English Ancestry
- ️Wed Dec 17 2008
English Ancestry
LISTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Abbe | Physicist | 3-Dec-1838 | 28-Oct-1916 | America's first weatherman |
| Charles Greeley Abbot | Astronomer | 31-May-1872 | 17-Dec-1973 | Solar energy |
| Arunah Shepherdson Abell | Publisher | 10-Aug-1806 | 19-Aug-1888 | The Baltimore Sun |
| Lord Acton | Historian | 10-Jan-1834 | 19-Jun-1902 | British historian |
| Charles Francis Adams III | Government | 2-Aug-1866 | 11-Jun-1954 | Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33 |
| Jane Addams | Activist | 6-Sep-1860 | 21-May-1935 | Founder of Hull House |
| Frances Alda | Singer | 31-May-1879 | 18-Sep-1952 | Operatic soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Charles Alderton | Inventor | 21-Jun-1857 | 29-May-1941 | Invented Dr Pepper |
| Moniza Alvi | Poet | 2-Feb-1954 | The Country at My Shoulder | |
| Christiane Amanpour | Journalist | 12-Jan-1958 | Host of ABC's This Week | |
| Eva Angelina | Pornstar | 14-Mar-1985 | Bespectacled porn actress | |
| Gabrielle Anwar | Actor | 4-Feb-1970 | Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | |
| Devon Aoki | Model | 10-Aug-1982 | Sin City | |
| Edward Victor Appleton | Physicist | 6-Sep-1892 | 21-Apr-1965 | Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
| Philip Danforth Armour | Business | 16-May-1832 | 6-Jan-1901 | Founder of Armour & Co. |
| Francis W. Aston | Chemist | 1-Sep-1877 | 20-Nov-1945 | Invented the mass spectograph |
| Lee Atwater | Politician | 27-Feb-1951 | 29-Mar-1991 | RNC Chairman, 1988-90 |
| Oswald Avery | Biologist | 21-Oct-1877 | 20-Feb-1955 | Antibodies and DNA |
| Harold D. Babcock | Astronomer | 24-Jan-1882 | 8-Apr-1968 | Solar radiation |
| Joan Baez | Singer/Songwriter | 9-Jan-1941 | Diamonds and Rust | |
| Roger Baldwin | Activist | 21-Jan-1884 | 26-Aug-1981 | Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| Christian Bale | Actor | 30-Jan-1974 | The Dark Knight | |
| Charles Glover Barkla | Physicist | 7-Jun-1877 | 23-Oct-1944 | X-ray scattering |
| Charles Montgomery Barnes | Business | 8-Sep-1833 | 19-May-1907 | Founder of Barnes & Noble |
| Black Bart | Criminal | c. 1829 | ? | Old West bandit and poet |
| Derek Barton | Chemist | 8-Sep-1918 | 16-Mar-1998 | Conformational analysis |
| Mischa Barton | Actor | 24-Jan-1986 | Marissa Cooper on The O.C. | |
| John Bartram | Naturalist | 23-Mar-1699 | 22-Sep-1777 | Colonial botanist to King George III |
| William Bartram | Naturalist | 9-Feb-1739 | 22-Jul-1823 | 18th Century American travelling naturalist |
| James Beard | Chef | 5-May-1903 | 23-Jan-1985 | First prominent TV chef |
| William Beaumont | Doctor | 21-Nov-1785 | 25-Apr-1853 | Observed human digestion |
| Henri Bergson | Philosopher | 18-Oct-1859 | 4-Jan-1941 | L'Évolution Créatrice |
| Halle Berry | Actor | 14-Aug-1966 | Monster's Ball | |
| Tony Blair | Head of State | 6-May-1953 | UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007 | |
| Tony Blankley | Pundit | 21-Jan-1948 | 7-Jan-2012 | McLaughlin Group pundit |
| Brebis Bleaney | Physicist | 6-Jun-1915 | 4-Nov-2006 | Electron paramagnetic resonance |
| William Bligh | Military | 9-Sep-1754 | 6-Dec-1817 | Captain of the Bounty |
| Heinrich Böll | Novelist | 21-Dec-1917 | 16-Jul-1985 | The Train Was On Time |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assassin | 10-May-1838 | 26-Apr-1865 | Abraham Lincoln's assassin |
| Ira S. Bowen | Astronomer | 21-Dec-1898 | 6-Feb-1973 | Debunked nebulium |
| Bill Bowerman | Fitness Guru | 19-Feb-1911 | 24-Dec-1999 | Track coach, Co-Founder of Nike |
| George Box | Mathematician | 18-Oct-1919 | Statistician at University of Wisconsin | |
| Lawrence Bragg | Physicist | 31-Mar-1890 | 1-Jul-1971 | Bragg's Law of diffraction |
| George Brayton | Inventor | 3-Oct-1830 | 17-Dec-1892 | Brayton cycle engine |
| Percy Williams Bridgman | Physicist | 21-Apr-1882 | 20-Aug-1961 | High-pressure physics |
| Harry Brittain | Journalist | 24-Dec-1873 | 9-Jul-1974 | Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
| Bertram N. Brockhouse | Physicist | 15-Jul-1918 | 13-Oct-2003 | Triple-axis crystal spectrometry |
| Anne Brontë | Novelist | 17-Jan-1820 | 28-May-1849 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| Branwell Brontë | Poet | 26-Jun-1817 | 24-Sep-1848 | The Brontë sisters' brother |
