20th-century British male writers

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

US-British poet (1888–1965)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)

British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)

Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)

British novelist (born 1954)

Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)

Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution. Over his life, he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator and one Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality - Non-Daily.

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)

Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)

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.

British novelist (born 1949)

British-American historian (1916–2018)

Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)

Italian–English writer (1875–1950)

Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)

British economist (1911–1977)

Austrian writer (1921–1988)

British screenwriter (born 1956)

British physicist (1946-)

British philosopher (1925–2011)

Irish writer and dramatist (1878-1957)

Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer (1879-1964)

journalist, grand historian and speechwriter from England (1928–2023)

British-American philosopher and writer

English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist (1903-1990)

Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)

Canadian-British film director

Irish nationalist and author (1870-1922)

British actor, comedian and writer

English Jesuit priest and philosopher (1907–1994)

British independent politician

Canadian-born Hungarian-British writer (born 1974)

Jamaican dub poet

Irish poet and playwright (1907–1963)

Anglican bishop

British novelist (1906–1983)

British missionary (1915-2003)

British historian (1889–1970)

British writer and social reformer (1851–1939)

British playwright (1930–2012)

British writer

Welsh poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele (1887–1917)

British writer

British science fiction writer (born 1943)

British activist (1917-2000)

British conservative politician and best-selling author (born 1948)

Irish poet (1941–2020)

British writer (1947–2007)

Canadian theologian (1926-2020)

Israeli Yiddish poet (1901-1969)

English author of thrillers and occult novels (1897–1977)

British journalist (1935–2026)

former British Special Forces operative and soldier turned novelist

novelist

British economist and churchman (1849–1919)