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.

Born in Preston, Lancashire, his father Charles was a doctor who had converted to Roman Catholicism, following his brother Edward Healy Thompson, a friend of Cardinal Manning.

Born in Coburg, Melbourne, Australia, and attended Preston Technical School and St Joseph's College Melbourne.

Born in 1805 at Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, Virginia, Preston entered Hampden-Sydney College in 1821, where he was active in literary and forensic activities.

Born in Bahrain, Al Tajir was educated at Preston Grammar School in Lancashire.

Born in Preston, Iowa, Fred Schule, from University of Michigan, was an AAU Champion in hurdles in 1903.

Born in Leicester, England Robinson started his career with Preston North End in the second division, then moved in August 1979 to Malcolm Allison's Manchester City, the fee of £ 750, 000 being widely regarded as extravagant for a young player with no top flight experience.

Born in Preston, Ontario, he received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964.

Born in Seattle, Washington, to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, the former Therese Preston, McCarthy was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died in the great flu epidemic of 1918.

She did, however, return for the season finale and performed " With You I'm Born Again " with Billy Preston.

Born near London, Ontario, Canada, Preston was appointed Midshipman from the state of Illinois on 4 October 1858.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Francis Preston, a well-to-do businessman, and Sarah Buchanan Campbell, daughter of Gen. William Campbell.

Born in Preston, Lancashire, Barron came up through Ipswich Town's academy system to make 17 senior appearances while at Portman Road, his debut coming against Brentford in the League Cup in August 2004.

Born in Preston, Lancashire, Walsh won the 1984-85 Freight Rover Trophy with Wigan before following Bryan Hamilton to Leicester for £ 100, 000, where he soon established himself as a non-nonsense central defender.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge was a member of the political active and social elite Desha family and Breckinridge family.

* With You, I'm Born Again ( Billy Preston and Syreeta ), a top five single

After a spell touring th U. S. A. he returned to the U. K and began an acting career appearing in Heartbeat, Casualty, Last of the Summer Wine, Preston Front, two series of Harbour Lights ( as George Blade ), Born and Bred, Sensitive Skin and My Family.

Born into a life of luxury, he was raised next door to the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Born in Port Talbot, Wales, he initially worked as a teacher in both London and Cardiff.

Born in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland, the son of a policeman, he was educated at Dunoon Grammar School and studied Economics at the Queen's College, Dundee.

Born at Port Royal in Jamaica, he crossed over to England and in 1819 entered the Record Office in the Tower of London.

Born in Port Ryerse, Ontario, he studied history and political science at the University of Toronto's Victoria College before moving west to Calgary to become a lawyer.

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Stokely Carmichael moved to Harlem, New York City in 1952 at age eleven to rejoin his parents, who had left him with his grandmother and two aunts to immigrate when he was two.

Born in Port of Spain, Hazel was taken at the age of four by her mother to New York.

Born the son of a seaman at Port Glasgow, Scotland, he arrived in Sydney ( at that time the principal city of the British colony of New South Wales ) in 1855.

Born in Shanghai, Soong arrived in the United States at the Port of San Francisco, CA on June 30, 1904 aboard the SS Korea at the age of 14 to begin her education at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.

Born in Trinidad, then a British Crown colony, James attended Queen's Royal College, a high school in Port of Spain.

Born in either Port Elizabeth or Port Natal in 1834, he spent his childhood in Port Natal / Durban.

Born and raised on Nova Scotia's Port Hood Island, he grew up speaking both English and Gaelic.

Born in 1941, Putnam grew up in Port Clinton, Ohio where he participated in a competitive bowling league as a teenager.

Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Rick Hansen grew up in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

Born Millicent Lilian Entwistle in Port Talbot, Wales to English parents, Robert Symes and Emily ( née Stevenson ) Entwistle, she spent her early life in West Kensington, London.

Born in Port Elizabeth, Ntshona worked alongside fellow South African Athol Fugard on several occasions and played a minor role in Richard Attenborough's acclaimed film Gandhi.

Born in Creswells Ferry in what is today known as Port Deposit, Maryland, Creswell attended a local academy before moving on to Dickinson College where he graduated in 1848.

Born in the Presidio District of San Francisco, California, he ran away from home while still in grammar school to live with his brother in Port Townsend, Washington.

Born in Port Arthur, Texas, she established herself domestically with wins at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1995 and 1997.

Born at Heliopolis in Cairo, Aboul Gheit was originally from the city of Port Saeed.

Born at Gore Port Finea County Westmeath, he was educated at Portarlington School and Trinity College, Dublin before being called to the bar in 1855.

Born Kathleen Morrison on August 19, 1899 ( according to the bulk of the official records ; the date which she insisted was correct in her autobiography Silent Star, was 1902 ) in Port Huron, Michigan, Miss Moore was the eldest child of Charles R. and Agnes Morrison.

Born in Berri, South Australia, Ebert debuted for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) as an 18 year old in 1968 and immediately made an impression, winning the club leading goalkicking in his debut season.