term of address for a man

a title used before the name of knight or baronet

English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)

English stage and screen actor noted for versatility (1914-2000)

Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)

British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956)

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)

Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907)

English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)

English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)

English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)

Welsh film actor (born in 1937)

Welsh film actor (born in 1937)

Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)

British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)

British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941)

English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944)

English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)

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)

thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1919

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)

English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)

English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003)

English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960)

English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)

English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)

English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875)

engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)

English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723)

English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)

British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)

Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)

British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)

New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)

New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)

British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)

English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966)

British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)

English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944)

English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944)

British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)

English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

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)

English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)

an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)

British choreographer (1906-1988)

English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)

Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)

English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)