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113 famous people found
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Nancy Cunard
British writer, heiress and political activist
1896 - 1965 -
Elsie Mackay
British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator
1893 - 1928 -
John CADBURY
English proprietor and founder of Cadbury, the chocolate business based in Birmingham, England
1801 - 1889 -
Alice LIDDELL
Acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll
1852 - 1934 -
Edward SMITH
British naval officer, he was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage
1850 - 1912 -
Boris KARLOFF
English actor
1887 - 1969 -
David FREEMAN-MITFORD
English landowner and was the father of the Mitford sisters
1878 - 1958 -
Richard WALLACE
English art collector
1818 - 1890 -
Betsy Balcombe
British author, friend of Napoleon I during his exile at Saint Helena
1802 - 1871 -
Edith CAVELL
British nurse celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War
1865 - 1915 -
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 -
Melville MACNAGHTEN
Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police from 1903 to 1913
1853 - 1921 -
Victor CAVENDISH
British politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 11th since Canadian Confederation
1868 - 1938 -
Augusta LEIGH
Half-sister and presumed mistress of Lord Byron
1784 - 1851 -
Beauchamp SEYMOUR
British naval commander
1821 - 1895 -
George VILLIERS
British politician, 5th Governor-General of South Africa
1877 - 1955 -
George BINGHAM
British Army officer
1800 - 1888