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page 120th-century British businesspeople
David Lean
British film director (1908–1991)

Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter, and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall and currently holds eight. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, which he founded, has held three Michelin stars since 2001 and is currently run by chef Matt Abé. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the world.
Thomas Andrews
British businessman and shipbuilder (1873–1912)

Alexander Korda
British film director (1893–1956)

Michael Heseltine
British Conservative politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
politician and Prime minister of Pakistan (1905–1982)
Dana Wynter
actress (1931–2011)
Anna Lee
British actress (1913-2004)
Adam Osborne
American writer and software publisher (1939-2003)
Adrienne Corri
British actress (1930-2016)
Tony Wilson
British record producer (1950-2007)
Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
British peer (1892–1975); paternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
Daniel Prenn
German-British tennis player
Chris Rainbow
British singer-songwriter
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
5th Baron Harlech, Member of Parliament and Ambassador to the United States (1918-1985)
Airey Neave
British politician (1916-1979)
Nikolay Storonsky
Russian and British entrepreneur and founding CEO of Revolut
Edgar Wind
German-born British interdisciplinary art historian
John Ambler
British businessman (1924-2008)
Galen Weston
Canadian billionaire (1940-2021)
Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken
Irish-born British politician and peer (1901-1958)
Cecil Parkinson
British politician (1931–2016)

Alan Fletcher
British graphic designer (1931–2006)

Barbara Yung
Hong Kong actress (1959–1985)

Bruce Shand
British Army officer
Chris Philp
British politician (born 1976)

Akmal Shaikh
Taxi driver and criminal executed for drug offences in China
Barbara Kelly
Canadian actress (1924–2007)
Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire
British politician and duke (1920-2004)
André Deutsch
British publisher (1917–2000)
Terence Conran
British restaurateur and designer (1931–2020)
Anshu Jain
Indian-born British businessman (1963–2022)
Richard Shepherd
British politician (1942-2022)
John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich
British businessman and earl (born 1943)
Angharad Rees
Welsh actress and jewellery designer (1944–2012)
Stanley Unwin
British publisher (1884-1968): George Allen & Unwin; Allen and Unwin
Michael Raymond Mainelli
British economist
Auberon Waugh
English author

Geraint Davies
Labour politician and MP (born 1960)
Steve Easterbrook
British business executive
Cecil Kimber
British automobile designer (1888–1945)
David Alliance, Baron Alliance
British businessman and politician (1932-2025)

Stamper brothers
video game developers
Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington
British politician (1914-2000)
Antony Darnborough
British film director and film producer (1913–2000)
Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh
politician from England (1928-2011)

Basil de Ferranti
British politician
Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms
British businessman (born 1931)

William Stern
British businessman
John Penrose
British politician (born 1964)
Beth Morris
British stage and screen actress (1943-2018)
Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland
British peer and landowner (1919-1999)
Charles Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St Albans
Duke of St Albans (1915-1988)
Dina St Johnston
computer programmer
Ann Parker Bowles
British aristocrat and Girl Guides leader (1918–1987)
Patrick McNally
British businessman
Crispin Odey
British hedge fund manager
Bill Jay
British photographer and writer
Angela Browne
British actress (1938-2001)
Albert Stopford
British antiques/art dealer and diplomatic courier (1860-1939)