20th-century British non-fiction writers

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)

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)

Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)

Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)

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.

Scottish writer (1954–2013)

American-British author (born 1951)

Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)

British analytic philosopher

British economist (1911–1977)

British linguist and writer (born 1941)

British philosopher (1925–2011)

British army explorer (1863–1942)

English actress (1936–1990)

Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras (1860-1935)

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

German-born British philosopher

English Jesuit priest and philosopher (1907–1994)

essayist, penwoman, conspiracy theorist (1933-)

British racecar driver

British science writer

Anglican bishop

Louis Sebastian Theroux is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award.

British flying ace (1914-1995)

British missionary (1915-2003)

British writer and social reformer (1851–1939)

British historian (1889–1970)

British archaeologist (1910-1996)

Royal Navy admiral (1881–1957)

British actress, columnist and comedian

former British Special Forces operative and soldier turned novelist

British biblical scholar (1910-1990)

British naturalist, writer and Wildlife conservationist (1906–1989)

Canadian theologian (1926-2020)

British writer

British academic and physician (1920–2000)

British journalist, producer and presenter (1957–2024)

British writer

British-American euthanasia activist (1930–2025)

British writer and journalist (1926–2004)

British journalist

British doctor (1843-1927)

British midwife, anthropologist and activist (1929-2015)

British neuropsychologist (1935-2024)

Australian/British author (1927–2017)

British academic

British investigative journalist and author (born 1958)

British politician (born 1951)

British journalist, author, and broadcaster

British restaurateur and designer (1931–2020)

British politician (1936–2022)

British journalist and broadcaster (1919-2009)

British peer and writer (1917–2002)

British theologian

British writer and broadcaster (born 1948)

British doctor

Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicologist, music critic, music biographer and translator