| Charlotte Brontë | Novelist | 21-Apr-1816 | 31-Mar-1855 | Jane Eyre |
| Emily Brontë | Novelist | 30-Jul-1818 | 19-Dec-1848 | Wuthering Heights |
| Heywood Broun | Journalist | 7-Dec-1888 | 18-Dec-1939 | Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s |
| Ernest W. Brown | Astronomer | 29-Nov-1866 | 22-Jul-1938 | Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
| Tina Brown | Editor | 21-Nov-1953 | The Daily Beast and Newsweek | |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Engineer | 9-Apr-1806 | 15-Sep-1859 | Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway |
| John Bunny | Actor | 21-Sep-1863 | 26-Apr-1915 | Comic starred in over 200 short films |
| E. Margaret Burbidge | Astronomer | 12-Aug-1919 | Synthesis of the elements in stars | |
| Geoffrey Burbidge | Astronomer | 24-Sep-1925 | 26-Jan-2010 | Quasi-steady state cosmology |
| Joseph R. Burton | Politician | 16-Nov-1852 | 27-Feb-1923 | US Senator from Kansas, 1901-06 |
| Bill The Butcher | Boxing | Jul-1821 | 8-Mar-1855 | Inspired Gangs of New York |
| Richard G. Butler | Activist | 23-Feb-1918 | 8-Sep-2004 | Founder of the Aryan Nations |
| George Canning | Politician | 11-Apr-1770 | 8-Aug-1827 | Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain |
| Frederick Carder | Artist | 18-Sep-1863 | 10-Dec-1963 | "Aurene" glass artist |
| Helena Bonham Carter | Actor | 26-May-1966 | Marla in Fight Club | |
| Kevin Carter | Photographer | 13-Sep-1960 | 27-Jul-1994 | Wanting A Meal |
| Nick Carter | Singer | 28-Jan-1980 | The Backstreet Boys | |
| Rosalynn Carter | First Lady | 18-Aug-1927 | Wife of US President Jimmy Carter | |
| Carolyn Cassady | Author | 28-Apr-1923 | Wife of Neal Cassady | |
| Butch Cassidy | Criminal | 13-Apr-1866 | c. 1908 | Train and bank robber |
| Camilo José Cela | Author | 11-May-1916 | 17-Jan-2002 | Spanish novelist and Nobel laureate |
| Henry Chadwick | Journalist | 5-Oct-1824 | 20-Apr-1908 | Father of baseball |
| James Chadwick | Physicist | 20-Oct-1891 | 24-Jul-1974 | Discovered the neutron |
| Lon Chaney | Actor | 1-Apr-1883 | 26-Aug-1930 | The Phantom of the Opera |
| Sydney Chapman | Mathematician | 29-Jan-1888 | 16-Jun-1970 | Geomagnetism |
| King Charles II | Royalty | 29-May-1630 | 6-Feb-1685 | King of England 1660-85 |
| John Charnley | Doctor | 29-Aug-1912 | 5-Aug-1982 | Hip replacement surgery |
| Joseph Choate | Attorney | 24-Jan-1832 | 14-May-1917 | Attorney, ambassador |
| Fletcher Christian | Military | 25-Sep-1764 | c. 1793 | Led the mutiny on the Bounty |
| Ward Churchill | Activist | 2-Oct-1947 | Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann | |
| Lord Clarendon | Government | 18-Feb-1609 | 9-Dec-1674 | The Clarendon Code |
| A. J. Clark | Scientist | 19-Aug-1885 | 30-Jul-1941 | Drug responses |
| Alvan Clark | Astronomer | 8-Mar-1804 | 19-Aug-1887 | Telescope maker |
| Frances Cleveland | First Lady | 21-Jul-1864 | 29-Oct-1947 | Wife of US President Grover Cleveland |
| Grover Cleveland | Head of State | 18-Mar-1837 | 24-Jun-1908 | 22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97 |
| J. M. G. Le Clézio | Novelist | 13-Apr-1940 | Nomadic novelist | |
| John Cockcroft | Physicist | 27-May-1897 | 18-Sep-1967 | Split the atom |
| Christopher Cockerell | Inventor | 4-Jun-1910 | 1-Jun-1999 | Hovercraft |
| John Maxwell Coetzee | Novelist | 9-Feb-1940 | Reclusive South African novelist, essayist | |
| Levi Coffin | Activist | 28-Oct-1798 | 16-Sep-1877 | Helped thousands of slaves to freedom |
| William Colgate | Business | 25-Jan-1783 | 25-Jan-1857 | Toothpaste empirebuilder |
| Karl T. Compton | Physicist | 15-Sep-1887 | 22-Jun-1954 | Bikini Island atomic tests |
| Grace Coolidge | First Lady | 3-Jan-1879 | 8-Jul-1957 | Wife of US President Calvin Coolidge |
| William D. Coolidge | Physicist | 23-Oct-1873 | 4-Feb-1975 | Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| George Henry Corliss | Inventor | 2-Jun-1817 | 21-Feb-1888 | Corliss valve and steam engines |
| Ezra Cornell | Business | 11-Jan-1807 | 9-Dec-1874 | Founder of Cornell University |
| E. J. H. Corner | Botanist | 12-Jan-1906 | 14-Sep-1996 | Durian theory |
| John Cornforth | Chemist | 7-Sep-1917 | Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts | |
| Bud Cort | Actor | 29-Mar-1948 | Harold in Harold and Maude | |
| Frederick G. Cottrell | Inventor | 10-Jan-1877 | 16-Nov-1948 | Smokestack filters to fight pollution |
