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.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

Shortly afterwards, several London newspapers pointed out that " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " anagrams into " Monster hoax by Sir Peter S ".

File: Sir Theodore Mayerne drawing by Peter Paul Rubens. jpg | Rubens-Sir Théodore de Mayerne, a portrait drawing ( c. 1630 )

The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff, currently General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen.

* Sir Peter Blake-Yachtsman, buried at nearby Warblington Church.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

The public role adopted by Sir John Kerr was curtailed considerably after the constitutional crisis of 1975 ; Sir William Deane's public statements on political issues produced some hostility towards him ; and some charities disassociated themselves from Peter Hollingworth after the issue of his management of sex abuse cases during his time as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane became a matter of controversy.

* Sir Peter Marychurch ( 1983 – 1989 )

Sir Peter Warren began accumulating land in 1731 and built a frame house capacious enough to hold a sitting of the Assembly when smallpox rendered the city dangerous in 1739.

Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.

As Sir Peter Russell remarks in his biography, " In Henryspeak, conversion and enslavement were interchangeable terms.

Famed psycho-anatomist Ralph Greenson and Sir Peter Scott were good friends.

* 1956: Gigi, by Anita Loos, director Sir Peter Hall, New Theatre, London

* 1961: Ondine, by Jean Giraudoux, director Sir Peter Hall, Aldwych Theatre, London

Scottish politician Nicholas Fairbairn pointed out that the name was an anagram for " Monster hoax by Sir Peter S ".

Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

* Sir Brian John Maynard Tovey ( 1978 – 1983 )

* 1982: Ivanhoe, a television movie starring Anthony Andrews as Ivanhoe, Michael Hordern as his Cedric, Sam Neill as Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert, Olivia Hussey as Rebecca, James Mason as Isaac, Lysette Anthony as Rowena, Julian Glover as King Richard, and David Robb as Robin Hood.

* Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, ( BSc ) cardiologist

* Sir Brian Talboys, ( BA ) former Deputy Prime Minister

* Physiology or Medicine – Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar

* September 7 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general ( d. 1985 )

* Sir Brian Unwin ( UK ), April 1993 – December 1999

The Aubrey – Maturin sea novels of Patrick O ' Brian have frequent appearances by Sir Joseph Blaine, a Royal Navy intelligence official who is also an avid entomologist.

A highly respected theologian, McCaughey was a popular choice after the controversy surrounding after the resignation of Rear Admiral Sir Brian Murray, following disputed accusations that he had improperly accepted free air travel.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

O ' Brian also wrote detailed biographies of Sir Joseph Banks, an English naturalist who took part in Cook's first voyage ( and who appears briefly in O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series ), and Pablo Picasso.

O ' Brian has his chief of British Naval Intelligence, Sir Joseph Blaine, tell Stephen Maturin that " she was first and foremost an intelligence agent.

Other artists who performed on the single included Boy George, Steve Winwood, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Sir Cliff Richard, Bill Wyman, America, Kenney Jones, Chicago, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, Russell Watson and Davy Spillane.

Fifteen former All Blacks have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame ; Sir Fred Allen, Don Clarke, Sean Fitzpatrick, Grant Fox, Dave Gallaher, Michael Jones, Ian Kirkpatrick, Sir John Kirwan, Sir Brian Lochore, Jonah Lomu, Sir Colin Meads, Graham Mourie, George Nepia and Wilson Whineray.

The 1987 World Cup champions were coached by Sir Brian Lochore who had represented New Zealand in 25 Tests between 1964 and 1971, including 17 as captain.

In 1517, Sir Brian Tuke was appointed by King Henry VIII as " Master of the King's Post ".

Various Prime Ministers such as Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Robert Borden, John Diefenbaker, and Pierre Trudeau have attempted to reasonably distance Canada from the United States to focus on self-sufficiency while maintaining good relations, while other Prime Ministers such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St. Laurent, and Brian Mulroney attempted to integrate with the Americans on an economic level and strived for close political relations hoping to enlarge markets.

Such was the nature of Burnet ’ s achievement that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960 with Sir Peter Medawar for the discovery of immunological tolerance.

Signed by over thirty of the leading scientists of the day — including Sir Julian Huxley, Sir Frank Fraser Darling, Sir Peter Medawar, Sir Peter Scott, and C. H. Waddington — Goldsmith and his fellow editor Robert Allen made headlines in January 1972 with A Blueprint for Survival.

In 1962, Nobel Prize winner Sir Peter Medawar became director and, consistent with his research interests, established NIMR as a major centre for immunological research.

Following an illness, Medawar retired as director in 1971 to be replaced by Sir Arnold Burgen.

* 3 June – 18 October 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS ( 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 ) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912 ) was a Dutch born, British painter.

* Arthur Eddington OM ( Sir ) FRS: cremated

* James Frazer OM, FRS, FBA ( Sir )

* Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM, FRS, ( Sir )

* Sir Richard Jebb OM, FBA ( Sir )

* Sir Ronald Syme, ( MA ) classicist historian, OM recipient

* November 3 – Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, Austrian-born art historian ( b. 1909 )

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

* Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE inventor of the jet engine

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (), OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA ( 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 ) was a British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM ( 9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960 ) was an English architect known for his work on such structures as Liverpool Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge and Battersea Power Station and designing the iconic red telephone box.

* Sir Cyril Hinshelwood OM PRS

Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA ( 11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989 ) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.

Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI.

* 1918 Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI.

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, PRS ( 22 November 191730 May 2012 ) was a Nobel Prize-winning English physiologist and biophysicist.

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE ( 2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998 ) was an English composer.

Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, CBE, FBA ( 6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997 ) was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, thought by many to be the dominant scholar of his generation.

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000 ) was an English actor, director, and producer.

Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, PC, JP ( 22 March 193026 August 2000 ), is regarded as the " Father of the Nation " of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.