Alan Bennett wrote the screenplay.

The bottles date from 1995 and were made for the museum by Alan Bennett.

In 1992, as a close friend of actresses Jill Bennett and Rachel Roberts, Anderson included a touching episode in his autobiographical BBC film Is That All There Is ?, with a boat trip down the River Thames ( several of their professional colleagues and friends aboard ) to scatter their ashes on the waters while musician Alan Price sang the song " Is That All There Is?

* The Old Crowd, screenplay by Alan Bennett ( LWT, 1979 )

* 1934 – Alan Bennett, English author

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

* Talking Heads ( series ), a BBC television series by Alan Bennett

* May 9 – Alan Bennett, British actor and writer

While studying music and composition there, he also performed with Alan Bennett in the Oxford Revue.

Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller.

John Bassett, Wadham College, Oxford graduate and assistant to Ponsonby, recommended jazz band mate and rising cabaret talent Dudley Moore, who in turn recommended Alan Bennett, who had been a hit at Edinburgh a few years before.

Appropriately, the comedy drama had a sellout run at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London's West End at The Venue, in 2006, in a version starring Kevin Bishop as Moore, Tom Goodman-Hill as Cook, Fergus Craig as Alan Bennett and Colin Hoult as Jonathan Miller.

* Alan Bennett as falsetto-voiced vicar, in " Take a Pew ": " But my brother Esau is an hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

* Bennett, Alan ( 1994 ) Writing Home ISBN 0-571-17388-8

* Alan Bennett: The History Boys

Speculation began about Wiley's identity, with Tom Stoppard, Frank Muir, Alan Bennett and Noël Coward all rumoured.

Much of his work draws on his Leeds background and while he is celebrated for his acute observations of a particular type of northern speech (" It'll take more than Dairy Box to banish memories of Pearl Harbour "), the range and daring of his work is often undervalued – his television play The Old Crowd includes shots of the director and technical crew, while his stage play The Lady in the Van includes two characters named Alan Bennett.

A radio play of the same title was broadcast on 21 February 2009 on BBC Radio 4, with actress Maggie Smith reprising her role of Miss Shepherd and Alan Bennett playing himself.

Alan Bennett also adapted " The Lady in the Van " for the stage.

* Being Alan Bennett ( BBC documentary ), 2009

* Mark Lawson Talks To Alan Bennett ( BBC, extended interview ), 2009

* Alan Bennett At The BBC ( compilation )

In December 2011 Bennett returned to Lawnswood School, nearly 60 years after he left, to unveil the renamed Alan Bennett Library.

Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born 12 April 1939 ) is a prolific English playwright.

James Alan McPherson ( born September 16, 1943 ) is an American short story writer and essayist.

Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, to Marian Georgina ( née Townsend ), a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive.

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman ( born 21 February 1946 ) is an English actor of stage and screen.

* Alan Sugar ( businessman, born in Hackney )

* Alan Bond ( businessman ) ( born 1938 ), Australian businessman

He has two brothers, Robert Alan Novoselic and Dillon Malloy Novoselic, and in 1973, Novoselic's sister Diana was born.

* Alan Williams ( born Alan James Williams, 23 December 1948, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire )-vocals, guitar

According to The Descendants of William Sabin, compiled by Gordon Alan Morris, Thomas J. Prittie, and Dixie Prittie, the first Caucasian child born in the county was Mary Stuart Sabin, daughter of Dr. Warren Sabin, c. 1812.

Alan Shearer OBE, DL ( born 13 August 1970 ) is a retired English footballer.

Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer.

Fry was born in Hampstead, London, on 24 August 1957, the son of Marianne Eve Fry ( née Newman ) and Alan John Fry, who was an English physicist and inventor.

Shepard was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Lieutenant Colonel Alan B. Shepard, Sr. and Renza ( née Emerson ) Shepard.

Alan was born in Dulwich, London, to Alfred Walter Bush ( 1869 – 1935 ), a director of the manufacturing chemists, W. J. Bush & Co., and his wife, Alice Maud Brinsley ( 1870 – 1951 ).

Alan Garner was born in the front room of his grandmother's house in Congleton, Cheshire, on 17 October 1934.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

* Alan Watts, philosopher, born and raised in Chislehurst, moved to the United States in 1938.

* Winston Bazoomies ( Alan Sayag ) of Bad Manners was born and still lives in Stoke Newington.

* Alan Wheatley, who is probably best known for his role as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood in the 1950s, was born in Tolworth.

Richard Alan Garcés Mendoza, Jr. ( born May 18, 1971 in Maracay, Venezuela ) is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball.