List of British people with German ancestry

This is a list of notable Britons with German ancestry.

Aristocracy

• British Royal Family (beginning with King George I)
  British Royal Family (beginning with King George I)

• The Astor Family in Britain

Politics

• George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Statesman and Businessman
• Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner Colonial administrator and Cabinet Minister.
• Joseph Jonas, mayor of Sheffield

Business & Commerce

• Sir Ernest Cassel, Merchant banker
• Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Founder of NM Rothschild, the UK Merchant Bank
• Bruno Schroder, Billionaire member of the Schroders banking dynasty
• Babette Wasserman, international jewellery designer
• Sir Julius Wernher, Entrepreneur and Art Collector

Arts & Music

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  George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
• Gustav Holst, British composer (of German-Swedish descent)
  Gustav Holst, British composer (of German-Swedish descent)
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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

• Lucian Freud, Painter
• Frederick Delius, Composer
• Franz Reizenstein, composer and concert-pianist

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
• Anton Walbrook, Actor
  Anton Walbrook, Actor

• Michael Fassbender, Actor
• Matilda Ziegler, actress best known for playing the girlfriend of Mr. Bean
• Rainer Hersch, British musical comedian

Thinkers

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  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

Journalists

• Katya Adler, BBC World Correspondent
• Sarah Mohr-Pietsch, Radio 3 Presenter
• Paul Julius Reuter, founder of Reuters news agency
• Mary Ann Sieghart, assistant editor of The Times

Writers

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