Comprised of 38 independent, self-governing colleges: All Souls College, Balliol College, Brasenose College, Christ Church, Corpus Christi College, Exeter College, Green Templeton College, Harris Manchester College, Hertford College, Jesus College, Keble College, Kellogg College, Linacre College, Lincoln College, Magdalen College, Mansfield College, Merton College, New College, Nuffield College, Oriel College, Pembroke College, The Queen's College, Regent's Park College, St Anne's College, St Antony's College, St Catherine's College, St Cross College, St Hilda's College, St Hugh's College, St John's College, St Peter's College, St Stephen's House, Somerville College, Trinity College, University College, Wadham College, Wolfson College, and Worcester College.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Tony Abbott |
Head of State |
4-Nov-1957 |
|
Prime Minister of Australia, 2013-15 |
| King Abdullah II |
Royalty |
30-Jan-1962 |
|
King of Jordan |
| Edward P. Abraham |
Chemist |
10-Jun-1913 |
8-May-1999 |
Cephalosporins |
| Richard Adams |
Author |
9-May-1920 |
|
Watership Down |
| Henry Addington |
Head of State |
30-May-1757 |
15-Feb-1844 |
UK Prime Minister, 1801-04 |
| Joseph Addison |
Author |
1-May-1672 |
17-Jun-1719 |
The Spectator |
| Prince Akishino |
Royalty |
30-Nov-1965 |
|
Second son of Emperor Akihito |
| Carl B. Albert |
Politician |
10-May-1908 |
4-Feb-2000 |
Congressman from Oklahoma, 1946-76 |
| Edward Albert |
Actor |
20-Feb-1951 |
22-Sep-2006 |
Butterflies Are Free |
| Samuel Alexander |
Philosopher |
6-Jan-1859 |
13-Sep-1938 |
Space, Time, and Deity |
| David Allen |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Group Chief of Staff, BP, 2000-08 |
| Tom Allen |
Politician |
16-Apr-1945 |
|
Congressman from Maine, 1997-2009 |
| Graham T. Allison |
Scholar |
23-Mar-1940 |
|
Kennedy School of Government |
| Patrick Allitt |
Historian |
26-Aug-1956 |
|
Religion in America Since 1945 |
| Kenneth Allsop |
Critic |
29-Jan-1920 |
23-May-1973 |
London Evening News book critic |
| Nicholas Amhurst |
Author |
16-Oct-1697 |
12-Apr-1742 |
The Craftsman |
| Kingsley Amis |
Novelist |
16-Apr-1922 |
22-Oct-1995 |
Lucky Jim |
| Martin Amis |
Author |
25-Aug-1949 |
|
The Rachel Papers |
| Lindsay Anderson |
Film Director |
17-Apr-1923 |
30-Aug-1994 |
If... |
| Perry Anderson |
Editor |
11-Sep-1938 |
|
Editor, New Left Review |
| Anne Applebaum |
Author |
25-Jul-1964 |
|
Gulag: A History |
| Jeffrey Archer |
Novelist |
15-Apr-1940 |
|
First Among Equals |
| David Arculus |
Business |
1946 |
|
Chairman of Severn Trent, 1998-2004 |
| John Ardagh |
Journalist |
28-May-1928 |
26-Jan-2008 |
The New French Revolution |
| Karen Armstrong |
Author |
14-Nov-1944 |
|
A History of God |
| Matthew Arnold |
Poet |
24-Dec-1822 |
15-Apr-1888 |
Culture and Anarchy |
| Les Aspin |
Politician |
21-Jul-1938 |
21-May-1995 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1993-94 |
| Herbert Henry Asquith |
Head of State |
12-Sep-1852 |
15-Feb-1928 |
UK Prime Minister, 1908-16 |
| Rowan Atkinson |
Actor |
6-Jan-1955 |
|
Mr. Bean |
| Clement Attlee |
Head of State |
3-Jan-1883 |
8-Oct-1967 |
UK Prime Minister, 1945-51 |
| John Aubrey |
Historian |
12-Mar-1626 |
7-Jun-1697 |
English antiquary |
| W. H. Auden |
Poet |
21-Feb-1907 |
29-Sep-1973 |
The Age of Anxiety |
| A. J. Ayer |
Philosopher |
29-Oct-1910 |
27-Jun-1989 |
Language, Truth and Logic |
| Felix Aylmer |
Actor |
21-Feb-1889 |
2-Sep-1979 |
Henry V |
| Gerald Aylmer |
Historian |
30-Apr-1926 |
17-Dec-2000 |
The King's Servants |
| Louise Bagshawe |
Novelist |
28-Jun-1971 |
|
Chick lit novelist, British MP for Corby |
| Kenneth Baker |
Politician |
3-Nov-1934 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1990-92 |
| Sir Richard Baker |
Historian |
c. 1568 |
18-Feb-1645 |
Chronicle of the Kings of England |
| Ed Balls |
Politician |
25-Feb-1967 |
|
British MP, Normanton |
| Sir Joseph Banks |
Botanist |
13-Feb-1743 |
19-Jun-1820 |
Accompanied James Cook |
| Leslie Banks |
Actor |
9-Jun-1890 |
21-Apr-1952 |
The Most Dangerous Game |
| Roger Bannister |
Track and Field |
23-Mar-1929 |
|
First to run a four-minute mile |
| Anthony Barber |
Politician |
4-Jul-1920 |
16-Dec-2005 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1970-74 |
| Julian Barnes |
Novelist |
19-Jan-1946 |
|
Flaubert's Parrot |
| James E. Barrett |
Judge |
8-Apr-1922 |
7-Nov-2011 |
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1971-87 |
| Robert Bartlett |
Historian |
27-Nov-1950 |
|
The Making of Europe |
| Patrick Bauchau |
Actor |
6-Dec-1938 |
|
Sydney on The Pretender |
| Nina Bawden |
Novelist |
19-Jan-1925 |
22-Aug-2012 |
Carrie's War |
| John Bayley |
Novelist |
25-Mar-1925 |
12-Jan-2015 |
Widower's House |
| William Bayliss |
Doctor |
2-May-1860 |
27-Aug-1924 |
Co-Discovered hormones |
| David Beaty |
Novelist |
28-Mar-1919 |
4-Dec-1999 |
Cone of Silence |
| Francis Beaumont |
Playwright |
1584 |
6-Mar-1616 |
Collaborator with John Fletcher |
| Emily Morison Beck |
Editor |
c. 1916 |
28-Mar-2004 |
Editor of Bartlett's Quotations |
| Kate Beckinsale |
Actor |
26-Jul-1973 |
|
Pearl Harbor |
| Thomas Beecham |
Conductor |
29-Apr-1879 |
8-Mar-1961 |
Founder, London and Royal Philharmonics |
| Max Beerbohm |
Critic |
24-Aug-1872 |
20-May-1956 |
Caricaturist, Seven Men |
| Peter Beinart |
Columnist |
1971 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Hilaire Belloc |
Author |
27-Jul-1870 |
16-Jul-1953 |
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts |
| Max Beloff |
Historian |
2-Jul-1913 |
22-Mar-1999 |
Founder, University of Buckingham |
| Shlomo Ben-Ami |
Politician |
17-Jul-1943 |
|
Israeli Foreign Minister, 2000-01 |
| Richard Benedick |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol |
| David Benedictus |
Novelist |
16-Sep-1938 |
|
The Fourth of June |
| Peter Benenson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1921 |
25-Feb-2005 |
Founder of Amnesty International |
| Tony Benn |
Politician |
3-Apr-1925 |
14-Mar-2014 |
Radical left Labour MP |
| Alan Bennett |
Playwright |
9-May-1934 |
|
The Madness of George III |
| Jeremy Bentham |
Philosopher |
15-Feb-1748 |
6-Jun-1832 |
Proponent of Utilitarianism |
| Eric Bentley |
Critic |
14-Sep-1916 |
|
The Life of the Drama |
| Lennox Berkeley |
Composer |
12-May-1903 |
26-Dec-1989 |
Stabat Mater |
| Isaiah Berlin |
Philosopher |
6-Jun-1909 |
5-Nov-1997 |
The Hedgehog and the Fox |
| Marshall Berman |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1940 |
11-Sep-2013 |
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jun-1955 |
|
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Afsaneh M. Beschloss |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
The Rock Creek Group |
| Eve Best |
Actor |
31-Jul-1971 |
|
Dr. Eleanor O'Hara on Nurse Jackie |
| John Betjeman |
Poet |
28-Aug-1906 |
19-May-1984 |
Summoned By Bells |
| William Beveridge |
Economist |
5-Mar-1879 |
16-Mar-1963 |
Social Insurance and Allied Services |
| Benazir Bhutto |
Head of State |
21-Jun-1953 |
27-Dec-2007 |
Former prime minister of Pakistan |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
Head of State |
5-Jan-1928 |
4-Apr-1979 |
Head of Pakistan, hanged |
| John Biddle |
Religion |
1615 |
22-Sep-1662 |
Father of English Unitarianism |
| James Billington |
Historian |
1-Jun-1929 |
|
13th Librarian of Congress |
| William Blackstone |
Judge |
10-Jul-1723 |
14-Feb-1780 |
Commentaries on the Laws of England |
| Dennis C. Blair |
Government |
4-Feb-1947 |
|
Director of National Intelligence, 2009-10 |
| Tony Blair |
Head of State |
6-May-1953 |
|
UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007 |
| Allan Blakeney |
Politician |
7-Sep-1925 |
16-Apr-2011 |
Premier of Saskatchewan, 1971-82 |
| Brebis Bleaney |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1915 |
4-Nov-2006 |
Electron paramagnetic resonance |
| Baruch S. Blumberg |
Scientist |
28-Jul-1925 |
5-Apr-2011 |
Hepatitis B vaccine |
| Edmund Blunden |
Poet |
1-Nov-1896 |
20-Jan-1974 |
Undertones of War |
| Philip Bobbitt |
Author |
22-Jul-1948 |
|
The Shield of Achilles |
| Thomas Bodley |
Scholar |
2-Mar-1545 |
28-Jan-1613 |
Bodleian Library |
| Cory Booker |
Politician |
27-Apr-1969 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
| Daniel Boorstin |
Historian |
1-Oct-1914 |
28-Feb-2004 |
The Creators |
| David L. Boren |
Politician |
21-Apr-1941 |
|
Governor and Senator from Oklahoma |
| Kenneth E. Boulding |
Economist |
18-Jan-1910 |
18-Mar-1993 |
The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society |
| Adrian Boult |
Conductor |
8-Apr-1889 |
23-Feb-1983 |
Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1930-50 |
| Elizabeth Bowen |
Author |
7-Jun-1899 |
22-Feb-1973 |
The Heat of the Day |
| Rachel Bowlby |
Educator |
29-Jan-1957 |
|
Carried Away |
| Charles Boyle |
Military |
1676 |
28-Aug-1731 |
4th Earl of Orrery |
| Robert Boyle |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1627 |
30-Dec-1691 |
Pioneer of modern chemistry |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
11-Jul-2016 |
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| Bill Bradley |
Politician |
28-Jul-1943 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey, 1979-97 |
| James Bradley |
Astronomer |
1693 |
13-Jul-1762 |
Aberration of Light |
| Melvyn Bragg |
TV Personality |
6-Oct-1939 |
|
The South Bank Show |
| John Brand |
Historian |
19-Aug-1744 |
11-Sep-1806 |
Observations on Popular Antiquities |
| Sydney Brenner |
Scientist |
13-Jan-1927 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Stephen Breyer |
Judge |
15-Aug-1938 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Robert Bridges |
Poet |
23-Oct-1844 |
21-Apr-1930 |
Prometheus the Firegiver |
| Vera Brittain |
Author |
29-Dec-1893 |
29-Mar-1970 |
Testament of Youth |
| Peter Brock |
Historian |
30-Jan-1920 |
29-May-2006 |
Pacifism in the United States |
| Peter Brook |
Theater Director |
21-Mar-1925 |
|
Lord of the Flies |
| Henry Brooke |
Politician |
9-Apr-1903 |
29-Mar-1984 |
UK Home Secretary, 1962-64 |
| Peter Brooke |
Politician |
3-Mar-1934 |
|
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1989-92 |
| Christine Brooke-Rose |
Novelist |
16-Jan-1923 |
21-Mar-2012 |
Out |
| Cleanth Brooks |
Critic |
16-Oct-1906 |
