sir : Idioms & Phrases
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- sir alan hodgkin
- sir alec guinness
- sir alexander fleming
- sir alexander korda
- sir alexander mackenzie
- sir alexander robertus todd
- sir alfred charles bernard lovell
- sir alfred hitchcock
- sir angus wilson
- sir anthony hopkins
- sir anthony philip hopkins
- sir anthony vandyke
- sir arthur conan doyle
- sir arthur john evans
- sir arthur stanley eddington
- sir arthur sullivan
- sir arthur travers harris
- sir barton
- sir bernard law montgomery
- sir bernard lovell
- sir bernard williams
- sir charles leonard woolley
- sir charles scott sherrington
- sir charles spencer chaplin
- sir charles wheatstone
- sir charles william siemens
- sir christopher wren
- sir clive marles sinclair
- sir david alexander cecil low
- sir david bruce
- sir david low
- sir edmund hillary
- sir edmund percival hillary
- sir edward elgar
- sir edward victor appleton
- sir edward william elgar
- sir edwin landseer luytens
- sir edwin lutyens
- sir ernst boris chain
- sir francis bacon
- sir francis drake
- sir francis galton
- sir frank whittle
- sir fred hoyle
- sir frederick ashton
- sir frederick gowland hopkins
- sir frederick grant banting
- sir frederick handley page
- sir frederick william herschel
- sir galahad
- sir gawain
- sir geoffrey wilkinson
- sir george otto trevelyan
- sir george paget thomson
- sir geraint
- sir hans adolf krebs
- sir harold george nicolson
- sir harold walter kroto
- sir harry maclennan lauder
- sir henry bessemer
- sir henry joseph wood
- sir henry maxmilian beerbohm
- sir henry morgan
- sir henry morton stanley
- sir henry percy
- sir henry rider haggard
- sir henry wood
- sir herbert beerbohm tree
- sir hiram stevens maxim
- sir howard walter florey
- sir humphrey davy
- sir humphrey gilbert
- sir isaac newton
- sir isaac pitman
- sir jack hobbs
- sir jacob epstein
- sir james augustus henry murray
- sir james augustus murray
- sir james clark ross
- sir james dewar
- sir james george frazer
- sir james matthew barrie
- sir james murray
- sir james paget
- sir james paul mccartney
- sir james young simpson
- sir john carew eccles
- sir john cockcroft
- sir john cowdery kendrew
- sir john douglas cockcroft
- sir john everett millais
- sir john falstaff
- sir john frederick william herschel
- sir john gielgud
- sir john hawkins
- sir john hawkyns
- sir john herschel
- sir john ross
- sir john suckling
- sir john tenniel
- sir john vanbrigh
- sir joseph banks
- sir joseph john thomson
- sir joseph paxton
- sir joshua reynolds
- sir karl raimund popper
- sir lancelot
- sir laurence kerr olivier
- sir leonard hutton
- sir leonard woolley
- sir leslie stephen
- sir martin frobisher
- sir matthew flinders
- sir mortimer wheeler
- sir noel pierce coward
- sir oliver joseph lodge
- sir oliver lodge
- sir patrick manson
- sir paul gavrilovich vinogradoff
- sir peter brian medawar
- sir peter paul rubens
- sir peter ustinov
- sir philip sidney
- sir rabindranath tagore
- sir ralph david richardson
- Sir reverance
- sir rex harrison
- sir richard burton
- sir richard francis burton
- sir richard owen
- sir richrd steele
- sir robert eric mortimer wheeler
- sir robert peel
- sir robert robinson
- sir robert walpole
- sir roger gilbert bannister
- sir ronald ross
- sir sarvepalli radhakrishnan
- sir seretse khama
- sir stephen harold spender
- sir terence mervyn rattigan
- sir thomas gresham
- sir thomas lawrence
- sir thomas malory
- sir thomas more
- sir thomas raffles
- sir thomas stamford raffles
- sir thomas wyat
- sir thomas wyatt
- sir tim rice
- sir tom stoppard
- sir walter norman haworth
- sir walter ralegh
- sir walter raleigh
- sir walter scott
- sir william alexander craigie
- sir william chambers
- sir william crookes
- sir william gerald golding
- sir william gilbert
- sir william herschel
- sir william huggins
- sir william rowan hamilton
- sir william turner walton
- sir william wallace
- sir william walton
- sir winston leonard spenser churchill
- sir yehudi menuhin
sir alan hodgkin
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noun English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
Hodgkin; Alan Lloyd Hodgkin; Alan Hodgkin.
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sir alec guinness
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noun English stage and screen actor noted for versatility (1914-2000)
Guinness; Alec Guinness.
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sir alexander fleming
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noun Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
Alexander Fleming; Fleming.
