Indian-born British author Anna Leonowens is best remembered for her memoir The English Governess at the Siamese Court, which related her experience as a governess of the children of King Mongkut of Siam. The musical The King and I and the novel Anna and the King of Siam were inspired by her life.
![Mary Beard Mary Beard](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/mary-beard-1.jpg)
Known as the most famous classicist in the world, Mary Beard is a Cambridge professor who is also quite popular for her controversial blog A Don's Life. A DBE and OBE, she also contributes to BBC radio and TV shows and has been an editor for The Times Literary Supplement.
![Peter Higgs Peter Higgs](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/peter-higgs.jpg)
Peter Higgs is a British theoretical physicist. He studied at King's College London and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1954. He went on to have a brilliant academic career and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983. In 2013, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Belgian physicist François Englert.
![Andrew Jack Andrew Jack](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/andrew-jack-1.jpg)
![Charles Freer Andrews Charles Freer Andrews](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/charles-freer-andrews-1.jpg)
Charles Freer Andrews was a Christian missionary and Anglican priest. He was also an educator and social reformer. A close friend of Indian freedom fighters Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, he supported the Indian struggle for independence. Gandhi fondly called him Deenabandhu, or "Friend of the Poor". Even today, Andrews is widely respected in India.
![Simon Armitage Simon Armitage](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/simon-armitage-52296-1.jpg)
![Julian Lloyd Webber Julian Lloyd Webber](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/julian-lloyd-webber-105945-1.jpg)
The son of world-renowned composer William Lloyd Webber and his piano teacher wife, Julian Lloyd Webber is also the brother of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. A talented celloist in his own right, he has taught at Guildhall and has collaborated with musical legends such as Yehudi Menuhin and Elton John.
![Alcuin Alcuin](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/alcuin-1.jpg)
Eighth-century Anglo-Latin poet and cleric Alcuin served as the head of the Palatine school, established by Charlemagne. A significant figure of the Carolingian Renaissance, he introduced English learning methods into Frankish schools and reformed Roman Catholicism. He also wrote extensively on education, philosophy, and theology.
![Halford Mackinder Halford Mackinder](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/halford-mackinder-1.jpg)
Halford Mackinder was an English geographer, politician, and academic. He is considered one of the founding fathers of geostrategy as well as geopolitics. Mackinder’s work helped establish geography as a separate discipline in the UK. An influential academic, Halford Mackinder held important positions in popular universities, including the University Extension College and the London School of Economics.
![Charlotte Mason Charlotte Mason](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/charlotte-mason-32098-1.jpg)
Renowned educator of the 1800s, Charlotte Mason introduced a new way of teaching children, which included the use of books which engage the reader, or what she called “living books,” maintaining a nature journal, and using music and art as resources. She helped develop homeschooling techniques that are in use to this day.
![Tony Judt Tony Judt](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/tony-judt-23266-1.jpg)
![Mary Whitehouse Mary Whitehouse](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/mary-whitehouse-1.jpg)
While she was initially a schoolteacher, who specialized in sex education, Mary Whitehouse later began a campaign against the moral standards of the media in Britain, particularly the BBC. She launched the Clean Up TV campaign, vocalizing her opposition toward content such as war and child pornography.
![Mike Edwards Mike Edwards](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/mike-edwards-105931-1.jpg)
![Angus Deaton Angus Deaton](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/angus-deaton-1.jpg)
British-American economist and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton revolutionized applied economics with his work on consumption, savings, poverty, and development. Apart from teaching at Princeton, he has penned multiple award-winning papers and given rise to concepts such as the Deaton Paradox. He was also the first to receive the Frisch Medal.
![Rose Tremain Rose Tremain](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/rose-tremain-55100-1.jpg)
![I. A. Richards I. A. Richards](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/i-a-richards-1.jpg)
British scholar and poet I. A. Richards is known for contributing to the New Criticism movement. While he initially taught English and moral sciences, he later focused on developing a new way of reading literature, known as practical criticism. The Meaning of Meaning remains one of his best-known works.
![Thomas Arnold Thomas Arnold](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/thomas-arnold-1.jpg)
![John Bayley John Bayley](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/john-bayley-1.jpg)
![A. V. Dicey A. V. Dicey](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/a-v-dicey-1.jpg)
British jurist A. V. Dicey is best known for his Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, which forms the basis of the modern British constitution. Apart from teaching law at Oxford, he also served as the principal of the Working Men’s College of London.