10-May-1994 |
The Well Wrought Urn |
| Brigid Brophy |
Author |
12-Jun-1929 |
7-Aug-1995 |
Black Ship to Hell |
| Norman O. Brown |
Historian |
25-Sep-1913 |
2-Oct-2002 |
Life Against Death |
| Peter Brown |
Historian |
26-Jul-1935 |
|
The Rise of Western Christendom |
| Tina Brown |
Editor |
21-Nov-1953 |
|
Powerhouse magazine editor |
| Sir Thomas Browne |
Author |
19-Oct-1605 |
19-Oct-1682 |
Pseudodoxia Epidemica |
| Beau Brummell |
Socialite |
7-Jun-1778 |
30-Mar-1840 |
Dandy, 19th c. arbiter of fashion |
| P. A. Brunt |
Historian |
23-Jun-1917 |
5-Nov-2005 |
Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic |
| Arthur Bryant |
Historian |
18-Feb-1899 |
2-Jan-1985 |
Biographer of Samuel Pepys |
| James Bryce |
Historian |
10-May-1838 |
22-Jan-1922 |
The Holy Roman Empire |
| John Buchan |
Author |
26-Aug-1875 |
11-Feb-1940 |
The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| William Buckland |
Geologist |
12-Mar-1784 |
15-Aug-1856 |
Reliquiae Diluvianae |
| William B. Buffum |
Diplomat |
10-Sep-1921 |
13-Apr-2012 |
US Ambassador to Lebanon, 1970-74 |
| John Bull |
Composer |
c. 1562 |
12-Mar-1628 |
English composer and organist |
| Alan Bullock |
Historian |
13-Dec-1914 |
2-Feb-2004 |
Historian of Hitler, Stalin |
| Edward Burne-Jones |
Painter |
28-Aug-1833 |
16-Jun-1898 |
British Pre-Raphaelite painter |
| James Burnham |
Author |
22-Nov-1905 |
28-Jul-1987 |
The Managerial Revolution |
| William Joseph Burns |
Diplomat |
4-Apr-1956 |
|
Under Secy. State for Political Affairs |
| Richard Burton |
Actor |
10-Nov-1925 |
5-Aug-1984 |
Nineteen Eighty Four |
| Sir Richard Burton |
Explorer |
19-Mar-1821 |
20-Oct-1890 |
Translated The Arabian Nights |
| Robert Burton |
Author |
8-Feb-1577 |
25-Jan-1640 |
The Anatomy of Melancholy |
| Sylvia Mathews Burwell |
Government |
23-Jun-1965 |
|
OMB Director |
| W. Walton Butterworth |
Diplomat |
7-Sep-1903 |
31-Mar-1975 |
US Ambassador to Canada, 1962-68 |
| William Camden |
Scholar |
2-May-1551 |
9-Nov-1623 |
Britannia |
| David Cameron |
Head of State |
9-Oct-1966 |
|
UK Prime Minister |
| Kurt M. Campbell |
Government |
1957 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for East Asian Affairs |
| Edmund Campion |
Religion |
24-Jan-1540 |
1-Dec-1581 |
Jesuit martyr, hanged at Tyburn |
| Cass Canfield |
Publisher |
26-Apr-1897 |
27-Mar-1986 |
Harper & Brothers |
| David Cannadine |
Historian |
7-Sep-1950 |
|
Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy |
| Charles John Canning |
Government |
14-Dec-1812 |
17-Jun-1862 |
Governor-General of India |
| George Canning |
Politician |
11-Apr-1770 |
8-Aug-1827 |
Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain |
| Thomas Carew |
Poet |
1595 |
22-Mar-1639 |
A Rapture |
| John Carey |
Critic |
5-Apr-1934 |
|
The Intellectuals and the Masses |
| Gretchen Carlson |
TV Personality |
21-Jun-1966 |
|
Fox & Friends |
| John Le Carré |
Novelist |
19-Oct-1931 |
|
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold |
| Lewis Carroll |
Author |
27-Jan-1832 |
14-Jan-1898 |
Alice in Wonderland |
| Brad Carson |
Politician |
11-Mar-1967 |
|
Congressman from Oklahoma, 2001-05 |
| Ashton Carter |
Government |
24-Sep-1954 |
|
US Secretary of Defense |
| Edmund Cartwright |
Inventor |
24-Apr-1743 |
30-Oct-1823 |
Invented the power loom |
| Joyce Cary |
Novelist |
6-Dec-1888 |
29-Mar-1957 |
The Horse's Mouth |
| Daniel H. Case III |
Business |
27-Jul-1957 |
27-Jun-2002 |
Hambrecht & Quist |
| Sean Dennis Cashman |
Historian |
18-Sep-1943 |
|
America in the Gilded Age |
| Lee Caudill |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Former Avon/Liz Claiborne executive |
| David Caute |
Author |
16-Dec-1936 |
|
Comrade Jacob |
| George Cave |
Politician |
23-Feb-1856 |
29-Mar-1928 |
Lord Chancellor of Britain, 1922-28 |
| Peregrine Cavendish |
Aristocrat |
12-Apr-1944 |
|
12th Duke of Devonshire |
| Christopher Cazenove |
Actor |
17-Dec-1945 |
7-Apr-2010 |
English character actor |
| Lord David Cecil |
Author |
9-Apr-1902 |
1-Jan-1986 |
Melbourne |
| Robert Cecil |
Politician |
14-Sep-1864 |
24-Nov-1958 |
Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Richard Celeste |
Politician |
11-Nov-1937 |
|
Governor of Ohio, 1983-91 |
| David Cesarani |
Historian |
13-Nov-1956 |
25-Oct-2015 |
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes |
| David Chalmers |
Philosopher |
20-Apr-1966 |
|
Philosopher of Consciousness |
| Paul W. Chellgren |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Ashland, 1996-2002 |
| Gordon Childe |
Archaeologist |
14-Apr-1892 |
19-Oct-1957 |
The Dawn of European Civilisation |
| Caryl Churchill |
Playwright |
3-Sep-1938 |
|
Having a Wonderful Time |
| Randolph Churchill |
Journalist |
28-May-1911 |
6-Jun-1968 |
Son of Winston Churchill |
| Lord Randolph Churchill |
Politician |
13-Feb-1849 |
24-Jan-1895 |
Father of Winston Churchill |
| Winston S. Churchill |
Politician |
10-Oct-1940 |
2-Mar-2010 |
British MP, Manchester, 1970-97 |
| Michael T. Clanchy |
Historian |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
From Memory to Written Record |
| Lord Clarendon |
Government |
18-Feb-1609 |
9-Dec-1674 |
The Clarendon Code |
| Alan Clark |
Politician |
13-Apr-1928 |
5-Sep-1999 |
Controversial, Conservative MP and minister |
| Colin Clark |
Film/TV Producer |
9-Oct-1932 |
17-Dec-2002 |
My Week with Marilyn |
| J. C. D. Clark |
Historian |
28-Feb-1951 |
|
English Society, 1688-1832 |
| Kenneth Clark |
Art Historian |
10-Jul-1903 |
21-May-1983 |
Civilisation |
| Manning Clark |
Historian |
3-Mar-1915 |
23-May-1991 |
A History of Australia |
| Wesley Clark |
Military |
23-Dec-1944 |
|
Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000 |
| Harlan Cleveland |
Government |
19-Jan-1918 |
30-May-2008 |
Futurist, diplomat |
| Bill Clinton |
Head of State |
19-Aug-1946 |
|
42nd US President, 1993-2001 |
| Chelsea Clinton |
Relative |
27-Feb-1980 |
|
Daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton |
| Alexander Cockburn |
Columnist |
6-Jun-1941 |
20-Jul-2012 |
The Nation, CounterPunch |
| Claud Cockburn |
Journalist |
12-Apr-1904 |
15-Dec-1981 |
Radical British journalist |
| Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
Poet |
18-Mar-1892 |
20-Jan-1955 |
Strange Holiness |
| Jared Cohen |
Government |
24-Nov-1981 |
|
Children of Jihad |
| Ronald Cohen |
Business |
1945 |
|
British venture capitalist, Apax |
| Norman Cohn |
Historian |
25-Jan-1915 |
31-Jul-2007 |
The Pursuit of the Millennium |
| George Douglas Howard Cole |
Economist |
25-Sep-1889 |
14-Jan-1959 |
British Labour theorist |
| R. G. Collingwood |
Historian |
22-Feb-1889 |
9-Jan-1943 |
The Idea of History |
| Cyril Connolly |
Critic |
10-Sep-1903 |
26-Nov-1974 |
Enemies of Promise |
| Jim Cooper |
Politician |
19-Jun-1954 |
|
Congressman, Tennessee 5th |
| Wendy Cope |
Poet |
21-Jul-1945 |
|
If I Don't Know |
| Richard Cordray |
Government |
3-May-1959 |
|
Acting Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| John Cornforth |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1917 |
8-Dec-2013 |
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| William Courtenay |
Religion |
c. 1342 |
31-Jul-1396 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1381-96 |
| Thomas George Cowling |
Mathematician |
17-Jun-1906 |
16-Jun-1990 |
Cowling model |
| Alex Cox |
Film Director |
15-Dec-1954 |
|
Repo Man |
| Donald Crisp |
Actor |
27-Jul-1880 |
25-May-1974 |
Silent film actor, survived into talkies |
| Harry Crookshank |
Politician |
27-May-1893 |
17-Oct-1961 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1951-55 |
| Anthony Crosland |
Politician |
29-Aug-1918 |
19-Feb-1977 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1976-77 |
| Richard Crossman |
Politician |
15-Dec-1907 |
5-Apr-1974 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1966-68 |
| L. Gordon Crovitz |
Publisher |
c. 1959 |
|
Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2006-07 |
| William C. Crowley |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CFO of Sears Roebuck |
| Paul J. Crutzen |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1933 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| George Nathaniel Curzon |
Government |
11-Jan-1859 |
20-Mar-1925 |
Created the Kingdom of Jordan |
| Ivo Daalder |
Diplomat |
20-Mar-1960 |
|
US Ambassador to NATO |
| Hugh Dancy |
Actor |
19-Jun-1975 |
|
Galahad in King Arthur |
| George Dangerfield |
Historian |
28-Oct-1904 |
26-Dec-1986 |
The Strange Death of Liberal England |
| Drew Daniel |
Electronic Musician |
1971 |
|
Half of Matmos |
| Samuel Daniel |
Poet |
1562 |
14-Oct-1619 |
The First Four Books of the Civil Wars |
| Richard Danzig |
Government |
8-Sep-1944 |
|
US Secretary of the Navy, 1998-2001 |
| Colgate W. Darden, Jr. |
Politician |
11-Feb-1897 |
9-Jun-1981 |
Governor of Virginia, 1942-46 |
| John Darwin |
Historian |
29-Jun-1948 |
|
After Tamerlane: The Global Story of Empire |
| Guy Davenport |
Author |
23-Nov-1927 |
4-Jan-2005 |
Thasos and Ohio |
| Nigel Davenport |
Actor |
23-May-1928 |
25-Oct-2013 |
Chariots of Fire |
| Howard J. Davies |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Director, London School of Economics |
| Sir John Davies |
Poet |
16-Apr-1569 |
8-Dec-1626 |
Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing |
| Norman Davies |
Historian |
8-Jun-1939 |
|
God's Playground |
| R. R. Davies |
Historian |
6-Aug-1938 |
16-May-2005 |
Conquest, Coexistence and Change |
| Robertson Davies |
Author |
28-Aug-1913 |
3-Dec-1995 |
Fifth Business |
| Crispin Davis |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Reed Elsevier |
| Ian Davis |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Managing Partner of McKinsey & Co. |
| Pete Dawkins |
Football |
8-Mar-1938 |
|
Winner, 1958 Heisman Trophy |
| Richard Dawkins |
Biologist |
26-Mar-1941 |
|
Zoologist and evolutionary biologist |
| Julian C. Day |
Business |
14-May-1952 |
|
CEO of Radio Shack |
| Cecil Day-Lewis |
Poet |
27-Apr-1904 |
22-May-1972 |
UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72 |
| Reginald De Koven |
Composer |
3-Apr-1859 |
16-Jan-1920 |
Oh, Promise Me |
| Thomas De Quincey |
Author |
15-Aug-1785 |
8-Dec-1859 |
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater |
