Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

Born in Cölln on the Spree, George William was the son of John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg and Anna of Prussia.

Born John Smith Hurt in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age nine.

The situation changed rapidly in the years 1925 – 1930, when working mathematical foundations were found through the groundbreaking work of Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Pascual Jordan, and the foundational work of John von Neumann, Hermann Weyl and Paul Dirac, and it became possible to unify several different approaches in terms of a fresh set of ideas.

The foundations of quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the 20th century by Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Louis de Broglie, Arthur Compton, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, John von Neumann, Paul Dirac, Enrico Fermi, Wolfgang Pauli, David Hilbert, Wilhelm Wien, Satyendra Nath Bose, Arnold Sommerfeld and others.

The Sontarans also feature in the Kroton solo strip Unnatural Born Killers ( DWM # 277 ) and the Tenth Doctor's comic strip debut The Betrothal of Sontar ( DWM # 365 -# 368 ), by John Tomlinson and Nick Abadzis, where a Sontaran mining rig on the ice planet Serac comes under attack by a mysterious force.

Born in Milk Street in London on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More, a successful lawyer, and his wife Agnes ( née Graunger ).

Born in Berlin, Hempel attended the University of Göttingen and the University of Heidelberg, then returned to Berlin, where he was taught by influential physicists Hans Reichenbach and Max Planck, and logistics with mathematician John von Neumann.

Born in 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.

It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson, that the Templars went underground among masons in England and later developed into Freemasons.

The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry.

* John Bond ( Born 1939 ), Irish American Business man, proprietor of " BOND45 " restaurant, managing director of " Bond NYC " Properties

Born in 1771 in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents, John Lingard entered the English College at Douai, France, to commence training for the Catholic priesthood.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

* John J. Robinson ( 1990 ), Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, ISBN 0-87131-602-1 ; Chapters 1 – 5 concern the Peasants ' Revolt.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the sixth child and third son of John Stairs and Mary Morrow, he attended school at Fort Massey Academy in Halifax, Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, Student # 52

Born as Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg to English parents, Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer and scion of the Liverpool Rathbone family, and Anna Barbara ( née George ), a violinist, he had two older half-brothers, Harold and Horace, as well as two younger siblings, Beatrice and John.

* Smyly, John, and Carolyn Smyly ( 1973 ) Those Born at Koona: The Totem Poles of the Haida Village Skedans, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Born in Constantinople, John Kantakouzenos was the son of a Michael Kantakouzenos, governor of the Morea.

Born in Michigan, he has been compared with John Willie and described as the " Rembrandt of bondage art ".

* John Henry ( Oshawa politician ) ( Born 1960 ), elected 2010, is the present mayor of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

* John Henry ( footballer ) ( Born 1971 ), Scottish footballer

* Johnny Mack Brown ( September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974 ) Born and raised in Dothan Alabama, was an All-American college football player and film actor originally billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career.

Matthew Gerard Maiellaro ( Born August 17, 1966 ) is the co-creator and writer of the cult television animated Adult Swim shows, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Perfect Hair Forever, and creator of 12 Oz.

Born in Utrecht, out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar.

* Gerry Standing ( Ex-Detective Sergeant ) ( Dennis Waterman ) ( 2003 –): Born Gerard Lestade, the son of Smithfield Market butcher Norman Lestade, Gerry changed his name as he did not get along with his father.

Born as Gerard Kenneth Tierney, he was the younger brother of fellow actor Lawrence Tierney.

Born the son of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, a noted geologist, his grandfather was Admiral WH Smyth.

Born in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Mackey was the only son and the eldest of four children of Stanislaus Mackey, a baker, and his wife Bridget Catherine Smyth Mackey.

Born Mary Patricia Leneghan () in Ardoyne, north Belfast, McAleese was the eldest of nine children.

Born in Belfast, she was formerly a journalist with broadcaster, RTÉ, and at the time of her nomination, she was Pro-Vice Chancellor of Queens University Belfast.

Born in Belfast in 1966, Paisley is the youngest child of the Reverend Ian Paisley and his wife Eileen Paisley.

Born at 17 Euston Square, London, he was the son of Frederick Harrison ( 1799-1881 ), a stockbroker and his wife Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a Belfast granite merchant.

Born in Belfast, she studied at Belfast Royal Academy.

Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Best began his club career in England with Manchester United, who had spotted his talent at the age of 15.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he was educated at Monkton Combe School in England and Oakwood Collegiate in Toronto.

Born in Belfast, Ireland, McCullough was a separatist nationalist from an early age.

Born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, he moved to Belfast with his family in 1925, attending the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

Born in 1896, MacDermott was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, and the Queen's University of Belfast.

Born in Belfast to Charles Hamilton ( d. 1759 ), a Scottish merchant, and his wife Katherine Mackay ( d. 1767 ), she lived most of her life in Scotland, moving there in 1762 to live with a Mrs Marshall, her paternal aunt, near Stirling and spending much of her later life in Edinburgh.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Weir was educated at the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, McCafferty held several jobs, including tiling and working in an abattoir, before becoming a full-time writer.

Born in Belfast, Ireland in 1871, he was educated at the Collegiate School, Ballymena.

Born in Belfast, he was the youngest son of a Protestant family of twelve, six of whom survived.

Born in Belfast, Maine, Smith was appointed midshipman on 19 October 1841.

Born in County Donegal, Egan studied in Belfast and Portsmouth and at the Slade School of Art in London and lives and works in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland.

Born in Hillsborough, County Down, he was educated at Friends School Lisburn and the Queen's University of Belfast, graduating in medicine in 1939.

Born in Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and brought up in Boardmills, County Down, Blackshaw attended Methodist College Belfast and studied at Belfast College of Art ( 1948 – 1951 ).