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Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a Royal Navy officer and the first Governor of New South Wales who led the British settlement and colonisation of Australia. He established ...
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Ernest Edward Mills Joyce AM (c.– 2 May 1940) was a Royal Naval seaman and explorer who participated in four Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, in the early 20th century ...
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Frederick Bernard de Neumann (known in Austria and Germany as Bernhard von Neumann; (15 December 1943 – 18 April 2018) was a British mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, and naval historian.
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Peter Charles Richards (born 10 March 1978) is a former English rugby union player. A versatile player, he has played in three positions: scrum half (his preferred role), fly-half and centre. Richards ...
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Rear-Admiral Stanley Lawrence McArdle, CB, MVO, GM, JP (27 September 1922 – 4 December 2007) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy, and a recipient of the George Medal for his efforts in the ...
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Douglas 'Doug' Lewis CBE (born October 8, 1940) is a British philanthropist and former Naval officer. He is currently the International President of the International Social Service (ISS). Between 2004 ...
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John Henry Gooding, alias Frank Digby Hardy (5 April 1868 – 28 October 1930) was an English naval writer, journalist, soldier, career criminal and would-be spy during the Irish War of Independence. Born ...
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Sir Henry Felix Woods (1843–1929), KCVO, also known as Woods Pasha, was a British-Ottoman admiral and a pasha in Imperial Ottoman Naval Service.
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Harry Pursey (24 August 1891 – 13 December 1980) was a British politician and naval officer, who began his career as a boy seaman and served as a Member of Parliament for twenty-five years.
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Duncan Alexander Croall Scott-Ford (4 September 1921 – 3 November 1942) was a British merchant seaman who was hanged for treachery after giving information to an enemy agent during the Second World ...
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John Deane (1800–1884; known as The Infernal Diver), with his brother Charles, invented the diving helmet and performed diving operations at the wreck of the Mary Rose. They received their education at ...
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Charles William James Allison (born 2 March 2005) is an English cricketer who plays for Essex County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman and right arm medium pace bowler.