British biographers

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022

Chinese-British author (born 1952)

Austrian publicist and writer (1921–2012)

multi-volume reference work

British writer and translator (1939–2024)

Canadian and British newspaper publisher (born 1944)

British historian

British economist and author (1939–2026)

British writer and historian (1925-2017)

British historian

British author of a 1724 book on pirates

British journalist

British writer (born 1941)

English writer and journalist

British physicist (1938–2017)

Irish historian (born 1939)

British historian (1906-2002)

British writer (1775-1827)

Indian-born, British-based business magnate and philanthropist (1931–2025)

British translator and author

British Army general and writer (1871–1951)

Jamaican-born British author, socialite, and radio hostess

Polish-English bibliographer and editor of Voltaire (1904-1976)

Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicologist, music critic, music biographer and translator

author, journalist and broadcaster,

British philosopher

British novelist (1937–2024)

British art critic, writer and curator (born 1933)

British writer, journalist and biographer, 2005 Whitbread Book Awards winner, 1967 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize winner

British actress (1874–1958)

British historian, journalist and biographer

British politician

author

British writer, editor and historian (1924–2011)

British writer and historian

British author and newspaper editor

British science historian, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park (1918–2011)

British soldier, colonial governor and naturalist (1840-1921)

British newsreader and journalist

British journalist and writer

British writer and editor (1936–2017)

Comic historian (1927-2000)

Hungarian-born soldier and physician (1825–1908)

British journalist (1931–2014)

British historian

Irish biographer and editor

British writer

British diplomat, born 1928 (1928–2012)

British writer

British author and historian (1923–2005)

British publisher

British historian (1896-1977)

British historian (1916-2003)

British journalist, broadcaster and writer (1934–2010)

author, journalist and screenwriter,

British historian

British diplomat, politician, and man of letters (1816-1874)

British Foreign Office official and scholar of German (1891-1962)

Scottish military officer (1830–1907); recipient of the Victoria Cross

English novelist and biographer