Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova, Arnold Bocklin

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

In 1947, David Brown Limited bought the company under the leadership of managing director Sir David Brown — its " post-war saviour ".

Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.

Among her portraits which followed from that association are those of Georges Clemenceau ; First Lady Edith Roosevelt and her daughter ; and Admiral Sir David Beatty.

* 1781 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist ( d. 1868 )

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

* Sir David Brewster -- a short biography

* 19 June – September 1914: Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, MVO, DSO

Vice-Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, KCB, MVO, DSO

* 1915 – 27 November 1916: Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, GCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 January – 1 May 1919: Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 May – 3 June 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 3 June – 18 October 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO

Famous city artists include the portrait painters Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir David Wilkie and Allan Ramsay.

British MP and lawyer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the Chair of the Assembly's Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, guided the drafting of the Convention.

Ormsby-Gore was the eldest son of William Ormsby-Gore, Member of Parliament for County Leitrim, Carnarvon and North Shropshire, and the great-great-great-grandson of William Gore, third and youngest son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, of Newtown, second son of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Magharabag, whose eldest son Paul was the grandfather of Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran.

Ormsby-Gore married Emily Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour and sister of Francis Hugh George Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, in 1850.

In 1923 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to William Ormsby-Gore, from 1924 – 26 to Sir Austen Chamberlain and subsequently to Anthony Eden.

Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC ( March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893 ) was the third Prime Minister of Canada.

* Sir Richard Gozney, KCMG, CVO, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda

* Captain Sir Richard Burton KCMG FRGS ( sent down )

* Sir Edward Gent KCMG DSO OBE MC

Sir Benjamin Baker KCB KCMG FRS FRSE ( 31 March 1840 – 19 May 1907 ) was an eminent English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era.

Sir Redmond Barry, KCMG, Kt., QC ( 7 June 1813 – 23 November 1880 ), was an Irish colonial judge in Victoria, Australia.

* 1909 – 1923: Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB

* 1939 – 1952: Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC

* 1953 – 1956: Sir John Alexander Sinclair, KCMG, CB, OBE

* 1956 – 1968: Sir Richard White, KCMG, KBE

* 1968 – 1973: Sir John Rennie, KCMG

* 1979 – 1982: Sir Dick Franks, KCMG

* 1982 – 1985: Sir Colin Figures, KCMG, OBE

* 1985 – 1989: Sir Christopher Curwen, KCMG

* 1989 – 1994: Sir Colin McColl, KCMG

* 1994 – 1999: Sir David Spedding, KCMG, CVO, OBE

* 1999 – 2004: Sir Richard Dearlove, KCMG, OBE

* 2004 – 2009: Sir John Scarlett, KCMG, OBE

* 2009 – present: Sir John Sawers, KCMG

Sir Julius Vogel, KCMG ( 24 February 1835 – 12 March 1899 ) was the eighth Premier of New Zealand.

Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB ( 1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923 ) was the first director of what would become the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), also known as MI6.

Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine ( or La Fontaine, or LaFontaine ), 1st Baronet, KCMG ( October 4, 1807 – February 26, 1864 ) was the first Canadian to become Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada .< ref > He was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada in 1807.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet, GCB, KCMG, CVO ( 9 June 1859 – 7 May 1925 ) was a British admiral.

Sir William Mulock, PC, KCMG, MP, QC, LL. D ( January 19, 1843 – October 1, 1944 ) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist.

Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, PC, JP ( 22 March 193026 August 2000 ), is regarded as the " Father of the Nation " of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.