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page 1British writers
Idries Shah
Afghan Sufi teacher (1924-1996)

Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
Royal Air Force World War II air marshal (1890-1967)
Sam Heughan
Scottish actor
Daniel Harrwitz
German chess player (1821–1884)
Theodoros Stephanides
Greek-British poet, author, doctor, scientist and naturalist
Murray Chandler
New Zealand chess player
Roland Huntford
British writer
Peter Pomerantsev
British journalist, author and TV producer
Robin Driscoll
British actor
Michael Davies
British teacher and traditionalist Catholic writer

John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham
British writer, historian and politician (1924-2001)

Heather Brooke
British/American journalist

James Greenwood
British writer and journalist (1833–1927)

Helen Archdale
Feminist and journalist (1876-1949)
Neil Faulkner
British archaeologist (1958–2022)
Mark Field
British Conservative politician (born 1964)
Tristram Hunt
British historian, museum director and ex-politician (born 1974)
George Arundale
British theosophist (1878-1945)
Sean Mathias
British actor and director

Aeronwy Thomas
British poet (1943–2009)
Juliet Rhys-Williams
British politician (1898-1964)
Lina Eckenstein
German-British polymath and historian
Amber Reeves
British novelist and teacher
Mick Wall
British music journalist and writer
C.P.Brown
British official and Telugu scholar
Alan F. Alford
writer (1961–2011)
Betsy Balcombe
friend of Napoleon (1802–1871)
Akinbode Akinbiyi
British photographer

Dikran Tahta
Mathematics lecturer, educationalist, author (1928-2006)
Percy M. Young
British musicologist (1912–2004)

Alys Faiz
Pakistani writer
Priya Basil
British author
John Micklethwait
British editor
Rageh Omaar
British journalist and writer
Carolyn Steel
British architect and food urbanist
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
British writer
Anwar Shaikh
British Pakistani writer
Cyril Walker
British paleontologist (1939–2009)
Brian Reilly
Irish chess player (1901–1991)
John Henry Pepper
British scientist and inventor (1821-1900)
Panos Karnezis
Greek writer
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
British investigative journalist, author and academic
John Biddulph
British soldier, colonial governor and naturalist (1840-1921)
Julian Popov
British and Bulgarian writer and Bulgarian politician
Richard Barber
British historian
Carol Smillie
Scottish television presenter
Thomas Harding
British-American author, journalist and documentary maker

Alexis Conran
British actor, writer and musician
Robert Kee
British broadcaster, journalist and writer (1919-2013)
Alexander Braudo
Russian journalist (1864-1924)
Mark Mills
British writer

Glen Duncan
British writer

William Cubbon
antiquary and museum curator
Helen Clark née Banfield
British historian (1952-2015)
Thomas Pakenham
Anglo-Irish historian and arborist
Alfred Perlès
Austrian writer (1897–1990)
John Emsley
British scientist and science writer
William Mudford
British journalist and writer

Henry Hesketh Bell
British colonial administrator and author (1864-1952)
Charles Palliser
novelist