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Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Maximilian Schell
Swiss and Austrian film and stage actor (1930–2014)
Andrew Huxley
English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
Roger Bannister
English physician and athlete (1929–2018)
William Stanley Jevons
English economist and logician
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician (1836-1914)
Dirk Bogarde
British actor (1921–1999)
Frederic Leighton
English painter and sculptor (1830–1896)
David McCallum
Scottish actor (1933–2023)
John Ambrose Fleming
English electrical engineer and physicist (1849-1945)
Ford Madox Ford
English writer and publisher (1873-1939)
China Miéville
English writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)
Arnold Wesker
British dramatist (1932-2016)
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
Stephen Spender
English poet and man of letters (1909–1995)
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)
William Speirs Bruce
Scottish marine biologist and polar explorer (1867-1921)
Edmund Blair Leighton
British Romantic painter (1852-1922)
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
British politician (1870–1963)
Max Minghella
British actor
William Smith
English lexicographer (1813–1893)
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
Will Self
English writer and journalist (born 1961)
Walter Sickert
British artist (1860-1942)
Julian Lloyd Webber
British solo cellist and conductor
John Morley
British statesman, writer and journalist (1838–1923)
Ronald Neame
English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (1911–2010)
William Edward Ayrton
English physicist and electrical engineer (1847-1908)
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
British politician (1860-1935)
Arthur E. Kennelly
American electrical engineer (1861–1939)
Edward Routh
English–Quebecois mathematician (1831–1907)
David Garnett
British writer and publisher (1892-1981)
Philippe Sands
British/French lawyer, legal academic and author
Chris Bonington
British mountaineer
Leslie Bricusse
English composer, lyricist and playwright (1931–2021)
Martin Wolf
British journalist
W. W. Rouse Ball
English mathematician and lawyer (1850–1925)
Dion Boucicault
Irish actor and dramatist (1820-1890)
Ernest Dunlop Swinton
British Army general and author (1868–1951)
Karl Blind
German revolutionist and journalist (1826-1907)
Michael Foster
English physiologist (1836–1907)
Bertie Carvel
Robert Hugh Carvel is a British actor. He has twice won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his role as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical, and for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Rupert Murdoch in Ink. For the latter role, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play.
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen
British art dealer (1869-1939)
Hayashi Tadasu
Japanese diplomat (1850-1913)
Kikuchi Dairoku
Japanese mathematician and bureaucrat (1855-1917)
Gordon Thomson
British rower (1884–1953)
Julius Vogel
8th Premier of New Zealand (1835-1899)
Frederic George Stephens
British art critic, in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1827-1907)
Thom Gunn
English poet (1929-2004)
Richard D'Oyly Carte
English theatre manager and producer (1844-1901)
Jonathan Freedland
British journalist
Kenneth O. Morgan
Welsh historian and author
Robert Gunther
British zoologist (1869–1940)
Rupert Goold
British theatre director
Hugh Dennis
British comedian
Alfred Ainger
English biographer and critic (1837-1904)
Alfred Henry Garrod
English zoologist (1846-1879)
Paul Gilroy
Scholar of the Black diaspora and culture
Maurice Cornforth
British Marxist philosopher (1909–1980)