List of German Britons
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Contents |
[edit] Famous Britons with German ancestry
[edit] Aristocracy
- British Royal Family (beginning with King George I)
- The Astor Family in Britain
[edit] Business & Commerce
- Sir Ernest Cassel, Merchant banker
[edit] Inventors and Researchers
[edit] Arts & Music
- Lucian Freud, Painter
- George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
[edit] Media
[edit] Actors & Actresses
- Matilda Ziegler, actress best known for playing the girlfriend of Mr. Bean
[edit] Comedians
[edit] TV Personalities
- Julian Clary, comedian whose great-grandparents were German
- Alexander Eugen Conrady, Optical engineer
- Frederick Delius, Composer
- Friedrich Engels, philosopher, and collaborator with Karl Marx.
- Michael Fassbender, Actor
- James Goldsmith (German Father), Financier and founder of the Referendum Party
- George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Statesman and Businessman
- Rainer Hersch, British musical comedian
- Sir Frederick William Herschel, Astronomer
- Gustav Holst, British composer (of German-Swedish descent)
- Hans Holbein the Younger, Renaissance-era painter of Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour
- Sir Derek Jacobi, actor both of whose parents were of German descent
- Joseph Jonas, mayor of Sheffield
- Godfrey Kneller, leading 17th and 18th century court painter to Charles II
- Karl Marx, ethnically Jewish (of German descent) revolutionary economist and philosopher
- Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner Colonial administrator and Cabinet Minister.
- Alexander Von Moltke, Art Deco interior designer
- Katya Adler, BBC World Correspondent
- Sarah Mohr-Pietsch, Radio 3 Presenter
- Paul Julius Reuter, founder of Reuters news agency
- Timothy Reuter, historian
- Franz Reizenstein, composer and concert-pianist
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Founder of NM Rothschild, the UK Merchant Bank
- Bruno Schroder, Billionaire member of the Schroders banking dynasty
- Arthur Schuster, physicist
- Mary Ann Sieghart, assistant editor of The Times
- J. R. R. Tolkien, writer, born in South Africa to a German-English father, whose family returned to England at a young age
- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor-manager
- Anton Walbrook, Actor
- Babette Wasserman, international jewellery designer
- Sir Julius Wernher, Entrepreneur and Art Collector
