20th-century British biographers

British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1847–1929)

Italian–English writer (1875–1950)

British writer (1924–2017)

British politician (1920–2003)

British actor

Welsh psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1879–1958)

British science writer

British writer and social reformer (1851–1939)

British musicologist (1930–2005)

British writer

British journalist and author

British writer (1966–2023)

mathematician and popular science author

British art historian, writer and painter (1910–1996)

British biographer, historian and academic (1902–1986)

British politician and writer (1917–2004)

American-British actor, biographer and film producer

British journalist, biographer and novelist (1918–1999)

British author and arts critic (born 1939)

British journalist and author (1828–1906)

British military historian (1927–2022)

British writer (1902-1988)

British writer

British historian

British conductor, horn player, and biographer (1919-1994)

British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar

British writer

Barbadian-British historian and writer

British writer

British historian (1918–1994)

British writer

British historian and politician (1920–2004)

British journalist

British writer and broadcaster

Film critic from Northern Ireland (1930–2003)

British journalist, historian, biographer and novelist (1913-1992)

American writer (1869–1951)

New Zealand scholar of English, literary critic and university teacher (born 1952)

writer, biographer

British writer (1905–2006)

British writer (1924-2005)

Journalist, television executive, and politician (1908-1993)

British historian and politician (1933-1999)

Norwegian writer and translator (1921-2000)

British historian (1945–2004)

author (1897–1986)

British author (1930–2001)

British playwright and screenwriter

British writer (1915-2009)

New Zealand writer (1915–1975)

British writer and philatelist (1936–2007)

South African writer and academic

British writer

art historian specialized in Canaletto

British priest, journalist, editor and biographer (1930-1994)