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List of British people with German ancestry

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This is a list of notable British people with German ancestry.

Academia

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  • Ralf Dahrendorf KBE (1929–2009), sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician; born in Hamburg, he acquired British citizenship in 1988
  • Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), (born Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg), historian specialising in the Tudor period, born in Tübingen, moved to Britain in 1939
  • Edgar Feuchtwanger OBE (born 1924), born in Munich, historian and author
  • Max Müller (1823–1900), comparative philologist and Orientalist, born in Dessau, became professor at Oxford University in 1850
  • Marius Ostrowski (born 1988), political theorist and historian of ideas and ideologies, born in Frankfurt am Main, moved to Britain in 1994
  • Timothy Reuter (1947–2002), historian of medieval Europe whose father was born in Germany.[1]
  • John Stein, professor of physiology and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; brother of the chef Rick Stein
  • J. R. R. Tolkien CBE (1892–1973), writer, poet, philologist, linguist and professor of Anglo-Saxon; his family had German roots but had been living in England since the 18th century; "Tolkien" derives from the German "tollkühn", meaning "foolhardy".
  • Sir Guenter Treitel (1928–2019), academic lawyer and expert in English contract law; emigrated on the Kindertransport in 1939

Aristocracy and royalty

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Art

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Commerce

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Entertainment

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Literature

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Music

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News and journalism

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Politics and government

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Science

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Sport

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Other

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Nelson, Jinty (17 October 2002). "Timothy Reuter". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  2. ^ Grunwald, Kurt (1969). "'Windsor-Cassel' – The last court Jew: Prolegomena to a biography of Sir Ernest Cassel". Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. 14 (1): 119–161. doi:10.1093/leobaeck/14.1.119.
  3. ^ "Julian Clary". Who Do You Think You Are?. BBC. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  4. ^ Didcock, Barry (30 April 2006). "A life in pictures Richard E Grant not only made a film of his diaries, he kept a diary during filming". Sunday Herald. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  5. ^ "1901 England Census". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  6. ^ Jasper Rees (15 July 2002). "Crown him with many crowns". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
  7. ^ "Olivia Newton-John, 'Grease' star and granddaughter of Jewish Nobel laureate, dies at 73". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  8. ^ Newton-John, Olivia (2019). Don't Stop Believin'. Simon and Schuster. p. 10. ISBN 9781982122263.
  9. ^ "Rick Stein". Who Do You Think You Are?. BBC. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  10. ^ Dassanayake, Dion (3 May 2013). "Great-grandfather of Ukip leader Nigel Farage 'was born to German immigrants'". Daily Express. London. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013.
  11. ^ Warner, Gerald (23 April 2010). "Revealed: how David Cameron and Boris Johnson are related (and Nick Clegg's Mata Hari connection)". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 26 April 2010.
  12. ^ Mock, Wolfgang (1981). The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany, 1850-1950. London: German Historical Institute. p. 115. ISBN 0-7099-1710-4.
  13. ^ "Professor Andre Geim, FRS (Condensed Matter Physics Group – The University of Manchester)". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012.
  14. ^ Hurst, Geoff & Hart, Michael (2002), 1966 and All That, Headline, p. 24