| Roxanne J. Decyk |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Executive at Shell Oil |
| Christopher W. Dell |
Diplomat |
1956 |
|
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 2004-07 |
| Sir John Denham |
Poet |
1615 |
10-Mar-1669 |
Cooper's Hill |
| Michael Denison |
Actor |
1-Nov-1915 |
22-Jul-1998 |
Shadowlands |
| Nick Denton |
Publisher |
24-Aug-1966 |
|
Gawker Media |
| Nancy-Ann DeParle |
Business |
17-Dec-1956 |
|
Health care administrator |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin |
Author |
1776 |
18-Nov-1847 |
English bibliographer |
| Thorold Dickinson |
Film Director |
16-Nov-1903 |
14-Apr-1984 |
Gaslight |
| Kenelm Digby |
Scientist |
11-Jul-1603 |
11-Jun-1665 |
Founding member of the Royal Society |
| E. J. Dionne |
Journalist |
23-Apr-1952 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Pete Doherty |
Musician |
12-Mar-1979 |
|
Ex-frontman for The Libertines |
| Elizabeth Dole |
Politician |
29-Jul-1936 |
|
US Senator from North Carolina, 2003-09 |
| Lee Dong-Won |
Politician |
1926 |
18-Nov-2006 |
Foreign Minister of South Korea, 1964-66 |
| John Donne |
Poet |
1572 |
31-Mar-1631 |
Anniversaries |
| Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
Film Director |
2-May-1973 |
|
The Lives of Others |
| George Douglas |
Novelist |
26-Jan-1869 |
28-Aug-1902 |
The House With the Green Shutters |
| Alec Douglas-Home |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1903 |
9-Oct-1995 |
UK Prime Minister, 1963-64 |
| Kenneth Dover |
Scholar |
11-Mar-1920 |
7-Mar-2010 |
Greek Homosexuality |
| Keith Dowding |
Scholar |
6-May-1960 |
|
Rational Choice and Political Power |
| John Dowland |
Composer |
c. 1562 |
21-Jan-1626 |
Lachrimae, Lutenist |
| Ernest Dowson |
Poet |
2-Aug-1867 |
23-Feb-1900 |
English Decadent poet |
| Michael Drayton |
Poet |
1563 |
23-Dec-1631 |
Poly-Olbion |
| Dermot Dunphy |
Business |
15-Apr-1932 |
|
CEO of Sealed Air, 1971-99 |
| John Duns Scotus |
Religion |
c. 1265 |
8-Nov-1308 |
14th century Scottish scholar |
| John Dury |
Religion |
1596 |
26-Sep-1680 |
The Reformed Librarie-Keeper |
| Ronald Dworkin |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1931 |
14-Feb-2013 |
Taking Rights Seriously |
| William J. Dyess |
Diplomat |
1-Aug-1929 |
6-Jan-1996 |
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1982-83 |
| Eddie Eagan |
Boxing |
26-Apr-1897 |
14-Jun-1967 |
Won Summer and Winter Olympic Gold |
| Terry Eagleton |
Critic |
22-Feb-1943 |
|
Literary Theory: An Introduction |
| Thomas Eagleton |
Politician |
4-Sep-1929 |
4-Mar-2007 |
US Senator from Missouri, 1969-87 |
| John Eccles |
Scientist |
27-Jan-1903 |
2-May-1997 |
Membrane potential of nerves |
| Rod Eddington |
Business |
2-Jan-1950 |
|
CEO of British Airways, 2000-05 |
| E. R. Eddison |
Novelist |
24-Nov-1882 |
18-Aug-1945 |
The Worm Ouroboros |
| Anthony Eden |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1897 |
14-Jan-1977 |
UK Prime Minister, 1955-57 |
| David Edgerton |
Historian |
16-Apr-1959 |
|
The Shock of the Old |
| Francis Edgeworth |
Mathematician |
8-Feb-1845 |
13-Feb-1926 |
Pure Theory of Taxation |
| Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
| Artur Ekert |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1961 |
|
Quantum cryptography |
| Geoff Eley |
Historian |
14-May-1949 |
|
Forging Democracy |
| T. S. Eliot |
Poet |
26-Sep-1888 |
4-Jan-1965 |
Author of "The Waste Land" |
| Charles Elton |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1900 |
1-May-1991 |
Animal Ecology |
| Mark Elvin |
Historian |
18-Aug-1938 |
|
The Pattern of the Chinese Past |
| Richard A. Epstein |
Scholar |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
Takings |
| Richard J. Evans |
Historian |
29-Sep-1947 |
|
The Third Reich |
| Edward Evans-Pritchard |
Anthropologist |
21-Sep-1902 |
11-Sep-1973 |
Theories of Primitive Religion |
| Alice Eve |
Actor |
6-Feb-1982 |
|
She's Out of My League |
| John Evelyn |
Author |
31-Oct-1620 |
27-Feb-1706 |
English diarist |
| Frank Eyck |
Historian |
13-Jul-1921 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Religion and Politics in German History |
| David Faber |
Politician |
7-Jul-1961 |
|
British MP for Westbury, 1992-2001 |
| James Fallows |
Journalist |
2-Aug-1949 |
|
Atlantic Monthly |
| Thomas L. Farmer |
Attorney |
26-Jul-1923 |
5-Feb-2015 |
Overseas Development Council |
| Russ Feingold |
Politician |
2-Mar-1953 |
|
US Senator from Wisconsin, 1993-2011 |
| Noah Feldman |
Author |
22-May-1970 |
|
After Jihad |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Niall Ferguson |
Historian |
18-Apr-1964 |
|
The House of Rothschild |
| Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Historian |
6-Dec-1950 |
|
Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration |
| Helen Fielding |
Novelist |
19-Feb-1958 |
|
Bridget Jones's Diary |
| Mark Filip |
Government |
1-Jun-1966 |
|
US Deputy Attorney General |
| Glenn Fine |
Attorney |
c. 1956 |
|
Justice Department Inspector General |
| Jonathan Finer |
Journalist |
c. 1976 |
|
Washington Post reporter |
| Samuel E. Finer |
Historian |
22-Sep-1915 |
9-Jun-1993 |
Theory and Practice of Modern Government |
| H. A. L. Fisher |
Historian |
21-Mar-1865 |
18-Apr-1940 |
The Medieval Empire |
| Richard W. Fisher |
Business |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President and CEO, Dallas Fed |
| Edward Fitzalan-Howard |
Aristocrat |
2-Dec-1956 |
|
18th Duke of Norfolk |
| Penelope Fitzgerald |
Novelist |
17-Dec-1916 |
28-Apr-2000 |
The Blue Flower |
| Ralph Flenley |
Historian |
2-Jan-1886 |
21-Mar-1969 |
Modern German History |
| William A. Fletcher |
Judge |
6-Jun-1945 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Antony Flew |
Philosopher |
11-Feb-1923 |
8-Apr-2010 |
British Libertarian philosopher |
| Joel West Flood |
Judge |
2-Aug-1894 |
27-Apr-1964 |
Virginia Congressman, Judge |
| Howard Florey |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1898 |
21-Feb-1968 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Eric Foner |
Historian |
7-Feb-1943 |
|
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution |
| Michael Foot |
Politician |
23-Jul-1913 |
3-Mar-2010 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1976-79 |
| Henrietta Holsman Fore |
Government |
c. 1948 |
|
Acting Administrator, USAID |
| John Fowles |
Novelist |
31-Mar-1926 |
5-Nov-2005 |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| Charles James Fox |
Politician |
24-Jan-1749 |
13-Sep-1806 |
U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary |
| Emilia Fox |
Actor |
31-Jul-1974 |
|
Nikki Alexander on Silent Witness |
| Henry Richard Vassall Fox |
Politician |
21-Nov-1773 |
22-Oct-1840 |
3rd Baron Holland |
| John Foxe |
Religion |
1516 |
18-Apr-1587 |
Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
| Malcolm Fraser |
Politician |
21-May-1930 |
20-Mar-2015 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1975-83 |
| Charles Fried |
Government |
15-Apr-1935 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1985-89 |
| Thomas Friedman |
Journalist |
20-Jul-1953 |
|
New York Times |
| David B. Frohnmayer |
Politician |
9-Jul-1940 |
9-Mar-2015 |
President, University of Oregon, 1994-2009 |
| Northrop Frye |
Author |
14-Jul-1912 |
23-Jan-1991 |
Fearful Symmetry |
| J. William Fulbright |
Politician |
9-Apr-1905 |
9-Feb-1995 |
Conceived the Fulbright Scholarships |
| Thomas Gaisford |
Scholar |
22-Dec-1779 |
2-Jun-1855 |
English classical scholar |
| Hugh Gaitskell |
Politician |
9-Apr-1906 |
18-Jan-1963 |
Leader of the Labour Party, 1955-63 |
| Peter Galbraith |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1950 |
|
The End of Iraq |
| Delia Gallagher |
Journalist |
11-Mar-1970 |
|
CNN Faith and Values Correspondent |
| John Galsworthy |
Novelist |
14-Aug-1867 |
31-Jan-1933 |
The Forsyte Saga |
| Eric Garcetti |
Politician |
4-Feb-1971 |
|
Mayor of Los Angeles |
| Richard N. Gardner |
Diplomat |
9-Jul-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97 |
| Geoffrey Garrett |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
President of the Pacific Council |
| Michael Garrison |
Educator |
c. 1970 |
|
President, West Virginia University |
| Timothy Garton Ash |
Historian |
12-Jul-1955 |
|
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent |
| Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil |
Head of State |
3-Feb-1830 |
22-Aug-1903 |
UK Prime Minister three times |
| Lionel M. Gelber |
Historian |
13-Oct-1907 |
10-Aug-1989 |
The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship |
| Ernest Gellner |
Philosopher |
9-Dec-1925 |
5-Nov-1995 |
Words and Things |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth |
Historian |
c. 1100 |
1155 |
Historia regum Britanniae |
| Thomas P. Gerrity |
Business |
13-Jul-1941 |
|
Former Dean, Wharton School |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| J. Paul Getty, Sr. |
Business |
15-Dec-1892 |
6-Jun-1976 |
Founder of Getty Oil Company |
| Edward Gibbon |
Historian |
8-May-1737 |
16-Jan-1794 |
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Martin Gilbert |
Historian |
25-Oct-1936 |
3-Feb-2015 |
Winston S. Churchill |
| Ian Gilmour |
Politician |
8-Jul-1926 |
21-Sep-2007 |
Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar |
| Herbert Gladstone |
Politician |
18-Feb-1854 |
6-Mar-1930 |
UK Home Secretary, 1905-10 |
| William Ewart Gladstone |
Head of State |
29-Dec-1809 |
19-May-1898 |
Four times UK Prime Minister |
| Joseph Glanvill |
Philosopher |
1636 |
4-Nov-1680 |
The Vanity of Dogmatizing |
| Peter Glenville |
Film Director |
28-Oct-1913 |
3-Jun-1996 |
Becket |
| Donald J. Gogel |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice |
| William Golding |
Novelist |
19-Sep-1911 |
19-Jun-1993 |
Lord of The Flies |
| Jack Goldsmith |
Government |
26-Sep-1962 |
|
The Terror Presidency |
| Victor Gollancz |
Publisher |
9-Apr-1893 |
8-Feb-1967 |
Founder of Victor Gollancz, Ltd. |
| Jane Goodall |
Naturalist |
3-Apr-1934 |
|
Primate researcher |
| Michael Goodliffe |
Actor |
1-Oct-1914 |
20-Mar-1976 |
A Night to Remember |
| Kermit Gordon |
Economist |
1916 |
1976 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-62 |
| Lincoln Gordon |
Diplomat |
10-Sep-1913 |
19-Dec-2009 |
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66 |
