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Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)

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.
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
Mick Jagger
British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
Roger Moore
English actor (1927–2017)
Ridley Scott
English filmmaker (born 1937)
Wilkie Collins
British writer (1824-1889)

Francis Bacon
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
Richard Wright
English keyboardist, co-founder of Pink Floyd (1943–2008)
Kristin Scott Thomas
British-French actress
Charles Spurgeon
British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist (1834-1892)
Nicholas Winton
British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39 (1909–2015)
Arnold Bennett
English writer (1867–1931)
Oswald Mosley
British aristocrat and fascist politician (1896–1980)
John Berger
British painter, writer and art critic (1926-2017)
David Hockney
English painter and printmaker (born 1937)
Aubrey Beardsley
British illustrator and author (1872–1898)

Mary Boleyn
sister of the queen of England Anne Boleyn

John Dowland
English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer (1563–1626)

Bill Wyman
British musician, former bassist of the Rolling Stones

Daniel Tammet
British writer, mathematician, essayist and autistic savant
Frederick Delius
English composer (1862–1934)
Edward FitzGerald
English poet and translator (1809–1883)

Edward of Westminster
Prince of Wales

Orderic Vitalis
English monk and historian (1075 – c. 1142)
Jarvis Cocker
English singer and musician (born 1963)

Roland Joffé
English and French film/television director and producer
Malcolm McLaren
English artist, performer and fashion designer (1946–2010)
Lucy Gordon
British actress and model (1980–2009)
Beau Brummell
English man of fashion (1778–1840)
William Webb Ellis
Anglican clergyman and allegedly the inventor of Rugby football (1806-1872)
Dorothea Bland
Anglo-Irish actress and courtesan (1761–1816)
Graham Sutherland
English artist (1903–1980)
David Hamilton
British photographer and film director (1933–2016)
Henry Scott Tuke
English painter and photographer (1858-1929)
Neil Innes
English writer, comedian, and musician (1944–2019)
Richard Tandy
British keyboardist (1948–2024)
Mina Loy
British writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps (1882-1966)
Diana Mosley
British fascist, writer and editor (1910–2003)
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British artist and satirical cartoonist (1920-2011)
Dorothy Lawrence
English reporter and cross-dresser
Kenelm Digby
English courtier and diplomat (1603–1665)
Luke Thompson (actor)
Luke Thompson is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Benedict in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton (2020–present), and has also appeared in the BBC One drama In the Club (2014–2016). In 2024, he received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his performance in the stage adaptation of A Little Life.
Carmen Chaplin
English actress
Joan Littlewood
British theatre director and actress (1914-2002)
Keith Floyd
British celebrity cook, television personality and restaurateur (1943-2009)
R. V. C. Bodley
British Army officer (1892-1970)
Jonathan Barnes
British historian and philosopher (born 1942)

George Benjamin
British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher
Bo Bragason
British actress
Edwin Stephen Goodrich
English zoologist (1868–1946)
Tess Daly
British television presenter
Lesley Blanch
British writer and historian (1904–2007)
Richard Le Gallienne
British writer (1866-1947)
Helen Skelton
English television presenter
Ivor Wood
English animator (1932-2004)
Francis Frith
English photographer (1822–1898)
Merlin Holland
British writer
Robin Ellis
British actor