Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician as well as the Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations between October 1945 and February 1946.
Samuel Rudolph "Rudy" Insanally is a Guyanese diplomat. He has been Guyana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 1987 and was Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana from 2001 to 2008.
Sir John Dixon Ikle Boyd was British ambassador to Japan from 1992 to 1996, and was subsequently the Master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 1996 to 2006. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum from 2002 to 2006. Boyd died on 18 October 2019, at the age of 83.
Count Hayashi Tadasu, GCVO was a Japanese career diplomat and cabinet minister of Meiji-era Japan.
Baron Takahira Kogorō was a Japanese diplomat and ambassador to the United States from 1900 to 1909.
Christian August Ulrich von Hassell was a German diplomat during World War II. A member of the German Resistance against German dictator Adolf Hitler, Hassell unsuccessfully proposed to the British the resistance would overthrow Hitler if Germany kept all of its territorial conquests. He was executed in the aftermath of the failed 20 July plot.
Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles is a British former diplomat. He was the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009–2010. After leaving the Foreign Office, he worked briefly for BAE Systems as international business development director. He left BAE Systems in 2013 and is now a Senior Adviser to the Group chairman and the Group Chief Executive of HSBC.
Sir Dominic Anthony Gerard Asquith is a British career diplomat and former Ambassador to Iraq, Egypt, and Libya. He was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He was most recently the British High Commissioner to the Republic of India.
Sir Robert John Sawers is a British intelligence officer, diplomat and civil servant. He was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), a position he held from November 2009 until November 2014. He was previously the British Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2007 to November 2009.
Sir Nigel Elton SheinwaldGCMG is a former senior British diplomat, who served as Ambassador to the United States of America between October 2007 and January 2012. He was appointed "Special Envoy on intelligence and law enforcement data sharing" in September 2014.
Sir David Alexander Warren, KCMG is a British diplomat, serving as HM Ambassador to Japan in the period 2008–2012. He retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in January 2013, and now serves as chairman of The Japan Society in London.
Nigel Kim Darroch, Baron Darroch of Kew, is a former British diplomat. He served as the British Ambassador to the United States between January 2016 and December 2019, and previously as National Security Adviser and UK Permanent Representative to the European Union.
Sir Julian Beresford King is a British diplomat and civil servant who served as Ambassador to Ireland and France and Director General of the Northern Ireland Office. On 8 July 2016, he was nominated by David Cameron to succeed Jonathan Hill as the British European Commissioner. On 2 August 2016, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced his intention to allocate King the Security Union portfolio. After the approval of his nomination by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, he took office on 19 September 2016. With the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020, he was the last British official to hold a position and portfolio within the European Commission.
Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Brazil from 1921 to 1925, and Ambassador to Japan from 1926 to 1931.
Sir Esler Maberley Dening GCMG OBE was a British diplomat. He was the first British Ambassador to Japan after the end of the Second World War.
Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne GBE, KCMG was a British diplomat.
Aftab Seth is a retired Indian diplomat who served as ambassador of India to Greece, Vietnam and Japan. He is the brother of British-Indian actor Roshan Seth.
Sir John Stainton Whitehead was a British diplomat and businessman.
Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft GiffardKCMG was a British diplomat and author. He was educated at Repton School and read classics at Wadham College, Oxford University. His career in the foreign service began in 1961. He became the British Ambassador to Switzerland from 1980. He returned to London as Deputy Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1982 to 1984. From 1984 to 1986, he was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan. In 1983 he received the Order of St Michael and St George and in 2003, the Order of the Rising Sun. In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Giffard, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 15 publications in 1 language and 1,120 library holdings.
Sir Timothy Earle Barrow is a British diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 2017 to 2020 and as the British Ambassador to the European Union from 2020 to 2021.
