Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, was a noted German soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman, colonial governor and amateur artist during the 17th century. He first came to prominence as a Cavalier cavalry commander during the English Civil War.
David Barry Kitson is an English former footballer who played as a striker. He has made 420 appearances in the Premier League and Football League, including 135 for Reading.
Daniel Kitson is an English comedian.
John Wilbye was an English madrigal composer.
Kitson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Sir Henry Hudson Kitson was an English-American sculptor who sculpted many representations of American military heroes. His knighthood was bestowed upon him by Romania's Queen Elisabeth after he sculpted a marble bust of her in the early 1900s.
Frank R. Kitson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played ten seasons with the Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Superbas, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, and New York Highlanders.
Paul Kitson is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for Leicester City, Derby County, Newcastle United, West Ham United, Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace, Brighton & Hove Albion, Rushden & Diamonds and Aldershot Town.
Captain Roland Dudley Kitson, 3rd Baron Airedale, businessman, was born in Leeds, son of Sir James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale and his second wife, Mary Laura daughter of Edward Fisher Smith.
James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale PC, DSc was a British politician of the Liberal Party, first a Member of Parliament and then a peer. He was known as Sir James Kitson from 1886, until he was elevated to the peerage in 1907. Lord Airedale was a prominent Unitarian in Leeds.
Sir Albert Ernest Kitson, was a British-Australian geologist, naturalist, and winner of the Lyell Medal in 1927.
David Lees Kitson was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played 32 games scoring 882 runs for Somerset between 1952 and 1954. He was born in Batley, Yorkshire and died in Ilminster, Somerset.
Reading Football Club played the season 2007–08 in the Premier League, only the second top-flight campaign in the club's history. The team suffered an extremely poor run of form in January and February 2008, losing a club-record eight league games in a row. The club was relegated on the final day of the season after Fulham's victory at Portsmouth saw Reading finish in 18th place.
Paul Kitson was an English footballer who played and coached professionally with both indoor and outdoor soccer teams in Canada and the United States.
The Kakamega gold rush occurred at Kakamega, Kenya in the early 1930s, fueled partly by the reports of the geologist Albert Ernest Kitson. In his report for the Colonial Office Kitson suggested that possibly as much as half of the gold being prospected was wasted by amateur techniques. In an article for the magazine The Spectator, Kitson compared the influx of amateur gold-prospectors to the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada in 1897-8 : "The road to Kakamega now resembles a miniature 'trail of 98' without the snow. Old mining men, from ex-Klondyke Pioneers to Australian backwoodsmen, are hurrying to the spot". But it seems that Kitson's initial report had helped create the rush in the first place by highlighting the rich pickings available. As The Spectator noted "Since the publication of Sir Albert Kitson's report, the population of the Kakamega goldfields had doubled". Kitson's article in this magazine merely fueled the rush still further.
Sir Thomas Kitson was a wealthy English merchant, Sheriff of London, and builder of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk.
Neal Kitson is an American soccer player.
The South African Railways Class KM 0-6-0+0-6-0 of 1904 was an articulated steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal Colony.
John Francis Kitson was an English cleric and cricketer, an alumnus of Exeter College, Oxford.
Anna Mary Hawthorn Kitson Clark,, married name Mary Chitty, was a British archaeologist, curator, and independent scholar. She specialised in the archaeology of Romano-British Northern England but was also involved in excavations outside the United Kingdom and the Roman period. Her 1935 work, A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire, "remains one of the starting points for any study of the Romans in the north of England".
