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32 unusual facts about English people


Alfred Tysoe

Alfred Ernest Tysoe (21 March 1874 – 26 October 1901) was an English athlete, and winner of two gold medals at the 1900 Olympic Games representing Great Britain.

Arthur Francis O'Donel Alexander

Arthur Francis O'Donel Alexander (1896–1971) was an English amateur astronomer and author.

August October

"August October" is a song written and performed by English singer-songwriter Robin Gibb, the second and the last song released from the album Robin's Reign.

Deb Willet

Deborah "Deb" Willet (1650–1678) was a young maid employed by Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament.

Don't Break My Heart Again

"Don't Break My Heart Again" is a single by the English hard rock band Whitesnake.

English Colts Club Knockout Cup

The English Clubs Knockout Cup or The National Colts Cup is a Nationwide competition for English Rugby union Clubs Colts (under age 19) teams.

Fill Your Boots

Fill Your Boots is the second full-length album by English punk band Leatherface.

George Sweet

George Sweet (1844 – 1920) was an English-born Australian geologist, president of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1905.

Gerald Mortimer

Gerald Mortimer (1937 – 30 December 2013) was an English author and sports journalist, whose career spanned over four decades.

Hand on Heart

"Hand on Heart" is the fifth single by English singer-songwriter Olly Murs for his third studio album Right Place Right Time (2012), although released to promote the 2013 rerelease.

Jill Hunter

Jill Hunter-Boltz (born 14 October 1966) is an English former distance runner who represented Great Britain at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

He was a descendant of Lion Gardiner, an early English settler and soldier in the New World, who founded the first English settlement in what became the state of New York.

John Mackenzie Bacon

John Mackenzie Bacon, FRAS (19 June 1846 – 26 December 1904) was an English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer.

Lay Down Your Weapons

"Lay Down Your Weapons" is a song by English rapper of Greek Cypriot descent K Koke, featuring vocals from British singer-songwriter Rita Ora.

Lesley-Ann Skeete

Lesley-Ann Skeete (born 20 February 1967) is an English former track and field athlete who competed in the 100 metres hurdles.

Love Ain't No Stranger

"Love Ain't No Stranger" is a power ballad by the English hard rock band Whitesnake, and is taken from the band's US-breakthrough album Slide It In.

Make Me Stay a Bit Longer

"Make Me Stay a Bit Longer" was the fourth single by English rock band Status Quo, released 1969.

Molly Leigh

Molly Leigh (1685–1746) was an English woman who was accused of witchcraft, died before being tried, and had her grave disturbed following claims that she still haunted the town.

Only One Woman

"Only One Woman" is a song and the first single by the English rock duo The Marbles, written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees.

Piedmont, Missouri

Among the major first ancestries reported in Piedmont were 21.4% American, 11.6% German, 11.3% Irish, 8.6% English, 3.7% Dutch, and 2.5% French.

Pig Iron – The Album

Pig Iron – The Album is a compilation album by English punk rock band Anti-Nowhere League.

Saint Fulk

The first Saint Fulk (there were three) was an English pilgrim who was beatified for his selfless assistance of plague victims even when this was a risk to himself.

Solfège

In Anglo-Saxon countries, "si" was changed to "ti" by Sarah Glover in the nineteenth century so that every syllable might begin with a different letter.

The Perfect Crime

The Perfect Crime is the second studio album by English punk rock band the Anti-Nowhere League.

The Shield and the Sword

"The Shield and the Sword" is the third single by English singer-songwriter Clare Maguire, taken from her debut album Light After Dark.

The Singer Sang His Song

"The Singer Sang His Song" is a double A-side single by the English rock group Bee Gees, Written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, released in early 1968.

The Walls Fell Down

"The Walls Fell Down" is a third single by the English rock duo The Marbles, Lead vocals by Graham Bonnet it was released in March 1969, and it was written and produced by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees, and was also produced by Robert Stigwood, It reached #28 in the United Kingdom, but in the Netherlands it reached #3.

