Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell , often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She...
Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 in Chelsea, London - 12 September 1888) was an English astronomer. He is best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars in 1867...
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838), English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L. Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea...
Sir John Betjeman, CBE (pronounced /ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack". He was a...
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE, Nobel Laureate , is a world-renowned English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, political activist, and president of the Central School of...
Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British entrepreneur, media personality and political advisor. From relatively humble origins in the East End of London, Sugar now...
John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an...
John Howard (September 2, 1726 – January 20, 1790) was a philanthropist and the first English prison reformer. Howard was born in Lower Clapton, London. His father was a wealthy upholsterer...
Talbot Baines Reed son of Charles Reed, and grandson of Andrew Reed, was an English writer who specialised in boys' school stories, the most famous of which were The...
George Robert Stowe Mead (1863–1933) was an author, editor, translator, esotericist, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society as well as the founder of the Quest Society. George...
Sir John Stainer (London, 6 June 1840 – Verona, 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though not generally greatly admired today (with the possible exception of...
Charles Harold St. John Hamilton , was an English writer, specializing in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters,...
Paul McKenna (born 8 November 1963, in Enfield, Middlesex) is an English hypnotist and self-improvement author. According to the Sunday Times he is Britain's best selling non-fiction author...
David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician and author, and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication. He was notably a member of...
Geraldine McCaughrean (pronounced "Muh-cork-ran") (born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist. McCaughrean was born in North London, attending Enfield County School, and took an...
Peter Alexander Haining (April 2, 1940 – November 19, 2007) was a British journalist, author and anthologist who lived and worked in Suffolk. Born in Enfield, Middlesex, he began his career...
Brian Sibley (born 14 July 1949) is an English writer. He is author of over 100 hours of radio drama and has written and presented hundreds of radio documentaries, features and weekly...
Christopher Caudwell is the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg (20 October 1907 – 12 February 1937), a British Marxist writer, thinker and poet. He was born into a Catholic family...
Sir William Robert Patrick "Robin" Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and bar (born 17 March 1939) is an English sailor. He was the first man to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the...
William Henry Smyth (21 January 1788 – 8 September 1865) was an English sailor, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist. He was born at 42 Great Peter Street, Westminster, London. He was...
Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism....
Courttia Newland (25 August 1973) is an acclaimed black British writer of Jamaican and Bajan heritage, who has been hailed as one of the few authors who accurately portray life in London's...
Colin Dann is an English author. He is best known for his The Animals of Farthing Wood series of books, which was subsequently made into an animated series. Dann worked...
Richard David Cook was a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive. Sometimes credited as R. D. Cook, Cook was born in Kew, Surrey and...
David Lindsay was a Scottish author now most famous for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus . Lindsay was born into a middle-class Scottish Calvinist family who...