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Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015.
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter is a British actress. She is known for her character roles as eccentric women in blockbusters and independent films, particularly period dramas. Bonham Carter rose to prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985) and the title character in Lady Jane (1986). Her early period roles saw her typecast as a virginal "English rose", a label with which she was uncomfortable. Bonham Carter is recognized for her unconventional fashion choices and dark aesthetic. For her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech (2010), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her accolades include a Brit Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)
Jean Simmons
British-American actress (1929–2010)
Alan Parker
British filmmaker (1944–2020)
Naomie Harris
English actress
Mark Strong
British actor
Leona Lewis
British singer (born 1985)
Emily Watson
English actress
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
English actor
Asa Butterfield
English actor
Jay Bothroyd
English association football player
David Oyelowo
British actor
Jonny Buckland
British guitarist (born 1977)
Mary Kingsley
British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)
Dana Rosemary Scallon
Northern Irish singer and politician
Edwin Flack
Australian middle distance runner and tennis player (1873-1935)
Adebayo Akinfenwa
English professional association footballer
Alexandra Burke
British singer and songwriter
Myles Lewis-Skelly
English footballer (born 2006)
John Theophilus Desaguliers
French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman
Dwain Chambers
English sprint athlete
Little Simz
Nigerian-British rapper, singer and actress
Roger Lloyd-Pack
British actor (1944-2014)
Orlando Figes
Canadian Lawyer
Amelia Edwards
English novelist, journalist, traveller and egyptologist (1831–1892)
Sadie Frost
English actress and producer
Kathy Burke
British actress
Freddie Francis
cinematographer, film director (1917-2007)
Paul Whitehouse
Welsh comedian, presenter, actor (born 1958)
Ethel Thomson Larcombe
English tennis and badminton player (1879-1965)
Samuel Iling-Junior
English association football player
Binnie Barnes
English actress (1903–1998)
Harry Blackstaffe
British rower (1868–1951)
Kenneth Williams
British actor and comedian (1926–1988)
Clive Brook
British actor (1887–1974)
Dave Sexton
English football manager (1930–2012)
Robert W. Paul
British cinema pioneer (1869–1943)
Eddie McGoldrick
Irish footballer and manager
Maggie Aderin
British space scientist
Eamonn Walker
English actor
Dujon Sterling
English association football player (born 1999)
Charlie George
English footballer (born 1950)
Phil Daniels
British actor
Chris Farlowe
English singer
Tony Hadley
English pop singer
Lauren Booth
Journalist, activist
Charlie Rowe
British actor
Georges Passerieu
French cyclist (1885–1928)
Charlotte Coleman
English actress (1968-2001)
John Glascock
British musician (1951–1979)
Gary Kemp
English actor and musician
William Heath Robinson
British illustrator (1872–1944)
Samuel Rogers
British poet; (1763-1855)
William Philo
boxer
James Dreyfus
British actor
Sonia Boyce
British Afro-Caribbean visual artist
Shaznay Lewis
British singer