| Robert J. Gordon |
Economist |
3-Sep-1940 |
|
The Rise and Fall of American Growth |
| Neil M. Gorsuch |
Judge |
29-Aug-1967 |
|
10th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| John Gorton |
Head of State |
9-Sep-1911 |
19-May-2002 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1968-71 |
| Bryan Gould |
Politician |
11-Feb-1939 |
|
Former MP, Dagenham |
| Laurence S. Grafstein |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Managing Director, Lazard |
| Ragnar Granit |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1900 |
31-Mar-1990 |
Physiology of the retina |
| George Grant |
Philosopher |
13-Nov-1918 |
27-Sep-1988 |
Propagator of Red Toryism |
| Hugh Grant |
Actor |
9-Sep-1960 |
|
Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| Robert Graves |
Poet |
24-Jul-1895 |
7-Dec-1985 |
I, Claudius |
| Hanna Holborn Gray |
Educator |
25-Oct-1930 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1978-93 |
| John Gray |
Philosopher |
17-Apr-1948 |
|
Straw Dogs |
| William Grayson |
Politician |
1736 |
12-Mar-1790 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1789-90 |
| Henry Green |
Novelist |
29-Oct-1905 |
13-Dec-1973 |
Loving |
| T. H. Green |
Philosopher |
7-Apr-1836 |
26-Mar-1882 |
Prolegomena to Ethics |
| Brian Greene |
Author |
9-Feb-1963 |
|
The Elegant Universe |
| Graham Greene |
Novelist |
2-Oct-1904 |
3-Apr-1991 |
The Third Man |
| Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
| George Grenville |
Politician |
14-Oct-1712 |
13-Nov-1770 |
UK Prime Minister, 1763-65 |
| William Wyndham Grenville |
Politician |
25-Oct-1759 |
12-Jan-1834 |
UK Prime Minister, 1806-07 |
| Tim Griffin |
Politician |
21-Aug-1968 |
|
Congressman, Arkansas 2nd |
| Frederick Griffith |
Biologist |
c. 1877 |
16-Apr-1941 |
Discovered the transforming principle |
| Jo Grimond |
Politician |
29-Jul-1913 |
24-Oct-1993 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1956-67 |
| John Grogan |
Politician |
24-Feb-1961 |
|
British MP, Selby |
| Erich S. Gruen |
Historian |
7-May-1935 |
|
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic |
| Richard Haass |
Government |
28-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Mark Haddon |
Author |
1962 |
|
The Curious Incident |
| Pat Haden |
Football |
23-Jan-1953 |
|
LA Rams Quarterback, Investor |
| William Hague |
Politician |
26-Mar-1961 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 2010-14 |
| Douglas Haig |
Military |
19-Jun-1861 |
29-Jan-1928 |
British Field Marshall in WWI |
| Richard Hakluyt |
Author |
c. 1552 |
23-Nov-1616 |
Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation |
| J. B. S. Haldane |
Biologist |
5-Nov-1892 |
1-Dec-1964 |
Haldane's principle |
| Sir Matthew Hale |
Judge |
1-Nov-1609 |
25-Dec-1676 |
Lord Chief Justice of England |
| Stephen Hales |
Scientist |
7-Sep-1677 |
4-Jan-1761 |
Statical Essays |
| Donald Hall |
Poet |
20-Sep-1928 |
|
The One Day |
| Henry Hallam |
Historian |
9-Jul-1777 |
21-Jan-1859 |
View of the Middle Ages |
| Edmund Halley |
Astronomer |
8-Nov-1656 |
14-Jan-1742 |
Predicted return of Halley's Comet |
| Bill Halter |
Politician |
30-Nov-1960 |
|
Lt. Governor of Arkansas |
| John Hampden |
Politician |
1594 |
24-Jun-1643 |
English Parliamentarian |
| Christopher Hampton |
Playwright |
26-Jan-1946 |
|
Dangerous Liaisons |
| R. M. Hare |
Philosopher |
21-Mar-1919 |
29-Jan-2002 |
Moral Thinking |
| John Marshall Harlan |
Judge |
20-May-1899 |
29-Dec-1971 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1955-71 |
| James Harrington |
Philosopher |
7-Jan-1611 |
11-Sep-1677 |
Oceana |
| William V. Harris |
Historian |
13-Sep-1938 |
|
War and Imperialism in Republican Rome |
| Roy Harrod |
Economist |
13-Feb-1900 |
9-Mar-1978 |
Towards a Dynamic Economics |
| Mary Harron |
Film Director |
12-Jan-1953 |
|
American Psycho |
| Gary Hart |
Politician |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
US Senator from Colorado, 1975-87 |
| L. P. Hartley |
Novelist |
30-Dec-1895 |
13-Dec-1972 |
The Boat |
| Max Hastings |
Journalist |
28-Dec-1945 |
|
Editor of the Daily Telegraph, 1986-95 |
| Steven Hatfill |
Scientist |
24-Oct-1953 |
|
US biowarfare researcher |
| Sir Christopher Hatton |
Government |
1540 |
1591 |
Lord Chancellor of England, 1587-91 |
| Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
| Stephen Hawes |
Poet |
c. 1474 |
c. 1523 |
The Passetyme of Pleasure |
| Robert Hawke |
Head of State |
9-Dec-1929 |
|
Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91 |
| Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Wheelchair-bound physicist |
| Richard Haythornthwaite |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Chairman of Mastercard |
| Denis Healey |
Politician |
30-Aug-1917 |
3-Oct-2015 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974-79 |
| Thomas Hearne |
Historian |
Jul-1678 |
10-Jun-1735 |
Edited many English chronicles |
| Edward Heath |
Head of State |
9-Jul-1916 |
17-Jul-2005 |
British Prime Minister, 1970-74 |
| Derick Heathcoat-Amory |
Politician |
26-Dec-1899 |
20-Jan-1981 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1958-60 |
| Norman G. Heatley |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1911 |
5-Jan-2004 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Joseph Heller |
Author |
1-May-1923 |
12-Dec-1999 |
Catch-22 |
| Mark Helprin |
Author |
28-Jun-1947 |
|
Winter's Tale |
| Peter Blair Henry |
Economist |
30-Jul-1969 |
|
Dean, Stern School of Business |
| Herbert of Cherbury |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1583 |
5-Aug-1648 |
De Veritate |
| Michael Heseltine |
Politician |
21-Mar-1933 |
|
UK Deputy Prime Minister, 1995-97 |
| John Heywood |
Playwright |
1497 |
c. 1580 |
The Play of Love |
| George Hickes |
Religion |
20-Jun-1642 |
15-Dec-1715 |
Provoked the Bangorian controversy |
| John R. Hicks |
Economist |
8-Apr-1904 |
20-May-1989 |
Value and Capital |
| Christopher Hill |
Historian |
6-Feb-1912 |
23-Feb-2003 |
Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution |
| Carole Hillenbrand |
Historian |
1943 |
|
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives |
| Carla Hills |
Diplomat |
3-Jan-1934 |
|
US Trade Representative, 1989-93 |
| Jim Himes |
Politician |
5-Jul-1966 |
|
Congressman, Connecticut 4th |
| Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
The Kinetics of Chemical Change |
| Christopher Hitchens |
Journalist |
13-Apr-1949 |
15-Dec-2011 |
Agent provocateur |
| Samuel Hoare |
Politician |
24-Feb-1880 |
7-May-1959 |
UK Home Secretary, 1937-39 |
| Thomas Hobbes |
Philosopher |
5-Apr-1588 |
4-Dec-1679 |
Leviathan |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chemist |
12-May-1910 |
29-Jul-1994 |
Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
| Godfrey Hodgson |
Journalist |
1-Feb-1934 |
|
The Myth of American Exceptionalism |
| David E. Hoffman |
Journalist |
1953 |
|
The Dead Hand |
| Michael Hoffman |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1956 |
|
One Fine Day |
| Reid Hoffman |
Business |
5-Aug-1967 |
|
Co-Founder of LinkedIn |
| John Holmes |
Diplomat |
29-Apr-1951 |
|
UN Under Sec. Gen. for Humanitarian Affairs |
| T. Rice Holmes |
Scholar |
24-May-1855 |
4-Aug-1933 |
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul |
| Robert Hooke |
Scientist |
18-Jul-1635 |
3-Mar-1703 |
Law of Elasticity, microscopist |
| Richard Hooker |
Religion |
c. 1553 |
2-Nov-1600 |
Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity |
| Tom Hooper |
Film Director |
1972 |
|
The King's Speech |
| Anthony Hope |
Novelist |
9-Feb-1863 |
8-Jul-1933 |
The Prisoner of Zenda |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Poet |
28-Jul-1844 |
8-Jun-1889 |
Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter |
| Ralph Hopton |
Military |
1596 |
Sep-1652 |
Royalist commander, English Civil War |
| Daniel Walker Howe |
Historian |
10-Jan-1937 |
|
What Hath God Wrought |
| John Howe |
Religion |
17-May-1630 |
2-Apr-1706 |
The Living Temple |
| Edwin Hubble |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1889 |
28-Sep-1953 |
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law |
| Trevor Huddleston |
Religion |
15-Jun-1913 |
20-Apr-1998 |
Anti-Apartheid activist |
| Richard Hughes |
Author |
19-Apr-1900 |
28-Aug-1976 |
A High Wind in Jamaica |
| Thomas Hughes |
Author |
20-Oct-1822 |
22-Mar-1896 |
Tom Brown's School Days |
| Thomas L. Hughes |
Government |
? |
|
Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace |
| Edmund J. Hull |
Diplomat |
1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 2001-04 |
| Basil Cardinal Hume |
Religion |
2-Mar-1923 |
17-Jun-1999 |
Archbishop of Westminster, 1976-99 |
| Jeremy Hunt |
Politician |
1-Nov-1966 |
|
UK Secretary of State for Health |
| Nick Hurd |
Politician |
13-May-1962 |
|
British MP, Ruislip-Northwood |
| William R. Hutchison |
Historian |
21-May-1930 |
16-Dec-2005 |
The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism |
| John Hutton |
Politician |
6-May-1955 |
|
British MP, Barrow and Furness |
| Aldous Huxley |
Author |
26-Jul-1894 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Brave New World |
| Julian Huxley |
Biologist |
22-Jun-1887 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Armando Iannucci |
Screenwriter |
28-Nov-1963 |
|
The Thick of It |
| Henry Ireton |
Military |
1611 |
28-Nov-1651 |
Soldier under Oliver Cromwell |
| Reed Irvine |
Activist |
29-Sep-1922 |
16-Nov-2004 |
Founder, Accuracy in Media |
| John N. Irwin II |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1913 |
28-Feb-2000 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1970-73 |
| Walter Isaacson |
Author |
20-May-1952 |
|
Former Managing Editor for Time |
| Richard Jago |
Poet |
1715 |
8-May-1781 |
The Blackbirds |
| Michael Jay |
Diplomat |
Jun-1946 |
|
UK Ambassador to France, 1996-2001 |
| Benjamin Todd Jealous |
Activist |
c. 1972 |
|
President of the NAACP |
| Gladwyn Jebb |
Diplomat |
25-Apr-1900 |
24-Oct-1996 |
Acting UN Secretary General, 1945-46 |
| John I. Jenkins |
Educator |
17-Dec-1953 |
|
President, University of Notre Dame |
| Roy Jenkins |
Politician |
11-Nov-1920 |
5-Jan-2003 |
Twice UK Home Secretary |
| Elizabeth Jennings |
Poet |
18-Jul-1926 |
26-Oct-2001 |