| Odile Crick | Artist | 11-Aug-1920 | 5-Jul-2007 | Sketched the double helix |
| Samuel Crompton | Inventor | 3-Dec-1753 | 26-Jun-1827 | Invented the spinning mule |
| Bing Crosby | Singer | 3-May-1903 | 14-Oct-1977 | White Christmas |
| Bob Crosby | Musician | 25-Aug-1913 | 9-Mar-1993 | The Bob Crosby Orchestra |
| Charles Cullen | Criminal | 1960 | Claimed to have killed 30-40 patients | |
| Harlow Curtice | Business | 15-Aug-1893 | 3-Nov-1962 | President of General Motors, 1952-58 |
| Vasco da Gama | Explorer | c. 1469 | 24-Dec-1524 | Portuguese explorer, conqueror, privateer |
| Jack Daniel | Business | 5-Sep-1846 | 10-Oct-1911 | Moonshine magnate |
| Virginia Dare | Oddity | 18-Aug-1587 | ? | Firstborn white child of the New World |
| Jaye Davidson | Actor | 21-Mar-1968 | The Crying Game | |
| Marvin Davis | Business | 31-Aug-1925 | 25-Sep-2004 | Oil magnate, former owner of 20th Century Fox |
| Richard Harding Davis | Author | 18-Apr-1864 | 11-Apr-1916 | Yellow-era journalist |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | Actor | 29-Apr-1957 | My Left Foot | |
| John Deere | Business | 7-Feb-1804 | 17-May-1886 | Invented the self-scouring plow |
| Cecil B. DeMille | Film Director | 12-Aug-1881 | 21-Jan-1959 | Pioneering film director |
| Nick Denton | Publisher | 24-Aug-1966 | Gawker Media | |
| Jewel De'Nyle | Pornstar | 5-Aug-1977 | Bend Over and Say Ahh 3 | |
| Thomas E. Dewey | Politician | 24-Mar-1902 | 16-Mar-1971 | Did not defeat Truman |
| Mike DeWine | Politician | 5-Jan-1947 | US Senator from Ohio, 1995-2007 | |
| Cameron Diaz | Actor | 30-Aug-1972 | There's Something About Mary | |
| William K. L. Dickson | Inventor | 3-Aug-1860 | 28-Sep-1935 | Motion picture camera |
| Paul Dirac | Physicist | 8-Aug-1902 | 20-Oct-1984 | The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
| Thomas Dixon | Author | 11-Jan-1864 | 3-Apr-1946 | The Clansman |
| William E. Dodd | Diplomat | 27-Oct-1869 | 9-Feb-1940 | US Ambassador to Nazi Germany |
| E. C. Dodds | Scientist | 13-Oct-1899 | 16-Dec-1973 | Diethylstilbestrol |
| Cleveland H. Dodge | Business | 1860 | 1926 | Woodrow Wilson's financier and advisor |
| Peter C. Doherty | Scientist | 15-Oct-1940 | T-cells and antigens | |
| Thomas Dolby | Musician | 14-Oct-1958 | She Blinded Me With Science | |
| John Langdon Down | Doctor | 18-Nov-1828 | 7-Oct-1896 | Down's syndrome |
| Henry Draper | Astronomer | 7-Mar-1837 | 20-Nov-1882 | Early astrophotographer |
| John William Draper | Chemist | 5-May-1811 | 4-Jan-1882 | Radiant energy and portrait photography |
| James Clement Dunn | Diplomat | 27-Dec-1890 | 1979 | Career US Ambassador |
| William F. Durand | Engineer | 5-Mar-1859 | 9-Aug-1958 | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
| William C. Durant | Business | 8-Dec-1861 | 18-Mar-1947 | Founder of General Motors |
| Clint Eastwood | Actor | 31-May-1930 | The Man With No Name | |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Religion | 16-Jul-1821 | 3-Dec-1910 | Founded Christian Science movement |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor | 11-Feb-1847 | 18-Oct-1931 | Invented the light bulb |
| King Edward III | Royalty | 13-Nov-1312 | 21-Jun-1377 | King of England, 1327-77 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Author | 26-Aug-1941 | Nickel and Dimed | |
| Mamie Eisenhower | First Lady | 14-Nov-1896 | 1-Nov-1979 | Ike's First Lady |
| T. S. Eliot | Poet | 26-Sep-1888 | 4-Jan-1965 | Author of "The Waste Land" |
| Shannon Elizabeth | Actor | 7-Sep-1973 | Nadia in American Pie 1 and 2 | |
| Caterina Fake | Designer | c. 1969 | Co-Founder of Flickr | |
| Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti | Business | 9-Apr-1864 | 13-Jan-1930 | England's electrical grid |
| W. C. Fields | Comic | 29-Jan-1880 | 25-Dec-1946 | The Bank Dick |
| Ronald Fisher | Mathematician | 17-Feb-1890 | 29-Jul-1962 | Analysis of variance and covariance |
| Ezra Fitch | Business | 21-Sep-1865 | 16-Jun-1930 | Abercrombie & Fitch |
| Paul J. Flory | Chemist | 19-Jun-1910 | 9-Sep-1985 | Studied polymers |
| Henry Stuart Foote | Politician | 20-Sep-1800 | 20-May-1880 | Governor of Mississippi 1852-54 |
| Abe Fortas | Judge | 19-Jun-1910 | 5-Apr-1982 | US Supreme Court Justice, 1965-69 |
| Rosalind Franklin | Chemist | 25-Jul-1920 | 16-Apr-1958 | Photographed DNA's structure |
