Talented Individuals
A
- 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.
B
- 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.
C
- 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.
D
- 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.
E
- 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.
F
- 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.
G
- 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.
H
- 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.
J
K
- 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.
L
- 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.
M
- 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.
N
P
- 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
R
- 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
S
- 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.
T
- 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.