Song for a Birth or a Death |
| John Jewel |
Religion |
24-May-1522 |
23-Sep-1571 |
Defender of Anglicanism |
| Bobby Jindal |
Politician |
10-Jun-1971 |
|
Governor of Louisiana |
| John Scarlett |
Spy |
18-Aug-1948 |
|
Head of MI6 |
| Boris Johnson |
Politician |
19-Jun-1964 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary |
| Samuel Johnson |
Lexicographer |
18-Sep-1709 |
13-Dec-1784 |
A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. |
Publisher |
1946 |
|
Washington Post publisher, 2000-08 |
| Colin Jones |
Historian |
12-Dec-1947 |
|
Paris: Biography of a City |
| Felicity Jones |
Actor |
17-Oct-1983 |
|
Like Crazy |
| Terry Jones |
Comic |
1-Feb-1942 |
|
Monty Python |
| Keith Joseph |
Politician |
17-Jan-1918 |
10-Dec-1994 |
Conservative UK Minister, Thatcher influence |
| Benjamin Jowett |
Scholar |
15-Apr-1817 |
1-Oct-1893 |
Translator of Plato, etc. |
| Robert Joy |
Actor |
17-Aug-1951 |
|
Dr. Sid Hammerback on CSI: NY |
| Elena Kagan |
Judge |
28-Apr-1960 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Philip M. Kaiser |
Diplomat |
12-Jul-1913 |
24-May-2007 |
US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81 |
| Emmanuel A. Kampouris |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
CEO of American Standard, 1989-99 |
| Martin Karplus |
Chemist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Karplus Equation |
| Nicholas Katzenbach |
Government |
17-Jan-1922 |
8-May-2012 |
US Attorney General, 1965-66 |
| Cresson H. Kearny |
Inventor |
7-Jan-1914 |
18-Dec-2003 |
Patriot, inventor, survivalist idol |
| John Keegan |
Historian |
15-May-1934 |
2-Aug-2012 |
The Face of Battle |
| William N. Kelley |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1939 |
|
Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome |
| Ruth Kelly |
Politician |
9-May-1968 |
|
UK Minister of Transport |
| Ellie Kemper |
Actor |
2-May-1980 |
|
Erin Hannon on The Office |
| Willmoore Kendall |
Author |
5-Mar-1909 |
30-Jun-1967 |
Conservative author |
| Elizabeth T. Kennan |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
President of Mt. Holyoke College, 1978-95 |
| Margaret Kennedy |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1896 |
31-Jul-1967 |
The Constant Nymph |
| Paul Kennedy |
Historian |
17-Jun-1945 |
|
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers |
| Nan Keohane |
Scholar |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Political scientist |
| Michael Kergin |
Diplomat |
26-Apr-1942 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2000-05 |
| William T. Kerr |
Business |
17-Apr-1941 |
|
CEO of Meredith Corporation, 1997-2006 |
| Ian Kershaw |
Historian |
29-Apr-1943 |
|
The Nazi Dictatorship |
| Rashid Khalidi |
Author |
1950 |
|
Resurrecting Empire |
| Penn Kimball |
Journalist |
12-Oct-1915 |
8-Nov-2013 |
Persecuted by US Government |
| Christoph M. Kimmich |
Educator |
16-Jan-1939 |
|
President, Brooklyn College |
| Sophie Kinsella |
Author |
12-Dec-1969 |
|
Shopaholic series |
| Michael Kinsley |
Pundit |
9-Mar-1951 |
|
Founding editor of Slate |
| Andrew S. B. Knight |
Journalist |
1-Nov-1939 |
|
Editor of The Economist, 1974-86 |
| Jeremy R. Knowles |
Business |
1935 |
|
Chemistry Professor, Harvard University |
| Michael Korda |
Publisher |
8-Oct-1933 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster |
| Jonathan Kozol |
Educator |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
Death at an Early Age |
| Charles Krauthammer |
Columnist |
13-Mar-1950 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Marvin Krislov |
Educator |
c. 1960 |
|
President, Oberlin College |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
New York Times Op-Ed columnist |
| Kris Kristofferson |
Actor |
22-Jun-1936 |
|
Me and Bobby McGee |
| George A. Krol |
Diplomat |
1956 |
|
US Ambassador to Belarus, 2003-06 |
| Robert C. Krueger |
Politician |
19-Sep-1935 |
|
Congressman from Texas, 1975-79 |
| John Kufuor |
Head of State |
8-Dec-1938 |
|
President of Ghana, 2001-09 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi |
Activist |
19-Jun-1945 |
|
Burmese activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Philip Lader |
Government |
1946 |
|
US Ambassador to the UK, 1997-2001 |
| Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
| Richard Land |
Religion |
1947 |
|
Southern Baptist Convention |
| Andrew Lang |
Author |
31-Mar-1844 |
20-Jul-1912 |
Scottish man of letters, historian, author |
| Philip Larkin |
Poet |
9-Aug-1922 |
2-Dec-1985 |
The Whitsun Weddings |
| Arthur Larson |
Politician |
4-Jul-1910 |
27-Mar-1993 |
Moderate conservative thinker |
| Mary Lasker |
Activist |
30-Nov-1900 |
21-Feb-1994 |
Health care advocate |
| Harold Laski |
Economist |
30-Jun-1893 |
24-Mar-1950 |
A Grammar of Politics |
| Richmond Lattimore |
Poet |
6-May-1906 |
26-Feb-1984 |
Translator of Iliad and Odyssey |
| William Laud |
Religion |
7-Oct-1573 |
10-Jan-1645 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633-45 |
| T. E. Lawrence |
Author |
16-Aug-1888 |
19-May-1935 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
| Nigel Lawson |
Politician |
11-Mar-1932 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1983-89 |
| Harper Lee |
Novelist |
28-Apr-1926 |
19-Feb-2016 |
To Kill A Mockingbird |
| Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
| Jonah Lehrer |
Author |
25-Jun-1981 |
|
Imagine: How Creativity Works |
| Robin Leigh-Pemberton |
Business |
5-Jan-1927 |
24-Nov-2013 |
Governor of the Bank of England, 1983-93 |
| Richard C. Levin |
Educator |
7-Apr-1947 |
|
President of Yale University |
| Elliott H. Levitas |
Politician |
26-Dec-1930 |
|
Congressman from Georgia, 1975-85 |
| C. S. Lewis |
Novelist |
29-Nov-1898 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Chronicles of Narnia |
| David Lewis |
Politician |
23-Jun-1909 |
23-May-1981 |
Leader of Canada's NDP, 1971-75 |
| Christopher P. Liddell |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CFO of Microsoft |
| Thomas Linacre |
Doctor |
c. 1460 |
20-Oct-1524 |
Established the Royal Academy of Physicians |
| Goodwin Liu |
Attorney |
1970 |
|
Boalt Hall law professor |
| Penelope Lively |
Novelist |
17-Mar-1933 |
|
Moon Tiger |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Composer |
22-Mar-1948 |
|
Evita |
| Ken Loach |
Film Director |
17-Jun-1936 |
|
My Name is Joe |
| Alain Locke |
Author |
13-Sep-1886 |
9-Jun-1954 |
Leader in the Harlem Renaissance |
| John Locke |
Philosopher |
29-Aug-1632 |
28-Oct-1704 |
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| Elizabeth Longford |
Historian |
30-Aug-1906 |
23-Oct-2002 |
Victoria R. I. |
| Richard Lovelace |
Poet |
1618 |
1658 |
To Althea from Prison |
| Eric Lubbock |
Politician |
29-Sep-1928 |
14-Feb-2016 |
4th Baron Avebury |
| Edward Luce |
Journalist |
1-Jun-1968 |
|
Financial Times |
| Henry R. Luce |
Business |
3-Apr-1898 |
28-Feb-1967 |
Founded Time Magazine |
| Dick Lugar |
Politician |
4-Apr-1932 |
|
US Senator from Indiana |
| Frank Luntz |
Pundit |
23-Feb-1962 |
|
Republican pollster, strategist |
| Robert Luskin |
Attorney |
21-Jan-1950 |
|
Karl Rove's lawyer |
| Charles Lyell |
Geologist |
14-Nov-1797 |
22-Feb-1875 |
Principles of Geology |
| John Lyly |
Playwright |
1554 |
18-Nov-1606 |
Euphues |
| Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Historian |
31-Oct-1951 |
|
Reformation: Europe's House Divided |
| Robert Morrison MacIver |
Sociologist |
17-Apr-1882 |
15-Jun-1970 |
The Web of Government |
| Compton MacKenzie |
Novelist |
17-Jan-1883 |
30-Nov-1972 |
Carnival |
| Halford Mackinder |
Geographer |
15-Feb-1861 |
6-Mar-1947 |
Founder of Geopolitics |
| Hugh MacLennan |
Novelist |
20-Mar-1907 |
7-Nov-1990 |
Barometer Rising |
| Harold Macmillan |
Head of State |
10-Feb-1894 |
29-Dec-1986 |
UK Prime Minister, 1957-63 |
| Louis MacNeice |
Poet |
12-Sep-1907 |
3-Sep-1963 |
Autumn Journal |
| Salvador de Madariaga |
Author |
23-Jul-1886 |
14-Dec-1978 |
Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards |
| Rachel Maddow |
TV Personality |
1-Apr-1973 |
|
The Rachel Maddow Show |
| Peter A. Magowan |
Business |
5-Apr-1942 |
|
President, San Francisco Giants |
| Terrence Malick |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1943 |
|
Badlands |
| Robert Malley |
Government |
1963 |
|
Ex-National Security Council |
| Peter Mandelson |
Politician |
21-Oct-1953 |
|
EU Commissioner for Trade |
| Patrick Marber |
Playwright |
19-Sep-1964 |
|
Closer |
| John Marston |
Playwright |
7-Oct-1576 |
25-Jun-1634 |
The Malcontent |
| Arthur Marwick |
Historian |
29-Feb-1936 |
17-Sep-2006 |
The Deluge |
| A. E. W. Mason |
Novelist |
7-May-1865 |
22-Nov-1948 |
The Four Feathers |
| Raymond Massey |
Actor |
30-Aug-1896 |
29-Jul-1983 |
Things to Come |
| Vincent Massey |
Government |
20-Feb-1887 |
30-Dec-1967 |
Governor-General of Canada, 1952-59 |
| Sylvia M. Mathews |
Administrator |
1965 |
|
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| F. O. Matthiessen |
Critic |
19-Feb-1902 |
1-Apr-1950 |
American Renaissance |
| Reginald Maudling |
Politician |
7-Mar-1917 |
14-Feb-1979 |
UK Home Secretary, 1970-72 |
| Frederick Denison Maurice |
Religion |
29-Aug-1805 |
1-Apr-1872 |
19th c. Anglican theologian |
| David Maxwell Fyfe |
Politician |
29-May-1900 |
27-Jan-1967 |
UK Home Secretary, 1951-54 |
| Charles T. Maxwell |
Business |
c. 1931 |
|
Energy Analyst, Weeden & Co. |
| Jodhi May |
Actor |
1-May-1975 |
|
Sister My Sister |
| Theresa May |
Head of State |
1-Oct-1956 |
|
UK Prime Minister |
| Patrick Mayhew |
Politician |
11-Sep-1929 |
25-Jun-2016 |
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1992-97 |
| Michael G. McCaffery |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Makena Capital Management |
| Gordon D. McCallum |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Virgin Management, Ltd. |
| Robert D. McCallum, Jr. |
Diplomat |
1946 |
|
US Ambassador to Australia |
| Frank McDonough |
Historian |
17-Apr-1957 |
|
Appeasement and the British Road to War |
| John McDowell |
Philosopher |
7-Mar-1942 |
|
Mind and World |
| K. T. McFarland |
Government |
1952 |
|
Former Kissinger staffer |
| Michael McFaul |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1963 |
|
US Ambassador to Russia |
| George C. McGhee |
Diplomat |
1912 |
4-Jul-2005 |
