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Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
Erich Mendelsohn
Jewish-German architect (1887–1953)
Paul Davies
British physicist (1946-)
Don McCullin
British photographer (born 1935)
Jacques Mieses
German-British chess player and chess book author
Harry Golombek
British chess player, author (1911–1995)
Stuart Milner-Barry
British codebreaker, civil servant, and chess player (1906–1995)
Joseph Blanco White
Spanish journalist, poet and theologian
Harold Acton
British writer and scholar (1904–1994)
Dougal Dixon
British author
Simon Kuper
British sports journalist (born 1969)
James Tod
1782-1835, English officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar
Robert Caldwell
British orientalist and dravidologist (1814–1891)
Ron Hill
English former runner and clothing entrepreneur (1938–2021)
Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans
Royal Navy admiral (1881–1957)
Alfred Percy Sinnett
British writer and theosophist (1840-1921)
Sangharakshita
Dennis Philip Edward Lingwood (26 August 192530 October 2018), known more commonly as Sangharakshita, was a British spiritual teacher and writer. In 1967, he founded the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), which was renamed the Triratna Buddhist Community in 2010.
George Adamson
British naturalist, writer and Wildlife conservationist (1906–1989)
Andrew Mango
British historian
Simon Winchester
British journalist and popular historian
Mark Lawrence
author
David J. C. MacKay
Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1967-2016)
Jean-Louis de Lolme
Genevan and English political theorist and writer on constitutional matters
James Plaskett
British chess player
Edgar Thurston
British indologist (1855-1935)
Nick Arnold
British writer
Colin McNab
British chess player
Stan Nicholls
British author and journalist
Oliver Wardrop
British writer and diplomat (1864–1948)
Michael Axworthy
British academic and writer (1962–2019)
Quintin Craufurd
British author
John Yudkin
British physiologist (1910–1995)
Michael Farr
writer
Mark Rowlands
British philosopher
David Pritchard
British chess player, chess writer, and indoor games consultant (1919–2005)
Arthur Grimble
British colonial governor (1888-1956)
Rageh Omaar
British journalist and writer
Pat Reid
British Army officer, prisoner of war, author (1910-1990)
Colin Cotterill
British writer and cartoonist (born 1952)
Ian Kelly
British writer
Simon Webb
British chess player (1949–2005)
Herbert Hope Risley
British ethnographer and colonial administrator
Fritz Schulz
German jurist and historian (1879–1957)
H. J. Blackham
British philosopher (1903–2009)
Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet
British Baron (1923-2009)
Adam Nicolson
British writer
Mikey Walsh
British writer, columnist, and LGBT activist
John Hedgecoe
British photographer (1932–2010)
William Winter
British chess player (1898-1955)
Desmond Seward
British historian
Denis Gifford
Comic historian (1927-2000)
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
British writer
Kjartan Poskitt
British writer
Paul Connerton
British sociologist
Henry Sire
British Sapnish-born catholic historian
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
British writer (1871-1928)
Edward Jenkins
British politician (1838-1910)
Zia Haider Rahman
British novelist
FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan
British anthropologist and peer (1885–1964)
Alexander Watson
British military historian