Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Neusner was educated at Harvard University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( where he received rabbinic ordination ), the University of Oxford, and Columbia University.

Born in Colombo, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) to British parents, he received his Bachelor's degree in Classics from the University of Oxford ( Merton College ) in 1956.

Born in Dorset, he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.

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 Broadstairs, Kent, Heath studied at Oxford and served in the Second World War.

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 1560, Thomas Harriot entered Raleigh's employment in the early 1580s, after graduating from Oxford University.

Born in Sydney, New South Wales into a middle-class family of English descent, Childe studied at the University of Sydney before moving to England where he studied at the University of Oxford.

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

Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue.

Born in Canterbury, England to Agnes Sealy Vidal and Colonel Frederic Gosset, Gosset attended Winchester College before reading chemistry and mathematics at New College, Oxford.

Born Elizabeth Harman and a daughter of eye specialist Nathaniel Bishop Harman, she was educated at the Francis Holland School, and was an undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Born in Bishopsgate, England, she was the founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Born Roger Edward Paul Mellie in 1937 in North Shields, Roger was educated at Fulchester Mixed Infants, Bartlepool Grammar School, and the Oxford Remand Centre.

Born the son of Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory and his wife Emilia Butler, Countess of Ossory, and grandson of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Butler was born in Dublin and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford.

Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford.

Born a member of an Anglo-Indian family, he was educated at Charterhouse and at Merton College, Oxford.

Born to yeoman parents, by favour of the local parson John Hayward, Parsons was sent in 1562 to St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.

Born at Swainswick, near Bath, Somerset, he was educated at Bath Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford.

Born into a middle-class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School before matriculating at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1738.

Born in Oxford, but brought up in Wiltshire, he was educated at Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School in Marlborough.

Born in Chelsea, London, he was educated at Winchester College and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in law.

Born in Ireland, he was educated at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leiden and Oxford and was influenced by the philosophy of John Locke.

Born in a small road named Kentons Lane in Windsor, Osgood was signed by Chelsea as a junior and made his debut as a 17 year-old in the League Cup, scoring both goals in a 2 – 0 win against Workington AFC on 16 December 1964.

Born in Birmingham, Lynne Jones went to the local Bartley Green Girls ' Grammar School ( now the comprehensive Hillcrest School ) on Stonehouse Lane in Woodgate near Woodgate Valley Country Park, off the B4121.

Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at the age of 13 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier.

Born Annette Kelly, she was educated at Romford County Technical School ( became the Marshalls Park Upper School in 1973, then the site was knocked down in 2000 for housing, but Marshalls Park School still exists at the site of the former lower school at Pettits Lane – the former Pettits Secondary School ) on Havering Drive in Romford, the London School of Economics where she received a BSc degree in Economics.

Born in Darton, in Barnsley, Mick Clapham was educated at the Darton Secondary Modern School on Churchfield Lane ( now Darton High School ) and the Barnsley Technical College.

Born as Sylvia Lloyd Fox in Hawarden, north-east Wales, the daughter of Shotton steelworker John Lloyd-Fox and Ruby Hughes, she was educated at the Elfed Secondary Modern School ( now Elfed High School ) on Mill Lane in Buckley, the Coleg Harlech, and at Swansea University, where she was awarded a BSc in Economics in 1968.

Born in Louth, England ( where Michael Foale Lane is named after him ), to English father Colin and American mother Mary, he was raised in Cambridge and educated at The King's School, Canterbury.

Born in the debtor's prison which his father oversaw near Drury Lane, Place was schooled for ten years before being apprenticed to a leather-breeches maker.

Born in Shaftmoor Lane, Acocks Green ( which he would later describe as sounding like the address for " the home of a professional rapist "), Birmingham, Carrott was educated at Acocks Green Primary School and Moseley Grammar School.

Born in Exeter, Devon, Hayman begun his artistic career as a scene painter in London's Drury Lane theatre ( where he also appeared in minor roles ) before establishing a studio in St Martin's Lane.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lane began playing piano with his sisters at the age of eight, but did not play guitar seriously until he was ten.

Born 1820 in Alabama to parents Luke Pryor and Ann Batte Lane.

The band experienced highs and lows in the 2000s with successful tours, a new covers album Under the Influence, lead singer Jani Lane leaving, a brand new Born Again album and a brief reunion of the original line up.

Born on 5 September 1992, Spire FM broadcasts from City Hall Studios in Malthouse Lane, Salisbury, part of the City Hall entertainments venue.

Born in London to an entertainer father, Grimaldi began to perform as a small child, making his stage debut at Drury Lane in 1780.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland at 24 Ropework Lane, Wilson dropped out of school at the age of 8 to help subsidize his family's meagre income by, amongst other things, selling newspapers on the street.

Born Abigail Francine Lassman in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Lane began her career as a child actress on radio, and from there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway.

* Brian Lane ( Ex-Detective Inspector ) ( Alun Armstrong ) ( 2003 – 2013 ): Born in 1946, Brian ' Memory ' Lane is an exceptional detective, possessing a keen attention to detail and a remarkable instant recall memory that allows him to call up obscure details not only regarding cases but also the officers who investigated them.