| SIR | English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia |
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| SIR | British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832) |
| SIR | English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966) |
| SIR | English architect (1723-1796) |
| SIR | English chemist and physicist |
| SIR | English novelist (1911-1993) |
| SIR | a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911) |
| SIR | English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822) |
| SIR | English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910) |
| SIR | Irish mathematician (1806-1865) |
| SIR | English composer (1902-1983) |
| SIR | Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I |