Sir Alexander Mackenzie
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~ 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)
Sir James George Frazer
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~ English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)
Sir John Hawkins
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~ English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
Sir Fred Hoyle
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~ an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
Sir Alexander Korda
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~ British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956)
Sir Gawain
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~ (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table
Sir Martin Frobisher
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~ 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)
Sir James Clark Ross
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~ 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)
Sir John Hawkyns
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~ English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
Sir James Paget
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~ English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899)
Sir Edward Elgar
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~ 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 Roger Gilbert Bannister
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~ English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)
Sir Noel Pierce Coward
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~ English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)
Sir Alexander Fleming
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~ Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
Sir James Augustus Murray
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~ Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Sir John Herschel
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~ English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)