Talk:List of British people with German ancestry

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Unsourced entries

Since the entire list was unsourced, and in light of this discussion, I've removed all of the entries from the article. They are listed below, as they appeared in the article, so as to facilitate their restoration if and when references can be found. Cordless Larry (talk) 23:15, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

this appears extremly silly as the majority of names on the list are clearly in scope. The majority of names are not even a BLP issue. George Rex has long past away - Mountbatten (former Battenberg as he changed his name in the whole "the merry wifes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" event) has been blown by the IRA. His nephew is missing of the of the list. But he is still alive and and obviously we can't say he is a grandson of his granfather without sourcing. Agathoclea (talk) 11:23, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I realise that not all of the entries are covered by BLP, but the general principle of verifiability still applies. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:27, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

As you can see from the article and from the struck-out entries below, I've started to reinstate some entries with sources. Cordless Larry (talk) 12:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Aristocracy

• 
  King George I - the patriarch of the German branch of the British Royal Family)

• The Astor Family in Britain
• Louis, Earl Mountbatten (born Prince Louis of Battenberg) - Admiral, Viceroy of India, uncle of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

Politics

• 
  Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner Colonial administrator and Cabinet Minister.

• George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Statesman and Businessman
• Joseph Jonas, mayor of Sheffield
• Andrew Brons, controversial MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber

Business & Commerce

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  Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Founder of NM Rothschild, the UK Merchant Bank

• Sir Ernest Cassel, Merchant banker
• Bruno Schroder, Billionaire member of the Schroders banking dynasty
• Babette Wasserman, international jewelry designer
• Sir Julius Wernher, Entrepreneur and Art Collector

Arts & Music

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  George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
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  Hans Holbein the Younger, Renaissance-era painter of Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour
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  Godfrey Kneller, leading 17th and 18th century court painter to Charles II
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  Hubert von Herkomer, 19th century painter
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  Walter Sickert, 19th Century Impressionist painter.
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  Frederick Delius, Composer
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  Lucian Freud, painter
• Charles Halle, 19th century pianist and conductor
  Charles Halle, 19th century pianist and conductor

• Franz Reizenstein, composer and concert-pianist
• Natalie Horler, singer.

Actors, Actresses & Entertainers

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  Julian Clary, comedian whose great-grandparents were German
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  Sir Derek Jacobi, actor both of whose parents were of German descent
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  Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor-manager

• Lilian Harvey, actress known in 1931 Weimar film, Der Kongreß tanzt
• Matilda Ziegler, actress best known for playing the girlfriend of Mr. Bean
• Rainer Hersch, British musical comedian
• Barb Jungr, singer

Thinkers

• 
  Sir Frederick William Herschel, Astronomer
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  Arthur Schuster, physicist
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  Karl Marx, revolutionary economist and philosopher

• Alexander Eugen Conrady, Optical engineer
• Friedrich Engels, philosopher, and collaborator with Karl Marx.

• Timothy Reuter, historian
• Alexander Von Moltke, Art Deco interior designer

Writers

• J. R. R. Tolkien, writer, born in South Africa to a German-English father, whose family returned to England at a young age