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sir alexander korda
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noun British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956)
Korda; Sandor Kellner.
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sir alexander mackenzie
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noun Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)
Mackenzie.
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sir alexander robertus todd
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noun Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907)
Lord Todd; Todd.
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sir alfred charles bernard lovell
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noun English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)
Lovell; Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell.
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sir alfred hitchcock
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noun English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock; Hitchcock; Alfred Hitchcock.
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sir angus wilson
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noun English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)
Wilson; Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson.
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sir anthony hopkins
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noun Welsh film actor (born in 1937)
Anthony Hopkins; Sir Anthony Hopkins; Hopkins.
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sir anthony philip hopkins
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noun Welsh film actor (born in 1937)
Anthony Hopkins; Sir Anthony Hopkins; Hopkins.
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sir anthony vandyke
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noun Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)
Van Dyck; Anthony Vandyke; Vandyke.
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sir arthur conan doyle
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noun British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)
Arthur Conan Doyle; A. Conan Doyle; Conan Doyle.
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sir arthur john evans
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noun British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941)
Arthur Evans; Evans.
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sir arthur stanley eddington
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noun English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944)
Eddington.
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sir arthur sullivan
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noun English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)
Sullivan; Arthur Sullivan; Arthur Seymour Sullivan.
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sir arthur travers harris
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noun British marshal of the Royal Air Force; during World War II he directed mass bombing raids against German cities that resulted in heavy civilian casualties (1892-1984)
Bomber Harris; Harris.
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sir barton
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noun thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1919
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sir bernard law montgomery
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noun English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976)
Bernard Law Montgomery; 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; Montgomery.
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sir bernard lovell
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noun English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)
Lovell; Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell.
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sir bernard williams
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noun English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003)
Bernard Arthur Owen Williams; Williams.
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sir charles leonard woolley
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noun English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960)
Woolley; Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.
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sir charles scott sherrington
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noun English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)
Sherrington.
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sir charles spencer chaplin
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noun English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)
Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin.
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sir charles wheatstone
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noun English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875)
Wheatstone.
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sir charles william siemens
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noun engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)
Siemens; Karl Wilhelm Siemens.
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sir christopher wren
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noun English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723)
Wren.
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sir clive marles sinclair
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noun English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
Sinclair; Clive Sinclair.
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sir david alexander cecil low
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noun British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
David Low; Sir David Alexander Cecil Low; Low.
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sir david bruce
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noun Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)
Bruce; David Bruce.
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sir david low
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noun British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
David Low; Sir David Alexander Cecil Low; Low.
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sir edmund hillary
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noun New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)
Hillary; Sir Edmund Hillary; Edmund Hillary.
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sir edmund percival hillary
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noun New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)
Hillary; Sir Edmund Hillary; Edmund Hillary.
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sir edward elgar
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noun British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)
Sir Edward Elgar; Elgar.
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sir edward victor appleton
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noun English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966)
Edward Appleton; Appleton.
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sir edward william elgar
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noun British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)
Sir Edward Elgar; Elgar.
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sir edwin landseer luytens
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noun English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944)
Sir Edwin Landseer Luytens; Lutyens.
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sir edwin lutyens
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noun English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944)
Sir Edwin Landseer Luytens; Lutyens.
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sir ernst boris chain
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noun British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
Ernst Boris Chain; Chain.
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sir francis bacon
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noun English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
1st Baron Verulam; Baron Verulam; Viscount St. Albans; Bacon; Francis Bacon.
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sir francis drake
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noun English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
Francis Drake; Drake.
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sir francis galton
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noun English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911)
Galton; Francis Galton.
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sir frank whittle
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noun English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
Whittle; Frank Whittle.
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sir fred hoyle
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noun an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
Hoyle; Fred Hoyle.
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sir frederick ashton
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noun British choreographer (1906-1988)
Ashton.
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sir frederick gowland hopkins
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noun English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)
Hopkins.
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sir frederick grant banting
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noun Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
Banting; F. G. Banting.
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sir frederick handley page
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noun English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
Page.
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sir frederick william herschel
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noun English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
William Herschel; Herschel; Sir Frederick William Herschel.
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sir galahad
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noun (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail
Galahad.
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sir gawain
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noun (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table
Gawain.
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sir geoffrey wilkinson
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noun English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921)
Wilkinson.
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sir george otto trevelyan
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noun English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
Trevelyan; George Otto Trevelyan.
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sir george paget thomson
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noun English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975)
George Paget Thomson; Thomson.
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sir geraint
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noun (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table
Geraint.
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sir hans adolf krebs
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noun English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981)
Krebs; Hans Adolf Krebs.
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sir harold george nicolson
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noun English diplomat and author (1886-1968)
Nicolson; Harold Nicolson.