| Stephen Fry | Actor | 24-Aug-1957 | Jeeves and Wooster | |
| Alfred C. Fuller | Business | 13-Jan-1885 | 4-Dec-1973 | Founder of Fuller Brush Company |
| John H. Gaddum | Scientist | 31-Mar-1900 | 30-Jun-1965 | Drug antagonism |
| Lucretia Garfield | First Lady | 19-Apr-1832 | 14-Mar-1918 | Wife of US President James Garfield |
| Thomas Garrett | Activist | 21-Aug-1789 | 25-Jan-1871 | Underground Railroad |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | Physicist | 24-Oct-1932 | 18-May-2007 | Molecular structure of polymers |
| Wally George | TV Personality | 4-Dec-1931 | 5-Oct-2003 | Abusive conservative spectacle |
| Elbridge Gerry | Politician | 17-Jul-1744 | 23-Nov-1814 | Patron saint of Gerrymandering |
| Ricky Gervais | Actor | 25-Jun-1961 | The Office | |
| Malcolm Gets | Actor | 28-Dec-1964 | Caroline in the City | |
| John H. Gibbon, Jr. | Doctor | 29-Sep-1903 | 5-Feb-1973 | Open-heart surgery |
| J. Willard Gibbs | Physicist | 11-Feb-1839 | 28-Apr-1903 | Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics |
| Orville Gibson | Business | 1856 | 21-Aug-1918 | Made mandolins and guitars |
| King Gillette | Inventor | 5-Jan-1855 | 9-Jul-1932 | Safety razor |
| Malcolm Gladwell | Columnist | 3-Sep-1963 | The Tipping Point | |
| Robert Goddard | Scientist | 5-Oct-1882 | 10-Aug-1945 | Father of modern rocketry |
| Clive W.J. Granger | Economist | 4-Sep-1934 | 27-May-2009 | Granger causality |
| Wilson Greatbatch | Inventor | 6-Sep-1919 | 27-Sep-2011 | Implantable pacemaker |
| Arthur Guinness | Business | 1725 | 23-Jan-1803 | Invented stout, founded Guinness Brewery |
| Brion Gysin | Artist | 19-Jan-1916 | 13-Jul-1986 | Inventor of the Dreamachine |
| Asaph Hall | Astronomer | 15-Oct-1829 | 22-Nov-1907 | Discovered the moons of Mars |
| Andrew Smith Hallidie | Inventor | 16-Mar-1836 | 24-Apr-1900 | Designed the first cable car system |
| Geri Halliwell | Singer | 6-Aug-1972 | Ginger Spice | |
| Frederick A. Halsey | Engineer | 12-Jul-1856 | 20-Oct-1935 | Kept America safe from the metric system |
| William Stewart Halsted | Doctor | 23-Sep-1852 | 7-Sep-1922 | Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
| Arthur Harden | Chemist | 12-Oct-1865 | 17-Jun-1940 | Enzymes of sugar fermentation |
| Frank Hardy | Novelist | 21-Mar-1917 | 28-Mar-1994 | Power Without Glory |
| Robert Hare | Chemist | 17-Jan-1781 | 15-May-1858 | Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope |
| Anna Harrison | First Lady | 25-Jul-1775 | 25-Feb-1864 | Wife of US President William Henry Harrison |
| Caroline Harrison | First Lady | 1-Oct-1832 | 25-Oct-1892 | Wife of US President Benjamin Harrison |
| Francis Burton Harrison | Politician | 18-Dec-1873 | 21-Nov-1957 | Drug prohibition |
| Bret Harte | Author | 25-Aug-1836 | 5-May-1902 | Master of the western short story |
| Rondo Hatton | Actor | 22-Apr-1894 | 2-Feb-1946 | Horror actor afflicted with acromegaly |
| Norman Haworth | Chemist | 19-Mar-1883 | 19-Mar-1950 | Carbohydrates and vitamin C |
| Lucy Hayes | First Lady | 28-Aug-1831 | 25-Jun-1889 | Wife of US President Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Nan Hayworth | Politician | 14-Dec-1959 | Congresswoman, New York 19th | |
| Rita Hayworth | Actor | 17-Oct-1918 | 14-May-1987 | Gilda |
| Oliver Heaviside | Engineer | 18-May-1850 | 3-Feb-1925 | Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| Dudley R. Herschbach | Chemist | 18-Jun-1932 | Crossed molecular beam experiments | |
| Gordon Hessler | Film Director | 12-Dec-1930 | The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | |
| George W. Hill | Astronomer | 3-Mar-1838 | 16-Apr-1914 | A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Sir Cyril Hinshelwood | Chemist | 19-Jun-1897 | 9-Oct-1967 | The Kinetics of Chemical Change |
| George H. Hitchings | Scientist | 18-Apr-1905 | 27-Feb-1998 | Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | Chemist | 12-May-1910 | 29-Jul-1994 | Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
| Arthur Holmes | Geologist | 14-Jan-1890 | 20-Sep-1965 | Father of the geological timescale |
| Gustav Holst | Composer | 21-Sep-1874 | 25-May-1934 | The Planets |
| Lou Hoover | First Lady | 29-Mar-1874 | 7-Jan-1944 | Wife of US President Herbert Hoover |
| Bob Hope | Comic | 29-May-1903 | 27-Jul-2003 | Centenarian comic |
