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565 famous people found
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Viv ALBERTINE
Musician, singer, songwriter and writer
1954 -
Betsy Balcombe
British author, friend of Napoleon I during his exile at Saint Helena
1802 - 1871 -
Adam SMITH
British economist, philosopher, and author
1723 - 1790 -
Florence NIGHTINGALE
English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing
1820 - 1910 -
Colin FIRTH
English actor
1960 -
Honor BLACKMAN
English actress
1925 - 2020 -
Bernie ECCLESTONE
British business magnate, former chief executive of the Formula One Group
1930 -
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 -
Tom HARDY
English actor and producer
1977 -
Anne BRADSTREET
English poet
1612 - 1672 -
Patrick STEWART
English actor
1940 -
Elihu YALE
British merchant, slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor
1649 - 1721 -
George DOWNING
Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy
1623 - 1684 -
Max Mosley
British businessman, lawyer and racing driver
1940 - 2021 -
David FROST
English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host
1939 - 2013 -
Nevill MOTT
English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977
1905 - 1996 -
John BYRON
Royal Navy officer
1723 - 1786 -
Jon LORD
English composer, pianist, and member of Deep Purple
1941 - 2012 -
Richard ATTENBOROUGH
English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur
1923 - 2014 -
Thomas GAINSBOROUGH
English portrait and landscape painter
1727 - 1788