Wives of knights

The list Wives of knights includes Vivien Leigh, Linda McCartney, Susan Hampshire, Princess Anne and Agatha Christie. The list consists of 804 members.

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Vivien Leigh

British actress (1913–1967)

Overview: Vivien Leigh (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967; born Vivian Mary Hartley and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947) was a British stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for ...

Date of birth: 5 November 1913

Date of death: 8 July 1967

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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Women who experienced pregnancy loss 174T

Spouses of life peers 227T

Tuberculosis deaths in England 241T
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Barbara Bach

American actress (born 1946)

Overview: Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey (born Barbara Goldbach; August 28, 1946) is an American actress and model, best known for her role as the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is the wife of ...

Date of birth: 27 August 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Ringo Starr (Married)

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Actresses of Irish descent 598T

People from Rosedale, Queens 21T

Wives of the Beatles 9T
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Linda McCartney

American photographer and musician (1941–1998)

Overview: Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; formerly See; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, animal rights activist, and entrepreneur. She was best known ...

Date of birth: 24 September 1941

Date of death: 17 April 1998

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Female

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American vegetarianism activists 103T

Vegetarian cookbook writers 45T

Paul McCartney Band members 10T
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Georgie Thompson

British TV presenter

Overview: Georgina Jane Ainslie, Lady Ainslie (born 25 September 1977), better known as Georgie Thompson, is an English television presenter.

Date of birth: 25 September 1977

Age: 46

Nationality: British

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

Partner: Ben Ainslie (Married)

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People educated at Queenswood School 10T

Sky Sports presenters and reporters 49T

English reporters and correspondents 75T
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Merle Oberon

British actress (1911–1979)

Overview: Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress who began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry ...

Date of birth: 19 February 1911

Date of death: 23 November 1979

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Sri Lankan people of New Zealand descent 2T

British actresses of Asian descent 169T

Hollywood Walk of Fame 371T
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Gayle Hunnicutt

American actress (1943–2023)

Overview: Gayle Jenkins, Lady Jenkins (née Hunnicutt; February 6, 1943 - August 31, 2023) was an American film, television and stage actress. She made more than 30 film appearances.

Date of birth: 6 February 1943

Date of death: 31 August 2023

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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American women non-fiction writers 2,641T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 4,265T

21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,805T
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Heather Mills

English former model, media personality, businesswoman, and activist

Overview: Heather Anne Mills (born 12 January 1968) is an English former model, businesswoman and animal rights activist.

Date of birth: 12 January 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: British

Occupation: Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Mike Dickman (Engaged)

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Models from Hampshire 16T

Models from Tyne and Wear 4T

Businesspeople from Aldershot 7T
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Princess Margaret

British princess (1930–2002) and sister of Queen Elizabeth II

Overview: Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO, CD (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and the only sibling of Queen ...

Date of birth: 21 August 1930

Date of death: 9 February 2002

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

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Stroke-related deaths in England 80T

Girlguiding officials 18T

Children of George VI 2T
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Shakira Caine

Guyanese former actress and fashion model (born 1947)

Overview: Shakira Baksh, Lady Caine (born 23 February 1947) is a Guyanese former actress and fashion model. She is married to English actor Sir Michael Caine.

Date of birth: 23 February 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: Guyanese

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Partner: Michael Caine (Married)

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Miss World 1967 delegates 4T

Guyanese emigrants to England 59T

Guyanese actresses 6T
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Sabrina Guinness

British socialite

Overview: Sabrina Guinness, Lady Stoppard (born 9 January 1955) is an Irish television producer.

Date of birth: 9 January 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

Partner: Tom Stoppard (Married)

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Stoppard family 5T

Twin people from Ireland 44T

Irish socialites 17T
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Susan Hampshire

British actress, born 1937

Overview: Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, (born 12 May 1937) is an English actress. She is a three-time Emmy Award winner, winning for the television dramas, The Forsyte Saga in 1970, The First Churchills in 1971 ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1937

Age: 87

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Eddie Kulukundis (Married)

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Writers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 70T

Actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 136T

Actors from Kensington 50T
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Moira Shearer

British ballerina

Overview: Moira Shearer King, Lady Kennedy (17 January 1926 – 31 January 2006), was an internationally renowned British ballet dancer and actress. She is best remembered for her performances in Powell and Press ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1926

Date of death: 31 January 2006

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Scottish ballerinas 4T

Scottish film actresses 148T

People educated at Dunfermline High School 16T
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Penny Lancaster

British model and photographer

Overview: Penny, Lady Stewart (née Lancaster; born 15 March 1971), is an English model, photographer and TV personality. She is married to rock singer Sir Rod Stewart. In 2014, she joined the ITV lunchtime show ...

Date of birth: 15 March 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: British

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Rod Stewart (Married)

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Photographers from Essex 15T

Family of Rod Stewart 8T

British special constables 51T
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Princess Anne

British princess (born 1950)

Overview: Anne, Princess Royal, KG, KT, GCVO, GCStJ, QSO, CD (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Timothy Laurence (Married)

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Children of Elizabeth II 4T

Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 284T

Recipients of the National Order of Madagascar 6T
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Oona Chaplin

Wife of Sir Charles Chaplin

Overview: Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin (14 May 1925 – 27 September 1991) was an English-American actress, the daughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth ...

Date of birth: 14 May 1925

Date of death: 27 September 1991

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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Actresses of Irish descent 598T

Brearley School alumnae 87T

Actresses of British descent 497T
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Joan Plowright

British actress (born 1929)

Overview: Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, D.B.E. (née Plowright; born 28 October 1929), commonly known as Dame Joan Plowright, is a retired English actress whose career has spanned over seven decades. She has ...

Date of birth: 28 October 1929

Age: 94

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Spouses of life peers 219T

Actresses from Lincolnshire 18T

21st-century English actresses 1,309T
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Agatha Christie

English author

Overview: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly ...

Date of birth: 15 September 1890

Date of death: 12 January 1976

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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British women historical novelists 1T

British women mystery writers 116T

British ghost story writers 73T
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Anita Dobson

Actor

Overview: Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949) is an English stage, film and television actress, and singer. She is best known for her role from 1985 to 1988 as Angie Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 1986 ...

Date of birth: 29 April 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

Partner: Brian May (Married)

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BBC Records artists 11T

English soap opera actresses 691T

English stage actresses 1,664T
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Rebecca Miller

American actress and film director (born 1962)

Overview: Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American filmmaker and novelist, known for her films Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The ...

Date of birth: 15 September 1962

Age: 61

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Partner: Daniel Day-Lewis (Married)

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Film directors from Connecticut 55T

Screenwriters from Connecticut 86T

Women film directors 540T
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Giannina Facio

Costa Rican actor

Overview: Giannina Facio, Lady Scott (born Giannina Facio Franco; September 10, 1955), is a Costa Rican actress and producer who has appeared in a number of films, especially those of her husband, British film ...

Date of birth: 10 September 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: Costa Rican

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Partner: Ridley Scott (Married)

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Costa Rican film actresses 3T

Scott family (filmmaking) 8T

Costa Rican expatriates in England 6T