Tobias Winston

Tobias Winston (1815–1893) was an England businessman.

Unique II

In the early 2000s, English born rapper Christian Troy joined the group, and Sheila Fernandez became the new singer.

Walter Byron

Jacob Walter "Wally" Byron (September 2, 1894 – December 22, 1971) was a Canadian ice hockey player of Icelandic and English decent, who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Warriors' Gate

Warriors' Gate is the fifth serial of the 18th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was written by the English author Stephen Gallagher and first broadcast in four weekly parts from 3 January to 24 January 1981.

Wendy Jeal

Wendy Jeal (née McDonnell, born 21 November 1960) is an English former track and field athlete who competed in the 100 metres hurdles.


A Night in Tuscany

Bocelli performs two opera duets with soprano Nuccia Focile during the concert, before singing Miserere with Italian rock star Zucchero, who discovered him, and Time To Say Goodbye with English soprano Sarah Brightman.

Aaron Burr, Sr.

He was of English ancestry (his grandfather Jehu Burr had been born in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, in 1625, settled in the Connecticut Colony as a young man, and died there in 1692).

Ace Kefford

Christopher John "Ace" Kefford (born 10 December 1946, Moseley, Birmingham, England) is an English bassist.

Ajaz Akhtar

Ajaz Akhtar (born 1 September 1968) is a former Pakistani-born English cricketer.

Alfred Beamish

Alfred Ernest Beamish (6 August 1879 – 28 February 1944) was an English tennis player born in Richard, Surrey, England.

Alfred Goldie

Alfred William Goldie (December 10, 1920, Coseley, Staffordshire – October 8, 2005, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria) was an English Mathematician.

Alfred Watson

Alfred "Alf" Watson from Portobello, Wakefield, is an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s, playing at representative level for England, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity, and Leeds, he was a Prisoner of war in World War II.

Ananias Dare

He was the father of Virginia Dare, whose birth on August 18, 1587 was the first recorded to English parents on the continent of North America.

Aubrey FitzClarence, 4th Earl of Munster

Aubrey FitzClarence, 4th Earl of Munster, (7 June 1862 – 1 January 1928), was an English aristocrat, and, like his brother, Geoffrey, the great-grandson of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan.

Bizarre Inc

Bizarre Inc were a house/dance-pop band from Stafford, England, that formed in 1989 as a duo of English DJs Dean Meredith and Mark "Aaron" Archer (not to be confused with the film producer of same name).

Bournbrook

Charles Henry Tickle, otherwise Charlie Tickle, (born 1883), English professional footballer who played as an inside forward for Small Heath F.C. (later renamed Birmingham City F.C. in 1905), and who lived in both Heeley Road and Exeter Road

Charles Blahous

Blahous was born in 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, the second of three children of Charles Paul Blahous II of Czech descent and Marjorie Alice Robertson of Scot/English ancestry.

Cochrane's Craft

Cochrane’s Craft, which is also known as Cochranianism, is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Witchcraft founded in 1951 by the English Witch Robert Cochrane, who himself claimed to have been taught it by some of his elderly family members, a claim that is disputed by some historians such as Ronald Hutton and Leo Ruickbie.

Daniel Abineri

Daniel Abineri (born 8 August 1958) is an English songwriter and playwright known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the controversial rock musical Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom.

Denise Low

A 5th generation Kansan of mixed German, Scots, Lenape (Delaware), English, French, and Cherokee heritage, she was born and grew up in Emporia, Kansas, where she began her writing career as a high school correspondent for the Emporia Gazette.

Edward Mosby

Edward P. Mosby was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, playing at representative level for England, and at club level for Bradford (now Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C.).

George Freemantle

George Freemantle (born 14th March 1806, Easton, Hampshire; details of death unknown) was an English cricketer who was associated with Hampshire and made his first-class debut in 1829.

God Save the Tsar!

In 1842, English author Henry F. Chorley wrote God, the Omnipotent! set to Lvov's tune and published in 19th and 20th century hymnals as the Russian Hymn.