US Ambassador to Germany, 1963-68 |
| Tim McInnerny |
Actor |
18-Sep-1956 |
|
Percy on Blackadder |
| P. Michael McKinley |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Colombia |
| C. Thomas McMillen |
Politician |
26-May-1952 |
|
Congressman from Maryland, 1987-93 |
| Norris McWhirter |
Author |
12-Aug-1925 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Co-founder, Guinness Book of World Records |
| James Edward Meade |
Economist |
23-Jun-1907 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Theory of International Economic Policy |
| Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Ved Mehta |
Author |
21-Mar-1934 |
|
Face to Face |
| Bob Metcalfe |
Business |
1946 |
|
Co-Inventor of Ethernet |
| Frank S. Meyer |
Author |
9-May-1909 |
1-Apr-1972 |
In Defense of Freedom |
| Empress Michiko |
Royalty |
20-Oct-1934 |
|
Empress of Japan |
| Mary Midgley |
Philosopher |
13-Sep-1919 |
|
Beast and Man |
| Bernard Miles |
Actor |
27-Sep-1907 |
14-Jun-1991 |
Founder of the Mermaid Theatre, London |
| David Miliband |
Politician |
15-Jul-1965 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 2007-10 |
| Ed Miliband |
Politician |
24-Dec-1969 |
|
British MP, Doncaster North |
| Fergus Millar |
Historian |
5-Jul-1935 |
|
Rome the Greek World, and the East |
| J. Irwin Miller |
Business |
26-May-1909 |
16-Aug-2004 |
Former CEO of Cummins Engine |
| Kate Millett |
Activist |
14-Sep-1934 |
|
Sexual Politics |
| Stephen Milligan |
Politician |
12-May-1948 |
7-Feb-1994 |
British MP and autoerotic asphyxiate |
| Peter Milliken |
Politician |
12-Nov-1946 |
|
Speaker, Canadian House of Commons |
| Alfred Milner |
Government |
23-Mar-1854 |
13-May-1925 |
Architect of the Balfour Declaration |
| Warren Mitchell |
Actor |
14-Jan-1926 |
14-Nov-2015 |
Alf Garnett on Till Death Us Do Part |
| Festus Mogae |
Head of State |
21-Aug-1939 |
|
President of Botswana |
| Walter Monckton |
Politician |
17-Jan-1891 |
9-Jan-1965 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1955-56 |
| R. I. Moore |
Historian |
8-May-1941 |
|
The Birth of Popular Heresy |
| Sir Thomas More |
Philosopher |
7-Feb-1477 |
6-Jul-1535 |
Utopia |
| Michael Moritz |
Business |
12-Sep-1954 |
|
Partner, Sequoia Capital |
| Jan Morris |
Journalist |
2-Oct-1926 |
|
Transsexual travel writer |
| William Morris |
Artist |
24-Mar-1834 |
3-Oct-1896 |
Arts and Crafts Movement |
| Willie Morris |
Author |
29-Nov-1934 |
2-Aug-1999 |
North Toward Home |
| Emily Mortimer |
Actor |
1-Dec-1971 |
|
Lovely & Amazing |
| John Mortimer |
Playwright |
21-Apr-1923 |
16-Jan-2009 |
Rumpole of the Bailey |
| Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley |
Physicist |
23-Nov-1887 |
10-Aug-1915 |
Confirmed importance of atomic number |
| Robert Moses |
Government |
18-Dec-1888 |
29-Jul-1981 |
New York City planner |
| Max Mosley |
Auto Racing |
13-Apr-1940 |
|
F�d�ration Internationale de l'Automobile |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee |
Doctor |
1970 |
|
The Emperor of All Maladies |
| David C. Mulford |
Business |
27-Jun-1937 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 2004-09 |
| Steven Muller |
Educator |
22-Nov-1927 |
19-Jan-2013 |
President of Johns Hopkins, 1972-90 |
| Frederick Mulley |
Politician |
3-Jul-1918 |
15-Mar-1995 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1976-79 |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
| George B. Munroe |
Business |
5-Jan-1922 |
19-Aug-2014 |
CEO of Phelps Dodge, 1969-87 |
| Iris Murdoch |
Novelist |
15-Jul-1919 |
8-Feb-1999 |
The Sea, the Sea |
| Rupert Murdoch |
Business |
11-Mar-1931 |
|
Founder and CEO of News Corp |
| Christopher Murphy |
Politician |
3-Aug-1973 |
|
Congressman, Connecticut 5th |
| Paul Murphy |
Politician |
25-Nov-1948 |
|
British MP, Torfaen |
| Al Murray |
Comic |
10-May-1968 |
|
The Pub Landlord |
| John Middleton Murry |
Critic |
6-Aug-1889 |
13-Mar-1957 |
The Story of D. H. Lawrence |
| Thomas Nagel |
Philosopher |
4-Jul-1937 |
|
What is it like to be a bat? |
| V. S. Naipaul |
Author |
17-Aug-1932 |
|
A House for Mr. Biswas |
| Lewis Namier |
Historian |
27-Jun-1888 |
19-Aug-1960 |
England in the Age of the American Revolution |
| Prince Naruhito |
Royalty |
23-Feb-1960 |
|
Crown Prince of Japan |
| David Naylor |
Educator |
26-Oct-1954 |
|
President, University of Toronto |
| Ted Nelson |
Computer Programmer |
17-Jun-1937 |
|
Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu |
| George Neumayr |
Columnist |
c. 1972 |
|
Editor, Catholic World Report |
| Sir Roger Newdigate |
Historian |
30-May-1719 |
23-Nov-1806 |
Established the Newdigate Prize |
| John Henry Newman |
Religion |
21-Feb-1801 |
11-Aug-1890 |
Oxford Movement |
| Charles Thomas Newton |
Archaeologist |
16-Sep-1816 |
28-Nov-1894 |
Discovered Halicarnassus mausoleum |
| Tony Newton |
Politician |
29-Aug-1937 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 1992-97 |
| Steven Norris |
Politician |
24-May-1945 |
|
Former Conservative MP, Epping Forest |
| Joseph S. Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
| Harriet O'Neill |
Judge |
20-Apr-1957 |
|
Justice, Texas Supreme Court |
| Onora O'Neill |
Philosopher |
23-Aug-1941 |
|
President of the British Academy, 2005-09 |
| Michael Oakeshott |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1901 |
19-Dec-1990 |
Rationalism in Politics |
| William of Ockham |
Philosopher |
c. 1285 |
9-Apr-1348 |
Occam's Razor |
| James Edward Oglethorpe |
Government |
22-Dec-1696 |
1-Jul-1785 |
Founder of Georgia colony |
| Olav V |
Royalty |
2-Jul-1903 |
17-Jan-1991 |
King of Norway, 1957-91 |
| Ronald L. Olson |
Attorney |
1941 |
|
Munger Tolles & Olson |
| Nicky Oppenheimer |
Business |
8-Jun-1945 |
|
Chairman of De Beers |
| Viktor Orbán |
Head of State |
31-May-1963 |
|
Prime Minister of Hungary |
| Anne W. Orde |
Historian |
1924 |
25-Feb-2015 |
The Eclipse of Great Britain |
| George Osborne |
Politician |
23-May-1971 |
|
Conservative MP for Tatton |
| Thomas Otway |
Playwright |
3-Mar-1652 |
14-Apr-1685 |
Venice Preserved |
| Sir Thomas Overbury |
Poet |
18-Jun-1581 |
15-Sep-1613 |
The Wife |
| Lindsay Owen-Jones |
Business |
17-Mar-1946 |
|
CEO of L'Oreal, 1988-2006 |
| William A. Owens |
Military |
8-May-1940 |
|
Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs, 1994-96 |
| J. I. Packer |
Religion |
22-Jul-1926 |
|
Biblical scholar |
| Thomas Pakenham |
Historian |
14-Aug-1933 |
|
8th Earl of Longford |
| Michael Palin |
Comic |
5-May-1943 |
|
Monty Python |
| Chip Pashayan |
Politician |
27-Mar-1941 |
|
Congressman from California, 1979-91 |
| Eboo Patel |
Activist |
? |
|
Interfaith Youth Core |
| Carole Pateman |
Scholar |
11-Dec-1940 |
|
The Disorder of Women |
| Chris Patten |
Politician |
12-May-1944 |
|
EU Commissioner for External Relations |
| Lester Bowles Pearson |
Head of State |
23-Apr-1897 |
27-Dec-1972 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1963-68 |
| Robert Peel |
Head of State |
5-Feb-1788 |
2-Jul-1850 |
U.K. Prime Minister |
| George Peele |
Playwright |
1558 |
9-Nov-1596 |
The Old Wives Tale |
| Henry Pelham |
Head of State |
25-Sep-1694 |
6-Mar-1754 |
UK Prime Minister, 1743-54 |
| William Penn |
Government |
14-Oct-1644 |
30-Jul-1718 |
Founder of Pennsylvania |
| Thomas Percy |
Author |
13-Apr-1729 |
30-Sep-1811 |
Percy Reliques |
| Andrew Pettegree |
Historian |
16-Sep-1957 |
|
Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion |
| Pierre Pettigrew |
Politician |
18-Apr-1951 |
|
Canadian Foreign Minister |
| John Philips |
Poet |
30-Dec-1676 |
15-Feb-1708 |
The Splendid Shilling |
| Caryl Phillips |
Novelist |
13-Mar-1958 |
|
Crossing the River |
| Patrick Pichette |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CFO of Google |
| Arthur Pickard-Cambridge |
Scholar |
20-Jan-1873 |
7-Feb-1952 |
Dithyramb: Tragedy and Comedy |
| Rosamund Pike |
Actor |
27-Jan-1979 |
|
Die Another Day |
| Thomas Pinckney |
Politician |
23-Oct-1750 |
2-Nov-1828 |
Governor of South Carolina, 1787-89 |
| Michael Pinto-Duschinsky |
Scholar |
1943 |
|
Political scientist |
| James Plaskitt |
Politician |
23-Jun-1954 |
|
British MP, Warwick and Leamington |
| Colin Platt |
Historian |
11-Nov-1934 |
|
The English Medieval Town |
| Robin A. Plumbridge |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Gold Fields of South Africa |
| Frank Podmore |
Author |
5-Feb-1856 |
14-Aug-1910 |
Fabian Society |
| Reginald Pole |
Religion |
3-Mar-1500 |
17-Nov-1558 |
Opponent of King Henry VIII |
| Michael Pollan |
Author |
6-Feb-1955 |
|
The Omnivore's Dilemma |
| Anna Popplewell |
Actor |
16-Dec-1988 |
|
Chronicles of Narnia |
| Roger B. Porter |
Educator |
19-Jun-1946 |
|
Professor, Kennedy School of Government |
| Wesley W. Posvar |
Educator |
14-Sep-1925 |
27-Jul-2001 |
Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh, 1967-91 |
| Anthony Powell |
Novelist |
21-Dec-1905 |
28-Mar-2000 |
A Dance to the Music of Time |
| Charles Powell |
Business |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
Private Secretary to Thatcher, 1983-90 |
| Franklyn G. Prendergast |
Doctor |
7-Mar-1945 |
|
Mayo Clinic |
| Larry Pressler |
Politician |
29-Mar-1942 |
|
US Senator from South Dakota, 1979-97 |
| Diana Preston |
Historian |
1952 |
|
Before the Fall-Out |
| Anthony Price |
Novelist |
16-Aug-1928 |
|
Other Paths to Glory |
| Dennis Price |
Actor |
23-Jun-1915 |
6-Oct-1973 |
The World of Wooster |
| Reynolds Price |
Author |
1-Feb-1933 |
20-Jan-2011 |
A Long and Happy Life |
| Archibald Philip Primrose |
Head of State |
7-May-1847 |
21-May-1929 |
UK Prime Minister 1894-95 |
| John Profumo |
Politician |
30-Jan-1915 |
10-Mar-2006 |
Resigned House of Commons over an affair |
| Philip Pullman |
Novelist |
19-Oct-1946 |
|
His Dark Materials |
| James Purnell |
Politician |
2-Oct-1970 |
|
British MP, Stalybridge and Hyde |
| Barbara Pym |
Novelist |
2-Jun-1913 |
11-Jan-1980 |
Some Tame Gazelle |
| Anthony Quainton |
Diplomat |
4-Apr-1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Peru, 1989-92 |
| Lois E. Quam |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Managing Director, Piper Jaffray |
| John A. Quelch |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
Professor at HBS |
| Bob Rae |
Politician |
2-Aug-1948 |
|
Premier of Ontario, 1990-95 |
