* Adrian Hodges, British television and film writer

* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )

* 1949 – Chris Langham, British actor, writer, producer, director

A book of Lerner's lyrics entitled A Hymn To Him, edited by British writer Benny Green, was published in 1987.

* Columbus ( novel ), a 1941 novel by the British writer Rafael Sabatini depicting the explorations of Christopher Columbus

Clarke's Three Laws are three " laws " of prediction formulated by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

Clive Anderson ( born 10 December 1952 ) is a British former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom.

* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer

* 1982 – Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor ( b. 1933 )

* 1963 – Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress

* 1907 – Mary Howard aka Josephine Edgar, British writer ( d. 1991 )

* 1929 – Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer ( d. 2004 )

* 2011 – Ronald Searle, British cartoonist and writer ( b. 1920 )

* 1936 – James Burke, British writer

* 1960 – Dora Marsden, British editor, writer ( b. 1882 )

Edward Palmer Thompson ( 3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993 ) was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner.

He was born in Mount Abu, British India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.

Enid Mary Blyton ( 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968 ) was a British children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

* 1944 – Alan Parker, British film director and writer

* 1950 – Jane Gordon-Cumming, British writer

* 1957 – Richard Cook, British jazz writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1958 – Matt Ridley, British scientist and writer

* 1957 – Mitchell Symons, British writer

* 1944 – Richard Bradshaw British conductor

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

In 1994, journalist Richard Gott described the prize as " a significant and dangerous iceberg in the sea of British culture that serves as a symbol of its current malaise.

However, it was British anatomist Sir Richard Owen who identified the fossils as the gigantic marsupials Nototherium and Diprotodon.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

On television, the actor Freddie Jones portrayed Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars while the 1985 made-for-television miniseries A. D. features actor Richard Kiley as Claudius.

* The Cyrus South Seaman, British whaler captained by Richard Spratly

Hayek conceded that the national labels did not exactly correspond to those belonging to each tradition: Hayek saw the Frenchmen Montesquieu, Constant and Tocqueville as belonging to the " British tradition " and the British Thomas Hobbes, Priestley, Richard Price and Thomas Paine as belonging to the " French tradition ".

* Richard Taylor and Colin Pritchard, The Protest Makers: The British Nuclear Disarmament of 1958-1965, Twenty Years On ( Pergamon Press: Oxford, 1980 ) ISBN 0-08-025211-7

In 1961 Dave Brubeck appeared in a few scenes of the British Jazz / Beat film All Night Long, which starred Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough.

* 1951 – Richard Skinner, British radio presenter

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O ' Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.

* Sir Richard McCreery, General, British Army

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

* 1959 – Richard Dodds, British field hockey player

* Douglass is the protagonist of the novel Riversmeet ( Richard Bradbury, Muswell Press, 2007 ), a fictionalized account of his 1845 speaking tour of the British Isles.

* British Screenwriter of the Year ( Richard Curtis )

The original score was composed by British classical composer Richard Rodney Bennett.

Richard Blair worked for many years as an agricultural agent for the British government.