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26 people

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George Curzon George Nathaniel Curzon Conservative viceroy of India and foreign secretary who gave his name to the Curzon Line and led the Allies at Lausanne Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions 1859–1925
Arthur Henderson Arthur Henderson British Labour organizer and politician who led the international disarmament effort. Political and party leadership · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1863–1935
David Lloyd George David Lloyd George Liberal prime minister who led Britain in the later war and argued for moderation towards Germany at the peace conference Political and party leadership · United Kingdom state institutions 1863–1945
Reginald Dyer Reginald Dyer British Indian Army officer who ordered troops to fire on an unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in 1919 Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1864–1927
Lionel Dunsterville Lionel Charles Dunsterville British general who led Dunsterforce across Persia to defend Baku in 1918 Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1865–1946
Ramsay MacDonald Ramsay MacDonald Politician who gave up the Labour chairmanship in 1914 over war credits and later became Britain’s first Labour prime minister Political and party leadership · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1866–1937
Neville Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain The appeasement architect whose bid to avoid war helped open the way to it Political and party leadership · Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 1869–1940
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Winston Churchill Britain's wartime prime minister who divided Europe with Stalin on a half-sheet of paper Government and administration · United Kingdom state institutions 1874–1965
Reginald Drax Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax A naval reformer sent to negotiate without authority Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1880–1967
Sylvia Pankhurst Sylvia Pankhurst Left communist who broke from her mother's WSPU to stand with East End working women, buried among Ethiopian patriots Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1882–1960
Hugh Dowding Hugh Dowding Architect of integrated radar air defence Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1882–1970
Bertram Ramsay Bertram Home Ramsay The naval commander who organized the Dunkirk evacuation Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1883–1945
John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes British economist who left the Treasury in protest at the peace treaty and warned of the damage reparations would do Scholarship and theory · United Kingdom state institutions 1883–1946
Alan Brooke Alan Francis Brooke Britain's professional head of the army and Allied chief strategist Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1883–1963
John Gort John Vereker The field marshal who chose withdrawal at Dunkirk Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1886–1946
Frederick Lindemann Frederick Lindemann The physicist who pushed wartime science into grand strategy Science and technology 1886–1957
Bernard Montgomery Bernard Law Montgomery Commander of the Allied ground forces in Normandy Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1887–1976
Harry Pollitt Harry Pollitt Stalin's personally approved CPGB General Secretary who led the party for 25 years Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1890–1960
Trafford Leigh-Mallory Trafford Leigh-Mallory An air commander who made army cooperation central to Allied air power Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1892–1944
Arthur Harris Arthur Travers Harris The air commander who made strategic bombing central to total war Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1892–1984
Ronald Scobie Ronald MacKenzie Scobie The British general who commanded the Battle of Athens Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1893–1969
William Sholto Douglas William Sholto Douglas The RAF commander who turned Fighter Command from defence toward offence Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1893–1969
James Martin Stagg James Martin Stagg The meteorologist whose forecast shaped an invasion Scholarship and theory 1900–1975
George Orwell George Orwell The democratic socialist who came back wounded from the POUM militia and dissected the language of totalitarianism Literature and arts 1903–1950
Edmund Myers Edmund Myers A British engineer officer drawn into Greek resistance politics Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1906–1997
Christopher Montague Woodhouse Christopher Montague Woodhouse A Greece expert at the boundary of resistance and empire Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1917–2001