List: People from Oxfordshire

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•  John Brunner (novelist)

  John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 September 1934 – 26 August 1995) was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA award in 1970.

  

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•  Richard I of England

  Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Nantes, and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was known as Cœur de Lion, or Richard the Lionheart, even before his accession, because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior.

  

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•  Edward the Confessor

  Edward the Confessor (c. 1003 – 5 January 1066), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066 (technically the last being Edgar the Ætheling who was proclaimed king briefly in late 1066, but was deposed after about eight weeks. ) His reign marked the continuing disintegration of royal power in England and the advancement in power of the earls.

  

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•  George Michael

  George Michael, born as Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou is a two-time Grammy Award winning English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s, when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, Careless Whisper was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.

  

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•  Maria Edgeworth

  Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1767 – 22 May 1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and children's writer. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature.

  

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•  Michael Caine

  Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born 14 March 1933) is an English film actor. Caine has appeared in more than 100 films and is one of only two actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (leading or supporting) in every decade since the 1960s (Jack Nicholson being the other).

  

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•  Ronnie Barker

  Ronald William George Barker, OBE (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Norman Stanley Fletcher in the British comedy television series Porridge, as various characters in the British comedy television series The Two Ronnies and as Albert Arkwright in the British comedy television series Open All Hours.

  

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•  Martin Amis

  Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, the author of some of Britain's best-known modern literature, including Money (1986) and London Fields (1989). He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

  

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•  William Smith (geologist)

  William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. He is known as the "Father of English Geology" for collating the geological history of England into a single record, although recognition was very slow in coming.

  

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•  Adam Clayton

  Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is the bassist of the Irish rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well-known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "With or Without You", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing.

  

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•  Mitford family

  The Mitford family is a minor aristocratic English family that traces its origins in Northumberland back to the time of the Norman Conquest. The main family line had seats at Mitford Castle, Mitford Old Manor House and from 1828, the then-newly-built Mitford Hall. Several heads of the family served as High Sheriff of Northumberland. This is a junior line, with seats at Newton Park, Northumberland and Exbury House, Hampshire. The line descends via the historian William Mitford.

  

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•  Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

  Maj. -Gen. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet CB (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire. In 1827 he went to India as a cadet under the British East India Company. After six years with his regiment as subaltern, during which time he had become proficient in the Persian language, he was sent to Persia in company with other British officers to drill and reorganize the Shah's troops.

  

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•  George Rawlinson

  Canon George Rawlinson (23 November 1812 – 7 October 1902) was a 19th century English scholar and historian. He was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, and was the younger brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson. Having taken his degree at the University of Oxford in 1838, he was elected to a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1840, of which from 1842 to 1846 he was fellow and tutor.

  

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•  John de Gray

  John de Gray (died 18 October 1214) was Bishop of Norwich in the English county of Norfolk, as well as being elected Archbishop of Canterbury, but was never confirmed as archbishop.

  

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•  Shute Barrington

  Shute Barrington (26 May 1734 – 25 March 1826) was an English churchman, Bishop of Llandaff in Wales, as well as Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham in England.

  

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•  William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington

  William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington PC (5 January 1717 – 1 February 1793) was a British politician best known for his two periods as Secretary at War during Britain's involvement in the Seven Years War and American War of Independence.

  

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•  P. D. James

  Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring her most iconic creation, policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.

  

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•  Warren Hastings

  Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was the first Governor-General of Bengal, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously accused of corruption in an impeachment in 1787, but was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.

  

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•  Richie Hawtin

  Richard (Richie) Hawtin is a English-Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his abstract, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid 2000s. Hawtin is known for DJing minimal techno sets making use of laptop computers and digital mixing equipment.

  

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•  James Scholefield

  James Scholefield (November 15, 1789 - April 4, 1853), English classical scholar, was born at Henley-on-Thames. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was in 1825 appointed professor of Greek in the university.

  

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•  John Owen (theologian)

  John Owen (1616 – August 24, 1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian.

  

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•  Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester

  Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (7 January 1355 – 8 or 9 September 1397) was the thirteenth and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa. He was the fifth of the five sons of Edward III who survived to adulthood.

  

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•  John Fell (clergyman)

  John Fell (23 June 1625 – 10 July 1686) served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford. He was the son of Samuel Fell, also Dean of Christ Church, and he was born at Longworth, Berkshire

  

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•  Tim Henman

  Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974) is an English retired professional tennis player and former British Number One. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis that suited the grass courts of Wimbledon. He was the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship.

  

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•  Thomas Ellwood

  Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713) was an English religious writer. He was born in Oxfordshire, the son of a rural squire. Educated at Lord Williams's School, he later joined the Quakers and became a friend of William Penn and John Milton. However, he was persecuted for his faith and spent some time in prison. His best-known work, Davideis (1712), is a poem about the life of King David.

  

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