| Johns Hopkins | Philanthropist | 19-May-1795 | 24-Dec-1873 | Johns Hopkins University and Hospital |
| William Howe | Military | 10-Aug-1729 | 12-Jul-1814 | Commander-in-Chief in America |
| Fred Hoyle | Astronomer | 24-Jun-1915 | 20-Aug-2001 | Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
| Mike Huckabee | Politician | 24-Aug-1955 | Governor of Arkansas, 1996-2007 | |
| Howard Hughes | Business | 24-Sep-1905 | 5-Apr-1976 | Insane billionaire |
| E. Howard Hunt | Criminal | 9-Oct-1918 | 23-Jan-2007 | Coordinated Watergate break-in |
| Henry Hyde | Politician | 18-Apr-1924 | 29-Nov-2007 | Congressman from Illinois, 1975-2007 |
| Laura Ingalls | Aviator | 14-Dec-1893 | 10-Jan-1967 | Aviatrix and Nazi sympathizer |
| Jared Ingersoll | Politician | 24-Oct-1749 | 31-Oct-1822 | Signed the US Constitution |
| Alec Issigonis | Engineer | 18-Nov-1906 | 2-Oct-1988 | Designer of the Mini Cooper |
| J. Hughlings Jackson | Doctor | 4-Apr-1835 | 7-Oct-1911 | Father of British neurology |
| Rachel Jackson | First Lady | Jun-1767 | 22-Dec-1828 | Wife of US President Andrew Jackson |
| Jade Jagger | Relative | 21-Oct-1971 | Daughter of Mick and Bianca | |
| Karl Jansky | Astronomer | 22-Oct-1905 | 14-Feb-1950 | Radio waves from outer space |
| Anna T. Jeanes | Philanthropist | 7-Apr-1822 | 24-Sep-1907 | Negro Rural School Fund |
| James H. Jeans | Astronomer | 11-Sep-1877 | 16-Sep-1946 | Continuous creation theory |
| Billy Joel | Pianist | 9-May-1949 | Didn't start the fire | |
| Samuel Johnson | Lexicographer | 18-Sep-1709 | 13-Dec-1784 | A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Theodore D. Judah | Engineer | 4-Mar-1826 | 2-Nov-1863 | American Transcontinental Railroad |
| Alex Kapranos | Musician | 20-Mar-1972 | Franz Ferdinand frontman | |
| James E. Keeler | Astronomer | 10-Sep-1857 | 12-Aug-1900 | Composition of Saturn's rings |
| George Kelly | Psychologist | 28-Apr-1905 | 6-Mar-1967 | Personal Construct Theory of personality |
| John Key | Government | 9-Aug-1961 | Prime Minister of New Zealand | |
| Albert Kingsbury | Engineer | 23-Dec-1863 | 28-Jul-1943 | Kingsbury thrust bearing |
| Charles Knowlton | Doctor | 10-May-1800 | 20-Feb-1850 | Early advocate of birth control |
| Jon Lajoie | Actor | 21-Aug-1980 | Taco on The League | |
| Burt Lancaster | Actor | 2-Nov-1913 | 20-Oct-1994 | Elmer Gantry |
| Samuel P. Langley | Astronomer | 22-Aug-1834 | 2-Feb-1906 | Heavier-than-air flying machine |
| Mary Lasker | Activist | 30-Nov-1900 | 21-Feb-1994 | Health care advocate |
| T. E. Lawrence | Author | 16-Aug-1888 | 19-May-1935 | Lawrence of Arabia |
| David M. Lee | Physicist | 20-Jan-1931 | Superfluidity of helium-3 | |
| Morris E. Leeds | Business | 6-Mar-1869 | 8-Feb-1952 | Leeds & Northrup Co. |
| Anthony J. Leggett | Physicist | 26-Mar-1938 | Particle physicist, explored superfluidity | |
| Charles James Lever | Novelist | 31-Aug-1806 | 1-Jun-1872 | Charles O'Malley |
| Eli Lilly | Business | 8-Jul-1838 | 6-Jun-1898 | Founder of Eli Lilly & Co. |
| Mary Todd Lincoln | First Lady | 13-Dec-1818 | 16-Jul-1882 | Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln |
| Henry Demarest Lloyd | Journalist | 1-May-1847 | 28-Sep-1903 | Radical reporter |
| Rebecca Loos | TV Personality | 19-Jun-1977 | Snogged David Beckham | |
| Louis IV | Royalty | 10-Sep-920 AD | 10-Sep-954 AD | King of France, 936-54 |
| Dolley Madison | First Lady | 20-May-1768 | 12-Jul-1849 | Wife of US President James Madison |
| James Madison | Head of State | 16-Mar-1751 | 28-Jun-1836 | 4th US President, 1809-17 |
| Jane March | Actor | 20-Mar-1973 | Color of Night | |
| Bob Marley | Singer/Songwriter | 6-Feb-1945 | 11-May-1981 | No Woman No Cry |
| George Perkins Marsh | Author | 15-Mar-1801 | 23-Jul-1882 | Ecologist and camel enthusiast |
| Archer J. P. Martin | Chemist | 1-Mar-1910 | 28-Jul-2002 | Partition chromatography |
| Steve Martin | Comic | 14-Aug-1945 | The Jerk | |
| Armistead Thomson Mason | Politician | 4-Aug-1787 | 6-Feb-1819 | US Senator from Virginia, 1816-17 |
| Rik Mayall | Actor | 7-Mar-1958 | Rick on The Young Ones | |
| Joseph McCarthy | Politician | 14-Nov-1908 | 2-May-1957 | US Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-57 |
| Barbara McClintock | Scientist | 16-Jun-1902 | 2-Sep-1992 | Discovered transposable genes |
| Joseph McKenna | Judge | 10-Aug-1843 | 21-Nov-1926 | US Supreme Court Justice, 1898-1925 |
