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Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
Edward Turner Bennett
British zoologist (1797–1836)
Justin Fashanu
British footballer (1961-1998)
Des Walker
English association football player (born 1965)
Phil Collen
British guitarist
Anne Keothavong
British tennis player
Ade Akinbiyi
association football player
Chris Eubank
Christopher Livingstone Eubank is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
British occultist (1854-1918)
Michael Page
English mixed martial artist
Eric Bristow
English darts player (1957–2018)
DeObia Oparei
British actor (born 1971)
Ernest Webb
British athlete (1874–1937)
Jake Nava
British commercial and music video director
John Hall Gladstone
British chemist (1827-1902)
Stanley William Hayter
English print-maker and engraver (1901-1988)
Jessie Kite
British artistic gymnast (1892-1958)
Lawrence Okolie
British boxer
Barney Clark
British actor
Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon
British politician, from July 2024 Leader of the House of Lords
Ray Clarke
English footballer (born 1952)
David Kossoff
British actor (1919-2005)
Elliot Omozusi
English association football player (born 1988)
Paul Boateng
politician and the UK's first black Cabinet minister (born 1951)
Michael Woolfson
British physicist (1927–2019)
Dorothy Levitt
British racing driver (1882–1922)
Paul McKenna
Hypnotist, author
Charlie Harper
British singer
Lionel Chetwynd
British-born Canadian–American screenwriter, motion picture and television film director and producer
Jasper Blackall
British sailor
Shaq Coulthirst
English association football player
John Thomas
English religious leader and founder of the Christadelphian movement
Mike Reid
British actor (1940-2007)
Andrew Brons
British politician (born 1947)
Jason Matthews
British boxer
John Thomas Smith
English painter, engraver and antiquarian (1766-1833)
Maurice Hope
British boxer
Robert South
English theologian
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
British activist (1858–1935)
William Grosvenor
sport shooter
Hakeeb Adelakun
British footballer (born 1996)
Len Goulden
English footballer (1912–1995)
Arthur George Walker
English sculptor (1861-1939)
John Diamond
British journalist and broadcaster (1953–2001)
Jeremy Beadle
English television presenter, writer and producer (1948–2008)
Alice Gardner
English historian
Edith Sharpe
British actress
Mary Brodrick
British archaeologist and egyptologist (1858-1933)
Thomas Hayward
British Royal Navy officer
Ronnie Bull
English association football player
Charles James Martin
British physiologist (1866–1955)
Leon Constantine
British footballer (born 1978)
John Harvey-Jones
English businessman and television presenter (1924-2008)
Peter Lowe
British sculptor (1938-)
Herbert Bouffler
cyclist
Anthony Yarde
boxer
Arthur Lindsay Sadler
British translator (1882–1970)
Bill Dodge
English footballer (born 1937)
Stephen Arthurworrey
Footballer (born 1994)
Stanley Johnson
British politician (1869-1937)