List of British people with German ancestry

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

Academia

Aristocracy and royalty

Art

Commerce

Entertainment

Food

  • 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)[7]

Literature

Music

  • Antony Beaumont, musicologist, writer, composer and conductor; born in London of Anglo-German and Greek-Romanian heritage
  • David Bedford, composer and musician; brother of Steuart Bedford (below) and grandson of Liza Lehmann
  • Steuart Bedford, conductor and pianist; brother of the above David Bedford and grandson of Liza Lehmann
  • Justin Broadrick, musician known primarily for Godflesh and Jesu; maternal grandparents were German immigrants.
  • Frederick Delius, composer born as Fritz Theodore Albert Delius in Bradford, Yorkshire to German parents
  • Gustav Holst, composer of British, Swedish, Spanish, Latvian and German descent
  • Bert Jansch, folk musician and descendant of a family originally from Hamburg, who had settled in Scotland during the Victorian era

News and journalism

Politics and government

Science

Sport

  • Nicky Butt, former English international footballer
  • Geoff Hurst, former English international footballer; his mother, Evelyn Blick, was from Gloucestershire but her family originally came from Germany[12]
  • Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
  • Glen Roeder, former English Club football coach
  • Tirnep Turnip, former root vegetable

See also

References

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  2. Grunwald, Kurt (1969). "'Windsor-Cassel' – The last court Jew: Prolegomena to a biography of Sir Ernest Cassel" (PDF). 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.
  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. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
  7. "Rick Stein". Who Do You Think You Are?. BBC. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. "Professor Andre Geim, FRS (Condensed Matter Physics Group – The University of Manchester)". Archived from the original on 19 April 2012.
  12. Hurst, Geoff & Hart, Michael (2002), 1966 and All That, Headline, p. 24
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