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Carol Reed
English film director (1906–1976)
Edwin Lutyens
British architect (1869–1944)
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist (1913–2010)

Mark Rylance
English actor, playwright and theatre director

Frederic Leighton
English painter and sculptor (1830–1896)

John Mills
British actor (1908–2005)
Niall Ferguson
British historian

Ian Rankin
Scottish writer
Antony Gormley
British sculptor (born 1950)

Flinders Petrie
British Egyptologist (1853–1942)

Henry Bessemer
British engineer (1813-1898)
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Austrian art historian (1909–2001)

Thomas Beecham
British conductor and impresario (1879–1961)
Godfrey Kneller
German-born British painter (1646–1723)
Dawda Kairaba Jawara
1st President of the Gambia (1924-2019)
Sajid Javid
British politician (born 1969)

Clive Sinclair
English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)

Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)

John Ambrose Fleming
English electrical engineer and physicist (1849-1945)

Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York
Duke of York (1411-1461)

William Henry Perkin
British chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye (1838–1907)

Tom Moore
British Army officer and fundraiser (1920–2021)

John Boorman
British film director, producer and screenwriter
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
politician from England (1592-1628)

Hiram Stevens Maxim
American-born inventor (1840-1916)
Anthony Caro
English abstract sculptor (1924-2013)

Matthew Vaughn
British film producer, director and screenwriter
Alan Bates
English actor (1934–2003)
Patrick Moore
English astronomer, broadcaster and writer (1923–2012)

John Vanbrugh
English architect and dramatist (1664–1726)
Tim Rice
British lyricist and author

Anish Kapoor
British-Indian artist (born 1954)

Roger Deakins
British cinematographer

James Stirling
English architect (1926–1992)

Simon Rattle
British conductor (born 1955)

Nigel Hawthorne
British actor (1929–2001)

Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish explorer
Thomas Lawrence
English portrait painter (1769–1830)

David Frost
British television host, journalist, comedian and writer (1939–2013)

Patrick Geddes
British biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
Alan Sugar
British business magnate, media personality, and political advisor (born 1947)

Max Beerbohm
English writer (1872-1956)
William Walton
English composer (1902–1983)

Tom Courtenay
English actor
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British competitive sailor

Frank Williams
founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering (1942–2021)

Timothy Gowers
British mathematician

Alexander Korda
British film director (1893–1956)

Joseph Swan
British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)

Run Run Shaw
Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist (1907-2014)

Peter Shaffer
English playwright and screenwriter (1926-2016)

Rudolf Peierls
German-born British physicist
Tom Finney
English footballer (1922–2014)

Steve Redgrave
British rower
Oliver Lodge
British physicist (1851-1940)

Arnold Wesker
British dramatist (1932-2016)
James Cleverly
British politician (born 1969)

David Amess
British politician (1952–2021)

Antony Beevor
English military historian

Anthony Hope
English novelist (1863-1933)