* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Charles began his career as a contemporary and urban performance poet on the British cabaret circuit.

* 1875 – Evelyn Underhill, British poet ( d. 1941 )

* 1754 – George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist ( d. 1832 )

* 1822 – Matthew Arnold, British poet ( d. 1888 )

* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

* 1932 – Peter Redgrove, British poet ( d. 2003 )

The expression, " the noble savage " was first used in 1672 by British poet John Dryden in his play The Conquest of Granada.

* 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.

* 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet ( d. 1861 )

* 1781 – Ebenezer Elliott, British poet ( d. 1849 )

* 1893 – Wilfred Owen, British poet ( d. 1918 )

* Geraldine Monk ( born 1952 ), British poet

* 1757 – William Blake, British poet ( d. 1827 )

* 1896 – Coventry Patmore, British poet ( b. 1823 )

* 1800 – Thomas Macaulay, British poet, historian, and politician ( d. 1859 )

* 1795 – John Keats, British poet ( d. 1821 )

The British poet Ted Hughes titled a 1973 collection of poems Prometheus On His Crag.

* 16-Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.

* 27-Ken Smith, 64, British poet.

* 6-Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

* 1914 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver ( d. 1990 )

* 1981 – Gerard McCarthy, British actor

* 29-Sir Gerard Vaughan, 80, British politician.

* George was portrayed by the actor Gerard Cooke in the British TV series Monarchy ( TV series )

Most species are known as clematis in English, while some are also known as traveller's joy, a name invented for the sole British native, C. vitalba, by the herbalist John Gerard ; virgin's bower for C. viticella ; old man's beard, applied to several with prominent seedheads ; and leather flower or vase vine for the North American Clematis viorna.

British surveyor John Gerard de Brahm, who mapped the coast of Florida in 1773, called the area " River Glades ".

Mrs. Brown ( also released and advertised under the title Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown ) is a 1997 British drama film starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher and Gerard Butler.

* Gerard Soest, British artist

; 1910 – 1916: Antisemitic Zionist conspiracy theories regarding the Ottoman Young Turk ruling elite are fuelled within the British government through diplomatic correspondence from Gerard Lowther ( British Ambassador to Constantinople ) and Gilbert Clayton ( Chief of British intelligence in Egypt )

The British cavalry under Colonel Gerard Leachman succeeded in breaking out, but Townshend and the bulk of the force remained besieged.

Conscious of the opportunity to bypass Caen's western defences by exploiting the Caumont Gap, British Second Army commander Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey met with Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, commanding XXX Corps, and Major-General George Erskine, commanding the 7th Armoured Division.

* DeGroot, Gerard J. Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War, 144, London & New York: Longman, 1996, ISBN 0-582-06138-5

* Tony ( film ), a 2009 British drama film directed by Gerard Johnson

In The Woodlark < sup > 2 </ sup > Gerard Manley Hopkins departs from the standard tradition of British nature poetry by trying to transliterate the bird's song into made-up words, saying:

Paul Gerard Goggins ( born 16 June 1953 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wythenshawe and Sale East since 1997, and was a Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office.

Mark Gerard Hoban MP </ small > ( born 31 March 1964 ) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Fareham, and the Minister of State for Work and Pensions.

Gerard " Gerry " Sutcliffe ( born 13 May 1953 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bradford South since 1994, and was the Minister for Sport and Tourism in the Brown Government.

Major-General Frederick Gerard Peake, CMG, CBE ( 12 June 1886 – 30 March 1970 ), known as Peake Pasha, was a British Army and police officer and creator of the Arab Legion.

It was laid under siege on 1 September 1803, by the British 76th Regiment, now known as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, under General Lord Gerard Lake.

Caricature of Robert Tolver Gerard by Leslie Ward | Spy published in Vanity Fair ( British magazine 1868-1914 ) | Vanity Fair in 1878.

Between 1910 and 1916, antisemitic Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theories regarding the party were fuelled within the British government through diplomatic correspondence from Gerard Lowther ( British Ambassador to Istanbul ) and Gilbert Clayton ( Chief of British intelligence in Egypt )