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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery was a Scottish actor. Connery was the first actor to portray the fictional British secret agent James Bond in motion pictures, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. He originated the role in Dr. No (1962) and continued starring as Bond in the Eon Productions films From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). His final appearance in the franchise was with Never Say Never Again (1983), a non-Eon-produced Bond film.
William Golding
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)

Peter O'Toole
British-Irish actor (1932–2013)
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)

George Porter
British chemist (1920–2002)
Graham Hill
British racing driver (1929–1975)
Matthew Flinders
English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814)
Michael Redgrave
English actor (1908-1985)

John Newton
Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)

Alistair MacLean
Scottish novelist (1922–1987)
Henry Every
English captain and pirate

Paul Grice
British philosopher

Henry Allingham
British supercentenarian,who lived to age 113

Joe Fagan
English footballer and manager (1921-2001)
Thomas Crean
Irish explorer (1877–1938)
Frank Wild
British Antarctica explorer (1873-1939)
Claude Choules
British combat, last living First World War veteran in the world
Mike Hodges
British film director and screenwriter (1932–2022)
John Adams
British seaman and mutineer, last survivor of the Bounty mutineers (1767–1829)
John Grierson
Scottish documentary pioneer (1898–1972)
Ralph Miliband
Marxist theorist (1924–1994)
James Wordie
Scottish polar explorer (1889–1962)
Robert Newton
English stage and film actor (1905-1956)

William Lashly
British explorer
Aidan Chambers
British children's writer (1934–2025)
Edgar Evans
Welsh explorer (1876–1912)
Terry Scott
British actor and comedian (1927–1994)
Tom Whittaker
English footballer and manager (1898-1956)
James Robertson Justice
British actor (1907–1975)
Bert Bushnell
British rower (1921-2010)
Sam Hardy
English footballer (1883-1966)
Ernest Joyce
Royal Naval seaman and explorer (1875–1940)

Chris Kamara
English association football player and manager (born 1957)
John Howard Davies
English actor, director and producer (1939–2011)

Danny La Rue
British entertainer (1927–2009)
A. P. Herbert
British politician (1890–1971)

Joseph Billings
British-Russian explorer

Ben Tillett
British politician (1860-1943)
John Gregson
British actor (1919–1975)
Thomas Truxtun
American naval officer
Wally Hardinge
English footballer and manager (1886-1965)
Ian Graham
British Mesoamericanist (1923–2017)
Peter May
English Test and County cricketer, administrator (1929-1994)
Jack Watson
British actor (1915–1999)
John Torrington
British explorer

Gerry Fisher
British cinematographer (1926-2014)
G. Spencer-Brown
British philosopher, logician and mathematician, encyclopedist (1923-2016), main work "Laws of Form" (1969)
Buster Martin
British marathon runner (1906-2011)
Billy Waters
Beggar, actor and musician
Stephen Thorne
British actor (1935-2019)
Allan Watkins
Welsh cricketer (1922–2011)
Ernest Wild
British explorer (1879–1918)
Charles Causley
Cornish poet and educator (1917–2003)

Tristram Cary
English composer (1925–2008)
Russ Conway
pianist (1925-2000)
Charles Keeping
British illustrator and children's writer (1924-1988)
John Moores
English businessman and philanthropist (1896–1993)
Bill Stone
Legion d'honneur recipient (1900–2009)
Harry Bagge
English footballer and manager (1896-1967)
Alan Rogers
English football manager (born 1924)