994 Actor
Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011 Actress
Emma Tennant 1957- Writer
Emma Thompson 1959- Actor
Pete Townshend 1945- Musician
Rose Tremain 1943- Writer
Alan Turing 1912-54 Mathematician
Joseph Turner 1775-1851 Artist
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Evelyn Waugh 1903-1966 Writer
Kenneth Williams 1926-1988 Actor
Barbara Windsor 1937- Actress
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797 Writer
Henry Wood 1895-1944 Actress
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Susannah York 1939-2011 Actor