* Dame Antonia Susan Duffy ( A. S. Byatt ), novelist

His mother was María Antonia Justa Álvarez de Faria y Sánchez, Pimienta y Zarzosa or Antonia Justa Álvarez Serrano de Faria y Sánchez Zarzosa, who became Dame of Honor of the Queen.

* María Antonia de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria ( Badajoz – Genoa, July 25, 1836 ), 21st Noble Dame of the Royal Order of Queen María Luisa, married in Madrid, August 15, 1790 to Miguel de la Grúa Talamanca y Branciforte, marqués de Branciforte, Knight of Santiago and Charles III and Viceroy of New Spain

Michael Denison ( Algernon ), Michael Redgrave ( Jack ), Dame Edith Evans ( Lady Bracknell ), Dorothy Tutin ( Cecily ), Joan Greenwood ( Gwendolen ), and Margaret Rutherford ( Miss Prism ) were among the cast.

* Prof. Dame Margaret Clark, Professor of political science

At the time of her death, Princess Margaret's full style was: Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon, Companion of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

A series of distinguished British actresses have portrayed Queen Mary on stage and screen, including Dame Wendy Hiller ( on the London stage in Crown Matrimonial ), Dame Flora Robson ( in A King's Story ), Dame Peggy Ashcroft ( in Edward & Mrs Simpson ), Phyllis Calvert ( in The Woman He Loved ), Gaye Brown ( in All the King's Men ), Dame Eileen Atkins ( in Bertie and Elizabeth ), Miranda Richardson ( in The Lost Prince ), Margaret Tyzack ( in Wallis & Edward ), and Claire Bloom ( in The King's Speech ).

Countless celebrities have graced its stage, including Boris Christoff, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, John Neville, Magda Olivero, Michael Ponti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Donald Wolfit.

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

It stars Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Walker, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Van Johnson, and Margaret O ' Brien and featuring narration read by James Hilton.

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE ( 15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003 ) was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years.

Other actors associated with British comedy films include Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips.

The block has had a number of notable residents, including comedian Tommy Trinder, actress Dame Margaret Rutherford, model / showgirl Christine Keeler and, currently, comedian and writer Arthur Smith.

* Dame Margaret Rutherford, actress.

Benn is a first cousin once removed of the late actress Dame Margaret Rutherford.

Wales has a tradition for producing notable singing artists including Sir Geraint Evans, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Dame Anne Evans, Dame Margaret Price, Sir Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler, Bryn Terfel, Mary Hopkin, Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Meic Stevens, Dame Shirley Bassey and Duffy.

Following a public fund-raising effort, September 1969 saw the opening by Princess Margaret of a replacement facility, the Thorndike Theatre, named after Dame Sybil Thorndike.

* Dame Margaret Weston DBE FMA ( 1973 – 1986 )

The museum is on the site of a former theatre and art gallery in the centre of Bradford and came about as the result of discussions between Dame Margaret Weston and Bradford city.

* In the field of sports, Rider graduates include: Jack Armstrong, 1990 Major League Baseball ( MLB ) All-Star and World Champion ; Al Downing, 1967 MLB All-Star and Strikout Champion, and 1971 MLB Comeback Player of the Year ; Jeff Kunkel, professional baseball player ; Caroline Lind, MBA, Olympic Gold Medal rower at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ; Digger Phelps, ESPN college basketball analyst and former Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball coach ; Bobby Smith, National Soccer Hall of Fame member ; and Jason Thompson, basketball player in the NBA.

* 1926: Dame Caroline Bridgeman

That feat has now been matched by Sir Peter Openshaw and Dame Caroline Swift.

* Dame Caroline Jane Swift-leading counsel to the Inquiry in the Shipman Inquiry and Justice of the High Court

Under the Fraser Liberal Government ( 1975 – 83 ), the degrees of Knight, Dame and Medal were added to the Order of Australia.

The Victorian council was singularly unimpressed that a rival Australia Day organisation had copied its idea – in 1978 it described its own winner, Dame Rae Roe, as ‘ the real Australian of the Year .’ The impasse was only resolved when the Fraser Government created the National Australia Day Council ( NADC ) in 1979.

Castle Fraser has recently been used as a backdrop for some of the scenes shot in the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Academy Award winning film The Queen, starring Dame Helen Mirren.

In this sense, it is usually not a ' Minister without portfolio ' such as the equivalent position, Lord President of the Council, is in the United Kingdom, although it has sometimes been used thus in the past ( many of the earlier Vice-Presidents, and some of the later ones, such as Dame Enid Lyons in the First Menzies Ministry and Sir James Killen in the Third Fraser Ministry, served in the post without holding another portfolio simultaneously ).

In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1968, Holt's widow Zara Holt was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, becoming Dame Zara Holt DBE.

Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE ( 5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978 ), was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent.

Similarly, actress Judi Dench DBE may be addressed as Dame Judi or Dame Judi Dench, but never Dame Dench.

In 1966, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ).

Rutherford was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1961 and was raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1967.

* Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE

Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, DBE ( 28 March 19027 July 1984 ) was an English actress, renowned as a character actress, who played roles ranging from queens to villainesses.

She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1952, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1960, an award which was partly for her charity work, largely unnoticed, which she carried on until her death, often for small and rather obscure charities rather than the grand ones which would have given her more publicity.

Dame Mary Claire Hogg, DBE ( b. 15 January 1947 )

Dame Judith Olivia " Judi " Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA ( born 9 December 1934 ) is an English film, stage and television actress.

Dench was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1970 and advanced as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) of the order in 1988.

Regarded as one of Britain's great dramatic talents, she was created an Officer of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1971 and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1975.

Dame Dorothy Tutin DBE ( 8 April 19306 August 2001 ) was an English actress of stage, film and television.

Tutin was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1967, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 2000.

* Dame Antoinette Sibley DBE British Prima Ballerina

* Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE ( 10 March 2000 )

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS, the British astrophysicist known for first discovering radio pulsars, is currently a visiting professor.

* Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE – Anglican nurse, physician, writer, and pioneer of the hospice movement

A Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ), she was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to literature.