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sir harold walter kroto
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noun British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
Kroto; Harold Kroto; Harold W. Kroto.
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sir harry maclennan lauder
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noun Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950)
Lauder; Harry Lauder.
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sir henry bessemer
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noun British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)
Bessemer.
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sir henry joseph wood
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noun English conductor (1869-1944)
Sir Henry Joseph Wood; Wood.
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sir henry maxmilian beerbohm
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noun English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)
Beerbohm; Max Beerbohm.
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sir henry morgan
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noun a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
Henry Morgan; Morgan.
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sir henry morton stanley
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noun Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
Stanley; John Rowlands; Henry M. Stanley.
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sir henry percy
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noun English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)
Percy; Harry Hotspur; Hotspur.
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sir henry rider haggard
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noun British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
Rider Haggard; Haggard.
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sir henry wood
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noun English conductor (1869-1944)
Sir Henry Joseph Wood; Wood.
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sir herbert beerbohm tree
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noun English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)
Tree.
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sir hiram stevens maxim
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noun English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)
Maxim.
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sir howard walter florey
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noun British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)
Florey; Howard Florey.
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sir humphrey davy
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noun English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
Humphrey Davy; Davy.
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sir humphrey gilbert
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noun English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
Gilbert; Humphrey Gilbert.
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sir isaac newton
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noun English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
Isaac Newton; Newton.
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sir isaac pitman
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noun English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)
Pitman.
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sir jack hobbs
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noun notable English cricketer (1882-1963)
Hobbs; John Berry Hobbs.
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sir jacob epstein
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noun British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)
Epstein; Jacob Epstein.
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sir james augustus henry murray
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noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
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sir james augustus murray
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noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
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sir james clark ross
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noun British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
James Clark Ross; Ross.
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sir james dewar
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noun Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)
Dewar.
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sir james george frazer
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noun English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)
James George Frazer; Frazer.
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sir james matthew barrie
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noun Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)
James Matthew Barrie; J. M. Barrie; James Barrie; Barrie.
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sir james murray
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noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
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sir james paget
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noun English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899)
Paget.
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sir james paul mccartney
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noun English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
McCartney; Paul McCartney.
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sir james young simpson
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noun Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)
Simpson.
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sir john carew eccles
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noun Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997)
John Eccles; Eccles.
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sir john cockcroft
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noun British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)
Cockcroft; Sir John Cockcroft.
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sir john cowdery kendrew
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noun English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917)
Kendrew.
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sir john douglas cockcroft
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noun British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)
Cockcroft; Sir John Cockcroft.
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sir john everett millais
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noun Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896)
Millais.
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sir john falstaff
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noun a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays
Falstaff.
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sir john frederick william herschel
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noun English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
Herschel; John Herschel; Sir John Frederick William Herschel.
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sir john gielgud
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noun English actor of Shakespearean roles who was also noted for appearances in films (1904-2000)
Gielgud; Arthur John Gielgud.
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sir john hawkins
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noun English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
Hawkins; Hawkyns; Sir John Hawkins.
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sir john hawkyns
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noun English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
Hawkins; Hawkyns; Sir John Hawkins.
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sir john herschel
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noun English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
Herschel; John Herschel; Sir John Frederick William Herschel.
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sir john ross
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noun Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
John Ross; Ross.
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sir john suckling
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noun English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
Suckling.
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sir john tenniel
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noun English cartoonist (1820-1914)
Tenniel.
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sir john vanbrigh
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noun English architect (1664-1726)
Vanbrugh; John Vanbrugh.
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sir joseph banks
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noun English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
Banks.
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sir joseph john thomson
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noun English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)
Joseph John Thomson; Thomson.
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sir joseph paxton
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noun English architect (1801-1865)
Paxton; Joseph Paxton.
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sir joshua reynolds
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noun English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792)
Reynolds.
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sir karl raimund popper
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noun British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
Karl Popper; Popper.
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sir lancelot
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noun (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere
Lancelot.
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sir laurence kerr olivier
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noun English actor best know for his Shakespearean roles (1907-1989)
Baron Olivier of Birghton; Laurence Olivier; Olivier.
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sir leonard hutton
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noun English cricketer (1916-1990)
Hutton.
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sir leonard woolley
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noun English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960)
Woolley; Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.
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sir leslie stephen
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noun English writer (1832-1904)
Stephen.
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sir martin frobisher
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noun English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594)
Frobisher.
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sir matthew flinders
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noun British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
Matthew Flinders; Flinders.
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sir mortimer wheeler
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noun Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)
Sir Mortimer Wheeler; Wheeler.
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sir noel pierce coward
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noun English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)
Coward; Noel Coward.
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sir oliver joseph lodge
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noun English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
Lodge; Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge.