| Ida McKinley | First Lady | 8-Jun-1847 | 26-May-1907 | Wife of US President William McKinley |
| Peter Medawar | Biologist | 28-Feb-1915 | 2-Oct-1987 | Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Patricia Medina | Actor | 19-Jul-1920 | 28-Apr-2012 | Botany Bay |
| Edward Mellanby | Doctor | 8-Apr-1884 | 30-Jan-1955 | Rickets |
| Thomas Midgley | Chemist | 18-May-1889 | 2-Nov-1944 | Ethyl gasoline, Freon |
| Nelson A. Miles | Military | 8-Aug-1839 | 15-May-1925 | Army volunteer promoted to Commanding General |
| Alfred Milner | Government | 23-Mar-1854 | 13-May-1925 | Architect of the Balfour Declaration |
| Rhona Mitra | Actor | 9-Aug-1976 | Tara on The Practice | |
| Molly Pitcher | Military | 13-Oct-1754 | 22-Jan-1832 | Fought at the Battle of Monmouth |
| Christopher Monckton | Politician | 14-Feb-1952 | Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party | |
| Samuel S. Montague | Engineer | 6-Jul-1830 | 24-Sep-1883 | American Transcontinental Railroad |
| Robert Morris | Politician | 31-Jan-1734 | 7-May-1806 | Financed the Revolutionary War |
| Oswald Mosley | Politician | 16-Nov-1896 | 3-Dec-1980 | Founder of the British Union of Fascists |
| Samuel Mudd | Doctor | 20-Dec-1833 | 10-Jan-1883 | Physician who treated Lincoln's assassin |
| Hermann J. Muller | Scientist | 21-Dec-1890 | 5-Apr-1967 | Genetic effects of radiation |
| Robert S. Mulliken | Chemist | 7-Jun-1896 | 31-Oct-1986 | Molecular orbital theory |
| Joseph E. Murray | Doctor | 1-Apr-1919 | Kidney transplants | |
| Graham Nash | Musician | 2-Feb-1942 | Crosby, Stills, and Nash | |
| Sam Neill | Actor | 14-Sep-1947 | Played Reilly, Ace of Spies | |
| Isaac Newton | Physicist | 4-Jan-1643 | 31-Mar-1727 | Father of the clockwork universe |
| Ernest Fox Nichols | Physicist | 1-Jun-1869 | 29-Apr-1924 | Infrared radiation |
| Queen Noor | Royalty | 23-Aug-1951 | Queen of Jordan | |
| John H. Northrop | Chemist | 5-Jul-1891 | 27-May-1987 | Bacteriophages |
| Justin Nozuka | Singer/Songwriter | 29-Sep-1988 | You I Wind Land and Sea | |
| James D. P. Ogden | Business | 26-Aug-1790 | 7-Apr-1870 | First President of New York Life Insurance Company |
| Ransom E. Olds | Business | 3-Jun-1864 | 26-Aug-1950 | Founder of Nucor and Oldsmobile |
| Elisha Otis | Inventor | 3-Aug-1811 | 8-Apr-1861 | Invented the safety elevator |
| William Oughtred | Mathematician | 5-Mar-1574 | 30-Jun-1660 | Inventor of the slide rule |
| Wilfred Owen | Poet | 18-Mar-1893 | 4-Nov-1918 | Dulce Et Decorum Est |
| Thomas Paine | Activist | 29-Jan-1737 | 8-Jun-1809 | Common Sense |
| D. D. Palmer | Doctor | 7-Mar-1845 | 20-Oct-1913 | Founder of chiropractic medicine |
| Korla Pandit | Musician | 16-Sep-1921 | 2-Oct-1998 | Hynoptic exotic |
| Charles Stewart Parnell | Politician | 27-Jun-1846 | 6-Oct-1891 | Irish Nationalist leader |
| Talcott Parsons | Sociologist | 13-Dec-1902 | 8-May-1979 | The Structure of Social Action |
| Tera Patrick | Pornstar | 25-Jul-1976 | Nuttin' Hunnies | |
| Linus Pauling | Chemist | 28-Feb-1901 | 19-Aug-1994 | Scientist and peacenik |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Astronomer | 10-May-1900 | 7-Dec-1979 | Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Raymond Pearl | Biologist | 3-Jun-1879 | 17-Nov-1940 | Biogerontology |
| Benjamin Peirce | Mathematician | 4-Apr-1809 | 10-Jun-1880 | Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Frances Perkins | Government | 10-Apr-1882 | 14-May-1965 | First female US cabinet member |
| John Phillips | Educator | 27-Dec-1719 | 21-Apr-1795 | Founder of Phillips Exeter Academy |
| Samuel Phillips, Jr. | Educator | 5-Feb-1752 | 10-Feb-1802 | Founder of Phillips Academy |
| Marge Piercy | Novelist | 31-Mar-1936 | Gone to Soldiers | |
| Thomas Pinckney | Politician | 23-Oct-1750 | 2-Nov-1828 | Governor of South Carolina, 1787-89 |
| Aubrey Plaza | Comic | 26-Jun-1984 | Parks and Recreation | |
| James Plimpton | Inventor | 14-Apr-1828 | 1911 | Four-wheeled roller skates |
| C. W. Post | Business | 26-Oct-1854 | 9-May-1914 | Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts |
| John Wesley Powell | Geologist | 24-Mar-1834 | 23-Sep-1902 | Exploration of the Colorado River |
| Francis A. Pratt | Business | 15-Feb-1827 | 10-Feb-1902 | Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney |
