William Edward Armytage Axon
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- He was a librarian and antiquary, and a journalist for Manchester Guardian.
John Aikin
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- He was an English doctor and writer.
Masaharu Anesaki
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- He is credited as being the father of religious studies in Japan.
Robert Stawell Ball
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- He was astronomer who founded the screw theory.
Horatio Bridge
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- He was an officer of the United States Navy.
Isabella Varley Banks
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- She was a 19th-century writer of English poetry and novels, born in Manchester.
Germain Bazin
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- He was an art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum.
Jacqueline Bouchot-Saupique
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- She was curator at the Cabinet des Dessins du Louvre.
Samuel Beal
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- He was an Oriental scholar.
Auguste Bailly
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- He was a French writer.
Benjamin Brierley
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- He was an English weaver and writer in Lancashire dialect.
Johann Georg Bühler
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- He was a scholar of ancient Indian languages and law.
Thomas Baines
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- For thirty years was an active promoter of liberal interests in Lancashire.
John Bunyan
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- He became a target for slander and libel.
Nathan Salomon Calisch
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- He was journalist and secretary of the Stock Exchange
Isaac Marcus Calisch
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- He was head teacher and translator.
Paul Cohen-Portheim
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- He was a German author and translator.
Gaius Valerius Catullus
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- He was a poet who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry.
Marie Corelli
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- Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries.
Thomas Carlyle
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- Expected to become a preacher, he lost his Christian faith at University.
Joseph Conrad
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- He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English.
Edward Caswall
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- He was an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer who converted to Roman Catholicism.
Neville Cardus
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- Turned cricket into vivid description and criticism.
Leslie Charteris
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- Best known for his books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar.
Billy Drake
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- He was a British air ace.
Bert Davis
Henry Drummond
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- He was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer.
Sukumar Dutt
Gaston Dubois-Desaulle
Arthur J. Dobb
Charles Dickens
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- He is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
Friedrich Engels
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- He was indebted to German philosophy.
Les Edwards
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- A British illustrator.
Rudolf Cristoph Eucken
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- Philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature.
John William Fletcher
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- He was Methodism's first great theologians.
Asher Feldman
David K. Frasier
John Nicol Farquhar
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- He was a professor of comparative religion.
Robert Graves
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- He was an English poet, novelist, critic, and classicist.
Milton Glaser
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- He is an American graphic designer.
Oliver Goldsmith
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- He planned to emigrate to America but failed because he missed his ship.
Melville Bell Grosvenor
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- He campaigned to save the California redwoods before conservation became a popular cause.
Bret Harte
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- Best known for his fiction featuring miners, gamblers of the California Gold Rush.
Charles Hamilton
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- He is estimated to have written about 100 million words in his lifetime.
Arthur Rowland Howell
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Antoine Hamilton
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- He interchanged amusing verses with the Duke of Berwick.
Richard Harris Barham
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann
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- He lived a retired life of study, while suffering great pain.
Dezo Hoffmann
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- He earned international acclaim shooting photographs of well known pop and showbiz personalities.
Thomas Humphry Ward
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- Author and journalist, most notable as the husband of Mrs Humphry Ward.
Thomas Hardy
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- He focused more on a declining rural society.
Charles Alexander Johns
E. J. Kollist
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- He was a chef pâtissier
Rudyard Kipling
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- He is remembered for his tales for children.
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
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- He continued work after his retirement.
John Gibson Lockhart
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- He was a Scottish writer and editor.
William Lees
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- He was a lecturer.
Arthur Lillie
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- He was a soldier in the British Army in India.
Oliver Lodge
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- Lodge is known for his advocacy and elaboration of Maxwell's aether theory.
James Legge
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- He was third and final editor of the Chinese Serial.
Wilmot Lunt
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- He was a cartoonist and painter.
Brian Lumley
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- He wrote stories in his spare time.
Paul Marcoy
H.V. Marrot
William McDougall
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- He wrote a number of highly influential textbooks.
Karl Marx
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- Described as one of the most influential figures in human history.
William Percival Matthew
Monier Monier-Williams
John Arnott MacCulloch
Emily Jane Moore
John Murphy
Samuel Maunder
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Alan Alexander Milne
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- A noted writer, primarily as a playwright.
Harold Nicolson
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- Author, diarist and politician.
Richard Phillips
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- He was a distinguished British chemist.
Jean Porcher
Frank Plucknett
Morton Prince
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- He was a leading force in establishing psychology as academic discipline.
Jal Dastur Cursetji Pavry
Archibald Philip Primrose
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- He was the first to coin the term the Commonwealth of Nations.
Preston Albert Lambert
John Roscoe
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- He conducted anthropological data collection of the Africans he encountered on mission.
John Roby
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- He called himself simply a collector of oral traditions.
Thomas William Rhys Davids
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- He claimed that Britons had a natural, "racial" affinity with Buddhist doctrine.
Robert William Rogers
Albert Skira
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- He was a Swiss publisher.
William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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- He wrote on Australian life and literature.
George Bernard Shaw
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- Awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar.
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz
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- He is best remembered for his historical novels.
Clifford Saber
Ernest Howard Shepard
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- He grew to resent "that silly old bear".
Robert Louis Stevenson
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- A novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.
Walter Scott
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- He truly had international career in his lifetime.
Frederick Treves
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- He was a prominent British surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras
Mary Tourtel
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- She was an English artist and creator of Rupert Bear.
Peter P. Tang
Whiteley Turner
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- He was a mill worker, shopkeeper and author.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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- He wrote papers with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts.
Paul Topinard
Hermann Türck
Leo Tolstoy
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- Considered one of the world's greatest novelists.
Jerrard Tickell
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- A writer, known for his novels and World War II historical books.
William Swan Urquhart
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Brian Vesey Fitzgerald
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- He was a naturalist and writer of books on wildlife, cats, and dogs.
Walt Whitman
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- He was a poet, essayist, journalist and humanist.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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- Independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection.
V. H. Watson
John Dover Wilson
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- He has considerable boldness and confidence in his own judgement.