* 1948 – Lillian Board, British track and field athlete ( d. 1970 )

* 1995 – Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher ( b. 1915 )

* Joseph M. Smith, British Olympic athlete

* 1942 – Ann Packer, British athlete

* 1889 – Albert Hill, British athlete ( d. 1969 )

* 1958 – Kriss Akabusi, British athlete and television presenter

* 1973 – Nemone, British athlete and broadcaster

* 15-Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete.

* March 24 – Liz McColgan, British long-distance runner athlete

* January 8 – Albert Hill, British athlete ( b. 1889 )

** Lillian Board, British Olympic athlete ( d. 1970 )

* March 23 – Sir Roger Bannister, British athlete

* April 2 – Linford Christie, British athlete

* September 29 – Sebastian Coe, British athlete, co-ordinator of the London 2012 Olympic Games

** Jonathan Edwards, British athlete

* March 24 – Albert Hill, British athlete ( d. 1969 )

** Darren Campbell, British athlete

* December 17 – Paula Radcliffe, British athlete

* Jonathan Edwards ( athlete ) ( born 1966 ), British triple jumper, world record holder and TV presenter

Kumaritashvili was the fourth athlete to die while in preparation for a Winter Olympics competition, following speed skier Nicolas Bochatay, 27, who died while preparing for the Albertville 1992 games, British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski and skier Ross Milne, 19, who both died in the run up to the Innsbruck 1964 games.

* Garry Cook ( born 10 January 1958 ) is a former British athlete, who competed mainly in the 800 metres with a best time of 1: 44. 55.

* Kathy Smallwood-Cook ( born 1960 ), former British sprint athlete

* David Bedford ( athlete ), a British athlete

Allan Wipper Wells ( born 3 May 1952 ) is a former Scottish and British multi title winning athlete.

* 1759 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1834 )

* March 11 – John Wyndham, British author ( b. 1903 )

* July 10 – John Wyndham, British author ( d. 1969 )

* May 30 – Wyndham Halswelle, British runner ( d. 1915 )

* August 23 – Wyndham Standing, British actor of stage & film ( d. 1963 )

* August 21 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman ( b. 1710 )

* Charles Wyndham Murray ( 1844 – 1928 ), British Army officer and politician

British history might have been very different had his wife, Lady ( Crystabella ) Wyndham, been a little more accurate with a musket shot that missed Cromwell but killed his aide de camp.

Modern British artists represented in the collection include: Paul Nash, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Eric Gill, Stanley Spencer, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Lucian Freud and David Hockney.

The British runner, Wyndham Halswelle, won by running around the track on his own, because three of the four original runners had been American, the only walkover in Olympic history.

* July 10-John Wyndham, British writer ( died 1969 )

* March 11 – John Wyndham, British author

In the course of their pursuit of economic independence, Fianna Fáil also provoked what is known as the Anglo-Irish Trade War with Britain in 1933, by refusing to continue paying back " Land Annuities "-money that Irish farmers had borrowed from the British government since the 1903 Wyndham Act in order to buy their own land.

William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville PC, PC ( Ire ) ( 25 October 1759 – 12 January 1834 ) was a British Whig statesman.

Nevinson, who joined the movement: others aligned themselves instead to its British equivalent, Vorticism, led by Wyndham Lewis.

* Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal ( 1885 – 1949 ), British businessman and public servant

In 1905 his success in leading the Howard & Wyndham pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, for which he wrote I Love a Lassie, made him a national British star, and he obtained contracts with Sir Edward Moss and others.

* A pen name of the British novelist John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 1903 – 1969 )

Wyndham Halswelle ( 30 May 1882 – 31 March 1915 ) was a British athlete.

* Wyndham *-captured British Indiaman

George Wyndham PC ( 29 August 1863 – 8 June 1913 ) was a British Conservative politician, man of letters, noted for his elegance, and one of The Souls.

Sir Eric Wyndham White KCMG ( 1913 – 1980 ) was a British administrator and economist.

Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy ( 13 December 1913 – 31 October 1994 ), was a British art historian and museum director.

During the condominium period of joint British-Egyptian rule, the area was administered by British district officers ; because of annual flooding and difficult travelling conditions, the area became part of what was known colloquially in the British Sudan Service as " The Bog ", with British District Officers known as " Bog Barons " ( Wyndham, 1937 ).