| Ann Preston | Doctor | 1-Dec-1813 | 18-Apr-1872 | Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital |
| William Procter | Business | 7-Dec-1801 | 4-Apr-1884 | Co-Founder of Procter & Gamble |
| Robert Purvis | Activist | 4-Aug-1810 | 15-Apr-1898 | President of the Underground Railroad |
| William Quantrill | Criminal | 31-Jul-1837 | 6-Jun-1865 | Quantrill's Raiders |
| Bessica Raiche | Aviator | Apr-1875 | 11-Apr-1932 | Aviatrix and gynecologist |
| James Rainwater | Physicist | 9-Dec-1917 | 31-May-1986 | Determined shapes of nuclei |
| Donna Reed | Actor | 27-Jan-1921 | 14-Jan-1986 | The Donna Reed Show |
| Martin Rees | Astronomer | 23-Jun-1942 | President of the Royal Society | |
| Keanu Reeves | Actor | 2-Sep-1964 | Dude | |
| Henry Regnery | Publisher | 5-Jan-1912 | 18-Jun-1996 | Regnery Publishing |
| Richard Reid | Terrorist | 12-Aug-1973 | Shoe bomber | |
| Thomas D. Rice | Comic | 20-May-1808 | 19-Sep-1860 | Played "Jim Crow" |
| Owen Willans Richardson | Physicist | 26-Apr-1879 | 15-Feb-1959 | Electron emissions of metals |
| Oscar Riddle | Biologist | 27-Sep-1877 | 29-Nov-1968 | Prolactin |
| George Rockwell | Activist | 9-Mar-1918 | 25-Aug-1967 | Founded American Nazi Party |
| Alvah C. Roebuck | Business | 9-Jun-1864 | 18-Jun-1948 | Sears Roebuck founder |
| John Rolfe | Agriculturalist | 1585 | 22-Mar-1622 | First Virginia tobacco baron, husband of Pocahontas |
| Charles Stewart Rolls | Business | 27-Aug-1877 | 12-Jul-1910 | Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce |
| James Rolph, Jr. | Government | 23-Aug-1869 | 2-Jun-1934 | Mayor of San Francisco, 1912-31 |
| Betsy Ross | Business | 1-Jan-1752 | 30-Jan-1836 | Legendary American flagmaker |
| Henry Royce | Engineer | 27-Mar-1863 | 22-Apr-1933 | Designed the first Rolls-Royce |
| Henry Norris Russell | Astronomer | 25-Oct-1877 | 18-Feb-1957 | Giant stars and dwarfs |
| Ernest Rutherford | Physicist | 30-Aug-1871 | 19-Oct-1937 | Father of nuclear physics |
| Sade | Singer | 16-Jan-1959 | Smooth Operator | |
| Saffron | Singer | 3-Jun-1968 | Republica | |
| George Sanders | Actor | 3-Jul-1906 | 25-Apr-1972 | The Saint Strikes Back |
| Wallace Sargent | Astronomer | 15-Feb-1935 | Astrophysicist at CalTech | |
| Greta Scacchi | Actor | 18-Feb-1960 | The Player | |
| Erwin Schrödinger | Physicist | 12-Aug-1887 | 4-Jan-1961 | Schrödinger's wave equation |
| John Walter Scott | Stamp Collector | 2-Nov-1845 | 4-Jan-1919 | Father of American Philately |
| Richard W. Sears | Business | 7-Dec-1863 | 28-Sep-1914 | Sears, Roebuck founder |
| Sequoyah | Linguist | c. 1770 | Aug-1843 | Put the Cherokee language on paper |
| Peter Serafinowicz | Comic | 10-Jul-1972 | Look Around You | |
| Ernest Shackleton | Explorer | 15-Feb-1874 | 5-Jan-1922 | Antarctic explorer |
| Claude Shannon | Scientist | 30-Apr-1916 | 24-Feb-2001 | Pioneer in information theory |
| Anna Howard Shaw | Activist | 14-Feb-1847 | 2-Jul-1919 | National American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Lou Sheldon | Activist | 1934 | Traditional Values Coalition | |
| Jean Shepherd | Radio Personality | 26-Jul-1921 | 16-Oct-1999 | A Christmas Story |
| Elisabeth Shue | Actor | 6-Oct-1963 | Leaving Las Vegas | |
| Alexander Siddig | Actor | 21-Nov-1965 | Dr. Julian Bashir on DS9 | |
| Harry Sinclair | Business | 6-Jul-1876 | 10-Nov-1956 | Founder of Sinclair Oil |
| Slash | Guitarist | 23-Jul-1965 | Former lead guitarist, Guns n' Roses | |
| Sir Hans Sloane | Curator | 16-Apr-1660 | 11-Jan-1753 | Milk chocolate and the British Museum |
| E. E. "Doc" Smith | Novelist | 2-May-1890 | 31-Aug-1965 | Lensman series |
| Michael Smith | Chemist | 26-Apr-1932 | 4-Oct-2000 | Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis |
| Frederick Soddy | Chemist | 2-Sep-1877 | 22-Sep-1956 | Isotopes |
| Mike Sodrel | Politician | 17-Dec-1945 | Congressman, Indiana 9th | |
| Elmer Sperry | Inventor | 12-Oct-1860 | 10-Jun-1930 | Gyroscopic compass |
| Lawrence B. Sperry | Inventor | 22-Dec-1892 | 13-Dec-1923 | Invented the autopilot |
| Caroll Spinney | TV Personality | 26-Dec-1933 | Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch | |
| Lyman Spitzer, Jr. | Astronomer | 26-Jun-1914 | 31-Mar-1997 | Father of space telescopes |
| Frederick Arthur Stanley | Government | 15-Jan-1841 | 14-Jun-1908 | Hockey's Stanley Cup |
