* " Born to Rock " guitar exhibit at Harrods, London, February 2007, featuring the 1931 Rickenbacker " Frying Pan ".

Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age ; he attended school in London and Margate.

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 London England, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated.

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden ( 1871 – 1951 ) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of a London school.

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.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of London where he achieved an MA degree in 1912.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

Born in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney, London, Robinson attended the independent Woodford Green Preparatory School followed by Wanstead High School in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge.

Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son and second child of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm ( 1810 – 1892 ), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant.

Born into a working-class family in Ponders End, Middlesex, Tebbit went to Edmonton County School, an academically selective state school in north London.

Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz ; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher.

Born in London on 14 April 1889, Arnold J. Toynbee was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in London, Anthony attended Harrow School as a free day pupil for three years from the age of seven because his father's farm, acquired for that reason, lay in that neighbourhood.

Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, he was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist, and educational reformer.

Born in London to a headmistress and a travelling salesman, she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927, at the age of 18.

Born in London, Chamberlain made his career in Birmingham, first as a manufacturer of screws and then as a notable Mayor of the city.

Born in Toronto, Kernighan attended the University of Toronto between 1960 and 1964, earning his Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics.

Born in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe.

Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953, and he received a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics ( Computer Science ) from Harvard University in 1956.

Born in Paris, Cesbron attended what is now known as Lycée Condorcet.

Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly centre of humanism.

Born Jeffry Ross Hyman to parents Charlotte ( née Mandell ) and Noel Hyman, they lived in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, where Jeffry and his future Ramones bandmates attended Forest Hills High School.

Born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, he attended Bristol Grammar School.

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Milford grew up in Winnetka, Illinois where he attended New Trier High School.

Born and raised in Iran, Saidi went to the United States in 1931 and attended college there.

Born in Focşani to a Jewish Romanian family adhering to the Chabad Hasidic branch, he attended yeshivas in Eastern Europe.

Born in Portland, Maine, Reed attended public school, including Portland High School, before graduating from Bowdoin College in 1860.

Born in Wellington, Shropshire, England, he attended Edinburgh Medical School from 1762 to 1766.

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 Chicago, with Jewish origins, he attended schools in New York and later graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in England.

Born at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, he attended school in Philadelphia with future naval heroes Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart.

Born in New York City, Demme grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School.

Born and raised in Chicago's South Side, Margulis, along with her three siblings, attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

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 in Jefferson City, Missouri, Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas, graduating from Great Bend High School.

Born in Cincinnati, he attended the University of Michigan, graduated from Cornell University ( 1880 ), and did post-graduate work at Boston Institute of Technology.

Born in Miami, Florida, Allen attended and graduated from high school in Gainesville, Texas, in 1942.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, he was educated at Heatherdown Preparatory School, Harrow and Harvard, where he received his BA degree.