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36 famous people found
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Stan Laurel
English comic actor, writer, and film director
1890 - 1965 -
Alfred HITCHCOCK
English film director and producer
1899 - 1980 -
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
1892 - 1973 -
H. G. WELLS
English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre
1866 - 1946 -
Charles DICKENS
English writer and social critic
1812 - 1870 -
Agatha CHRISTIE
British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays
1890 - 1976 -
Charlie CHAPLIN
English comic actor, film director and composer
1889 - 1977 -
Aldous HUXLEY
English writer
1894 - 1963 -
Virginia WOOLF
English writer
1882 - 1941 -
Nancy Cunard
British writer, heiress and political activist
1896 - 1965 -
Elsie Mackay
British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator
1893 - 1928 -
Boris KARLOFF
English actor
1887 - 1969 -
Rudyard KIPLING
English poet, short-story writer, and novelist
1865 - 1936 -
Henry Sidgwick
English utilitarian philosopher and economist
1838 - 1900 -
C. S. LEWIS
British writer and lay theologian
1898 - 1963 -
Leonard WOOLF
British political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant
1880 - 1969 -
Elizabeth GASKELL
British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era
1810 - 1865 -
Tyrone POWER, SR.
English stage and screen actor
1869 - 1931 -
Alfred TENNYSON
Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign
1809 - 1892 -
Bertrand RUSSELL
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist
1872 - 1970