| John Steinbeck | Novelist | 27-Feb-1902 | 20-Dec-1968 | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Nettie Stevens | Biologist | 7-Jul-1861 | 4-May-1912 | X and Y chromosomes |
| Lynne Stewart | Attorney | 8-Oct-1939 | Attorney convicted of supporting the Islamic Group | |
| Charles Sumner | Politician | 6-Jan-1811 | 11-Mar-1874 | Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts |
| James B. Sumner | Chemist | 19-Nov-1887 | 12-Aug-1955 | Crystallized enzymes |
| William Graham Sumner | Educator | 30-Oct-1840 | 12-Apr-1910 | Laissez faire sociologist |
| Ambrose Swasey | Business | 19-Dec-1846 | 15-Jun-1937 | Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory |
| Violette Szabo | Spy | 26-Jun-1921 | 5-Feb-1945 | British secret agent, fought with French Resistance |
| Helen Taft | First Lady | 2-Jun-1861 | 22-May-1943 | Wife of US President William Howard Taft |
| Ernest Thayer | Poet | 14-Aug-1863 | 21-Aug-1940 | Casey at the Bat |
| Dave Thomas | Comic | 20-May-1949 | SCTV | |
| Elihu Thomson | Inventor | 29-Mar-1853 | 13-Mar-1937 | Electric welding and A/C motors |
| William Thornton | Architect | 20-May-1759 | 28-Mar-1828 | First architect of the US Capitol |
| Edward Titchener | Psychologist | 11-Jan-1867 | 3-Aug-1927 | Structural psychology |
| Charles Tufts | Business | 17-Jul-1781 | 24-Dec-1876 | Founder of Tufts University |
| Alan Turing | Mathematician | 23-Jun-1912 | 7-Jun-1954 | Computing pioneer |
| Letitia Tyler | First Lady | 12-Nov-1790 | 10-Sep-1842 | First wife of US President John Tyler |
| Theodore Vail | Business | 16-Jul-1845 | 16-Apr-1920 | Founder of AT&T |
| Holly Valance | Actor | 11-May-1983 | Neighbours | |
| John Venn | Mathematician | 4-Aug-1834 | 4-Apr-1923 | Venn diagrams |
| Benjamin F. Wade | Politician | 27-Oct-1800 | 2-Mar-1878 | US Senator from Ohio, 1851-69 |
| Arthur Edward Waite | Paranormal | 2-Oct-1857 | 19-May-1942 | Created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck |
| Ruth Graves Wakefield | Chef | 17-Jun-1903 | 10-Jan-1977 | Accidental inventor of chocolate chip cookies |
| Mary Edwards Walker | Doctor | 26-Nov-1832 | 21-Feb-1919 | First female US Army surgeon |
| Vernon Walters | Government | 3-Jan-1917 | 10-Feb-2002 | US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89 |
| Lester Frank Ward | Sociologist | 18-Jun-1841 | 18-Apr-1913 | Dynamic Sociology |
| J. Robin Warren | Doctor | 11-Jun-1937 | H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers | |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | Psychologist | 25-Jul-1871 | 29-Oct-1939 | First female American psychologist |
| Martha Washington | First Lady | 2-Jun-1731 | 22-May-1802 | Wife of US President George Washington |
| Lewis Waterman | Inventor | 20-Nov-1836 | 1-May-1901 | Fountain pen |
| Alan Watts | Philosopher | 6-Jan-1915 | 16-Nov-1973 | Zen beat counterculture sage |
| Naomi Watts | Actor | 28-Sep-1968 | First you see The Ring, then you die | |
| Joseph Welch | Attorney | 22-Oct-1890 | 6-Oct-1960 | Have you no sense of decency? |
| Thomas B. Welch | Business | 31-Dec-1825 | 29-Dec-1903 | Grape juice magnate |
| Daniel B. Wesson | Business | 18-May-1825 | 4-Aug-1906 | Repeating pistol |
| George Westinghouse | Inventor | 6-Oct-1846 | 12-Mar-1914 | Air brake and A/C power |
| Amos Whitney | Business | 8-Oct-1832 | 5-Aug-1928 | Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney |
| Kaiser Wilhelm | Head of State | 27-Jan-1859 | 4-Jun-1941 | Last of the German emperors |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson | Chemist | 14-Jul-1921 | 26-Sep-1996 | Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| Rowan Williams | Religion | 14-Jun-1950 | Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| Edith Wilson | First Lady | 15-Oct-1872 | 28-Dec-1961 | Second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson |
| Ellen Wilson | First Lady | 15-May-1860 | 6-Aug-1914 | First wife of US President Woodrow Wilson |
| Robert B. Woodward | Chemist | 10-Apr-1917 | 8-Jul-1979 | Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
| Frances Wright | Activist | 6-Sep-1795 | 13-Dec-1852 | Utopian abolitionist |
| William Wrigley, Jr. | Business | 30-Sep-1861 | 26-Jan-1932 | Chewing gum magnate |
| Peter Wyngarde | Actor | 23-Aug-1933 | Jason King | |
| Thomas Young | Physicist | 13-Jun-1773 | 10-May-1829 | Wave Theory of Light |
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