Arts and Literature
- Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge
- Sir Israel Gollancz, Shakespeare expert
- Sir Ernst Gombrich, art historian (JYB 2000 p211)
- Sir Sidney Lee, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Shakespeare expert
- Siegbert Salomon Prawer, professor of German (JYB 2005 p215)
- Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery, 1987-
- Ernest Simon, professor of Chinese (JYB 1980 p183)
- Arthur Waley (Poet, translator of Chinese and Japanese literature)
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