Curated category
Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Jack ScarisbrickJohn Joseph Scarisbrick entered the world in London during 1928. His early education took place at The John Fisher School before he joined the Royal Air…
- John LennonAt approximately 5:00 p.m. on the 8th of December 1980, John Lennon autographed a copy of his new album for a man named Mark David Chapman outside his New…
- AdeleAdele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on the 5th of May 1988 in Tottenham, London, and by the time she turned 23, she had already done something no solo artist…
- Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney wrote his first song, "I Lost My Little Girl", on a £15 Framus Zenith acoustic guitar he had traded for a nickel-plated trumpet his father…
- Ed SheeranEd Sheeran was eleven years old when he heard Eric Clapton walk on stage at the Queen's Golden Jubilee concert in June 2002 and play the opening riff of…
- M.I.A. (rapper)Mathangi Arulpragasam was born on the 18th of July 1975 in Hounslow, London, into a family that would spend the next decade running from a civil war.
- Mark MillarMark Millar was born on the 24th of December 1969, in Coatbridge, Scotland, a working-class town near Glasgow where he would spend the first half of his life.
- George HarrisonGeorge Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool, on the 25th of February 1943, in a terraced house on a cul-de-sac with an outdoor toilet…
- Ringo StarrRingo Starr was born on the 7th of July 1940 at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, one of the oldest and poorest inner-city districts in Liverpool.
- Jeremy Black (historian)Jeremy Black entered the academic world through a specific sequence of institutions. He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, before moving to St John's…
- Emilia ClarkeEmilia Clarke was lying in a hospital in London in February 2011, unable to say her own name. A ruptured brain aneurysm had just nearly killed her, and the…
- Iain Stewart (geologist)Iain Stewart was born in 1964 in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, and by the time he stood inside an 8-by-2-by-2 meter box with banana trees while scientists…
- D. P. Roy ChoudhuryDevi Prasad Roy Choudhury entered the world on the 15th of June 1899 at Tejhat in Rangpur. This region belonged to undivided Bengal within British India…
- Harry KaneHarry Edward Kane was born on the 28th of July 1993 at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, London. He grew up in Walthamstow before his family…