* 1923 – Donald Sinden, English actor

Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

The character of Lear in the nineteenth century was often that of a frail old man from the opening scene, but Lears of the twentieth century often began the play as strong men displaying regal authority, including John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit and Donald Sinden.

More comedies followed, including Trouble in Store ( 1953 ) with Norman Wisdom, The Runaway Bus ( 1954 ) with Frankie Howerd and An Alligator Named Daisy ( 1955 ) with Donald Sinden and Diana Dors.

In 2004, a poll of actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Ian McKellen, Donald Sinden, Janet Suzman, Ian Richardson, Antony Sher and Corin Redgrave, acclaimed his Lear as the greatest Shakespearean performance ever.

In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in Trevor Nunn's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with Donald Sinden as Beatrice and Benedick in John Barton's " British Raj " revival of Much Ado About Nothing.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

After a long run of small roles in the B-pictures, his 1955 portrayal of the registrar in Roy Boulting's comedy Josephine and Men, " jerked him out of the rut ", according to Philip Oakes ; he appeared opposite Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden and Peter Finch in the film.

* Much Ado About Nothing, starring Judi Dench and Donald Sinden, directed by John Barton ( April 1976 )

In 2002, Jacobi toured Australia in The Hollow Crown with Sir Donald Sinden, Ian Richardson and Dame Diana Rigg.

Elliott had also worked with Sinden's father, Donald Sinden, in the film The Cruel Sea ( 1953 ).

Tributes were paid by actors Donald Sinden and Sir Peter Ustinov, playwright Dennis Potter and former wife Virginia McKenna.

The programme, produced in association with ITN, featured appearances from Sir Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baker ( later a founder of TWW's successors, Harlech Television ), Naunton Wayne, Donald Sinden, Tessie O ' Shea, Donald Houston, Petula Clark, Tommy Cooper and Ralph Reader.

The production starred David Warner as Henry, Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret, Donald Sinden as York and Paul Hardwick as Gloucester.

Mogambo is a 1953 film directed by John Ford, featuring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Donald Sinden.

Sir Donald Tovey dedicated his conjectural completion of Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge ( Art of the Fugue ) to Schweitzer.

On leaving school his theatrical career started immediately, with an introduction to Sir Donald Wolfit by his French master.

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

The Wisden 100 rates Lara's 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown in 1998 – 99 as the second best innings ever after Sir Donald Bradman's 270 against England in Melbourne in 1936 – 37.

Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

In 2007 Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang requested for Beijing to allow direct elections for the Chief Executive.

On 4 December 2005, people in Hong Kong demonstrated against Sir Donald Tsang's proposed reform package, before a vote on 21 December.

The amendment has been seen as a reluctant response by Sir Donald Tsang to give satisfaction to the democratic demands made by demonstrators on 4 December.

Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE ( 8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001 ) was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

Sir Donald McDuck is mentioned in " The History of The Clan McDuck " by Don Rosa, a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it never got a place in the story at the end.

Sir Donald McDuck, nicknamed " Black Donald " because of his foul temper, is said to have invented Golf, Hammer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440.

* February 25 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer ( b. 1908 )

* September 15 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer ( died 1985 )

In more recent times, the University boasts one of Europe's largest collections of life scientists, as well as having been the training ground of numerous politicians, including former First Minister Donald Dewar, fomer leader of the Liberal Democrats and current Rector of the University Charles Kennedy, Liam Fox, John Smith, Sir Menzies Campbell and current Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

This decree was issued by the new king and unanimously supported by the Dominion governments, The king's authority to withhold from the lawful wife of a prince the attribute thitherto accorded to the wives of other modern British princes was addressed by the Crown's legal authorities: On 14 April 1937, Attorney General Sir Donald Somervell submitted to Home Secretary Sir John Simon a memorandum summarising the views of Lord Advocate T. M. Cooper, Parliamentary Counsel Sir Granville Ram, and himself:

* Donald McCormick, Peddler of Death: the Life and Times of Sir Basil Zaharoff.

Countless celebrities have graced its stage, including Boris Christoff, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, John Neville, Magda Olivero, Michael Ponti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Donald Wolfit.

* Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Canadian railway financier and diplomat

He batted two days to amass 334 not out, equalling Sir Donald Bradman's Australian record set in 1930.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

The authors include S. T. Joshi, Kenneth W. Faig, Jr, Jason C. Eckhardt, Will Murray, Donald R. Burleson, Peter Cannon, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Steven J. Mariconda, David E. Schultz, Robert H. Waugh, Robert M. Price, R. Boerem, Norman R. Gatford and Barton Levi St. Armand.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

Since Fisher's initial conceptual model of the ' runaway ' process, Russell Lande and Peter O ' Donald have provided detailed mathematical proofs that define the circumstances under which runaway sexual selection can take place.