![Ralph Miliband Ralph Miliband](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/ralph-miliband-127706-1.jpg)
![Malcolm Bradbury Malcolm Bradbury](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/malcolm-bradbury-1.jpg)
![Thomas The Rhymer Thomas The Rhymer](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/thomas-the-rhymer-1.jpg)
![David Chipperfield David Chipperfield](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/david-chipperfield-19987-1.jpg)
David Chipperfield is a British architect best known for designing buildings like the River and Rowing Museum in Oxfordshire and the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri. He is also credited with establishing an architectural practice named David Chipperfield Architects, which has offices in London, Milan, Berlin, and Shanghai. Chipperfield has won many awards, including the Wolf Prize in Arts.
![Katharine Birbalsingh Katharine Birbalsingh](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/katharine-birbalsingh-120501-1.jpg)
![Richard Hoggart Richard Hoggart](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/richard-hoggart.jpg)
![Roy Bhaskar Roy Bhaskar](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/roy-bhaskar.jpg)
![David Cox David Cox](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/david-cox-1.jpg)
![Michael Green Michael Green](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/michael-green.jpg)
Best known for his research on quantum field theory, and the theory of superstrings in particular, British physicist Michael Green had completed his postdoctoral research at prestigious universities such as Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge. Apart from teaching applied math and theoretical physics, he had also been a Royal Society fellow.
![John Cowper Powys John Cowper Powys](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/john-cowper-powys-1.jpg)
![William McDougall William McDougall](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/william-mcdougall.jpg)
![Benjamin Jowett Benjamin Jowett](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/benjamin-jowett-54959-1.jpg)
Proving himself to be a brilliant classical scholar in school, Benjamin Jowett gained a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, where he was eventually elected a master and vice-chancellor. The 19th-century academic and Anglican theologian is remembered for his translation of The Dialogues of Plato and other classical texts.
![William Sterndale Bennett William Sterndale Bennett](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/william-sterndale-bennett-1.jpg)
![Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/arthur-hugh-clough-1.jpg)
![Henry Liddell Henry Liddell](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/henry-liddell-1.jpg)
![John Sulston John Sulston](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/john-sulston-1.jpg)
![Bob Brunning Bob Brunning](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/bob-brunning-1.jpg)
![Montague Druitt Montague Druitt](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/montague-druitt-117548-1.jpg)
![Marina Warner Marina Warner](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/marina-warner-111479-1.jpg)
![Debbie Wiseman Debbie Wiseman](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/debbie-wiseman-1.jpg)
![Venetia Phair Venetia Phair](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/venetia-phair-1.jpg)
![Rowland Hill Rowland Hill](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/rowland-hill-1.jpg)
Born to a schoolmaster, Rowland Hill followed in his father’s footsteps to become a teacher and explored subjects such as astronomy and math. He is, however, best remembered for his reform of the postal system, including increasing the speed of letter transfer and introducing the prototype of the postage stamp.
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. Even though his research covered diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, he is best remembered for his work in carbohydrate metabolism. He played a major role in the discovery and isolation of insulin, for which he shared the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine with Frederick Banting.
![Frank Kermode Frank Kermode](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/frank-kermode-1.jpg)
![Henry Sweet Henry Sweet](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/henry-sweet-113820-1.jpg)
![Sophia Jex-Blake Sophia Jex-Blake](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/sophia-louisa-jex-blake-1.jpg)
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English teacher, physician, and feminist. A pioneer of medical education for women, Jex-Blake was the first woman to practise medicine in Scotland. She was also involved in the establishment of two medical schools for women in Edinburgh and London at a time when no medical schools were training women.
![Nicholas Ferrar Nicholas Ferrar](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/nicholas-ferrar-1.jpg)
![A.L. Rowse A.L. Rowse](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/alfred-leslie-rowse.jpg)
![Tim Ingold Tim Ingold](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/tim-ingold-108359-1.jpg)
Timothy Ingold, a British anthropologist, is a Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He discussed his entire career in the book From science to art and back again: The pendulum of an anthropologist. Ingold taught at the University of Helsinki (1973–74) and thereafter at the University of Manchester; he became professor in 1990 and Max Gluckman Professor in 1995.
![Albert Hourani Albert Hourani](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/albert-hourani-1.jpg)
![Isaac Pitman Isaac Pitman](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/isaac-pitman-1.jpg)