English Famous Names Starting with Letter T

Was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was th

Was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and speculate that faint nebulae were distant galaxies.Wright was born at Byers Green in County Durham. In 1730 he set up a school in Sunderland, where he taught mathematics and navigation. He later moved to London to work on a number of projects for his wealthy patrons. (This was before retiring to County Durham and building a small observatory at Westerton.

Was an English explorer and naturalist.Blakiston explored western Canada with the Palliser Expeditio

Was an English explorer and naturalist.Blakiston explored western Canada with the Palliser Expedition between 1857 and 1859. In 1862 he travelled up the Yangtze River in China, going further than any Westerner before him. He spent the next part of his life in Japan and became one of the major naturalists in that country. He moved to the United States in 1886. Blakiston died of pneumonia while in San Diego, California in 1891 and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.

Was an English polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechani

Was an English polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony and Egyptology.Young began to study medicine in London in 1792, moved to Edinburgh in 1794, and a year later went to Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany where he obtained the degree of doctor of physics in 1796. In 1797 he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In the same year he inherited the estate of his grand-uncle, Richard Brocklesby, which made him financially independent, and in 1799 he established himself as a physician at 48 Welbeck Street, London (now recorded with a blue plaque). Young published many of his first academic articles anonymously to protect his reputation as a physician.

Is a singer/songwriter primarily known for his work as part of the band No-Man, a long-term project

Is a singer/songwriter primarily known for his work as part of the band No-Man, a long-term project with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson.Beginning his musical career with several years in unsigned Manchester and Warrington based experimental indie bands such as Plenty, After The Stranger and Still, Bowness moved to London in 1988 to join Steven Wilson in No-Man, a collaboration which continues to this day.

Is a British sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympic

Is a British sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one gold (2008: K-1 1000 m) and two bronzes (2000: K-1 1000 m, 2008: K-1 500 m).

Is a British racehorse trainer based in North Yorkshire. TIM EASTERBY took over the famous Habton Gr

Is a British racehorse trainer based in North Yorkshire. TIM EASTERBY took over the famous Habton Grange stables in North Yorkshire from his father, Peter Easterby, in February 1996. Tim Easterby has trained a Classic winner in Bollin Eric, triumphant in

Is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Hancock jo

Is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Hancock joined Gloucestershire in 1991, and has been at the club ever since. His bowling has added an extra effective dimension to his play. Between 2000 and 2002 he

An English economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of two economics books, pr

An English economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of two economics books, presenter of BBC television series Trust Me, I'm an Economist, and writer of a humorous weekly column called "Dear Economist" for The Financial Times, in which he uses economic theory to attempt to solve readers' personal problems. His other FT column, "The Undercover Economist", is syndicated in Slate magazine.Harford studied at the University of Oxford, gaining a BA and then an MPhil in Economics in 1998. He joined the Financial Times in 2003 on a fellowship in commemoration of the business columnist Peter Martin. He continued to write his column after joining the International Finance Corporation in 2004, and re-joined the Financial Times as economics leader writer in April 2006. He is also a member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Is a retired English folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of elect

Is a retired English folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of electric folk band Steeleye Span.From 1970 to 1982, Hart and Prior were the backbone of Steeleye Span. In 1971, as well as recording two albums as part of Steel

Is an English cricketer. Murtagh is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He fir

Is an English cricketer. Murtagh is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He first shone in the 2000 Under-19s World Cup.

Is an award-winning English photographer who made his name during the Vietnam War and is now based i

Is an award-winning English photographer who made his name during the Vietnam War and is now based in Brisbane, Australia.Page left England in 1962 making his way overland driving through Europe, Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand and Laos. Without money by this time, he found work as an agricultural advisor for USAID in Laos. He began work as a press photographer in Laos stringing for UPI and AFP. His exclusive photographs of an attempted coup d'état in Laos in 1965 for UPI got him a staff position in the Saigon bureau of the news agency.