| Franklin Raines |
Government |
14-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004 |
| John Crowe Ransom |
Poet |
30-Apr-1888 |
4-Jul-1974 |
God Without Thunder |
| Hormuzd Rassam |
Archaeologist |
1826 |
16-Sep-1910 |
Discovered Epic of Gilgamesh |
| Mike Ratledge |
Musician |
Apr-1943 |
|
Soft Machine keyboardist |
| Terence Rattigan |
Playwright |
10-Jun-1911 |
30-Nov-1977 |
Separate Tables |
| George Rawlinson |
Historian |
23-Nov-1812 |
7-Oct-1902 |
The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World |
| John Rawls |
Philosopher |
21-Feb-1921 |
24-Nov-2002 |
A Theory of Justice |
| Charles Reade |
Novelist |
8-Jun-1814 |
11-Apr-1884 |
The Cloister and the Hearth |
| John Redwood |
Politician |
15-Jun-1951 |
|
British MP, Wokingham |
| Laurence Rees |
Historian |
19-Jan-1957 |
|
Their Darkest Hour |
| Robert Reich |
Government |
24-Jun-1946 |
|
US Secretary of Labor, 1993-97 |
| John T. Reid |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CTO of Colgate-Palmolive, 1997-2000 |
| Mitchell B. Reiss |
Government |
? |
|
Director of Policy Planning, 2003-05 |
| Mary Renault |
Novelist |
4-Sep-1905 |
13-Dec-1983 |
The Last of the Wine |
| James Reston, Jr. |
Author |
8-Mar-1941 |
|
The Conviction of Richard Nixon |
| Mel Reynolds |
Politician |
8-Jan-1952 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1993-95 |
| Simon Reynolds |
Journalist |
1963 |
|
Rip It Up And Start Again |
| Cecil Rhodes |
Business |
5-Jul-1853 |
26-Mar-1902 |
De Beers |
| Nicholas V. Riasanovsky |
Historian |
21-Dec-1923 |
14-May-2011 |
A History of Russia |
| Susan E. Rice |
Diplomat |
17-Nov-1964 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN |
| Nicholas Ridley |
Politician |
17-Feb-1929 |
4-Mar-1993 |
Thatcherite MP and Minister |
| Geoffrey Rippon |
Politician |
28-May-1924 |
28-Jan-1997 |
Former MP, Hexham |
| Charles R. Ritcheson |
Historian |
26-Feb-1925 |
8-Dec-2011 |
British Politics and the American Revolution |
| Adam Roberts |
Historian |
29-Aug-1940 |
|
President of the British Academy |
| Mark Roberts |
Activist |
1945 |
|
UK's most famous drug smuggler |
| Paul Craig Roberts |
Economist |
1939 |
|
The Supply-Side Revolution |
| Win Rockefeller |
Politician |
17-Sep-1948 |
16-Jul-2006 |
Billionaire, Arkansas Lt. Governor |
| Nick Rose |
Business |
Oct-1957 |
|
CFO of Diageo |
| Jeffrey A. Rosensweig |
Economist |
c. 1957 |
|
Finance Professor at Emory |
| Eugene Victor Rostow |
Educator |
25-Aug-1913 |
25-Nov-2002 |
Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65 |
| Walt Rostow |
Government |
7-Oct-1916 |
13-Feb-2003 |
National Security Advisor, 1966-69 |
| Jacob Rothschild |
Business |
29-Apr-1936 |
|
RIT Capital Partners |
| Neil Rudenstine |
Educator |
21-Jan-1935 |
|
President of Harvard, 1991-2001 |
| Richard Rudgley |
Author |
19-Feb-1961 |
|
The Alchemy of Culture |
| Robert Runcie |
Religion |
2-Oct-1921 |
11-Jul-2000 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980-91 |
| Alan Rusbridger |
Editor |
29-Dec-1953 |
|
Editor of The Guardian |
| Dean Rusk |
Government |
9-Feb-1909 |
21-Dec-1994 |
US Secretary of State, 1961-69 |
| John Ruskin |
Critic |
8-Feb-1819 |
20-Jan-1900 |
Greatest Victorian art critic |
| Conrad Russell |
Historian |
15-Apr-1937 |
14-Oct-2004 |
Fall of the British monarchies, 1637-1642 |
| Martin Ryle |
Astronomer |
27-Sep-1918 |
14-Oct-1984 |
Radio astronomer |
| Larry J. Sabato |
Educator |
7-Aug-1952 |
|
Widely-quoted political scientist |
| Oliver Sacks |
Doctor |
9-Jul-1933 |
30-Aug-2015 |
Awakenings |
| George Saintsbury |
Critic |
23-Oct-1845 |
28-Jan-1933 |
A History of Criticism |
| Herbert Samuel |
Politician |
6-Nov-1870 |
2-Feb-1963 |
High Commissioner of Palestine, 1920-25 |
| Duncan Sandys |
Politician |
24-Jan-1908 |
26-Nov-1987 |
UK Colonial Secretary, 1962-64 |
| Paul Sarbanes |
Politician |
3-Feb-1933 |
|
US Senator from Maryland, 1977-2007 |
| Nathalie Sarraute |
Novelist |
18-Jul-1900 |
19-Oct-1999 |
Portrait of a Man Unknown |
| Mario Savio |
Activist |
8-Dec-1942 |
6-Nov-1996 |
Free Speech Movement |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
Novelist |
13-Jun-1893 |
17-Dec-1957 |
Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels |
| Simon Schama |
Historian |
13-Feb-1945 |
|
Landscape and Memory |
| John Schlesinger |
Film Director |
16-Feb-1926 |
25-Jul-2003 |
Marathon Man |
| Eric Schlosser |
Author |
17-Aug-1959 |
|
Fast Food Nation |
| Kurt L. Schmoke |
Politician |
1-Dec-1949 |
|
Mayor of Baltimore, 1988-99 |
| David G. Scholey |
Business |
28-Jun-1935 |
|
Former CEO of SG Warburg |
| John Searle |
Philosopher |
31-Jul-1932 |
|
Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language |
| John Selden |
Scholar |
16-Dec-1584 |
30-Nov-1654 |
English orientalist and jurist |
| Will Self |
Novelist |
26-Sep-1961 |
|
The Book of Dave |
| Wilfrid Sellars |
Philosopher |
20-May-1912 |
2-Jul-1989 |
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind |
| Dr. Seuss |
Author |
2-Mar-1904 |
24-Sep-1991 |
The Cat in the Hat |
| Terri Sewell |
Politician |
1-Jan-1965 |
|
Congresswoman, Alabama 7th |
| Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Asst. Secy. State, Western Hemisphere |
| Philip R. Sharp |
Politician |
15-Jul-1942 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1975-95 |
| Wallace Shawn |
Actor |
12-Nov-1943 |
|
Ate dinner with Andre |
| Wilfrid Sheed |
Author |
27-Dec-1930 |
19-Jan-2011 |
Office Politics |
| Gilbert Sheldon |
Religion |
1598 |
1677 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1663-77 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Poet |
4-Aug-1792 |
8-Jul-1822 |
Prometheus Unbound |
| Sir Anthony Shirley |
Military |
1565 |
c. 1635 |
English traveler, man of adventure |
| James Shirley |
Playwright |
1596 |
29-Oct-1666 |
Love Tricks |
| Nevil Shute |
Novelist |
17-Jan-1899 |
12-Jan-1960 |
On the Beach |
| Sir Philip Sidney |
Author |
30-Nov-1554 |
17-Oct-1586 |
The Defence of Poesie |
| Don Siegelman |
Politician |
24-Feb-1946 |
|
Governor of Alabama, 1999-2003 |
| Adele Simmons |
Administrator |
21-Jun-1941 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99 |
| Claude Simon |
Novelist |
10-Oct-1913 |
6-Jul-2005 |
Le Tricheur |
| John Simon |
Politician |
28-Feb-1873 |
11-Jan-1954 |
Lord Chancellor of Britain, 1940-45 |
| Neil P. Simpkins |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Senior Managing Director, Blackstone |
| Peter Singer |
Philosopher |
6-Jul-1946 |
|
Animal Liberation |
| John Skelton |
Poet |
c. 1460 |
21-Jun-1529 |
Why come ye nat to courte |
| H. Gordon Skilling |
Scholar |
12-Feb-1912 |
2-Mar-2001 |
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution |
| Anne-Marie Slaughter |
Educator |
27-Sep-1958 |
|
President and CEO, New America |
| Walter B. Slocombe |
Government |
23-Sep-1941 |
|
Defense analyst |
| Adam Smith |
Economist |
5-Jun-1723 |
17-Jul-1790 |
The Wealth of Nations |
| Goldwin Smith |
Historian |
13-Aug-1823 |
7-Jun-1910 |
Controversialist |
| Howard K. Smith |
Journalist |
12-May-1914 |
15-Feb-2002 |
Face the Nation |
| Jacqui Smith |
Politician |
3-Nov-1962 |
|
UK Home Secretary |
| Mel Smith |
Actor |
3-Dec-1952 |
20-Jul-2013 |
Alas Smith & Jones |
| Sydney Smith |
Religion |
3-Jun-1771 |
22-Feb-1845 |
Instigated the Edinburgh Review |
| Oliver Smithies |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1925 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| James Smithson |
Chemist |
1765 |
27-Jun-1829 |
Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution |
| Frederick Soddy |
Chemist |
2-Sep-1877 |
22-Sep-1956 |
Isotopes |
| Donald Somervell |
Politician |
24-Aug-1889 |
18-Nov-1960 |
AG for England and Wales, 1936-45 |
| Frank Soskice |
Politician |
23-Jul-1902 |
1-Jan-1979 |
UK Home Secretary, 1964-65 |
| David Souter |
Judge |
17-Sep-1939 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice, 1990-2009 |
| Robert Southey |
Poet |
12-Aug-1774 |
21-Mar-1843 |
A Vision of Judgment |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Stephen Spender |
Poet |
28-Feb-1909 |
16-Jul-1995 |
The Destructive Element |
| William Archibald Spooner |
Educator |
22-Jul-1844 |
29-Aug-1930 |
Spoonerisms |
| John Spratt |
Politician |
1-Nov-1942 |
|
Congressman from South Carolina, 1983-2011 |
| Norman St. John-Stevas |
Politician |
18-May-1929 |
2-Mar-2012 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81 |
| Dennis Stanfill |
Business |
1-Apr-1927 |
|
CEO of 20th Century Fox, 1971-81 |
| Richard Steele |
Author |
1672 |
1-Sep-1729 |
The Spectator |
| George Steiner |
Critic |
23-Apr-1929 |
|
After Babel |
| Joshua Steiner |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Quadrangle Group |
| Richard Stengel |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
|
Managing Editor, Time magazine |
| George Stephanopoulos |
TV Personality |
10-Feb-1961 |
|
Bill Clinton's communications director |
| Jay B. Stephens |
Attorney |
5-Nov-1946 |
|
General Counsel of Raytheon |
| William E. Stevenson |
Diplomat |
25-Oct-1900 |
2-Apr-1985 |
US Ambassador to the Philippines, 1962-64 |
| Michael Stewart |
Politician |
6-Nov-1906 |
13-Mar-1990 |
Former UK Foreign Secretary |
| Lawrence Stone |
Historian |
4-Dec-1919 |
16-Jun-1999 |
The Crisis of the Aristocracy |
| John de Stratford |
Religion |
? |
23-Aug-1348 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1333-48 |
| P. F. Strawson |
Philosopher |
23-Nov-1919 |
13-Feb-2006 |
Individuals |
| William Strode |
Politician |
1598 |
9-Sep-1645 |
Opponent of King Charles I |
| Carl W. Strom |
Diplomat |
22-Dec-1899 |
27-Jan-1969 |
US Ambassador to Bolivia, 1959-61 |
| Imogen Stubbs |
Actor |
20-Feb-1961 |
|
Twelfth Night |
| William Stubbs |
Historian |
21-Jun-1825 |
22-Apr-1901 |
Constitutional History of England |
| Charles Sturridge |
Film Director |
24-Jun-1951 |
|
FairyTale: A True Story |
| Roscoe S. Suddarth |
Diplomat |
1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Jordan, 1987-90 |
| Andrew Sullivan |
Journalist |
10-Aug-1963 |
|
The Daily Dish |
| Kathleen Sullivan |
Scholar |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Scholar of constitutional law |
| William Graham Sumner |
Educator |
30-Oct-1840 |
12-Apr-1910 |
Laissez faire sociologist |
| Robert Surtees |
Historian |
1779 |
