It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

* 1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner ( d. 1945 )

* February 21 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner ( b. 1902 )

* January 16 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner ( d. 1945 )

Wells was also inducted alongside Eric Liddell and Wyndham Halswelle ( two other former Scottish Athletic Olympic Champions ) into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

* British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won the 100 m and 400 m events, respectively.

The London Missionary Society was effectively the world mission arm of British Congregationalists – it sponsored missionaries including Eric Liddell and David Livingstone.

The 100m race and the 400m race which Eric Liddell won, are depicted in the movie Chariots of Fire, which was released in 1981-five years before Scholz's death at the age of 89.

* Eric Liddell, athlete and rugby internationalist, winner of the 400 metres at the 1924 Olympic Games ; missionary to China ; portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire

Eric Liddell a famous Olympian and Missionary was involved with this group.

He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

Charleson as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire

In 1979, producer David Puttnam and director Hugh Hudson had done months of fruitless searching for the perfect actor to play the lead of the evangelical Scot Eric Liddell in their upcoming inspirational film about the Olympics.

This mutual affinity led to Charleson's best-known film role and success — as the athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ).

In 2011 / 12 the Gerald Moore Art Gallery has been built at the back of the school near the Eric Liddell Sports Centre.

* Olympic athlete Eric Liddell, after whom the sports hall is named

The Eric Liddell Centre, a local charity, named after the 1926 Olympic 400m gold medalist athlete, immmortalised in the 1981 Oscar Award-wining film " Chariots of Fire " is situated in Bruntsfield.

* Eric Liddell Centre, a local charity.

She is the author of Life of Pee: The Story of How Urine Got Everywhere She has also wrote a book about the Scottish runner Eric Liddell who refused to run on the Sabbeth day due to his Christian beliefs.

The Eric Liddell Centre, a local charity, named after the 1924 Olympic 400m gold medalist athlete, Eric Liddell, immmortalised in the 1981 Oscar Award-wining film " Chariots of Fire " is situated in Morningside in the former North Morningside Parish Church at Holy Corner.

The former North Morningside Parish church was converted for community use in 1980 and is now called the Eric Liddell Centre after the Olympic athlete who lived locally and attended Morningside United Church.

Bubbles created sleeves for bands including The Damned, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and Wreckless Eric.

Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.

It was directed by Clifford Williams with Alan Webb or Eric Porter as Pius XII, Alec McCowen as Father Fontana and Ian Richardson.

Eric Porter played Becket and Christopher Plummer the King, with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Peter Jeffrey, Diana Rigg, Ian Holm and Roy Dotrice in the cast.

The 1988 London National Theatre production, directed by Howard Davies, starred Ian Charleson, Lindsay Duncan, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, and Eric Porter.

These singer-songwriters included Bob Dylan, Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Jackson Browne, John Prine, Grace Slick, Dave Mason, Jim Croce, Fred Neil, Roger McGuinn, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Donovan, Stephen Stills, Randy Newman, Steve Goodman, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Brady, Jesse Winchester, Johnny Tillotson, Sylvia Tyson, Ian Tyson, Nick Drake, Tim Hardin, Laura Nyro, Carly Simon, John Fogerty, Eric Andersen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Armatrading, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Harry Chapin, James Taylor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lou Reed, Gram Parsons, Nick Gravenites, Rick Nelson, Richard Fariña, Tuli Kupferberg Mark Spoelstra, Don Mclean, Patrick Sky, Jimmy Buffett, Mickey Newbury, Janis Ian, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Van Ronk, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, and Frank Zappa.

While the members of rock bands of the era were not technically singer-songwriters as solo acts, many were singer-songwriters who created songs with other band members including Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, Elton John ( with Bernie Taupin ), Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Robbie Robertson, Ian Anderson, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, and Peter Frampton ; Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and many others like Eric Clapton found success as singer-songwriters in their later careers.

* Eric Gregory Award: Alan Jenkins, Simon Rae, Marion Lomax, Philip Gross, Kathleen Jamie, Mark Abley, Roger Crowley, Ian Gregson

* Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey

* Eric Gregory Award: Ian Hamilton, Stewart Conn, Peter Griffith, David Wevill

The camera would then pull back and show the artist doing some low-status job such as newspaper seller ( Ian Carmichael ), streetwalker ( Fenella Fielding ), dustman ( Eric Porter ), bus conductor ( Andre Previn ), or some other ill-paid employment.

Novelists closely associated with the genre include Eric Ambler, Ted Bell, Dan Brown, Lincoln Child, Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Michael Crichton, Nelson DeMille, Ian Fleming, Ken Follett, Frederick Forsyth, Graham Greene, John Grisham, Robert Ludlum, Alistair MacLean, Andy McNab, David Morrell, James Phelan, Douglas Preston, and Matthew Reilly.

In 1985 he made a brief appearance as a member of The Singing Rebel's band ( which also featured Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr ) in the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais scripted film * Water ( 1985 )( Handmade Films ).

The show was revamped and The Gate was transformed into a men's magazine by new owner, Ian Maxtone-Graham ( Eric Idle ) and relocated from its trendy uptown offices overlooking the bay, to a dingy former warehouse in Chinatown.

Acting clients include Emmy Award winners Ellen DeGeneres, Edie Falco, Marg Helgenberger, Alfre Woodard, and Alan Alda, and television's most recognizable talent, including Jon Hamm, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tony Shalhoub, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Dillon, Dule Hill, Lauren Graham, Jeff Garlin, Ian Somerhalder, Eric Mabius, Jada Pinkett Smith, Paul Wesley, Taye Diggs, and the four of the adult leads of the ABC hit series, Modern Family-Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ed O ' Neill, Eric Stonestreet and one of the child actor leads Ariel Winter.

These poets included Roy Fisher, Gael Turnbull, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bob Cobbing, Jeff Nuttall, Tom Raworth, Michael Horovitz, Eric Mottram, Peter Finch, Edwin Morgan, Jim Burns, Elaine Feinstein, Lee Harwood and Christopher Logue.

Among his contemporaries at Eton were Eric Blair ( the writer George Orwell ), Cyril Connolly, Robert Byron, Alec Douglas-Home, Ian Fleming, Brian Howard, Oliver Messel, Anthony Powell, Henry Yorke ( the novelist Henry Green ).

It was founded as the National Spastics Society on 9 October 1951 by Ian Dawson-Shepherd, Eric Hodgson, Alex Moira and a social worker, Jean Garwood, with the aim of improving and expanding services for people with cerebral palsy.

Other, more contemporary UK authors of this kind include Tom Sharpe, Kingsley Amis, Terry Pratchett, Richard Gordon, Rob Grant, Ian Ross, Douglas Adams, Evelyn Waugh, Nick Hornby, Eric Sykes, Leslie Thomas, Stephen Fry, Richard Asplin, Mike Harding, Joseph Connolly, and Ben Elton.

Guest characters included Piper the elderly cleaning man, Eric the Werewolf ( Ian Sears ); an additional security guard who was a gorilla ; and Mary the Christmas Allegory ( Lia Williams ), who gave birth to consumer products.

Players for the ' Rest of the World included Jens Lehmann, Henrik Larsson, Zinedine Zidane, Ryan Giggs, Luís Figo and Sami Hyypiä, managed and coached by Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush & Eric Harrison.

* Ian McShane – Sir Eric Russell ( 1 )