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page 1British non-fiction writers

Joanna Lumley
British actress and former model

Marie Christine, Princess Michael of Kent
wife of Prince Michael of Kent

James Edward Smith
English botanist, founder of the Linnean Society of London (1759–1828)

Bill Browder
American-born British businessman and political activist (born 1964)

Terry Wogan
Irish radio and television broadcaster (1938–2016)
Erskine Childers
Irish nationalist and author (1870-1922)
Ingrid Pitt
Polish-British actress (1937–2010)
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)
Peter Townsend
British flying ace (1914-1995)
Cordelia Fine
Canadian-born British psychologist and writer
Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans
Royal Navy admiral (1881–1957)
Alfred Percy Sinnett
British writer and theosophist (1840-1921)
Andrew Mango
British historian
Chris Ryan
former British Special Forces operative and soldier turned novelist
William Hartston
British chess player and author
Caryl Phillips
Kittian-British writer (born 1958)
Simon Winchester
British journalist and popular historian
David J. C. MacKay
Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1967-2016)
Anthony Sampson
British writer and journalist (1926–2004)
Matthew Williamson
English fashion designer (born 1971)
Tim Parks
British writer

James Plaskett
British chess player
Benjamin Ward Richardson
British physician and medical historian (1828–1896)
Craig Murray
Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist and diplomat

Patrick Dixon
British futurist
Ann Katharine Mitchell
British cryptanalyst and psychologist (1922-2020)
Stan Nicholls
British author and journalist

Oliver Wardrop
British writer and diplomat (1864–1948)
Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and polymath (1820–1904)
David Yallop
British writer
Terence Conran
British restaurateur and designer (1931–2020)
Kate Williams
British historian
John Yudkin
British physiologist (1910–1995)
George Egerton
Anglo-Australian writer and feminist
Michael Farr
writer
Gaia Vince
British journalist. broadcaster and non-fiction author
Mike Ashley
British bibliographer, writer and editor (born 1948)
Joan Evans
British art historian (1893-1977)
Richard V. Reeves
British-American writer and social scientist
Annie Machon
British activist
Patrick Seale
journalist and author (1930-2014)
Pat Reid
British Army officer, prisoner of war, author (1910-1990)
Rageh Omaar
British journalist and writer
Errol Fuller
English writer and artist
Shereen El Feki
British journalist and author

David Pritchard
British chess player, chess writer, and indoor games consultant (1919–2005)
Lucy O'Brien
British journalist and writer
John Hemming
Canadian explorer
Scilla Elworthy
British activist
John Hedgecoe
British photographer (1932–2010)
Anita Ganeri
British children's writer
Mary Forbes Evans
English picture librarian and author (1936-2010)
Babette Brown
South African writer on race and diversity
Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet
British Baron (1923-2009)
Andrew Robinson
British author and newspaper editor
Roger Crowley
British historian and author
Steven Poole
British writer
William Winter
British chess player (1898-1955)