11-Feb-1834 |
History of Durham |
| Jonathan Swift |
Author |
30-Nov-1667 |
19-Oct-1745 |
Gulliver's Travels |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Poet |
5-Apr-1837 |
10-Apr-1909 |
Masochist Victorian poet |
| Thomas Sydenham |
Doctor |
13-Sep-1624 |
29-Dec-1689 |
The English Hippocrates |
| Plum Sykes |
Author |
4-Dec-1969 |
|
Bergdorf Blondes |
| Ronald Syme |
Historian |
11-Mar-1903 |
4-Sep-1989 |
The Roman Revolution |
| John Addington Symonds |
Critic |
5-Oct-1840 |
19-Apr-1893 |
Renaissance in Italy |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Censu Tabone |
Head of State |
30-Mar-1913 |
14-Mar-2012 |
President of Malta, 1989-94 |
| Archibald Campbell Tait |
Religion |
21-Dec-1811 |
3-Dec-1882 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1868-82 |
| Strobe Talbott |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
Time journalist, Deputy Secy. of State |
| Sir Banastre Tarleton |
Military |
21-Aug-1754 |
25-Jan-1833 |
Fought with Cornwallis |
| R. H. Tawney |
Scholar |
30-Nov-1880 |
16-Jan-1962 |
The Acquisitive Society |
| A. J. P. Taylor |
Historian |
25-Mar-1906 |
7-Sep-1990 |
The Origins of the Second World War |
| Charles Taylor |
Philosopher |
5-Nov-1931 |
|
Sources of the Self |
| Paul Tellier |
Business |
1939 |
|
CEO of Canadian National Railway, 1992-2002 |
| Frederick Temple |
Religion |
30-Nov-1821 |
23-Dec-1902 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1896-1902 |
| William Temple |
Religion |
15-Oct-1881 |
26-Oct-1944 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-44 |
| John Templeton |
Philanthropist |
29-Nov-1912 |
8-Jul-2008 |
Billionaire fund manager |
| Margaret Thatcher |
Head of State |
13-Oct-1925 |
8-Apr-2013 |
UK Prime Minister, 1979-90 |
| James D. Theberge |
Diplomat |
28-Dec-1930 |
20-Jan-1988 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1982-85 |
| Louis Theroux |
TV Personality |
20-May-1970 |
|
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends |
| Keith Thomas |
Historian |
2-Jan-1933 |
|
Religion and the Decline of Magic |
| John L. Thornton |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
President of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2003 |
| Jeremy Thorpe |
Politician |
29-Apr-1929 |
4-Dec-2014 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1967-76 |
| Lester Thurow |
Economist |
7-May-1938 |
25-Mar-2016 |
Sloan School of Management |
| Edward Titchener |
Psychologist |
11-Jan-1867 |
3-Aug-1927 |
Structural psychology |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nucleic acid, nucleotides |
| J. R. R. Tolkien |
Author |
3-Jan-1892 |
2-Sep-1973 |
Lord of the Rings |
| David Tree |
Actor |
15-Jul-1915 |
4-Nov-2009 |
Pygmalion |
| Hugh Trevor-Roper |
Historian |
15-Jan-1914 |
26-Jan-2003 |
The Last Days of Hitler |
| Jethro Tull |
Agriculturalist |
1674 |
21-Feb-1741 |
The Horse-hoeing Husbandry |
| Malcolm Turnbull |
Head of State |
24-Oct-1954 |
|
Prime Minister of Australia |
| John Turner |
Head of State |
7-Jun-1929 |
|
Prime Minister of Canada, 1984 |
| Stansfield Turner |
Government |
1-Dec-1923 |
|
CIA Director, 1977-81 |
| Kenneth Tynan |
Critic |
2-Apr-1927 |
26-Jul-1980 |
British theatre critic |
| William Tyndale |
Religion |
1492 |
6-Oct-1536 |
Bible translator, burnt at the stake |
| David Urquhart |
Diplomat |
1805 |
16-May-1877 |
Diplomatic Review |
| Ed Vaizey |
Politician |
5-Jun-1968 |
|
British MP, Wantage |
| Edward Vallance |
Historian |
1975 |
|
A Radical History of Britain |
| Robert J. Van de Graaff |
Inventor |
20-Dec-1901 |
16-Jan-1967 |
Van de Graaff generator |
| John R. Vane |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1927 |
19-Nov-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| Eric Varley |
Politician |
11-Aug-1932 |
|
Former MP, Chesterfield |
| Thomas Vaughan |
Chemist |
17-Apr-1622 |
27-Feb-1666 |
English alchemist and mystic |
| Peter Viereck |
Poet |
5-Aug-1916 |
13-May-2006 |
Terror and Decorum |
| André Villeneuve |
Business |
23-Nov-1944 |
|
Chairman of Euronext.LIFFE |
| David Vitter |
Politician |
3-May-1961 |
|
US Senator from Louisiana |
| Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk |
Head of State |
22-Aug-1887 |
4-Mar-1977 |
German Chancellor, 1945 |
| Helen Waddell |
Author |
31-May-1889 |
5-Mar-1965 |
The Wandering Scholars |
| David Waddington |
Politician |
2-Aug-1929 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1989-90 |
| Sonya Walger |
Actor |
6-Jun-1974 |
|
The Mind of the Married Man |
| John E. Walker |
Chemist |
7-Jan-1941 |
|
ATP process |
| Patrick Gordon Walker |
Politician |
7-Apr-1907 |
2-Dec-1980 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1964-66 |
| Henry C. Wallich |
Economist |
10-Jun-1914 |
16-Sep-1988 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 |
| Thomas Walsingham |
Historian |
? |
c. 1422 |
Historia Anglicana |
| William Walton |
Composer |
29-Mar-1902 |
8-Mar-1983 |
Troilus and Cressida |
| Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck |
Royalty |
21-Feb-1980 |
|
King of Bhutan |
| William Warham |
Religion |
c. 1450 |
22-Aug-1532 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1504-32 |
| Robert Penn Warren |
Poet |
24-Apr-1905 |
15-Sep-1989 |
First US Poet Laureate |
| Thomas Warton |
Poet |
9-Jan-1728 |
21-May-1790 |
English Poet Laureate, 1785-90 |
| Bernard Wasserstein |
Historian |
22-Jan-1948 |
|
Vanishing Diaspora |
| Auberon Waugh |
Columnist |
17-Nov-1939 |
16-Jan-2001 |
Columnist for Private Eye |
| Honeysuckle Weeks |
Actor |
1-Aug-1979 |
|
Samantha Stewart on Foyle's War |
| Jacob Weisberg |
Journalist |
1964 |
|
Slate Group chairman |
| Richard von Weizsäcker |
Head of State |
15-Apr-1920 |
31-Jan-2015 |
President of Germany, 1984-94 |
| Bill Weld |
Politician |
31-Jul-1945 |
|
Governor of Massachusetts, 1991-97 |
| John Wesley |
Religion |
17-Jun-1703 |
2-Mar-1791 |
Founder of Methodism |
| Jessamyn West |
Author |
18-Jul-1902 |
23-Feb-1984 |
The Friendly Persuasion |
| Samuel West |
Actor |
19-Jun-1966 |
|
Howard's End |
| Peter Westmacott |
Diplomat |
c. 1950 |
|
UK Ambassador to France |
| Roger Wheeler |
Military |
1943 |
|
Head of the British Army, 1997-2000 |
| Mark Whitaker |
Journalist |
7-Sep-1957 |
|
CNN managing editor |
| Byron White |
Judge |
8-Jun-1917 |
15-Apr-2002 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1962-93 |
| Gilbert White |
Naturalist |
18-Jul-1720 |
26-Jun-1793 |
Natural History of Selborne |
| George Whitefield |
Religion |
27-Dec-1714 |
30-Sep-1770 |
Evangelist, early Methodist |
| John Hay Whitney |
Business |
17-Aug-1904 |
8-Feb-1982 |
New York Herald Tribune |
| John Edgar Wideman |
Novelist |
14-Jun-1941 |
|
Sent for You Yesterday |
| Leon Wieseltier |
Editor |
14-Jun-1952 |
|
The New Republic |
| Oscar Wilde |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1854 |
30-Nov-1900 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Sean Wilentz |
Historian |
20-Feb-1951 |
|
The Rise of American Democracy |
| Andrew Wiles |
Mathematician |
11-Apr-1953 |
|
Proved Fermat's Last Theorem |
| George Will |
Columnist |
4-May-1941 |
|
Conservative pundit, baseball lover |
| Bernard Williams |
Philosopher |
21-Sep-1929 |
10-Jun-2003 |
Leading moral philosopher |
| Emlyn Williams |
Playwright |
26-Nov-1905 |
25-Sep-1987 |
Night Must Fall |
| Eric Williams |
Head of State |
25-Sep-1911 |
29-Mar-1981 |
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1956-81 |
| Mark Williams |
Actor |
1959 |
|
The Borrowers |
| Penry Williams |
Historian |
25-Feb-1925 |
30-Apr-2013 |
The Tudor Regime |
| Rowan Williams |
Religion |
14-Jun-1950 |
|
Archbishop of Canterbury |
| John Wilmot |
Poet |
1-Apr-1647 |
26-Jul-1680 |
Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery |
| A. N. Wilson |
Novelist |
27-Oct-1950 |
|
The Lampitt Papers |
| Angus Wilson |
Novelist |
11-Aug-1913 |
31-May-1991 |
Hemlock and After |
| Harold Wilson |
Head of State |
11-Mar-1916 |
24-May-1995 |
Two-time Prime Minister of Britain |
| Heather Wilson |
Politician |
30-Dec-1960 |
|
Congresswoman from New Mexico, 1998-2009 |
| Simon Winchester |
Journalist |
28-Sep-1944 |
|
The Professor and the Madman |
| Peter Wingfield |
Actor |
5-Sep-1962 |
|
Dan Clifford on Holby City |
| Michael Winterbottom |
Film Director |
29-Mar-1961 |
|
24 Hour Party People |
| Jeanette Winterson |
Novelist |
27-Aug-1959 |
|
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| Neil R. Withington |
Attorney |
c. 1957 |
|
General Counsel, British American Tobacco |
| Naomi Wolf |
Author |
12-Nov-1962 |
|
The Beauty Myth |
| Tobias Wolff |
Author |
19-Jun-1945 |
|
The Barracks Thief |
| Richard Wolffe |
Journalist |
17-Sep-1968 |
|
Newsweek Senior White House Correspondent |
| Stephen Wolfram |
Mathematician |
29-Aug-1959 |
|
Creator of Mathematica |
| Sheldon S. Wolin |
Philosopher |
4-Aug-1922 |
21-Oct-2015 |
Politics and Vision |
| Anthony à Wood |
Historian |
17-Dec-1632 |
29-Nov-1695 |
Oxford historian |
| John Wood |
Actor |
5-Jul-1930 |
6-Aug-2011 |
Dr. Falken in WarGames |
| Peter H. Wood |
Historian |
1-May-1943 |
|
Black Majority |
| Peter M. Wood |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Former Managing Director, JP Morgan |
| Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Historian |
29-Apr-1896 |
16-Mar-1977 |
Florence Nightingale |
| Simon Woods |
Actor |
1980 |
|
Pride & Prejudice |
| James Woolsey |
Government |
21-Sep-1941 |
|
CIA Director, 1993-95 |
| Christopher Wren |
Architect |
20-Oct-1632 |
25-Feb-1723 |
Designed St. Paul's Cathedral |
| Peter Wright |
Spy |
9-Aug-1916 |
27-Apr-1995 |
Spycatcher |
| E. A. Wrigley |
Historian |
17-Aug-1931 |
|
Continuity, Chance and Change |
| William Wycherley |
Playwright |
1640 |
1-Jan-1716 |
The Plain Dealer |
| Owain Yeoman |
Actor |
2-Jul-1978 |
|
Wayne Rigsby on The Mentalist |
| Michael York |
Actor |
27-Mar-1942 |
|
Logan's Run |
| Bellamy Young |
Actor |
19-Feb-1970 |
|
Mellie Grant on Scandal |
| Edward Young |
Poet |
1683 |
5-Apr-1765 |
Night Thoughts |
| John Zachary Young |
Zoologist |
18-Mar-1907 |
4-Jul-1997 |
British zoological neurologist |
| George Younger |
Politician |
22-Sep-1931 |
26-Jan-2003 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1986-89 |
| Dov S. Zakheim |
Government |
18-Dec-1948 |
|
A Vulcan's Tale |
