Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many
techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both
silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while retaining his British
citizenship. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin
became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood
era of American cinema. Chaplin acted in, directed, scripted, produced and eventually scored his own films as one of the most
creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era.
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer
and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist. Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American
chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis.
Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG (born Leslie Townes Hope, May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), was a British-born American comedian and actor
who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed
Forces and his numerous USO tours entertaining American military personnel. Throughout his career, he was honored for his
humanitarian work. In 1996, the U.S.
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth
of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost and for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. He
was both an accomplished, scholarly man of letters and polemical writer, and an official serving under Oliver Cromwell. His
views may be described as broadly Protestant, if not always easy to locate in a more precise religious category.
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (born 25 June 1963), best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, English
singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul-influenced, solo pop musician. According
to britishhitsongwriters. com, he is the fortieth most successful songwriter in UK singles chart history based on weeks that
his compositions have spent on the chart.
