| SIR | British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) |
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| SIR | English conductor (1869-1944) |
| SIR | English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917) |
| SIR | English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916) |
| SIR | British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968) |
| SIR | English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829) |
| SIR | English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583) |
| SIR | English mathematician and physicist |
| SIR | English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897) |
| SIR | notable English cricketer (1882-1963) |
| SIR | British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959) |
| SIR | Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) |