List of British people with German ancestry

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This is a list of notable British people with German ancestry.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Herbert Beerbohm Tree</span> English actor and theatre manager (1852–1917)

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor and theatre manager.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Max Beerbohm</span> English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hermann Vezin</span> 19th/20th-century American actor

Hermann Vezin was an American actor, teacher of elocution and writer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania.

Herbert is a Germanic given name, from harja- "army", "warrior" or "noble, sublime", and beraht "bright" or "shining". See also Heribert and Aribert, other given names with the same roots.

Austrian Americans are Americans of Austrian descent, chiefly German-speaking Catholics and Jews. According to the 2000 U.S. census, there were 735,128 Americans of full or partial Austrian descent, accounting for 0.3% of the population. The states with the largest Austrian American populations are New York (93,083), California (84,959), Pennsylvania (58,002), Florida (54,214), New Jersey (45,154), and Ohio (27,017).

Germans in the United Kingdom form one of the largest minority groups in the country. Today, there are many Germans living in the United Kingdom, and many Britons or German British have German ancestry, including the British royal family. While those born in Germany constitute one of the UK's largest foreign-born groups, many are British nationals, rather than German nationals, who were born in Germany to British military personnel based there.

Pauline is a female given name. It was originally the French form of Paulina, a female version of Paulinus, a variant of Paulus meaning the little, hence the younger.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julius Beerbohm</span> British engineer and explorer (1854–1906)

Julius Beerbohm was a Victorian travel-writer, engineer and explorer.

The Beerbohm family are the descendants of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm, the son of Ernest Henery Beerbohm and Henrietta Radke (1767–1855), and of Dutch, Lithuanian and German origin, who hailed from Memel on the Baltic coast. He moved to England in about 1830 and set up as a corn merchant. He first married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper (1827–1858); the couple had four children. Following her death, in 1860 he married Eliza Draper (1834–1918), Constantia's sister, and had another five children. As a deceased wife's sister, Eliza's marriage to Julius Beerbohm was celebrated outside the United Kingdom.

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