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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)

Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's first prime minister for 16 years. Nehru promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India's arc as a modern nation. In international affairs, he steered India clear of the two blocs of the Cold War. A well-regarded author, he wrote books such as Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1929), An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946), that have been read around the world.
John Galsworthy
English novelist and playwright (1867–1933)
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
English physicist (1842–1919)
Benedict Cumberbatch
English actor (born 1976)
Hussein I of Jordan
King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999
Stanley Baldwin
British statesman (1867–1947)
Robert Peel
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1788–1850)

Tamim bin Hamad Al
Emir of Qatar
James Blunt
English singer-songwriter

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
British statesman and prime minister (1784–1865)
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)

Arthur Evans
British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941)
William Jones
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)
Anthony Trollope
English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882)
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
British politician (1784-1860)
Spencer Perceval
19th-century prime minister of the United Kingdom (1762–1812)
George Arliss
English actor, author, playwright and filmmaker (1868–1946)

Joseph Banks
English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Irish-British politician, playwright and writer (1751-1816)
Faisal II of Iraq
King of Iraq from 4 April 1939 until 1958
William Henry Fox Talbot
British inventor and photographer (1800–1877)

Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
British military commander and field marshal; Governor General of Canada (1891-1969)
Cary Elwes
British actor (born 1962)

Arthur Cecil Pigou
British economist (1877-1959)

Ghazi of Iraq
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (1912-1939) (ruled 1933-1939)

Alain de Botton
Swiss-born British philosopher and writer
Richard Curtis
British screenwriter (born 1956)

Edward Fox
British actor (born 1937)

Simon Sebag Montefiore
British historian
J. Bruce Ismay
Chairman of White Star shipping line (1862–1937)
James Bruce
Scottish explorer and botanist (1730–1794)

Julian Holloway
British actor (1944–2025)

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
British politician (1760-1842)
Cecil Beaton
British photographer, designer, socialite, writer (1904–1980)

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
British nobleman and diplomat (1766–1841)

James Fox
English actor (born 1939)

Aubrey de Grey
British writer and biomedical gerontologist

James Bond
American ornithologist and inspiration for the name of the fictional spy (1900-1989)

George Blake
British spy, a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union
G. M. Trevelyan
British historian (1876–1962)

John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
Army officer (1886-1946)
Marmaduke Pickthall
British Islamic scholar, an English translator of the Qur'an into English (1875–1936)
James Callis
British actor

Henry Edward Manning
English Catholic archbishop and cardinal (1808–1892)
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
Scottish politician and civil servant (1812–1860)

John Profumo
British politician (1915-2006)
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
British Viceroy of India, diplomat and author (1831–1891)
Charles Sturt
Australian explorer (1795-1869)
Terence Rattigan
British playwright, screenwriter (1911-1977)
Nicholas Patrick
American astronaut
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
British politician and Governor General of Canada (1841–1908)
L. P. Hartley
British novelist and short story writer (1895–1972)
Charles W. Alcock
British cricketer, footballer and football administrator (1842-1907)
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
Governor-General of India (1754-1826)
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
Royal Navy admiral; (1719–1792)
Leo Amery
British politician and journalist (1873-1955)
Spencer Gore
British tennis player (1850–1906)
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
British politician (1801-1885)