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Thanks...I found this very interesting...( I like Sir Stewart) and was curious if there have been any ninja knights. At first when I googled...."Black British Knight" all it gave me was
BUT I found this page....hummmmmm....NEAT....I did not know that Sidney Poitier was a Knight.
Knight of the British Empire
BUT I found this page....hummmmmm....NEAT....I did not know that Sidney Poitier was a Knight.
Knight of the British Empire
HONOR
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Male analogue of Dame of the British Empire.
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abdu'l-Bahá | Baha'i leader | |||
Ralph Abercromby | British general | |||
Edward P. Abraham | Cephalosporins | |||
Lord Acton | British historian | |||
Edmund Allenby | Defeated the Turks in WWI | |||
Kingsley Amis | Lucky Jim | |||
Norman Angell | The Great Illusion | |||
Walter Annenberg | Media mogul, created TV Guide | |||
David Arculus | Chairman of Severn Trent, 1998-2004 | |||
Ove Arup | Danish civil engineer | |||
Paddy Ashdown | Leader of Liberal Democrats, 1988-99 | |||
Herbert Henry Asquith | UK Prime Minister, 1908-16 | |||
Michael Atiyah | Atiyah-Singer index theorem | |||
David Attenborough | Life on Earth | |||
Richard Attenborough | Gandhi | |||
Francis Bacon | Novum Organum | |||
Robert Baden-Powell | Founder of the Boy Scout movement | |||
Stanley Baker | Knights of the Round Table | |||
Michael Balcon | Eealing Studios | |||
Roger Bannister | First to run a four-minute mile | |||
Frederick G. Banting | Discovered insulin | |||
Alan Bates | Basil in Zorba the Greek | |||
David Bates | Atmospheric and interstellar physics | |||
Max Beerbohm | Caricaturist, Seven Men | |||
David Bell | CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005 | |||
Tim Berners-Lee | Inventor of the World Wide Web | |||
Sir Walter Besant | All Sorts and Conditions of Men | |||
Henry Bessemer | Bessemer process to manufacture steel | |||
John Betjeman | Summoned By Bells | |||
James W. Black | Propranolol and cimetidine | |||
James Blyth | Chairman of Diageo, 2000-08 | |||
John R. H. Bond | Chairman, HSBC Holdings, 1998-2004 | |||
David Bowie | Ziggy Stardust | |||
Don Bradman | Greatest batsman of all time | |||
Lawrence Bragg | Bragg's Law of diffraction | |||
William Bragg | Analyzed crystal structures | |||
Richard Branson | Founder of Virgin chain | |||
Harry Brittain | Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society | |||
John Browne | CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 | |||
Sir Thomas Browne | Pseudodoxia Epidemica | |||
Edward Bullard | Continental drift, magnetic fields | |||
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Last Days of Pompeii | |||
Frank Macfarlane Burnet | Acquired immunological tolerance | |||
Terence Burns | Chairman of Marks & Spencer | |||
Sir Richard Burton | Translated The Arabian Nights | |||
George H.W. Bush | 41st US President, 1989-93 | |||
Colin Campbell | Commander-in-chief of India | |||
Menzies Campbell | Leader, Liberal Democrats | |||
Henry Campbell-Bannerman | UK Prime Minister, 1905-08 | |||
Roger Casement | Irish revolutionary, gay diarist | |||
William Castell | CEO of GE Healthcare | |||
George Cayley | Father of aeronautics | |||
James Chadwick | Discovered the neutron | |||
Ernst B. Chain | Discovered penicillin | |||
Charlie Chaplin | Silent film comedian | |||
John Charnley | Hip replacement surgery | |||
John Chisholm | Chairman of QinetiQ | |||
Winston Churchill | WWII Prime Minister of England | |||
Wesley Clark | Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000 | |||
Arthur C. Clarke | 2001: A Space Odyssey | |||
Thomas Cochrane | Rear Admiral, invented the smoke screen | |||
Christopher ****erell | Hovercraft | |||
