With traditional nationalistic spirit, some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism at its best.

[...] It is not as philosophically thorough as the works of D. Saliba, A. M. Goichon, or L. Gardet, but it is probably the best essay in English on this important thinker of the Middle Ages.

* Adrian Utley ( born 1957 ), English musician best known as a member of the band Portishead

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

However, the best modern analysis of the sources of the creed ( by A. de Halleux, in Revue Theologique de Louvain 7, 1976 ) and a reading of the acts, or proceedings, of the council ( recently translated into English ) show that the bishops considered Cyril the great authority and that even the language of ' two natures ' derives from him.

* Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection

Academically, Eisenhower's best subject by far was English ; otherwise his performance was average, though he thoroughly enjoyed the typical emphasis of engineering on science and mathematics.

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

Gender is at best only weakly grammaticalized in Modern English.

In 2004 the Dylan Thomas Prize was created in his honour, awarded to the best published writer in English under the age of 30.

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class ( 1963 ).

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 ) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

Edwin Abbott Abbott ( 20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926 ), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland ( 1884 ).

The following year The Arte of English Poesie, attributed to George Puttenham, placed Oxford among a " crew " of courtier poets ; he also considered Oxford among the best comic playwrights of the day.

His best known works to have been translated into English are Cooking in Ten Minutes and Cooking with Pomiane.

Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism.

According to Irving Howe, Orwell was " the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr Johnson.

His international goals-to-games ratio remains one of the best for the country and he is regarded as one of the all-time best English strikers.

The best presentation of the case for Ambrose is by P. A. Ballerini in his complete edition of that father's works.

He published at his own expense a volume containing six of his best stories, The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies, in an edition of 1000 copies printed by the Auburn Journal.

An omnibus edition in paperback of Smith's best tales.

All three went through multiple editions during his lifetime, although many of his friends ( such as Darwin ) thought the first edition of the Principles was the best written.

The best known Latin translation of Arithmetica was made by Bachet in 1621 and became the first Latin edition that was widely available.

In many editions of the game technology is at best quasi-medieval ( in the first edition, the crossbow is described as " the ultimate weapon " for most Gamma World societies ).

In commentary on the Blu-ray edition of Star Trek, director J. J. Abrams called Galaxy Quest " one of the best " Star Trek " movies ever made.

A pivotal book on Hart was written by Neil MacCormick in 1981 ( second edition due in 2007 ), which further refined and offered some important criticisms that led MacCormick to develop his own theory ( the best example of which is his recently published Institutions of Law, 2007 ).

Manufactured by Warner Music Japan, this limited edition ( and currently out of print ) CD offers improved sound quality, the best of any version to date.

He is best known for his book Les Propheties ( The Prophecies ), the first edition of which appeared in 1555.

The best critical edition, which includes the Dutch translation of 1684, is edited by Giovanni Crapulli ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966 ).

A traditional Chinese edition, known as 科學人 (“ Scientist ” in Chinese ), was introduced to Taiwan in 2002, and has been developed to the best popular science magazine in Taiwan.

Thomas Bowdler (; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825 ) was an English physician and philanthropist, best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original.

The listing of " the best holes ever designed by Augusta National architect Alister MacKenzie " is featured in SI ’ s Golf Plus special edition previewing the Masters on April 4, 2006.

The Golden Lion is the festival's highest award for best film in the competition section Venezia ( plus the number of the edition ).

The Silver Lion is awarded to the best director in the competitive section Venezia ( plus the number of the edition ).

After the composer's death the score was subject to significant amendment, including the introduction of recitative in place of the original dialogue ; there is no standard edition of the opera, and differences of view exist as to what versions best express Bizet's intentions.

However, in a recent edition, she bought the best quality food from a market and raced off to her kitchen to put it in the freezer to keep it fresh ; but she accidentally lost control of her bike on the way and was spinning for 23 days, so when she got to her kitchen, she had rotten food and was too dizzy to put the food in the right bowls.

The best edition was published in 1935 by Paul Hirsch and Hans-Eberhard Lohmann in the series Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum editi.

Boucher and McComas praised the 1950 edition as Heinlein " at his superlative best .".

Forbes 2012 edition of America's Top Colleges ranks Louisiana Tech as the 187th best research university in the nation.

The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica states that " he spelling ' tyre ' is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in the US ", while Fowler's Modern English Usage of 1926 says that " there is nothing to be said for ' tyre ', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own British older & the present American usage ".

The first was an abridged edition, recorded in the mid-1980s by Stephen Moore, best known for playing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the radio series, LP adaptations and in the TV series.

She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes ( Leipzig, 1928 – 1938 ).