Is a television journalist. He is the Chairman of the Doha Debates, a forum for free speech in Qatar

Is a television journalist. He is the Chairman of the Doha Debates, a forum for free speech in Qatar, and was the presenter of BBC's HARDtalk.

Is an English singer-songwriter, composer, poet, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and music vi

Is an English singer-songwriter, composer, poet, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and music video director. He is best known as the leader of the unique and highly influential band Cardiacs (for which he is the principal songwriter and lyricist as w

Is an English cricketer. He is a big chinned right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler w

Is an English cricketer. He is a big chinned right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who played for Northumberland. He was born in Sunderland. Stonock made a single List A appearance for the team, in August 2003, against Shropshire. Stonock

Is a British sculptor who has designed several monumental sculptures, including the award-winning Se

Is a British sculptor who has designed several monumental sculptures, including the award-winning Sentinel.His other claim to fame is as the great-nephew of J. R. R. Tolkien, the famous author of the fantasy book The Lord of the Rings (Tim Tolkien is the

Was a professional footballer most notably with Derby County.Tim was christened Victor Timothy Ward,

Was a professional footballer most notably with Derby County.Tim was christened Victor Timothy Ward, an adopted son to Bill and Eunice Andrews and raised in Charlton Kings near Cheltenham. Tim played football on the local pitches with his childhood friend Cedric, during these games Cedric would be Arsenal and Tim would be Derby County.

Is a footballer who has spent time playing in both the professional and semi-professional leagues. H

Is a footballer who has spent time playing in both the professional and semi-professional leagues. He is English but has yet to represent his country.A lifelong fan of Liverpool, Wooding had never originally intended to pursue a career as a footballer but after missing a lot of school due to horrific injuries he suffered during the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 he performed poorly in his GCSE exams and his results restricted his future career choices.

Is a rock singer, bass guitarist, guitarist and visual artist. He was a member of blues-rock outfit,

Is a rock singer, bass guitarist, guitarist and visual artist. He was a member of blues-rock outfit, 1984 and later Smile, a band which included guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, and which, upon Staffell's departure, hired Freddie Mercury and

Is a former English cricketer. Richings was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace.

Is a former English cricketer. Richings was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. In 1992, Richings made his debut for Dorset in the 1992 Minor Counties Championship against Shropshire. From 1992 to 1998, Richings played 46 Minor County

Is the lead singer of British rock/indie act The Charlatans. Despite being born in Salford he lived

Is the lead singer of British rock/indie act The Charlatans. Despite being born in Salford he lived in Northwich, Cheshire in 1989 when he joined The Charlatans and Northwich is seen as both his hometown and the where The Charlatans formed.

Is an English photojournalist best known for his reportage and ethnographic photography.He grew up i

Is an English photojournalist best known for his reportage and ethnographic photography.He grew up in Tonbridge, and after graduating from Leeds University he lived in Indonesia during the 1990s.

Is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who

Is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Derbyshire between 1992 and 1999, and for Staffordshire in 2000. He made his debut for Derbyshire in a loss against Glamorgan. He did not play f

Was an English and Canadian cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman. He played 14 first-class matche

Was an English and Canadian cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman. He played 14 first-class matches between 1900 and 1913, mainly for Middlesex and the MCC. He later settled in Canada and played his last first-class match for a combined Canada/USA team against Australia. He died in Vancouver in 1966, aged 84.

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He repre

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He represented his home county of Middlesex in First Class cricket between 1997 and 2004, and in Twenty20 cricket from 2003 to 2004. Bloomfield's first cricketing appearances came during the 1996 season in the Second XI championship for Sussex, though before too long he was to see himself off to Middlesex, for whom he made his debut first-class match in June 1997. Bloomfield was a tailending batsman for the entirety of his cricketing career, which finished after the 2004 Twenty20 Cup.

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman an right-arm off-break and leg-break bowler

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman an right-arm off-break and leg-break bowler who played for Suffolk. He was born in Newmarket. Catley, who represented the side in the Minor Counties Championship between 1999 and 2006, made a single List A appearance, in 2005, against Glamorgan. From the upper order, he scored 6 runs.