English Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was an English cricketer. Phipps represented pre-county club Hampshire in a single first-class match

Was an English cricketer. Phipps represented pre-county club Hampshire in a single first-class match in 1842 against the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Was the oldest living Wimbledon champion when she died at age 100.

Was the oldest living Wimbledon champion when she died at age 100.

Was an English singer and actress who was famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy an

Was an English singer and actress who was famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.Dare's first performance on stage was in 1899, at the age of nine, in the Christmas pantomime Babes in the Woods at the Coronet Theatre in London. Her sister Zena was also cast in this production, and they both adopted the surname of Dare. The next year, Phyllis was cast as Christina in a production of Ib and Little Christina at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, and she ended the year in the Christmas pantomime Little Red Riding Hood in Manchester. In 1901, she played one of the children in The Wilderness, and Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss cast her as Mab in their musical Bluebell in Fairyland. The following Christmas, she performed in a production of The Forty Thieves.[

Was a sculptor. She was born in England, but migrated to Canada in 1933.Jones traveled around Denmar

Was a sculptor. She was born in England, but migrated to Canada in 1933.Jones traveled around Denmark and Italy with her mother for years until, at 28, she studied casting, carving, and modeling at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London. She moved to Can

Was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her silver medal at the Pa

Was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her silver medal at the Paris Olympics of 1924 in the women's doubles event (partnering Kathleen McKane). She was also a runner-up in the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon in 1921, p

Was a British figure skater.In 1920, she won the bronze at the Olympics with new partner Basil Willi

Was a British figure skater.In 1920, she won the bronze at the Olympics with new partner Basil Williams. That year, she also finished fourth in ladies' singles.

Was a British Olympic fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Was a British Olympic fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Is a British-American scientist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

Is a British-American scientist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.He met the band in Houston, Texas when the band played there in April 2002. He told them he would be taking their albums into space with him. When he met t

Is a former first-class cricketer. Between 1988 and 2003, he appeared for Warwickshire and Somerset.

Is a former first-class cricketer. Between 1988 and 2003, he appeared for Warwickshire and Somerset. A left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he made 14 appearances for England Under-19s.

An English singer.Browne was the lead singer of the groups Pickettywitch, the name being suggested b

An English singer.Browne was the lead singer of the groups Pickettywitch, the name being suggested by her sister Pamela Browne, and Sweet Dreams.[2] She released a solo album in 1975 entitled Special Delivery on GTO Records. "Same Old Feeling" was one of the hits that Pickettywitch enjoyed, and post Pickettywitch a single from the album, "Up in a Puff of Smoke", was a hit in America, reaching #3 on the U.S. disco chart and #16 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] In the UK Singles Chart, it reached #43.[4]

An English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous

An English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan. The trio released their first album Dry in 1992. Ellis and Vaughan left the band after the release of Rid of Me (1993), and Harvey continued as a solo artist.Among the accolades she has received have been the 2001 Mercury Music Prize, seven BRIT Award nominations, five Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Music Prize nominations. Rolling Stone named her 1992's Best New Artist and Best Singer Songwriter and 1995's Artist of the Year, and placed two of her albums on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. She was also rated the number one female rock artist by Q magazine in a 2002 poll. Harvey has said that she enjoys performing more than writing and recording because performing is when the music makes more sense. [1]

The stage name of Marian Joan Elliott Said, singer in the English punk rock band X-Ray Spex.Said is

The stage name of Marian Joan Elliott Said, singer in the English punk rock band X-Ray Spex.Said is best known for her vocal performances for X-Ray Spex.[1] She has been described by Billboard as the "archetype for the modern-day feminist punk" who, because she wore braces, was heavyset, sported a gaudy Dayglo wardrobe, and was of mixed-race, was "one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history, male or female".[3]After seeing a Sex Pistols concert in Hastings, Said was inspired to start a music career beginning with X-Ray Spex.[1].

An English actress, screenwriter and singer. Quesnel was raised in Eccles, Lancashire, along with he

An English actress, screenwriter and singer. Quesnel was raised in Eccles, Lancashire, along with her six siblings. She read English at Oxford University before spending a year at drama school.[1] In the 1980s she performed in Humphrey Carpenter's Vile Bodies band at the Ritz Hotel, and performed in a tribute concert to him following his death in 2005.[1][2]She played Dr Monica Broome in the first series of Cardiac Arrest and DC Grace Harris in the first two series of Thief Takers. She had a recurring role in the third series of Cold Feet as Emma Keaton and returned to medical dramas in 2006, playing Dr Christine Whelan in The Golden Hour. In 2007 she starred as Nita in the BBC One series True Dare Kiss, and later that year began a recurring role in EastEnders as Rachel Branning, taking over the character from Sukie Smith.

Was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist and landowner.Selby is best known for his Illustra

Was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist and landowner.Selby is best known for his Illustrations of British Ornithology (1821–1834), the first set of life-sized illustrations of British birds. He also wrote Illustrations of Ornithology with William Jardine and A History of British Forest-trees (1842).Many of the illustrations in his works were drawn from specimens in his collection. In addition to the above works he contributed to Jardine's Naturalist's Library the volumes on the Pigeons (1835) and the Parrots (1836), the latter illustrated by Edward Lear. He was for some time one of the editors of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany. His collections were sold in 1885 and became dispersed. The South African birds collected by Andrew Smith went to the Zoology Museum of the University of Cambridge.

Was an English painter and dramatist. "Prince" is a given name, not a royal title.the son of painter

Was an English painter and dramatist. "Prince" is a given name, not a royal title.the son of painter William Hoare, he became well known for his portraits and historical scenes. Later in his life, he wrote twenty plays.

Was a popular English singer and actress, known for her role as Ariel in W. C. Macready's production

Was a popular English singer and actress, known for her role as Ariel in W. C. Macready's production of The Tempest in 1838 and "fairy" burlesques at Covent Garden Theatre. Later, she was known, along with her husband, Thomas German Reed, for creating the family-friendly German Reed Entertainments. There, she was a mentor to W. S. Gilbert, and her performances inspired Gilbert to create some of his famous contralto roles.

A sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City of Norwich S

A sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City of Norwich School from 1955.Trudgill studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge. He was later awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught in the Department of linguistic science at the University of Reading from 1970 to 1986, before becoming professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Essex. He was professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Lausanne from 1993 to 1998, and after that at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from which he retired in September 2005. He is now part time professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway; and adjunct professor at the Research centre for linguistic typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, as well as honorary professor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.