* C. Peter Ripley, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone, Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation ( 1993 )

Beckett himself sanctioned " one of the most famous mixed-race productions of Godot, performed at the Baxter Theatre in the University of Cape Town, directed by Donald Howarth, with [...] two black actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, playing Didi and Gogo ; Pozzo, dressed in checked shirt and gumboots reminiscent of an Afrikaner landlord, and Lucky (' a shanty town piece of white trash ') were played by two white actors, Bill Flynn and Peter Piccolo [...].

Fur traders included Manuel Lisa, Robert Stuart, William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Mackenzie, Alexander Ross, James Sinclair and other mountain men.

The Golden Ticket was written by American composer Peter Ash and British librettist Donald Sturrock.

When Sora, Donald, and Goofy arrive in Neverland, Riku throws them in the hold where they meet and escape with Peter Pan, who is searching for his friend Wendy.

This happens when Peter and Wendy appear to make Goofy's dream for some adventure come true and play a game of " Pretend to Be Pirates " with Donald Duck, who pretends to be the captain until the real Hook appears and challenges Peter to a duel.

Sykes also made his first screen appearance at this time in the army film comedy Orders Are Orders ( 1954 ), which also featured Sid James, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Bill Fraser and Donald Pleasence.

Donald and his friend Peter Pig try to avoid work by faking stomach aches until Mrs. Hen teaches them the value of labor.

Peter Pig and Donald Duck both feign belly aches to get out of the chore.

Harvest time comes ; again, Peter and Donald claim belly aches, but the hen sees through this.

She cooks up a variety of corn dishes, and heads over to Peter and Donald, but before she can open her mouth, they already fake their belly aches.

* Florence Gill-the Wise Little Hen ( She only properly speaks in her sung lines when she asks Peter or / and Donald if they will " Help her plant, harvest or eat her corn ")

There are a couple of differences like instead of Donald Duck and Peter Pig, they use Daniel Duck and Podgo Pig in the story, the hen is called Mrs. Cackle, and Clara Cluck is telling the story.

In 1964 the play was made into a successful film, starring Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit and Martita Hunt.

Others with local connections include actors Roger Moore, Simon Callow, Peter Davison, Nicholas Clay, Neil Pearson and June Whitfield, saucy seaside postcard artist Donald McGill and comedians Eddie Izzard, Jeremy Hardy and Paul Merton.

The school's former students ( Old Greshamians ) include Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Lord Reith, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, President Erskine Childers, Sir Christopher Cockerell, Donald Maclean, Sir Lennox Berkeley, Sir Stephen Spender, Tom Wintringham, Sir James Dyson, Ralph Firman, Sir Peter Brook, Sebastian Shaw, Sienna Guillory and Michael Cummings.

* Peter Douglas Ward, Donald Brownlee Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe.

Brown ( R, 2014 ), Steve Gillingham ( R, 2012 ), Beth Nelson ( R, 2013 ), Donald S. Ness ( R, 2013 ), Peter R. Strohm ( D, 2014 ) and Stanley Witkowski ( R, 2012 ).

Creators of artistamps include Donald Evans, Ginny Lloyd ( Gina Lotta ), Crackerjack Kid ( Chuck Welsh ), Reed Altemus, Darlene Altschul ( DKA POST ), Katerina Nikoltsou, Eleanor Kent, Beverly Dittberner, Jim Czyl, Boog, Keith Buchholz, Otto Sherman, Marilyn Rosenberg, Petra Weimer, Peter Netmail, Buster Cleveland, William Rowe, Miguel Jimenez, Dame Mailarta, György Galántai, Carl Chew, Anna Banana, Patricia Tavenner, Jas W Felter, Michael Bidner, Michael Thompson, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Ed Paschke, Clifford Harper, Al Brandtner, Steve Smith, Russell Butler ( buZ blurr ), Alan Brignull, Dennis Jordan, Rachel Scott, Guy Bleus, Arturo G. Fallico, Harley, Hamlet Mateo, Michael Angelo H. Mayo Post 1211, Marlon Vito Picasso ( Rocola ), Kursade Karatas, Bruce Grenville, Natalie Lamanova, Robert Rudine, H. R.

He acted at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 and was with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season ( Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come ) 1964 ' Dirty Plays ' season Night Come, Victor and the premiere productions of The Marat Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come ), in 1965 at Stratford where he appeared in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love's Labour's Lost, and Peter Hall's outstanding production of The Government Inspector at the Aldwych Theatre with Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Donald Burton, Stanley Lebor, Bruce Condell, John Corvin and Tim Wylton among others.