Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Fellow actor and friend, Sir Ian McKellen, said that Charleson played Hamlet so well it was as if he had rehearsed the role all his life ; McKellen called it " the perfect Hamlet ".

Sir Ian Murray McKellen,

* 1853 – Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander ( d. 1947 )

Also notable are the 1995 film version starring Sir Ian McKellen, set in a fictional 1930s fascist England, and Looking for Richard, a 1996 documentary film directed by Al Pacino, who plays the title character as well as himself.

In the James Bond novels and short stories by Ian Fleming and others, Assistant Commissioner Sir Ronald Vallance is a recurring fictional character who works for Scotland Yard.

* Ian Ogilvy as Colonel Sir William Howe DeLancey

Characters who underwent these crude lobotomies ( including Sir William Gull played by Ian Holm ), were depicted with shaved heads and in vegetative states.

" Mr. Montagu, Dr. Macnamara, Mr. McCurdy, Mr. Ian Macpherson, Sir A. Mond.

Sir Ian McKellen portrayed Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ( 2001 – 2003 ) directed by Peter Jackson, though Sean Connery was also offered the role.

* Sir Ian Botham

The metaphor of the fourth wall has been used by the actor Sir Ian McKellen with regard to the work of the painter L. S. Lowry:

It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Ian McKellen and Sting in the role of the soldier.

* Sir Ian Whitchurch ( played by John Barron ), Permanent Secretary to the Department of Health and Social Security

* Sir Ian Holm, actor lived in Belitha Villas.

Actor Sir Ian Holm was born at Goodmayes Hospital on 12 September, 1931, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson Holm and James Harvey Cuthbert.

Contemporary residents include the actor Sir Ian McKellen, Matthew Parris, and comedy actress Cleo Rocos, actor Steven Berkoff, comedian Lee Hurst, as well as politician Lord David Owen .< ref >< cite > David Owen biography accessed 28 March 2007 </ ref > Limehouse was also the home of the late film director Sir David Lean.

* Sir Ian Brownlie

* 1931 – Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer

One of his first assignments is to spy on British corporate raider Sir Lawrence Wildman ( Terence Stamp ) and discern the Brit's next move.

* Terence Stamp as Sir Lawrence Wildman

Separate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays written by Sir Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, a seaside town on the south coast of England.

* Sir Terence Rattigan CBE

) ( 1962 ), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role ; Hot Enough for June, ( aka " Agent 8¾ ") ( 1964 ), a James Bond-type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey ; The Fixer ( 1968 ), based on Bernard Malamud's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian ( 1968 ), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud, and Lilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell ; Oh!

* Sir Terence Rattigan ( 1911 – 1979 ), playwright

* Terence Wilton as Sir Richard Vernon

Other notable alumni include writers ( including Lord Byron, Sir Terence Rattigan and Richard Curtis ), numerous aristocrats ( including the current richest British subject, the Duke of Westminster and the prominent reformist Lord Shaftesbury ) and business people ( including DeBeers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer, Pret a Manger founder Julian Metcalfe ) and the big game hunter and artist General Douglas Hamilton, as well as Island Records founder Chris Blackwell.

Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE, DL ( born 3 August 1938 ), also known as Terry Wogan, is an Irish radio and television broadcaster who holds dual Irish and British citizenship.

Augustus Onslow Manby " Gussie " Gibbes ( 1827-1896 ) had purchased Yarralumla sheep station and its homestead from his brother-in-law, ( Sir ) Terence Aubrey Murray, on 1 July 1859 for approximately ₤ 20, 000.

Sir Terry Frost RA ( born Terence Ernest Manitou Frost ) ( 13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003 ) was an English artist noted for his abstracts.

* Terence Alexander as Sir Greville McDonald ( Series 2 – 4 )

In 1996, Sir Terence Conran commissioned Vettriano to create a series of paintings for his new Bluebird Club in London.

The next Friday, Bundle and Jimmy arrive at Wyvern Abbey and are introduced to the other guests including the Cootes, Sir Stanley Digby, Terence O ' Rourke and the beautiful Hungarian Countess Radzky.

Ocean Terminal in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland is a large village and shopping centre, designed by Sir Terence Conran.

Irish-born Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, MLC, owned the Yarralumla estate ( now the site of Australia's Government House ) from 1837 until 1859.

* Sir Terence O ' Connor ( 19 March 1936-7 May 1940 ) ( died in office )

* Clark, Sir Terence, From Underground to Overseas: The Story of Petroleum Development Oman, Stacey International 2007, ISBN 978-1-905299-46-1.

His father, Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, who died in 1873, had been a Member of the New South Wales Parliament ; Gilbert's mother, Agnes Ann Murray ( née Edwards ), ran a girls ' school in Sydney for a few years.

Gilbert's father was Sir Terence Aubrey Murray and his brother Sir Hubert Murray.

But it was considered inappropriate by Sir John Ellerman ( Second Baronet ), English shipowner, natural historian and philanthropist, and Terence Morrison-Scott, a British zoologist and was replaced by Oryx tao in 1827.