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sir oliver lodge
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noun English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
Lodge; Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge.
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sir patrick manson
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noun Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922)
Manson.
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sir paul gavrilovich vinogradoff
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noun British historian (born in Russia) (1854-1925)
Vinogradoff.
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sir peter brian medawar
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noun British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)
Medawar; Peter Medawar.
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sir peter paul rubens
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noun prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640)
Rubens; Peter Paul Rubens.
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sir peter ustinov
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noun British actor and playwright (1921-2004)
Ustinov; Peter Alexander Ustinov.
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sir philip sidney
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noun English poet (1554-1586)
Sidney.
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sir rabindranath tagore
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noun Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941)
Rabindranath Tagore; Tagore.
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sir ralph david richardson
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noun British stage and screen actor noted for playing classic roles (1902-1983)
Richardson; Ralph Richardson.
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Sir reverance
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Reverence , n.
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sir rex harrison
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noun English actor on stage and in films (1908-1990)
Reginald Carey Harrison; Rex Harrison; Harrison.
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sir richard burton
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noun English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)
Burton; Sir Richard Burton; Richard Burton.
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sir richard francis burton
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noun English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)
Burton; Sir Richard Burton; Richard Burton.
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sir richard owen
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noun English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)
Owen.
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sir richrd steele
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noun English writer (1672-1729)
Steele.
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sir robert eric mortimer wheeler
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noun Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)
Sir Mortimer Wheeler; Wheeler.
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sir robert peel
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noun British politician (1788-1850)
Robert Peel; Peel.
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sir robert robinson
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noun English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
Robert Robinson; Robinson.
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sir robert walpole
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noun Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
Walpole; First Earl of Orford; Robert Walpole.
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sir roger gilbert bannister
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noun English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)
Bannister; Roger Bannister.
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sir ronald ross
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noun British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932)
Ross.
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sir sarvepalli radhakrishnan
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noun Indian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian philosophy to the West (1888-1975)
Radhakrishnan; Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
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sir seretse khama
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noun Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980)
Khama.
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sir stephen harold spender
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noun English poet and critic (1909-1995)
Stephen Spender; Spender.
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sir terence mervyn rattigan
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noun British playwright (1911-1977)
Terence Rattigan; Rattigan.
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sir thomas gresham
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noun English financier (1519-1579)
Gresham.
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sir thomas lawrence
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noun English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
Lawrence.
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sir thomas malory
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noun English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471)
Malory; Thomas Malory.
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sir thomas more
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noun English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state
Thomas More; More.
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sir thomas raffles
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noun British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
Raffles; Sir Thomas Raffles.
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sir thomas stamford raffles
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noun British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
Raffles; Sir Thomas Raffles.
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sir thomas wyat
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noun English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542)
Wyatt; Sir Thomas Wyat; Wyat.
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sir thomas wyatt
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noun English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542)
Wyatt; Sir Thomas Wyat; Wyat.
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sir tim rice
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noun English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
Timothy Miles Bindon Rice; Rice.
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sir tom stoppard
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noun British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937)
Thomas Straussler; Tom Stoppard; Stoppard.
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sir walter norman haworth
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noun English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950)
Haworth.
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sir walter ralegh
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noun English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
Sir Walter Ralegh; Walter Ralegh; Raleigh; Walter Raleigh; Ralegh.
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sir walter raleigh
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noun English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
Sir Walter Ralegh; Walter Ralegh; Raleigh; Walter Raleigh; Ralegh.
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sir walter scott
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noun British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
Walter Scott; Scott.
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sir william alexander craigie
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noun English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966)
William A. Craigie; Craigie.
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sir william chambers
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noun English architect (1723-1796)
Chambers; William Chambers.
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sir william crookes
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noun English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)
William Crookes; Crookes.
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sir william gerald golding
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noun English novelist (1911-1993)
Golding; William Golding.
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sir william gilbert
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noun a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
William Gilbert; Gilbert; William S. Gilbert; William Schwenk Gilbert.
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sir william herschel
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noun English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
William Herschel; Herschel; Sir Frederick William Herschel.
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sir william huggins
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noun English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
Huggins.
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sir william rowan hamilton
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noun Irish mathematician (1806-1865)
William Rowan Hamilton; Hamilton.
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sir william turner walton
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noun English composer (1902-1983)
Sir William Turner Walton; Walton; William Walton.
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sir william wallace
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noun Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)
Wallace.
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sir william walton
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noun English composer (1902-1983)
Sir William Turner Walton; Walton; William Walton.
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sir winston leonard spenser churchill
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noun British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)
Churchill; Winston Churchill; Winston S. Churchill.
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sir yehudi menuhin
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noun British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (1916-1999)
Yehudi Menuhin; Menuhin.