J. R. R. Tolkien, 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, academic lawyer and expert in English contract law
Ernest Cossart, actor born as Emil von Holst; brother of the composer
Gustav Holst and consequently of German, Swedish, British, Latvian and Spanish descent
Rupert Everett, actor whose great-great-grandmother, Augusta Clara de Schmiedern, was a scion of the aristocratic Schmiedern family (
Barons von Schmeidern)
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor and theatre manager who was born as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, son of Julius Beerbohm; his father was of Dutch,
Lithuanian and German origin
Iris Tree, actress, poet and artists' model; daughter of Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Viola Tree, actress; daughter of Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Rick Stein, chef, restaurateur and television presenter whose father, Eric Stein, was of German descent (an ancestor, Julius Otto Stein, emigrated from Germany in the 19th century)[9]
John Berger, art critic and novelist, grandfather from Trieste
Max Beerbohm,
essayist,
novelist and
caricaturist who was of German descent by virtue of his relationship to Herbert Beerbohm Tree, his half-brother; their father was Julius Beerbohm
Robert Graves (full name Robert von Ranke Graves), poet, novelist and scholar, whose German mother was a great-niece of the historian
Leopold von Ranke
Adam Hart-Davis, historian, photographer, television presenter and scientist; son of Rupert Hart-Davis
Jo Johnson, Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament; brother of Boris and Rachel Johnson, and descendant of the
House of Württemberg through an illegitimate line
Joseph Jonas, former Mayor of Sheffield and Imperial German Consul to the city[12]
Angus Robertson,
SNP politician and Member of Parliament; born to a Scottish father and German mother
John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and inventor; son of
William Herschel, the Hanover-born astronomer who emigrated to Great Britain at the age of nineteen
William Herschel,
2nd Baronet, forensic scientist; son of the above John Herschel and grandson of William Herschel
Geoff Hurst, former English international footballer; his mother, Evelyn Blick, was from
Gloucestershire but her family originally came from Germany[14]
Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
^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.
J. R. R. Tolkien, 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, academic lawyer and expert in English contract law
Ernest Cossart, actor born as Emil von Holst; brother of the composer
Gustav Holst and consequently of German, Swedish, British, Latvian and Spanish descent
Rupert Everett, actor whose great-great-grandmother, Augusta Clara de Schmiedern, was a scion of the aristocratic Schmiedern family (
Barons von Schmeidern)
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor and theatre manager who was born as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, son of Julius Beerbohm; his father was of Dutch,
Lithuanian and German origin
Iris Tree, actress, poet and artists' model; daughter of Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Viola Tree, actress; daughter of Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Rick Stein, chef, restaurateur and television presenter whose father, Eric Stein, was of German descent (an ancestor, Julius Otto Stein, emigrated from Germany in the 19th century)[9]
John Berger, art critic and novelist, grandfather from Trieste
Max Beerbohm,
essayist,
novelist and
caricaturist who was of German descent by virtue of his relationship to Herbert Beerbohm Tree, his half-brother; their father was Julius Beerbohm
Robert Graves (full name Robert von Ranke Graves), poet, novelist and scholar, whose German mother was a great-niece of the historian
Leopold von Ranke
Adam Hart-Davis, historian, photographer, television presenter and scientist; son of Rupert Hart-Davis
Jo Johnson, Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament; brother of Boris and Rachel Johnson, and descendant of the
House of Württemberg through an illegitimate line
Joseph Jonas, former Mayor of Sheffield and Imperial German Consul to the city[12]
Angus Robertson,
SNP politician and Member of Parliament; born to a Scottish father and German mother
John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and inventor; son of
William Herschel, the Hanover-born astronomer who emigrated to Great Britain at the age of nineteen
William Herschel,
2nd Baronet, forensic scientist; son of the above John Herschel and grandson of William Herschel
Geoff Hurst, former English international footballer; his mother, Evelyn Blick, was from
Gloucestershire but her family originally came from Germany[14]
Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
^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.