* 2003 – David Greene, British director ( b. 1921 )

The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.

However, the first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.

* 1921 – David Greene, British director ( d. 2003 )

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

In short story, The Basement Room ( 1935 ), by Graham Greene, the ( sympathetic ) servant character, Baines, tells the admiring boy, son of his employer, of his African British colony service, " You wouldn't believe it now, but I've had forty niggers under me, doing what I told them to ".

The combined armies of George Washington and Nathanael Greene, with the help of the French Army and Navy, defeated the British in the Battle of Yorktown during October 1781.

* Alice Greene, British olympic tennis player

* Ben Greene, British pacifist

* Conyngham Greene ( 1854 – 1934 ), British diplomat, minister to Switzerland, Romania and Denmark and ambassador to Japan

* Hugh Greene, British journalist and television executive

* Laura Greene, British television presenter

* Patricia Greene, British actress

* Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene, British judge

In November 1776, a farmer from Closter witnessed British troops landing at Closter Dock on the Hudson River and rode to Fort Lee to warn Continental Army General Nathaniel Greene, allowing the Americans the opportunity to retreat to Hackensack at New Bridge Landing ahead of the British along with the remnants of General George Washington's troops after the failed Battle of Fort Washington.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.

The Battle of Camden, the worst American defeat of the Revolution, was fought on August 16, 1780 in Camden, and the Battle of Hobkirk Hill was fought between around 1, 400 American troops led by General Nathanael Greene and 950 British soldiers led by Lord Francis Rawdon on April 25, 1781.

He assisted General Nathanael Greene in reconnaissance of British positions in New Jersey ; with 300 soldiers, he defeated a numerically superior Hessian force in Gloucester, on 24 November 1777.

Hoylet Framingham commanded eight British ( RHA: Ross, Bull, Macdonald ; RA: Lawson, Gardiner, Greene, Douglas, May ) and one Portuguese ( Arriaga ) six-gun artillery batteries.

At this point, slightly after 4 pm, Washington and Greene arrived with reinforcements to try to hold off the British, who now occupied Meeting House Hill.

Further north, Greene sent Brigadier General George Weedon's troops to cover the road just outside the town of Dilworth to hold off the British long enough for the rest of the Continental Army to retreat.

A shift in focus to the southern American states in 1778 resulted in a string of victories for the British, but General Nathanael Greene engaged in guerrilla warfare and prevented them from making strategic headway.

Some post-attack period novels are about intelligence officers and the profession of intelligence, and some are by insiders ( as were W. Somerset Maughum and Graham Greene for their generations ).

* Nathaniel Greene Foster ( 1809 – 1869 ), American politician, lawyer, and military officer

Its county seat is Xenia, and it was named for General Nathanael Greene, an officer in the Revolutionary War.

Greene Casey Stotts USA, 1821-1876 — American military officer and Missouri state legislator

In the sketch, Jacques Cartier ( Don Ferguson ) has to go through customs, whose officer is played by Greene.

* Graham Greene author, former SIS officer

In 1973, after the cancellation of Bonanza following a 14-year run, Greene joined Ben Murphy in the ABC crime drama, Griff, about a Los Angeles, California, police officer, Wade " Griff " Griffin, who retires to become a private detective.

When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible ; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer.

Major General Nathanael Greene, standing next to George Washington as the most able and trusted Colonial officer of the Revolution, was given command of the southern army and started recruiting additional troops.

The executive officer, Lieutenant Samuel Dana Greene, took over, and Monitor returned to the fight.

The board consisted of Major Generals Nathanael Greene ( the presiding officer ), Lord Stirling, Arthur St. Clair, Lafayette, Robert Howe, Steuben, Brigadier Generals Samuel H. Parsons, James Clinton, Henry Knox, John Glover, John Paterson, Edward Hand, Jedediah Huntington, John Stark, and Judge-Advocate-General John Laurance.

He relinquished command to his first officer, Samuel D. Greene.

Greene was disgruntled that Geary, with only a few days seniority over him, was selected for the post ; Geary had been wounded at Cedar Mountain and his combat record was not as good, but his political connections and a sentiment that a wounded officer should not be set back in his career unnecessarily, gave him the nod.

Francis Vinton Greene ( 1850 – 1921 ) was a United States Army officer who fought in the Spanish-American War.

His older brother, Samuel Dana Greene, was the executive officer of the USS Monitor during the Battle of Hampton Roads.

Greene often plays villains such as in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Training Day ( as a corrupt narcotics officer ) and martial arts / crime film Fist of the Warrior ( opposite Ho-Sung Pak, Roger Guenveur Smith and Sherilyn Fenn ).

Samuel Dana Greene ( 11 February 1839 – 11 December 1884 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

He served as executive officer on the USS Monitor in the engagements on the James River, Virginia, April to May 1862, and when the ship foundered in a gale on November 30 – December 1, 1862, which Greene survived after being pulled into a lifeboat by the ship's surgeon, Dr. Grenville M. Weeks.

Roger Sherman Greene ( December 14, 1840 – February, 17, 1930 ) was a United States lawyer, judge, politician and military officer.

On his return to America in 1934, Greene also returned to his secretaryship of the Harvard Corporation and became, for the remainder of his life, a trustee and officer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Gardner Museum in Fenway Court, the New England Conservatory of Music, the American Academy in Rome, the Brookings Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the General Education Board ( only until 1939 ).