Hands to Heaven

"Hands to Heaven" is the title of a popular song released in 1987 and peaking on the charts in 1988 (see 1988 in music) by the English pop group Breathe.

I Need You Tonight

"I Need You Tonight" is the debut single by English rapper and singer Professor Green, featuring vocals from Ed Drewett.

Jacki Piper

Jacqueline Crump (born 3 August 1948), known professionally by her stage name Jacki Piper, is an English actress, best known for her appearances as the female juvenile lead in the British film comedies Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Carry On Loving (1970), Carry On at Your Convenience (1971), and Carry On Matron (1972).

Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens

In 1857 he married the English soprano Helen Sherrington (1834–1906), who in the following decade emerged as a leading English concert and operatic singer.

Jacqui McShee

Jacqueline 'Jacqui' McShee (born 25 December 1943, Catford, South London) is an English singer.

Jimmy Kruger

In the film Cry Freedom (1987), which was based on Woods's role in the anti-apartheid struggle, Kruger was portrayed by English actor John Thaw.

Joshua Soule

Born to Joshua and Mary (Cushman) Soule at Broad Cove in Bristol (now Bremen), Maine, Soule was the fifth child in a Norman-English family.

K.I.D.

Bastow, who is also known as Geoff Bastow (born 1949 in Yorkshire, England, died 2007 in Munich), was a Munich-based English songwriter and music producer.

Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott is an English electronic music producer from Norwich, Norfolk, with releases on Output Recordings, Trash Aesthetics and James Holden's Border Community label.

Marianne Davies

Marianne Davies (1743 or 1744, England - c. 1818) was an English musician, and the sister of the classical soprano Cecilia Davies.

Matthew Hartmann

Matthew James Calibjo "Matt" Hartmann was born on August 19, 1989, is an EnglishFilipino footballer who plays as a left back or left midfielder for Loyola Meralco Sparks.

Mesochorista proavita

Specimens of Mesochorista proavita were first described by the English-Australian entomologist Robert John Tillyard in 1916.

Michael Creeth

James Michael Creeth (3 October 1924 – 15 January 2010) was an English biochemist whose experiments on DNA viscosity confirming the existence of hydrogen bonds between the purine and pyrimidine bases of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Natasha Cooper

Natasha J. Cooper (born 1951 in Kensington, London) is an English crime fiction writer.

Portrait of a Young Man with a Golden Chain

Besides the pictures already mentioned, the painting in São Paulo Museum of Art served as inspiration for the Portrait of John Pine, undertaken by the English Sculptor and painter William Hogarth in 1755, currently kept in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, Canada.

Raymond Flood

Raymond David Flood (born 21 November 1935, in Northam, Southampton, Hampshire) is a former English cricketer.

Roland Leather

Roland Sutcliffe Leather (17 August 1880 – 3 January 1913) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1906, against the West Indian tourists at St George's Road Cricket Ground, Harrogate.

Scottish rugby union system

With the advent of professionalism in 1995 the Scottish Rugby Union decided that existing club sides would be unable to compete with their wealthier English and French counterparts in new cross-border tournaments such as the European Cup and Celtic League.

Tamsin Wilton

Tamsin Elizabeth Wilton (1952 – April 30, 2006) was an English academic, a lesbian activist, theorist, social researcher, writer and cartoonist, and professor of Human Sexuality in the School of Social Science at the University of the West of England.

The God Argument

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism is a 2013 book by English philosopher and humanist, A. C. Grayling, which counters the arguments for the existence of God, and puts forward humanism as an alternative to religion.

Thomas Cup

The Thomas Cup competition was the idea of Sir George Alan Thomas, a highly successful English badminton player of the early 1900s, who was inspired by tennis's Davis Cup, and football's (soccer's) World Cup first held in 1930.

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr

Thomas West, 3rd and 12th Baron De La Warr (9 July 1577 – 7 June 1618) was the Englishman after whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named.

Welsford-Parker Monument

(Treating the wounded from these battles was celebrated English nurse Florence Nightingale.)