John Compton | Many-time Prime Minister of St. Lucia | |||
Sean Connery | James Bond | |||
Alistair Cooke | Alistair Cooke's America | |||
Sir Eyre Coote | British soldier, fought Hyder Ali | |||
Alan Cottrell | Metallurgist at Cambridge | |||
Noel Coward | Design for Living | |||
Stafford Cripps | Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1947-50 | |||
Donald G. Cruickshank | Director-General of Oftel, 1993-98 | |||
Hugh Cudlipp | British news magnate | |||
Henry Dale | Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter | |||
George Darwin | Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system | |||
Howard J. Davies | Director, London School of Economics | |||
Crispin Davis | CEO of Reed Elsevier | |||
Everard Digby | Gunpowder Plot | |||
E. C. Dodds | Diethylstilbestrol | |||
Placido Domingo | Tenorissimo! | |||
Antal Doráti | Conductor, Minneapolis Symphony, 1949-60 | |||
Alec Douglas-Home | UK Prime Minister, 1963-64 | |||
Kenneth Dover | Greek Homosexuality | |||
Arthur Conan Doyle | Creator of Sherlock Holmes | |||
Sir Francis Drake | Defeated Spanish Armada | |||
Frank W. Dyson | Six pips on the BBC | |||
James Dyson | Dyson vacuum cleaner | |||
Lawrence Eagleburger | US Secretary of State, 1992-93 | |||
John Eccles | Membrane potential of nerves | |||
Arthur Eddington | Eddington luminosity | |||
Rod Eddington | CEO of British Airways, 2000-05 | |||
Anthony Eden | UK Prime Minister, 1955-57 | |||
Edward Elgar | Pomp and Cir****tance | |||
Martin Evans | Embryonic stem cells | |||
George Everest | Namesake of Mt. Everest | |||
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Sinbad the Sailor | |||
Nick Faldo | Winner of 6 Major tournaments | |||
Richard Fanshawe | Translator of Camões | |||
Antony Fisher | Libertarian think-tank founder | |||
Ronald Fisher | Analysis of variance and covariance | |||
Niall FitzGerald | Chairman of Reuters | |||
Alexander Fleming | Discovered penicillin | |||
John Ambrose Fleming | Invented the vacuum tube | |||
Howard Florey | Discovered penicillin | |||
Tom Foley | Speaker of the House, 1989-95 | |||
Norman Foster | Architect of the Gherkin | |||
T. R. Fraser | Made poison and venom into medicine | |||
David Frost | BBC's Breakfast with Frost | |||
John H. Gaddum | Drug antagonism | |||
James Galway | Flute virtuoso | |||
Bill Gates | Co-Founder of Microsoft | |||
Bob Geldof | Live Aid, Boomtown Rats | |||
Christopher Gent | CEO of Vodafone, 1997-2003 | |||
Louis V. Gerstner | CEO of IBM, 1993-2002 | |||
J. Paul Getty, Jr. | Heir to the Getty Oil fortune | |||
Carlos Ghosn | CEO of Nissan and Renault | |||
John Gielgud | Prospero's Books | |||
William Golding | Lord of The Flies | |||
Eugene Goossens III | Cincinnati Symphony, 1931-46 | |||
Billy Graham | Televangelist | |||
Clive W.J. Granger | Granger causality | |||
Alan Greenspan | Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 | |||
Alec Guinness | Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars | |||
Bernard Haitink | Conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra | |||
Sir William Rowan Hamilton | Inventor of Quaternions | |||
Arthur Harden | Enzymes of sugar fermentation | |||
Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | |||
Basil Liddell Hart | Military strategist | |||
John Harvey-Jones | Chairman of ICI, 1982-87 | |||
Norman Haworth | Carbohydrates and vitamin C | |||
Edward Heath | British Prime Minister, 1970-74 | |||
King Henry VIII | King of England, 1509-47 | |||
Rowland Hill | Invented the postage stamp | |||
Edmund Hillary | First to summit Mt. Everest | |||
Peter B. Hirsch | Electron microscopy in metallurgy | |||
Alan L. Hodgkin | Electrical impulses in nerves | |||
Ian Holm | Time Bandits | |||
John Holmes | UN Under Sec. Gen. for Humanitarian Affairs | |||
Frederick Hopkins | Discovered vitamins | |||
Sir John Hotham |